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2.00 - 4.00 Credits
2-4 cr. Many Honors courses are unique offerings. These topics courses are designed for first-year students and sophomores. Previous topics courses have included cultures and healing, the arts, service learning and other interdisciplinary courses.
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4.00 Credits
4 cr. Italian film since WWII has depicted Italy's complete wartime devastation, its economic recovery in the 1960s,and theways inwhichmen andwomen see one another. The Irish film industry, slower in developing, has depicted Ireland's turbulent past, its political troubles, its joyful sense of being human, and the ways in which men and women see one another. Students in this coursewillwatch films produced in both countries to gain a full sense of how film makers have transformed national culture into artistic vision.
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0.00 - 2.00 Credits
0-2 cr. The student-led seminar seeks to connect civically minded students interested in reflecting on issues of community activism and social changes in a small group format. The seminar is a survey course on a variety of social justice issues including women's rights, HIV/AIDS, service-learning effectiveness/ineffectiveness, optimism/pessimism, globalization, social and economic inequities and spirituality. Theoretical essays and articles will challenge commonly accepted notions in these areas andwill represent amultitude of viewpoints, ethnicities, and social circumstances. Studentswill take a collaborative role in the success of the class. This will include trusting themselves and each other to learn skills of facilitation through leading a class session in the format of the seminar and developing relationships so that they can learn from each others' experiences.
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0.00 - 2.00 Credits
0-2 cr. Students,having participated in the Fall Be the Change: Seminar, will have built a strong community with which to challenge personal biases and prejudices in the Spring Practicum. Course content includes the study of Catholic social teaching and builds upon established theories of social justice and community service. In-depth focus on individual components of the Social Change Wheel will allow students to analyze and critique particular ways of creating social change. The corresponding Be the Change service-learning project requires analyzing and addressing social problems on the micro-campus level through a specific method of change-making. The project encompasses service planning, project implementation,and evaluation of the effort. Students also will studymethodologies of current non-profit and governmental organizations committed to social change work in order to facilitate their professional development.Prerequisite: HON 3010 or consent of instructor.
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4.00 Credits
4 cr. ( IDS) The Black Death arrived in Europe in 1348 and stayed for over 200 years. Society's response to the repeated onslaught of amysterious killer disease heavily shaped Western Civilization. This course looks at howthe Black Death and other plagues shape our life. A theme throughout the course will be how today's society would react to a plague similar to the Black Death. HON 3350 Psychology of Human Sexuality 2 cr. (II) This course will involve reading and discussing psychology literature on selected,often controversial, topics in human sexuality. Subjects include evolutionary psychology and mate selection, love styles and classifications, unlovely feelings such as jealousy, correlates of sexual orientation, the church and sexuality, contraceptives, resolving unplanned pregnancies, impact of pornography on sexual aggression, atypical sexual behavior, realities and politics of child sexual abuse and sex therapy. The course will emphasize interactions between psychological factors and other influences- biological, social, cultural, religious-on sexual attitudes and behavior, and the study of sexuality as a scientific discipline.
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4.00 Credits
4 cr. The incredibly rich fiction, drama and poetry of a tiny island have produced four Nobel Prizewinners in literature. Whilewewill read some textswritten before the 20th century, the emphasis will be onmodern and contemporary literature, in part because it was written in English rather than in Irish, but more importantly because Irish writers are among the giants of modern literature and some of the most brilliant writers working today. Students will read, discuss and write about important literary texts, with a few forays into Irish myth,music, art, and history.
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4.00 Credits
4 cr. The classical and modern psychological theories of belief, focusing on religious belief and on the evolutionary/ cognitive basis of belief. Exploration of issues such as: howwe believe,why people believe in god(s), the psychological needs that faith satisfies, the reasons why people differ in the ways they express and satisfy those needs,andwhat it is about the certainty of belief that leads to proselytizing, persecution or feeling threatened by the beliefs of others. Seminar format and application of empirically supported theory and concepts thorough projects. Prerequisites: (a) General Psychology; or (b) Lifespan Developmental Psychology; or (c) junior/senior status having completed one other upper-division Honors course, or Benedictine Liberal Arts Education Area II,or two TRS/PHL courses.
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4.00 Credits
4 cr. This course explores the turn to religion, the supernatural, and youth concerns in American popular culture since the early 1990s. Whether one examines the hit TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spin-off Angel or enormously popular films such as The Matrix trilogy and Dogma, there has been a virtual explosion of angels,monsters,vampires,and aliens in American film, TV, and literature. Beginning with a critical and historical look at some of the precursors to the recent aesthetic and cultural articulations of religion and the supernatural - from Mary Shelley's 19th century "gothic"novel Frankenstein to the horror films of James Whales in the 1930s and 1940s - we will raise questions about the contemporary fascination with the supernatural alongside path-breakingwork in the history of religions,media studies, and cultural studies.
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11.00 Credits
4 cr. This course offers students the opportunity to engage in historical reflection on 9/11 and its aftermath. Toward this end,wewill trace recent debates in the history of religions, cultural anthropology and political philosophy on the nature of religious and cultural differences, the scope and impact of American imperialism, war, and transnational peace and justice movements. As the tragedy of 9/11 and the "war against terror"shouldmake crystal clear, the challenge of living humanely and justly in the world today demands a different kind of political ethic-one that persistently values the place of difference and otherness in understanding (and perhaps transforming) the utter violence of themodern and postmodern worlds. The course's objective is to come to a clearer understanding of the radical implication of modern Western forms of power,knowledge and history-making in this very violence.
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4.00 Credits
4 cr. In 1848, John EverettMillais,WilliamHolman Hunt,and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, students at London's Royal Academy of Art, agreed that art had taken a wrong turn three centuries earlier. Calling themselves the PRB - Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood - they set to work reclaiming the spirit of the early Italianmaster painters, using biblical,mythological andmedieval subject matter to create passionate, visionary art. Although the original threemembers stayed together as the PRB for only five years, they attracted awide range of disciples - poets,painters,and social reformers -who expanded their influencewell into the 20th century. This classwill examine the literature and visual art of the PRB and allied writers and painters. We will attempt to understand the Pre-Raphaelites'works in a variety of interrelated ways: as art and literature, as spiritual expression, as cultural product, as personal/biographical expression and as agent of social reform.
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