GC Course Description: SPCH 1315 Public Speaking | Credits: 3 | Prerequisites: TSI Satisfied in literacy | Application of communication theory and practice to the public speaking context, with emphasis on audience analysis, speaker delivery, ethics of communication, and speech organizational techniques to develop students’ speaking abilities, as well as the ability to effectively evaluate oral presentations

UWM Course Description: COMMUN 103-Public Speaking | Credits: 3 | Prerequisites: None | 

Principles of public address in informative, persuasive, and special occasion situations with emphasis on the theory, composition, and presentation of speeches.

This course has used an open textbook for 7 semesters in some sections. 

• Stand up, Speak Out  is a remix of an already existing open textbook, written and edited by UWM communication faculty
• 1,950, students
• Replaced $66 textbook
• Total student savings of $109,780

GC Course Description: EDUC 1300 Learning Framework | Credit: 3 | Prerequisites: None | 

A study of research and theory in the psychology of learning, cognition, and motivation, factors that impact learning, and application of learning strategies. Theoretical models of strategic learning, cognition, and motivation serve as the conceptual basis for the introduction of college-level academic strategies.

Students use assessment instruments (e.g., learning inventories) to help them identify their strengths and weaknesses as strategic learners. Students are ultimately expected to integrate and apply the learning skills discussed across their academic programs and become effective and efficient learners.

Students developing these skills should be able to continually draw from the theoretical models they have learned. (Cross-listed as PSYC 1300)

UWM Course Description: Education Psychology | Pathways to Success at UWM | Credits: 3 Hours | Prerequisites: None |  Provides students with knowledge of and connection to campus resources, helping with study skills and time management to be successful at UWM.| May not be retaken for credit. 

This course has used an open textbook for 2 semesters. 

• Open Textbook used: College Success
• 427 students
• Replaced $124 textbook
• Total student savings of $52,948

GC Course Description: HIST 1301 United States History I | Credits: 3 | Prerequisites: TSI Satisfied in literacy |

A survey of the social, political, economic, cultural, and intellectual history of the United States from the pre-Columbian era to the Civil War/Reconstruction period. United States History I includes the study of pre-Columbian, colonial, revolutionary, early national, slavery and sectionalism, and the Civil War/Reconstruction eras. Themes that may be addressed in United States History I include: American settlement and diversity, American culture, religion, civil and human rights, technological change, economic change, immigration and migration, and the creation of the federal government.

UWM Course Description: American History: 1607 to 1877 (History 151) | Credits: 3 | Prerequisites: None | 

Survey of American social, political, and economic development to 1877.

This course has used an open textbook for 1 semester

• Open Textbook: U.S. History 
• 21 students
• Replaced $100 textbook
• Total Savings of $2,100