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4.00 Credits
This course focuses on current affairs regarding globalization as a world system of operation in society. The course aims to clarify our notion and understanding of globalization by looking at the impact that technology has had in the way we conduct our lives. Throughout this course students are asked to read and reflect upon different technologies that we have seen affecting the way in which people communicate. The central idea to broaden our perspective about globalization is that one the most important and significant activities that we do as humans is to communicate. Therefore, our focus of study will be centered around communication technologies widely used in the world, potentially continuing to change our lives even more. Broadly speaking, technologies under study include the telephone, television, and computer networks (the Internet). Competences: H5, S3F, FX.
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4.00 Credits
This is an Online Course and a Travel Course--a dynamic duo! Students will be required to attend three "live" class sessions in the Loop to supplement online course work. Students will also attend the 12th Annual Zora Neale Hurston Festival in historic Eatonville, Florida, the first incorporated Black town in the US, for a four-day immersion in Black culture. Estimated expenses include tuition, airfare, hotel, food, local transportation, and conference registration fees (approximately $1,200, plus tuition. "Zora Neale Hurston, outstanding novelist, journalist, folklorist, and critic, was, between 1920 and 1950, the most prolific black women writer in America. The intellectual and spiritual foremother of a generation of black women writers, Hurston believed in the beauty of black expressions and traditions and in the psychological wholeness of black life." (I Love Myself When I Am Laughing: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader [Alice Walker, ed., Feminist Press, 1979], i). Zora Neale Hurston, adult learner, writer, folklorist, playwright, and storyteller, was an amazingly gifted woman. Her novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, is a recognized classic used in many college classrooms across the country. A legend in her own right who Alice Walker ranks with Bessie Smith and Billy Holiday, Zora Neale Hurston has been a beacon for students interested in learning about Black life and culture. Students in this class will immerse themselves in the literature by and about Zora Neale Hurston and will create research projects that connect their learning with their own scholarly interests. ). Competencies: A1X, as, H1X. Faculty: Deborah Holton
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4.00 Credits
In this course, we will investigate our perceptions, understandings and feelings about the world. will reveal connections to the past by emphasizing non-traditional ways of knowing and learning. Students will examine how traditions or collections of beliefs are passed on by researching an individual or groups of people from the past or present. Working individually or in groups, students will create an oral presentation and research paper. Source material can include diaries, journals, or historical books. This experience will help students to reflect on the traditions in their lives in order to come to terms with past and present realities.
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4.00 Credits
This course will provide an introduction to economics as it has developed in the 20th century. It will investigate how markets work and explain what macroeconomics means. These concepts will be discussed and the necessary vocabulary defined. The emphasis on the evolution of economics will generate thought provoking discussions including: the effect of the increasing number of industrialized countries on the United States economy; changes in streams of income and its effect on the middle class; the interrelationship of technological changes and economy. Pre-1999 Competencies: HC-3, AL-C, WW. BA-1999 Competencies: A-3-A, F-X, H-1-C. Faculty: Alan D. Cohen
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4.00 Credits
Ethical decisions are often difficult to make, not because there are no right choices, but because there may be several right choices. This course will go beyond WHAT is right or wrong to examine WHY we say something is right or wrong. In the first part of the course, students will gain the intellectual tools and insights to lay bare their own reasoning processes and those of others. In the second part of the course, students will apply these tools to a consideration of the ethical issues raised by the high technology of current health care. Pre-1999 Competencies: PW-B, AL-5. Faculty: John Minogue
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4.00 Credits
"The unexamined Life is not worth living," exclaimed the Greek philosopher Socrates, setting the tone for philosophical quests that have shaped out thought and civilizations. "Neither is the examined one," retorted German philosopher Schopenhaurer 2,300 years later after surveying the prospects of the modern world. This course will outline the philosophical tradition of rational thought that stretches in between these thinkers. Students will focus on how the great thinkers and traditions East and West considered ethical, metaphysical, epistemological , political, and aesthetic problems. And they will engage in a philosophical examination of their own life and beliefs. Competencies: A-4, A-3-A, A-3-E. Faculty: R. Craig Sautter
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4.00 Credits
Chicago has earned a varied international reputation for its gangsters, architecture, railroads, political machines, stockyards and industries. But for many around the world, Chicago is best known for its writers and literature. By the turn of the 20th century, Chicago was heralded as the "literary capital of the United States" and it is still home for great writers. Students will read two novels or books of poetry to explore Chicago's history, characters, problems, and images. The class will trace literary movements and explore elements of structure, character, plot and style in fiction and poetry. Competencies: A-1-C, A-1-E, A-3-G, H-1-H, A-5. Faculty: R. Craig Sautter
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4.00 Credits
This course is designed to engage students in the art of playwrighting in order to discover the essential nature of drama on stage and in life. By reading and viewing plays, students will be encouraged to reflect on the apparent contradiction between "universal truth" and individual experience. In addition to appreciating the structure and ethod of drama, students will learn to identify the "why" behind any play and to use drama as a means of creating and telling stories. Pre-1999 Competencies: AL-1, AL-2, AL-C. BA-1999 Competencies: A-1-A, A-1-D, A-2-A, Faculty: Ewing Eugene Baldwin
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4.00 Credits
The purpose of this course is to develop an awareness, understanding and analysis of the Chicago-area built environment. Architectural, public art, urban design and urban planning elements, techniques and issues will be presented with downtown Chicago as the primary study area. Specific architectural and development plans will be analyzed from various perspectives, such as: historical, social, technical, functional, aesthetic and symbolic. The development of Chicago's commercial architecture, and its contribution to modern architectural theory and practice, will receive special emphasis. Competences: A1X, A2X, as, H1I, FX. Faculty: Timothy Hill
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4.00 Credits
"Very few authors can boast that they have inspired and encouraged a generation of writers. Fewe still can say they have inspired two or three such generations. H.P. Lovecraft is one of those select few who, even 63 years after his death, inspires, encourages and educates writers of weird fiction and horror the world over. This course will cover Lovecraft the man, his life and the times in which he lived. It will encompass Lovecraft's work, including his stories, poetry and the myth circle that he created and which authors enlarge upon even today. Finally, the course will examine the "Lovecraft Circle", the writers he personally encouraged and assisted as well as those who joined the club by contributing mythos tales of their own. Students will read selected works of Lovecraft, Robert Bloch, Ramsay Campbell, Stephen King and others. Pre-1999 Competencies: AL-1 AL-3 AL-E AL-F. BA-1999 Competencies: A-1-A, A-1-C, A-1-H, A-1-X.
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