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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.

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.

Innovation and Entrepreneurship licensed CC-BY-NC-SA is a derivative of OpenStax Entrepreneurship by Michael Lavery and Chris Lattell. It has been adapted to meet the needs of students enrolled in ENT 3123 Innovation and Entrepreneurship at UT San Antonio. This book is broken up into three stages: 1) Entrepreneurship & Laying the Groundwork, 2) How to Validate and Execute Your Idea, and 3) Prototyping and Testing. Within each stage there are a series of focused modules with specific learning objectives. Within each module are more focused sections. Each module has a required reading list along with optional readings suggested in each section. The modules include pause questions, plan questions, and other activities. At the end of each module you will complete a five-question multiple choice quiz.

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 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 Pressbooks when creating OER, accessibility on Pressbooks, information on various UTSA OER grants, and how to integrate UTSA Pressbooks OER into the Canvas learning management system.

The authors of this book, five fun-loving and adventurous math geeks, share a love for low-to-no cost, high quality academic materials. We believe that most learning happens outside of a classroom; accordingly, course materials should encourage interaction, support student growth, and be accessible to everyone! Our common belief in the inflated cost of academic stuff coupled with a desire to tailor materials to our students’ needs led us to collaborate on an open educational resource project supported by UTSA Libraries. Although much of our eBook is sourced from the OpenStax Precalculus Textbook, we modified the content to suit our course topics and the UTSA student body. Yes… you may be able to spot yourself in here if you look closely! In fact, I think I see you walking into the Flawn Science Building… take a look yourself.

Topics in Precalculus was made possible through a UTSA Libraries and Museums Adopt-a-Free-Textbook grant.

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.