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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Any 100 level anthropology, economics, history, political science, psychology, or sociology course. This course will discuss the development of modern cities in both developed and developing countries, focusing on urban social issues such as housing and homelessness, racial and ethnic segregation, urban sprawl, environmental issues, and urban redevelopment.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Any 100 level anthropology, economics, history, political science, psychology, or sociology course. Students volunteer with a community organization in a town of their choice, carrying out activities that will have some concrete result in addressing a social problem and meeting the needs of the community. Students may locate their own placement, with the instructor's approval, or work in a program of community research the instructor has developed with a local agency. Much of the work takes place at off-campus sites in the region. Students will gain experience in one or more primary research methods used by sociologists: participant observation, interviews, survey research, content analysis, or the use of existing documents. Students meet in a seminar a number of times to reflect on their experiences.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Any 100 level anthropology, economics, history, political science, psychology, or sociology course. In this assistantship, students assist a faculty member in conducting an academic course offered in the field of sociology. Students may lead discussion groups, work with individual students, organize field trips, make presentations, and/or other work to be arranged.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Any 100 level anthropology, economics, history, political science, psychology, or sociology course. An introduction to the field of intercultural communication. As the U.S. becomes an increasingly diverse, multicultural society, and as globalization puts us into greater contact with peoples of other nations, it is important to develop the skills of navigating across cultural boundaries. This course is designed to increase awareness of the cultural self and to help develop greater competence in communicating across cultural lines. Topics covered include an introduction to the profound impact of culture on learning styles, language and non-verbal communication, cognitive styles, communication styles, and values. Cultural privilege and power will be explored, as well as processes for mediating intercultural conflict. Finally, the course will examine models of how people learn cultural identity and develop intercultural sensitivity. Throughout the course, examples will be drawn from cultures of Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East and the Americas to help the student gain a global understanding of the issues involved in intercultural communication.
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4.00 Credits
This course introduces the basic principles of the Spanish language and provides a cultural understanding of the Hispanic world. The emphasis of the course is on developing and applying the basic skills of language learning: listening, speaking, writing and reading, through classroom activities. Language laboratory is available.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: SPA* K111. This course is a continuation of Elementary Spanish I. More advanced grammatical structures are introduced to continue developing the skills of language learning, to prepare students to begin expressing more complex thoughts in Spanish. Cultural topics and literary readings offer a wide range of historical, social, political and artistic information to increase the student's knowledge and understanding of the Spanish speaking world. Language laboratory is available.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: SPA* K112. This course is an intensive and extensive review of grammatical principles offered in previous semester. More emphasis is given to communicative, writing and reading skills, and introduces selected readings from Spanish and Latin American writers. Course fulfills International/Intercultural Requirement.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: SPA* K211. This course is a continuation of Intermediate Spanish I. It offers further practice and review, continued work on communicative skills, composition, and readings from Spanish and Latin American authors. Course fulfills International/Intercultural Requirement.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: All students must have successfully completed developmental courses or attained a placement score indicating placement in Reading/Writing Connection (ENG* K100). Students who are concurrently enrolled in, or have completed career Introduction 101 level courses are not eligible. This team-taught course has a twofold purpose. The first is to introduce students to the major ideas in the social sciences and to the similarities and differences in emphasis among the fields of anthropology, economics, history, psychology, political science, and sociology. The second goal is to develop students' abilities to think critically in the social sciences, to evaluate evidence, identify assumptions, and in general, to learn how we know what we know. Perspectives courses are most appropriate for degree students enrolled in any of the career programs. However, Liberal Arts or General Studies students are eligible.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Any 100's level Social Science course An introduction to the field of intercultural communication. As the U.S. becomes an increasingly diverse, multicultural society, and as globalization puts us into greater contact with peoples of other nations, it is important to develop the skills of navigating across cultural boundaries. This course is designed to increase awareness of the cultural self and to help develop greater competence in communicating across cultural lines. Topics covered include an introduction to the profound impact of culture on learning styles, language and non-verbal communication, cognitive styles, communication styles, and values. Cultural privilege and power will be explored, as well as processes for mediating intercultural conflict. Finally, the course will examine models of how people learn cultural identity and develop intercultural sensitivity. Throughout the course, examples will be drawn from cultures of Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East and the Americas to help the student gain a global understanding of the issues involved in intercultural communication. Course fulfills International/ Intercultural Requirement.
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