UCOR Section Descriptions

Course Description

What is cancer, what causes it, and what can you do about it? In this course, we will explore the basics of cancer biology, the link between genetics, environment, and cancer, and the many treatments for cancer. Along the way, we will discuss issues surrounding environmental and social justice, and the impact of lifestyle on cancer risk.

Course Description

This course explores the impact of human population growth on the quantity and quality of water resources. It includes the fundamental aspects of the hydrologic cycle, human water demand, and water conservation. Water pumping and storage systems are introduced. The course also examines the technologies used for drinking water and wastewater treatment with a particular focus on those appropriate for the developing world.

Course Description

This course will focus on the urban (re)development that has been taking place across German cities, and the impact that has had on neighborhoods, the economy, the people, and the many forms of resistance in response. Students will ponder issues like gentrification, social movements, and the extensive use of the arts as public expression. The required study abroad component includes a 15-day journey together to explore these experiences first-hand, navigate the terrain as a humble, global citizen.

Course Description

This study abroad course will focus on the urban (re)development that has been taking place across German cities, and the impact that has had on neighborhoods, the economy, the people, and the many forms of resistance in response. Students will ponder issues like gentrification, social movements, and the extensive use of the arts as public expression. The required study abroad component includes a 15-day journey together to explore these experiences first-hand, navigate the terrain as a humble, global citizen.

Course Description

This is a three-week study abroad immersion experience with London serving as the intellectual, cultural, and social justice site for classroom and excursion activities. Course content is intersectional and interdisciplinary in its approach to themes centered on the roles that culture, race, gender, social relations, class stratifications, sociopolitical issues, and more, have played in literary works, history, art, scientific endeavors, imperialistic ventures, etc., and how various models of social justice advocacy have been enacted by members of English society from 1600 to the present on behalf of the marginalized, the dispossessed, the other.

Course Description

This is a three-week study abroad immersion experience with London serving as the intellectual, cultural, and social justice site for classroom and excursion activities. Course content is intersectional and interdisciplinary in its approach to themes centered on the roles that culture, race, gender, social relations, class stratifications, sociopolitical issues, and more, have played in literary works, history, art, scientific endeavors, imperialistic ventures, etc., and how various models of social justice advocacy have been enacted by members of English society from 1600 to the present on behalf of the marginalized, the dispossessed, the other.