HSF 1300 - H&s Foundation

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Babson College

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3.00 credits HSF1300 Crises in Community and Citizenship (Fall Semester) (Foundation Liberal Arts) In this History and Society foundation course, students will explore the challenges that individuals face as they struggle to exercise personal agency in the face of social, cultural, political, economic, and historical structures. Focusing on the tensions between and within communities, as well as those that are internal to the individual, this course asks a series of related questions: How is identity socially constructed How do individuals negotiate belonging in communities defined by nation, region, race, religious affiliation, class, ethnicity, gender or sexuality How do these identities affect one's ability to be recognized as a citizen of these communities What strategies do individuals apply to reconcile the self with social expectations What impact do these struggles have on the way community boundaries are redrawn over time How do we resolve the multiple vectors of identity and the multiple sites of citizenship To answer these questions, we will draw on the work of historians, documentarians, graphic artists, environmentalists, philosophers, journalists, cultural critics, and memoirists. Prerequisites: NONE HSF1300 HUMAN AGENCY AND COMMUNITY IN A GLOBALIZING WORLD (Spring Semester) (Foundation Liberal Arts) Over the past century human societies have changed at an unprecedented rate and with an unprecedented scope. These changes have been often traumatic, sometimes revolutionary and nearly always unpredictable. This course examines the impact of a number of different kinds of upheavals and transformations on individuals, communities and nations, as well as transnational formations. The course will focus on periods of dramatic change in different parts of the world. As we move from one historical and geographic context to another, we will address the following set of related questions. What are the different ways that individuals can "belong" to a society How is social identity constructed and deconstructed How do individuals exercise human agency in the face of institutional oppression What are the possibilities for individual and communal healing from historical trauma What is the relationship of memory to history What does citizenship mean in a globalizing world Prerequisite: NONE

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3.00

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Institution Website:

www.babson.edu

Phone Number:

(781) 235-1200

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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Semester

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