NCSSM COURSE CAtAlOG - North Carolina School of Science and ...

about family and gender roles, cultural values, religion, education, work,
economics, politics, and environmental issues, as well as myriad other subjects
that will help us gain a deeper understanding of our global community. Realtime
small group videoconferencing and partnered individual text chat are part
of every class. Students help to develop the key themes and modes of inquiry for
this course. Drawing on research that they conduct during this course, material
they have explored in their American Studies classes, as well as their own
observations and experiences as American students, students share with their
international peers aspects of American culture, history, society, economics,
and politics and, in turn, are taught by their international student partners about
their own countries and cultures. Students keep a journal and complete a
number of written assignments asking them to reflect on and to think critically
about the information and experiences they glean from their cross-cultural
discussions. The course culminates in projects that students create in
collaboration with their international partners. Students not only deepen their
understanding of their own and others’ cultures but also become more aware of
how increasingly interconnected the world has become, and the important
roles they play as responsible and caring global citizens.
IE364 Completion of the Research Experience
One trimester
Credit: One unit core elective credit.
Prerequisite: First-trimester or second-trimester senior and completion of IE354
Introduction to the Research Experience.
Meeting pattern: Three periods per week including lab.
In this course senior students who have completed IE354 Introduction to the
Research Experience implement the research project in computer science or
the humanities that they proposed the previous year. Participants collect and
appropriately analyze data, then write a final paper describing their research.
Students also make a formal oral and visual presentation of their findings.
IE370 Research Experience in Biology
One trimester
Credit: One unit core elective credit.
Meeting pattern: Four periods per week including lab.
This introductory course is for students, with little previous experience, who want
to pursue a research opportunity in science. During the first part of the course
students learn to design and conduct an experiment, analyze data, and present
their findings in a written paper. In addition, students read and discuss science
articles. The second portion of the course is devoted to working in small groups
on a research project. Research questions may be selected from areas
identified by the instructor related to microbiology, DNA research, enzyme
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