BIS 300A:  Introduction to Interdisciplinary Studies - Water
View of the Columbia Gorge

General Course Information

• Course Description
• Background Survey (required).  Complete before Mar 31.
• Electronic communication resources for the class.
• Electronic Reserves for course readings.
• Syllabus, Handouts and Problems, Writing Assignment General Outline
• Course Bibliography

The Place of Falling Waters
is the video to be shown in class on May 24.  We will watch
the second of the three segments in that video.  The link above is a description of the video.  A more detailed study guide is also available, but the web link is now broken.

Chinatown.  On May 31, we will be discussing the movie Chinatown in class.  You will need to have viewed it before that date.  You should plan on  viewing it after you have read Reisner’s chapter 2 (The Red Queen), which is on E-reserve for the course.  As you view this movie, you should be taking notes in your journal.  “Reading” and interpreting a film is not the same as “watching a movie.”    Professor Goldberg has kindly provided a web page to assist students in learning to “Read a Film.”  You should study this web page before your critical viewing of  Chinatown:
 

Computing Information

• The general source for help with UW computing services is found on the central site computing center home page.
• E-Mail Setup provides a set of instructions to set up your e-mail account and contains links to the standard documents prepared by the computer center for using Pine to read e-mail on UW computers.
• The UWB Windows account.now uses your UWNetID.  See this link for details.
• UWICK is the standard UW connectivity kit used to set up remote dial-up computer connections to the e-mail system.  You should install this on your home computer.
• WWW Resources: Google, Google Scholar,  Yahoo Search Engine, Metacrawler Search Engine,

• Basic Mathematics tutorial.  This  may be helpful for some whose math background is a little "rusty".  Be sure to see me if there are any aspects of your math background that seem to be giving you problems with this course.

UW Library Resources on Web.