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Dance Studies
Debra Worth · Folsom Lake College
What is dance? Dance is more than movement. “Dance is a transient mode of expression, performed in a given form and style by the human body moving in space. Dance occurs through purposefully selected and controlled rhythmic movements; the resulting phenomenon is recognized as dance by both the performer and the observing members of a given group” (Keali’inohomoku, 1983). This book will survey many dance forms from around the world. But why study dance at all?
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Information Literacy - Research and Collaboration across Disciplines
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This collection brings together scholarship and pedagogy from multiple perspectives and disciplines, offering nuanced and complex perspectives on Information Literacy in the second decade of the 21st century. The chapters in this collection consider six frameworks that place students in the role of both consumer and producer of information within today's collaborative information environments.
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Exploring Chicano Cultural History
Melody Sowden · Coalinga College
Exploring Chicano Cultural History investigates the social, political, and artistic foundations of the Mexican American experience, tracing how pre-colonial Indigenous frameworks persisted through colonial rule, imperial expansion, and annexation. The text focuses directly on specific mechanisms of community agency and survival (including mutualistas, independent Spanish-language media networks, and mid-century labor movements) to connect historical legacies with contemporary social realities.
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Directing
Nick Garcia · Los Medanos College
Please view this book as a source of knowledge but know that every director you meet both good and bad you will learn from. Your journey is never over and the goal of any artist should be to take the lessons of the past, learn from your own experience, and transform your understanding into a unique approach that will change the future of the artform. This is my gift to you as you are the future. Best of luck on your journey.
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¡HOLA! Spanish 2
Beatrice Tseng & Karla Lemari · Irvine Valley College
¡HOLA! Spanish 2 is the second half of a comprehensive introductory Spanish sequence, offering the four foundational language skills: reading, writing, listening, and speaking. Each module presents thematic vocabulary, sequenced grammar instruction, numerous self-assessment exercises, open-ended communicative activities, scaffolded writing tasks, and curated videos and reading selections that explore diverse aspects of life and culture throughout the Spanish-speaking world.
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Open Music Theory-Fundamentals
Prince George's Community College
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Technical Reporting (NWTC)
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English 241: Creative Writing
Ukaisha Al-Amin · The City Colleges of Chicago
Students will understand the structure and elements of narrative writing, concentrating on the writing of poetry, drama, and fiction. Students will demonstrate an understanding of the critical terminology of the creative writer.
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Video Production Handbook
Steve Shlisky, Vina Cera, Misha Antonich, Christopher Clemens & Jennifer Vaughn · OERI
Welcome to the Video Production Handbook, a practical approach to creating video content for a variety of formats. This handbook provides an overview of production techniques used in video production, including documentary, marketing, narrative short films, and commercial videos. Understanding how to take an idea from concept to final product starts with building a strong foundation in all aspects of production from development to delivery.
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Span 100: Elementary Spanish I Vivir en las Fronteras
Roman Sanchez-Dominquez · Imperial Valley College
The beginning Spanish course is based on a contrastive analysis between Spanish and English and is designed to develop in the English-speaking student rudimentary abilities in the four basic language skills: hearing, speaking, reading, and writing. The main emphasis is on the present tense of both regular and irregular verbs. The student will be familiarized with those features of Hispanic culture through authentic language and cultural products.
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5.13.3: Margaret Cavendish's "The Hunting of the Hare" (1653)
Heather Ringo and Athena Kashyap · City College of San Francisco
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Climate Crisis
Cathy Thwing and student writers at Pima Community College · LibreTexts
The climate crisis lies at the center of and wraps around every issue. Here, we share some of our personal experiences with its impacts.
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The Odyssey
Homer · translated by Samuel Butler
The Iliad is an ancient Greek epic poem in dactylic hexameter, traditionally attributed to Homer. Set during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy by a coalition of Greek states, it tells of the battles and events during the weeks of a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles.
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Rhetoric and Composition
Amber Kinonen, Jennifer McCann, Todd McCann, and Erica Mead · Bay College
Adapted from Writing for Success and Edited by Amber Kinonen, Jennifer McCann, Todd McCann, and Erica Mead Designed by the Bay College Online Learning Department and Bay College Library.
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Doing Research
Celia Brinkerhoff · Kwantlen Polytechnic University
A modules-based approach to learning research skills that emphasizes the reflective nature of information discovery, the contextual basis for evaluating that information, and a recognition that information has value.
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Amores
Ovid · LibreTexts
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Bad Ideas About Writing
Cheryl E. Ball & Drew M. Loewe ed. · West Virginia University
Bad Ideas About Writing counters major myths about writing instruction. Inspired by the provocative science- and social-science-focused book This Idea Must Die and written for a general audience, the collection offers opinionated, research-based statements intended to spark debate and to offer a better way of teaching writing. Contributors, as scholars of rhetoric and composition, provide a snapshot of and antidotes to major myths in writing instruction.
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SPA 2A: Intermediate Spanish
Nancy Ballesteros, Alejandro Lee,\and Cristina Moon · LibreTexts
Beginning Spanish 2A is the first half of a comprehensive intermediate Spanish sequence, providing guidance and practice in reading, writing, listening to, and speaking Spanish. Each module includes thematic vocabulary, sequenced grammar instruction, numerous self-check drills and exercises, open-form communicative activities, scaffolded writing assignments, and reading passages exploring various aspects of life, culture, literature, and film in the Spanish-speaking world.
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SPAN 120: Advanced Beginning Spanish
Cañada College · LibreTexts
This text supports SPAN 120: Advanced Elementary Spanish in which students practice and develop further communicative competence in written and spoken Spanish for use in a variety of social and cultural contexts and settings. Cultural Readings are used as the basis of classroom discussions. Cultural aspects of the Spanish-speaking-world are emphasized. The course is conducted primarily in Spanish. It is equivalent to the second year of the high school Language Other Than English. Photo by Parker
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A Theory of Literate Action - Literate Action II
Charles Bazerman · University of California, Santa Barbara
The first in a two-volume set, A Rhetoric of Literate Action is written for "the experienced writer with a substantial repertoire of skills, [who] now would find it useful to think in more fundamental strategic terms about what they want their texts to accomplish, what form the texts might take, how to develop specific contents, and how to arrange the work of writing."