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3.00 Credits
Women have played an important role throughout the history of the United States. Using various time frames as background themes, this course will explore how women were viewed and their expected social roles. Through readings, the exceptional lives of women will be presented. Materials covered are social, cultural, economic, and political developments that have shaped American women's roles from the colonial period to present. General Education Elective: Social Science
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This course is a seminar that actively engages students in the study of the global leadership role of women of the 20th century. Placing women's experience at the center of interpretation, women's lives are examined with a particular emphasis on the motivators to become local, regional, national and global leaders. The central aim is to foster critical reading and thinking about women's roles as leaders in the 20th century as a means to promote civic engagement in the 21st century. Women's professional lives will be investigated in various capacities including business, healthcare, literature and politics. This course has a required Service-Learning/civic engagement component. Prerequisite: Placement above or successful completion of ENG 060 (EN 2103) and ENG 101 (EN 1103). Prerequisites for Honors Credit: At least 12 credits with a GPA of 3.2 and completion of ENG 101 (EN 1103). General Education Elective: Social Science
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3.00 Credits
A topical survey of the major cultural groupings in the world community from the beginnings of civilization to early modern times. Major attention is given to a comparative analysis of Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Indian, Chinese, Greco-Roman, African, Amerindian, Judeo-Christian, and Islamic civilizations. Prerequisite: Placement above or successful completion of ENG 060 (EN 2103) and eligible for ENG 101 (EN 1103). Recommendation: Concurrent enrollment in ENG 075 (EN 2122) or ENG 085 (EN 2131) if CPT reading placement test is between 68 and 75. General Education Electives: Social Science Intensive Values: Multicultural/Global Awareness; Written Communication
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3.00 Credits
A topical survey of the major cultural groupings in the world community from early modern times to the contemporary era. Topics covered include industrialization, the development of a world economy, political ideologies, and global interdependence. Prerequisite: Placement above or successful completion of ENG 060 (EN 2103) and eligible for ENG 101 (EN 1103). Recommendation: Concurrent enrollment in ENG 075 (EN 2122) or ENG 085 (EN 2131) if CPT reading placement test is between 68 and 75. General Education Electives: Social Science Intensive Values: Multicultural/Global Awareness; Written Communication
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3.00 Credits
A unique course on the Vietnam War and its meaning for the United States and Vietnam in the 1990's. What was the war all about? What was the war like for U.S. and Vietnamese soldiers? Why did the war end the way it did? What is happening in Vietnam and Cambodia since the war ended? What are the lessons of Vietnam for today and what light does Vietnam shed on the recent war with Iraq? Class discussion will be based on lecture, video, historical documents and speakers. General Education Elective: Social Science
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3.00 Credits
This course will introduce students to contemporary Russia by examining the historical, political and sociological factors that have influenced and shaped the development of Russian culture, society, and politics during the Romanov, Soviet, and post-Soviet periods. Prerequisite: Placement above or successful completion of (EN 2121) and eligibility for ENG 101 (EN 1103). Recommendation: Concurrent enrollment in ENG 075 (EN 2122) or ENG 085 (EN 2131) if CPT reading placement test is between 63 and 74 General Education Elective: Social Science
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3.00 Credits
This dynamic course will introduce the activities in the Humanities: music, art, dance, theater, philosophy, and literature. The course is hands-on, stresses learning by doing and will integrate learning strategies, study skills and information on college resources to help sharpen learning skills that contribute to college success. Prerequisite: Placement above or successful completion of ENG 065 (EN 1100) and ENG 050 (EN 2101). Students placing above or who have successfully completed ENG 071 (EN 1101) and whose CPT is above 67 are not eligible to enroll in this course. Recommendation: Concurrent enrollment in ENG 071 (EN 1101) and/or ENG 055 (EN 2102), if CPT is between 44 and 55, is encouraged. General Education Electives: Humanities Intensive Values: Multicultural/Global Awareness
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3.00 Credits
This course will compare modern day heroes from ancient Greek, Hindu, and Native American mythologies; real-life heroes from the news and biographies; and fictional heroes from literature. Through reading, writing, and discussing, students will consider how core elements of the heroes' journey-common to allcultures-can inspire and better inform their own college experience, their career choices, and their lives. Corequisite: Concurrent enrollment in two developmental courses. General Education Electives: Humanities
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3.00 Credits
A general introduction to the Humanities, music and theatre; the visual and plastic arts (architecture, sculpture, painting, photography, and film); literature and philosophy. Surveys some major works and requires some experiential learning - trips to museums and galleries, musical and dramatic performances. Although the primary focus is on the Western tradition, some works from other world cultures are included. Prerequisite: Placement above or successful completion of ENG 060 (EN 2103) and completion of ENG 101 (EN 1103). Recommendation: Concurrent enrollment in ENG 075 (EN 2122) or ENG 085 (EN 2131) if CPT reading placement test is between 68 and 75 General Education Elective: Humanities Intensive Values: Written Communication; Values/Ethics/Social Policy
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3.00 Credits
Once upon a time, college was an exploration. These days it is more a high-speed rush towards an occupational goal. Our course is designed to give today's fast-track students a survey of possibilities, serious and substantial, yet introductory - a brief immersion in the traditional disciplines. Included are Socrates, the Rabbis of the Pirke Avot and Jesus, Freud (in Civilization and its Discontents) and Marx (as introduced by Erich Fromm), the poetry in Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes' Romeo + Juliet, photography and paintings from the Museum of Modern Art, short fiction by Alice Walker, Bernard Malamud and Higuchi Ichio, and three major statements by 20th Century writers: Virginia Woolf (A Room of One's Own), Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (Letter from Birmingham Jail), and Elie Wiesel (Night). General Education Elective: Humanities
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