The Embrey Human Rights Program at Southern Methodist University
SMU is one of the few universities in the U.S. to offer an undergraduate degree in human rights. The University’s innovative minor, major and master’s degree programs in human rights and social justice are a model for others in higher education. The Embrey Human Rights Program, in SMU’s Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences, trains students for careers in human rights through creative and interdisciplinary study, educational travel and public learning events underscoring the credo, “
Watch the Whale Wash
Each year, the Museum's blue whale model gets spruced up in an annual scrub down. In the Milstein Hall of Ocean Life, visitors at the Museum watched as members of the Exhibition department use long-handled brushes and vacuums to wipe away the dust from the 94-foot long, 21,000-pound model.
On July 8, 2014, the Museum broadcast a special online livestream of the cleaning. Watch a recording of the event: https://new.livestream.com/accounts/3435703/whalewash
Learn more about the whales, includin
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Virtual Maths Data Handling - Light Meter tool
Light Meter simulation tool
CVs and Letters to Employers
CV’s and Letters to Employers is one of several Futures workbooks which help students choose and prepare for their careers. Like the other workbooks in the series you can dip in and out doing the exercises which are most relevant to you. You might want to include the exercises or the output in your personal development plan or e-portfolio.
Guide to the Congress of Clubs and Clubwomen of Western Pennsylvania Records, 1890-1963
Originating in 1890, the Congress of Clubs and Clubwomen of Western Pennsylvania was a women's organization that existed through 1963. The collection contains material about their departments, committees, divisions and schools that were in place to create a well rounded individual able to assimilate well in society. Included in the collection are the constitution and by-laws, membership lists, reports of departments and committees, minute books, correspondence, event programs, publications, and
21L.000J Writing About Literature (MIT)
Writing About Literature aims:
To increase students' pleasure and skill in reading literary texts and in writing and communicating about them.
To introduce students to different literary forms (poetry, fiction, drama) and some tools of literary study (close reading, research, theoretical models).
To allow students to get to know a single writer deeply.
To encourage students to make independent decisions about their reading by exploring and reporting back on authors whose works they enjoy.
The
Chem 51B: Organic Chemistry
This is the second quarter of the organic chemistry series. Topics covered include: Fundamental concepts relating to carbon compounds with emphasis on structural theory and the nature of chemical bonding, stereochemistry, reaction
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