Moodle at Eckerd College 2024-25 Academic Year

What is Southern environmentalism, and what can we learn from it? An investigation of Southern environmental literature, activism, and history with an emphasis on agrarianism, sustainability, and conservation.

This class surveys villains throughout American literature. Why does America produce such memorable antiheroes, and what can we learn from their twisted ways? Readings may include Poe, Dickinson, Melville, Steinbeck, Nabokov, Hemingway, Vonnegut, and McCarthy.

Courses of selected topics will be offered periodically as determined by the needs of the curriculum. Prerequisites can vary based on the topic selected. See individual course listings for each semester for the specific topic and any prerequisites. You can view special topics course descriptions by copying this URL into your internet browser - https://sites.google.com/a/eckerd.edu/registrar/course-descriptions

Courses of selected topics will be offered periodically as determined by the needs of the curriculum. Prerequisites can vary based on the topic selected. See individual course listings for each semester for the specific topic and any prerequisites. You can view special topics course descriptions by copying this URL into your internet browser - https://sites.google.com/a/eckerd.edu/registrar/course-descriptions

An introduction to major postcolonial writers, primarily from South Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean. Authors may include Chinua Achebe, Aime Cesaire, J.M. Coetzee, Jamaica Kincaid, and Jean Rhys.

Major American poets from 1900, concentrating on the image of American and the development of modernism. Poets may include Frost, Pound, Eliot, Williams, Stevens, Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, Richard Wilbur, Denise Levertov.

Courses of selected topics will be offered periodically as determined by the needs of the curriculum. Prerequisites can vary based on the topic selected. See individual course listings for each semester for the specific topic and any prerequisites. You can view special topics course descriptions by copying this URL into your internet browser - https://sites.google.com/a/eckerd.edu/registrar/course-descriptions

Concepts, methods and applications of statistics in the natural sciences. Elementary probability theory, random variables, discrete and continuous probability distributions. Statistics and sampling distributions, estimation and hypothesis testing, linear regression. Credit is given for only one of MA 133M or one of the behavioral science statistics courses, but not both.

Section 004 of this course (CRN 7000) is designed as a Reflective Service Learning experience. Service activities will be
participating at a science festival, engaging children in geometry activities or homework
help for children at a non-profit organization.

Concepts, methods and applications of statistics in the natural sciences. Elementary probability theory, random variables, discrete and continuous probability distributions. Statistics and sampling distributions, estimation and hypothesis testing, linear regression. Credit is given for only one of MA 133M or one of the behavioral science statistics courses, but not both.

Section 004 of this course (CRN 7000) is designed as a Reflective Service Learning experience. Service activities will be
participating at a science festival, engaging children in geometry activities or homework
help for children at a non-profit organization.