Designed for students pursuing a B.A. or B.S. in Integrative Studies within New Century College. This course is designed to explore the definitions of self and society in historical non-Western and Western contexts. Issues relating to the concepts of moral identity and cultural differences will be covered using text, film, plays, self-reflection, and writing. Offering the equivalent of between 6 and 15 credits of undergraduate work, learning communities replace the often fragmented classroom experience and integrate material from several perspectives. In learning communities, faculty and students study topics in an integrated context and explore various ways of understanding.
Credit is assigned for each learning community at the time it is offered.
A study of the creative process in the arts and sciences through demonstration and the analysis of the psychology and the arts. Visual perception, memory, classical and modern art, and performance are explored as examples. Students are presented with the opportunity to assess themselves as creative thinkers. This course examines the history of the past 50 years in order to illuminate the comtemporary world as well as connections between the global and local. Using historical works, fiction, autobiographies, films, and daily newspapers, we will explore such major events as the Cold War, the struggle against apartheid in South Africa, the Vietnam War, the Chinese Cultural Revolution, and the continuing conflict in the Middle East.