tag:open.umn.edu,2005:/opentextbooks/subjects/humanities?page=4Open Textbook Library - Humanities Textbooks2023-08-24T19:51:29Zhttps://open.umn.edu/assets/common/favicon/favicon-1594c2156c95ca22b1a0d803d547e5892bb0e351f682be842d64927ecda092e7.icohttps://open.umn.edu/assets/library/otl_logo-f9161d5c999f5852b38260727d49b4e7d7142fc707ec9596a5256a778f957ffc.png14792023-08-24T20:05:08Z2024-02-19T14:34:52ZArtificial Intelligence and Librarianship<img alt="Read more about Artificial Intelligence and Librarianship" title="Artificial Intelligence and Librarianship cover image" class="cover " width="1830" height="2370" data-controller="cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6OTQ1NCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--23e958fba0491f03850ba2a991bd23342374cb91/AICoverPeale.jpg" />Courses on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Librarianship in ALA-accredited Masters of Library and Information (MLIS) degrees are rare. We have all been surprised by ChatGPT and similar Large Language Models. Generative AI is an important new area for librarianship. It is also developing so rapidly that no one can really keep up. Those trying to produce AI courses for the MLIS degree need all the help they can get. This book is a gesture of support. It consists of about 95,000 words on the topic, with a 3-400 item bibliography.14762023-08-23T02:53:49Z2023-10-10T17:33:50ZThinking Rhetorically: Writing for Professional and Public Audiences<img alt="Read more about Thinking Rhetorically: Writing for Professional and Public Audiences" title="Thinking Rhetorically: Writing for Professional and Public Audiences cover image" class="cover " width="1707" height="2560" data-controller="cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6OTQyMCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--a6d150fa54ad51840609590895e976eb87a9951c/cover-scaled.jpg" />Thinking Rhetorically: Writing in Professional and Public Contexts is dedicated to introducing students to a lifelong commitment of engaging with these problems that matter. As an academic discipline, Writing Studies’ contribution to engaging with problems can be applied to all areas of study and to all types of problems because we focus on the way language itself—discourse—is created and exchanged in the service of engaging problems. Writing Studies deepens students’ rhetorical awareness of how the ongoing conversations between groups of people shape and express the problems that matter.14602023-08-22T13:43:46Z2023-08-22T19:11:33ZWriting Spaces at Oklahoma State University<img alt="Read more about Writing Spaces at Oklahoma State University" title="Writing Spaces at Oklahoma State University cover image" class="cover " width="225" height="321" data-controller="cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6OTMxMiwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--b13a1b3f7df63fb9ceaf84b96be7e9be306cb842/Writing%20Spaces%20at%20Oklahoma%20State%20University.jpg" />This resource focuses on the various processes involved in researching answers to various inquiry questions and building effective arguments within and outside academic contexts. The curriculum takes students through the processes of listening/summarizing, asking questions, characterizing scholarly debates, and entering those debates in order to meaningfully contribute to ongoing conversations.14562023-08-09T01:19:23Z2023-12-21T20:50:53ZWorld History Since 1500: An Open and Free Textbook<img alt="Read more about World History Since 1500: An Open and Free Textbook" title="World History Since 1500: An Open and Free Textbook cover image" class="cover " width="620" height="827" data-controller="cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6OTI4MywicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--6b7dffe9a57b75d01d977ac4c19d9e22bcdc69e4/Screenshot%202023-08-08%20at%208.05.30%20PM.png" />World History Since 1500: An Open and Free Textbook is designed to cover world history from 1500 to the present in 15 chapters. The OER-supported textbook can be downloaded as a pdf or viewed online. The textbook serves to weave insights from many perspectives into stories and narratives that will help students develop a framework to organize and connect ideas, geographical locations, and timelines allowing them to think critically and broadly about the world around them. In addition to helping students master the sequence and scope of world history from 1500, the textbook helps develop empathy for people who live and lived in different parts of the world and during different historical times leading to the creation of empathic and knowledgeable global citizens who are aware of and concerned about the world around them.14512023-08-07T02:43:26Z2023-08-30T03:14:45ZWeb Writing - First Edition<img alt="Read more about Web Writing - First Edition" title="Web Writing - First Edition cover image" class="cover " width="765" height="1024" data-controller="cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6OTI1MCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--ca4b149dda4922234459a80ac6e628a6326968fe/Pfannenstiel_WebWriting_Cover-765x1024.png" />Web Writing (2023) by Dr. A Nicole Pfannenstiel is designed to provide a practical, rhetorical approach to web writing and content strategy analysis for students completing advanced writing courses. The eTextbook uses the rhetorical situation and key concepts to help readers/students understand how to write within specific web spaces for specific audiences drawing on appropriate discourse community conventions. It includes a chapter devoted to the rhetorical situation and key concepts to help students analyze and build their understanding of existing communication. It also includes a chapter outlining approaches to content strategy analysis, using the rhetorical situation and key concepts to understand the rich public data provided through social media accounts to support learners understanding effective web writing. The content analysis overview helps students build skills for analyzing writing, for collecting and analyzing qualitative and quantitative social media data, and for drawing conclusions about content strategy best practices.14472023-08-07T01:31:31Z2023-08-07T01:31:31ZTheory Fundamentals Workbook<img alt="Read more about Theory Fundamentals Workbook" title="Theory Fundamentals Workbook cover image" class="cover " width="606" height="782" data-controller="cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6OTIzOCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--7c239168bc7a6229751a0c090a7d64fc7796da7f/Screenshot%202023-08-06%20at%208.24.18%20PM.png" />This workbook is a practical method for learning the rudiments of music, which are essential to a thorough understanding of music in general. Designed as a supplement to professional instruction rather than a manual for self instruction, the text is intentionally brief. The emphasis is on using practical exercises to develop fluency. Aural, vocal, and keyboard skills must be integrated into the study of music theory from the very beginning. I encourage all students, regardless of their principal instrument, to learn to hear, sing, and play on the piano everything that they do in theory. All exercises in this book should be completed thoroughly. Usually a sample will be completed in brackets for each exercise, as a demonstration. Fluency with these basic materials of music will be a great asset to any further musical endeavors. For students who need additional exercises, suggestions for further study will be given.14462023-07-25T03:37:40Z2023-07-25T03:38:57ZFoundations of Aural Skills<img alt="Read more about Foundations of Aural Skills" title="Foundations of Aural Skills cover image" class="cover " width="768" height="1024" data-controller="cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6Nzg3MiwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--708e6cd4c8b11efd55723ea4b95468c73c2b128e/Foundations-of-Aural-Skills-OER-Book-Cover1024_1.png" />Foundations of Aural Skills is a research-based, accessible, relevant, creative, inclusive, empowering textbook for teaching introductory aural skills. The first seven chapters provide thorough instruction in aural fundamentals, allowing students to build their foundations from a variety of starting points. The following chapters address the traditional tasks of sight-reading and dictation, but also improvisation, mimicking music you hear (“playback”), transcription, and ensemble skills. The final two chapters add some basic form- and chord-listening skills. Every section includes creative activities that learners can try out on their own or do in class. Embedded playlists for practicing listening skills include a diverse range of music that will connect with students’ preferences and allow them to experience music they haven’t worked with before. While the text is primarily designed for a first semester or year of instruction, it also includes some instruction on modulation, chromaticism, and mixed meter, and future additions/development will make these advanced applications more robust.14432023-07-13T20:20:01Z2024-03-18T13:36:35ZThe Tragedy of the Self<img alt="Read more about The Tragedy of the Self" title="The Tragedy of the Self cover image" class="cover " width="683" height="1023" data-controller="cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6Nzc4MiwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--008627f6d0ee27b074ef00d177da7e50d445df47/Coverfotocompressed-1.jpg" />Why do human beings interpret their overall experience in terms of selfhood? How was the notion and sense of self shaped at different times and in different cultures? What sort of problems or paradoxes did these constructions face? These lectures address these and related questions by sketching a roadmap of possible theoretical avenues for conceiving of the self, bringing to the foreground its soteriological implications, while also testing this theoretical outlook against insights offered by various disciplines. Exploring the cross-cultural spectrum of possible ways of conceiving of the self invites the more existential question of whether any of these possibilities might offer resources for dealing with the tragedies of today’s world, or maybe even saving it from some of them.14362023-06-02T16:56:03Z2023-06-02T16:56:03ZPay for Play: How the Music Industry Works, Where the Money Goes, and Why<img alt="Read more about Pay for Play: How the Music Industry Works, Where the Money Goes, and Why" title="Pay for Play: How the Music Industry Works, Where the Money Goes, and Why cover image" class="cover " width="693" height="1024" data-controller="cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6NzAzMCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--c6f5b0398861a7827b8f2ed3fc91e679e4139ec3/Pay-for-Play-Cover-1-693x1024.png" />The history of music is closely linked to the history of copyright law. This book explores how the law shaped music and the music industry. From church and court patronage in pre-19th Century Europe, to the effects of social media on music, this book explores the abiding influence of the law on music.14302023-05-19T15:50:37Z2023-08-19T01:02:03ZA History of the Middle East 1.01<img alt="Read more about A History of the Middle East 1.01" title="A History of the Middle East 1.01 cover image" class="cover " width="1000" height="1209" data-controller="cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6Njc0MCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--6693d593b6a62cc3490ecfd343c5410768ec4843/Screenshot%202023-05-18%20at%202.23.56%20PM.png" />History of the Middle East is a survey of Middle Eastern History from the time of Muhammad in the seventh century until the eve of the War on Terror in 2001. It is designed to meet the requirements of a single-term introductory course and is aimed at students who have no more than a casual understanding of the history, cultures, and societies of the region. It offers a relatively concise narrative of the region’s historical development that seeks to avoid oversimplification on the one hand and overcomplexity on the other.
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