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Course Criteria
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2.00 Credits
An examination of maps as documents that reflect the social and political agendas of the cultures that produce them. Through readings on the history and uses of cartography as well as through examination of historic and contempory maps from cultures around the world, students will learn that maps must be read as texts with a cutural bias.
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2.00 Credits
An exploration of the role that narrative plays in non-narrative settings. Emphasis will be placed on the role that various "master narratives" play constructing human identity at theregional, national, and global levels.
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2.00 Credits
An enhanced exploration of the role that narrative plays in non-narrative settings. Emphasis will be placed on the role that various "master narratives" play constructing human identityat the regional, national, and global levels.
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2.00 Credits
An examination of the cultural diversity of international, national, and regional press systems. Emphasis will be placed upon the examination of key roles the press plays in the establishment and promotion of various cultural identities. Press history and communication theory are major components of the course.
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2.00 Credits
A study of the global and regional artistic and cultural achievements by women from the prehistoric period to the late 20th century, in the context of social, political, economic, and historic issues.
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2.00 Credits
Explores myths, legends, folklore and visual imagery representing female heroes in various religious traditions across cultures (global and regional) and across centuries. Themes explored include determining what constitutes a heroic religious female figure within a particular culture, artistic conventions that influence the representation of the female hero, and reading images in the visual arts as texts.
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2.00 Credits
An interdisciplinary, multicultural course that presents an academic study of religion in the context of the social sciences and humanities. The course will explore why people are religious, how they are religious, how religion bonds together, but often leads to distructive behavior as well. Materials emphasizing human religiousness within global, national, and regional cultural settings are implemented as illustrations or case studies. Novels, movies, and visits to traditional religious ceremonies will be used as data in the course.
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2.00 Credits
A perspective on aspects of human expression through a chronological overview of theatrical arts in France, England, and the United States. Emphasis is given to origins, historical development, national characteristics, influences, and trends of the theatrical arts in these three countries. Works by southern playwrights and/or depictions of the South are included.
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2.00 Credits
A study of the development of the American film industry; a review of its major eras of silent film, films of the Depression period-positive and negative, the years of World Wars, the 50's, 60's and beyond; a study of the technology of American film; and a review of avantgarde movements. This course features a study of the cultural interrelationships between the southern region of the United States and the rest of the country.
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2.00 Credits
The analysis, synthesis, and communication of the interrelationships among the arts and on the parallel skill development in creative expression, using one mode of artistic expression to stimulate creative response in another.
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