UT.1.01x: Energy 101 " Start On Sep/15/2013"

ABOUT ENERGY 101

Energy Technology & Policy

 This multidisciplinary course will give students an overview of energy technologies, fuels, environmental impacts and public policies. Topics will be interdisciplinary and will include an introduction to quantitative concepts in energy, including the differences among fuels and energy technologies, energy policy levers, and the societal aspects of energy, such as culture, economics, war, and international affairs. This course will cover brief snippets of energy history, use real-world examples, and look forward into the future. The course will have interactive learning modules and lecture-oriented around current events related to energy.

PREREQUISITES

None

COURSE INSTRUCTORS

Dr. Michael E. Webber

Michael Webber is the Josey Centennial Fellow in Energy Resources, Co-Director of the Clean Energy Incubator at the Austin Technology Incubator, and Deputy Director of the Energy Institute at UT Austin, where he trains a new generation of energy leaders through research and education at the intersection of engineering, policy, and commercialization. He has authored more than 150 scientific articles, columns, books and book chapters, including a compendium of his commentary titled Changing the Way America Thinks About Energy, which was published in May 2009.

1. Course Number
   UT.1.01x
2. Classes Start
   Sep 15, 2013
3. Classes End
   Dec 2013
4. Prerequisites
   None

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UT.3.01x: Age of Globalization "Start on Sep/01/2013"

ABOUT AGE OF GLOBALIZATION

Globalization is a fascinating spectacle that can be understood as global systems of competition and connectivity. These man-made systems provide transport, communication, governance, and entertainment on a global scale. International crime networks are outgrowths of the same systems. Topics include national identity, language diversity, the global labor market, popular culture, sports and climate change.

However, an increase in integration has not brought increased equality. Globalization creates winners and losers among countries and global corporations, making competition the beating heart of the globalization process.

The globalization process exemplifies connectivity. Globalization is unimaginable without the unprecedented electronic networks that project dominant cultural products into every society on earth.

Learn how to identify and analyze global systems and better understand how the world works.

PREREQUISITES

None, except for intermediate fluency in English reading/writing.

COURSE INSTRUCTORS

John Hoberman

John Hoberman holds a Ph.D. Scandinavian Languages and Literature from University of California, Berkeley. He has taught courses on globalization many times over the past ten years. He lectures on the international sports system and the global doping crisis in many countries around the world, and has published almost a hundred sports commentaries in newspapers and popular magazines. His books include Sport and Political Ideology (1984), The Olympic Crisis: Sport, Politics, and the Moral Order (1986), Mortal Engines: The Science of Performance and the Dehumanization of Sport (1992), Darwin's Athletes: How Sport Has Damaged Black America and Preserved the Myth of Race (1997), Testosterone Dreams: Rejuvenation, Aphrodesia, Doping (2005), and Black & Blue: The Origins and Consequences of Medical Racism (2012). In addition to being full professor and past chair of the Department of Germanic Studies, he has held appointments at The Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; The Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies; and The African and African Diaspora Studies Department at the University of Texas at Austin. He's also taught at Harvard University and University of Wisconsin, Madison.

This course is being offered with the support of The University of Texas at Austin’s Liberal Arts Instructional Technology Services (LAITS). A version of this course is also offered in person on the University of Texas at Austin campus as a Signature Course in the School of Undergraduate Studies.

1. Course Number
   UT.3.01x
2. Classes Start
   Sep 01, 2013
3. Classes End
   Dec 15, 2013
4. Prerequisites
   None

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UT.4.01x: Take Your Medicine - The Impact of Drug Development

ABOUT TAKE YOUR MEDICINE - THE IMPACT OF DRUG DEVELOPMENT

Everyone gets sick. Thanks to medical innovations in the past 50 years, many diseases and conditions have been either mitigated or even cured through medicine. How does a research innovation turn into a therapeutic medicine that health care providers prescribe to patients? This course explores the process, challenges and issues in developing pharmaceutical products. Drug development is a dynamic field where innovation and entrepreneurship are necessary to keep up with health care expectations, strict regulations and tightening development budgets. An overview of drug development, approval, and consumer issues will be presented and discussed in the context of research practices, science, marketing, public welfare and business. Participants from all backgrounds and interest, including scientists, healthcare professionals, entrepreneurs and the general public, are encouraged to participate.

PREREQUISITES

There are no prerequisites for this course. This course is designed to allow participation by everyone, including the general population and scholars, without prior knowledge.

COURSE INSTRUCTORS

Dr. Janet Walkow

Dr. Janet Walkow is the Executive Director and Chief Technology Officer of the Drug Dynamics Institute (DDI). She joined the faculty of the University of Texas in 2008, building on a successful career in the pharmaceutical industry, where she led efforts ranging from R&D product development to Corporate Strategy. The DDI brings together scientists and investigators to work on novel solutions for disease and healthcare issues, fostering collaborations and developing ways to eliminate drug development. She is passionate about the need for scientists and the general public to understand how medical therapies are developed. A leader in efforts to empower women, Janet is co-founder of the Leading Women Project, empowering women of all ages and professions learn to lead themselves and others.

Dr. Alan Watts

As Assistant Director of the Drug Dynamics Institute (DDI), Alan works with development-focused pharmaceutical researchers in academia and industry to advance drug products through the preclinical stage. Alan also oversees the UTech Dorm Room, a wet lab incubator space, located within the College of Pharmacy. With academic and industry experience in drug product development, Alan has first-hand knowledge of the steps necessary to help new drug products reach the clinical stage. During his time in industry, Alan developed drugs for delivery to the lungs. His experience in this field has led to a comprehensive understanding of the steps necessary for the formulation, characterization, efficacy testing and safety testing of inhaled drug products.

STAFF

Dr. Donna Kidwell received her doctorate at the Ecole de Management in Grenoble, France, and her Master’s in Science and Technology Commercialization at The University of Texas at Austin. She led the development of The Innovation Readiness Series™, an online course developed to help global innovators. Her research interests include innovation and commercialization. She has worked globally to encourage economic development through science and innovations. Prior to her work with UT Austin, Donna was a software consultant, and developed custom database applications and eLearning environments for companies such as Exxon, Agilent, and Keller Williams Realty International. She is passionate about creating action based online systems to educate and help others achieve their goals.

1. Course Number
   UT.4.01x
2. Classes Start
   Sep 16, 2013
3. Classes End
   Nov 8, 2013
4. Prerequisites
   None

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UT.2.01x: Ideas of the 20th Century "Start by Sep/15/2013"

ABOUT IDEAS OF THE 20TH CENTURY

The last century ushered in significant progress. Philosophers, scientists, artists, and poets overthrew our understanding of the physical world, of human behavior, of thought and its limits, and of art, creativity, and beauty. Scientific progress improved the way we lived across the world.

Yet the last century also brought increased levels of war, tyranny, and genocide. Man pushed boundaries of good and evil, right and wrong, justice and injustice – and people lost faith in values. Now, thinkers and leaders are reconstructing theories of value and creating institutions to embody them.

Join this thought-provoking, broad-sweeping course as it draws intriguing connections between philosophy, art, literature, and history, illuminating our world and our place in it.

PREREQUISITES

None, except for intermediate fluency in English reading/writing.

NOTE: While not formally required, prior to or during the course, you might wish to read the book:

Churchill, Winston S. The Gathering Storm. Mariner Books, 1986.

Which can be found in part online in Google Books here:
http://books.google.com/books?id=JjvnPJnk57cC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

COURSE INSTRUCTORS

Daniel Bonevac

Daniel Bonevac is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin who specializes in metaphysics, logic, and ethics. He was Chairman of the Department of Philosophy from 1991 to 2001. He majored in philosophy at Haverford College, and got his MA and PhD in philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh, working primarily with Wilfrid Sellars, Gerald Massey, and Carl Hempel. His first book, Reduction in the Abstract Sciences, received the Johnsonian Prize from The Journal of Philosophy. He has written four other books: Deduction, The Art and Science of Logic, Simple Logic, and Worldly Wisdom and edited or co-edited four others: Today's Moral Issues, Beyond the Western Tradition, Understanding Non-Western Philosophy, and Introduction to World Philosophy (the last three with Stephen Phillips). He is also Co-founder of BriefLogic.

Roy Flukinger

Roy Flukinger is the Senior Research Curator of the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin, where he assists in the development, administration and interpretation of the collections. He holds degrees from Tulane University and from The University of Texas at Austin, and has taught as an Adjunct Lecturer or Assistant Professor at UT and other institutions of higher learning. He has published and lectured extensively in the fields of regional, cultural and contemporary photography and the history of art and photography, and has produced or participated in over eighty exhibitions. His more recent publications have been on the Center’s famous Gernsheim Collection and upon such twentieth century artists and photographers as Arnold Newman, Fritz Henle and David Douglas Duncan.

Student Technology Assistant

Daniel Muñoz

Daniel Muñoz is a junior at the University of Texas at Austin studying philosophy and linguistics. His philosophical interests are mostly in the philosophy of mind and metaethics. Recently, Daniel was awarded the Mary Sue Collins Hibbs Scholarship in Philosophy for his scholastic achievement. Outside of academics, he serves as co-editor of Ex Nihilo, UT's undergraduate philosophy journal, and president of Texas Secular Humanists, a community service organization for non-religious students he co-founded in 2011. An active choral singer, he has served as president of the University of Texas Men's Chorus.

This course is being offered with the support of The University of Texas at Austin’s Liberal Arts Instructional Technology Services (LAITS). A version of this course is also offered in person on the University of Texas at Austin campus as a Signature Course in the School of Undergraduate Studies.

1. Course Number
   UT.2.01x
2. Classes Start
   Sep 15, 2013
3. Classes End
   Dec 15, 2013
4. Prerequisites
   None

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