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Disability and American Education
Get PDFDisability and American Education is a 2 credit, in-person, undergraduate course offered at a public liberal arts university. It is designed to introduce students to issues related to disability in the context of American schools, both P-12 and post-secondary. In addition to introducing students to classroom practice, the course focuses on important theory in Disability Studies and the social and political history that has led to our systems of special education
Bledsoe ’20 Caps Morris Career with COPLAC Presentation
Get PDFFrench, political science, and African and Black American studies (ABAS) alumna Maya Bledsoe ’20 ended her undergraduate career on a high note. Bledsoe presented her research at the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges (COPLAC) Midwest/West Regional Undergraduate Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity Conference just weeks before graduating from the University of Minnesota Morris
Searching for Truth, Searching for Feeling
Get PDFHistory is not only found in textbooks. Historical fiction often utilizes depictions of historical events as a backdrop or plot device for a fictional story, and for many people, this is their only exposure to certain periods or events in the past. This essay looks at the validity of using fiction as historical evidence by analyzing Hans Fallada’s Every Man Dies Alone portrayal of German life in World War II and comparing it to academic sources. It argues that a novel evokes empathy by juxtaposing an imagined story alongside historical facts; however, the fictional account can also create a false idea of the reality of these historical events. The essay explores the implications of simplifying reality, the humanization of facts, and the influences these effects have on the reader
Redefining Nietzsche’s Greatest Weight into Contemporary Cosmology
Get PDFFriedrich Nietzsche’s theory of eternal recurrence and it’s cosmological value has been discredited and cast aside because of the lack of scientific backing the original theory had. In this essay, Nietzche’s eternal recurrence will be observed and analyzed through some of his major works and defended from outside criticism. Furthermore, Roger Penrose’s Conformal Cyclic Cosmology and Jean-Paul Luminet’s research are used in support for eternal recurrence as a cosmological theory. Luminet’s research of cosmic background radiation concludes that the universe has an odd but finite shape. Penrose’s research theorizes a sort of repeating universe, allowing time to be treated as infinite. With these contemporary theories, Nietzsche’s cosmological theory can finally have scientific backing and be treated as a plausible theory of the universe
Profile: A Model For Living And Learning
Get PDFIn this issue: Campaign Results; Janet Schrunk Ericksen Named Acting Chancellor; UMN Morris Legacy Spans Four Generations; Giving News; Campus News Briefs; The Big Picture; Alumni News; Class Notes; Cougar Newshttps://digitalcommons.morris.umn.edu/profile/1073/thumbnail.jp
One Stop Student Services Newsletter: Summer 2021
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Pandemic Pivot: Designing a Participatory Simulation to Support Social Distancing and Remote Learning
Get PDFParticipatory simulations usually aim to bring simulations off screen into a shared physical space with people acting as agents in the simulation. In this paper, we describe considerations and design decisions related to creating a participatory simulation for use in learning settings with restrictions imposed due to the COVID-19 pandemic where typical classroom interactions were no longer allowed. We describe how our design decisions might help children both “dive in” and “step out” to understand more about pollinators and the prairie in spite of various restrictions on how exactly they can interact with each other. Our simulation, Buzz About, uses augmented reality in a multi-device setting to allow learners to explore the impacts of a prairie restoration on local beneficial pollinators from the perspective of a bee. We focus on supporting scenarios where the children may be in a shared space with social-distancing requirements or participating remotely, but synchronously
Developing Variation in the Late Work of Morton Gould and Why It Matters
Get PDFAmerican composer Morton Gould (1913-1996) was remarkably consistent stylistically over the course of his compositional career; this project examines certain motivic transformational techniques used in two of his last works, Stringmusic (1993, winner of the Pulitzer Prize) and Remembrance Day (Soliloquy for a Passing Century) (1995). These techniques, which can generally be filed under the principle of developing variation, are: 1. Mirroring and reversal; 2. Rotation; 3. Motivic expansion and contraction; 4. Additive sets; and 5. Asymmetric injection. After an overview of each technique, I give a full analysis of the fourth movement of Stringmusic using the approaches described within the paper. Finally, to show the pedagogical possibilities, I connect the use of the various analytic techniques to the idea of corporate embodiment of analysis, taking the idea of music theory out of the classroom and onto the football field
Ray Schultz
No full textThe Art of Listening: Performing Ibsen\u27s Sounding Boards Dr. Rank in A Doll\u27s House (Bozeman Actors Theatre, Apr. 2019); Judge Brack in Hedda Gabler (Austin Shakespeare Company, Feb. 2020).https://digitalcommons.morris.umn.edu/cosa2021/1040/thumbnail.jp
Adam W. Coon
No full textCoon, Adam W. Los ojos de la cara, la cara de las hojas: Los significados conflictivos de Ixtlamatilistli. Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana, vol. 91, no. 1, 2020, pp. 79-97.https://digitalcommons.morris.umn.edu/cosa2021/1014/thumbnail.jp