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MAT 1073 College Algebra Reading is a derivative of College Algebra from OpenStax and has been tailored to meet the needs of students enrolled in UT San Antonio’s MAT 1073 College Algebra.

This handbook is a guide to the different types of writing and skills you will learn over the two semesters and the courses in The Writing Program. These skills will transfer across disciplines and move you into your career. You can find different information about academic and professional genres of writing, including writing samples of each genre from former WRC students. This handbook helps prepare you to be successful in your writing course and beyond with clear expectations of the courses, the grading, and your role as a student. This text will serve as one of the books for each course, so you should purchase The Writing Program Student Handbook only once. Don’t sell it back until you have completed both courses.

Somos San Anto is an Open Educational Resource (OER) designed for undergraduate Spanish as a Heritage Language courses, with a focus on the cultures, histories, literatures, and linguistic diversity of Texas. The platform integrates analog and digital humanities approaches to engage students with the linguistic and cultural heritage of San Antonio and the broader Texas borderlands through interactive, community-centered learning. The project was co-directed by Sylvia Fernández and Stephanie Brock Gonzalez (UT San Antonio) and developed collaboratively with a team of Spanish Heritage Language instructors and graduate students in UT San Antonio’s M.A. in Spanish program. The OER provides openly accessible instructional materials that support culturally responsive, place-based pedagogy while promoting students’ linguistic, cultural, and digital literacies. Somos San Anto: Abrazando nuestros lenguajes, herencia cultural y comunidad was made possible through a UTSA Libraries and Museums Adopt-a-Free-Textbook grant.

When students study Spanish, they can go in numerous directions, as there is not a one-to-one correspondence between degree and profession. However, the opportunities are endless; we just have to work a little harder, as teachers, to help students understand what their options look like. That is the purpose of this book. Here, we chat with a series of Spanish majors about what it is they do in their careers and how they use Spanish at work, with the goal of opening students’ eyes to all the things they could go on to do and be with a Spanish degree.

Each chapter in this book features a single person’s story. Through a series of questions, we’ll learn about who they are, what their career is like, how they got to where they are today, and advice they have for students interested in following in their footsteps. I hope their stories inspire you and get you thinking about all the things you could do with your Spanish skills down the road.

The UT San Antonio Connect and Thrive Faculty Mini-Grant program sponsored by Academic Innovation (formerly First-Year Student Experience and Faculty Engagement Mini-Grant) is designed to increase overall student-faculty engagement outside of the classroom, enhance students’ sense of connection and belonging to UT San Antonio, and develop engaging relationships among faculty and students. This book compiles faculty work under the grant during the 2022-2023 and 2024-2025 cycles.

Gwen Young, Lindsay Ratcliffe, and Ivette Gomez wrote Introduction to Introduction to Environmental Studies to meet the needs of students enrolled in ES 1003: Survey Topics in Environmental Studies at UT San Antonio. This OER addresses challenges with delivering a broad-based introductory course that ensures students—particularly those from non-science backgrounds—come away with an appreciation for the depth and breadth of environmental issues and an understanding of how to engage with these issues productively, regardless of their major discipline. Introduction to Introduction to Environmental Studies was made possible through a UTSA Libraries and Museums Adopt-a-Free-Textbook grant.

This book was created to support UT San Antonio faculty, instructional designers, and librarians as they adopt open educational resources and as they work in UTSA Pressbooks to remix existing open educational resources (OER) and to create new OER. It covers topics related to the fundamentals of open educational resources, copyright and Creative Commons Licenses, basics of creating and remixing OER, how to attribute OER, how to use UTSA Pressbooks when creating OER, accessibility on UTSA UTSA Pressbooks, information on various UTSA OER grants, and how to integrate UTSA Pressbooks OER into the Canvas learning management system.

In this text, you will learn basic telecommunications terms and concepts related to various types of networks and the Internet. We will cover commonly used network standards, protocols, topologies, and architectures. Hands-on activities will explore network traffic packet analysis, error control, subnetting, wireless/wired network design, and newer technologies such as Bluetooth and 5G. We will explore these with a lens on reliability, efficiency, and security.

There are no prerequisites for this text. The labs associated with this text will use Wireshark and Cisco Packet Tracer; therefore, a basic familiarity with technology and software is beneficial. However, instructions to install and use these programs will be part of the relevant labs.

Telecommunications and Networking was made possible through a Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board State Funded OER Grant.

This Open Education Resource (OER) textbook was created to address the needs of students enrolled in WRC 1013 and WRC 1023: Freshman Composition I and II at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) and ENG 1301 and ENG 1302 Composition I and II at Palo Alto College (PAC) in San Antonio, Texas. It was funded through the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board’s Open Educational Resources Grant Program (OERGP).