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4.00 Credits
This University Seminar investigates how digital natives - a term used to describe a generation of individuals born after 1982 who have grown up with computers, video games, cell phones and digital music players - process, relate to and create information differently than their predecessors. In addition, students will study the technology tools they use every day: website cell phones, Facebook, Twitter, RSS feeds, etc. and analyze how their use impacts our current culture. Assignments consist of readings, short reaction papers or online postings, individual and/or team-based ethnographic research, creation of online content and field trips in real and virtual space. Students will be expected to contribute to discussions in class and online using such tools as discussion forums, blogs, wikis, YouTube videos and data mashups
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4.00 Credits
This course will examine the coexistence of the three principal religions: Christianity (Catholicism), Islam, and Judaism during the middle Ages. Tenets and beliefs of each religion will be examined in detail. Art and architecture reflecting the three religions will be analyzed and will include such national treasures as the synagogues in Toledo, The mosque in Córdoba, The Alhambra in Granada and the cathedrals of Santiago de Compostela and Seville. Topics discussed will include the Spanish Inquisition, The Catholic kings, the reconquest, and medieval life in Europe at that time. The historical time period will cover roughly from 700-1492. Readings will include various poems written by writers of the three religions, El Cid, La Celestina and historical documents of the epoch. Teaching the coexistence of the three religions exposes students to different ideological discourses embodied in cultural fields of the time. The class will also examine the three religions and their role in Spanish society today. 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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4.00 Credits
An interdisciplinary study of the development of early language in toddlers, feral children, monkeys, bilingual and hearing or learning impaired youngsters. Early language will be seen as a neurological and developmental sequence and as a cultural phenomenon.
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4.00 Credits
Students watch/read/listen to national and international news via a range of media and ideological perspectives: Fox News, NBC Nightly News, BBC America, The New York Times, The Times of India, The Nation, Reason Magazine, The Economist, NPR: All Things Considered, and Foreign Affairs magazine. Discussion and explanation of breaking news will emphasize events in the Middle East and Asia, with some attention to the sub-prime mortgage crisis and current economic downturn, particularly as it affects energy policy and international relations. Lecture and readings will provide students with historical background so that they can contextualize current events as they happen.
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4.00 Credits
An experimental music course focusing on composition and exploration of sound and space. No previous musical background is required. Students incorporate experiments with shape, form, pattern and experience to perform original compositions for found and low-tech musical instruments.
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4.00 Credits
This seminar offers the student the opportunity to study the performing arts, literature and music. The student response to the works read and viewed will be in the form of discussions and written assignmentsthat vary from character analysis to formal research on a particular writer/composer/work. The uniqueness of the course lies in studying the connection between music and storytelling, in ballet, in plays and novels made into film and in Opera and modern dance.
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4.00 Credits
This University Seminar focuses on the life and work of Maria Montessori in order to make connections among the fields of education, psychology, sociology, and history. Exploring the development and application of Montessori's educational ideas, students integrate the history and social movements of late 19th and early 20th century Italy and the United States, emphasizing changes in educational philosophy and practice. Students compare and contrast her theories with the psychological theories of Freud, Erikson, Piaget, and Vygotsky. And the course includes empirical evidence investigating basic Montessori practice and the incorporation of Montessori's concepts into contemporary education and parenting.
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4.00 Credits
This University Seminar wille xplore a few, select portions of the genre of contemporary science fiction focusing on several key themes that address the world outside the classroom primarily by reading several novels, and watching and discussing television and movie videos. We will examine how science fiction - at once entertaining, inspiring, serious, instructive, and funny - reflects and shapes our current and future culture, beliefs, behavior and selves. Students will read and watch texts in thematic units to gain an understanding of how science fiction frames questions about social issues and change. Students will also do research on a contemporary social issue and have a chance to create and present their own work of science and speculative fiction that addresses how they would like to reflect and/or shape the conversation and the world of their own future with regards to that social issue.
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4.00 Credits
This course uses film to introduce students to China's rich culture, values, and history. We consider the question of whether there is a uniquely Chinese style of filmmaking and how that might differ in style, aesthetic, and financing from the Hollywood model. Class time is spent watching recent films from China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, as well as discussing the revelance of the themes raised in these films both for Chinese and American audiences.
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4.00 Credits
Students in this University Seminar explore the economic, political, and societal exchanges that occur at cultural meeting places across the globe, beginning in the United States-Mexico borderlands. What is a frontier and how does it differ from borderlands? How did indigenous cultures in the Americas negotiate and resist European nation building in the Americas? How are families affected by transnational migrant work patterns that happen across the globe? What does the illicit arms trade say about national boundaries? This course not only explores life at the edges of nations. It also explores how borderlands can be found between the urban and suburban, the pastoral and wild, and as sites of exchange between peoples of different ethnic backgrounds within and beyond nations. From this students comprehend the vital role that borderlands play in shaping life at the local, regional, and national and international levels.
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