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MAYMESTER COURSE: Culture Wars in Rome

General information about the Rome trip from the Herbst Program of Humanities.
http://engineering.colorado.edu/herbst/rome/

Culture Wars Course Webpage
http://culturewarsinrome.pbwiki.com/

CULTURAL EVENTS

CU-BOULDER MUSIC: Don't miss the Gilbert and Sullivan light operas: in English, and very funny!
http://www.colorado.edu/music/events/search.html?keyword=opera

CU-BOULDER MUSIC SCHOOL: Current Performance Schedule
http://www.colorado.edu/music/

UNIVERSITY OF DENVER CULTURAL EVENTS: Combined calendar.
http://ducal.du.edu/cgi-bin/webevent.cgi

BOULDER EVENTS: Boulder Community Network. This site is a clearing-house for a variety of events.
http://bcn.boulder.co.us/topical/center.htmlcalendar

READING and SEMINARS

SUMMER READING LISTS: A decade of UC Berkeley’s Summer Reading Lists, assembled by students and faculty.
http://reading.berkeley.edu/

OPRAH BOOK CLUB: Give it a try. After all, she put Tolstoy's novel "Anna Karenina" on the best-seller list; it wasn't Herbst!
https://www.oprah.com/obc_classic/login/obc_login_main.jhtml?_requestid=778695

RANDOM HOUSE Reading Group Guides: This site offers discussion questions for each book listed. Browse by title or use categories in the left menu bar.
http://www.randomhouse.com/reader_resources/browsetitle/index.pperl

COOL SITES IN THE HUMANITIES AND IN HISTORY

ARCHITECTURAL RESTORATION: "Rescuing World Monuments"
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pisa/monuments.html

INCREDIBLE INVENTORY OF ART SITES: "Art History: Resources for the Study of Art"
http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html

GREAT FILM ARCHIVE: "Internet Movie Data Base"
http://www.imdb.com/

HISTORY OF SCIENCE FACTS: "Today in Science History"
http://todayinsci.com/

MEDIEVAL BESTIARY: This book offers moral lessons from the Book of Nature; its medieval authors had little use for scientific accuracy. as a result, the pictures are very entertaining.
http://bestiary.ca/beasts/beastalphashort.htm

VIRTUAL TRAVEL: "Around the World in Eighty Clicks"
http://www.traveladventures.org/

COOL SITES IN ENGINEERING

A SIGHT-SEER'S GUIDE TO ENGINEERING. Find some interesting bit of engineering in each of the 50 states.
http://www.engineeringsights.org/

LINKS TO TOOLS FOR CURRENT STUDENTS

Strunk and White's Elements of Style: a free, indexed electronic copy of the popular book.
http://www.bartleby.com/141/

OWL, or ON-LINE WRITING LAB: Program to help engineering students to improve their writing.
http://engineering.colorado.edu/homer/owl.htm

EXPAND YOUR VOCABULARY: Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day. Word games and etymologies here, too.
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/mwwod.pl

H&SS Options
http://engineering.colorado.edu/homer/

University of Chicago's writing program
http://writing-program.uchicago.edu/resources/collegewriting/

Certificate in Engineering, Science, and Society
http://engineering.colorado.edu/academics/ess.htm

Online bibliography generator
http://www.easybib.com/

Writing FAQs.
http://nutsandbolts.washcoll.edu/

UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO BASIC SITES

University of Colorado Homepage
http://www.colorado.edu/

College of Engineering
http://engineering.colorado.edu/