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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: 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: Ed Phillips Teaching a Tutorial
Description: A photograph of Ed Phillips seated with some of his tutorial students in Carnegie Hall.
Date Created: 2004
PID: grinnell:1750

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: Environmental Coordinator Student Initiative
Description: A statement of student initiative, plan and background information surrounding efforts to make permanent the postion of Environmental Coordinator at Grinnell College.
Date Created: 2004
PID: grinnell:203