This course will explore the integral role that creativity, imagination, and curiosity play in a fulfilling life and successful career. It will challenge you to move outside of your existing comfort zone through creative activities and discussions and help you recognize the value and power of being an imaginative, forward-thinking individual.

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Introduction to the Western tradition of political theory; focus on particular problems and issues through a reading of classical and non-traditional texts. Topics include political obligation, justice, feminism, individuality, friendship, community, civil disobedience, power, others. (GenEd. SB)

Introduction to the Western tradition of political theory; focus on particular problems and issues through a reading of classical and non-traditional texts. Topics include political obligation, justice, feminism, individuality, friendship, community, civil disobedience, power, others. (GenEd. SB)

Introduction to the Western tradition of political theory; focus on particular problems and issues through a reading of classical and non-traditional texts. Topics include political obligation, justice, feminism, individuality, friendship, community, civil disobedience, power, others. (GenEd. SB)

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Unattractive people are less likely to be hired and promoted, and are assumed less likely to be good, kind or honest. Indeed, the global investment in beauty is approaching $200 billion. This course examines body appearance including weight, shape, and size as an area of human difference subject to privilege and discrimination that intersects with other systems of oppression based on gender, race, class, and age. It employs a multi-disciplinary approach spanning the social-behavioral social sciences and humanities.

This course will examine the relationship between language, community, and culture. The human body evolved, adapting to the use of language for communication. The intimate relationships between culture, community, and language reveal a culture?s worldview, community system, values, identity, and much more. Colonization, commercial expansion, and digital technologies have impacted communities and their languages and cultures. This course will introduce students to the concepts of culture, community and the integration of language within cultural systems.

A study of the punk movement in the USA from the mid-1970s through the 1990s, which will introduce first-year students to critical theory and the study of popular culture. (See attached for bibliography and suggested weekly topics).