HECG 100 - Engagements in the Common Good

Institution:

Cabrini University - Closed

Subject:

Honors Engage the Common Good

Description:

This writing-intensive course approaches the common good from a variety of perspectives by exposing and interrogating the tension between the individual and society. It also examines the individual's position in various communities: family, nation, race, class, gender, and other categories of identity. This course makes students increasingly prepared to see solidarity, reciprocity, and mutual engagement as social justice. Through reading, writing, classroom discussion, and co-curricular activities, students come to a greater understanding of the formal and informal social structures that construct their identities. A key teaching method in the class is the nationally recognized "Reacting to the Past" pedagogy. This method was developed originally at Barnard and Columbia, and it is now used in college classrooms across the country. "Reacting" calls on students to play out the parts of historical ?gures in key moments of cultural and political crisis. Students inhabit their roles, getting into the minds and hearts of those historical individuals they portray. Public speaking and writing "in character" are essential features of the "reacting" method. For ?rst-year Honors students only. Offered fall. 3 credits

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.cabrini.edu

Phone Number:

(610) 902-8100

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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