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Master Class with Kevin Willmott

Participants of Willmott's Master Class will explore the creative method necessary to become a successful professional screenwriter or filmmaker. The class will place special emphasis on creating a screenplay from the ground up and then taking it through the complete process of producing and directing it into a feature film.


Willmott will derive examples from his own work, including his ultra-low budget films such as "C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America", "Destination: Planet Negro!" and "Jayhawkers" to big budget studio features like "The 24th"th, "BlacKkKlansman" and "Da 5 Bloods".


 


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Speculative Fiction Creative Writing Workshop

This intensive, 2-week creative writing course, sponsored by the Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction, will be taught online by RB Lemberg, author of the acclaimed books The Four Profound Weaves (2020) and The Unbalancing (2022) and a finalist for a World Fantasy Award, the Nebula Award, and Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction. Lemberg will bring expertise in writing and publishing speculative fiction (an umbrella category that includes science fiction, horror, fantasy narratives, magical realism, and the like) to instruct students in the creation and polishing of their own imaginative work. Students will read and analyze contemporary short fiction for a greater understanding of aspects of craft, such as worldbuilding, character development, and story structure. Students will also participate in writing exercises and peer review workshops, so please come prepared with at least one short story or a chapter from a longer work that you are ready to share and revise.

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ASLD 521 Discourse Analysis of ASL

This course focuses on analysis of ASL Discourse structure and features, such as use of space for cohesion, depiction, discourse markers, and use of classifiers. The course also focuses on the use of ASL discourse in formal and informal settings. Students study the genres of dialogues, public speaking, artistic expression, debate, persuasive and narrative styles in ASL.

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GEOL 556: Field Methods in Hydrology

The course offers an overview on basic field methods for characterization of hydrologic systems. Topics to be covered include physical and chemical characterization techniques, such as: how to measure water levels; perform single well and aquifer tests; unsaturated zone parameterization; inorganic, organic, isotopic, and dissolved gas characterization; groundwater-surface water characterization techniques, and geophysical techniques for hydrogeology. Additionally, the class will visit a variety of sites of hydrogeologic interest.

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GEOL 557: Environmental Site Operations, Management, and Safety: HAZWOPER Health and Safety (OSHA-40) Standards Training

This course will introduce contaminant toxicology, hazard identification, site operations and management, and provide an overview of related regulations. It provides information related to environmental site management scopes of work, cost estimations, proposal generation, sub-contractor relationships, and budgets. Monitoring equipment, drum and container sampling, decontamination, and confined space designations will be presented. General safety hazards, personal protective equipment (PPE) and levels of PPE protection, drill rig safety, hazard communication and medical surveillance, and development of health & safety plans, will also be presented. Satisfies the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response (HAZWOPER) 40-Hourrequirement with a culminating certificate.

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GEOL 852: Introduction to Aquifer Parameter Testing

This course is a 4-week introduction to aquifer parameter testing methods, focusing specifically on pumping and slug testing. These methods are ubiquitously used to assess aquifers during environmental investigations. The course is hosted online with one mandatory field day, which will be held on June 24th at the GEMS site in Lawrence, KS!

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GEOL 853: Field and Lab Methods in Chemical Hydrogeology

This 1-hour course focuses on field and laboratory sampling techniques. It will cover topics related to soil, groundwater, and air sampling (for example, direct-push, sonic rig, and split spoon sampling), as well as low-flow sampling and the use of summa canisters. Though the majority of the course will be completed online, a mandatory field day will be held in Lawrence, KS on Sep 30th to put our new knowledge to use.

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Interpreting Observation Practicum

This practicum requires a minimum of 50 hours of observation, shadowing, teaming, professional responsibilities, duties, and/or activities (e.g., scheduling, preparation, invoicing, meetings, and in-service training) in authentic settings where interpreters are employed. Discussion and analysis will occur with instructor and peers on-line and in-person throughout the semester. Prerequisite: instructor approval.

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Personalize Education 1: Why Personalize?

This is the first in a series of three microcredentials on personalizable education. This microcredential is an introduction to personalizeable education, as presented in the work of distinguished scholars Michael Wehmeyer and Yong Zhao.

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Personalize Education 3: From Ideas to Practice

As the third in a series of three microcredentials on personalizeable education, this microcredential focuses on applying the concepts and background material introduced in the two previous microcredentials in this series to develop action plans for personalizing education.

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Topics in Interpreting: Fundamentals Deaf Interpreting

This course provides the opportunity for experimentation with innovative course content and learning strategies in accordance with guidelines established by faculty. Topics include interpreting in specialized settings, current trends, etc. This course is offered at the 600 and 800 level with additional assignments at the 800 Level. Not open to students with credit in ASLD 638 if topic is the same. Prerequisite: ASLD 603 or ASLD 803, ASLD 604 or ASLD 804, ASLD 605 or ASLD 805 or instructor approval.

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American Sign Language V

This course is the expanded study of ASL IV with emphasis on increased conversation skills, vocabulary, storytelling, knowledge of Deaf culture and the Deaf community. Vocabulary is enhanced through the introduction of various content areas dealing with current events, world affairs, literature, the arts and abstract ideas. Students participate in-group discussions, speculate, make analogies, give instructions, and express feelings and intentions.

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Interpreting: ASL to English

This course provides an introduction to real-time interpreting with an emphasis on ASL source materials through a lens of meaning-based analysis and co-construction of meaning. Students will come to understand and apply theories and engage in reflective practice. Students must have experience interpreting - either having completed interpreter training or be a working interpreter.This is a hands-on skill class - students will produce interpretations and engage in reflective practice through both self-assessment and peer assessment. A recording device and YouTube account are both required by the course.

This course is eligible for RID CEUs as Academic Coursework. Getting this course offered as a "sponsor initiated activity" is being explored.

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Interpreting: English to ASL

This course provides an introduction to real-time interpreting with an emphasis on English source materials through a lens of meaning-based analysis and co-construction of meaning. Students will come to understand and apply theories and engage in reflective practice.

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Intersectionality and Deaf Communities

This course brings students to the next level of understanding of the impact and role of various identities within the Deaf communities on the international and national levels, following the framework of intersectionality. Intersectionality conceptualizes the various identities, ethnicities, linguistic uses and experiences of persons, groups of people, or social problems in the world of deaf. Intersectionality looks at deaf people's overlapping identities and experiences in order to understand the complexity of prejudices they face due to their deaf, race, class, gender, sexual orientation, religion, and other identity markers.

This course is eligible for RID CEUs as Academic Coursework. Getting this course offered as a "sponsor initiated activity" is being explored.

This course contains no sessions