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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 seminar course will explore the interrelationships between our constructed views of sexuality, society and feminism. The exploration will undertake a deconstruction of the manner in which these topics are experienced in our society as well as cross culturally. We will attempt, "to transform our understanding of sexuality: how it is negotiated, developed, and evoked; and what it means in a contemporary social framework." "Specifically, sexuality is a meaning system that organizes interactions and governs access to power and resources. Sexuality is not so much an attribute of persons, but rather exists in transactions between people." "The arena of the body (masculine or feminine) is often a battlefield where a variety of struggles, not all having to do with gender or sexuality, are played out and that body reflects the matrices of power at all levels." (Travis & White, 2000, p. 4-5)." Our approach will establish the existence of a contextual frame of reference that focuses on the impact of "privilege, power and difference" with resultant oppression of the expression of our sexualities. 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 will center on issues of form and function of ancient Mesopotamian thought, culture, and cult that have traditionally been considered religious. Topics for class discussion include problems of definition, worship, theology, the priesthood, as well as ritual and magic and the cult. 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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Our course will center around discussions of the literature on evolution and creationism/intelligent design. We will read and discuss several chapters from Darwin s Origin of Species, other material that Darwin wrote, and material written by modern evolutionists. We will also read and discuss relevant passages from the bibles and holy books of a cross section of the world s religion. We will seek to understand the position of the creationist/intelligent movement by reading some material written by Philip Johnson, Wendell Bird, Henry Morris and others who are central to that movement. We will try to understand the opposing positions in important court cases involved with teaching evolution in public schools. We will look into the Scopes, Arkansas, Louisiana cases as well as the recent case in Pennsylvania. .The class will be run as a seminar with students expected to have read the assigned materials prior to class so they can fully participate in the discussion. 0.000 TO 3.000 Credit Hours 0.000 TO 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Schedule Types: Lecture Graduate Liberal Studies College Liberal Studies Department Course Attributes: MLS COURSE FOR GRAD FEE ASSESS
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Various attempts have been made to capture (or at least define) the "authentic" voice of the American people. Visual artists, performing artists, and literary artists will even create fictional personae for themselves, so they will be identified with "real Americans." This course will examine works by several such American artists. Readings will ask students to question notions of "authenticity" and national identity, as well as ideas of class, race, and gender. Some of our readings will be canonical work by literary artists--Walt Whitman's LEAVES OF GRASS, Mark Twain's ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN, and John Steinbeck's GRAPES OF WRATH and contemporary poetry, like Tyehimba Jess's LEADBELLY. Some readings will be by what we might term "outsider artists": Lead Belly's ballads, Woody Guthrie's DUST BOWL BALLADS, Harvey Pekar's AMERICAN SPLENDOR. We will also look at popular works by popular performers: Bob Dylan's THE TIMES ARE A'CHANGIN', Bruce Springsteen's THE GHOST OF TOM JOAD. Through free verse poetry; dialect fiction; folk, blues, and rock music; and even comic strips, writers from Whitman to Guthrie share is a desire to capture what they believe to be the voice of the people. 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 examination of four passions through the prism of psychology, literature and film. We have all had experiences with these passions. My hope is that working through the written material and films will probably kick up memories and old feelings. There is an acumulation of emotional wisdom in the class, and to tap into it, you should be willing to talk about your personal experiences with envy, jealousy and revenge as well as forgiveness. 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 this seminar, Film as History/Film as Myth, we are exploring the complex relationship between contemporary films and the culture in which they are produced, with special attention to films that base their narratives on historical events and people. What do these films tell us about the events and people they are about, and what do they tell us about the time period in which they were produced How does the form of films--the choices regarding narrative material, editing, characterization, and visual style--influence the interpretation of important cultural and historical periods or events What cultural myths do these films create, or reinterpret, about the particular society that produces them How does evolution and transformation of film genres and genre conventions contribute to the ideological negotiation of meanings in contemporary films In exploring the relationship of films to society, we will explore the principles of Marxist film criticism, which is premised on the view that the economic structure of a society plays a major role in shaping both the commodity production/consumption and ideological impact of cultural works. 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 will introduce students to two ethical systems "Justice and Care" their interplay and their implications for education. The Justice ethic holds that morality is based on objective rationality, that individuals are freely autonomous, and that human rights must be defended. The Care ethic holds that morality is based on subjective and emotional relationships, that individuals are interconnected, and that human responsibilities must be upheld. After exploring each ethical system we will compare the two and ask: Are Justice and Care really rival ethical systems, or one system Which one should be employed to live an ethical life Which one should be employed in making public policy Are these two ethical theories gendered masculine and feminine The last unit of the course will assess Justice and Care in education: What place should either ethic have in classroom pedagogy How do Justice and Care ethics impact important educational debates, such as affirmative action, school vouchers, and sexual harassment 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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