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  • US 215: Truth and Beauty: Mathematics in Lit

    4.00 Credits
    Arcadia University

    (4 credits) Throughout history, mathematics has been an inspiration to poets and writers. Math itself is one of the major expressions of the mysteries, beauty, and truth of our universe, and literature about math enhances this expression. Just as science has led to science fiction (and creative non-fiction), so math has led to something analogous. From "Flatland: A Romance in Many Dimensions" (Edward A. Abbott) to "Adventure of the Final Problem" (a Sherlock Homes adventure by Sir. Arthur Conan Doyle) to the stories of Aldous Huxley, Martin Gradner, Ian McEwan, Greg Egar, and others, to the poetry anthology "Against Infinity" (ed., Jet Foncannon and Marian Robson) to the poetry collection "My Dance Is Mathematics" (JoAnne Growney) and "Crossing the Equal Sign" (Marion Cohen), writings involving math have taken their place among humanity's body of literature. This course will explore some of the mathematical writings through the ages, as well as the math that inspired them. Prerequisites MA100 & EN101
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  • US 216: Social & Ethical Issues in Sports

    4.00 Credits
    Arcadia University

    There's a lot more to sports than what takes place on the field or the court. Just read the sports page on any particular day - there are stories of steroid abuse, recruiting violations, academic eligibility, playing hurt, gambling, paying college athletes, diversity and gender issues, violence, hazing, graduation rates of student athletes, yout sports, moral and religious issues, issues related tot he Olympics and politics, and the media's relationship to sports. In this seminar, students willr ead, view and discuss texts that delve into these and other issues. Learning will occue through course readings, class discussion, lecture and writing assignments. Class trips are planned to Citizens Bank Park, Wachovia Center, Temple University and Comcast SportsNet studios.
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  • US 220: Education Stories:Films about Schools

    4.00 Credits
    Arcadia University

    This course features films about successful K-12 teachers and their students and review of psychological, sociological, and educational theories related to educating K-12 students. Several films that depict the successes of non-fictional teachers and students will be viewed during class time. The course material reviews race, gender, and the class disparities in students' academic achievement, issues related to school resources, and the role of parents and the community in the education of students.
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  • US 222: Everything&Nothing:Visual Math,Phil&Cult

    4.00 Credits
    Arcadia University

    Everything (the universe, infinity, oneness, completeness) and Nothing (vacuums, emptiness, zero, absence) are usually taken as opposites but are often ironically synonyms for each other. This University Seminar provides an investigation of these concepts in mathematics, religion, philosophy, science, and literature, taking students into intriguing but also possibly scary territory.
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  • US 224: Modernity: The West and the World

    4.00 Credits
    Arcadia University

    This is a multi-disciplinary approach to the cultural and intellectual history of the development of the modern world. We will begin from the point of view of Western European civilization, but in each unit we will look at the issue of its interactions with the rest of the world. We will draw on the following disciplines: art history, literature, political science, and the history of science. Our aim will be to study the development of the world we live in without assumptions of Western cultural superiority and with an appreciation of cultural difference as well. The key term will be "modernization": what do we mean when we talk about living in a modern world, or when China undertakes a campaign for "the four modernizations"; how did the idea and practice of modernization develop?
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  • US 225: Outcasts, Rebels & Other Normal People

    4.00 Credits
    Arcadia University

    This University Seminar focuses on compelling stories of individual and collective struggles and transformations in the midst of social oppression. Topics explored include identity, conformity, prejudice, rebellion, personal and societal transformation, pluralism, social reform, human rights and freedom. Authors include James Baldwin, Simone de Beauvoir, Frederick Douglass, Mohandas Gandhi, Khaled Hosseini, Martin Luther King, Jr., Peter Matthiessen, Arthur Miller, and Walt Whiman.
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  • US 227: Insects & Human Society

    4.00 Credits
    Arcadia University

    This course will bridge a gap between discrete areas of inquiry, namely sub-disciplines of biology (entomology) and anthropology. The primary emphasis will be the significance of insects in the lives of humans, both their negative impacts and the positive ones that are so frequently overlooked. In addition to learning about the biology of insects, this course will address the nature of our competition with insects for food and natural materials, the extent and severity of insect-borne diseases, insects as pollinators and subjects of scientific study, and how insects have influenced art, economics, etc. Writing will be a central component of this seminar. Writing assignments and activities will supplement course content and provide opportunities for students to improve their writing via practice and feedback, to learn how to provide effective peer critiques, and to learn how to edit one's own work.
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  • US 230: International Computer Ethics

    4.00 Credits
    Arcadia University

    This University Seminar examines the ethical consequences of the expansion of computer usage in our society and internationally. The course aims to give students a solid grounding in ethics in general and the ethical dilemmas that are unique to computer applications. NOTE: US 230 can count toward the Computer Science or Computing Technology majors and minors or the Philosophy major and minor.
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  • US 232: Mock Trial Workshop

    4.00 Credits
    Arcadia University

    This course is intended to provide students with an understanding of civil litigation, both at federal and state levels by participation in a mock trial. Using an interdisciplinary approach to preparing and putting on a trial, all phases of the litigation process will be reviewed in detail, with special emphasis upon pre-trial and trial practices. The progression will help the students move towards the course goals because they will be preparing documents that will aid them in the trial on the matter. They will also use research and writing skills that are based on analytical and critical thinking and receive feedback on these assignments which will serve as the tools for the trial. The end result will be the mock trial on the case assigned and all students in the class will be the participants.
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  • US 234: Representations of Spanish Civil War

    4.00 Credits
    Arcadia University

    Course will examine perceptions of the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) and their international implications. Topics discussed will include the significance of the war, the political and social background of Spanish events, Spanish society, the conflict as seen by Spanish, Americans, Canadian, English and Frenchwriters and philosophers. Special attention will be paid to the international troops and the Abrham Lincoln Brigade. Readings will include various accounts of the Spanish Civil War by writers who were not themselves Spanish. These texts contain journalistic perspectives as well as autobiographical accounts and poetic responses. Spanish and international silms and documentaries will be shown covering topics such as women's participation in the war and different responsesto the war both in Spain and on an international level. Teaching the war exposes students to different ideological discourses embodied in cultural fields of the time. This course is a bilingual course and will be taught in both Spanish and English. Readings will be in both Spanish and English.
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