UGS 303 - Originality in the Arts and Sciences Fall 2010
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OAS Skill Modules

Here you will find the Skill Modules for OAS. You will need to complete about one per week and should allow about 2 to 6 hours for each module. Additional skill modules will be added regularly..
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Instructions on What You Need to Do to Complete the Skill Module Requirement.pdf

Required OAS Skill Modules--you must do all six to meet the requirement (Grading is Done by Your UGTA)

Using statistics to determine something about your personality
Reading a popular book on academia
Attending the Distinguished Lecture Series and chatting about it with a friend
Learning to use the general libraries at UT Austin
Creating a bibliography, to be completed for the the humanitites inquiry
Learning to use a measuring device, to be completed for the science inquiry

Elective Math and Science Skill Modules--choose two or three to complete the requirement (Grading Is Done By the UGTA in Parentheses)

Interview someone who has published a scholarly article (Your UGTA)
Learning to Use SciFinder Scholar, the science search engine (Your UGTA)
Developing Sterile Microbiology Technique (Tien)
Things to Consider in Selecting a Freshman Research Initiative Research Group (Mortazavi)
Fermi Questions--Another take on estimation, so don't do both skill modules (Brown)
Using Excel to Manage Data and Perform Statistics Calculations (Thomson)
A boring statistics homework set that will help you brush up on your statistics--to be done with the Excel Skill Module (Thomson)
Some Deep Thinking on How to Control Variables in an Experiment
How to read an article in a scientific research journal (Kuperman)
An introduction to LateX (Simmons)
Take an on-line short course on ethical treatment of human subjects (Thomson)
Thinking Inside the Pixel: Taking a tour of the Texas Advanced Computing Center (Sedenberg)
Understanding Social Insects--Everything you need to know about honors dorm behavior (Gonzales)
Common biology laboratory problems and how to manage them (Popat)
An Introduction to Probability (Tien)
An Introduction the [R] Statisical Programming Environment(Gonzales)
An Introduction to Mathematica (Popov)
Applying mathematica to a Diffusion Simulation--to be done with the Mathematica Introduction (Popov)
Exploring the Field of Public Health (Allen)
Research Abroad--How Scientists See the World (Temprine)
Lockhart's Lament and a New Way to See Mathematics in K-12 Education (Simmons)
Delving Into the World of How Prescription Drugs Come to Be (Mortazavi)

Elective Arts and Humanities Skill Modules--choose two or three to complete the requirment

Spend some time at TED listening to Inspiring talks by great minds (Yang)
GramR R Good 4 U (Sedenberg)
Keeping that second language sharp (Beall)
Using the Oxford English Dictionary (Your UGTA)
Visiting the HRC (Kauffman)
Visiting the LBJ Library (Sedenberg)
Visiting the PCL Library Map Room(Fraden)
Visiting the Blanton Museum (Gonzales)
Visiting the Benson Museum (Beall)
Visting the Writing Center with your inquiry (Your UGTA)
Google Docs--Sharing is Caring (Your UGTA)
Practice not going bankrupt in college--learning to manage your $40 a week budget (Popat)
Study Abroad--Everybody's doing it, why not you (Law)
Do you dare uncover your Texas legislature in action (Sedenberg)
Getting to know a professor by chatting up an article he or she wrote (Your UGTA)
Time Management--the Adult Approach to College Life (Law)
Everything's Political--Learn to Write a Policy Memo (Sedenberg)
Creative Writing--Now That You Are in College You Can Do It for Fun (Yang)
Chaos Theory Introduced in a Not So Sciency Way (Brown)
Modifying a Wikipedia Article (Popov)

Getting Out and About--choose one to complete the requirement

Embrace Austin--map out your day for a tour of Austin (Fraden)
Losing the Freshman 15--healthy lifestyles make for happy honors students(Popat)
Take a trip to the Wildflower Center (Allen)
Fight the Power--Watch and Join Social Activists (Mortazavi)
Partaking in Campus Culture--Heading over to the Butler School of Music for a Concert (Kauffman)
Partaking in Campus Culture--Social Dancing is Cool When You Are in College (Kuperman)