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Advanced Organizational Management   (MAN-425)   3 credits  
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Course Description
Advanced Organizational Management addresses the role of organizational culture in enabling the successful leader to be the architect of organizational change. From a leader's perspective, the course examines organizational culture including, creation of organizational values, alignment of vision and goals, creating an ethical organizational culture, and succession planning. It also discusses the role of culture in introduction of new strategies, how to enable open communication for empowerment, and the role of organizational culture in implementing change. Advanced Organizational Management has four general goals to introduce the concept or organizational culture and its relationship to leadership, to define the role of culture in strategy and related organizational activities, to highlight the importance of cultural considerations by leaders in change management, and to expand students' skill in understanding and applying cultural considerations to organizational situations.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

  • Define and analyze organizational culture, and assumptions shaping it and how it emerges.
  • Explain the importance of understanding organizational culture and ethical considerations from a leader's perspective.
  • Identify and analyze ways that an organization's culture shapes behavior of those working within it.
  • Compare mechanisms a leader can use to facilitate organizational cultural creation and/or change including communication approaches.
  • Evaluate the relationship between organizational culture, strategy, vision, and goals.
  • Evaluate the relationship between organizational culture, strategy, vision and goals.
  • Describe what succession is and explain how culture impacts an organization's plan for succession.

 
The Jewish Woman   (REL-387)   3 credits  
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Course Description
The role of the Jewish woman in religion, history, community life, and culture. Influence of surrounding cultures and problems of today.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

  • Examine the lives of Jewish women during the biblical period and their journey towards rabbinic ordination.
  • Identify the Jewish law regarding sexuality and marital relations.
  • Analyze the experience of women in the context of Jewish history, culture and law.
  • Explore how modern culture affected Jewish women's community, social and political activism.

 
Introduction to Anthropology I   (ANT-101)   3 credits  
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Course Description
Introduction to Anthropology studies culture as the expression of human values, behavior, and social organization in its unique and varied forms throughout the world, past and present. The course attempts to document that diversity and to demonstrate the inherent logic of each culture in the light of the problems people need to solve and the environments to which they must adapt.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

  • Discuss the relationship between culture and the individual.
  • Analyze the factors involved in culture change.
  • View your own culture, as well as contemporary social problems, against a broad cross-cultural background.
  • Explain basic concepts and define terms used by cultural anthropologists.
  • Describe procedures used by anthropologists in studying cultures.

Available by DSST exam. 
Nonwestern World Literature I   (LIT-460)   3 credits  
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Course Description
Non-Western Literature has been designed to help students gain familiarity with values and issues from non-Western cultures. The term Non-Western literature generally refers to writings by people in any culture or country except those of Western Europe, Ancient Greece, and the United States. Literature can immerse a reader in another's mind, allowing the reader to live a different life through the writer's imagination. The unfamiliar context of the non-Western writer may challenge a Western reader in this regard. The course will cover both post colonialism and feminist thought, examining each through non-Western eyes. At least one Western work will be introduced in each case, allowing students to contrast a typical Western point of view with the views and issues of non-Western cultures. A third major course topic is literature in translation. We are fortunate to be able to read works of literature that date back thousands of years, but few of us can read them in their original languages. This part of the course will look at issues concerning the translation of thoughts and ideas (specifically religious experiences) from one culture to another.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

  • Examine typical Western ideas about non-Western cultures.
  • Analyze the issues and challenges of being "non-Western."
  • Apply postcolonial theory to the study of non-Western literature.
  • Assess how Western cultures are perceived by non-Western people.
  • Compare and contrast literature from the same non-Western culture in different eras.
  • Analyze gender issues in non-Western literature using postcolonial feminist theory.
  • Evaluate the effects of religious worldviews on non-Western literature.
  • Analyze and assess the effectiveness of literary forms and devices in non-Western literature for communicating universal ideas.

 
Music and Society   (MUS-266)   3 credits  
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Course Description
Social aspects of music. Impact of social function, economic and political conditions, patronage, ideology, and mass communications on music history.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

  • Student can demonstrate understanding not only the influence of social culture on the musical styles that developed, but also the influence of music on the social culture itself.
  • Students can discuss in depth one of the following more specific topics:
    • The influence of social cultures on the music in each of the historical periods in Western culture.
    • The influence of social culture on a specific style of music, such as jazz, French Impressionism, hip-hop, etc. Through this topic, the student will be able to discuss important composers, performers and other individuals, groups and/or organizations that were significant in the development of the style, and how their social environment impacted their work.

 
Family Counseling II   (PSY-349)   3 credits  
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Course Description
Continued study in the understanding of the origins and development of family counseling and therapy through identification of family roles, study of psychotherapeutic theory, psychotherapeutic principles, and psychotherapeutic intervention strategies in relation to culture, divorce, remarriage, step-parenting/blended families, and LGBT couples and families.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

  • Identify and explain family roles in relation to culture, divorce, remarriage, step-parenting/blended families, and LGBT couples and families.
  • Identify psychotherapeutic theory, psychotherapeutic principles, and psychotherapeutic intervention strategies in relation to culture, divorce, remarriage, step-parenting/blended families, and LGBT couples and families.
  • Demonstrate understanding of identified theoretical modes, therapeutic principles, and intervention strategies in relation to psychotherapy in relation to culture, divorce, remarriage, step-parenting/blended families, and LGBT couples and families.
  • Identify professional issues, current research, professional training, and personal qualities of the family therapist in relation to culture, divorce, remarriage, step-parenting/blended families, and LGBT couples and families.
  • Provide evidence of application of understanding of professional issues, current research, professional training, and personal qualities of the family therapist.
 
French Culture and Civilization I   (FRE-362)   3 credits  
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Course Description
This course provides the student with the interdisciplinary framework of France's culture and history including the origins and development of French culture with emphasis on its economic, intellectual, artistic and spiritual aspects.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

  • Articulate knowledge of French history and culture
  • Select and identify relevant texts
  • Select topics to be addressed (national unity, citizenship, secularism, and human rights)
  • Discuss issues including tradition/modernity, religion, state universalism, relativism
  • Build an annotated bibliography or database of historical and cultural texts with a minimum of 20 entries.
  • Submit portfolio narrative written in French.

 
Shakespeare I   (LIT-320)   3 credits  
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Course Description
Examines Shakespeare's range and variety through his different types of plays: history, tragedy, comedy, and romance

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

  • Demonstrate knowledge of the iconic role of Shakespeare in world and culture
  • Demonstrate analytical skills in analyzing plays
  • Demonstrate beginning level understanding of Renaissance culture, literature and general influence
  • Demonstrate close reading of texts
  • Demonstrate concrete sense of range of cultural and literary issues raised buy and in the plays and their Renaissance content
  • Demonstrate ability to make connections between issues in the plays in cultural terms and compare and contrast that demonstration to American culture
  • Show increased ability to generally read critical texts
  • Demonstrate increased ability to write discursive prose on Shakespearean subject matter
  • Demonstrate ability to appreciate Shakespeare's genius
  • Demonstrate grasp of Shakespearian characterization

 
Rap/Hip Hop Music   (MUS-269)   3 credits  
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Course Description
Exploration of the creative process in Rap/Hip Hop music which is prominent in urban cultures. Examines the social structures, and the criteria of the groups which make and appreciates styles that emanate from cultures.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

  • Demonstrate knowledge of the basic elements of rap/hip hop.
  • Demonstrate knowledge of the historical origins of rap/hip hop.
  • Demonstrate knowledge of the characteristics of the stages in rap/hip hop evolution, both in American and abroad, and how it may have impacted other art forms.
  • Demonstrate knowledge of the musicians and composers of rap/hip hop and how they related to the culture of the societies in which they lived and worked.

 
Microbiology   (BIO-351)   4 credits  
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Course Description
The course emphasizes the principles of biology as they apply to microorganisms. The morphology, anatomy, physiology, growth, metabolism, nutrition, control, and identification of the various microbes are discussed. Representative laboratory exercises include staining procedures, media preparation, pure culture techniques, culture identification, serology, and phage typing. Provides an introduction to microbiology, the study of organisms too small to be clearly seen by the unaided eye (i.e., microorganisms). Topics include morphology, cytology, physiology, ecology, genetics and molecular biology and taxonomy.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

  • Describe and discuss the positive and negative impacts of viruses, bacteria, archaea, protozoa, algae, and fungi.
  • Discuss the relationship between microorganisms and disease.
  • Organisms are divided into five kingdoms: the Monera or Procaryotae, Protista, Fungi, Animalia, and Plantae; microbiologists concerned with which kingdoms?
  • Relate the field of microbiologist to the profession of medicine, agriculture, food science, ecology, genetics, biochemistry, and molecular biology.
  • Describe how Pasteur disproved the theory of spontaneous generation.
  • Summarize the importance of an immunological study.

 
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