Proposing Faculty Member: Scott Sernau Category: Common Core Component: Human Behavior & Social Institutions Description: What are the elements of balanced, sustainable development? We will look at what they mean for the various social problems facing the planet. We will look at path–breaking efforts to forge alternative paths to development and quality of life in… Read more »
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Literary & Intellectual Traditions: WGS-N 390 (VT: Women in Social Movements)
Proposing Faculty Member: Darryl Heller Category: Common Core Component: Literary & Intellectual Traditions Description: This class will explore significant social movements from the 19th through the 21st Century. Unlike a course in sociology, which tend to look at social movements from a structural and organizational perspective, this course will use the lens of gender as an analytical framework… Read more »
Natural World: CLS-N 190 (VT: Uncovering a Diagnosis)
Proposing Faculty Member: Barbara Spinda Category: Common Core Component: Natural World Description: Have you ever been sick and wondered how the doctor knew you were sick, what was causing your illness, and how to treat it? Did you know that there is a whole profession dedicated to the diagnosis, interpreting, and monitoring illness in society? The Medical Laboratory Scientist… Read more »
SOC-B 399 (VT: Young People Creating Social Change: How You Can Transform the World!
Proposing Faculty Member: Gail McGuire Category: Common Core Component: Human Behavior & Social Institutions Description: This course we will examine the ways in which young people have created social change on national and international topics, such as gun violence, climate change, civil rights, and women’s rights. Drawing on historical analyses, social science research, and fictional… Read more »
HSC-B 190 (VT: Disabilities Related to Communication and Society)
Proposing Faculty Member: Jennifer Essig Category: Common Core Component: Human Behavior & Social Institutions Description: Introduction to behavioral and social aspects of communication disorders. There will be an emphasis on human perception of disabilities and the experiences of individuals with communication disorders. Also discussed are the potential influences of popular media in shaping the thinking… Read more »
GEOL-N 390 (VT: Our World’s Oceans)
Proposing Faculty Member: Henry Scott Category: Common Core Component: The Natural World Description: Our world’s oceans have elicited fear, balanced against human curiosity, for all of recorded history; remarkably, this continues to today because they are so vast and much remains unknown. From our earliest attempts to fish from their shores, to modern efforts to… Read more »
CJUS-B 190 (VT: Crime and the Media!)
Proposing Faculty Member: Stacie Merken Description: Have you ever wondered whether what you see about crime in the media is accurate? Do Criminal Minds, Orange is the New Black, and Law and Order: SVU resemble real FBI, corrections, courtroom, and policing? This course will examine the criminal justice system through a media lens, including, but… Read more »
THTR-A 190 (VT: The Secret Life of Puppets)
Proposing Faculty Member: Aimee Cole Description: This course will explore the use of puppetry in the performance arts of theatre, television and film. Topics will include exploring the history and diversity of puppetry in world culture, appreciating various puppet styles and performance methods and research master puppeteers and their contribution to the field. This is… Read more »
THTR-T 399 (VT: LGBT Theater Post-Stonewall)
Proposing Faculty Member: Jason Resler Description: This course introduces students to LGBT theatre and its history, focusing on plays and musicals written after the 1969 Stonewall Uprising. The course looks at important works in the cannon placing them in their historical context. Discussion focused, this writing intensive course will explore the connections and various perspectives… Read more »
ANTH-A 399 (VT: Race and Ethnic Relations)
Proposing Faculty Member: Theodore Randall Description: The course describes and explains contemporary racial and ethnic relations in the United States and world at large. This is accomplished by discussing the fallacy of the concept of race, contemporary and future projections of global and national racial and ethnic diversity, the diversity within the popular designated racial… Read more »