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A study of the role of the citizen as catalyst for social change in American society. After examining various historical and contemporary conceptions of community and citizenship, the course will focus on the nature of civic leadership in the 21st century. Core courses are not open to Freshmen or Sophomores, except for associate degree candidates. 4 credits
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Through reading autobiographies from various religious traditions, students will share in the personal journeys and spiritual quests of authors such as St. Augustine, Dorothy Day, Elie Wiesel and Ghandi. Core courses are not open to Freshmen or Sophomores, except for associate degree candidates. (Offered Fall) 4 credits
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This course will investigate the modern world system and the relevant issues of social justice, peace, freedom, self-determination and equality. Questions will be raised about power, hunger, debt, "development," the environment and the legacies of colonialism. The interrelationships among the various issues will be discussed and analyzed. Core courses are not open to Freshmen or Sophomores, except for associate degree candidates. 4 credits
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This course examines religious and scientific attitudes concerning human responsibility toward the environment. Through readings in religious, theological and scientific texts, the course focuses on the need for humans to understand their interrelationship with the natural world, the consequences of their decisions that affect biodiversity and their role in promoting a sustainable earth. Core courses are not open to Freshmen or Sophomores, except for associate degree candidates. (Offered Fall, Spring, Summer) 4 credits
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(formerly Harmony and Conflict in Religion and Society) Among various conflicts which challenge the entire human race today, one has particularly absorbed the attention of American society since September 11, 2001. The terrorist attacks of that day engendered new fear and anger, prompted new courses of action and required the pursuit of new questions, as few other events have in recent American history. Analogously, this course takes those events as a starting point for examining a host of topics about the troubled relationship between the societies of the Western world and the societies of the Islamic world. The course examines material by both Western and Muslim writers regarding the religious, political, historical, cultural, moral and practical (ends and means) dimensions of this relationship and of the significance of terrorist acts in those wider contexts. By considering a variety of perspectives on the nature and essential causes of this conflict and surveying the diverse views present within each "world" about how to respond to this conflict, students will be equipped to draw intelligent conclusions that could be offered to everyone involved in this conflict in order to lead us beyond 9/11. (Offered Fall, Spring) 4 credits
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An investigation of the uses of rhetoric in contemporary social persuasion. The goals for this course are twofold: 1) to provide students with an understanding of the techniques of rhetorical persuasion; and 2) to help students to recognize and critically analyze persuasive messages so prominent in contemporary culture and to question their purpose(s), and the motivations or intentions of their sources, so that the students can respond to those messages in an intelligent, socially responsible and value-centered manner. Core courses are not open to Freshmen or Sophomores, except for associate degree candidates. 4 credits
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This course will explore the role myth and ritual have played in human society and culture throughout history, and particularly their role in religious life and human conceptions of and relations to the transcendent. Core courses are not open to Freshmen or Sophomores, except for associate degree candidates. 4 credits
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This course will introduce the students to the concept of theatre as story, play and venue of philosophical ideas through a study of the theatre from its beginnings in ancient Greece through its flourishing in the Elizabethan drama up to and including modern and contemporary theatre. In addition to lectures and discussions, students will engage in readings and staged presentations of plays in an attempt to have them inhabit the poetry, story and the philosophical questions that are posed in the plays. Core courses are not open to Freshmen or Sophomores, except for associate degree candidates. (Offered Fall) 4 credits
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This course will investigate the role of spirituality in human development, specifically its place in human interpersonal relationships and in the development of awareness of and response to social justice needs. Core courses are not open to Freshmen or Sophomores, except for associate degree candidates. (Offered Fall, Spring) 4 credits
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This course will introduce students to the viewpoint of existentialism as core and foundation of many of the most important experiences of our lives. In exploring exemplifications of, and investigations into, the existentialistic experience from the cinematic, the philosophical and the literary perspectives, the existential experience will unfold as essential to the drama, the philosophy and the story of our lives as those lives themselves unfold as acted through, reflected upon and confessed to oneself and to others. Core courses are not open to Freshmen or Sophomores, except for associate degree candidates. (Offered Spring) 4 credits
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