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Unit TitleAuthorYear

Seminar: The Science, Engineering, and Operation of Drones


Should the US Military Use Drones in Wartime?

Ariel Coff 2023
Keywords: coding, debate, drones, electromagnetism, energy waves, ethics, experimental design, fields of force, fluid dynamics, forces and motion, Investigation, model, Newton’s Laws, Research, robotics, scientific argument, Technology

Operation DroneDrop: A study into drones; their capabilities, governmental regulation and ethical considerations; with a deeper dive into drone usage in search and rescue operations

Katherine Smith 2023
Keywords: autonomous flight, Blockly, CoDrone EDU, Drone, programming, RPA, UAS, UAV

Seminar: The Soviet Century: Russia, Socialism, and the Modern World


Systems

James O'Karma 2024
Keywords: adam smith, capitalism, communism, economic systems, feudalism, History, karl marx, Literature, Marxism, monopoly

The Appeal of Communism to African-Americans in the United States

Bill Chenevert 2024
Keywords: Black Communists, Black history, capitalism, Claude McKay, communism, economics, Friedrich Engels, Jim Crow South, karl marx, Langston Hughes, McCarthyism, Paul Robeson, racism, socialism, the Bolshevik Revolution, the Cold War, The Great Migration, the USSR

The Pulse of the Land: Using the Arts to Teach About War

Keeler Park 2024
Keywords: Art, conflict, Creative Writing, Culture, emotion, History, Literary Analysis, military, Military History, poetry, primary source, secondary source, social studies, social-emotional learning, war, world history

We Are Not Alone: Cold War (Black) Radical Unionism, Internationalism and the World After George Floyd

Tyriese Holloway 2024
Keywords: McCarthyism, social movements, socialism, solidarity, unions, USSR

Economics, Abundance, and Value, or How Much Is Too Much Salami?

Chloe Glynn 2024
Keywords: agriculture, choice, economics, environmental, environmentalism, History, meat, Politics, responsibility, value

Examining the East and West through the Brezhnev Doctrine

Alexander de Arana 2024
Keywords: Brezhnev Doctrine, Cold War, Leonid Brezhnev, Prague Spring, Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia, World War Two

Seminar: Thinking Black, Writing Revolution: The Harlem Renaissance in Conversation with the Black Arts Movement


To Write with Fire: Unapologetic Poets of the Harlem Renaissance and Black Arts Movement

Wendi Mungai Umoren 2016
Keywords: aesthetics, African American, black arts movement, Harlem Renaissance, literary period, poetry, racism, revolution

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: It Will Be Digital

Jada L. Warfield-Henry 2016
Keywords: black arts movement, Digital Anthology, English, Harlem Renaissance, High School, hip-hop, Historical Context

Reading Activist Playwrights, Writing Activist Plays

Anissa Weinraub 2016
Keywords: Activist Art, black arts movement, Creative Writing, English, Theater

Sisters in the Shadows: Black Women During the Black Arts Movement

Kristian Ali 2016
Keywords: black arts movement, black women, English, feminism, gender awareness, High School, language arts, movement, revolution, self-awareness, social justice

Seminar: Topics in Environmental Health


What Happens After the Water Leaves the Sky?

Aisha Kittrell 2021
Keywords: hydrologic cycle, run-off, storm drain, stormwater, the water cycle, water filtration, water pollution, water quality

The Power of Environmental Monitoring

Anna Herman 2021
Keywords: air quality, environmental advocacy, environmental justice, environmental monitoring, green stormwater infrastructure, lead, soil contamination, soil health, urban gardening, water quality, youth environmental justice

Environmental Health in the Classroom

Kimberly Sweeney 2021
Keywords: conservation, contamination, plastic pollution, water cycle, water pollution

Humans and the Environment: How Water Pollution and Littering Affect Health

Chelsea Maher 2021
Keywords: engineering, environment, Health, littering, pollution, urban, water, waterways, world

Freshwater In Our World: Philadelphia’s Freshwater Supply and the Role We Each Play in its Future

Phyllis Hurwitz 2021
Keywords: climate change, distribution of water, hydrologic cycle, impermeable sources, philadelphia middle school science, urban watershed, water, water pollution

Where Does Our Water Come From?

David White 2021
Keywords: water, water cycle, water filtration, water pollution, Watershed

Seminar: Understanding Human Health and Disease


Staying Healthy by Participating in Dance and Sports: Ways of Exercise in Many Cultures

Meg H. Flisek 2012
Keywords: dance, exercise, Health, sports

Health and the Inner City

Nicole Flores 2012
Keywords: African-American community, diabetes, halth, risk