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4.00 Credits
This course investigates the nature of ordinariness and the different questions, concerns, and problems associated with it. Students will explore arguments for and against the pursuit of genetic perfection, examine the roles and responsibilities of the individual and the group member, and develop a research project studying the ambiguous American attitude toward equality and the mechanisms for its achievement.
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4.00 Credits
This course investigates the nature of ordinariness and the different questions, concerns, and problems associated with it. Students will explore arguments for and against the pursuit of genetic perfection, examine the roles and responsibilities of the individual and the group member, and develop a research project studying the ambiguous American attitude toward equality and the mechanisms for its achievement.
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4.00 Credits
What is wilderness? Do you have to explore wilderness to care about it? Who enters the wilderness and why? We will look at expeditions to the Tibetan plateau, the jungles of central and western Africa, and remote Alaska, and examine the place of expeditionary culture in current dilemmas about global wilderness. The course will include films, websites, periodicals, and blogs, paying particular attention to the Arctic and Congolese Basin as domains of conspicuous urgency.
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4.00 Credits
What is wilderness? Do you have to explore wilderness to care about it? Who enters the wilderness and why? We will look at expeditions to the Tibetan plateau, the jungles of central and western Africa, and remote Alaska, and examine the place of expeditionary culture in current dilemmas about global wilderness. The course will include films, websites, periodicals, and blogs, paying particular attention to the Arctic and Congolese Basin as domains of conspicuous urgency.
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4.00 Credits
Students will examine competing conceptions of liberty in modern ethical and political thought, with particular attention to the conflict between "negative freedom" (non-interference) and "positive freedom" (self-determination), and employ these concepts in constructive reflection on contemporary politics.
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4.00 Credits
Students will examine competing conceptions of liberty in modern ethical and political thought, with particular attention to the conflict between "negative freedom" (non-interference) and "positive freedom" (self-determination), and employ these concepts in constructive reflection on contemporary politics.
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4.00 Credits
Students will examine competing conceptions of liberty in modern ethical and political thought, with particular attention to the conflict between "negative freedom" (non-interference) and "positive freedom" (self-determination), and employ these concepts in constructive reflection on contemporary politics.
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4.00 Credits
Students will examine competing conceptions of liberty in modern ethical and political thought, with particular attention to the conflict between "negative freedom" (non-interference) and "positive freedom" (self-determination), and employ these concepts in constructive reflection on contemporary politics.
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4.00 Credits
This course explores diverse examples of the family narrative, from origin stories to coming-of-age tales to contemporary journalistic or political writing which often shapes larger narratives about the "matters of family" in our society. Readings range from the Bible to Batman to Obama and will self-consciously question how we understand ourselves as being both apart from our families and a part of them: how we "become ourselves.
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4.00 Credits
This course explores diverse examples of the family narrative, from origin stories to coming-of-age tales to contemporary journalistic or political writing which often shapes larger narratives about the "matters of family" in our society. Readings range from the Bible to Batman to Obama and will self-consciously question how we understand ourselves as being both apart from our families and a part of them: how we "become ourselves.
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