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3.00 Credits
Explores the religious and political history of Latin America. This course will highlight church teachings and structures responding to the needs and demands of various social groups within the population. Attention to ways in which art, architecture, and literature have expressed ideologies. Prerequisite: One course in Religious Studies. CORE-II and CORE-III.
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An interdisciplinary course on the research, generation and development, design and creation of a personal mask. The result, the mask, is less important than the process itself; instead, it is the vehicle for the study of the creative process common to art and theatre. CORE-III.
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine women and religion and how the interaction of religious and gender ideology helped shape experiences and create women's communities within a variety of religious traditions in the United States. We will view religious experience through a multicultural lens which includes the perspectives of African-American, Native American, Jewish, Catholic, and Protestant women and some women founders of American and international religious groups. CORE-II and CORE-III.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of the Holocaust (1933- 1945) as interpreted by the disciplines of history and theatre, focusing on the challenges and limits of representation in dealing such an enormous and seemingly incomprehensible event in human history. CORE-III.
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3.00 Credits
This course will introduce students to the ideas and implications of Darwin's work in the context of both nineteenth-century science and literature. Students will examine the circumstances which prevailed prior to Darwin's publications and the reception of his ideas by his peers. Course readings will include sections of The Voyage of the Beagle, On the Origin of Species, and The Descent of Man, and poetry and two novels. Students will analyze the impact of literature on Darwin's writing as well as the impact of Darwin's theories on literature. CORE III.
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine the role of women in European society from 1500 to the present from the disciplinary perspectives of history and theatre. Class members will be asked to contemplate the use of gender as a universal category of historical investigation and dramatic criticism. Focusing on the impact on European women, possible topics include: the Renaissance and Reformation, the Witchcraze, the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, the industrial revolution and the growth of consumerism, the "new woman," Feminism, the First World War, and World War II. CORE-III.
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3.00 Credits
Interdisciplinary study using history and sociology to compare/contrast three groups: sects, which focus on religious issues; cults which are organized around a charismatic leader; utopias, which share a vision of an ideal lifestyle. Examines the attraction of these groups to individuals and how groups reflect the larger society of which they are a part. CORE-III.
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3.00 Credits
Interdisciplinary course which uses literature and religious studies to understand fundamental values which combine to form the culture of the U.S.; central themes are the Puritan Ideal, the Social Gospel Movement, and the diverse face of U.S. culture at the end of the second millennium. This is a Communication Intensive course. CORE-II and CORE-III.
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3.00 Credits
This interdisciplinary course is designed to teach participants who are interested in working with children how to use creative drama as a tool for cognitive, social, and psychomotor development. Content will be approached from educational, therapeutic, and dramatic perspectives and give participants an opportunity to be trained in using creative dramatics as a learning tool. CORE-III.
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3.00 Credits
The course is divided into two distinct areas: Art and Communication. A labor intensive hands-on course, students construct a home for a pre-selected needy Mexican family. During the process, participants produce a short documentary film and design the exterior of the structure through artistic self-expression. CORE-III.
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