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Spring Learning Communities

Learning Community 2 Topic: Current Issues in Health and Nutrition

This learning community will explore a number of global health issues and the challenges current health care systems face in promoting health both from a community and an individual perspective. Performance Enhancement will focus on promoting the individual student’s physical fitness and nutritional needs. Introduction to Health Care Models will explore the U.S. health care system as well as other health care systems around the world to examine their ability to meet global health challenges and to raise the health status of the populations they serve.

HCS-101-LC1	Health Care Models Prof Cheryl Nosek	DS DS248 LEC	TR	02:30PM  01/25/12  03:50PM  05/04/12	3.00
IND-249-LC1	Perform Enhancement Dr. Linda Kuechler Mr. Joseph DiPietro	CEST CEST WEBEN	MW	03:00PM  01/25/12 04:00PM  05/04/12	3.00

Learning Community 2 Topic: Reflection on Contemporary Social Issues: Moral & Scientific Discourse

This learning community will examine several of the social problems that are at issue in our contemporary world (as examples: drug use and abuse, genetic engineering, cloning, etc). One course will focus on the ethical aspects while the other will help students better understand the scientific aspects.

Learning Community 2 Topic: Mask Production and Performance

This combination of visual and performing arts creates a unique and potentially powerful artistic exploration for students. Students will enter an inclusive context, that of the ensemble, in which every member contributes something different to serve the manifestation of the whole project. Actors must consider the visual needs of the production, while visual artists must consider the needs of the actors who inhabit the masks and characters envisioned. The practical reality of the mask production puts skills into a very specific framework, allowing many different types of learners to succeed. Issues in ensemble work will be explored including: How do we include other points of view without compromising our own? How do we make decisions as a group? How do we transform the selfish artist into the selfless, group-focused artist?

ART-101-LC3	Intro to Visual Arts Prof Mark B. Griffi	DS DS135 LEC	W	07:00PM   01/25/12 09:45PM   05/04/12	3.00
THA-108-LC3	Masked Performance TBA	DS DS35 LEC	TR	08:30AM   01/25/12 09:50AM   05/04/12	3.00

Learning Community 2 Topic: The Body in Motion

This learning community is a mixture of theory and practice. Students will learn the basic practices of yoga and tai chi and the basic principles of the anatomy of the moving body. Students will use these foundations to understand the role of muscles, tendons and joints during movement.

BIO-118-LC4	Anatomy of Movement Prof Cynthia Russel	DS DS221 LEC	TR	07:50AM   01/25/12  09:10AM   05/04/12	3.00
CAT-213-LC4	Foundations of Yoga 0035518 TBA	WICK W113 LEC	TR	09:20AM   01/26/12 11:25AM   03/08/12	2.00
CAT-224-LC4	Qi Gong Healing Meth TBA	WICKW113 LEC	R	10:00AM   03/22/12 11:25AM   03/22/12	1.00
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Learning Community 2 Topic: The Rich and the Poor

This learning community explores the difference in income levels throughout the world. It provides the theories and measurement instruments to explain inequality and studies how globalization has contributed in inequality.

ECO-213-LC5	Econom of Inequality  Dr. William DiPietr	B B102 LEC	MWF	01:25PM   01/25/12 02:20PM   05/04/12	3.00
GVT-210-LC5	Politics Globalizatn Dr. Joseph Sankoh	DS DS221 LEC	M	04:00PM   01/25/12 07:10PM   05/04/12	3.00

Learning Community 2 Topic: Legacies of the Sixties

This learning community provides two approaches to the study of contemporary issues, one historical and one literary. The historical component approaches the post-1960's era by examining social, economic, and political changes of the past two generations and their consequences. The literary component combines a "new historical" method of literary textual study with the study of genres (prose, poetry, fiction, drama and film). Together, these courses help students see how scholars from different disciplines evaluate the significance of the same events, movements, and themes.

IND-269-LC6	Hollywood's America Dr. Shawn Kelley	DS DS355 LEC	W	07:00PM   01/25/12 10:00PM   05/04/12	3.00
LIT-241-LC6	Literary Legacies  Dr. Shirley Peterso	DS DS219 LEC	TR	01:00PM   01/25/12 02:20PM   05/04/12	3.00

Learning Community 2 Topic: Imagining America: History, Culture, and Politics

This Learning Community will examine the history, politics, literature and popular culture of 19th, 20th and 21st century United States. We will explore how these disciplines influence and inspire both historical interpretation and creative expressions. We will examine how history and culture both reflect their time and place and how they can change time and place. This Learning Community will examine the history, politics, literature and popular culture of 19th, 20th and 21st century United States. We will explore how these disciplines influence and inspire both historical interpretation and creative expressions. We will examine how history and culture both reflect their time and place and how they can change time and place.

HIS-221-LC7	AmHist 1877-Present Dr. Penny Messinger	DS DS221 LEC	MWF	10:10AM   01/25/12 11:05AM   05/04/12	3.00
IND-256-LC7	The American Identity Dr. Denise G. Mills	DS DS227 LEC	TR	10:00AM   01/25/12 11:20AM   05/04/12	3.00

Learning Community 2 Topic: Themes in Art and Philosophy

The course will explore a number of important themes that can be found in both works of art and philosophy. While Plato argued that art is twice removed from reality, Aristotle affirmed that art grasps the real.

ART-107-LC8	Visual Experience Prof Brian W. Hamme	DS DS35 LEC	MWF	09:05AM   01/25/12 10:00AM   05/04/12	3.00
PHI-110-LC8	Philosophical Thinking  Dr. James A. Moran	DS DS248 LEC	MWF	10:10AM   01/25/12 11:05AM   05/04/12	3.00

Learning Community 2 Topic: Sustainability: Environment, Economy and Healthy Communities

How do we improve our communities to provide healthy environments with opportunities for all to support families and meet their needs without stealing from future generations? Learn about the underlying science of resource use and waste production and how we can choose practices and technology that ensure social justice and economic opportunities. Field trips to sites will highlight how we are working toward sustainable communities to ensure that everyone has access to jobs, health care, education, housing and a clean environment.

ENS-201LC9	Intro Environ Sci  Dr. Brenda Young	DS DS248 LEC	WF	01:30PM   01/25/12 02:50PM   05/04/12	3.00
IND-123-LC9	Intro to Sustain Comm |Sharon Benz	DS DS248 LEC	WF	12:00PM   01/25/12 01:20PM   05/04/12	3.00

Learning Community 2 Topic: Making Sense of Society

This learning community focuses on the systematic study of social behavior and human groups as well as the processes of social change through quantitative data and measurements. Without the mathematical basis provided by statistics, data and measurements in the field of sociology would be rendered meaningless or, even worse, capable of distorted and misleading interpretation. Students will explore the foundations or sociology as a social science while concurrently exploring the mathematical science of statistics in a more applied manner than the usual theory focused course.

MTH-104-LC10	Survey of Statistics Prof Jeremy Hall	DS DS219 LEC	TR	10:00AM   01/25/12 11:20AM   05/04/12	3.00
SOC-201-LC10	Intro Sociology Dr. George Siefert	DS DS221 LEC	TR	01:00PM   01/25/12 02:20PM   05/04/12	3.00

Learning Community 2 Topic: Poverty, Prosperity, and Power

This learning community explores varied causes and consequences of economic inequality in America. It provides the theories and measurement instruments to explain inequality, examines literary, artistic, and journalistic accounts of poverty and prosperity in American culture, and investigates the effects of economic inequality on the ways American citizens labor, live, and learn.

CMP-101-LC11	Composition Dr. Erica Frisicaro	DS DS218 LEC	MWF	09:05AM   01/25/12 10:00AM   05/04/12	3.00
ECO-213-LC11	Econom of Inequality Dr. William DiPietr	B B102 LEC	MWF	11:15AM   01/25/12 12:10PM   05/04/12	3.00

Learning Community 2 Topic: Culture and Crisis

This learning community explores the relationship between society, theater and film. "Culture and Crisis" will look at some of the fundamental categories that structure ancient and modern society (i.e. purity, honor, gender, morality). It will look at the way these values are reflected in sections of the Bible as well as select novels and films. "Theatre, Madness and Power" explores the ways in which such categories determine who we are and provide us with boundaries we overstep at our peril. The course

explores in particular the ways in which theatre and film have played alternately sacred, populist, controversial, and conservative roles in examining, challenging or determining our ideas of sanity, purity, sexuality and morality. The course will complement "Culture and Crisis" by exploring plays, films, and readings that reflect recurring crises in ancient and modern society.

REL-114-LC12	Culture and Story  Dr. Shawn Kelley	DS DS252 LEC	MWF	09:05AM   01/25/12 10:00AM   05/04/12	3.00
THA-119-LC12	Theatre, Madness, Power Dr. Robert L. Water	DS DS252 LEC	MWF	10:10AM   01/25/12 11:05AM   05/04/12	3.00

Learning Community 2 Topic: Psychological Study of Characters and Society in Literary Works

Literature and psychology, as a mode of literary criticism, is a mature and diverse field, and the link between these courses will demonstrate how short fiction can be read through the interpretive lens of the principles of psychology. CMP 101 will provide readings in short fiction that lend themselves to psychological interpretations, as we read the lives of people as reactions to psychological constructs; PSY 103 will then outline the science behind the interpretations by exposing students to various concepts and theories in the field. Readings include classics from anthologies and fairy tales to new and world literature. CMP 101 intends to enhance students' writing skills, developing critical thinking about the interpretive modes of literature while reinforcing the conventions of standard research writing.

CMP-101-LC13	Composition Dr. Karl Terryberry	DS DS240 LEC	MWF	10:10AM   01/25/12 11:05AM   05/04/12	3.00
PSY-103-LC13	Intro to Psychology Dr. Colleen Specht	DS DS240 LEC	MWF	09:05AM   01/25/12 10:00AM   05/04/12	3.00

Learning Community 2 Topic: Literature and Film

This learning community will examine film as a particular and specifically modern literary form and technology. It will also examine literature more broadly in relation to film in terms of formal, technical and ideological similarities and differences. Students will learn the ways in which various literary forms, including film, enrich and complement one another and how, for example, a film can be poetic or dramatic and a poem or novel can be cinematic and how the screen differs from the page and how one kind of screen (movie) differs from another (television).

IND-219-LC14	20th Cent Film Robert Cianciosa	DS DS35 LEC	T	02:30PM   01/25/12 05:30PM   05/04/12	3.00
LIT-219-LC14	Literature and Film  Dr. Robert Morace	DS DS35 LEC	R	02:30PM   01/25/12 05:30PM   05/04/12	3.00

Learning Community 2 Topic: The Business of Sport

This learning community explores the business of professional and amateur sport by studying the roles of franchise owners and administrators, college athletic directors, Olympic sport personnel, recreation managers and the athletes themselves.

IND-249-LC15	Perform Enhancement  Dr. Linda Kuechler  Mr. Joseph DiPietro	CEST CEST WEBEN	MW	02:00PM  01/25/12 03:00PM  05/04/12	3.00
MGT-260-LC15	Intro to Sport Management  Dr. Bridget Niland	B B102 LEC	MWF	12:20PM  01/25/12 01:15PM  05/04/12	3.00

Learning Community 2 Topic: Making Art and Commumnity Happen

In this learning community students will gain basic skills in analyzing and creating works of art. They will explore ways artists and communities use these skills to address and respond to local concerns. Students will take the knowledge and skills they learn in the studio and the classroom and apply them at a local arts organization in order to experience the connections between art and community first hand.

ART-101-LC16	Intro to Visual Arts Prof Dana Hatchett	DS DS135 LEC	MWF	09:05AM  01/25/12 10:00AM  05/04/12	3.00
IND-147-LC16	ST:Art and Community Dr. Mary Wolf	SH SH208 LEC	TR	01:00PM  01/25/12 02:20PM  05/04/12	3.00

 

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