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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
The senior project is designed as a capstone or culminating experience for integrative studies majors. Students are required to integrate their course work experience in the context of action in the world at large. The experience may take any of several forms, including but not limited to goal-oriented international and/or cross-cultural travel, work in the community, or completion of a research project in the sciences, humanities, or arts. The specific direction taken will be decided by the student in consultation with the professors overseeing the senior project development course. Prerequisite: Completion of INST485.
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3.00 Credits
Study abroad. Experience a variety of cultures on site-their art, architecture, music, history, and literature. Culture to be studied is dependent on instructor's preference.
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3.00 Credits
The course examines discourse on race, race relations, and resistance in a world-historical context. Participants will study epistemology constructing the idea of race and racial categories. They will study the uses of race discourse and practice in the colonial and post-colonial encounter. Following dialectical methodology, participants will study discourses of resistance, rebellion, and reform underlying social change and the pursuit of racial justice. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
The course will integrate tropical ecology with current resource use practices, economics, and history of the Mayan culture in Belize. The central focus of the course will be ecological, with one week spent at a tropical rain forest field station and a second week spent on a barrier reef caye. The course will provide a broad-based overview of tropical ecosystems through "hands-on" experience and workshops dealing with such diverse subjects as climate, biodiversity, ethnology, and human influences on the environment. Prerequisites: BIOL306 and permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the major debates over the dominant paradigms that guide the various social research disciplines, e.g., history, sociology, political science, and economics. In particular, the status of social knowledge, theories of "human nature," the social basis of collective action, the role of the state, and the sources of social diversity and historical change will be considered. Prerequisites: Nine hours of course work in social science.
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3.00 Credits
Examines investigatory procedures and explanatory logic used in treating art, literature, and music. Emphasis will be placed on specific artists, composers, and literary figures with reference to the creative process. Prerequisites: Nine hours of course work in art, music, and/or literature.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the development of scientific concepts from the ancient Greeks to the present, focusing on how scientists think and work-their thought processes, their approaches to problem-solving, the roles of conjecture and intuition, and the role of serendipity. Contributions of individual scientists and schools of scientific thought are critically evaluated, and the importance of science in contemporary society is assessed. Prerequisites: Nine hours of course work in science and six hours of course work in mathematics.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the development of mathematical concepts from the ancient Greeks to the present. Contributions of individual mathematicians and schools of mathematical thought are critically evaluated, and the importance of mathematics in modern culture is appraised. Prerequisites: Nine hours of course work in science and six hours of course work in mathematics.
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3.00 Credits
An introductory, content-oriented mathematics course, including problem-solving, sets, numeration systems, integers, rational numbers, ratios, and proportions. Prerequisite: Intermediate algebra.
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3.00 Credits
Topics include informal logic, problem-solving, informal geometry, transformation geometry, tessellations, measurement, probability, and statistics. Prerequisite: MAT H320. mathematics
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