|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Course Criteria
Add courses to your favorites to save, share, and find your best transfer school.
-
3.00 Credits
This seminar identifies and analyzes some of the group stereotypes alive in contemporary culture and traces their origins. It explores images of "the Other" that people construct based upon gender, racial, ethnic, and religious differences and examines their causes, functions, and consequences. In the process, students become more aware of their own complicity in stereotypical thinking and ask whether and how it can be transcended. Cohn
-
3.00 Credits
This seminar examines the power of images in different historical periods and diverse cultures. What is it about icons that make people cry, pray, and believe While the development, meaning, and impact of icons in general is the topic of lectures, students have the opportunity to study a wide range of popular images- from favorite stars, such as Madonna and Elvis, and computer-designed images, to Egyptian pyramids and Greek temples. Sinkevic
-
3.00 Credits
This seminar introduces students to the dramatic and constantly changing business environment. Topics include those that have impacted, and will continue to impact, all forms of business organization operating in a competitive environment such as the role of changing technology, impact of corporate downsizing, demographic and social trends, business ethics and social responsibility, and changes in the United States business environment from manufacturing to services-based and from large corporations to the rising importance of small businesses. Bukics
-
3.00 Credits
This seminar explores three essential aspects of gaining multicultural competence: awareness, knowledge, and skills. Through lectures, students have an opportunity to increase their knowledge about biopsychosocial roots of "isms" (e.g., racism, sexism, classism, heterosexism, and ableism). Class discussions, exercises, and cocurricular events create a variety of opportunities to experience growth in multicultural self-awareness and skills. Silvestri
-
3.00 Credits
This course explores important sociological and musical issues in jazz. Topics include African social and musical infulences on jazz, the legacy of slavery, early combo jazz, big bands, bebop, protest music, women in jazz, and racism in America and its effect on jazz. Emphasis is on reading, writing, developing listening skills, discussion, and individual and group presentations. Videos and live performance are incorporated into the course. Wilkins
-
3.00 Credits
In their novels, science fiction writers incorporate many ideas from cutting-edge science, some imaginative and insightful, others blatantly at odds with established scientific principles. Students critically examine applications of science in the novels of Robert L. Forward and Arthur C. Clarke, among others. Readings from the novels are interspersed with readings from books such as The Physics of Star Trek, by Lawrence Krauss, which explain the relevant science in terms accessible to non-scientists. Hoffman
-
3.00 Credits
Alexis de Tocqueville summed up the problem of greatness in democracies as follows: "ambitious men in democracies are less engrossed than any others with the interests and the judgment of posterity.they care much more for success than for fame." What he called fame might well be called greatness. Starting from the Kantian premise that greatness is possible only because human values make it possible, this course examines the various social, psychological, historical, and philosophical requisites for greatness and failure on a grand scale in democracies as well as in other forms of society.Schneiderman
-
3.00 Credits
Scientists seek to explain the complex nature of the world with simple rules that sometimes take the form of fundamental principles covering a vast array of diverse phenomena. For example, simple models have been used to relate the behavior of avalanches, weather, earthquakes, fire storms, and erosion. Similar attempts have been made to understand the nature of the evolution of biological species at all levels and to evaluate various strategies of survival. The course explores these approaches and evaluates their successes, failures, and lessons to be learned. Novaco
-
3.00 Credits
This course examines Jewish humor within the context of theories of humor and the comedic and as a window to Jewish culture. It explores examples of Jewish humor past and present in literature, film, television, skits, stand-up comics, cartoons, and jokes. It considers questions such as: What makes us laugh What is distinctively Jewish about Jewish humor How does American Jewish humor differ from older European Jewish humor and contemporary Israeli humor Do you need to be Jewish to "get" it How is Jewish humor like and unlike other ethnic, religious, or minority humor How do stereotypes and self-deprecation figure in the humorous How did humor function as a coping and survival mechanism in the Holocaust Cohn
-
3.00 Credits
This seminar examines five major monuments of western architecture: the pyramids of Giza, the Parthenon, Chartres Cathedral, the Brunelleschi Dome of Florence Cathedral, and the Empire State Building. Each is examined in its historical, cultural, and technological context through contemporary and modern sources and, for Chartres and Brunelleschi's Dome, computer analysis of structure. A field trip to New York, visits to Special Collections in Skillman Library to examine the Egyptian papyrus and medieval manuscript pages, guest speakers from the faculty, and student presentations enrich the course. Sinkevic, Ahl
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Privacy Statement
|
Terms of Use
|
Institutional Membership Information
|
About AcademyOne
Copyright 2006 - 2025 AcademyOne, Inc.
|
|
|