400
Inquiry into the political foundations of education and how these interface with epistemological, ethical and metaphysical concerns. Concrete issues relating to educational injustices will also be addressed. Students will study both classical and contemporary thinkers, such as Confucius, Lao Tzu, Plato, Rousseau, Jane Addams, John Dewey, Paulo Freire, Bell Hooks and Maria Lugones.
3
Cross Listed Courses
ED 410
Exploration of barriers to effective communication between members of differing sexes, races, and generations. Consideration of causes of problems and effective strategies for solutions.
3
Cross Listed Courses
CST 411
The basic philosophical principles of justice and law in the Western legal traditions: morality and law; natural and positive law; Roman law and common law traditions; logic, language, and symbols of law; Marxian concept of law; legal education.
3
Cross Listed Courses
PHL 412
Analysis of some major topics in contemporary socio-political thought, e.g., freedom, social justice and structural violence, equality, the relation between rights and obligations, sovereignty, authority, legitimacy, and consent.
3
Cross Listed Courses
PHL 413
An investigation of the philosophical underpinnings of various feminist theories and their implications for philosophical inquiry from De Beauvoir to Irigaray.
3
Cross Listed Courses
PHL 414
An intensive study of orientations toward managing disputes and of specific processes and techniques currently in use. Course includes consideration of both organizational and interpersonal disputes and also focuses on the role of the mediator.
3
Cross Listed Courses
CST 416
Examines the determinants of incomes in market economies, including education, training, experience, hours worked, discrimination, inheritance, unions, and government transfers. Studies causes of change in the extent of inequality and social impacts of inequality. Analyzes government policies to reduce inequality, including anti-poverty policies.
3
Prerequisites
ECN 121 or permission of instructor.
Cross Listed Courses
ECN 424
The impact of language on human life, especially its importance in creating and sustaining peace or violence. Works of contemporary writers.
3
Cross Listed Courses
ENG 430
Course provides an introduction to the dynamics of intercultural communication. Content includes the importance of understanding one's own culture, the culture similarities and differences in communication, relationships, and the workplace, and the ability to adapt to various cultures.
3
Cross Listed Courses
CST 431
An inquiry into our obligations to the nonhuman world and the philosophical basis of that obligation.
3
Cross Listed Courses
PHL 434
This course provides students with an introduction to issues surrounding immigration and resistance and seeks to develop understanding of contemporary organizing efforts on behalf of immigrant communities. After several weeks surveying the larger context and recent patterns in contemporary immigration, students will examine the struggles of immigrants and their efforts to organize for social justice around a variety of issues.
3
Prerequisites
SW 205 or permission of instructor.
Cross Listed Courses
SOC 451,
SW 451
This course will engage each student in a service practicum in a local parish or agency, while studying how Catholic thought, culture, and principles of social justice are practiced there. The course will require a synthesis of readings on social justice and Catholic thought, as well as the practical experience gained.
3
Cross Listed Courses
PCS 452,
PSY 452
Dramatic pressures and heightened political risks are causing important shifts in the traditional foreign policies of the nations of Latin America. This course examines the changing global forces affecting regional integration and economic development for Mexico, Brazil, Argentina and Chile and the domestic responses these foreign policy changes.
3
Cross Listed Courses
POL 455
This course examines the role of professional social work in a achievement of sustainability at the individual, community, regional, national, and global levels. Using a multidisciplinary perspective, the social, environmental, economic, and cultural aspects of sustainability are considered theoretically and practically, with a focus on issues of equity and justice across these dimensions. This course includes community-based, action-oriented learning projects.
3
Prerequisites
SW 205 or permission of instructor.
Cross Listed Courses
SW 456
This course is about child and youth development as embedded in social and cultural contexts. The particular emphasis will be on early childhood through the transition into adulthood, and on thinking about childhood and youth as social phenomena. The course is reading/discussion intensive and involves a community-based learning project.
3
Cross Listed Courses
PSY 463,
SOC 463
This course addresses violence and poverty as influenced by the environment. It enables an assessment of the societal consequences of environmental changes and their effects as well as of personal values related to implications for equity and social justice. Strategies for social change, social equity, and social justice are considered.
3
Cross Listed Courses
SW 466
Major theories which account for aggressive behavior or violence. Emphasis given to personality, social, biological, and environmental determinants of aggression and violence.
3
Cross Listed Courses
PSY 470
An examination of nineteenth-century philosophy focusing upon the work of Hegel. The course traces the roots of Hegelianism in German idealism, the British Economists, and romanticism and its influences on subsequent involvements including Marxism, existentialism, and American pragmatism.
3
Cross Listed Courses
PHL 474
Historically framed survey of representative authors from former British Colonies in Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean. Introduction to key theorists of postcolonialism from Said to Spivak and discussion of key concepts such as imperialism, racism, hybridity, mimicry, decolonization, neo-colonialism, nationalism(s), and immigration.
3
Cross Listed Courses
ENG 480