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4.00 Credits
This four credit-hour SAGES seminar provides an introduction to various dimensions of academic life through open-ended intellectual inquiry and guided by reading from primary and secondary sources. The course will require practice in written and oral communications in small groups. A primary focus of the seminar will be to examine the impact of engineering materials on societal development through human history using a few specific materials of interest as examples: concrete, steel, and semi-conductors. At the conclusion of the course, students will be encouraged to explore the impact of other materials on the development of specific technologies as a group project.
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4.00 Credits
The Harry Potter books have attracted more readers than any other fantasy novel series. This seminar will discuss how science may account for or duplicate some of the magical endeavors described in the novels. We will assess the feasibility of certain means of transportation, such as traveling by the floo network, apparitions, and broomsticks, in the context of modern science and technology. Parallels between certain potions and contemporary drugs will be evaluated. The seminar's conceptual framework, integrating fantasy with technology, will loosely follow the format of Michio Kaku's nonfiction book "Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century." In "Visions," Professor Kaku offers the provocative thesis that many "fairy tale ideas" may be possible in the future thanks to advances in science and technology. A combination of Rowling and Kaku in one course should offer a unique opportunity for SAGES learning.
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4.00 Credits
This course will examine the Space Race. A key text for the course will be Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff. By taking a historical approach to the study of the achievements and failures of NASA scientists and astronauts, it is possible to examine: 1) how individuals dedicated to achieving a particular scientific end draw on the scientific method, 2) the consequences of scientific inquiry, and 3) how science develops in specific historic contexts.
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4.00 Credits
The focus of this SAGES seminar is on the process of learning and knowledge creation. We will examine this process from two perspectives--from your perspective as a learner entering Case to choose and develop a career path and from the perspective of Case as an academic community characterized by a rich diversity of academic disciplines with different approaches to learning and knowledge creation. We will begin by exploring the learning process and your unique approach to learning with its strengths and challenges, and how it influences your academic interests and desired career path. Using philosophical analysis of the different forms of knowledge creation and criteria for truth, social analysis of the culture of academic fields and individual study of professors and scholars in different fields, we will examine the skills and values required for successful learning and knowledge creation in these fields. In particular we will compare and contrast ways of learning and knowledge creation in science and the arts studying Case and the Cleveland Institute of Art.
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4.00 Credits
This topical First Seminar will take a global perspective on slavery to fulfill three goals. The first is to explore the diversity of coercive bondage--from ancient Greece and Rome, to early-modern North Africa, to nineteenth-century America--and the ideologies that helped justify this ultimate form of human degradation. The second is to examine the historical memory of slavery and the legacy of slavery today. The third is to enhance critical thinking, public speaking and writing skills.
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4.00 Credits
This First Seminar will explore the evolution and expression of American Mythology in literature and film. Through discussion, reading, viewing films, research, and writing students will examine how particular American myths have shaped American identity, values, and national vision. They will also explore the relationship between the myths and the reality and evaluate the extent to which these myths are meaningful today.
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4.00 Credits
Why is it that when cooperation seems so likely, conflict breaks out? Or why at other times when conflict looms, cooperation wins out? This course explores the social and political complexities of this basic human condition. Through seminar discussions of classic readings, the course will introduce students to the basic social science concepts and theories used to explain conflict and cooperation. In addition to general knowledge, the course will also allow students hands on experience. Classroom time will be dedicated to simulating the decision making and negotiating dynamics which lead to cooperation or conflict. Studies will include individual, historical, and international cases. Graded projects will include small group negotiation and decision making exercises as well as individual writing tasks.
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4.00 Credits
This four credit hour course focuses on the ethnic/racial experiences of Native, African, Latino and Asian Americans through representative works of fiction, nonfiction and film. We will look at the way racial and ethnic identities are produced through political struggle on a local/national/global scale and how they are maintained and transformed over time. We also pay close attention to the ways in which race and ethnicity intersect with gender, sexuality, class, parental pressure, and nation in order to better understand how systems of power and inequality are constructed, reinforced, and challenged.
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4.00 Credits
In this course we will look at ways in which universities and other major cultural institutions interact with the city. Cleveland is right now an excellent site for such researches. The city is pinning the hopes for its future on its ability to become an incubator of creativity, with particular attention to the arts. Local institutions are responding, including CWRU. Imagine yourself as a student in the late nineteenth century entering the granite fortress of Adelbert Hall (the oldest building on campus). This must have sent a very clear message: when you enter this building, you leave the city behind, and you are now in a different world. Or consider the even more fortress-like building, Crawford Hall, marking the western entrance to the campus. Like other cultural institutions in the Circle, CWRU is now concerned to present a very different face to the larger world. So we want to ask: How have things changed, and what further transformations are projected, and with what objectives?
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4.00 Credits
This seminar will examine the role, meaning, power, and influence of music in our lives. Readings, writing assignments, and fourth-hour events will focus on the following three themes: music is important, everyone is musical, and there are many uses of music and ways to be musical. Topics include the Cleveland music scene, the use of music in political movements, music in today's media, and the use of music to heal. This course will be characterized by intense yet open-ended intellectual inquiry, guided by reading from primary as well as secondary sources. It will also include practice in written and oral communication in small groups. The goals are to enhance basic intellectual skills of academic inquiry, such as critical reading, thoughtful analysis, and written and oral communication; to introduce basic information literacy skills; to provide a foundation for ethical decision-making; to encourage a global and multidisciplinary perspective on the learning process; to facilitate faculty-student interactions; and, in the most general sense, to provide a supportive common intellectual experience for first-year students at Case.
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