Moodle at Eckerd College 2025-26 Academic Year

Do you ever feel like your vote doesn’t “count?” What role does counting and apportioning votes play in carrying out the will of the people in democratic societies? How can we measure whether elections are fair? In this course, we will explore how mathematics are the very foundation of democracy. Honors course, but open to all.

How does a liberal arts education help us turn our interests and passions into future plans? This workshop will highlight tools for self-reflection and designing our best lives in college and beyond. Sophomore students only.

Facilitating Leadership Dev

Senior capstone course attending to debates about the nature of justice and its relevance for social and personal issues, and deploying diverse disciplinary materials and methodologies to elicit deeper reflection on contemporary issues of importance.

Leadership in Peer Mentoring is designed to further develop the leadership skills in students who have previously completed the Peer Mentor Internship. Lead peer mentors are invited by permission of instructor only. Two semesters required for one course credit.

This mission-critical course prepares students to tackle all stages of website writing, including creating a mock company; developing a sitemap and selecting keywords for SEO; writing polished and creative website pages and blogs; and creating contact forms to generate leads. We approach the task in a structured manner that empowers writers to develop the skills it takes to develop original websites that can be used for personal or professional purposes. The step-by-step method ensures progress proceeds at a manageable pace with a solid plan for project management in place. Technical experience and experience writing for online audiences is not required.

This course explores how people employ language in creative and potentially humorous ways to make often intensely serious arguments about society and culture. Satire is a form of expression that seeks often to expose ignorance and injustice, sometimes by raising taboo subjects, and sometimes by pushing the boundaries of taste and decorum. Many believe that it’s an invaluable tool for promoting and protecting democracy, by provoking thought and even disagreement, and by keeping people honest. Using a variety of mostly contemporary works, we will examine how irony, parody, sarcasm, and wit can be crafted into a powerful art of social protest. You will also spend much of this course crafting your own satires. This course fulfills the Humanities course requirement.

Our course will have two guiding threads that are woven into and interconnected throughout the course – storytelling and engagement. We will explore various works of literature to explore our roles in society and common themes and how they ask us to reflect on our roles as citizens. At the same time we will explore how organizations (for profit & non-profit) use engaging narratives to build connections, create awareness and inspire action through engagement and support. We will explore various stories and examine their accessibility, appeal and persuasiveness. We will review the universal elements of powerful stories to understand how organizations and institutions connect with groups and individuals. Topics will
include learning about capturing attention, engaging an audience, changing minds, inspiring action and pitching ideas persuasively. We will work with a local non-profit organization as part of this course and will assist them with their mission to make a difference. We will complete 20 reflective service learning hours working with the organization (on and off campus).

Introduction to the theories, concepts and techniques of cinematic video production and post-production. Students will produce short video projects that emphasize visual storytelling, technical proficiency, and creative authorship.