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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.

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 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.

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 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.

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).

This book is designed mainly for History of Film, a course in the Film and Media Studies Program, University of Texas at San Antonio. The rationale for developing this book is two-fold: to offer a free textbook in the course and to expand the limits of the topics studied under the history of film, including information about emerging film aesthetics and the burgeoning film industries in the Global South. Overall, this book offers students an opportunity to compare and study the film traditions of the past. Each chapter contains sub-chapters as a means of addressing the complexities of topics and traditions within each heading. More importantly, the chapters and sub-chapters are designed to accompany the course description, course goals, and the learning modules in the course. HUM-2053 is an introductory survey of the history, criticism, and cultural importance of film. This course will focus on the development of film as a medium for cultural production including a comparative analysis between film and other cultural media such as literature, drama, and the visual arts.

The NCB 0502 Corequisite Support is an adaptation of original content and content licensed CC-BY 4.0 books from Openstax: Pre-algebra, Elementary Algebra, Intermediate Algebra, College Algebra, and Pre-Calculus.

UT San Antonio Staff of the NCB Department added content to UT San Antonio Pressbooks to better align content of NCB with the UT San Antonio course MAT 1023 College Algebra as part of the Corequisite program.

This Step-by-Step Japanese 1 OER is intended for those who have mastered Japanese Hiragana and Katakana. The author would like to recommend using the Musubi Japanese Reading & Writing (Hiragana and Katakana OER workbook published by the University of Hawaii, Manoa) before one begins to proceed with Step-by-Step Japanese 1.

Step-by-Step Japanese was made possible through a UTSA Libraries and Museums Adopt-a-Free-Textbook grant.