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Course Criteria
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1.00 - 12.00 Credits
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3.00 Credits
The purpose of this course is to demonstrate and analyze, empirically and theoretically, the crisis of the environment (at the global, national and local levels). Specific topics include the "toxics crisis," Central America, work, environmental racism, global warming and others; but rather than focus on specific physical aspects of the environment, the course is designed to interpret societal structures and processes that lead to ecological crises. In this sense, students should not feel limited to that subject matter on the syllabus and are encouraged to incorporate their personal interest into the class.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the topic of (post-) modern youth culture from a range of perspectives that are incorporated under the umbrella of an interdisciplinary field of scholarship known as cultural studies. Youth culture and its relation to popular culture will be explored historically and cross-culturally using theories and methods drawn from disciplines such as communications, geography, literary criticism, sociology, philosophy, film studies, English, art history, anthropology, psychology and musicology. Meets Part III of the GECC.
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3.00 Credits
An exploration of the impact that sex and gender have on our interpersonal relationships in our everyday life and on the social structure that creates and sustains them. (Shared course in VSC)
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3.00 Credits
This course examines sexual issues of concern to students and emphasizes the role of participants as rational and emotional beings confronting a fundamental human concern–managing their sexuality throughout lives in which they will inevitably accommodate considerable personal and social change.
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3.00 Credits
This course documents the history, nature and scientific basis of wellness and alternative medicine from Era I and the biomedical model, through Era II and mind/body medicine to Era III and non-local medicine. Diverse healing traditions including Native American, Ayurvedic and Chinese medicine are explored. Alternative health care proactices including acupuncture, homeopathy and naturopathy are examined. The nature of scientific evidence for the field of psychoneuroimmunology is discussed in addition to the changing nature of the medical treatment environment–new doctor/patient relationships, new protocols for scientific evidence, integrated diagnosis, and new ways of conceptualizing health and illness. Meets Part III of the GECC.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of life in mass-media-saturated societies. This course examines the operation of mass media industries and the political, social, and psychological consequences of media culture. Television, print, film and popular music are considered to explore the different dimensions of advertising, news and entertainment.
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3.00 Credits
The course delineates key relations between government, social groups, and economic inequality by focusing on the ways in which political, economic, and cultural power is distributed, acquired and wielded in our society. The spectrum of political ideologies and the social movements they engender are examined in the context of historical, cross-cultural and contemporary conditions.
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3.00 Credits
This course investigates the nature of diverse global health care systems and critically compares claims for healing disease. Students use a sociocultural interdisciplinary lens to examine the language, concepts, theories, practices, technologies, and evidence of health care models that include allopathic biomedicine, Chinese medicine and Acupuncture, Indian Ayurveda, naturopathy, chiropractic, and Native American Healing; to examine mind/body modalities that include meditation, biofeedback, and to examine yoga and energetic medical models that include reiki, aromatherapy and homeopathy. Students learn investigative research skills to evaluate the science, the safety and the efficacy of evidence for healing, and also the cross-cultural communicative fluency skills to articulate collective evidence that bears upon disease healing.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the nature of family violence through academic study and on-site community training workshops with local professionals. Theory and research findings will be examined to understand why people batter, sexually abuse and kill within families.
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