SPRING 2013
INTERMEDIATE LEARNING COMMUNITIES

Most ILC courses are composed of two courses, which must be taken together. Students must enroll in both courses. After the regular registration period ends, a student may enroll in one of the courses only with the approval of the faculty member teaching the course or if enrollments are under 15 students.
Students who take a one-course, one-unit, team-taught ILC earn one unit and must choose which course the student wishes to take.
All students who complete an approved Study Abroad program for at least one semester consisting of at least two courses are deemed to have fulfilled their Intermediate Learning Community requirements.
Please note that ILCs change from semester to semester, so a given ILC might not be offered again. Also note that more ILCs are offered during the spring semester than during the fall semester. Please plan your schedule accordingly.
ILC Mission:
The mission of the Intermediate Learning Community (ILC) is to provide a common cohort of students with a heightened interdisciplinary learning experience including intellectual engagement and the development of enhanced communication skills.
ILC Goals:
The goals are to expose students to, and involve them in, an interdisciplinary experience of “learning by doing” through the following means:
1. sophisticated writing
2. challenging research
3. an interdisciplinary project that concludes with a written or oral presentation.

ILC 1 -Washington Internship
This learning community exposes students to the workings of the governmental and political processes in Washington, DC. Through internship assignments, classroom instruction, and directed readings and research, students will develop a greater appreciation of the policy-making process. The courses are offered in Washington, DC (each course is a 2-unit course), and registration is by permission of the instructor.
GOV 395 Washington Internship Kraus TBA
GOV 396 Dynamics of American Government Kraus TBA

ILC 2 – Albany Internship
This learning community exposes students to the workings of the governmental and political processes in Albany, NY. Through internship assignments, classroom instruction, and directed readings and research, students will develop a greater appreciation of the policy-making process. The courses are offered in Albany, NY
(each course is a 2-unit course), and registration is by permission of the instructor.
GOV 390 New York State Gov. & Politics Kraus TBA
GOV 391 New York Legislature Internship Kraus TBA

ILC 3 – Nutritional Strategies: Bacteria to Humans
This learning community, intended for Nursing majors, looks at the cellular nutrition of eukaryotes (humans) vs. the nutrition of prokaryotes (bacteria) It also covers the similarities and differences in the structure, function and role of carbohydrates, proteins, lipids, vitamins and trace elements in humans and bacteria. Finally, it looks at the immunological aspects of nutrition across the human life span compared to the immunological aspects in disease prevention.
NR 224 Nutrition & Health Staff F 9:00-12:00
MI 200 Microbiology Bobbitt TR 9:40-11:10
MI 200L Microbiology Lab

ILC 4 – Inclusive Methods and Curriculum for Middle Childhood
This learning community, intended for Education majors, integrates the various components of a middle childhood school classroom such as teaching practice, literacy development, curriculum, classroom management, instructional strategies, and the assessment with the techniques of designing Database Management Systems and interfacing them using Programming language, JAVA, for easy but controlled access from the World Wide Web. In taking both of these courses simultaneously, students will learn to build a Database Management System interfaced to the WWW as part of their middle childhood school interdisciplinary thematic unit. During the latter part of the semester students will work in a middle childhood level classroom setting during their practicum or field experience. They will have the opportunity to test out their DBMS with students and evaluate the application and successful use of the DBMS they have created.
CS 322 Database Programming & Connectivity Fitzgerald TR 1:00-2:30
ED 414 Methods & Curriculum Development Staff T 4:20-7:20
For Inclusive Middle Childhood Education

ILC 5 – Speaking Science
This ILC will explore the principles behind communication of science with a variety of methodology. The students will compose six speeches throughout the term, including informative, persuasive and group speeches using Microsoft Powerpoint software. Students will develop skills related to presentation of scientific information through the development of verbal communication.
SPC 103-ILC Public Speaking Fenley MW 1:00-2:30
CH 212-ILC Organic Chemistry Stepanova TR 8:00-9:30

ILC 6 – Issues in Bioethics and Medicine
This IlC will pursue an interdisciplinary study of ethical theory, genetic engineering, biotechnology, and developmental biology. We will bring that knowledge of those disciplines to bear upon the issues and practices in modern medicine and bioethics. Topics include: suicide and euthanasia, abortion and assisted reproduction, the development and status of the human embryo and stem cells, cloning and surrogacy, gene therapy, and animal experimentation. Prerequisite: BI 213. (Note: Students must also register for a laboratory section – BI 219L.)
Limit: 20 students
BI 219-ILC Gene Expression and Development Cook MWF 10:10-11:10
BI 219L Gene Expression Lab Select any BI 219 lab section
PH 202-ILC Medical Ethics Danisi TR 11:20-12:50

ILC 7 – Culture Materialized
What can we learn about culture from its material remains? In this Intermediate Learning Community will examine what archaeologists can learn about past Native American societies from the material remains they have left, and how archaeologists know what they think they know about the past. We will also explore how museums and galleries manage and display material culture, and how this process shapes the public’s experience and knowledge of they cultures they represent. Field trips to multiple sites will facilitate an understanding of museum and gallery practices. Students will engage in original research, working with archaeological remains and designing a gallery display based on current museum trends.
AN 235 North American Archaeology (D) Gagnon WF 9:40-11:10
AR 221 Museum and Gallery Studies Scott MW 11:20-12:50
(prerequisite waived)

ILC 8 – Individual Freedom vs. Discipline
What are a citizen’s constitutional protections and how do they affect the members of the armed forces? Not every Americans enjoys the individual freedoms that are guaranteed in the Bill of Rights. In fact, the members of our armed forces must relinquish some of these protections. Their rights and liberties are proscribed in the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ). Why the need for a separate system and what are the individuals rights under both? This ILC will provide an overview of Constitutional Law (with emphasis on the First and Fourth Amendment) to the UCMJ in order to compare and contrast a citizen’s rights and freedoms to the curtailed rights of our Armed Services members.
SO 309 Military Law Martin MW 8:00-9:30am
GO 316 Constitutional Law Vitucci TR 8:00-9:30am

ILC 9 – Mathematics and the Universe in Which We Live
The stars of the night sky have attracted attention and aroused curiosity since the dawn of time. At first superstition and folklore were used to explain various astronomical phenomena. This gradually gave way and mankind began to discover that there was a certain order to the heavens that could be explained with the help of an important tool – mathematics. Hence, the goal of this learning community will be, not only to educate students in mathematics and astronomy, but more importantly to show them how to use basic mathematical concepts to unlock the mysteries of the Universe.
AS105 Astronomy: The Solar System Falabella MW 11:20-12:50
MA119 Finite Mathematics Polchinski TR 9:40-11:10

ILC 10 –Jazz, Blues, and the Visual Image (D)
This ILC will combine a survey of blues and jazz with a study of images relating to these genres.
The music course will examine the roots of the blues and ragtime, and focus on the music of the greatest performers in various blues and jazz styles (Country blues, Urban Blues, New Orleans Jazz, Swing, Bop, Fusion, etc.).) Students will use this content to create a website that will include manipulated images, animation, and audio clips. Trips to concerts (normally on Friday evenings or weekends). Some knowledge of music is helpful for this course.
AR 203Advertising Art I: Computer Design Needle TR 1:00-2:30
MU 209 (D) Jazz and Blues Wesby MWF 1:00-2:00

One-Course, One-Unit Team-Taught ILC’S – Only One Course Required
Students who enroll in a team-taught ILC will earn only one unit; therefore, the student must choose the course he/she wishes to take. For example, a team-taught ILC incorporating EC291 and HI291 allows the student to earn one unit for either the Economics course or the History course, not both. However, the team-taught ILC will satisfy the ILC requirement as well as the area of study on the General Education Check-sheet.

ILC 11 – Corporate Scandals
This ILC will explore both past and present economic crises and scandals. Students will investigate and discover the causes of these crises and scandals as they relate to the historical nature and structure of specific industries, government regulation/deregulation, and the ethical standards of corporate executives. Topics to be discussed include, but are not limited to, the Great Depression, the original Ponzi scheme, the Savings & Loan crisis, Enron, WorldCom, and the current financial crisis.
SO 291 S/T: Corporate Scandals Esser T 8:00-11:00
BU 291 S/T: Corporate Scandals Buddensick T 8:00-11:00

ILC 12 (Honors) – The Two Great Depressions
This course explores and compares the domestic and international aspects of the two major economic crises of modern times– the Great Depression of 1930’s and the current crisis. We will focus on the causes and consequences of each of these upheavals using a business cycle framework of economic theory and political policy in an historical context. Emphasis will be placed upon financial institutions, industrial structures, consumerism and the changing role of labor in the political arena. We will compare the economic and political ideas that motivated the two very different responses to economic crises (The New Deal vs The Great Bank Bailout). In addition, an examination of the evolution of the role of monetary, fiscal and regulatory policies will be examined.
HI 291 S/T: The Two Great Depressions Rappaport MW 2:40-4:10
EC 291 S/T: The Two Great Depressions Leacy MW 2:40-4:10

ILC 13– Movies, Media, and Global Citizenship
Note: Students must register for EN 291. There is no second disciplinary option for this ILC.
Students will discuss movies, social media, and global citizenship with students in Ethiopia. The classroom will Skype with a classroom in Ethiopia, whose time zone is eight hours ahead, so that there can be live interaction between the two locations. In addition each ILC 2 – Albany Internship
This learning community exposes students to the workings of the governmental and political processes in Albany, NY. Through internship assignments, classroom instruction, and directed readings and research, students will develop a greater appreciation of the policy-making process. The courses are offered in Albany, NY
(each course is a 2-unit course), and registration is by permission of the instructor.
GOV 390 New York State Gov. & Politics Kraus TBA
GOV 391 New York Legislature Internship Kraus TBA