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3.00 Credits
This seminar studies the economic philosophy of private property rights, focusing on some of the fiction of Ayn Rand (e.g., Anthem and The Fountainhead). The primary purpose is to develop critical thinking skills and improved abilities to communicate. The course explores issues such as 1) economic philosophy, 2) intellectual and other private property rights, and 3) the importance of the individual relative to society. Chambers
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3.00 Credits
Traditional performance has defined the individual self as a mirror of the community that creates and participates in a theater event. Has the theatricalization of everyday life through television, advertising, and the Internet changed this Or is the mirror just more high-tech Students seek answers to these questions by examining the origins of theater in late medieval Europe and test assumptions by creating an actual communal performance in which all seminar participants take part. O'Neill
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3.00 Credits
Evil has been seductive since the Serpent "invaded" the Garden. In readings ranging from the Bible to gansta rap, this seminar considers four paradigms of evil: theological, philosophical, psychological, and political. Students define their own concepts of evil and discuss how culture constructs evil as the ultimate form of alienation-as sickness, as secular immorality, as political opposition, and as religious perversion.Donahue, Tiernan and Westfall
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3.00 Credits
This seminar explores the art and craft of biography and autobiography. In journals, essays, and class presentations, students contribute to the seminar's investigation of the reasons for examining a life, of the stories that come from the inquiry, and of the effects of such stories on readers. Readings are from biographies, autobiographies, journals, diaries, and letters-which serve as models and primary materials for each student's project in life writing.Johnson
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3.00 Credits
This seminar focuses on notions of invention and discovery in several disciplines of engineering and examines flying, flying machines and their development, automobiles and their impact on society and the environment, and bridges as structures dreamed of and built by engineers. Ulucakli
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3.00 Credits
This seminar focuses on diverse literary expressions of the Latino/a experience in the U.S., especially from Mexican- and Caribbean-American writers. The representations of Latinos/as in these readings is contrasted with those in popular cultural texts, such as TV and film, in order to highlight the diversity of cultural identities and practices among Latino/a communities. Students also gain a better understanding of how Latinos/as use writing as a means of "inventing" themselves. Donnell
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3.00 Credits
Political humor is "serious" business. It deflates the windbag, defiles the true believer, and decries the unjust. Yet humor humanizes with its extraordinary integration of sharpness and lightness. The seminar perspective is broad-the human condition in community-and interdisciplinary, including attention to humanistic and social scientific insights. Significant use is made of primary sources of political humor fromdiverse eras, media, and genres. Seminarians produce and not merely consume political humor. Lennertz
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3.00 Credits
Is Barney the Dinosaur really Satan Are devil worshippers sacrificing young women This seminar examines cases in which particular groups of people have been identified as a source of evil, e.g. Jews in medieval Europe, Satanists and New Agers in twentieth-century America, America as the "Great Satan." Under what circumstances are certain groups likely to be deemed evil What are the dynamics and consequences of attributing evil to particular groups of people Rinehart
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3.00 Credits
This seminar uses representations of food in visual and print media as a vehicle for exploring U.S. and world cultures, how different people live, and cooking and eating as intimate reflections of cultural identity. Analysis of this topic involves critical oral and written reflection on a variety of readings (recipes and cookbooks, newspaper reviews, and novels) and visual representations (television cooking shows, film, and live demonstrations). Selection, preparation, and sampling of diverse foods are also required. Geoffrion-Vinci
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the ways that citizens and politicians worldwide have addressed the "problem of peace" in the modern era. It asks some basic questions: When is war justified Is peace best pursued through political institutions or moral campaigns Is peace simply the absence of war or something more substantive The links (and tensions) between peace movements and other movements, like those for national liberation, womens rights, and civil rights, are also explored. Sanborn
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