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Physics Elective Prerequisite: Transfer Credit Evaluation Only 0.500 TO 6.000 Credit Hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture School of Arts and Sciences College
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In this seminar, students spend several hours each week in shelters, soup kitchens, or day programs, learning first-hand about homelessness.In class, journals, and short papers, students reflect on their community-based learning experiences and integrate them with readings and theory.Students discuss the causes and consequences of homelessness and critically analyze, from a variety of perspectives, its effects on individuals, families, and society. This course meets the U.S. diversity requirement. Three credits.
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This course provides opportunities for students to examine the connection between their major and the values of peace and justice.Students undertake a major research project representing a concept, issue, or case study in their major and investigate the justice and peace dimension of the topic.Students make oral and written presentations of the research project and discuss it in the seminar.The course is very much student-driven.While faculty members assist in the selection of topics and readings, and join in the discussion, the course gives students much of the responsibility for their learning.Three credits.
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Students examine the American political system and the American political culture; consider the major political institutions in relation to policy perspectives; examine the ability of the political system to deal with societal problems; and analyze proposals for reform of the political system.Three credits.
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This course focuses on the modern tradition of Western political theory.It carefully examines the work of four thinkers: Karl Marx, Max Weber, Friederich Nietzsche, and Michel Foucault.Each of these theorists presents a critical assessment of the nature and value of modern society's cherished ideals of social and economic progress, secularization, and scientific reason, and individual autonomy and liberty.This course explores and evaluates these controversial critiques of life in the modern age.Three credits.
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This course introduces students to the concepts of peace and justice, the connections between them, and the relationship of these concepts to the idea of faith.The course focuses on case studies beginning with an analysis of the crisis of America's cities and finds the causes in de-industrialization and its resulting poverty, which is compared to the poverty in developing nations.In both cases, the course views poverty as the effect of unjust economic and social structures including exaggerated military budgets at home and the militarization of developing countries.Examining these fundamental problems in peace and justice, according to the principles of Marxism, liberalism, and Catholicism, provides a theoretical basis for the study.Each of these traditions has its own perspective for understanding these problems and for responding to them.In this way the course provides an awareness of the major problems in peace and justice as well as an understanding of the different ways to think about them.Three credits.
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This course examines the nature and function of utopian thinking and utopian communities.What is the value of utopian reflection What forms of critical thinking and imaginative speculation does it enable What are the limits to or dangers of utopian thought and practice What kinds of challenges do utopian communities face This course explores and critically assesses utopian, dystopian, and anti-utopian themes from utopian fiction, political theory, science fiction, and popular culture.The course includes an investigation into the possibilities and limitations of some recent attempts to build communities in the United States.Three credits.
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This course considers the philosophical roots of American political thought and the influence of the American revolutionaries, constitution-makers, Federalists, Jeffersonians, Jacksonians, Tocqueville, Civil War-makers, examiners of the welfare state, pragmatists, and new frontiersmen on the contemporary American mind and institutions.The course also covers challenges and reform of the American political system within the scope of political science through an application of the concepts of human nature, idealism, constitutional power, and nationalism.Three credits.
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This course examines the development of U.S.feminist theory from the 1960s to the present.Students explore the similarities and differences among several approaches to feminist theorizing that emerged from the U.S.women's movement, including liberal, radical, socialist, and postmodernist feminism, and the feminisms of women of color .This course meets the U.S. diversity requirement. Three credits.
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This course surveys selected industrialized and non-industrialized nations, exploring the relationship between cultural and socioeconomic conditions and political behavior, and illustrating some of the basic concepts and methods of comparative political analysis. This course meets the world diversity requirement. Three credits.
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