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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Effective Mar 11, 2008 View History Description: Introduces students to selected political theories and philosophies and discusses how, where, and when they have influenced intellectual thought and cultural practices in the past and the present. Explores political philosophies from different parts of the world and connects them to relative climates of social diversity, political dissent, and religious tolerance. Examines the relationship between political thought and the problem of identification-individual, cultural, and national. Covers the K-12 History/Social Science Content Standards. (Offered only as interest warrants.) Units 4 Units Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions: None
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4.00 Credits
Effective Mar 14, 2008 View History Description: Students learn how to analyze, and evaluate the role of women and gender violence in global life. Examines gender, race, class, and culture in relation to issues of security, power, production, reproduction, and activism in global life and related forms of violence. (Offered fall semester.) Units 4 Units Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions: None
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4.00 Credits
Effective Mar 14, 2008 View History Description: Studies the history and recent proliferation of politically motivated religious violence and interreligious conflicts-Muslim-Christian, Christian-Jewish, Jewish-Muslim, Hindu-Muslim, Buddhist-Hindu.Investigates religious violence, particularly Christian, Jewish, and Muslim contexts: What are the theories of religious violence? How is it different than other forms of political violence? What is the relationship between religious conflict and nationalism, terrorism? What is a holy war, just war, jihad? Considers religious sources for reconciliation: What are the theological arguments for nonviolence across religion? How have religious actors assisted in peace building in protracted conflicts? (Offered spring semester.) Units 4 Units Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions: None
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4.00 Credits
Effective Aug 25, 2008 View History Description: Examines intercultural communications through a global/historical lens that encompasses encounters in colonial, post-colonial, and global contexts. A series of novels, essays, and short stories from the postcolonial world are read in which the authors project their sense of individual and collective identities formed through the colonial interface and its aftermath. Examines relationships between author/audience and student/text in a cross-cultural dialog. (Offered every semester.) Units 4 Units Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions: None
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3.00 Credits
Effective Mar 14, 2008 View History Description: Students engage in an individual community service learning experience involving some aspect of global/international affairs and/or global/international issues. Prepares students for effective global citizenship in the 21st century and for responsible and effective civic participation in multicultural communities. (Offered only as interest warrants.) Units 1 to 4 Units Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions: None
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4.00 Credits
Effective Aug 22, 2005 View History Description: Examines origins of global economy. Analyzes and evaluates the interrelationship among global, political, and economic conditions. Studies global economy through 1) historical development, 2) current patterns of changes, 3) effects of globalization on the quality of life, 4) solutions and alternatives to inequity, and 5) the students' place in the global economy. Examines major structures, processes, and effects of evolving global economy. (Offered every semester.) Units 4 Units Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions: None
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2.00 - 4.00 Credits
Effective Mar 14, 2008 View History Description: Introduces students to core concepts of ecological political economy that focus on the interrelationships between humans and nature in a non-hierarchial manner. Takes an ecological political economy approach to study issues of planetary resources, their distribution, allocation, and concentration. Engages perspectives on conservation of planetary resources referred to as global commons that are beyond the jurisdiction of nation-states, international agreements, and institutions. Engages issues of consumption and the use of resources to analyze alternative accounts of Northern ecological debt and Southern ecological credit. (Offered every spring semester.) Units 2 to 4 Units Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions: None
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3.00 Credits
Effective Mar 14, 2008 View History Description: Introduces the workings of the U.S. economy in political and global context. Examines recent changes in income and wealth distribution, as well as economic policies and shifts in power fueling the growing divide between rich and poor. Examines the decline of organized labor, conditions of work, and the current climate of outsourcing jobs, executive excess, defective corporations, and indefinite war. Includes health, education, environment, and consumption and a growing national debt. Shows how ordinary citizens have been reclaiming polluted, bankrupt communities, resources, and human dignity by taking actions to create a Fair Economy. (Offered every other spring semester.) Units 2 to 4 Units Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions: None
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4.00 Credits
Effective Aug 26, 2002 View History Description: No Description Provided Units 4 Units Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions: None
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
Inactive as of Aug 1, 2009 View History Description: Students organize a CSUMB Model UN for area high schools for the service-learning component of the course. (Offered spring semester.) Units 1 to 4 Units Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions: None
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