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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This is an interdisciplinary course that addresses the social construction of identity from three interconnected, disciplinary perspectives: literature, art and gender studies. This class will teach students how to read stories and images critically in order to uncover the often hinder ways certain aspects of lived identity are presented and/or experienced as "natural" when they, in fact, are constructed by the society in which we live.
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3.00 Credits
This course will consider the role of emotions in organizational settings. Attention will be paid to the nature of emotions, emotional expression, and perceptions of emotions. Factors related to emotions, including cultural and individual diversity will be addressed throughout the course.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to help students understand what free speech is, the legal limits on free speech, and current debates on free speech. Additionally, students will come to understand aesthetics, aesthetics as related to the arts, and how aesthetics changed as America into and through the 20th century. Specifically, this course will enable the students to see how specific art works comment on current events or are a reaction to the suppression of speech/expression and how artists have be subjected to control while pursuing their arts in the United States during the 20th century. The course will also help students appreciate diversity by studying various works of art and various artists, and will help students understand democracy by examining free speech and related issues in art and artistic expression.
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3.00 Credits
This course analyzes historic and multi-cultural constructions of the female detective/action figure in literature, motion pictures, and video games. Students will confront a variety of texts in order to increase their awareness of how cultural assumptions come into play and often unconsciously influence their reading and viewing of texts. The course will culminate in the development and implementation of a cooperatively devised critical thinking rubric, which allows students to more critically analyze textual and visual media.
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3.00 Credits
This course combines the historical and psychological approaches to female adolescence in the 20th century America from a multicultural perspective. Its topics include the historical development of adolescence, theories of adolescent development, and representations of female adolescence.
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3.00 Credits
The college experience includes constant engagement with new and challenging ideas. This course explores how little ideas become big and public ideas by drawing on the knowledge and experiences students bring to college. The course will focus on the learning mechanisms for expanding those ideas. The intent is to enhance the student's academic experience by exploring critical thinking skills and developing concrete strategies that lead to lifelong learning success.
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3.00 Credits
This course will explore the intersection between the ways in which scientific theories (especially evolutionary and genetic ones) are used to justify or reduce discrimination in human societies and the hypothetical exploration of similar issues in science fiction literature. Students will critically examine examples of utopian and dystopian science fiction and investigate how such writings can inform our thinking about current, real-world diversity issues.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the rhetoric of music with particular emphasis given to the rhetorical aspects of music's aural, non-discursive elements. The course will consider how there elements functioned in diverse cultures and political systems from antiquity to the twentieth century.
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3.00 Credits
This course will address the topic of the body and physical difference as it is theorized in Disability Studies. As a Rowan Seminar, special attention will be paid to basic skills and critical inquiry. Particular topics will include Deaf culture, Supercrips, Accessibility, the ADA, images of disability and resistance to normative structures of emobodiment.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the three components of the criminal justice system: police, courts, and corrections, based on our understanding of Nature's order. In particular, it presents the case for taking a mathematical and scientific approach to dealing with many of the issues facing our criminal justice system today: racial profiling, affirmation action hiring, cost of crime, cost effectiveness of prevention and rehabilitation programs, admissibility of evidence, standards of proff, incarceration policies. These issues will provide context for developing mathematical proficiencies such as calculating means, percentages, and rates of change; representing quantitative informationg visually; and making predictions by extrapolating from existing data. The underlying theme will be to quantitatively analyze whether our legal policies reflect and protect the interests of diverse groups in our society pertaining to issues of social order, civil liberties and fairness.
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