Carefully read, summarize and respond to the following text by  as preparation to our library session. Your response should be between 400-600 words and include a brief summary and discussion. Appropriate response/discussion includes your evaluation or criticism of arguments found in the reading, your own suggestions for extending or modifying these arguments, finding points of connection or contradiction between readings, application of ideas found in the reading […]

  Watching the 2019 documentary film American Factory (available on Netflix), and by writing a response to the questions posed below.  For this assignment, you must: Watch the entire movie American Factory (Directed by Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar).  Provide proof that you acquired and watched the movie by providing me with a screen shot or photo of the movie at 30:00 minutes into the film, […]

This forum is adapted from questions 2 and 3 on page 17 of Russell Willerton’s Plain Language and Ethical Action: A Dialogic Approach Approach to Technical Content in the 21st Century (in UHD e-library) . Search online to investigate how people use plain language in a technical field that interests you. You may have to search around a little, but you will likely be surprised to discover how many […]

Discussion Threads are a place for you to ask questions, engage with your TAs and peers, to find collaborators, and generally deepen your engagement with the course and your own learning. You should think of these posts as mini papers. Write in complete sentences, do not use bullet points or ellipses. Your response should be between 250-500 words. The style of your post can be […]

The individual written assignments will be relatively short assignments (between 500 and 750 words).  The assignments  will  be  addressed  to  teach  participants  to  convey  concepts  from  cognitive  psychology, neuroscience, and related fields to a broad audience; that is, convey very technical information and making it accessible  to  readers  with  limited  background  in  the  research  area  that  is  being  discussed,  while  also representing the scientific content […]

 Final International Hospitality Project (5 typed pages, double spaced- APA style) Each student will write information on an international hospitality company (hotel, restaurant, coffee, casino, cruise line, etc). This company can be from the U.S. or overseas. Format: (1) History; (2) Identify past and current problems: customer service management, finance, culture, religion, legal, ethics, marketing, human resources, product development, government regulation, joint venture, or other […]

Topic:  Ethnomusicology is the study of the music cultures of our world (i.e., World    Music). For this assignment you are asked to document your personal     ethnomusicological background. What is your “music culture”? Where are    you/your family from, or from where, or with what music culture do you most    identify? How do you interact/participate with your music culture in your day to    day life (what music […]

On Dec 25, 2017, your medical staff was notified by the lab of a positive S. aureus culture on a 38-year-old patient. The patient noted that he packed a lunch, for his day at the beach, and forgot in the car while surfing at the beach on Dec 24, 2017, but ate it anyway. During your investigation, the patient noted he had salami, ham, egg […]

MUCT 2360 – Music Cultures of the Silk Road Reading assignment #3 ** Be sure to read assignment instructions on Canvas before beginning the assignment. Signell, ch. 1-2 from Makam: Modal Practice in Turkish Art Music 1. According to Signell, in Turkey “Almost all classical compositions are performed from written notation today.” What is one positive AND one negative outcome of this fact? 2. What […]

View the article, Why Not the Best? Results from the National Scorecard on U.S. Health System Performance, 2008.  Click on ‘Download Fund Report (PDF)’ and read Exhibits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 13, 14, 15, and 21. Of these Exhibits, select the three you believe are the most important in terms of current U.S. health policy.  Analyze why you selected your three choices, and […]