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Literature of the Holocaust Pre: Communications Proficiency Co: Provides a factual background, psychological insights and analyses of the responses to the Holocaust in diaries, memoirs, fiction, poetry, drama, film, music and art. Principles of social pscyhology will be applied to better understand the Holocaust from the perspective of the perpetrators, victims, witnesses, resisters, liberators, survivors and their descendants. Fulfills open, liberal arts, humanities, behavioral science, social science electives.
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Cultural History of Food Pre: Communications Proficiency Co: This course examines the nature and evolution of the world's major cuisines from a historical and geographic perspective. It will include indigenous and foreign influences on cuisine, regional variations, the evolution of professional cooking and restaurants, and a segment on researching and updating foods and recipes from earlier times. Fulfills open, liberal arts, and humanities electives.
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Yoga, Meditation, & Stress Management 2 Pre: IDS148 Yoga, Meditation, & Stress Management 1 Co: An advanced application of stress management skills based on a modern western yoga philosophy. The emphasis is on learning various advanced breathing, stress management, and meditation techniques along with a consistent yoga and meditation practice to be academically understood and experientially applied. This course is designed for students of all ages with basic physical abilities. Fulfills humanities, liberal arts, and open electives.
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Approaches to Peace & Conflict Resolution Pre: Communications Proficiency Co: Students will explore various approaches to peace through history and will examine ways in which outstanding peacemakers have stood in opposition to violence. There will be opportunity to investigate interpersonal, local, national or international conflict and strategies for resolving it. Skill-building exercises will present a chance to practice negotiation and mediation. Fulfills open, liberal arts, behavioral science, history, and social science electives.
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Basic Mediation Training Pre: Communications Proficiency Co: This course instructs participants in learning the general practice of mediation. The training is interactive, combining exercises, discussions, demos, presentations and role-playing. Participants will learn the skills and techniques of a mediator, such as active listening, learning the perspectives of the disputants, defining the interests and positions, facilitating communication, dealing with power imbalances and generating options for resolution. The course complies with the MA Association of Mediation Programs and Practitioners, the MA Bar Association-Civil Mediations Training, the Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution, and the MA Trial Court. Fulfills open, liberal arts, humanities, behavioral science, social science electives.
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Negotiating: Searching for Common Ground Pre: Communications Proficiency Co: Designed to prepare students to understand the multi-faceted approaches to negotiation. Through readings, analyzing theories, guest speakers, case studies and interactive exercises, students gain valuable negotiating tools ranging from enhancing ones bargaining position to deescalating negative emotions. Students will learn to negotiate anything from personal to business matters. This course fulfuls open, liberal arts, behavioral science, and social science electives.
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Introduction to Sustainable Living Pre: Communications Proficiency, MAT091 with 'C' or better Co: Composition 1 This course provides an introduction to the concept and principles of sustainability. The course will examine major environmental issues and will challenge students to see themselves as part of a web of interactions connecting the environoment, economy, and society. While offering both scientific and humanities perspectives on environmental problems, the course will stress personal and collective action as pathways to solutions for sustainable living. Fulfills open, liberal arts, social science, and IDS science electives.
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Exploring the Landscape of Sustainability Pre: Communications Proficiency Co: This course examines a range of sustainability issues that affects us all. Student will be encouraged to think about how their various choices in life and careers can and do affect their local communities, the environment and future generations. Topics include calculating and reducing carbon footprints, green building design, green roof and wall technologies, water conservation, community gardens, composting and low impact sustainable landscapes. Students will also complete a service learning project. Fulfills liberal arts and open electives.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne in Cultural Context Pre: Communications Proficiency Co: This course uses the Hawthorne in Salem Website to examine several short stories and sketches by Nathaniel Hawthorne in their historical context and in relation to a wide variety of art works, original documents, and artifacts related to Hathorne and his time from museums in Salem, MA and elsewhere. Fulfils open, liberal arts, and humanites electives.
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School Violence Pre: Communications Proficiency Co: This course will study the problem of school violence, its causation and cures. The areas of focus will include: school violence that stems in large part from individual idiosyncratic personality traits, school violence that can be best understood in terms of societal structure, and school violence that can be traced to gang activity. Solutions and programs that have been attempted to fight this problem nationwide and in Massachusetts in particular, will be presented and evaluated. Fulfills open, liberal arts, social science, and behavioral science electives.
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