All University Curriculum

This integrative course in the humanities considers the contemporary search for solutions to the age-old problems in gaining understanding of truth, art, and ethics. Central questions of value and meaning are pursued by academic disciplines that came to be called the humanities. The course provides an introduction to these humanities together with their essential components, conventions, and connections. (Written and Oral Communication and Values Identification.)

1/3-1/17     M-F     9:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m.     A421     Pisano

This integrative course in the humanities investigates American society, culture, and thought, focusing on America's emergence as an industrial nation and a predominantly middle-class culture. Topics: impact of capitalism and technology, immigration and its social consequences, religious sectarianism, civil rights struggles, closing of the Western frontier and its surviving popular myth, and emergence of a mass-consumer society. (Written Communication and Critical Thinking)

1/3-1/17     M-F     5-8:30 p.m.     A320     Weinholtz

This integrative course is an inquiry into American society, culture, and thought in the post-World War II era. The topics chosen for investigation represent many of the most significant themes and issues that have been and continue to be influential in shaping the contours of recent American cultural experience. Reading for this course will emphasize the diverse perspectives of major American writers, historians, and social scientists on such topics as the pursuit of the "American Dream," racial inequality, the anti-war movement and its aftermath. (Written Communication and Critical Thinking)

1/3-1/17     M-F     1-4:30 p.m.     A322     Canedy

This integrative course in the arts and humanities provides students an opportunity to explore the interrelatedness of the arts and philosophic inquiry in classical Greece. The materials to be considered include poetry, epics, dramas and Platonic dialogues. Some emphasis will be given to architecture, music and the visual arts. (Written and Oral Communication and Values Identification)

1/3-1/17     M-F     1-4:30 p.m.     H403     Mayer

This integrative course will introduce the student to the arts and thought of the Italian Renaissance. The individual's relation to nature, tradition, community and self will be investigated and discussed as the student surveys a number of landmarks of the art, literature, music, and philosophy of the age. (Written and Oral Communication and Critical Thinking)

1/3-1/17     M-F     5-8:30 p.m.     E221     Lechner

This course will provide students with a series of workshops presented by different artists/instructors in a variety of media, ranging from the graphic arts to photography, writing, the performing arts, music, and other fine arts. The workshops and follow-up discussion sessions will expose students to how the imagination is used to create a variety of art forms that communicate the artists' ideas or feelings. Students will have the opportunity to hone skills as both creative audience and creative participant in each art form. (Oral and Written Communication, Critical Thinking, and Values Identification)

Lab fee: $25

1/3-1/17     M-F     9 a.m.-1 p.m.     UC116/118     Moriarty

This course will provide students with a series of workshops presented by different artists/instructors in a variety of media, ranging from the graphic arts to photography, writing, the performing arts, music, and other fine arts. The workshops and follow-up discussion sessions will expose students to how the imagination is used to create a variety of art forms that communicate the artists' ideas or feelings. Students will have the opportunity to hone skills as both creative audience and creative participant in each art form. (Oral and Written Communication, Critical Thinking, and Values Identification)

Lab fee: $25

1/3-1/17     M-F     1-4:30 p.m.     UC116/118     Moriarty

This integrative course, combining perspectives in social sciences and health, introduces students to the multiple dimensions of hunger. Various models are used to examine the causes and consequences of, and treatments for, hunger in the Third World and the United States. (Written Communication and Values Identification)

1/3-1/17     M-F     1-4:30 p.m.     A323     Walens

An introduction to the literature and culture of immigrant groups using film, literature, and cultural analysis. (Written and Oral Communication and Values Identification)

1/3-1/17     M-F     9 a.m.-12:30 p.m.     A425     Fierro

This integrative course is designed to expose students to the interactions between cultures and transnational corporations and the environments in which they operate, with special emphasis on the cultural dimension and its political effects. Topics will include: conflicts between host and home cultures, as manifested in the history of the transnationals; colonial heritage and cultural imperialism; governmental policies; trade restrictions and incentives; roles and power balance of transnationals and home/host governments; and questions of ethics. (Written and Oral Communication and Critical Thinking.)

1/3-1/17     M-F     5-8:30 p.m.     H401     Ricardo

This integrative course is designed to expose students to the interactions between cultures and transnational corporations and the environments in which they operate, with special emphasis on the cultural dimension and its political effects. Topics will include: conflicts between host and home cultures, as manifested in the history of the transnationals; colonial heritage and cultural imperialism; governmental policies; trade restrictions and incentives; roles and power balance of transnationals and home/host governments; and questions of ethics. (Written and Oral Communication and Critical Thinking.)

1/3-1/17     M-F     5-9 p.m.     H207     Banks

This integrative course in the social sciences examines human interaction on the interpersonal, group, organizational, and social levels through the study of power and individual's reactions to power. Students gain insight into individual, social, economic, and political sources of power in relation to contemporary issues and controversies. (Written and Oral Communication and Critical Thinking)

1/3-1/17     M-F     5-8:30 p.m.     H301     Sekou

This integrative course in the social sciences is an exploration of the bio-psycho-social events that shape the meaning of life at three critical stages: young adulthood, middle age, and old age. Emphasis is given to interactional issues, cultural values, and theories of development that comprise the adult journey. (Written and Oral Communication and Social Interaction)

1/3-1/17     M-F     1-4:30 p.m.     A420     Dischiavo

This integrative course examines what we know about being male and female from a variety of perspectives. Biological and psychological dimensions of gender, as well as the social and cultural frameworks of the ways in which a number of societies choose to define sex roles, are considered along with a look at how men and women in other societies see their own lives. Factual information, fiction, and film are used to discover how our experience is colored by our own ideas about gender and by the pressure society brings to bear on us. Sources of reading and films include: anthropology, cultural studies, philosophy, economics, literature and sociology. (Values Identification, Critical Thinking and Written Communication)

1/3-1/17     M-F     9 a.m.-12:30 p.m.     A422     Highberg

This course provides an introduction to the interactive relationship between technology and society. Students will study technological advancement as social change, not simply to monitor the transformations of our society but also to understand why they occur and what their consequences are. (Critical Thinking and Oral and Written Communication)

*Lab fee: $40

1/3-1/17     M-F     10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.     A427     Misovich
                    and       3-4:30 p.m.     A109     Misovich
1/3-1/17     M-F     Lab 1-3 p.m.     A109     Misovich

*This is a 4 credit course

This course provides an introduction to the interactive relationship between technology and society. Students will study technological advancement as social change, not simply to monitor the transformations of our society but also to understand why they occur and what their consequences are. (Critical Thinking and Oral and Written Communication)

*Lab fee: $40

12/30-1/17     M-R     4:30-8 p.m.          D309     Ciccarelli
12/30-1/17     M-R     Lab 8-10 p.m.     D309     Ciccarelli

*This is a 4 credit course
Note: Class on 12/30/11 will be held as a distance learning class. No class on 12/31/11 and 1/2/12.