This course is an introduction to ways world cultures respond to the stress points of the contemporary world. Current events in world news will be a constant theme. A Multicultural Studies Course, Int'l Studies Certificate Course, Int'l Human Rights Certificate Course. Arguments about the realistic viability of this concept and the use of film as a tool for social science research will be addressed in this course. In addition we will examine the specific culutral meanings presented in the films.
Nobody is simply a man or a woman.
Each of us embodies statuses and identities, as well as physical and demographic traits that intersect. This course will focus on those crossroads, addressing the conditions under which the gender system intersects with other factors to create conditions of power and powerless. A Multicultural Studies Course, Int'l Studies Certificate Course, Int'l Human Rights Certificate Course. This course is intended to provide students with information integrating theory and research on international, intergroup, and interpersonal conflict and direct approaches to conflict resolution such as negotiation, mediation, and facilitation. This course will also examine some crucial current problems in human rights protection.