This will be accomplished by a variety of activities including lectures, assigned readings, viewing a number of documentary videos and by discussion in class. In this sense everyone in this class is a modern, relatively hairless African hominoid. Second, this is a classical Liberal Arts course. POS 359 aims to deepen students literacy and critical inquiry skills. By literacy this University means communicative competence in written and oral discourse.
Critical inquiry refers to the gathering, interpretation, and evaluation of evidence.
This will be accomplished by discussion of the videos, by an essay assignment and by two essay-type examinations. POS 359 meets Political Science major requirements as well as University General Education requirements in Global Studies and Social and Behavioral Sciences. If this course is successful students who do well in POS 359 will be different persons in December 2000 than they were in August when they began class. There are two required paperback textbooks for this course. Both are available from the Student Book Center on College Street directly north of the Main Campus.