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Understanding Basic Music Theory
Catherine Schmidt-Jones · LibreTexts
The main purpose of the course, however, is to explore basic music theory so thoroughly that the interested student will then be able to easily pick up whatever further theory is wanted. Music history and the physics of sound are included to the extent that they shed light on music theory. Remember, the main premise of this course is that a better understanding of where the basics come from will lead to better and faster comprehension of more complex ideas.
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Getting to Know You - An Intermediate Integrated-Skills Module for English Learners
Sara Ferguson · Grossmont Community College
In this ESL module you will learn how to interview a classmate and write a profile, or short biography. The module includes reading and vocabulary lessons, listening and speaking exercises, writing practice and grammar lessons.
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You, Writing! A Guide to College Composition
Alexandra Glynn, Kelli Hallsten-Erickson & Amy Jo Swing · North Hennepin Community College & Lake Superior College
This text is meant to be used in any first year College Composition class or as a general guide to college writing. The book focuses on writing as a process, not a product. The goal is to help students discover their own writing process, trying out different methods and strategies to find what works best for them.
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Popular Music
Todd Smith · Western Washington University
Welcome to the digital textbook for Survey of Popular Music. This text consists of a broad overview, covering many genres of popular music from the 19th century to the present.
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Spanish 201: Puertas y Puentes
Kim Armstrong · Franklin & Marshall College
This course prepares students to express themselves meaningfully in increasingly complex situations, ranging from giving detailed opinions to hypothesizing about the future. The course expands on the grammatical concepts and vocabulary studied in SPA 101 and 102 and fosters critical thinking in a variety of cultural contexts. Spanish is the primary language of instruction and class time is used for interactive practice in meaningful contexts.
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La roommate fantasma
Diego Alins Breda, Angelica María González Bastida, Jonathan Mulki, and Ana María Ortega Pérez · University of California, Davis
This SPA 003 textbook that is an introduction to Spanish grammar and development of all language skills in a cultural context with special emphasis on communication. These curricula were developed around a series of context-specific readers created by our graduate students and faculty; the course grammar and vocabulary were taken directly from these readers so that students could see content in context, and course activities from reading/culture workshops to writing practice were also designed.
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Spanish 2B: Advanced Spanish (2026)
Cristina Moon · Chabot College
Spanish 2B is the second half of a comprehensive advanced 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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Open Music Theory 2e
Mark Gotham et al. · VIVA - Virtual Library of Virginia
Open Music Theory is a natively-online open educational resource intended to serve as the primary text and workbook for undergraduate music theory curricula. OMT2 provides not only the material for a complete traditional core undergraduate music theory sequence (fundamentals, diatonic harmony, chromatic harmony, form, 20th-century techniques), but also several other units for instructors who have diversified their curriculum, such as jazz, popular music, rhythm, counterpoint, and orchestration.
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French OER 3 (Carrasco and Zahedi)
William J. Carrasco and Shahrzad Zahedi · Palomar College
This course is the third semester of French. This intermediate level course is a study of the French language and French-speaking cultures, with continued emphasis on the development of communicative skills and basic structures. The course combines in-class instruction with self-paced study in the Foreign Language Laboratory.
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Introduction to Philosophy: Logic
Bahram Assadian, Matthew Knachel, Cassiano Terra Rodrigues, Michael Shaffer, Nathan Smith, Benjamin Martin, & Christina Hendricks · LibreTexts
Introduction to Philosophy: Logic provides students with the concepts and skills necessary to identify and evaluate arguments effectively. The chapters, all written by experts in the field, provide an overview of what arguments are, the different types of arguments one can expect to encounter in both philosophy and everyday life, and how to recognise common argumentative mistakes.
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ESL 130: Low Intermediate ESL Writing
Heather Zettelmaier · Washtenaw Community College
This OER writing textbook covers writing sentences, summaries, opinions, and narratives, as well as improving spelling and grammar.
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Teaching Autoethnography - Personal Writing in the Classroom
Melissa Tombro · SUNY The Fashion Institute of Technology
This text is dedicated to the practice of immersive ethnographic and autoethnographic writing that encourages authors to participate in the communities about which they write. This book draws not only on critical qualitative inquiry methods such as interview and observation, but also on theories and sensibilities from creative writing and performance studies, which encourage self-reflection and narrative composition.
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Cicero's de Imperio
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Spanish 2 High-Beginning Spanish
B. Franchesca Amezola · Reedley College
High-Beginning Spanish 2 is the second half of a comprehensive introductory 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 and culture in the Spanish-speaking world.
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World History Cultures, States, and Societies to 1500
Eugene Berger et al. · Georgia Gwinnett College
This text offers a comprehensive introduction to the history of humankind from prehistory to 1500. Authored by six USG faculty members with advance degrees in History, this textbook offers up-to-date original scholarship. It covers such cultures, states, and societies as Ancient Mesopotamia, Ancient Israel, Dynastic Egypt, India's Classical Age, the Dynasties of China, Archaic Greece, the Roman Empire, Islam, Medieval Africa, the Americas, and the Khanates of Central Asia.
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Cyborgs and Centaurs: Academic Writing in the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence
Liza Long · College of Western Idaho
Cyborgs and Centaurs provides a guided approach to the academic research and writing process for first-year composition students. The book incorporates generative artificial intelligence prompts and exercises to strengthen learning, explore ethical concerns, and develop a personal writing process.
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Thinking Well - A Logic And Critical Thinking Textbook
Andrew Lavin · Butte College
The common title of this course is “Logic and Critical Thinking.” So, we can think about the course as having two main components: the study of formal logic and the study of the tools and strategies of critical thinking. This text is structured in a bit of a “sandwich”. Units on critical thinking and then formal logic, and then units on more critical thinking topics.
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The Odyssey
Homer · translated by Samuel Butler
The Odyssey is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is, in part, a sequel to the Iliad, the other Homeric epic. The Odyssey is a fundamental work in the modern Western canon, being the oldest extant piece of Western literature, second to the Iliad. Scholars believe the Odyssey was composed near the end of the 8th century BC, somewhere in Ionia, the Greek coastal region of Anatolia.
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English 96: Readings, Presentations, and Assignments
Paul Butera · City Colleges of Chicago
English 96 is an integrated reading and writing course designed to increase students’ critical thinking, reading, and writing abilities and to promote their academic literacy for long-term success. This course provides a structured, rigorous learning environment that nurtures student engagement through a shared, sustained classroom experience, and it fosters collaboration in a curriculum that respects students’ individuality and humanity and that prepares them to meet college-level expectations.
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Tarea Libre 2
Cristina Moon, Alejandro Lee, Sarah Harmon, and Hugo Díaz-Rodil · LibreTexts
This is an instructor guide to Tarea Libre 2 - a comprehensive and accessible Open Educational Resources question bank of 800 interactive activities created in ADAPT for second-year Spanish courses for California Community Colleges.