**Canceled due to low enrollment. We expect to offer this seminar and study tour again in spring 2013. **

Students from across colleges and disciplines will combine research into humanitarianism, social responsibility and the principles of design thinking into the development of a project that will benefit a non-profit organization doing work in impoverished communities in rural Tanzania.

We will explore how the fields such as engineering, nursing, medicine, education, business, liberal arts, design and more are all critical in the development of effective and inspiring humanitarian design projects. Together, we will explore the social, cultural and technological issues inherent in the field of humanitarian design and work collaboratively to create and implement projects that will have a positive impact on communities in need. The course culminates in a required trip to Tanzania immediately following spring quarter 2012.

Application required. Learn more on the course webpage.

The sustainability of endangered tropical ecosystems may depend on the action of individuals who have an appreciation of their structure, function, and use. Students completing this course will be among those with the potential to influence the future, as they will have personally investigated and experienced tropical systems and the issues challenging their sustainability.

In twice-weekly class meetings, students will gain a conceptual understanding of the general ecology and people of neotropical regions through expert lectures, readings, discussions, and media. Throughout the quarter, students will work in groups on the development of projects to be conducted during a 10-day research-oriented trip on the Amazon River (Rio Solimoes) and the Rio Negro. The Amazon trip is mandatory for course participants and is scheduled to depart during finals week.  

Application required. Learn more and access the application on the course webpage.
Application deadline extended to January 30, 2012!

**Canceled due to low enrollment.**

The course provides an overview of the foundations of Western culture and society from the perspective of culture, society, architecture, design, fine arts and the political structures involving the regions of ancient and modern day Greece and Turkey. The ten-week, quarter-long seminar will contain lectures from four instructors representing different areas of interest and expertise.

-from an historical perspective, the course will include a focus on how human societies changed their modes of interaction through conflict and peaceable exchange at different points in time and space, challenging the so-called Islamo-Christian divide, and learning how contemporary Mediterraneans view each other and themselves in the 21st century;
-from an architectural perspective, the course will include a focus on and the built environment of buildings and cities with the inclusion of artifacts and artistic products;
-from a business perspective, the course will include a review of the evolution of international trade, the World Trade Organization, the advent of Regionalization, the concept, genesis and evolution of the European Union (EU),  the current challenges to the Eurozone, and, the evolving global economy.

The course culminates in a required study tour to Greece and Turkey.

Application required.  Learn more and access application on the course webpage. 
Application deadline extended to January 30, 2012!

This course undertakes a close analysis of indigenous Maya texts over time in order to engage with primary sources documenting changing Maya culture, as recorded in their own words. Texts include ancient hieroglyphic monuments, sixteenth-century Colonial documents, and modern Maya political manifestoes. Together, we develop critical approaches to primary sources.

Follow-up : During spring 2012, the class created a course wiki to share their learning about methods that they discussed and developed for critically approaching primary source texts. Please take some time to view their wiki - http://criticallyapproachingprimarysources.wikispaces.com.

Thursdays, 5:30-8:15pm

Trans-disciplinary Collaboration: Inquiry to Innovation Seminar

In a global world, being smart and working hard isn't enough. Through collaborative learning experiences, students will be able to demonstrate clearly—precisely and convincingly—constructive, effective and transformative solution-oriented outcomes for problems brought by a client or user group.

Students will:
-Identify and distinguish differences between types of collaboration
-Perform as a constructive and effective member of a trans-disciplinary team
-Appraise opportunities to create new perspectives for problem-solving
-Conduct qualitative, quantitative and archival research
-Synthesize research and ideas to develop initial concept prototypes
-Justify solutions based on market and societal inquiry

This course is a hands-on experience in the domain of creativity. In a combination of lecture/discussions and a hands-on group project, the class will harness its collective creative potential and work towards a finished product in the form of a quarter-end performance/presentation. It is often in the world of art and performance that there are no self-imposed borders. Innovation thrives in such a borderless paradigm. This is a paradigm that can easily be extended to other disciplines such as engineering, business, public policy and art administration.

Through the process of identifying and distinguishing certain key distinctions and working as a group in creating a presentation that has an impact on the University, honors students will carry the lessons learned from this course into other walks of their career.

*Rehearsal for the performance will take place during the week leading up to the performance. Time and day TBA.
*Students must also be available for the end-of-quarter performance, which will take place during the final class meeting time. 

**There will be a required course fee payable at the beginning of the quarter. This will cover supplies and other expenses related to the performance. The amount is expected to be $15-20; final amount TBD.

Live Well Collaborative studios are open to juniors and seniors of all majors with an interest in creating product and service innovations for the 50+ age segment. Students work with faculty and corporations to conduct research and develop ideas within an interdisciplinary environment encompassing design, engineering, business, medicine, anthropology and social science. Projects have already been completed for P&G, General Mills, Hill-Rom and Citigroup. 

Class sessions are not a standard classroom lecture format, but rather a time for company presentations, group work, and faculty/student collaboration. Work will also be completed outside of the class. Students will not have tests or individual assignments but will be graded on contributions made on the final project deliverables to the company sponsor.

The sponsor for the Spring Quarter project is Boeing. Students must receive permission from instructors to register for the studio (LCB: Ralph Katerberg, ralph.katerberg@uc.edu or DAAP: Sooshin Choi, sooshin.choi@uc.edu). Students may register for 22MKTG595 or 23INDL441.

Studios take place in the lower level of the Turner Innovation Center, which is near campus on the corner of Daniels and Vine.

Students can register for 3-4 hours of credit (depending on what fits into a student's schedule). For students who entered the honors program in or after Autumn 2007: Completing one quarter of Live Well Collaborative fulfills one honors experience. For students who entered the honors program before Autumn 2007: The number of special topics hours awarded is determined by the number of academic credits earned.

 Please visit  Live Well Collaborative's website for more information.