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3.00 Credits
This course offers supervised full-time fieldwork at agencies and organizations approved by the faculty in accordance with established AOTA and ACOTE standards. Two three-month affiliations provide a diversity of professional experience in both psychosocial and physical disabilities across the developmental continuum. Selection and scheduling of fieldwork sites is a collaborative process between the student and the Academic Clinical Coordinator to ensure that the student's educational needs and professional requirements are properly met. Direct supervision is provided by a registered Occupational Therapist with at least one year of experience. A mandatory seminar is scheduled during each fieldwork experience to provide support, facilitate the sharing of experiences and strategies, and promote successful integration of academic training with professional clinical practice.
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The study of critical thinking emphasisizing the careful and deliberate determination of whether one should accept, reject, or suspend judgment on a claim, and how confident one should be in doing so. This course will cover a range of topics, including topics such as: the structure of arguments, Common reasoning errors, the use and abuse of language in reasoning, the connestions between critical thinking and clear writing, construction and evaluation of definitions and explanations.
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A study of classical Greek thought and attitudes as they illuminate contemporary experience, with particular emphasis on the shift away from a reliance on myth and magic for understanding the world to an insistence on rational explanations and the ways rationality and dialogue can collapse into irrationality, fragmentation, disorder, and violence. Includes discussion of several aspects of Greek culture, focusing especially on the presocratics, the life of Socrates, the Dialogues of Plato, and Greek drama.
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A study of issues related to the role of "God" in the thinking of the great philosopher-theologians of the Middle Ages, with interdisciplinary study of the cultural context of their thought. Includes discussion of central issues related to the conception of and faith in God, and the implications of the contrasts and parallels between medieval and contemporary thought.
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The study of ethical theories and principles related to questions and issues specific to business practices in areas such as: property, contracts, work, corporate responsibility, advertising, and the roles of corporations in the community. Open to Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors.
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This course gives a broad-based introduction to the history, politics, and societies of sub-Saharan Africa. Through a combination of historical narrative and detailed studies of particular African countries, students will learn about pre-colonial African societies, the various slave trades, colonialism, African struggles for independence, and the challenges faced by sovereign African countries. For the post independence period, the major topics will be economic development, statebuilding (the development of bureaucratic capacity and governmental institutions), and nation-building (attempts to forge solidarity among the citizens of a multi-ethnic country). Formerly titled Politics and Society of A
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This course traces the origins, functions, and transformation of the Supreme Court from the somewhat unwanted stepchild of government to the supreme arbiter of constitutionalism that it has become. Topics covered include constitutional doctrines, the political elements of the Supreme Court, separation of powers, federalism, the nationalization of the Bill of Rights, freedom of expression, privacy, and equal protection under the law. Both scholarly analysis and Supreme Court decisions are used to elaborate concepts and issues.
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3.00 Credits
The intention of this course is to enable students to understand more fully the global environment within which the United States operates. After establishing an understanding of basic concepts such as state, nation, anarchy, and power, the course reviews issues such as the global system, the extent to which and the ways in which certain countries dominate the system, warfare, international law, the United Nations, world trade, and economic development. Formerly titled International Relations.
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3.00 Credits
The first course of a two-semester sequence. An introduction to psychology as a natural science. The course stresses the basic methods of problem-solving and accumulating knowledge in psychology, as well as the application of those methods to the following diverse content areas: sensation, perception, physiologocal psychology, human development, learning, cognitive psychology. Particular stress on the contemporary issues in each of the content areas. Focus on the attainment of scientific knowledge, both theoretical and research, with an emphasis on the awareness of available varying approaches. Formerly PS112S
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3.00 Credits
The second of a two-semester sequence. An introduction to psychology as a social science. The course stresses the basic methods of problem- solving and accumulating knowledge in psychology, as well as the application of those methods to the following diverse content areas: motivation, emotion, personality, intelligence, psychopathology, psychotherapy, human sexual behavior, psychological testing, social psychology. Particular stress on the contemporary issues in each of the content areas. Focus on attainment of scientific knowledge, both theoretical and research, with an emphasis on the awareness of varying approaches. Formerly PS 111S
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