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Course Criteria
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course allows students to gain multiple perspectives on life in the modern world. Drawing from a wide variety of resources (such as literature; art; spiritual texts; and cultural, psychological, or social theory), students have the chance to examine critically and reflectively the ways in which we live in contemporary society. Students write critical papers and engage in experiential projects.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course provides students the chance to read texts on the learning process and to explore for themselves (and their cohorts) what an "integral" education can be. Students also participate in group discussions, activities, and exercises that allow them to reflect on life-changinglearning experiences and provide them chances to learn and "unlearn" in new ways. Students write and share critical reflections.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course provides students with the opportunity to examine the nature of selfhood and themselves as individuals and as persons in society. Students will participate in various activities (such as writing and drawing projects and doing experiential exercises) to understand themselves with more awareness and their relationships to others more deeply. Questions explored include the following: What are the aspects of self What is my relationship to my self My relationship to others
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
In this course, students learn the ways in which culture shapes their understanding of the world. Culture is engaged theoretically, such as through the study of ethnography and through methods such as exercises in participation-observation. Students explore what it means to engage, define, and describe a culture, and look at the value and limits of inquiry. Students reflect experientially and in writing on the culture of their cohort, the Institute, and academia itself.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course provides students the opportunity to explore multiple perspectives on acquiring knowledge and conducting inquiry. A companion to the research writing course, this course provides students with conceptual frameworks (such as systems theory) and allows them to use these frameworks as tools in interdisciplinary learning. Students look at how multiple perspectives can help us understand and gain insights when working with diverse experiences, information, and phenomena through reading and participatory exercises.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
The readings and in-class exercises deal with a range of research issues from basic library research skills to issues of bias, data collection, and the legitimacy of sources and methods. Students explore a variety of approaches. The group develops an operational definition of research to assist in writing a critical paper as well as in understanding the products of research.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
In this course, students have the opportunity to engage and explore issues that affect us globally and personally with an emphasis on looking at them from environmental, political, psychological, and spiritual perspectives. Environmental issues, for example, may be explored from environmental justice and ecopsychological perspectives. Students may do fieldwork and research. Activities may also include writing and preparing reflections and reports, presentations or performances, and experiential or arts-based exercises.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course provides students with the opportunity (1) to engage in an exploration of relationships between personal philosophical perspectives and choices and actions in the world, and (2) to engage questions of the process of personal change in the context of community. Reflections on ethics, spiritual belief, and the relationship between individuals and community are at the heart of this curriculum. Students draw on readings, original writings, interviews, and other experiences to support and challenge their perspectives.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
In this course, students design and complete a project that integrates their work and learning in the BAC program. Students will use skills developed in the Knowledge and Inquiry course and from the BAC curriculum to complete the project. The project includes a written document and bibliography and an experiential presentation within the cohort.
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3.00 Credits
This course approaches mathematics as the study of patterns, asking how different cultures have developed systems of thoughts to study nature, to track social processes, and to develop art and technology. Mathematics of the West as well as the mathematics of traditional cultures in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Americas, and the Pacific Islands will be considered.
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