The Materials in Today's World course (MATSE 81) surveys the various materials surrounding us in our everyday lives - from electronics to metals, ceramics, polymers, etc. Understanding how these materials are manufactured and processed is key to understanding and controlling their desired properties. This course is suitable for all students - including non-science majors.

Rhetoric and Composition (ENGL 15) an intensive, rhetorically based experience in reading and writing that will prepare you both to understand the communications that surround you and to succeed in your own communication efforts. Thus, in this course, we will focus specifically on analyzing verbal and visual texts (our reading) as well as on producing such texts (our writing), always in terms of rhetorical principles. ENGL 15 fulfills 3 credits of the writing and speaking requirement for general education.