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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
3 CR. An exploration of ethical issues from beginning of life to end of life, from legal, medical, and philosophical perspectives. Topics include assisted reproduction, abortion, euthanasia, genetic experimentation and cloning, and homosexuality.
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3 CR. An exploration of how the traditional and popular beliefs and practices of North American cultures have developed over time and what their interpretation reveals about social identity, relationships, and change. Studies verbal, material, musical, and ritual folkways as expressive and artistic forms in everyday life.
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3 CR. An exploration of the Holocaust from historical, political, moral, and religious perspectives. Students use historical documents, film, literature, and art to explore various dimensions of this watershed event in Western civilization.
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3.00 Credits
3 CR. This course will examine current thought on women's theology and compare it to traditional theological paradigms. Ancient and modern expressions of women's religious and spiritual experience, women authors whose works deal with the spiritual life, and basic instruction in feminist readings will be included.
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3 CR. In this course, students will examine the role of the vampire in literature, film and popular culture. More than any other archetypal figure, American popular culture is infused with images of the vampire. This course explores the origins of the vampire myth, its transformation into literary legend, its cultural and social significance, and its inception in literature, film, advertisements, television and music, as well as its broader cultural significance in the 20th and 21st centuries.
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3 CR. This course looks at the Vietnam war era from a variety of perspectives, examining the conflict through the literature and film of the cultures involved: Vietnamese, American, and French. This course also explores the larger genre of war literature, comprised of classics like the Iliad and Beowulf, and the particular questions, issues, and values raised by such an exploration.
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3 CR. An interdisciplinary introduction to Latin America, this course explores the relationship between Latin American experience and its representation as expressed in the region's writing, cinema, and music. Students will examine literature and films by major Latin American artists and become familiar with a range of traditional and modern Latin American music while learning how these arts have been influenced by the history and changing cultures of Central and South America, the Caribbean, and Latin North America.
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3 CR. An interdisciplinary introduction to contemporary Ireland, this course explores the relationship between Irish experience and the representation of Irish life exported in the country's writing, cinema, and music. Students will read works by major Irish writers and view adaptations of Irish literature in film. Set against a backdrop of Irish music, traditional and modern, students will explore Ireland's history and changing culture.
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3 CR. In this first-semester seminar, students read, discuss, and think critically about written and visual texts in biography, history, and the social sciences. Beginning with the self and then drawing upon others' experiences, knowledge, and representations of the world, students develop and apply 21st-century skills necessary for lifelong learning and active participation in a diverse community. Central to the course is developing an understanding of academic freedom and responsibility.
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3.00 Credits
3 CR. In this first-semester seminar, students read, discuss, and think critically about written and visual texts in literature, philosophy, and history. Beginning with the self and then drawing upon others' experiences, knowledge, and representations of the world, students develop and apply 21st-century skills necessary for lifelong learning and active participation in a diverse community. Central to the course is developing an understanding of academic freedom and responsibility.
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