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3.00 Credits
Through art, literature, archeology, and history, this course will explore the evolution of human consciousness from its pre-human origins through the Neolithic and Paleolithic periods, through ancient history, and on down through the Renaissance to modernity and postmodernity. It will begin with the origins of the human mind as depicted in the writings of Merlin Donald and David Lewis-Williams and continue with an inquiry into cultural and historical structures of consciousness with Jean Gebser, Ken Wilber, and Allan Combs. The course will be based in an ongoing dialogue and exploration of these topics on the web, as well as requiring midterm and end-of-term papers.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an overview of general qualitative research methods. Its purpose is to provide students with a sufficient understanding of the ethical, epistemological, and practical issues associated with qualitative research. Students will develop skills for conducting an inquiry within a chosen methodological framework and will be able to select a method consistent with their values, interests, and commitments.
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0.00 - 3.00 Credits
Learning Community serves multiple purposes. It is designed to develop a community of online learners; to foster dialogue, reflection, and exploration about the coursework and its relationship to individual and collective interests; to develop or improve basic scholarly skills; and to integrate the material from the coursework. It also serves as an online "homeroom."
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0.00 - 3.00 Credits
Learning Community serves multiple purposes. It is designed to develop a community of online learners; to foster dialogue, reflection, and exploration about the coursework and its relationship to individual and collective interests; to develop or improve basic scholarly skills; and to integrate the material from the coursework. It also serves as an online "homeroom."
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Coursework that extends a student's field of inquiry beyond current CIIS courses. Requires a syllabus and contract signed by the student and faculty member, and approved by the program chair.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on writing a literature review for the student's dissertation. This literature must be written in such a way that it can be submitted as a publishable article to a journal relevant to the student's interest area.
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3.00 Credits
The second Comprehensive Exam outlines and articulates the methodology the student will use for the dissertation or equivalent. As well as showing how the student intends to apply the methodology, the paper must, among other things, also explain why this particular methodology was chosen, where it is situated in the broad spectrum of available methodologies, and what its limitations are.
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3.00 Credits
In At Large and At Small, Anne Fadiman shares the following about the "state" of the essay: "Today's readers encounter plenty of critical essa(more brain than heart) and plenty of personal-very personal-essays (more heart than brain), but not many familiar essays (equal measures ofboth)." In this class, students will get the chance to write essays in a widevariety of forms and explore how the essay-creating process requires them to look within their own heads and hearts so that they insightfully engage their readers emotionally and intellectually. Students will also read personal, lyrical, historical, critical, familiar, and experimental essays, and will examine the role of research in essay writing.
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3.00 Credits
Interdisciplinary Pedagogy will explore and define our philosophies of teaching and learning; i.e., how do we conceive of the learning environment, the teacher-student relationship, the aim of our education practices. We will look at a wide variety of teaching environments as they apply to different art forms as well as academic teaching. Students will learn how to design courses and workshops, write syllabi, and articulate their own pedagogy. Students will gain experience teaching, facilitating discussion, and evaluating themselves and their students. As teachers, we will attempt to use ourselves as examples of different pedagogic methods and tools. We will interrogate our histories, our philosophical points of view, and our practices as part of the class.
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3.00 Credits
This is a poetry class for anyone interested in the poetics of engagement. We will look at poetry across time and cultures to understand how poetry is used to resist and rejoice. This is not a technique class. It is a class for both poetry lovers and poetry haters. It is an opportunity to understand why and how poetry matters.
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