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3.00 Credits
A survey of media studies, including history, theory and criticism that explores the development of communication media and the resulting sociocultural changes. The advantages and disadvantages of major media and their impact on society, thought and behavior. [8/31/2005]
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3.00 Credits
A capstone profect in which students demonstrate their communication skills in written or audiovisual form such as a traditional thesis, a manual, a handbook, a website, a script for radio or television documentary, or a screenplay. [9/1/2005]
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3.00 Credits
Independent Study in Communications (COMM) at the masters level. [1/2/1997]
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3.00 Credits
The first course in the revised University Core program uses the benefits of distance learning to provide students with tools and perspectives for confronting issues faced by people living in an increasingly interdependent and interconnected world. As they investigate challenges to humankind, such as those raised by environmental degradation, modern warfare and deadly infectious diseases, students will interact with experts from around the globe, as well as classmates and faculty members. Special attention will be given to the implications of the scientific method as compared with cultural, aesthetic and ethical approaches to understanding the world around us. Through access to sources on the Internet, students will learn how to evaluate and integrate information. [5/29/2001]
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3.00 Credits
Starting with close readings of the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution and its Bill of Rights, Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, and Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream," the course will explore the concept of the promise of freedom. Through the examination of central texts and issues in American culture, we also explore to what degree the promise has been fulfilled. Texts will include novels, plays, poems, essays and autobiographical writings representing such authors as Benjamin Franklin, Thoreau, Black Elk and Frederick Douglas. [7/1/1996]
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3.00 Credits
This course begins with a text, such as Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart," which includes the theme of cross-cultural conflict. Four geographic regions will serve as the focus of the course: China, Latin America, Sub-Sahara Africa and Egypt. These regions may vary from time to time. The course will not attempt an in-depth study of the cultural diversity through illustration. The course will center around four organizing subjects or themes: 1)livelihood, 2)family, 3)social organization and 4)world view. [7/1/1996]
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3.00 Credits
Within the Western World we traditionally begin with the self in antithetical relationship to all others. In Perspectives on the Individual, we begin with a discussion of the human genome. Next, Margaret Atwood, in her novel "The Handmaid's Tale" depicts a society of the future in which the individual is no longer valued. The formative force for the individual of friendship and loss is encountered in the "Epic of Gilgamesh." With Plato's "Crito" and "Apology" we explore the development of the individual as dissenting thinker. Along with Plato, the Sermon on the Mount marks a new stage of moral understanding: the greater importance to the self of that inner conviction which underlies external behavior. Buddhist readings explore alternative approaches to self. Selections from Pico della Mirandola's "Oration on the Dignity of Man" and slides of Renaissance paintings introduce us to Renaissance understandings of the value of the individual. Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey" and "Ode on the Intimations of Immortality" serve as a focus on the self as changing and developing through life. With Freud, the course takes a new turn; students are asked to consider such challenges to the sense of self as the struggle between instinctual drives and the requirements of civilization. Tillie Olsen's "Tell Me a Riddle" asks students to deal with the ways the structure of society may repress the individuality of women or allow it to grow. We next read "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" and consider his lifelong search for self through shifting commitments to the cause of human autonomy. The course concludes with Elie Wiesel's "Night," a depiction of an effort in time to totally destroy the self. Specific readings may change from time to time. [1/31/2002]
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3.00 Credits
This course begins with a text, such as Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart," which includes the theme of cross-cultural conflict. Four geographic regions will serve as the focus of the course: China, Latin America, Sub-Sahara Africa and Egypt. These regions may vary from time to time. The course will not attempt an in-depth study of the cultural values of these regions but, rather, will seek to introduce students to the concept of cultural diversity through illustration. The course will center around four organizing subjects or themes: 1)livelihood, 2)family, 3)social organization and 4)world view. [1/31/2002]
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3.00 Credits
This course will help students recognize and evaluate broad issues that concern all peoples of the world. What universal value systems, if any, shape the conduct of all people? On what does the survival of our world depend, and how will its future be affected by such environmental matters as the availability of natural resources? What are the issues surrounding war and peace in today's world, and how are people coping with the existential anxiety that these issues generate? [7/1/1996]
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