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3.00 Credits
This course will provide a brief overview of the history of education as it has been employed for social change. It will explore Education for Transformation, Popular Education and Experiential Learning theories. The course will focus on the principles of peace culture as it applies to the classroom as well as overall school climate. Students that take this course can expect to develop basic knowledge of interpersonal conflict resolution and communication processes as well as understand how class, gender and race-bias are embedded in public education.
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3.00 Credits
This course will explore the methods teachers, counselors and conflict interventionists use to build a culture of peace in educational settings. Students will be required to investigate how these methods are applied in real world situations and learn how to evaluate their efficacy. Students will be assigned weekly readings containing peace education methods, case studies of practical application and theoretical framework of monitoring and evaluation of methods. Depending upon enrollment size, students will be assigned work groups where they will be required to respond to cohorts' postings. Topics covered in this course include: identification of one's own triggers and biases when dealing with students and school communities in conflict; the evaluate efficacy of various peace methods such as support groups, youth leadership programs, social justice curriculum, peace circles, peer mediation, victim offender conferencing and other restorative justice practices as they apply to specific school-community needs.
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3.00 Credits
Although religious differences often create barriers to peace making, and at times, people create conflict in the name of their religion, all the major religious traditions also have roots that go deep into the soil of peace making and peaceful living. This class explores the roots of peace making in Buddhism, Islam, Judaism, Christianity, Hinduism, Indigenous American Religions, and others, and from these roots build bridges of common ground, understanding and acceptance of the other. In addition to the five major religious perspectives studied, students will have an opportunity to explore a religious tradition of their own choosing and present a paper on it for class. The class will include lectures, large and small group discussions, role plays, visiting speakers, videos and student presentations.
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3.00 Credits
No course description available.
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4.00 Credits
(4 credits) This course enables students to become knowledgeable in global interrelations among nations, non-state actors, and peoples from a multidisciplinary perspective. The focus is on two of the leading issues of the modern world: relations among different cultures and globalization.
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4.00 Credits
This course introduces students to critical challenges in global public health using multidisciplinary perspectives. Issues at the nexus between development and health are explored through millennium development goals, disease burden, environmental health and safe water, epidemiology and demography of disease, AIDS and HIV prevention, chronic diseases, nutritional challenges, social determinants of global health, harm reduction and behavioral modification, health professionals and capacity development, as well as human rights and bioethical issues in a global context.
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4.00 Credits
This course enables students to become knowledgeable about the geopolitically strategic as well as social-cultural importance of the Mediterranean region, both historically and in the modern era. Students will learn about the strategic waterways, land, and air routes, the Suez Canal, and the nature of war and peace and how the conflicts in the region have affected global peace, stability and security. The course examines the Arab-Israeli conflict, the impact of immigration and migration into the European Union, trade patterns, and cultural, ethnic, religious, and linguistic identities and how they affect regional relations.
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4.00 Credits
This course focuses on the general definitions and perceptions of the concepts of globalization, development and human rights, as well as their more specific dimensions (e.g. economic globalization, cultural globalization, economic development, human development, political development and women's human rights).
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0.00 Credits
International Studies Elective
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4.00 Credits
This course provides students an intensive introduction to discipline-focused research and writing in their History and/or International Studies field(s) of interest. Students are introduced to a variety of types of primary and secondary sources. They learn about how to search for and locate these different sources, how to evaluate them, and how to utilize the sources in their research-based writing. Students learn how to develop research projects from the initial topic of interest through to the final written product; this work includes the generation of research proposals, re-drafting of papers and practice in formulating different kinds of arguments depending on audience, sources and written form. NOTE: Course is only for International Studies majors.
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