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1.00 Credits
This workshop examines the human cost of the most extreme and most damaging natural disaster in U. S. History. The human and material cost of such total destruction, complicated by the breakdown of the levee system that submerged much of New Orleans underwater, complicated the rescue efforts. Confusion and a late response from the Executive branch resulted in serious media and political debate. Most Significant was the treatment of the city's poor that were left behind. A hurricane on the scale of Katrina exposed the inadequacy of governmental responses on all levels. This workshop uses readings and the Spike Lee documentary to focus attention on the hurricane and the aftermath in the context of one of the nation's oldest and most culturally rich and diverse cities.
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This workshop will address the historic cultural and economic conditions that have led many to experience inequality throughout the history of education in the United States. We will focus primarily on groups who have struggled to gain the unfulfilled promise of an equal, or equitable, education. The struggles of the following ethnic groups will be highlighted: Native Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans, and Hispanic/Latino Americans. We will also address the issue of school funding at both federal and state levels, and the economic destinies that result from schooling in America.
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Who was Judas Iscariot The recent discovery of The Gospel of Judas, a second-century text written in the ancient language of Coptic, has scholars, religious leaders, laity, and non-believers alike discussing the most reviled person in the New Testament. But much of what most people think they know about Judas is wrong. Judas is not described as a "betrayer" in the Greek manuscripts of the Bible; nowhere is Judas cast into hell for taking his own life (indeed, there is no explicit prohibition against suicide in all of the Bible); and there is reason to believe that Judas never actually existed. In this workshop, we will discuss the important issues concerning a balanced study of Judas. From the epistles of Paul to the Gospel of John, we will look at the development of the Judas tradition and ask how and why Judas is important to the Christian story. Special consideration will be given to the Gospel of Judas in the second half of the workshop period.
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This workshop will focus upon women's position in the world at large both past and present, as well as the socio-political and philosophical ideologies that have supported that position and its resistance to change. We will look at the several "waves" of feminist movement that have accompanied the socio-political and philosophical changes taking place in the western world since the Age of Enlightenment, Social-contract Theory, Marxist-Socialism, and Existentialist freedom movements, up to and including feminist theory developed in the post-World War era. We will consider the state of feminism and women's condition toda
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This workshop fosters an awareness and understanding of conflict and conflict resolution. It emphasizes the analysis of conflict that invades our everyday life. Participants will explore the many aspects of conflict and strategies for avoiding or de-escalating conflict in the workplace. This is particularly helpful for organizations dealing with teams, diversity issues, customer service, building partnerships, and preventing violence in the workplace.
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This workshop provides students with the opportunity to enhance their knowledge about the important part Ohio and eastern Indiana have played in national issues. Each student will select and research various historical and educational sites chosen from a master list and report the significance of their findings through pictures and oral presentation.
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This experiential and interactive course creates the opportunity for students to enhance self-awareness through exploring simple forms of creative expression such as movement, drawing, and journaling. The course challenges us to consider the relationships between mind, body and emotions in a historical crosscultural context, and in the present moment.
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3.00 Credits
In this workshop, students will briefly review theories of experience-based adult learning, and receive instruction in the preparation of a Prior Learning Portfolio describing ad documenting their own college-level learning through life experience. Submission of the portfolio for faculty assessment may lead to the award of transfer credit.
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This workshop explores the emerging field of Relational Aesthetics. Using creative theater and art strategies the class will investigate, conceive and develop events and methods whose goal it is to generate dialogues across identities and borders. Community Art Practice combines activism, theater, art and therapy. We will look at techniques developed by seminal theater figures such as Augusto Boal, renowned director of the Theater of the Oppressed, classic agit-prop theater - as well as the recent work of artists such as Suzanne Lacy, the ensemble Group Material, and John Malpede's Los Angeles Poverty Department (LAPD).
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The study of the Middle East and American involvement in this region is an important, perhaps necessary, component of an educational experience with a global and cross-cultural focus and an informed citizenship. The Middle East is a crossroads between Africa, Asia, and Europe. Its strategic location, vast oil resources, ancient civilizations, rich cultural heritage, and growing population are academically, politically, economically, and culturally of interest to both the Global North and South. The Middle East is the birthplace of three monotheistic religions-Judaism, Christianity, and Islam-as well as a repository for Greek philosophical ideas and scientific discoveries, which were later transmitted to the West through the works of Muslim scholars. The region has made significant contributions to the Western and indeed to the world civilization. They include development of algebra, fundamental discoveries in medicine, chemistry, astronomy, and architecture, great artistic and literary works, and profound social, philosophical and spiritual thoughts.
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