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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course studies contemporary global issues and draws extensively from social documentaries (DVDs), biblical texts, students' intercultural experiences, and contemporary models of community-based engagement. Prerequisite: Participation in L.A. Term or consent of instructor
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3.00 Credits
Students immerse themselves in the daily life of host families and communities in cross-cultural settings where they explore unfamiliar assumptions and norms of behavior as the basis for composing a family ethnography. Course is only available through the Global Learning Program. Prerequisite: GLBL 305
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6.00 Credits
The course helps students understand the organization of urban, multicultural communities, while engaged in service learning activities in grassroots and nonprofit organizations. Included are methods of practice used to mobilize people to collective action to solve their own problems, form ongoing organizations that enhance their power to meet their own needs, and develop resources where needed. Emphasis is on work with diverse human populations and the importance of evaluation in practice. The course involves students in the formal and experiential study of select areas in central Los Angeles through a combination of directed reading, reflective papers, macro-practice activities, a service practicum, and group discussions. Course is available only through the L.A. Term Program.
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3.00 - 6.00 Credits
This integrated internship/study experience within another culture improves students' intercultural values and skills, provides them with new knowledge, and guides them in making a tangible contribution to social change. Students serve within a community organization or development project (e.g., in a government institute, hospital, orphanage, school, clinic, or church) for a minimum of two months. Course is only available through the Global Learning Program.
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3.00 Credits
This field seminar helps students learn how to learn another culture. Students explore several topics (e.g., art, schooling, group relations, music, folklore, politics, etc.) of a chosen country, city, or people through observation and discovery, local event participation, informant interviews, problem solving, and journal keeping. Course is only available through the Global Learning Program.
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3.00 Credits
This course contains a survey of religious movements in Los Angeles, including Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Orthodox Christianity, Judaism, and New Age. Emphasis is placed on the vernacular character of their faith, embodied and expressed in the beliefs, attitudes, practices, and rituals of their specific social and cultural situations. Learning activities include participant-observation at religious services, informant interviewing, directed reading, and group discussion. Course is available only through the L.A. Term Program.
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3.00 Credits
Students carry out individualized study/research projects on topics of particular concern and interest to them under the combined direction of an APU advisor and an on-site guide. Course is only available through the Global Learning Program.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to foundations and principles of community development. With in-class learning from real-world case materials, principles are explored and applied in practice during a three-four week service-learning field project/internship with a local non-governmental organization (NGO) or development organization that addresses community need(s). This course is offered only in international programs.
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3.00 Credits
This course critically examines the relationship between women and globalization. Globalization is analyzed from an historical perspective focusing on its antecedents in capitalism and modernity. While drawing from the fields of economics, history and political science, this class examines the intersection of women and globalization primarily from an anthropological and global perspective. Topics to be read, discussed, and analyzed include capitalism, globalization, development, transnational migration, labor, media, the environment, and religion.
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3.00 Credits
This is a short-term, collaboratively led study and service seminar focused on a vital global issue in an international setting. The course enlightens learners' disciplinary perspectives, develops their intercultural competence, and strengthens their commitment to serve "the least, the last, and the lost" throughout their lives. Includes three on-campus class sessions prior to a 10-day field seminar.
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