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Title: American Memorials and the Politics of Memory, American Memorials and the Politics or Memory: Tutorial, Fall 2004
Description: In the post-September 11 United States, public memory has taken on heightened social importance. Plans for several September 11 memorials are well under way, and the public recollection and commemoration of the events of September 11 have taken on a large role in American political discourse. Why does the American public feel the need to commemorate sacrifice, and why is there a debate over the proper form of public memory?
Date Created: 2004
PID: grinnell:3428

Title: Beast and Beauties: Monstrosity and Romance in Literature and Film, Connections a hypertext resource for literature: Syllabus
Description: The first year tutorial, taken in the fall semester, is Grinnell College's only general academic course requirement. The college intends the tutorial to assist students in further developing their critical thinking skills and in improving their written and oral communication skills. Each of the tutorials offered in a given fall semester is based around a particular subject matter, which provides the vehicle by which the above goals are accomplished. Explores literary analysis through fairy tales and Gothic fiction
Date Created: 2004
PID: grinnell:3430

Title: Computing: Limitations and Promising Developments, Computing Tutorial, Grinnell College, Fall, 2004, Tutorial, Fall 2004, Walker
Description: The first year tutorial, taken in the fall semester, is Grinnell College's only general academic course requirement. The college intends the tutorial to assist students in further developing their critical thinking skills and in improving their written and oral communication skills. Each of the tutorials offered in a given fall semester is based around a particular subject matter, which provides the vehicle by which the above goals are accomplished. Uses the exploration of issues around artificial intelligence and computing in general
Date Created: 2004
PID: grinnell:222

Title: Decline and Renewal in the Heartland, Tutorial, Fall 2004, Decline and Renewal in the Heartland
Description: The first year tutorial, taken in the fall semester, is Grinnell College's only general academic course requirement. The college intends the tutorial to assist students in further developing their critical thinking skills and in improving their written and oral communication skills. Each of the tutorials offered in a given fall semester is based around a particular subject matter, which provides the vehicle by which the above goals are accomplished. The arrival of European Americans in the Upper Midwest in the middle of the nineteenth century led to dramatic changes in the region's ecology. In what was perhaps the most rapid and extensive degradation of a natural ecosystem in human history, in the space of 50 years settlers plowed under millions of acres of the native tallgrass prairie and replaced it with a diversified agricultural ecosystem on what proved to be some of the best farmland in the world.
Date Created: 2004
PID: grinnell:317

Title: Decline and Renewal in the Heartland, Fall 2004, Tutorial Final Papers : Decline and Renewal in the Heartland, Fall 2004
Description: Student papers for Fall 2004 tutorial, Decline and Renewal in the Heartland, taught by Jonahthan G. Andelson.
Date Created: 2004
PID: grinnell:4252

Title: Discovery-based Gauss's law
Description: The mathematical parallels between electrostatics and laminar fluid flow are exploited to develop a set of exercises that allow introductory physics students to discover Gauss's Law.
Date Created: 2004
PID: grinnell:223

Title: Experimental Studies of Adaptation in Clarkia Xantiana. I. Sources of Trait Variation Across a Subspecies Border
Description: We report fndings of reciprocal transplant experiments intended to tease apart the roles of differentiation and plasticity in producing phenotypic variation across a geographic border between two plant subspecies. Clarkia xantiana ssp. xantiana and C. xantiana ssp. parvifora are California-endemic annuals that replace each other along a westG??east gradient of declining precipitation.
Date Created: 2004
PID: grinnell:26666

Title: Emotion and Cognition, Tut. 100.28 Emotion and Cognition
Description: The first year tutorial, taken in the fall semester, is Grinnell College's only general academic course requirement. The college intends the tutorial to assist students in further developing their critical thinking skills and in improving their written and oral communication skills. Each of the tutorials offered in a given fall semester is based around a particular subject matter, which provides the vehicle by which the above goals are accomplished. Explores how cognition informs emotion and how emotion affects cognition.
Date Created: 2004
PID: grinnell:3440

Title: Guide to prairie sites near Grinnell, Iowa
Description: The Center for Prairie Studies at Grinnell College has prepared this brochure to help those wishing to visit prairie sites near Grinnell. The prairie blooms from May to October. Different species flower at different times, so repeat visits during a growing season will be rewarded with an ever-changing palette of colors. No two prairies will have the same mix of species.
Date Created: 2004
PID: grinnell:315

Title: Humanities I : The Ancient Greek World, The Ancient Greek World
Description: The first year tutorial, taken in the fall semester, is Grinnell College's only general academic course requirement. The college intends the tutorial to assist students in further developing their critical thinking skills and in improving their written and oral communication skills. Each of the tutorials offered in a given fall semester is based around a particular subject matter, which provides the vehicle by which the above goals are accomplished. Uses ancient Greek texts to introduce students to college level reading, writing, and oral skills.
Date Created: 2004
PID: grinnell:3446