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3.00 Credits
Staff Assigned topics. Admission by prior permission of advisor. May be repeated once for credit. (Fall, spring, and summer)
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Rosenau An effort to probe the sources and dynamics of change and continuity in local, national, and international affairs. The links between the orientations of individuals and the actions of collectivities are a major focus, along with the foundations of authority under transformative conditions. For graduate students; open to upper-level undergraduates. IAff/PSc
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3.00 Credits
Trachtenberg The changing nature of the presidency of American colleges and universities. Limits of the president's power and responsibility; governance roles in state-supported and independent institutions; the board of trustees; the university general counsel; accrediting bodies; the media. For graduate students; open to undergraduates with permission. Soc
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Rosenau An inquiry into the economic, cultural, and political processes through which individual and community life is expanding as awareness encompasses factors on a global scale. The consequences of this expansion at both global and local levels is examined, along with the possibility that these levels interact. For graduate students; open to upper-level undergraduates. Phil
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3.00 Credits
Nasr The idea of perennial philosophy as developed in the 20th century by A. Huxley, A.C. Coomaraswamy, and others. Doctrines and teachings of perennial philosophy as found in various religious and philosophical traditions of East and West. Prerequisite: at least one course in religion, philosophy, or intellectual history. For undergraduates; open to graduate students. Rel
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3.00 Credits
Caws The idea of technology-its relation to the sciences and the arts and humanities, its development, and its problems. Technology will not be regarded as merely dependent on the sciences or as merely useful (or dangerous) but as a human activity in its own right, with its own history, conceptual structure, interests, risks, and benefits. For undergraduates; open to graduate students. Phil
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Nasr The religious, philosophical, and scientific causes of the present environmental crisis. The history of religious and philosophical attitudes toward nature in the West, in the history of Western science, and in some non-Western world views that may encourage a more harmonious relationship between man and the natural environment. For undergraduates; open to graduate students. Rel
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3.00 Credits
Nasr The interaction between religion and science in ancient Egypt, classical Greece, Islam, India, China, and the West, from the Renaissance, the scientific revolution, and up to the present day. Key concepts and issues in the encounter of religion and science in light of the cultural matrix of the civilization and period in question. For juniors and seniors; open to graduate students. PPol/PAd/Educ
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3.00 Credits
Caws A fundamental inquiry into the concept of the state in terms of entrenched oppositions: individualism/collectivism, equality/liberty, liberalism/conservatism, socialism/free enterprise, communism/capitalism. Emphasis on the present need to find a constructive transcendence of these oppositions. For graduate students; open to undergraduates. Phil
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3.00 Credits
Caws An exploration of some striking parallels between the topics addressed by Freud's psychoanalytic theories on the one hand and the traditional content of philosophical reflection on the other, with special emphasis on the relation between cognitive theory and therapeutic practice (in both disciplines). For graduate students; open to undergraduates. Rel
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