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3.00 Credits
This course surveys important political and cultural themes of the 1960s, focusing on the general legacy of the period from a contemporary perspective. Topics include the Vietnam War and the movements it spawned; Berkeley upheavals from the Free Speech Movement to People's Park; Civil Rights and rise of the Black Panthers; the rock revolution and its cultural ambience; the French May and 1968 protests across the world; Weather politics; assassinations of the 1960s and their aftermath; the maturation of the New Left into new social movements of the 1970s. The survey encompasses historical context, political events, cultural transformations, shifts in class, race, and gender relations, and the larger global impact. HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCE DOMAIN
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The United States had an essentially open border at the turn of the twentieth century, so why has increased border control become one of the top concerns of many Americans at the start of the twenty-first The current, often volatile and certainly emotional debates about immigration raise questions about not only the reform of immigration policy, but also the meanings of American citizenship and the futures of the nation. This course will analyze the contemporary immigration controversies through a close examination of their historical roots. Course topics will include the history of immigration policy in the United States; analysis of the relationships between the cultural, political, and economic dimensions of immigration, past and present; engagement with contemporary community groups that take different perspectives on immigration; analysis of the current proposals for immigration reform by the House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, and individual political representatives; and critical comparisons with immigration policies used by other countries. SOCIAL SCIENCE DOMAIN
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1.00 Credits
This course examines the ways in which Western politics over the past century have been negotiated in music. The first goal is to become familiar with writing, listening, and speaking critically about the relationship between musical works and history. Subsequently the course explores how individuals formulate our views about politics in history (and now), our understanding of how politics connects to issues of nationalism, oppression, war, pacifism, grief, morality, spirituality, and religion, and how people have created, produced, and listened to music as an expression of such political complexities. The course examines the criteria needed for music or a musically related activity to be political. Ultimately, students address the wide range of musical ways that societies, cultural groups, and individuals engage with politics - from the explicit, to the subtle, to the hidden. The focus includes experimental music, popular music, art music, and jazz. No grade equivalents allowed. FINE ARTS & HUMANITIES DOMAINS
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Over the past decade documentary films have entered a new golden age: more popular, more seen and appreciated, more in number, and more important than ever. This course considers the history and politics of recent documentaries; their challenge to the official stories of government and media; their presentation of an alternative reading of our times. The films of Barbara Kopple, Michael Moore, Errol Morris, Robert Geenwald and others will be examined in an effort to come to a critically informed understanding of the work of contemporary political documentary, its methods, techniques and strategies. FINE ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCE DOMAINS
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The fundamentals of the central nervous system are presented through illustrated lectures and discussions, emphasizing implications for behavior (both normal and abnormal) so that students develop an awareness of biological contributions to psychological processes and experience. SCIENCE & SOCIAL SCIENCE DOMAINS
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an overview of historical tendencies in the history of psychology and introduces participants to some of the major systems that have developed during the past century. Emphasis is placed on the social context in which psychology originated and the philosophical issues underlying central psychological controversies. The course touches on the Eastern philosophy of Zen Buddhism, the Japanese psychotherapy of Morita and Naikan, and African healing traditions. Students explore the manner in which psychology functions in the present world as a form of practice and ideology. SOCIAL SCIENCE DOMAIN
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This course presents an overview of existential psychology from four perspectives: literature, philosophy, psychological theory, and clinical application. Students become familiar with the major concepts of existential psychology, learn to critically analyze the paradigm itself, and contrast it with other paradigms. SOCIAL SCIENCE DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
In this course, a critical perspective on abnormal psychology is presented through consideration of methods of conceptualizing the individual, concepts of normality vs. abnormality, subjectivity vs. objectivity, and the medical model vs. the humanistic-existential model. SOCIAL SCIENCE DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
This course is an introduction of the major contemporary schools of thought in psychotherapy. Students explore the four basic "waves" of psychotherapy:Psychoanalytic schools, Behavioral schools including CBT, and DBT, Existential Humanistic school and the Integrative psychotherapy. The course acquaints students with the major schools of counseling and psychotherapy while helping them to develop a theoretical vocabulary of the schools presented. Students also engage in an exploration of their own countertransference. The course also guides students in looking critically at the material presented through the lens of both cultural sensitivity and current scholarship. Prerequisite: PSY 316 Western Theories of Personality. SOCIAL SCIENCE DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
Physical and sexual abuse of girls and women, rape, spousal battery, sexual harassment, and pornography all establish dominance over women. This course analyzes the various manifestations of violence against women in contemporary American culture. A feminist perspective of violence against women, which utilizes historical, psychological and sociological methodologies, is presented for the students' critical analysis. SOCIAL SCIENCE DOMAIN
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