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3.00 Credits
Charisma, meaning "gift of grace," denotes a deeply personal, yet anti-institutional type of authority, shared by certain cult leaders and revolutionaries, religious visionaries and political prophets, antinomians and avant garde artists. There is also the charisma of place and thing, from sacred shrines and objects, to famous art works and national monuments. The course will explore the meaning of charisma, with case studies in enthusiastic religion, political revolution, and antinomian avant garde art movements. Schneiderman
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3.00 Credits
This seminar addresses the impact of industrial development on the environment. Pollutants are reviewed, and different treatment and control methods are examined. The limitations of present remedial technologies are explained, and ongoing research to alleviate such shortcomings is explored. Topics include acid rain, global warming, photochemical smog, radioactive waste, landfilling, incineration, recycling, and energy recovery. The course includes group projects and class presentation, laboratory, and a plant trip. Tavakoli
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3.00 Credits
The Gothic imagination is populated by the unquiet, the undead, the unholy, and it feeds on blood, dread, death. It relishes deviance, degeneracy, demoralization. Characterized in this way, the Gothic sensibility has traditionally been disparaged as immature, immoderate, soap-operatic. More recently, critics have found in its recesses and excesses a unique power to elucidate and emancipate. This seminar examines the power of the Gothic imagination as it animates selected folk, fictional, and film narratives. Truten
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2.00 Credits
The world is increasingly fractured by differences-of race and class, for example-and is characterized by individualism. In such a world, what kind of community is possible How is community created and sustained How do communities deal with diversity and balance individual interests with those of the group What benefits and responsibilities come with community Students consider community through readings, class discussions, films, and writing and library assignments. Corequisite: Two hours a week of local community service Miller
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3.00 Credits
The abundance of plant and animal species present in different environments is rapidly declining due to the effects of human population increases, particularly since the beginning of the industrial revolution. This seminar investigates the factors causing the loss, or extinction, of species and discusses possible solutions. Social and economic forces that work against the maintenance of species diversity and the "worth" to humanity of these rich environments are explored. Holliday
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3.00 Credits
This seminar engages students in an exploration of important cultural traditions outside of the European-American sphere. Through discussions of readings, films, and examples from the visual and performing arts, students investigate customs and rituals in selected regions of Africa, India, China, Japan, Korea, and Indonesia. Through individual projects and presentation, indigenous cultural data are applied to contemporary issues relevant to becoming informed citizens of the world. Stockton
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3.00 Credits
Internationally, one of the most dramatic events of the last decade was the dissolution of the Soviet Union. This seminar familiarizes students through lectures, discussions, readings, and videotapes with the history, culture, and problems of the former Soviet Union. The seminar also analyzes the situation of today's Russia and its relationship to its neighbors. Pribic
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3.00 Credits
Unification has involved economic and social hardships for both the former East and West Germans. The people have demonstrated their discontent in elections. Chancellor Kohl's CDU/CSU party lost at the polls. The new right-wing Republican party is gaining momentum. Extremist movements, such as the Neo-Nazis, terrorize foreign workers and asylum seekers. This seminar explores such contemporary issues through texts and class discussions, group projects, and field trips. Lamb-Faffelberger
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3.00 Credits
This seminar provides a broad overview of European revolutionary thought and its history and of the history of European revolutionary movements from the outbreak of the English civil war in 1642 through the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991. History, literature, philosophy, art, and film are used to illuminate the nature of European revolutionary ideologies and investigate the social, political, and cultural circumstances that engendered them. Rosa
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3.00 Credits
This seminar traces political, economic, social, cultural, and military developments in German history. Select factors are identified that have made Germany's achievement of nationhood different from that of other major European nations. Beginning with the political influence of the French revolution, the course highlights recurring conflicts affecting Germany's struggle to become a nation while suggesting links between German cultural forces and the role that the unified nation played in the twentieth century. McDonald
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