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3.00 Credits
This course explores a variety of moral, political, and legal concerns regarding the relationship between human beings and the natural environment, including forms of economic development, social structures, and ideological traditions. Dimensions of the human approach to the natural environment include land-use patterns, utilization of resources, impact of various practices on the biosphere, relations to non-human species, and the role of population growth in testing the carrying capacity of the Earth. The focus on modernity addresses the realm of the contemporary urban crisis. The impacts of recent natural catastrophes (tsunamis, hurricanes, floods, fires, etc.) are explored as they interact with social, economic, political, and ecological concerns. The course concludes with an extensive discussion of strategic issues - economic, cultural, and political - regarding apossible shift toward green sensibilities, practices, and institutions that many critics view as essential to staving off ecological catastrophe. SOCIAL SCIENCE DOMAIN
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This interdisciplinary humanities course uses methods and insights from history, philosophy, and sociology to examine the religious worldviews of Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam in terms of their experiential, mythological, doctrinal, ethical, ritual, and social dimensions. In light of each of these worldviews, the issues of nationalism, capitalism, globalization, technology, environmentalism, feminism, and education are explored. The overriding concern of the course is to understand and appreciate the concrete ideological implications of three religious worldviews. Representatives of these religious traditions participate as guest speakers to provide direct experience of these worldviews and their implications. HUMANITIES DOMAIN
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The twentieth century has been marked by chaotic dislocations, social upheaval and a deepening loss of faith in Western secular and scientific values. As a result of these events, some of the major themes of the 20th century have been of alienation and the absurdity of life along with a corresponding retreat into fundamentalist attitudes about both science and spirituality. It may be however, that this loss of cultural equilibrium is also offering opportunities for new and creative understanding of the purpose and meaning of one's life. One such opportunity may be found in the entry of Buddhism into Western civilization. This class combines an examination of Western roots as well as Buddhist perspectives, combined with on-going experiential work in meditation. Some of the questions include: How can we search for wisdom as opposed to technical knowledge What does authenticity mean, and how can we develop it How can the intellect be developed to search for meaning rather than flattening it in the search for factual reality What does it mean to be a human being HUMANITIES DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces the undergraduate student to the discipline of philosophy and to the development of western thought from the pre-Socratics to postmodernism. Key periods in the development of philosophy are identified and central philosophers from each period are discussed through reading selected primary sources. Perennial philosophical issues such as the nature of reality, the sources of knowledge, and the basis of ethical action are examined, and essential philosophical perspectives such as realism, idealism, pragmatism, existentialism, logical positivism, and deconstructionism are defined and placed in their historical context. The course provides the student with the essentials of the history of philosophy that are useful in understanding references made in courses and in general academic discourse. HUMANITIES DOMAIN
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This workshop will investigate the central and most influential elements of Marx's thought (e.g., Alienation, Fetishism, Exploitation, Historical Materialism, Class Consciousness, Dialectics, and Ideology). Students critically investigate and weigh Marx's thought in an effort to assess its current value for understanding the world. No grade equivalent allowed. HUMANITIES DOMAIN
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Buddhism is becoming of more and more interest in the Western world since its introduction in the early part of the 20th century. As it becomes more popular, however, it seems that misconceptions about what it is and what Buddhist meditation practice entails are also entering the public's understanding of it. This experiential one-day course presents the basic principles and practice of Buddhist meditation and its relevance to daily life. This workshop will provide an introductory-level foundation of Buddhist history, practice, and theory. The major focus of the class will be on the direct encounter and reflective analysis of experience of individuals' meditations. No grade equivalents allowed. HUMANITIES DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
Notions of the self, subjectivity, and identity have been central to the history of the 20th century and have driven debates about race, ethnicity, sexuality, gender, politics, and social justice. This course maps out sections of this history and these debates as represented in the works of Freud, Lacan, Foucault, Irigaray, Kristeva, and others. This course provides an overview of key theoretical and philosophical concerns of the past century. HUMANITIES DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
Technology has had enormous influence over our lives, making many things easier, complicating others, and opening up new areas for ethical discussion. Yet little attention has been paid to how technology has shaped us as human beings: communication, sex, warfare, medicine, etc. This course considers issues such as visuality, speed, and mechanization and reflects on how technological development has altered understanding of the self, desire, and even our own bodies. Theorists considered include: Barthes, Sontag, Horkheimer, Adorno, Virilio, Heidegger, Postman and Stone. HUMANITIES DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
Foucault's work on history and social philosophy has shaped the development of various fields from literary theory, to criminology, to psychology and gender studies. This course grounds students in Foucauldian theories and concepts, considers various ways they've been applied, and also weighs the more substantial criticisms of his work. To have a good understanding of Foucault is to have a good grasp on many of the significant movements -- in philosophy, social science, and political activism -- of the current moment. HUMANITIES DOMAIN
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1.00 Credits
In this one day workshop students have an opportunity to map out the philosophical territory of Existentialism: becoming familiar with principal contributors to the movement - Camus, Sartre, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, De Beauvoir, and Heidegger - charting parallels in their thought, and giving special attention to differences. In addition students ponder two of the key ideas in Existentialism - the freedom and responsibility of the individual. No grade equivalents allowed. HUMANITIES DOMAIN
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