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The course will include lectures, reading of primary literature, field work, and journaling. Students will also critique and analyze traditional approaches to the natural sciences. Students will review selected research articles and readings with a focus on women's career development; specifically, the influence of gender roles identity on the participation of girls and boys in science classes. Students will develop writing andcommunication skills that are used by naturalists (male and female) to include field notes, formal plant descriptions, biography, and autobiography. Mode of Inquiry: Understanding the Natural World General Education Requirement Fulfillment: Writing centered Offering: Alternate years Instructor: Rose
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The aim of this interdisciplinary course is to address the institutional structures which define American society and shape our ability to make responsible ethical decisions. The course will begin with an analysis of current American values, broadly defined, and will conclude with a study of the major ethical systems which are attempting to respond, through these issues, to the decisions which confront us in the modern world. Several case studies will be conducted to test the implications of these ethical systems and the options they pose for corporate ethics. Mode of Inquiry: Analyzing Arguments, Reasons, and Values Prerequisite: Junior/Senior standing or consent of instructor Offering: Alternate years Instructor: McGaughy
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This course will examine the emergence and development of cultural identities in Europe, with a particular focus on the emergence and development of a conception of "Europe" and "European" from the Middle Ages to the 20th century. In order to understand these notions more clearly, it will be pertinent to study what was NOT Europe/European throughout this same time period. Mode of Inquiry: Interpreting Texts Offering: Alternate years in fall or spring Instructor: DeLeonibus
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Taught in Ireland during the semester in Galway program, this course examines selected topics in Irish literature, history, culture, politics, or the arts. Mode of Inquiry: Interpreting Texts Offering: Spring Instructor: Study Abroad Directors in Ireland
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A field course consisting of lectures and field trips which will touch on the following topics related to Hawaii: description of the islands and the causes of the present appearance based upon geological, biological, sociological and cultural information. Special emphasis will be placed on the geological formation, biological aspects (present distributions and the origins of the flora and fauna) and present major activities (i.e., sugar cane, pineapple and tourism industries; environmental quality control; methods of preserving and maintaining original habitat and culture). Some aspects of the immediate marine environment will also be investigated. General Education Requirement Fulfillment: Writing centered Offering: Post-session Instructor: Goodney, Rose, Thorsett
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Language has become a problem in the modern world: its expanding role as a means of global communication has, at the same time, accented the barriers to human understanding posed by competing ideologies concealed within languages. As a result, power, rather than argument or persuasion, has become the normal means for achieving national and personal ends. This seminar addresses, through selected case studies, the relationship of language and power in the American tradition and their impact on politics and ethics. The Vietnam War is offered as a case study. Mode of Inquiry: Analyzing Arguments, Reasons, and Values General Education Requirement Fulfillment: Writing centered Offering: Alternate years in spring Instructor: Collins, Staff
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This course analyzes the scientific enterprise. We shall see how different disciplines from the humanities and social sciences (history, philosophy, sociology and anthropology) can be used to illuminate different aspects of science. Topics include: logical positivism, the social construction of scientific knowledge, interest theory, entity realism, skills and practices in science, gender and science and ethnomethodological approaches to studying science. Previous knowledge of a science is helpful. General Education Requirement Fulfillment: Writing centered Offering: Annually Instructor: Jackson
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An exploration of Eastern and Western mystical traditions as expressed in literature and other arts. Students will explore their own creative and spiritual experiences by writing a series of personal, reflective essays. Offering: Spring Instructor: G. Bowers
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A post-session field studies course centered in Ecuador at several geographical locations and focusing on topics related to the natural sciences, language and culture, the arts, sociology and political science. Emphasis will be on a historical and modern approach to study of the interrelationships among indigenous and Spanish-speaking groups, the interaction between culture and environment and the tremendous biological and geological diversity in Ecuador. It will also explore the impact of development, economics and land reform on the environment and its people. General Education Requirement Fulfillment: Writing centered; Fourth Semester Language Requirement Offering: Post-session Instructor: Staff
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This is a four-week off-campus program. It employs readings as well as guided tours of different racial and ethnic communities, the commercial centers, architecture and museums; explorations of the visual arts, music, theater; a service learning internship; and a seminar to investigate and reflect upon the complexity, diversity and problems confronting modern urban America from an interdisciplinary perspective. Arrangements are supported by the Urban Life Center in Chicago. Offering: Post-session Instructor: Staff
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