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  • VIS 363: Marx,Nietzche and Freud

    3.00 Credits
    Antioch University-Midwest (Closed)

    This course will examine each of these "masters of suspicion" by reading and thinking through some of their important primary texts. These authors were chosen because of their contributions to our understanding of "Modernity." We will try to achieve a basic understanding of the important theoretical contributions each of these authors made, so that we gain a fuller understanding of how these theorists themselves helped to shape and color our understanding of human behavior and our societie
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  • VIS 365: Seminar in Environmental Philosophy

    3.00 Credits
    Antioch University-Midwest (Closed)

    This seminar opens the door to a working understanding of some of the central issues in Environmental Philosophy. This course will explore the practical consequences and ethical implications of this perspective over time and the immediate environment of Dale Hollow and globally.
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  • VIS 370: Professional Writing for Humanities

    3.00 Credits
    Antioch University-Midwest (Closed)

    This course is designed to provide students with the opportunity to sharpen the skills developed by a good education through research writing in the field of humanities. A realistic, hands-on approach emphasizes the process of college/professional writing, recognizing that research writing is an organic, flexible activity, not a rigid, tidy series of steps. Students are encouraged to select research topics that relate to other courses, to enhance learning. For example, Classics students enrolled in Medieval/Renaissance studies are invited to select a related topic for further exploration.
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  • VIS 375: Training & Learning in Workplace

    3.00 Credits
    Antioch University-Midwest (Closed)

    This course is designed for trainers, adult educators, human resource managers, and program developers who want to learn more about educational strategies for workforce development. The contemporary workplace, whether it be within a corporation, non-profit agency, or governmental organization, is by necessity a "learning organization," as workers and managers strive to flourish in a global environment. The teaching and learning transaction that occurs in the workplace depends on acknowledging: (1) the interests of participating workers, trainers, and managers in training; (2) the values, motivations, experience, and culture that participants bring to the learning environment; (3) the continuous support that trainers need to provide for workplace learning throughout the organization. Participants in this course will be able to apply the philosophies and strategies present to their specific workplace, if so desired.
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  • VIS 383: Iraq:Legacy,Tragedy,Lessons

    3.00 Credits
    Antioch University-Midwest (Closed)

    This course is an investigation of major events and dimensions of the Iraq War including the remarkable history that preceded it which has contributed to Iraqi perceptions and reactions during the course of the war. A special emphasis will be on the experience and points of view of the Iraqi people although American perceptions and actions will also be of paramount importance.
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  • VIS 386: Ancient Myth and Art

    3.00 Credits
    Antioch University-Midwest (Closed)

    This course emphasizes the role of mythology and expressive culture in ancient, (mostly nonwestern) civilizations. Students will experience how the heart of ancient myth beats like a drum throughout the rituals, worship, music, literature, poetry, dance, architecture, sculpture, paintings, and crafts of Africa, Egypt, Mesopotamia, Persia, India, Tibet, China, and the Americas.
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  • VIS 391: Natural Systems Under Siege

    4.00 Credits
    Antioch University-Midwest (Closed)

    In this course, participants will examine the evidence of decline in habitat, species diversity, living space, and resources vital to human survival including soil, water, energy, and clean air. They will also look at some of the causes of symptoms we are now living with, including globalwarming, fluctuations in weather patterns, rapid urbanization, and the declining availability of resources. Finally students will examine the available options to slow, stall, or reverse cataclysmic changes to our natural systems.
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  • VIS 392: The Petroleum Age

    4.00 Credits
    Antioch University-Midwest (Closed)

    In this course, we will examine the dramatic rise of the petroleum industry and its links to the acceleration of the growth in human population, fossil fuel usage and dependence, consumption patterns, resource wars, and models for economic growth projections. We will also explore linkages between the rise in the use of petroleum and other fossil fuels and their likely dramatic decline in the future. We will also examine possibilities for delinking our dependencies on oil and other fossil fuels by considering sources of renewable energy, and preparing for substantial changes in human communities that would facilitate or accompany such changes.
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  • VIS 393: Living Sustainability:Strategies of Consumption and Collaboration

    4.00 Credits
    Antioch University-Midwest (Closed)

    In this course, participants will examine both public and private means for reducing our ecological footprint and building human bridges to a sustainable future. They will specifically address activist strategies and consumption strategies that call attention to habit modifications that society will have to make in terms of housing, energy use, food consumption, transportation communications, and economic redistribution in order to foster an environmentally and future generation friendly "green ethos."
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  • VIS 407: Developing Intercultural Awareness

    3.00 Credits
    Antioch University-Midwest (Closed)

    The aim of this course is to cut beneath the surface, to discover far deeper and richer than color or costume, what, exactly, is culture; how culture shapes our perceptions and assessments of experience; how history and religion contours cultural identity and expectations; how people of differing cultural backgrounds are prone to serious misunderstanding about matters as simple as timing or spatial arrangement or as complex as attitude, roles, and life priorities; and how suspicion, alienation, or rage may be felt by one party to another encounter while others think things are just swell.
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