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Throughout human experience, death has been a vital concern. This is true in both the ancient and modern worlds, in small scale societies and contemporary industrial giants. This course investigates the meaning of human morality to both social systems and individual experience. Changing historical patterns and contemporary development in diverse cultures will be studied. Students will be encouraged to look deeply into values and ethical considerations and to develop a respect and appreciation for the diversity of human experience. This leads to a deeper joy and appreciation of life, an examination of life, an examination of the Socratic dictum, "know thyself," and consideration of the question, "how then shall I live " 0.000 TO 3.000 Credit Hours 0.000 TO 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Schedule Types: Seminar Graduate Liberal Studies College Liberal Studies Department Course Attributes: MLS COURSE FOR GRAD FEE ASSESS
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This course is an overview of United States/Latin American relations over two centuries. After an examination of the 19th century, we will look more closely at the modernizing of the MONROE DOCTRINE by Theodore Roosevelt. Next we will study Woodrow Wilson's actions in Latin America, followed by the establishment of the Good Neighbor Policy before World War II and the abandonment of this policy after the War. Did the United States become the Bad Neighbor with renewed intervention in the 1950s and continuing until the 1980s Does the establishment of NAFTA mean orientation for the next century These are the topics for study, analysis, and discussion. 0.000 TO 3.000 Credit Hours 0.000 TO 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Schedule Types: Seminar Graduate Liberal Studies College Liberal Studies Department Course Attributes: MLS COURSE FOR GRAD FEE ASSESS
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0.000 TO 3.000 Credit Hours 0.000 TO 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Schedule Types: Seminar Graduate Liberal Studies College Liberal Studies Department Course Attributes: MLS COURSE FOR GRAD FEE ASSESS
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This is an interdisciplinary study of Native Americans from the era of European settlement to the present. It seeks to familiarize students not only with the rich and diverse backgrounds of Native groups but also their complex responses to the white man's persistent efforts either to stamp out or romanticize Indianness. Students will explore individual Native cultures and the mythological worlds which have informed them, the history of U.S. Indian policy and the ideological foundations upon which it has been built; and the origins of Native American stereotypes in American culture--notably the Noble and Ignoble Savage--as seen in art, literature, music, and film. They will also have ample opportunity to analyze Native American perspectives on the post-Columbian world, particularly the concerns over what place Indians have within it. Sources will include autobiography, oral history, political essays, music and film. 0.000 TO 3.000 Credit Hours 0.000 TO 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Schedule Types: Seminar Graduate Liberal Studies College Liberal Studies Department Course Attributes: MLS COURSE FOR GRAD FEE ASSESS
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This seminar course will begin by interrogating the models of "culture" deployed in social science and literary criticism. We will consider difference, sameness, in the definition of boundaries (that is identities--cultural, ethnic, and national); uses of the past (history) and ideological interests; and the "invention of tradition." Using a broad definition of "politics" as claims to power, we will then examine practices of culture representation as political tools. Topics for discussion will include: the means of producing and/or constructing "culture;" issues of authority, voicing, and authenticity; definitions and appropriations of "cultural property" (by whom, for what ends); the co modification of "cultures" and their "consumption." Given the instructor's interests and research background, a section of the course will examine the idea of Africa in western discourse, the Afrocentricity movement, and contemporary debates on multiculturalism and cultural pluralism. In the final section of the course, students will research and present an analysis of a topic of their choice to the seminar (ideas: museum exhibitions, curriculum reform, the legal system and First Peoples, the production and control of media images) and submit a paper on their selected material at the end of the semester. 0.000 TO 3.000 Credit Hours 0.000 TO 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Schedule Types: Seminar Graduate Liberal Studies College Liberal Studies Department Course Attributes: MLS COURSE FOR GRAD FEE ASSESS
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A new "multiracial" category will allow Americans to identify themselves on government forms as members of more than one race. While this rule reflects sensitivity to a growing demographic transformation, it took four years of debate among Federal authorities to produce, indicating how politically volatile the issue of racial classification is. Inter-group tensions and hostilities appear to be on the rise. This course will look at the roots of racial and ethnic strife in this country by critically reviewing some old and new questions such as: What does "race" mean Is color the major factor determining people's attitudes towards each other What are the connections between race, class, gender, and ethnicity in the various groups How are racism and prejudice related to global economic and political processes We will examine these questions within theoretical frameworks that highlight the following: (1) the historical construction of the concept of "the other" in Western thought, and (2) recent conceptual developments such as the notion of "whiteness" as a new cultural and political element to be considered in the study of race and ethnic relations. 0.000 TO 3.000 Credit Hours 0.000 TO 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Schedule Types: Seminar Graduate Liberal Studies College Liberal Studies Department Course Attributes: MLS COURSE FOR GRAD FEE ASSESS
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In the 1830s, Alexis DeTocqueville used the term "individualism" to indicate the institutionalized mode of life in what we might today call a "private life", but does not equate with egoism. To the eyes of a French aristocrat intimately acquainted with the European past, this social form, with its attendant social theory, represents a major historical change, and his searching analysis of its implications raises serious questions of the "reality" we think to ground our world. The class will examine Charles Darwin's biology, DeTocqueville's work, Karl Polanyi's economic anthropology, and several other texts in an attempt to see the external nature of the "great transformation" and its internal contribution to the way we construct our world and our science. 0.000 TO 3.000 Credit Hours 0.000 TO 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Schedule Types: Seminar Graduate Liberal Studies College Liberal Studies Department Course Attributes: MLS COURSE FOR GRAD FEE ASSESS
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Eastern Europe Between the Wars is an opportunity for students to gain a first-hand knowledge of Central and East Central Europe in the troubled years between the two World Wars. Lasting three weeks (June-July), the program will take students to the Charles University of Prague in the Czech Republic and the University of Bochum in Germany. Through classes and visits to important historical sites, participants will be able to explore the political, economic, social and cultural issues which defined the period and help explain why peace was so short-lived. Ramapo staff will be joined by guest faculty from the two host universities in presenting topics, including the failure of democracy, mounting nationalism, the rise of Nazism and fascism, economic collapse, collective security and avant-garde culture. 0.000 TO 3.000 Credit Hours 0.000 TO 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Schedule Types: Seminar Graduate Liberal Studies College Liberal Studies Department Course Attributes: MLS COURSE FOR GRAD FEE ASSESS
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Science as an intellectual, social, and cultural enterprise has been represented historically in the West as a liberator, oppressor, redeemer, and ground of certainty in an uncertain world by historians and social critics, artists, authors, philosophers, theologians, and scientists themselves. This course will consider the origins of many of the cultural myths about science, its metaphorical meanings, and its intellectual development as narrated by authors in a variety of texts--from Dostoevsky's NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND and Bertolt Brecht's GALILEO to the writings of contemporary philosophers and historians. An emphasis will be placed upon a reflective analysis of the texts and the social and conceptual roots of the images of science those texts present. 0.000 TO 3.000 Credit Hours 0.000 TO 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Schedule Types: Seminar Graduate Liberal Studies College Liberal Studies Department Course Attributes: MLS COURSE FOR GRAD FEE ASSESS
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Current international standards of human rights and the machinery for their promotion and enforcement are said to emanate from primarily Western cultural perspectives. Conversely, it is assumed or argued that non-Western cultural traditions are reluctant, if not outright opposed, to complying with these standards. This seminar attempts to assess the validity of these and other related propositions and seeks to develop their implications for the formulation and implementation of international human rights. 0.000 TO 3.000 Credit Hours 0.000 TO 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Schedule Types: Seminar Graduate Liberal Studies College Liberal Studies Department Course Attributes: MLS COURSE FOR GRAD FEE ASSESS
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