The study of the Hebrew Bible isn't all chaos monsters, fallen angels, blood taboos, peasants' revolts, vanquished kings, messiahs, ecstatic prophecy and apocalypse. In Professor of Religious and Theological Studies Kelley Coblentz Bautch's RELS 2321 course, students will also take up key questions that speak to pressing issues of today.

Associate Professor of Physics Paul Walter's course will incorporate an online tool that makes complicated textbook passages more accessible and exams that incorporate team and individual rounds. Lab activities will focus on data analysis and opportunities to use VPython. 

Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing Tim Braun's Freshman Seminar — with 42 rules and a backward syllabus — will help students acclimate to college, while building projects like graphic novels and games. 

The editor's role is to help the writer best achieve the writer's aims. In Professor of Writing and Rhetoric Drew Loewe's online course, students will study the craft from the macro to micro level of editing.

In this class students, study Spanish grammar from a sociolinguistic perspective. We learn about dialect variation and why bilingual speakers often use Spanish differently than monolingual speakers.

En esta clase se estudia la gramática española desde una perspectiva sociolingüística. Aprendemos sobre la variación dialectal y por qué el habla de los hablantes bilingües suele diferenciarse del habla de los monolingües.

How much remains unseen? Students in Associate Professor of Creative Writing Sasha West's Poetry I class will explore the art of attention — what's in our lives and what we have been missing. 

Virtual mock crime scenes and VR headsets meet in-person crime-scene sketching and evidence processing in Associate Professor of Forensic Science Casie Parish Fisher's Crime Scene Investigations course. 

By studying periods of changes from the past, we have tools that can help us make sense of our own age, in which change is happening before our eyes. Students in Professor of History Christie Wilson's synchronous online course will study the ancient world through the 20th century to understand the complex ways that societies are transformed.

In Associate Professor of Marketing Monica Hernandez's class, students will earn industry certifications in SEO and digital advertising measurement and gain real-life experience by participating in a global marketing competition that pairs students with nonprofit organizations. 

While Zoom or other digital formats will never take the place of an in-person persuasive speech, these digital formats have other advantages that students will explore in Jim McNabb's Presentational Speaking course.