Note: In order to find a course in the new 4 digit numbering system using an old 3 digit number, please refer to the conversion list below. Before registering for courses with the new 4 digit numbering system, please ensure that you have not previously taken the course in its 3 digit form.
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Interdisciplinary Studies
0015 -
Success in the University Environment
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This course is designed to provide students who are registered in the Brescia University College Preliminary Year with opportunities to learn new abilities and upgrade skills needed to achieve success in the university environment. Successful completion of Interdisciplinary Studies 0015 is required to pass Preliminary Year at Brescia.
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Enrollment in Preliminary Year at Brescia University College.
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Interdisciplinary Studies
1000F/G -
Introduction to Global Challenges
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An introduction to key world-wide challenges in the areas of politics, economics, culture, and society. Topics may include human rights, international trade, globalization of disease, and environmental issues.
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Interdisciplinary Studies
1021E -
Inquiry, Interpretation, Rhetoric
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An interdisciplinary course for students in the humanities and social sciences. Through intellectually challenging projects focused on texts from multiple fields of inquiry, students will reflect critically on the production of knowledge and will gain substantial exercise and mentorship in interpretation, reading, research, writing, and oral expression.
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Interdisciplinary Studies
2200E -
Origins of Ideas
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An interdisciplinary course for students in the humanities and social sciences. This course will deal with the origins of ideas (such as democracy, rationality, utilitarianism, ethics, altruism, evolution, civil society) their evolution over time, and their influence on contemporary debates.
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Interdisciplinary Studies
2210F/G -
Studies in Community-Based Learning
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An interdisciplinary exploration of learning and knowledge in relation to social experience and action. Through theoretical and case studies, the course consists of a critical exploration of the mutual interrelationships between the community and the academy.
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Interdisciplinary Studies
2240F/G -
Experiential Learning: Power and Reflexivity
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This course will prepare students to be aware of power relations and ethical complexities in experiential learning or practicum settings, and to be reflexive and humble about their own positions, motives and potential influence.
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Social Justice and Peace Studies 2200E, or registration in the one of the following:
Honors Specialization or Major in Childhood and Social Institutions , Minor in Thanatology, Honors Specialization or Major in Media and Public Interest, or permission of the department.
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Interdisciplinary Studies
2246 -
Rethinking Disability
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Interdisciplinary Disability Studies challenges the historical, medical and mainstream views of disability or mental illness as personal tragedy and a problem to be fixed. We explore disability as a socio-cultural construct akin to race with symbolic, ethical and material consequences. Dynamic emic and etic examples of resistance and change are discussed.
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Interdisciplinary Studies
2252F/G -
Introduction to Interdisciplinary Qualitative Research Methods
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This is an introductory lecture course in Qualitative Research Methods drawing on the Social Sciences but also the Humanities. Three approaches (Unobtrusive Research, Interviews, and Participant Observation) to research are examined in terms of the usefulness of each approach depending on the question being researched.
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The former Interdisciplinary Studies 3310F/G.
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Interdisciplinary Studies
3316F/G -
Imagined Monsters: Representations of Disability and Madness
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This course examines shifting cultural contexts that produce diverse, evolving representations of disability, madness, otherness and normalcy in private reflections and public media (news, policies, memoirs, arts) by medical and caring professionals, law, state, church and family; and explores how changing public attitudes impact the meaning and experience of disability.
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Interdisciplinary Studies
3320F/G -
Narratives of Disability, Kinship and Care
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This course explores the socio-cultural, political meanings, and relational, ethical and material significance of disability and mental health on relationships over the life course. It combines a disability studies lens with narrative and kinship theories to analyze mutuality, discontinuity and creativity in relationships through compelling literary and film portrayals.
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Interdisciplinary Studies
4410F/G -
Responding to the Experiences of Community-Based Learning
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Responding to the Experiences of Community-Based Learning This seminar course provides students with an opportunity to synthesize prior community-based learning experiences within a theoretical framework. Students will explore the philosophical, political and social theories/ideas underlying the practice of community-based learning and the interrelationships between the academic and off-campus community. Students will also organize a public forum on the subject of community engagement.
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