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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
This course examines the ways that practitioners and patients from around the world narrativize medical conditions, health treatments, and the body. Our emphasis will be on medicine and the body not as static and known entities but as things that require "understanding," in the senses that they both necessitate interpretation and should be approached compassionately. Our texts will include everything from medical memoirs, to ethnographies, to fiction. We will consider such questions as: How do public and personal interpretations of health impact wellbeing? How do understandings of health differ globally? And, how are health practices nationalized, gendered, and racialized?
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4.00 Credits
This course will introduce students to narratives of immigrants to major cities as the foundation for our investigation into how ever-shifting local urban cultures inform and are informed by inter- and intra-continental networks of people, businesses, organizations, and political bodies. Through writing about migrant literature, films, plays, music, and/or other cultural artifacts, students will trace how "local" experiences from around the world influence the ever-shifting cultural milieux of the contemporary "global" city. Students will closely read and watch the stories of immigrants to a city chosen for the focus of the class using critical texts drawn from several humanities disciplines such as history, literary studies, cultural studies, philosophy, and film studies to gain an understanding of what makes a "global" city.
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4.00 Credits
In this humanities course students will study the role music plays in shaping and responding to social movements on a local, national, and global scale, considering what the function, potential, and limits of musical protests were in transforming civic life over the course of the twentieth century.
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4.00 Credits
This course introduces students to moral thinking and to local and global ethical controversies across the world, predominantly outside of the United States. Students will learn the basics of critical thinking and moral reasoning in a cross cultural context, and use African, Anglo-European, Chinese, Indigenous, and Islamic moral frameworks to critically and respectfully examine global and local moral debates.
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4.00 Credits
We will explore questions about metaphysics, epistemology, and value/ethics by engaging with philosophical texts and ideas from parts of the world outside the United States. We will examine a foundational text from ancient Greek, Hellenistic, and/or Roman philosophy (e.g., Plato, Aristotle, the ancient Stoics) and one from early modern philosophy by a French or German philosopher (i.e., Descartes or Kant). We will have additional readings and activities that support, challenge, or complement the foundational philosophical texts from geographically distant parts of the ancient and early modern world by bringing them into conversation with our own lives in our local communities.
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4.00 Credits
This course explores three traditions of philosophy, religion, and contemplative mind-body practice from parts of the world outside the United States: Indian Vedic philosophy, Chinese Daoism, and Zen Buddhism. Students will explore connections between these global traditions and their own actions as individuals within specific local communities, critically examine philosophical/religious texts, learn through writing while cultivating knowledge and skills distinctive of the humanities and the discipline of philosophy, experience contemplative practices (i.e., hatha yoga, qigong, and/or meditation) outside of class, and engage in respectful discussion in which they compare/contrast and critically assess these global traditions and their associated contemplative practices.
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4.00 Credits
This course examines selected topics in politics and society. Topics may include-but are not limited to-the intersection of politics and globalization, ideologies, pop culture, gender, race, law, justice, and sustainability.
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4.00 Credits
Is memory like a camera? Can happiness be learned? Students will examine how psychologists use the scientific method to study a range of everyday human experiences. The course is structured around Dinner Table Conversations that reflect psychology's broad scope, including human development, biopsychology, cognition, social behavior, and psychological health and distress. Writing is a substantial part of the course, and students will address issues in civic engagement in both writing and other course activities.
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4.00 Credits
This course explores sociological insights, using the Tampa Bay area as a living laboratory. Students apply classic and contemporary theory and use empirical research methods to generate space- and place-based sociological insights.
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4.00 Credits
This course examines the relationship between contemporary society, the natural environment, and sustainability. It will explore the cultural, institutional, organizational, and interpersonal domains of environmental problems and sustainable solutions with an emphasis on social relations. Topics will include topics such as global climate change, species loss, sea-level rise, food insecurity, and environmental justice. This course will also examine the everyday lived experience of sustainability and environmental issues.
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