Faculty: Kelly Reed and Chris Goldsmith Description: Health care is growing and complex field, comprising numerous careers beyond primary care and surgery. This course will introduce students to the broad scope of healthcare careers and healthcare issues. The course will include both “virtual shadowing” sessions with healthcare practitioners and a variety of supplemental readings. One… [Read More]

Faculty: Sebastián Páramo Description: What is Texas poetry and what does it mean to write about Texas? Do you have to be a Texan to write Texas poetry? We will explore these questions and cultivate our own voices as X-th generation Texans, transplants, and/or immigrants. We will read works by Gloria Anzaldúa, J. Scott Brownlee,… [Read More]

Faculty: Terry Hoops Description: This course will examine films about and by Native Americans, First Nations and Pueblos Originarios (indigenous peoples) in North and South America. While a great deal of attention has been paid to how Hollywood and other commercial film producers have portrayed Native Americans throughout the history of film, this course will… [Read More]

Faculty: Julie Hempel Description: This Spanish immersion course centers on Mexican and Salvadoran immigrant communities in North Texas. We will visit the Multicultural Family Center in Sherman and the Latino Cultural Center in Dallas as well as read and view works on the food, art, literature, and history of these communities. Much of this history… [Read More]

Faculty: Eric Gobel Description: This course studies our relationship with the words that we use, the way that we think, and how we live our lives. Students will explore their own and others’ identities through the words that they use internally and externally as well as the way that those words interact with our thoughts,… [Read More]

Faculty: Tamra Dollar Description: Students will become acquainted with the world of children’s literature – its style, its characters, its moral dilemmas, its excellence. We will generate teaching strategies with each book that we read inside and outside of class, and use those strategies to teach our classmates. We will explore a children’s literature textbook… [Read More]

Austin College offers a list of recommended lenders as a service to our students who do not already have a lender in mind for their private educational loans. We conduct a thorough analysis of each lender’s products, services, and policies annually. We feel confident that the lenders we suggest to students and families will provide… [Read More]