Course List
Roanoke College - Courses OfferedSummer Term 1 2013S1 - Intellectual Inquiry
INQ 110 A
Title: Finding Ourselves in Folktales
Instructor: Dr. Lisa G. StonemanBlock:
Time: 10:50AM-1:00PM
Room: BAST 238
Units: 1
Catalog Description: Introduces students to critical thinking inhigher education, taking as its starting point afocused topic in a scholarly field. Criticalinquiry will be taught in the context of carefulreading of important intellectual works, as wellas inquiry-based writing assignments. Researchand collaborative skills will also be developedin an integrative setting designed to promote astudent's journey toward a life of criticalinquiry.
INQ 110 B
Title: Atlantic Slave Trade
Instructor: Dr. Jesse W. BucherBlock:
Time: 8:30AM-10:40AM
Room: WEST 117
Units: 1
Catalog Description: Introduces students to critical thinking inhigher education, taking as its starting point afocused topic in a scholarly field. Criticalinquiry will be taught in the context of carefulreading of important intellectual works, as wellas inquiry-based writing assignments. Researchand collaborative skills will also be developedin an integrative setting designed to promote astudent's journey toward a life of criticalinquiry.
INQ 120 A
Title: Humanitarianism in Africa
Instructor: Dr. Jesse W. BucherBlock:
Time: 10:50AM-1:00PM
Room: WEST 117
Units: 1
Catalog Description: Investigates questions of values, individual andcommunal, from the standpoint of a particularfield of learning. The course will teachreasoning skills through reading, writing and oralcommunication by linking key works with broadertraditions of critical reflections on the goodlife. Students will be encouraged to explore waysin which they can use the course material fortheir own refelections on what it means to livewell.
INQ 120 B
Title: Choosing the Good Life
Instructor: Dr. Virginia R. StewartBlock:
Time: 10:50AM-1:00PM
Room: MILL 212
Units: 1
Catalog Description: Investigates questions of values, individual andcommunal, from the standpoint of a particularfield of learning. The course will teachreasoning skills through reading, writing and oralcommunication by linking key works with broadertraditions of critical reflections on the goodlife. Students will be encouraged to explore waysin which they can use the course material fortheir own refelections on what it means to livewell.
INQ 240 WA
Title: Statistics & Sports Industry
Instructor: Dr. Adam F. ChildersBlock:
Time: 10:50AM-1:00PM
Room: LUCS 114
Units: 1
Catalog Description: Provides an inquiry-focused introduction tostatistical methodologies. Questions andapplications will be drawn from one of WesternPerspectives, Global Perspectives, or the NaturalWorld. Students will gain an understanding ofhow decision making is accomplished using modernstatistical techniques. Topics includedescriptive statistics, graphical methods,estimation, elementary probability andstatistical inference; students will apply thetechniques of data analysis to data sets andstatistical studies that address questions of allthe perspective.
INQ 250BI NA
Title: How Organisms Evolve
Instructor: Dr. Jonathan WatkinsonBlock:
Time: 10:50AM-1:00PM
Room: LUCS 107
Units: 1
Catalog Description: Introduces the methodologies of the naturalsciences through an inquiry-focused approach to atopic drawn from one of Western Perspectives,Global Perspectives, or the Natural World.Students will explore the types of questions thatscience asks and how it attempts to answer them bydefining and classifying information, developingmodels, identifying patterns, and drawingconclusions based upon data.
INQ 250BIL N1
Title: How Organisms Evolve Lab
Instructor: Dr. Jonathan WatkinsonBlock:
Time: 1:30PM-3:40PM
Room: LIFE 310
Catalog Description: Introduces the methodologies of the naturalsciences through an inquiry-focused approach to atopic drawn from one of Western Perspectives,Global Perspectives, or the Natural World.Students will explore the types of questions thatscience asks and how it attempts to answer them bydefining and classifying information, developingmodels, identifying patterns, and drawingconclusions based upon data.
INQ 250CH NA
Title: Chemistry & Crime
Instructor: Dr. Stephanie LivingstonBlock:
Time: 9:00AM-11:10AM
Room: TREX 372
Units: 1
Catalog Description: Introduces the methodologies of the naturalsciences through an inquiry-focused approach to atopic drawn from one of Western Perspectives,Global Perspectives, or the Natural World.Students will explore the types of questions thatscience asks and how it attempts to answer them bydefining and classifying information, developingmodels, identifying patterns, and drawingconclusions based upon data.
INQ 250CHL N1
Title: Chemistry & Crime Lab
Instructor: Dr. Stephanie LivingstonBlock:
Time: 1:00PM-3:00PM
Room: TREX 469
Catalog Description: Introduces the methodologies of the naturalsciences through an inquiry-focused approach to atopic drawn from one of Western Perspectives,Global Perspectives, or the Natural World.Students will explore the types of questions thatscience asks and how it attempts to answer them bydefining and classifying information, developingmodels, identifying patterns, and drawingconclusions based upon data.
INQ 260SO WA
Title: Sports & Culture
Instructor: Dr. M. Gilbert DunnBlock:
Time: 10:50AM-1:00PM
Room: TRT 306
Units: 1
Catalog Description: Introduces the methodologies of the social sciences through an inquiry-focused approach to atopic drawn from one of Western Perspectives,Global Perspectives, or the Natural World. Thecourse seeks to develop students' criticalthinking skills through the exploration andapplication of social scientific methods.Individual sections will be taught in a particulardiscipline.
INQ 270 NB
Title: Myth, Philosophy & Nature
Instructor: Dr. Hans M. ZornBlock:
Time: 8:30AM-10:40AM
Room: WEST 216
Units: 1
Catalog Description: Develops a sense of historical perspective and theability to use the methodologies of the humanitiesor the fine arts by exploring a subject drawn fromthe period before 1500. The course seeks todevelop an appreciation for ways in which thehumanities and fine arts, along with other ways ofknowing can deepen our understanding of WesternPerspectives, Global Perspectives, or the NaturalWorld.
INQ 270 WD
Title: Islamic Spain
Instructor: Dr. M. Ivonne Wallace FuentesBlock:
Time: 10:50AM-1:00PM
Room: LUCS 125
Units: 1
Catalog Description: Develops a sense of historical perspective and theability to use the methodologies of the humanitiesor the fine arts by exploring a subject drawn fromthe period before 1500. The course seeks todevelop an appreciation for ways in which thehumanities and fine arts, along with other ways ofknowing can deepen our understanding of WesternPerspectives, Global Perspectives, or the NaturalWorld.
INQ 271 WA
Title: Science Vs. Religion
Instructor: Dr. Ned WisnefskeBlock:
Time: 10:50AM-1:00PM
Room: WEST 311
Units: 1
Catalog Description: Develops a sense of historical perspective andthe ability to use the methodologies of thehumanities or the fine arts by exploring asubject drawn from the period from 1500 to thepresent. The course seeks to develop anappreciation for ways in which the humanities andfine arts, along with other ways of knowing candeepen our understanding of Western Perspectives,Global Perspectives, or the Natural World.
INQ 300 A
Title: Making Life Count
Instructor: Mrs. Sharon C. GibbsBlock:
Time: 10:50AM-1:00PM
Room: WEST 125
Units: 1
Comments: Completion of all 100-level and 200-level INQ courses.
Catalog Description: Asks students to look back on their experiencesand their work in the Intellectual InquiryCurriculum in order to make explicit, meaningfulconnections to contemporary issues. In additionto individual written assignments, students willwork in small groups to research and develop aproposal concerning a concept, approach, orsolution to a problem that will be presented in aformal defense.
INQ 300 B
Title: Technology: Medium or Master?
Instructor: Dr. Denise R. FriedmanBlock:
Time: 1:30PM-3:40PM
Room: LIFE 515
Units: 1
Comments: Completion of all 100-level and 200-level INQ courses.
Catalog Description: Asks students to look back on their experiencesand their work in the Intellectual InquiryCurriculum in order to make explicit, meaningfulconnections to contemporary issues. In additionto individual written assignments, students willwork in small groups to research and develop aproposal concerning a concept, approach, orsolution to a problem that will be presented in aformal defense.
