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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite(s): Department chairperson's permission Gives opportunity to small groups for study of selected topics. ( Allows repetition for credit.)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite(s): Junior-level standing, 3.0 cumulative average, and permission of liberal arts internship coordinator An internship provides the student with an opportunity to gain on-the-job experience and apply principles and issues raised in the academic discipline to a work environment. The student is required to attend pre-internship workshops sponsored by the Center for Career Services, meet regularly with a faculty adviser, and develop a final paper or special project.
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3.00 Credits
Note: This course earns arts and sciences or unrestricted elective credit. It cannot be used with a major or minor program of study, unless authorized by an academic department. This course is a fourth-credit option in selected courses or course clusters. Students are required to conduct community service and produce either written or oral reports at the discretion of the instructor. Students wishing to enroll in this course must have the permission of the instructor of a three-credit course within which the student is registered and must receive credit for the three-credit course to be granted the fourth credit. Students may be enrolled in this course only once in a given semester; the course may be taken for up to but not more than three total semesters.
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3.00 Credits
Note: Can be used as social sciences, behavioral sciences, business communication or unrestricted elective. This course explores various facets of propaganda. It will focus on: 1) meanings and uses of the concept of propaganda, 2) sources, expressive forms and sociopolitical functions of propaganda, and 3) realms of everyday social life where it is relevant to investigate the existence and effects of propaganda. This interdisciplinary course includes a range of readings from the humanities and the social sciences, and films and guest speakers from varied disciplines. Particular attention will be paid to the connections between the phenomena of propaganda and power relations within everyday life.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite(s): Satisfactory completion of the Expository Writing sequence, or permission of instructor Note: May be used as a humanities, behavioral sciences, literature course or unrestricted elective. Focuses on communication, the forms and content that men and women use and have used to express themselves and to reveal and develop relationships. Readings in both literature and psychology will explore gender differences of communication, both verbal and nonverbal, in conflict, distancing, self-fashioning and intimacy. Literary studies include questions about voice, language and structures chosen for expression. Readings in psychological research explore gender differences in conversation, body language, classroom climate, workplace interactions, and other male-female relationships. Includes experimental exercises and some videotape viewing.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite(s): MG 150 or GB 101 and GB 102 Note: May be used as a management, management-related or unrestricted elective. The course begins by studying the assumptions behind Western civilization's development over the last 400 years. It will then examine an emerging set of new assumptions that may redefine the values, goals and interests by which we live our lives. Is a new, more cooperative and less competitive ideal on the horizon After examining this general cultural model's implications, attention will be turned to corporations on the cutting edge of organizational theory, practice and transformation.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite(s): Sophomore-level standing or permission of instructor Note: Can be used as a social sciences, humanities or unrestricted elective. Helps students develop a critical framework for thinking about gender. Drawing on disciplinary perspectives from the arts and sciences and business, we will consider open-ended questions such as: What are the implications of saying sex roles are not "natural" What are the benefits and drawbacks of sex roles How can or should we talk about power relations between the sexes We will also investigate more immediate gender concerns: How critical should we be of gender stereotypes Are women's entry into the labor force and men's involvement in parenting positive or negative How do race, class, gender and sexual preference issues interact D
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite(s): HI 101/102 or HI 111 and GO 100 or permission of instructors Note: May be used as an unrestricted elective, arts and sciences elective, history or government elective, or social sciences elective. In 1987, Americans celebrated the bicentennial of the world's oldest continuing written constitution, a document that effects virtually every aspect of our national and personal lives. In more than two hundred years it has been amended only 27 times. Yet it is the focus of continual controversy. What rights does a fetus have and how are they to be weighed against the rights of a pregnant woman Do citizens have a "right to keep and bear arms " Should we limit terms of congressmen Is our jury system functioning properly This course will go behind the historical underpinnings of the Constitution to its basic principles and apply these to the major constitutional issues of our time.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite(s): Instructors permission and GB 103, LA 200 or LA 101 The course studies those developments in English history which are the basis of the American legal system. Students travel to London as part of their study during spring break. This course focuses on the development of the common law system in English history and its impact on American law. Topics include the origins of the common law system under Henry II; the establishment of limits on royal authority under Magna Carta and the English civil war; and the early common law forms of action, which form the basis of modern-day American litigation.
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3.00 Credits
Introduces the interdisciplinary field of women's studies, feminism, and some of the major issues that affect women. Explores the cultural practices, interpersonal relationships, and social institutions that give shape to women's experiences and lives. Addresses the complex roles that race, ethnicity, class, and sexual orientation play in the lives of women.
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