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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
(Fall and Spring, Course Offered Every Year) In conjunction with a communication faculty mentor, the student will formulate and execute a research project at an advanced level of complexity that will culminate in a paper and presentation. A research proposal form completed by the student and faculty mentor is required for registration. Open to junior and senior majors and others by permission. Prerequisites: COM-410 or COM-495.
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3.00 Credits
(Fall, Spring and Summer, Course Offered Every Year) Communication skills may be applied in a wide variety of contexts. Ongoing internships are available for both concentrations in public relations, the Raleigh Chamber of Commerce, local businesses, Exploris, Dispute Settlement Centers, N.C. Women's Correctional Institute, N.C. State Government, Triangle Reading Service, Hopeline and local television and radio stations.
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3.00 Credits
(Fall, Spring, & Summer, Course offered every year) Students will explore their own cultural identities in relation to the historical development and contemporary interaction of various indigenous and immigrant groups who have come to comprise the diverse people of the United States. These studies will address the overriding question: "How do individuals and groups relate to the broader context of society "All readings, activities, and research will invite students to explore various aspects of our society and to discover ways groups and individuals have found and continue to seek a meaningful role in the contemporary life of the United States. The class will be highly interactive and collaborative as members examine differing beliefs, images, and values among cultural groups and ideologies and seek understanding of complex matters of race, ethnicity, gender, class, sexual orientation, ability, and religion.
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6.00 Credits
(Fall, Course Offered Every Year) This course linkage combines HIS 103, The World in the 20th Century and ENG 203, World Literature in the 20th Century. This linkage creates a learning community that will involve the study of significant 20th century events, issues and developments from a predominantly nonwestern perspective. Literature selections come from a selected sample of non-western cultures and weave together with predominant historical themes such as colonialism; war and revolution; class, caste, and race. Format will be lecture-discussion; film and other media will be employed. Application toward general education requirements as CORE 200 and Literature elective (ENG 203) and history requirement or elective in Cultural Perspectives (HIS 103).
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6.00 Credits
(Spring, Course Offered Every Year) This course linkage combines HIS 200 History of Latin America and REL 287 Latin American Liberation Theology. Through the use of various themes--such as, conquest, independence, relations between the church and state, revolution, liberation and dependency-this linkage will explore the varied social, cultural, religious, economic and political realities of Latin America. Films will be used throughout this linkage to connect the two distinct courses. Counts toward general education requirements as CORE 200 and Cultural Perspectives elective.
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6.00 Credits
(Spring, Course Offered Every Year) This course linkage combines FN 227, Introductory Nutrition and GEO 205 World Regional Geography. Students will discover how geography and culture intertwine to influence diet and cuisine in selected regions of the world. They will explore how people around the world meet their nutritional needs through their unique culinary traditions, and how recent developments related to population, urbanization, economic activity and globalization function as a force changing the structure of human activity and diet. Students will experience first hand some of the different foods of the world. Application toward general education requirements as CORE 200 and Social and Behavioral Science elective (GEO 205).
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6.00 Credits
(Fall, Course Offered Every Year) This course linkage combines MRE 201 Pilgrims Poets and Prophets with BIO 203 Death, Disease, and Sex in Medieval Europe. Using the medieval pilgrimage routes as a conceptual template for the study of history, students examine the communication of ideas through narrative poetry and prose, visual art, and the pronouncements of prophets and mystics. Similarly, students consider the role of roads and trade routes in the communication of disease, with special attention to outbreaks of the Black Death c. 1350 and of syphilis in the late middle ages. The courses are linked primarily by the cross referencing of lectures, readings, and student research projects, but films, field-trips, and Five O'clock Scholars activities further connect the two. Fulfills CORE 200 requirement; BIO203 fulfills a Science in Society elective, and MRE 201 fulfills either a literature elective OR a cultural perspectives elective. Prerequisites: For MRE 201, none; for BIO 203, one Natural Science laboratory course.
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6.00 Credits
(Fall and Summer, Course Offered Every Year) This course linkage combines ID 245 Housing Issues and SOC 271 Home and Housing in Mexico. Students will discover how housing issues and culture intertwine in a selected region of the world. They will explore how people around the world meet their housing needs through their unique cultural traditions, and how economic, family and spiritual needs impact on the way their homes are structured and designed. Application toward general education requirements as CORE 200 and Social and Behavioral Science Elective (SOC 271). Courses are corequisites. No prerequisites.
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4.00 Credits
(Fall, Spring and Summer, Course Offered Every Year) This course linkage combines EDU 232 Foundations of American Education and SOC 273 Education and Family in Mexico. Students will discover how education and culture intertwine in a selected region of the world. They will explore how people in the United States and Mexico experience education both as a system and the relationship between home and school. Application toward general education requirements as CORE 200 and Social and Behavioral Science Elective (SOC 273). Courses are co-requisites. No prerequisites. Sophomore status strongly recommended.
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4.00 Credits
(Fall, Spring and Summer, Course Offered Every Year) This course linkage combines SWK 240 Populations at Risk and Social Justice and SOC 272 Culture and Family in Mexico. These courses give students the opportunity to understand the experience of oppressed groups in both the US and Mexico and to explore the possible avenues for social change in both nations. Application toward general education requirements as CORE 200 and Social and Behavioral Science Elective (SOC 272). Courses are co-requisites. No prerequisites.
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