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Food and Culture (ANT-430) 3 credits

Course Description
Culinary customs studied cross-culturally. Food in relation to sex, kinship, politics, economics, religion. Visual, olfactory, textural, and gastronomic food preferences. Values and nutrition. World nutritional systems.

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

Discuss how culture and food define each other; its social identity and symbolic expression
Describe food acquisition, choices, preparation, consumption, etiquette, and social stratification
Demonstrate how food influences aspects of sex, love, marriage, family and kinship
Analyze the role of food in economics, politics, power, freedom, religion, purity and taboo
Identify peculiarities relative to visual, olfactory, textural, and gastronomic preferences
Compare and contrast food values, nutrition standards, healthy body and esthetics
Suggest practical applications of findings and means of information sharing

Aristotle (PHI-330) 3 credits

Course Description
Study of Aristotle's logic, physics, metaphysics, and philosophy of language.

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

Discuss the biography of Aristotle and influences which shaped his thought.
Show familiarity with Aristotle's logic, physics, metaphysics, biology, psychology, aesthetics, ethics and politics.
Demonstrate familiarity with critical literature on Aristotle.
Discuss the influence of Aristotle on subsequent western thought including philosophy, physics, and theology.

Sociology of Health and Health Care (SOC-377) 3 credits

Course Description
A historical and contemporary study of the socio-politics of health, illness and the health care industry in the United States. Attention is given to providers, consumers, owners, workers, and professionals in terms of their power, class, race, sex, and age. Reforms and alternatives are considered.

A World of Art (ART-100) 3 credits

Course Description
A World of Art is an art appreciation course that covers the sweep of Western art from its earliest sources to its most recent developments. The course covers a range of media that have defined visual art over time: painting and sculpture, architecture and decorative arts, photography and drawing, mixed media, assemblage and installation art. A World of Art discusses ways that the visual arts have echoed the human experience across the ages. A key theme is the way that art reflects both continuity with previous tradition and transformation as artists continually create something new. Course content is drawn from the Teaching Company's "Art Across the Ages" course by Professor Ori Z. Soltes.

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

Explain the tension between continuity and transformation in the history of art.
Discuss ways that visual art echoes human experience.
Differentiate between different periods and styles of art.
Examine the interplay between art and the areas of religion, politics, and culture.
Discuss varying styles of representation and abstraction.
Examine the emergence of artistic self-preoccupation.
Demonstrate appreciation of various types of visual art.

Nonfiction Writing (ENG-234) 3 credits

Course Description
Writing pieces of nonfiction, ranging from the personal essay to essays on travel, film, politics, and the contemporary scene.

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

Discuss the steps in the development of a non-fiction piece including invention, drafts, revisions
Articulate introductory level understanding of non-fiction writing structures, techniques and research methods
Refer to specific examples of your experience developing works of fiction you have written. Examples from published works from other authors may also be used to demonstrate illustrate these concepts.
Discuss the fundamentals and elements of non-fiction tradition and site key examples
Analyze a published work discussing all relevant elements

18th Century History and Philosophy (HUM-310) 3 credits

Course Description
This course explores the culture of the Age of Reason at its height through the in-depth study of a number of major texts and of certain leading figures. There is an interdisciplinary approach embodying, for instance, historical, literary and philosophical approaches. The works of fiction and poetry, philosophy, history, science, music and art are studied in their own right, bur are also interconnected as mutually illuminating phenomena.

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

Identify the roots of Enlightenment thought in 17th century achievements in science, politics and the arts.
Demonstrate familiarity with the great system builders in epistemology, metaphysics and ethics and the basic principles that characterize their thinking including such thinkers as Bacon, Descartes, Locke, Spinoza, Rousseau, Berkeley, Hume, Adam Smith and Immanuel Kant, Vico, Voltaire.
Identify and discuss the development of rationalism and empiricism during this period considered the Age of Reason.
Articulate reasoned views on Nietzsche's philosophy, supported by close textual reading and argument.
Demonstrate familiarity with some of the critical literature on existentialism.
Demonstrate familiarity with some of the critical literature on the period.

International Business (MAN-371) 3 credits

Course Description
To give the student an integrated approach to the environments of international business and the operations of multinational enterprises. Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to identify international opportunities and strengths; understand the elements of trade theory; identify the role of the multinational enterprise; formulate currency exchange variables; appreciate problems in international management.

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

To recognize the rapid changes in the world's environment that bring both new opportunities and new threats for business.
To gain an understanding of the diverse ethnic and cultural differences and how these can impact business.
To acquire knowledge and appreciation of multi-cultural work settings and the challenges of foreign environment forces.
To examine the unique challenges of international management
Discuss politics, laws, and economics as it relates to international business.
Assess the impact of culture, ethics and norms on international business.
Discuss trade theory with respect to exports and imports.
Evaluate foreign exchange and the leveraging of resources and capabilities international trade.
Assess the capabilities of firms entering with respect to markets around the globe with an awareness of global integration.
Evaluate the concept of foreignness international trade.

Ancient Philosophy (PHI-324) 3 credits

Course Description
The major philosophical systems and movements from the pre-Socratics to Plotinus with special emphasis on Plato and Aristotle.

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

Identify and discuss the major Pre-Socratic philosophers.
Identify and discuss contributions of major figures from the different schools of Hellenistic thought, basic contributions made to philosophy and the differences and conflicts among them.
Identify and discuss the transformation from cosmology to ethics achieved by Socrates and Plato.
Discuss the Plato's ideas of education, politics and the soul in Republic.
Discuss the methods and teaching developed by Plato in his early, middle and later dialogues.
Discuss Aristotle's criticism of Platonic forms.
Discuss Aristotle's physics and ideas of the Soul.
Discuss Aristotle's notion of virtue.
Discuss key points of Aristotle's aesthetics as found in the Poetics.
Demonstrate familiarity with primary sources as well as critical literature on the periods.
Address the influence of Greek philosophy on subsequent western thought.

American Government (POS-110) 3 credits

Course Description
American Government provides you with a broad general introduction to the American political system. The course thoroughly examines the way the American political process operates. As you progress through the course, you will improve your ability to think critically about American politics.

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

Describe democracy and what it means in the United States today.
Briefly describe the United States Constitution, and explain what is meant by a "living" Constitution.
Identify the many ways citizens participate in government, especially through public opinion, interest groups, political parties, and the media.
Describe the roles of the three branches of American government: executive, legislative, and judicial.
Explain citizens' rights and the concept of "due process."
Summarize the movement toward equality under the law for minorities.
Identify ways in which thinking critically allows citizens to help elected officials find solutions to current and potential problems in the democracy.

Available by CLEP exam.

Government Budgeting (PUA-323) 3 credits

Course Description
The budgetary process, including types of budget structures, techniques of budget analysis and role of budgetary personnel.

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

Explain what is the purpose of public budgeting and what budgets are expect to accomplish
Define governmental revenues, governmental spending, and the sources of borrowing
Describe the budgeting cycle and the politics involved in the budgetary process
Discuss the techniques used in budgetary analysis
Explain the roles of personnel involved in governmental budgeting
Explain the process of capital budgeting and how it relates to debt management
Describe the relationship between the economy and public budgeting.

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