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0.50 Credits
An action and reflection seminar resulting in the production of the University Convocation each week of the semester. Students will research issues that academia can and should address and invite to the University Convocation public intellectuals and artists who can speak to an educated general audience of students, faculty, staff and local citizens. Reading, discussions, conversations with faculty and community leaders will lead to the planning, publicizing, presiding and hosting of the University Convocation series. Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or consent of instructor Offering: Every semester Instructor: Wallace
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1.00 Credits
Course is designed to facilitate and promote the experiential learning process in an intercultural context. Introduces students to the value of cultural comparison that illuminates both similarities and differences. Improves the overall study abroad program by providing essential pre-departure and re-entry training designed to capitalize on the cultural immersion experience. Prepares students to learn from the psychological and conceptual challenges they will face during each phase of the experience. Examines the advantages and disadvantages of culture study, including the contrast of internal and external perspectives, and the concept of critical self-consciousness. Encourages and challenges students to continue learning about other cultures and other perspectives. Prerequisite: Only students participating in an off-campus, cultural immersion program are eligible Offering: Every semester Instructor: Lou
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0.50 Credits
This service-learning course introduces students to the history of and ontemporary challenges in American Indian education. Students serve as tutors and mentors at the Chemawa Indian School of Salem in support of college preparatory programs, and in turn, are mentored by Native American adult educators. Tutoring will be on-site, covering basic academic subjects such as reading, math, science, and social studies. Mentoring will include hosting Chemawa students on the Willamette campus for academic and social events. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor Offering: Every semester Instructor: Dobkins
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0.50 Credits
This class is designed to teach students cognitive and behavioral skills needed to communicate with others from a significantly different cultural background. Emphasis is focused on Asian cultures, however, the class is appropriate for students in any major who are interested in cross-cultural communication and for those who are going or returning from abroad. The course material is adapted from Ivey and Ivey's multi-cultural counseling theory as well as intercultural theory. Emphasis will be on teaching the basic listening sequence in a multi-cultural context. Mastery of these skills will expand the repertoire of communication skills available to the individual, so that the individual is able to communicate with others from a significantly different background. Offering: Every semester Instructor: Loers/Bragg
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1.00 Credits
This course explores how contemporary written literature in Africa continues to derive a great deal of its vitality from older traditions of verbal art. Initially the course will examine sample texts from the oral tradition. It will next focus on representative texts by major African writers whose works have made use of said oral tradition as well as examine their social and political contexts. The principal concern of the course will be the analysis of the aesthetic implications of the transposition of oral techniques and structural features into the medium of the written/printed word. Conducted in English. Mode of Inquiry: Interpreting Texts Offering: Annually Instructor: Fofana
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1.00 Credits
This class will use exemplars from the history of anatomy, physiology, and medicine to examine the intellectual processes that underlie science as a way of understanding the world. In addition, students will be introduced to paradigms for making reasoned judgments about the moral consequences associated with various advances in human biological science. Mode of Inquiry: Analyzing Arguments, Reasons, and Values; Understanding the Natural World Offering: Spring Instructor: Harmer
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1.00 Credits
This course covers fundamental principles of the development, function, and occasional malfunction of the human nervous system, the methodologies, discoveries, and frontiers of this interdisciplinary area of inquiry. Lectures and mandatory laboratories are designed to challenge students to think in new ways about the relationship between brain, body, and behavior. Prerequisite: Freshman or sophomore standing, or consent of instructor Mode of Inquiry: Understanding the Natural World Offering: Alternate springs Instructor: Stavrianeas, Stewart
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1.00 Credits
This course focuses on the events of birth, marriage, and death as they are socially construed by way of symbols, rituals, and myths. Initially, attention is directed to theoretical foundations and the constructs of symbol, ritual and myth themselves. Readings are drawn from anthropology, communication studies, linguistics, and sociology. Thereafter, focus turns to each of the events-birth, marriage, and death-and the ways that various cultures make them meaningful. The constructs examined earlier in the term are applied to selected case studies from Japan and the United States. Mode of Inquiry: Understanding Society Offering: Alternate falls Instructor: Douglass and TIUA Staff
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1.00 Credits
This course focuses on pressing political, socio-cultural, economic and historical issues raised by African filmmakers. It examines the relationship between cinema and other forms of creative practice in Africa, in particular, history, literature and oral traditions. It also explores the significance and use of African cinema in juxtaposition with cultural and social development. Taught in English Mode of Inquiry: Thinking Historically Offering: Alternate springs Instructor: Fofana
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1.00 Credits
Students learn and experience the process of computer animation production while also examining the work of professional animators (computer and traditional). Topics include story development, storyboarding, timing using story-reels, post-production, and computer modeling and animation using professional 3D animation software. Students work in teams to produce a complete computer animation. A key component of this course includes interactive work with students in MUSC 339 Digital Music Techniques to combine animation with original music. Prerequisite: Students should be very comfortable working on the computer and learning new software Mode of Inquiry: Creating in the Arts Offering: Fall Instructor: Orr
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