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4.00 Credits
This year-long interdisciplinary laboratory science course is designed to improve the scientific and technological literacy of students not majoring in a scientific discipline. History has shown that science provides a powerful methodology by which we, as human beings, can come to understand the natural world; this course helps the student understand why this is the case and also understand why science cannot provide all the answers. Students become familiar with some of today’s major scientific concepts, how those concepts have developed, and how scientists continue to revise these ideas. The course consists of two large common sessions and two small group discussion sessions per week (discussion and lab exercises). Students may take either the Global Change Track (an intensive look at the atmosphere and the oceans) or the Environmental Track (an intensive look at the broad spectrum of the environmental sciences) in Integrated Science. Students may alternatively take a two-semester laboratory course in a single scientific discipline.
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3.00 Credits
Designed to promote critical thinking by aiding the student to state problems clearly, to sort out the relevant from the irrelevant, to abstract common properties from individual situations, and to argue coherently. Students are exposed to good reasoning processes through an introduction to mathematical concepts. Prerequisite: varies, depending upon prior mathematical background.
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3.00 Credits
Through the use of an interdisciplinary approach, this course explores the ways the arts express intellectual, emotional, spiritual, and social concerns. It examines what makes the arts an essential part of our human experience and explores the relationships among artists, audiences, and the cultural forces that influence both. Students attend performances, exhibitions, and presentations both on and off campus; study the basic principles and practices of the arts; and create an interdisciplinary arts project. Required fee. Prerequisites: completion of IC101, IC105, IC106 or permission of Core Curriculum Administrator and sophomore class standing. Experiencing the Arts introduces students to a wide variety of cultural activities and events as part of the course. Typical among these are: American Repertory Theatre MASS MOCA - Massachusetts Museum of Modern Art Contra Dances Oriki Dance Collective Mark Peskanov, Violinist Odds Bodkin, Storyteller Nathan Davis Duo Javanese Shadow Puppets and Workshop “Cabaret” productionMerce Cunningham Dance Company
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3.00 Credits
An exploration of music as an art and its contribution to culture, history and society. It will investigate the elements of music and apply them to the different cultural settings of folk, popular and classical music around the world. Listening and response will be an important activity in this course. There will be opportunities for hands-on activities such as composition, music-making or building a musical instrument. No technical knowledge of music is presupposed. A mixture of experiences, this course will include listening (to both live and recorded performances,) verbal and written response, discussion, and some leture. Prerequisites: completion of IC101, IC105, IC106, or permission of Core Curriculum Administrator and sophomore class standing.
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3.00 Credits
Examines, from an interdisciplinary perspective, selected aspects of the American experience. Through the critical interpretation of texts and other forms of cultural expression, it balances the notion of a common national character against the idea that group diversity and individual identity were equally significant factors in producing the American experience. The course also analyzes the dynamic interchange between unity and diversity in contemporary American culture and concludes with views of the American experience from students’ own lives. Prerequisites: completion of IC101, IC105, IC106 or permission of Core Curriculum Administrator and sophomore class standing.
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3.00 Credits
Taking an interdisciplinary approach to integrating concepts from anthropology, economics, sociology and political science, this course discusses three topic areas: business and the individual; business and the nation; and business around the world. Students will gain an understanding of how organizations, such as industry, government agencies, and nonprofit endeavors use business concepts to attain organizational goals. The student will then see how this foundation of business becomes more complex and challenging as it is applied to broader context including ethical considerations within highly competitive industries, macroeconomic consequences of managerial decision-making, and the effect globalization has on economies, culture and political institutions. Prerequisites: completion of IC101, IC105, IC106, or permission of Core Curriculum Administrator and sophomore class standing.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the twentieth century, an era that has been characterized by change. This includes change in political boundaries, technological capability, response to religion, philosophy and the arts, and change in how people think. The course examines some of the major events of the century from different perspectives, in order to try to gain understanding of the period and its change. The goals of the course include: a fundamental understanding of the major events that shaped the century; a sense of the sources of contemporary problems; exposure to artistic and cultural developments and their historical context; the development of a chronological sense of the century; and an extension of the world view beyond ethnocentric limitations. Prerequisites: completion of IC101, IC105, IC106, or permission of Core Curriculum Administrator and sophomore class standing.
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3.00 Credits
Compares contrasting theories about the relationships between an individual person and increasingly complex levels of social integration. It also evaluates the scientific methods which generate data used to test those theories. An important goal of the course is to promote greater understanding and tolerance of different personalities, kinds of families and other small groups. An appreciation of diversity is encouraged as students broaden their knowledge base and sharpen their critical thinking skills. Prerequisites: completion of IC101, IC105, IC106, IC205 or IC206 , IC210, IC212, IC260, or permission of Core Curriculum Administrator and junior class standing.
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3.00 Credits
This humanities course is structured as a pilgrimage on which the course participants journey through time and space to experience some of the significant historical and cultural aspects of ancient Greek and Roman societies and medieval European societies. One particularly important destination on this pilgrimage is Medieval Spain, where the travelers will have the opportunity to look closely at the coexistence there of Christian, Judaic and Islamic cultures. Prerequisites: completion of IC101, IC105, IC106, IC205 or IC206, IC210, IC212, IC260, or permission of Core Curriculum Administrator and junior class standing. *Courses with an asterisk feature a weekly common session during which lectures, films and panel discussions provide a background and context for that week’s topic and texts. Students also meet twice each week in smaller discussion groups organized around the principle of active learning and featuring collaborative projects along with a variety of individual oral and written projects.
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3.00 Credits
This humanities course explores the period extending from the Renaissance into the 19th century, a time of great intellectual, cultural and social ferment amid the transition from the medieval to the modern. Through the use of written texts, music and the visual arts, students will examine the eternal dualities of rationalism, order, structure and community, versus impulse, autonomy and individualism. Ultimately, students will confront the issue of just what are “Western values,” while forging their own personal connections between the historicalpast and contemporary issues and problems. Prerequisites: completion of IC101, IC105, IC106, IC205 or IC206, IC210, IC212, IC260, or permission of Core Curriculum Administrator and junior class standing.
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