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  • LEAP 1270: Explore Creative Wrtg

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Students will explore a diverse range of creative forms including poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Students will both learn about and practice these forms of creative writing as well as a collaborate with classmates through workshops and projects. Using library resources, students will conduct research that will inform their creative practice. This is a class for all students interested in the art of writing.
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  • LEAP 1500: Engineering & Identity

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    This course utilizes nonfiction accounts and fictional narratives in order to investigate cultural realities in the US today. We will examine the current issues of big data interpretation and surveillance capitalism in order to approach questions of equity, specifically concerning the confluence of computer engineering and business practice. We will analyze the tropes of modern superheroes in order to examine the heroes that characterize contemporary American culture and explores questions of equity through analysis and creation.
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  • LEAP 1501: Social & Ethical Eng

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    This course prepares students to critically understand and appreciate the implications of engineering and technology within the broader context of local and global societies and communities. It is through the help of critical readings/articles/essays and case studies that we will identify these impacts. We will discuss and understand professional and ethical responsibilities based on codes of ethics statements from discipline specific professional organizations and societies. Additionally we will study cases of engineering failures in order to integrate concepts of risk analysis into their discussion of ethics and professional responsibilities, especially as these failures relate to public health, safety, and whistle blowing.
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    General Education Course

  • LEAP 1510: Humanities For STEM

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    What does it mean to be h/Human? From cyborgs to artificial intelligence, this course focuses on creative imaginings of what it means to be h/Human in connection with technology. Creative analytics will be used to consider the ethics and realities of h/Humanness and the human experience. Literature, art, music, and film that re/present humanness are explored in depth through reading, listening, viewing, and creating. This is not a science course, but rather a humanities course designed to explore the ethics surrounding STEM through speculative literature and art.
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    General Education Course

  • LEAP 2002: Ldrshp & Com: LEAP PA S

    1.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    This class focuses on leadership skills, problem-solving techniques, and communications. It prepares and trains selected students to be Peer Advisors in the LEAP program. Part of the experience also involves bringing the Peer Advisors back together on a regular basis for reflection and support once they actually begin working with new students. Through analyzing their own experiences as Freshmen, the students better understand how to assist the Freshmen students in the LEAP section into which they are assigned. Prerequisite: Must apply and be accepted as a Peer Advisor in LEAP program.
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  • LEAP 2700: Legal Professions

    1.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Course explores the practice of law through lectures by legal professionals and observation of court proceedings. Prerequisite: LEAP 1100 and 1150.
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  • LEAP 2900: Health Sciences Yr 2

    2.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Students will be exposed to various healthcare professions through in-class lectures, community outreach and engagement, and peer-to-peer learning. Prerequisites: LEAP 1100 AND LEAP 1140
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  • LEAP 2905: Health Sciences Yr2

    2.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    During Spring Semester of the second year of Health Science LEAP, students will discuss the processes of research. They will find a research lab at the University in which to volunteer. With the help of the principal investigator of the lab, students write a literature review and a research proposal which will be submitted to UROP, in an attempt to secure funding for their continued lab work during the third year of Health Science LEAP. Prerequisites: LEAP 1100 AND LEAP 1140
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  • LEAP 3700: Pre-Law Service Learn

    1.00 - 3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Pre-Law Service Learning: a multi-year, pre-professional LEAP for third-year Pre-Law students. Prerequisite: Must have completed first and second year Pre-Law LEAP.
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