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primary purpose of the integrative 351 core courses is to develop
interdisciplinary abilities in values clarification with reference to at
least two major contemporary issues. These courses focus on a
broad range of values questions. Topics include the following
subjects:
GENDER AND CULTURE
This course examines issues
surrounding gender, sex, and sexuality from a cross-cultural
perspective. It focuses on learning to think about gender and
sexuality holistically as they are embedded in the cultural system of
different societies and as they relate to other aspects of a given
society, including the contemporary United States. In particular,
students learn to analyze the cultural and social constructions of
gender in different societies and in the US at different times.
LAW AND SOCIETY
This course provides a social scientific
understanding of the underlying relationship between law, values, and
society. It examines how societal values (order, mortality,
democracy, property, liberty, multiculturalism, and equality) and
societal factors (power, discretion, race, gender, and wealth) intersect
with the creation, enforcement, and interpretation of public policy.
WILDERNESS
This course will utilize the academic discipline of
anthropology and a tool "eye juggling". It is methodology designed
specifically for clarifying and interpreting the values of other people
as well as one's own values. The discipline of anthropology and
"eye juggling" are best appreciated and understood as methods of inquiry
and ways of knowing. As such, this seminar can be characterized as
much by its attempt to study a given body of knowledge as by its
introduction to and subsequent application of a particular methodology.
VIETNAM
This course will examine Vietnamese society and
history particularly the nation's relationship with the United States in
the 20th century in order to explore the question of values and value
conflicts.
MINORITIES
The human world is a diverse place.
There exists as array of races, ethnicities, religions, cultures,
nationalities, regional identities, sexualities, gender roles, classes,
castes, and so forth. One way to examine this diversity is the
study of "Minorities". "Minorities" is commonality belies an
important, complex, and contested concept. |
