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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the ultimate causes of differences in the development of human societies over approximately the last 13,000 years. Students will be introduced to the methods of two disciplines history and evolutionary biology. This course will reveal the importance of an interdisciplinary approach for addressing a major question in human history: why did early societies on different continents develop at different rates.
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3.00 Credits
This course will acquaint students with the theoretical and intellectual underpinnings of American democracy by providing opportunities to read, respond to, discuss, and write about seminal American political literature from diverse times and perspectives.
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3.00 Credits
Combining visual presentations with other innovative pedagogical methods, this course offers an introduction to various aspects of Asian culture, ranging from philosophy, history, and social structure to literature, martial arts, and family and gender relations. Students will not only learn and discuss important issues related to the study of Asian cultural developments and the Asian American experiences, they will also acquire first hand experience through field trips, live demonstrations, and the exchange of ideas in and outside the class.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to local and global sustainability challenges. The course will discuss the environmental dimensions of development at the local and global level addressing issues such as resource use, greenhouse gas emissions, and population growth. The course will also focus on technological solutions to sustainable development.
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3.00 Credits
This is a multidisciplinary course that addresses the understanding of diversity of selected environmental issues at local, regional and global settings and in a historical context through the reading of literature pieces. The selected readings will help students to understand today's environmental challenges, and to think about the profound ethical, political, economic, religious, and technological implications of these challenges.
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3.00 Credits
Using the concepts of diversity and democracy as the common unifying scheme, students will employ a sociological perspective to explore the macro level changes in the family as an institution as well as the parallel micro level changes in the life of their own families. The historical period under examination extends from 1880 to 1970 and ,thus, captures approximately three generations of family life. The changes in family life will be explored within the larger context of the political, economic and social changes that characterize the historical period under examination.
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3.00 Credits
This course will take an evolutionary approach to understand how the environment has shaped biological and cultural changes in humans, and how humans have and are continuously impacting the environment. The emphasis of this course will be to understand the biological, cultural and environmental diversity that has emerged through human history and its impact in the intricate interactions among humans and between humans and their environment.
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3.00 Credits
This interdisciplinary course strengthens writing and critical thinking skills through explorations of one's cultural history, an investigations on American society and national identity(ies). This multi-disciplinary course will acclimate students to American cultural and political roots and sensitize students to patterns of difference that constitute life in the twenty-first century United States.
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3.00 Credits
This is a multidisciplinary course that addresses ethical issues and concerns regarding the environment; the relationships between individual, society and the natural environment; the importance of different attitudes and world-views for understanding and responding to environmental challenges; and the need for changes in those attitudes and world-views. Students will be encouraged to think about the profound ethical, political, economic, religious, and technological implications of these environmental challenges.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to knowledge of the political, social, economic and cultural history of the Cold War. Students will learn to critically and rhetorically analyze scholarly writing and decipher and evaluate primary source documents relating to the history of the Cold War.
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