This course is delivered by computer conferencing and World Wide Web resources. Computers are available at sites and centers statewide. This course is designed as an introduction to the contemplative traditions of East and West related to peace, especially that sense of peace that begins with inner harmony and concentration. The focus will primarily be on Zen Buddhism, although Western contemplative traditions that reflect a similar dynamic will be examined in some depth. This course is delivered by computer conferencing and World Wide Web resources.
Computers are available at sites and centers statewide.
Web resources will be extensively used to identify, define and give examples of political correctness in American History, including the Salem Witch Trials, the Alien and Sedition Acts, Prohibilition, McCarthyism and the drug war. The Marcusean, Utilitarian and Kantian philosophical principles related to political correctness will be considered. The policy implications of political correctness and the culture war on the academy, the media, bureaucracies, the military, corporate America and small business will be analyzed and discussed. This course welcomes and values intellectual diversity. BEX students may take this course by tape delay and should notify the instructor at the beginning of the semester.