The Course Thread Program allows UC Berkeley undergraduates to explore intellectual themes that connect courses across departments and disciplines. Without creating new majors or minors, the program instead highlights connections between existing courses. Course Threads help students see the value in educational breadth while also pursuing a more in-depth and well-rounded knowledge on one particular topic. Course Thread topics include: Human Rights, Cultural Forms in Transit, The Historical & Modern City, Visible Language, Humanities & Environment, Human-Centered Design, Old Things, and Science & Society.
Students following a thread enroll in at least 3 courses from the thread over the course of their study at Berkeley, and participate in at least one year-end symposium. The Course Threads Program is made possible by the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
For more information on the Course Threads Program, visit http://coursethreads.berkeley.edu/
Technical Sales Assistants at U.C. Berkeley's Campus Computer Store, The Scholar's Workstation review Optical Drives (DVD/CD etc.) and burning technologies.
Visit your Campus Computer Store: The Scholar's Workstation
http://tsw.berkeley.edu
Edible Education: Peter Sellars, theatre director and professor of World Arts and Cultures at UCLA, provides his view on edible education. Recipient of a McArthur Fellowship, and winner of the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, Sellars recently directed a production of John Adams' Nixon in China at the New York Metropolitan Opera. Edible Education is a lecture course at UC Berkeley, funded by the Edible Schoolyard Project http://www.edibleschoolyard.org and the Epstein Roth Family Foundation. Instructor Michael Pollan.
The Philomathia Foundation Symposium at Berkeley: Pathways to a Sustainable Energy Future
Welcome
Graham Fleming, Vice Chancellor for Research, UC Berkeley
Keynote Address: Climate Change and Human Usage of Energy
Ralph Cicerone, President, National Academy of Sciences
For more information, visit http://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/energy/symposium/philomathia2010