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6.00 Credits
(Spring, Course Offered Every Year) This course combines HIS-942 A Women in the West and the World and ENG-200 D Texts and Contexts. These two courses will be linked by the common theme of women's experiences and the expression of these experiences in historical documents, artifacts, and literature. The two courses will cover a wide swathe of time and space. They will begin with prehistoric hunter-gatherer societies and will end at the present and they will primarily cover women in the Western world. This grand panorama will be unified by a focus on the role, status, and impact of women and the variations in their experiences in different societal contexts. The two courses will not only be linked by theme but they will also be linked by coordinated assignments, speakers, classes and field trips. Application toward general education requirements as CORE-200, ENG-200, and Cultural Perspectives elective. Prerequisites: Pass ENG 111 with a "C" or better or pass ENG-112.
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4.00 Credits
(Fall and Spring, Course Offered Every Year) Cultural Dances in Theory and Motion combines DAN 200 Dance in Society with DAN 156 World Dance. Students will complete the CORE 200 requirement, a Cultural Perspectives or Arts and Aesthetics elective, and a Health and Physical Learning elective.
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3.00 Credits
(Fall, Course Offered Every Year) Though technology in various forms pervades and sometimes greatly enhances our lives, individuals in modern societies often have little say in choosing the technologies they will adopt. Using a case study approach, this course examines the social impact of technological innovation from antiquity to the present and in diverse world cultures of our time. Readings and discussions lead toward team projects where students identify a problem or opportunity using technology and social change, research the issue, prepare a proposal for a foundation grant, and present the proposal to the class. Students are particularly encouraged to make personal contact with human resources. Students are also invited to publish proposals and presentations at the undergraduate research conference or on a public CORE 401 Web site, or both. Prerequisite: 75 credit hours completed upon course enrollment.
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3.00 Credits
(Spring, Course Offered Every Year) Stories help us to understand ourselves, our communities, and our cultures. But who writes these stories, and what power do they hold over our lives In this course we will examine what happens to a culture when stories come into conflict during times of political dominance of one government or culture over another. Our readings will address different countries or cultural regions in different semesters. Overall the course is designed to investigate three regions or cultures including Latin America, India, the Middle East and various portions of Africa. Prerequisite: 75 credit hours completed upon course enrollment.
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3.00 Credits
(Fall and Spring, Course Offered Every Year) This course examines communication from perspectives grounded in four premises: that culture happens through communication; that by understanding culture and how it shapes communication, we come to understand communication better; that intercultural communication can happen visibly as well as invisibly; and that knowing about communication and about culture can (sometimes) make intercultural communication go more smoothly. This course fulfills the CORE-400 requirement. Students will engage in action research or cooperative problem-solving to address one of the global issues they have studied. The project they develop from their study must have impact beyond the Meredith community. Prerequisite: 75 credit hours completed upon course enrollment. Also offered as COM-390.
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3.00 Credits
(Fall and Spring, Course Offered Every Year) This course will analyze the needs of families from a global perspective. Using an interdisciplinary approach, the family will be examined in various cultures. Major trends that affect families worldwide will be applied to other cultures and to families in the United States. Students will use action research and/or cooperative problem solving to address one of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals.. Prerequisite: 75 credit hours completed upon course enrollment.
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3.00 Credits
(Spring, Course Offered Every Year) Globalization has spurred the way in which changes on one continent or country impact the lives of women everywhere. This course will introduce students to the problems, experiences and activism of women in diverse situations and contexts, and examine the effects and influence of globalization on the lives of women. The emphasis will be on issues of identity (as mothers, consumers, citizens, workers) and organizing for change (economic, political, cultural, and legal). As we explore activism and the obstacles to change within a global context we will reflect on how the local is increasingly shaped by complex and distant cultures. Prerequisite: 75 credit hours completed upon course enrollment.
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3.00 Credits
(Spring and Alternate Summers, Course Offered Every Year) What is our responsibility for those who cannot or will not look after themselves Different societies reflecting their respective ideologies address these issues from a variety of perspectives. This course will examine the ideologies and perspectives that have shaped social welfare policy in the United States and in other societies around the world. Then, using the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) and other international covenants as a lens, the course will examine the resulting social welfare policies and the intentional and unintentional impacts these policies have on vulnerable and oppressed popuations. This course requires 15 hours of service learning activity. Prerequisite: 75 credit hours completed upon course enrollment. Also offered as SWK 302.
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3.00 Credits
(Fall, Course Offered Every Year) This course focuses on the ways in which religion and human culture intersect. We will look at such themes as myth, symbol, magic and ritual and see how they contribute to the formation of human societies. Students will engage in a local field research project to learn how anthropologists study religion. Prerequisite: One 100-level Religion course or by permission of the instructor and 75 credit hours completed to enroll in this course.
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3.00 Credits
(Fall or Spring, Course Offered Every Year) This course looks at the perennial issues of violence, war, and peace from personal, local, national, and international points of view. We will examine these problems from various perspectives, including those of social sciences, cultural studies, and the humanities. Using a variety of texts, films, fiction, and current affairs readings, we will examine root causes of wars in the past and will examine the possibilities of non-violence and constructive peace-making in the world of today. The course counts towards fulfillment of the requirements in the Religion major and Philosophy and Religion minors. Prerequisite: one 100-level Religion course and 75 credit hours completed upon course enrollment. or by permission of the instructor.
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