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3.00 Credits
Students are introduced to law as a dispute resolution process focusing on the judicial process and legal reasoning as means of maintaining historical continuity and doctrinal consistency. The course concludes with as series of classes devoted to selected readings on contemporary problems.
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3.00 Credits
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3.00 Credits
In this seminar, seniors who are hoping to graduate as University Scholars will engage and analyze complex cultural artifacts¿works of art, architecture, literature, and music¿in ways that draw on but are not limited to the methods of their own academic disciplines. Students will develop more fully their critical and imaginative faculties as they encounter works that bring together the familiar and the alien, what is comforting with what is disquieting. Through class discussion and writing assignments, students will explore the perspectives that the works encourage, testing and expanding their own understanding of the world.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines notions of text in the present moment. Traditionally, texts are seen as authoritative sources of meaning and their relationships to their authors and readers are relatively straightforward. In the postmodern world, however, both text and reading are broader, more complex ideas. Texts are sites where meaning is negotiated among readers, author, and reality. Moreover, every new medium, newspaper, television, or internet, modifies our understanding of what texts are and what reading them involves. This seminar explores the increasingly complicated and challenging condition of textuality, attending alike to many different forms of text - printed, photographed, recorded, broadcast, - as well a hypertext, the inter-linked and multiform texts of contemporary digital media.
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3.00 Credits
Old New Media examines the concept of mediation in historical context. Building on HSCT 101¿s interrogation of the technologically mediated text, this course examines the reciprocal relationship between ¿new¿ media technologies and the societies in which they operate and to media that preceded and followed them. It includes readings in the histories of the analytical engine, the printing press, the camera obscura, the daguerreotype camera, the stereoscope, the telegraph, the telephone, the phonograph, film, radio, and television as well as other, less well known or successful media technologies.
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3.00 Credits
The course is an inquiry into the dialectic between the development of technology and the formation of community. How do the evolving needs and interests of social groups drive the development of new technologies? How are these technologies used to shape the boundaries and character of political, economic, adn cultural communities? What normative criteria apply to these processes? These questions will be addressed in light of currrent perspectives from social theroy and the human sciences. The focus will be on the media, technology and contemporary international society. Topics are nationalism and the politics of identity, totalitarianism and surveillance, rationalization and globalization, cyberspace and virtual community, posttmodernism and the question of global community
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3.00 Credits
Builds critically upon HSCT 203, asking how changing technological capabilities have affected how individuals define themselves and their relations with others, as well as how they act in (or on) the world around them. Among the issues considered will be artificial intelligence, the self in cyberspace, and technophillia/phobia.
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3.00 Credits
This course covers the basic sciences of the environment, with a particular focus on the concept of sustainability. The course describes the structure and operation of natural systems and the implications of the study of such systems to sustainability in human societies. It analyzes ecosystem services, their critical role, the human impact, and the methodology of conservation, preservation, and restoration. It addresses the transition to renewable energy sources and issues of clean water availability and food production.
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3.00 Credits
Examines values in and duties toward the non-human world as well as how such values and duties impact other human concerns. Explores theological, philosophical and scientific sources.
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3.00 Credits
This cours examines why markets "fail" in the presence of pollution and how the "optimal" level of enviromental quality can be achieved at the least cost to society. It focuses on energy where there are significant enviromental costs of production and/or consumption. Topics include benefit/cost analysis, marketable emission permits, and carbon taxes.
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