Rice university summer program for high school students

The impacts of environmental turmoil, climate change, toxicity, pollution, biodiversity loss, and more increasingly impact all but rarely equally. To consider environmental justice in this course is to consider these differential impacts and their relationship to race, gender, ethnicity, economics, region, and other factors and possible responses and remedies to these inequities with respect to a range of communities and regions through a range of arts, media, cultural documents, and social phenomena.

Introduction to digital photography through exploration of light, camera, and computer. Assignments include looking, taking, discussing, adjusting, printing and writing about photographs. This course introduces the student interested in medical and health professions to a large vocabulary of medical language which develops skills in understanding and remembering new words. It describes word origins, basic terms in anatomy and terms pertaining to each body system as well as pharmacology and medical equipment, and many frequently used medical terms, abbreviations and symbols.

Study of communicable, noncommunicable, and behavioral diseases with emphasis on the disease process and basic epidemiologic methods. This course is designed to give the student exposure to and experience using basic principles and skills of oral communication in the public context.

Emphasis will be on the development of speech organization, support, and delivery. Informative and persuasive speeches will be practiced. An important outcome of the course is that the student better understand and appreciate the important role public speaking plays in modern society.

The focus of this course is to construct a historically informed philosophy of leadership that encompasses not just what leadership is but why it is valued, when it is legitimate, what its moral purpose is, and how it both shapes and reflects societal norms.

An introduction to studies in the areas of human movement: anatomy and physiology, exercise physiology, biomechanics, motor learning and control, and psychological aspects of sport and exercise. An introduction to normal human anatomy structure and function. All major body systems will be examined in both lecture and laboratory format using a variety of physical and virtual models. This course will address the fundamental principles of human physiology at the cell, tissue, organ, organ system, and organism levels.

Emphasis will be placed on mechanisms of function and homeostasis as achieved through the coordinated function of homeostatic control systems. Examine the psychological foundations that underlie sport and exercise participation. Designed to provide a basic understanding of the theories related to skill acquisition, development, and movement.

Learners develop an understanding of the cognitive, behavioral, and neurological concepts needed to become skilled at movements. The course will also incorporate laboratory experiences in the physiological, neurological, and psychological factors of human movement.

Topics include displaying and describing data, the normal curve, regression, statistical inference including parametric and non-parametric analyses, and hypothesis testing. Designed to introduce students to research methods, statistical techniques, and topics appropriate for experimental research.

This course treats language as a social phenomenon to show how language, personal identity and institutions of social control inter-relate. The course focuses on linguistic interaction in daily life and how gender, ethnic, class, activity, and geographic variation affect language use.

Students will discuss the many factors that influence personal well-being, giving particular attention to individual needs and behavior change goals. Major areas to be covered include: time management, coping strategies, healthy relationships, body image, food choices, self-esteem, physical activity, spirituality, environmental awareness, alternative medicine and self-care.

Limits, continuity, differentiation, integration, and the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus. Mutually Exclusive courses may only be taken with instructor permission. Continuation of MATH Includes further techniques of integration, as well as infinite sequences and series, Taylor polynomials and Taylor series, parametric equations, arc length, polar coordinates, complex numbers, and Fourier polynomials.

Prerequisites for high school students: Single-variable calculus through basic integration. Study of ordinary differential equations e. Calculus of multiple variables. Vectors, partial derivatives and gradients, double and triple integrals, vector fields, line and surface integrals, Green's theorem, Stokes's theorem, and Gauss's theorem. May substitute Math and Linear transformations and matrices, solution of linear equations, inner products eigenvalues and eigenvectors, the spectral theorem for real symmetric matrices, applications of Jordan canonical form.

The principles of mechanics are applied to the design of machine elements, including load path and stress analysis, selection of mechanical components, and materials selection. A semester design project requires using the analysis tools learned in the course. Required for mechanical engineering majors in B. For non-music majors with minimal music preparation. Rudiments of pitch and duration. Study of scales, chord structure, tonality, and forms. This is an umbrella listing for a small number of special topics courses offered to non-music majors.

Each one will be a special topic that focuses on a different aspect of music. Each course will have its own syllabus, which will be uploaded when appropriate. FALL , Section For Indians, Pakistanis and other South Asians far from their homelands, native culture forms an essential part of their identity in the new environment. Among first-generation immigrants, traditional South Asian music was an important aspect of cultural retention, while second and later generations have created new musical expressions reflecting their dual identity as descendants of immigrants as well as nationals of their own homeland.

This class focuses on the hybrid musical creations of emergent youth cultures, with particular emphasis on Bhangra-pop, the Asian Underground movement in 's Britain, and "desi" electronic party music in North America. This course will provide a broad overview of the brain's neural systems that subserve perception, learning, and behavior.

The course will be highly integrative with thematic content including functional organization of the nervous system, neural encoding and decoding, sensory systems, motor systems, and high-level concept processing.

An introduction to moral and political theorizing, ranging across levels of abstraction from the more concrete such as: abortion, war, the duty to vote to the more rarified such as: justice, goodness, the origins of norms. Previously offered as PHIL Mutually exclusive with PHIL , credit cannot be earned for both classes. In this course, we will grapple with a wide variety of questions raised by the coronavirus pandemic.

What are our duties to others in a time of crisis? On what basis should scarce medical resources be deployed? What is the appropriate role for individuals, and for the government? How do we weigh the values of life and health against other values? And so on. Readings will include both works of professional philosophers and contemporary popular writings on the pandemic.

A calculus-based introduction to mechanics. Includes classes and lab exercises on kinematics, Newton's Laws, work and energy, conservation laws and rotational motion. Primarily for physical science and engineering students. Students must register for PHYS A calculus-based introduction to electricity and magnetism. Includes classes and lab exercises on electric and magnetic fields, Maxwell's equations in integral form, and AC and DC circuits. Students must also register for PHYS Small group discussion section to extend and reinforce concepts presented in PHYS A calculus-based survey of mechanics primarily intended for bioscience and premedical students.

Includes classes and lab exercises on kinematics, Newton's Laws, work and energy, rotational motion, fluids, oscillations and waves. Includes classes and lab exercises on wave and ray optics, electric field and potential, magnetic fields and induction, and DC circuits. This lab companion course to SOSC Quantitative Analysis for the Social Sciences involves political science-specific applications of statistical analysis.

The lab focuses on the use of software to analyze data from research in political science. Students who enroll in this lab section must also enroll in SOSC during the same semester. This course introduces students to major topics in the subfield of American Politics, including public opinion, group politics, political parties, elections, congressional-presidential-bureaucratic politics, and judicial politics.

This course helps students navigate upper division courses in American Politics and understand American government and politics. This course is designed to: first, provide the student with an overview of the structure of the sport industry as well as issues facing sport organizations and how management techniques can be applied to solve business problems. Second, students will be introduced to the various sub-disciplines within sport management marketing, law, sales, event management, etc. Third, students will become familiar with career opportunities in sport management.

Special Registration is required for Juniors and Seniors. This class is designed to prepare students for working in the sport industry. Students will learn how to construct an effective resume, interview skills, business etiquette, etc.

Students will also gain real-life experience by working with one of the numerous sports organizations in Houston for hours during the course of the semester. This course is designed to assist students in self-evaluating, examining and developing a philosophy, values, and moral reasoning skills.

Students will experience the ethical decision-making process through opportunities for critical analysis drawing upon their philosophical bases. If you plan to take courses in multiple sessions, the deadline to apply would be the earliest session's deadline - you do not need to submit multiple applications.

For information on tuition and fees, visit the Cashier's Website. Attending Rice University as a visiting undergraduate student is not a means of entering a degree program. Students who wish to take classes without earning credit may do so as a Visiting Auditor. You would need to inquire with the school you wish to attend to see if they would accept such credit toward a bachelor's degree.

Programs offered throughout the year are designed to educate and inspire K students in arts, science, math, athletics, music and more. Through innovative educational outreach to students, the Boniuk Center seeks to build bridges of religious literacy, mutual understanding and interfaith collaboration between members of different faith traditions and spiritual or secular communities.

The Glasscock School of Continuing Studies' Center for College Readiness offers various enrichment programs for middle and high schools students. CERCL is a curricular and research initiative that uses innovative research, engaged pedagogy and other approaches to promote and advance creative models and practices of leadership benefiting new generations of leaders. DREAM is structured on a foundation of long-term mentoring. Multicultural Community Relations MCR conducts age-appropriate on-campus sessions for students in high school, middle school and elementary school to create an awareness of the steps needed to access college admission and financial resources for college.

The Shepherd School of Music programs are designed to develop the love of music found in all children, teach children to understand music through joyful experience, and offer children with outstanding musical gifts an environment in which those gifts will be recognized and encouraged. During the program, you will gain invaluable hands-on career experience and exposure while learning from and engaging with leading minds in the space industry, gaining unique access to industry facilities, and hearing directly from a NASA representative on 21st century space innovations.

R-STEM and other Rice University organizations offer a variety of summer enrichment programs for elementary, middle, and high school students on topics such as computer science, energy, computer-aided design, 3D printing, and physics.

A joint effort with Rice Athletics , STEM-Letics Academy is week-long academy offered multiple weeks during the summer for current 3 rd , 4 th , and 5 th grade students. This academy is designed to keep students both mentally and physically active during the summer by incorporating STEM and physical activities. It is a hands-on workshop that introduces participants to principles of architecture and design.