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3.00 Credits
Lectures by Mexican doctors on healthcare in Mexico, traditional medicine, physician perspectives, expectations of patients. Students spend six hours/week in Mexican hospitals, shadowing doctors and doing some clinical work under medical supervision. They take a trip to the indigenous town of Cuetzalan where they meet a traditional healer and witness first hand practices of traditional medicine.
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3.00 Credits
Students pursue an individual reading program on a topic not available in a regular class, designed with and supervised by a member of the faculty, leading to the production of oral and written reports reflecting deeper theoretical and empirical understanding.
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0.00 - 10.00 Credits
Special Studies offers students the opportunity to pursue an independent reading or research project under the direction of a faculty member. The subject matter must not be duplicated in the regular curriculum.
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3.00 Credits
This Phoenix Institute course is not intended for Notre Dame students. Starting with the heroic quest paradigm that originated with Gilgamesh and Greek mythology, we will explore the attributes and evolution of heroism from ancient to modern times. Because the warrior-heroes of history have often ignored the common good with disastrous consequences, we will look at the various faces of heroism and ask if mankind would profit by loosening the grip that warrior-heroes have on the human imagination. Collaterally, we will explore what can be appropriated from competing models of the hero for personal strength of character, happiness, and humanity's hopes for peace on earth. Texts for this class will include the following: Homer's Iliad (Robert Fagles' translation); Plutarch's Life of Alexander the Great; the Bible (Moses, David, Jesus); selections from John Milton's Paradise Lost; selections from Early Christian Fathers; selections from The Last Letters of Thomas More; war poetry of World War I (Wilfred Owen, "On Passing the Menin Gate" and Siegfried Sassoon, "Dulce et Decorum Est"); World War II war letters from Andrew Carroll's Behind the Lines; Alexandr Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich; Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, and Schindler's List (film).
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3.00 Credits
This Phoenix Institute course is not intended for Notre Dame students. Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War is one of the greatest historical narratives ever produced, telling the story of the epic struggle between democratic Athens and oligarchic Sparta and their allies that took place between 431 and 404 BC. But it is much more: along the way Thucydides presents deep analyses of the nature of democracy and other political regimes, the moral hazards of empire, justice among nations, and the causes of war. He penetrates to the roots of political life in human nature. His reflections are thus not only of historical interest but take us to matters of permanent relevance in human affairs.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed for seniors, acting as peer advisors, to meet with first year students in an attempt to determine how the students are adjusting and progressing. These meetings enable first year students to engage in discussions with reliable and informed upper-class students. The peer advisors try to identify problems, provide information, and exchange knowledge on matters pertaining to academics, study habits, campus life, and dormitory activities while gaining experience with interview skills.
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3.00 Credits
This course, designed primarily for graduating seniors, will revisit and expand some of the great questions explored in the College Seminar on "Faith, Doubt, and Reason," and it will encourage broad reflection on the value of a liberal arts education. The course will be student-centered, with considerable focus on discussion. Readings in the humanities will be taken from such works and authors as Plato, Goethe, Hegel, Kafka, and Benedict. Readings from the social sciences will be taken from works by Neil Postman, Christian Smith, and Richard Light. The arts will be included via a campus performance of Marlowe's Doctor Faustus; films by Alfred Hitchcock, John Ford, and Woody Allen; and engagement with the works of a contemporary painter, Maria Tomasula. Permission of instructor required.
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1.00 Credits
A required colloquium devoted to the critical reading and discussion of one or two major works normally taken in the three semesters following the Justice Seminar.
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1.00 Credits
A one credit colloquium required for the PPE minor devoted to the critical reading and discussion of one or two major works, normally taken each semester for three semesters following the Justice Seminar for a total of 3 credits.
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1.00 Credits
A colloquium devoted to the critical reading of one or two major works, which builds on the esprit de corps and intellectual common ground established in the "Studies in Literature and Philosophy" core course for the minor.
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