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Good Free Electives or Recommended Classes for Free Elective

Spring 08: 1 or 2 credits free elective list


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1. FS 470 - Wine Tasting - Fall 08 update

2. GS 25000-001 College Reading Skills

3. Fall Courses in the Spotlight

 

4. Fall 2008 (1 or 2 credits) course list

 

5. FALL 2008 Courses: Notre Dame Theology Classes for Purdue Philosophy Credit

 

6. Vocal Expression: Voice and Diction for the International Student (Maymester Course)

 

7. CS 471 - Artificial Intelligence with Dr.Neville

 

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1. FS 470 - Wine Tasting - Fall 08

Students may begin signing up for the Fall 2008 course when registration opens on Monday, March 3, 2008.

The Department of Food Science will begin signing forms for FS 470 – Wine Appreciation for Fall 2008 on Monday, March 3rd

 

All students need to come to the Food Science Building to get signature approval to take FS 470- Wine Appreciation.   Students must be 21 years old before September 8th, 2008.  Students do not need to wait until they are 21 years old to get a signature as long as they will turn 21 before 9/8/08.

 

Students need to bring a registration form filled out and signed by their advisor [ a Form 23] before coming to the department for a signature.  Students also need to bring their driver’s license or passport to show their birth date to verify they will be 21 years old by 9/8/08. Students must come in person and have the proper ID or we will not sign their forms.

 

Need signature approval for class from one of the following:

 

Linda Webster in FS 1241 from 8:30 – Noon, Monday - Friday

Closed from  Noon – 1:00

Malissa Allen in FS 2203 from 1:00 – 4:30 p.m., Monday - Friday

 

After getting the FS permission come back to my office with the form to register for the class.


2. GS 25000-001 College Reading Skills

GS 25000-001 is an ideal course for many late registrants. Students learn to read and think more deeply about their academic materials.

Reading becomes less a chore and more a tool for understanding course content.

Space remains available this semester.

See the flyer below. Questions? - Contact Andrea Williams arwilliams@purdue.edu or Kathy Kroll at kdkroll@purdue.edu


PS - Don’t forget that Staying Focused, the first Academic Success Skills Workshop is this Wed at 4:30 PM in STEW 318!
 


3.  Fall Courses in the Spotlight

 

Forensics this Fall!

 

Here are some highlights of general education courses offered for Fall.  You can check out the descriptions of these courses and more at the links provided.  This is NOT an exhaustive list.  These are simply suggestions.

 

The list of New/Rarely offered courses!!!! Get ‘em while they are offered—limited time offer—these won’t last long!

 


4.  Fall 2008 (1 or 2 credits) course list

 

Rex Fodrea from Biology went through selected portions of the fall schedule of classes and looked for one or two credit courses that had no prerequisite, or had prerequisites that an upperclass biology major would typically have met.  I’m sure there are one and two credit possibilities that he might have overlooked.  There are also some that he intentionally omitted (language conversation courses, for example) because they would only be possible for a small group of students.  I checked the list and think that these courses are also appropriate for CS majors.


 5.  FALL 2008 Courses: Notre Dame Theology Classes for Purdue Philosophy Credit

 

Did you know it is possible for students to earn three Purdue credits (or three elective transfer credits) through the Notre Dame Extension Program in Theology at the St. Thomas Aquinas Center?

These courses are actively promoted by members of the Philosophy department and are taught by Notre Dame Theologian in Residence and adjunct professor of Philosophy at Purdue, Dr. Thomas Ryba.

 


6.  Vocal Expression: Voice and Diction for the International Student (Maymester course)

 

Vocal Expression: Voice and Diction for the International Student
590K: 2 credits, pass/fail, Monday through Thursday 9:30-11:20 am, Maymester, May 12 through June 6th.

The purpose of the class is to work with international students where English is their second language (but open to all students or instructors wanting to improve or learn about voice/speech). The class is geared towards improving the individual’s pronunciation and articulation for standard American pronunciations. The class will center on the vocal instrument, breath support, articulators, vowels placement and putting this all together to develop the individual's speech patterns. Depending on class size, we will also have private sessions to works on specific problems the individual is having that may be holding them back in diction and clarity. The students will also learn tools they can use to help their own individual growth in this area.
 

 


7.  CS 471 - Artificial Intelligence with Dr.Neville

 

Here is what Dr. Neville answer to the difference between CS 471 and ECE 473:

he general description of ECE 473 looks very similar to what our course course description would look like. However, I'm told that almost half of ECE473 is focused on scheme/lisp programming. We will not be doing that. Our aim is for the course to give the students a broad and general introduction to artificial intelligence, focusing on foundational and current topics rather than "old-school" AI, which is what ECE 473 seems to focus on.

Here's a brief description with prereqs:

This course provides an introduction to foundational areas of artificial intelligence and current techniques for building intelligent systems. Problem solving, state-space representation, heuristic search techniques, game playing, knowledge representation, logical reasoning, planning, reasoning under uncertainty, and machine learning. Prerequisites: CS251. 3 credits.

 

 


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