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CLAS Faculty Books & Book Chapters

 
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  • Conceptual Mathematics in Society by Ricela Feliciano-Semidei

    Conceptual Mathematics in Society

    Ricela Feliciano-Semidei

    This textbook is a compilation of chapters with educational purposes for the course MATH 103 in Spring 2023. The first part (Chapters 1 and 2) includes logic and critical thinking. Understanding the thinking process and strategies for solving problems in an effective way will provide students with skills that will be required to succeed in all college math courses. The second part (Chapters 3 & 4) is an opportunity to develop numbers sense through strengthening conceptual understanding of fractions and algebraic thinking. This will help develop foundational mathematical knowledge for college mathematics courses. The third and fourth parts of this textbook are explicit connections to society through understanding real life mathematical examples connected to finances and statistics.

  • Coming Out Conversations and Gay/Bisexual Men’s Sexual Health: A Constitutive Model Study by Jimmie Manning

    Coming Out Conversations and Gay/Bisexual Men’s Sexual Health: A Constitutive Model Study

    Jimmie Manning

  • Communication and Healthy Sexual Practices: Toward a Holistic Communicology of Sexuality by Jimmie Manning

    Communication and Healthy Sexual Practices: Toward a Holistic Communicology of Sexuality

    Jimmie Manning

    This essay proposes a holistic communicology of sexuality inclusive of connections between sex, relationships, and health. Noting the rarity of research studies about sexuality in the communication discipline, two approaches to research that have gained traction are explored: medical and critical approaches. An argument is then made for the importance of a relational approach to researching sexual health. Links between existing research involving sex, relationships, and health are offered with a particular focus on interpersonal communication. Three original research studies are offered to extend this approach. The first explores multiadic interview data from families who enacted purity pledges. Results indicate that topics often avoided in parent-child talk about sex, including sexual pleasure, were present in purity pledge conversations. The second study explores data about sexting and reveals that adults use sexting as a way of reducing uncertainty about desired sexual activity. The final study explores interview data from couples who indicated that first sex was their first relational turning point. Discussion of data includes possibilities of reconsidering outliers from cultural narratives about sexuality and considering how those who do not follow those cultural narratives may have to reframe their relational histories. Implications for a constitutive communicology of sexuality are offered

  • Finding Yourself in Mad Men by Jimmie Manning

    Finding Yourself in Mad Men

    Jimmie Manning

    The author reflects on how he places his father into the character of Don Draper, especially in consideration of Don's and his father's alcoholism.

  • Popular Culture by E. Taylor Atkins

    Popular Culture

    E. Taylor Atkins

    Overview of popular culture in Japanese history.

  • Evolutionary Psychology: A Critique by David J. Buller

    Evolutionary Psychology: A Critique

    David J. Buller

  • Inventing Jazztowns and Internationalizing Local Identities in Japan by E. Taylor Atkins

    Inventing Jazztowns and Internationalizing Local Identities in Japan

    E. Taylor Atkins

    Describes the respective claims of port cities Yokohama and Kobe to be the points of entry for jazz in Japan.

  • DeFreuding Evolutionary Psychology: Adaptation and Human Motivation by David J. Buller

    DeFreuding Evolutionary Psychology: Adaptation and Human Motivation

    David J. Buller

  • Function, Selection, and Design by David J. Buller

    Function, Selection, and Design

    David J. Buller

 
 
 

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