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  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite: Core seminar, required for graduationCore 101 through 105 and at least sixth semester standingArtists, poets, novelists, filmmakers, photographers, scientists,historians and policymakers all attend to the relationships betweenpeople and their natural surroundings. Those in the creative artstend to focus on the glory of nature often with little reference to, oreven a conscious avoidance of, the role people play in nature; thosein the social and physical sciences examine humanity's increasinglyintrusive interactions with nature. In this course we will investigatethe place of humans in nature through the lens of multiple disciplines.We will read selections from nature writers and poets, including Wait Whitman, Annie Dillard, Barry Lopez, Edward Abbey and W.S.Merwin. Photographers Ansel Adams and Galen Rowell and thepainters of the Hudson River school will join these writers to draw ourattention to the complexity, beauty and interrelatedness of the naturalworld. The work of scientists, historians and policy analysts will serveas a counterpoint to these works as they draw out attention to thenegative impact of human activity on the natural world.
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    Prerequisite: Core seminar, required for graduationCore 101 through 105 and at least sixth semester standingA Core Senior Seminar tracing the origins of the modern world backto its Greek roots. It is from the Greeks, more than from any othersource, that the western world traces its origins. Our religions, ourscience, our literature, our philosophy, our artistic and dramaticforms, and our governmental concepts are all reflections (or, in somecases, rejections) of ideas and practices that can be traced to theworld of the ancient Greeks (Hellenic and Hellenistic). This coursewill study those enduring traditions. Readings include The Iliad, TheWine-dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter, and selections from Greekhistory, drama, and philosophy.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite: Core seminar, required for graduationCore 101 through 105 and at least sixth semester standingThrough readings, discussion, presentation, field trips and a researchpaper, this seminar will explore who we are and what we valuethrough the collections we build. Gathering, preserving and displayingwill be explored through psychological, social, scientific, historical,economic, aesthetic and political lenses. Students will read significanttexts from a wide variety of disciplines addressing the particularproblems of collecting in diverse fields of inquiry. Using the theories,ideas, and approaches gleaned from various disciplinary sources,students will understand how their own field of study is effectedby the moral, esthetic, and social issues of collecting, saving, anddisplaying culturally or personally significant objects. This history ofcollecting, its personal and political motivations, as well as the ethicaland scientific questions raised by collecting everything from paintingsto biological specimens to postage stamps will be studied.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite: Core seminar, required for graduationCore 101 through 105 and at least sixth semester standingThis course serves as a capstone to the Core Curriculum at RogerWilliams University. The Core Curriculum centers on three questions:Who am I? What can I know? Based on what I know, how should Iact? Families often define who we are, what we know, and how wethink we should act. This course explores the reciprocal influencesof families on society and of society on the family. We explore themeaning of family across time and culture. This will include depictionsand discussions of families in the arts, sciences, social sciences, andliterature, as well as a consideration of the future of the family forindividuals and society.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite: Core Senior Seminar, required for graduationCore 101 through 105 and at least sixth semester standingThis is not a technical course. Rather, it looks at how a technologyemerges and may extend beyond its intended purposes. Today's collegestudent has been surrounded by technology since birth. Portablemusic devices have more storage capabilities than was conceivablefor desktop computers in the mid-90's. Technology is becoming moreand more ingrained into the fabric of our daily lives. This course looksat the impact of technology beyond everyday devices. How did thishappen and what does it mean for you as an active participant withina global society? Beyond computers themselves, the course exploresother emerging technologies and the issues they raise, includingtechnological impact on culture, ethics, privacy, and security in aglobal environment.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite: Core seminar, required for graduationCore 101 through 105 and at least sixth semester standingThis Core Interdisciplinary Senior Seminar will explore howpopular culture and globalization have had, and continue to have,an impact on our lives (on both a local and a global scale). Thenature of popular culture itself, as a particular kind of culture,will be examined and various examples of popular culture willbe considered. The nature of globalization, as both a historicaland contemporary phenomenon, will also be addressed as a topicin and of itself. Through examining these two significant forcesseparately and in relationship to each other we will gain a greaterunderstanding of how these two phenomena influence our lives andthe world in which we live. This understanding will allow us to morefully answer the central core questions: Who am I? What do I know?Based on What I know, what should I do?
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite: Core seminar, required for graduationCore 101 through 105 and at least sixth semester standingDoes the election of Barack Obama in 2008 signal a turning point inbetter understanding race, and the practice of racism, in the UnitedStates? Has the US overcome its history of differential treatmentaccording to race and culture? In this course, students will take thelong view of the history of race in the United States, how racismis operationalized, and the impacts of such bias, both on people ofcolor and Whites. Additionally, students will engage in researchon race and racism. Through this research, students will fuse thetheoretical with the lived racialized experiences of those in ourcountry/community.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite: Core seminar, required for graduationCore 101 through Core 105 and at least sixth semester standingThis course explores the private and public dimensions of sexualidentity from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Students examinehow sexual identities are shaped by historical, social, and cultural factors and how sexual identities affect an individual's relationship tocommunity, the state, the law, medicine, etc. Course texts are drawnfrom the fields of history, psychology, sociology, legal studies, biology,philosophy, literature, cinema, fine art, feminist theory, critical racetheory, gay and lesbian studies, queer theory, and transgender studies.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite: Core seminar, required for graduationCore 101 through 105 and at least sixth semester standingThis course explores the patterns and processes of innovation thathumans have developed to transform existing ideas into new ones.Over the course of the semester, students will investigate theories,techniques, and stories of innovation from across the disciplines;consider ethical questions surrounding innovation; and learn howto employ strategies of invention to develop new ideas, create newthings, and respond in new ways to complex contemporary problems.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite: Placement into WTNG 102An introductory course covering three major genres of creativewriting: poetry, fiction, and drama. Students will both discuss andbegin to implement the techniques of writing and lay the foundationfor study of the relationship between critical reading and the creativeprocess. Requirements include, but are not limited to: participationin lectures, workshops and discussions, as well as building both aportfolio and annotated bibliography which will continue to developthrough each additional creative writing course. Creative expectationsare completing writing exercises that fully reflect the focused study ofthe course.
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