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3.00 Credits
This course will examine the ways in which music has served as an instrument for social change. African-American music in the form of Spirituals and Blackface Minstrelsy will provide a mechanism for exploring social change, tensions between races, confused dynamics of racial identity, and stereotypes. Hymns of the late 18th and early 19th century will demonstrate how women used song as a means of self-expression denied them in other spheres. Finally, the civil rights and protest songs of the 60s and 70s will provide a backdrop for exploring issues of race and social culture.
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3.00 Credits
This course will provide students with a critical examination of moral and ethical issues that arise in the context of various professions. The course will address and seek to bridge conceptual issues with more practical real-life examples. Students will discuss longstanding philosophical questions concerning social justice, equality, and the place of religion in a diverse society.
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3.00 Credits
The subject of suffering is a universal one, and forces all human beings to acknowledge the commonality of a shared experience. Yet, while this phenomenon transcends time and place, and is inclusive of all communities and their members, reponses to, and representations of suffering may, and have, differed greatly. This class is intended to prompt reflection upon the diversity of questions and answers provoked by suffering in various socio-historical contexts, as preserved in contemporary accounts, religious and philosophical writings, literature, drama, the visual arts, and music. A detailed examination of these documents, texts, and performances hopefully will move students from intial, personal understanding of this complex topic, towards group empathy and cultural sensitivity, as well as fostering appreciation and respect for the many, and profound ways in which individuals and societies have wrestled with tragedy.
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3.00 Credits
This course will explore critical issues in contemporary civil rights, placing them in their historical, philosohical and political contexts. Specific issues to be discussed include separation of church and state, freedom of speech, the role of the federal government in the protection of civil liberties, the right to privacy and its implications for women's reproductive rights, and Prohibition and its implications for gay marriage and marijuana.
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3.00 Credits
This interdisciplinary course examines issues in women's health. Biological, socio-cultural, psychological, historical and political processes that shape and define women's health and healthcare experiences will be explored, including the ways in which medical knowledge has been applied to women.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: CMS 06202 This interdisciplinary course focuses upon the effects of computer systems on individuals and institutions. How computer systems are developed and operated will be related to an analysis of cureent trends in American society. A study of present and probably future applications of computers in such areas as management, economic planning, data collection, social engineering, education and the military will be followed by an exploration of the relationship of computer systems to problem solving orientations, bureaucratization, centralization of power, alienation, privacy, autonomy and people's self concept. This course is open to students at any level who satisfy the prerequisite and have course work in computer science or sociology or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: CMS 06202 This interdisciplinary course focuses upon the effects of computer systems on individuals and institutions. How computer systems are developed and operated will be related to an analysis of current trends in American society. A study of present and probably future applications of computers in such areas as management, economic planning, data collections, social engineering, education and the military will be followed by an exploration of the relationship of computer systems to problem solving orientations, bureaucratization, centralization of power, alienation, privacy, autonomy and peoples' self-concept. This course is open to students at any level who satisfy the prerequisite and have course work in computer science or sociology or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: INTR 01103 This course engages students in an introductory overview of major ideas, ideological debates, and social/political movements that have emerged tin the African Diaspora to challenge national and global social, political, economic and other realities, and to produce a dynamic framework of historical and contemporary thought that have helped to shape social consciousness, social activism, and public policy.
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3.00 Credits
This capstone seminar will be interdisciplinary in focus with a writing-intensive component. Students in this course will engage in critical analyses of selected readings on women and gender from six different subject areas, including biology, history, literature, psychology, philosophy and sociology. Students will study and learn the dominant issues and debates concerning the study of women and gender within these specific academic disciplines.
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3.00 Credits
This interdisciplinary course discusses selected topics of current technological importance drawn from the field of materials science. Three faculty members from different backgrounds in engineering and science will co-teach this course, offering the students different perspectives to a given topic. The topics are chosen by the faculty and may include nanotechnology, semiconductors, polymers, inorganic materials, superconductors, fiberoptics, spintronics, and photonics.
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