Office of Special Instructional Projects and Activities


PROJECT UPWARD BOUND

Director:
    Alyssia J. Coates
    Dept. Tel.
: (574) 631-5669
The Program of Studies. The Office of Special Instructional Projects and Activities offers, through its Project Upward Bound, a summer program designed to give students an opportunity to earn college credit that will transfer to the university in which they plan to enroll. Registration in the courses described below is restricted to students enrolled in Project Upward Bound.
Course Descriptions. The following course descriptions give the number and title of each course. Lecture hours per week, laboratory and/or tutorial hours per week, and semester credit hours are in parentheses. The University reserves the right to withdraw any course without sufficient registration.
 
UB 00105. Elements of Calculus I
3 credits, Staff (6-0-3)
1:30–3:00 MTWRF 6/20–7/29
CRN 1226; ID # UB 00105 01
Last “add” date: 6/24
“Drop” dates: refund, 6/28; last, 7/10
An introduction to calculus on algebraic, exponential, and logarithmic functions. The real number line, limits and continuity, derivatives, intermediate and mean value theorems, local extrema, the first and second derivative tests, and application to maxima and minima.
 
UB 00109. Composition and Literature
3 credits, Staff (6-0-3)
10:30–11:45 MTWRF 6/20–7/29
CRN 3052; ID # UB 00109 01
Last “add” date: 6/24
“Drop” dates: refund, 6/28; last, 7/10
Emphasizes training in the art of clear and effective expository prose and in the analysis and appreciation of the various types of
literature.