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- SSCI
Each SSCI class introduces students to issues of development,
childhood, adolescence, parenting, and identity formation through factors
such as race, religion, environment, etc. A major goal of each class
is to encourage students to think about and debate important issues raised
in class.
- SSCI 104: Growing Up in America (4)
An interdisciplinary study of issues associated with
childhood, adolescence and parenting with particular attention to sociocultural
[social, cultural, and diversity] factors in the United States that affect
development. The class paints a picture of childhood in the United States
and, at the same time, focuses on factors that optimize the development
of children. At the end of the class, students should not only be knowledgeable
about the issues surrounding childhood in this country but have reflected
about their responsibility as citizens and future parents.
- This is a Service-Learning Course.
- Prerequisite: ENGL 111 or 124
- SSCI 105: Identity in Society (4)
An exploration of relationships among individuals,
social groups and institutions, emphasizing the uses of power and authority
and the roles of oral communication and networking in constructing social
ties and mediating disputes. Major social groups such as the state,
the workplace, the school, the church and the family are examined from
the perspectives of politics, economics, education, religion and science.
- This is a Service Learning Course.
- Prerequisite: ENGL 111 or 124
- SSCI 106: Childhood in Global Perspective (4)
An interdisciplinary survey of issues impacting the
development of children around the world, with particular emphasis on
developing regions and non-Western contexts. The course will consider
children’s health and well being within the context of familial,
cultural, economic and political systems, and how these are affected
by global economic and political focus. By the end of the class,
students should not only be knowledgeable about the issues surrounding
childhood, but have reflected about their responsibility as citizens
of the world.
- Prerequisite: ENGL 111 or ENGL 124
- SSCI 107: Gender and Law in Contemporary Society (4)
This course is a general study of how issues of gender and law interact in determining how societies construct and enforce expectations concerning relations between the sexes. It will cover historic gender-driven court cases, contemporary American law and how it engages issues of gender-related behaviors and rights, and some global concerns about legal discrimination against women. It includes the investigation of the aspects of human perception and memory related to gender factors and the effects of socio-cultural traditions on eyewitness interpretation and testimony.
- Prerequisite: ENGL 111 or ENGL 124
- HUMN
Each of the Humanities courses introduces students to basic
skills of critical analysis as applied to cultural texts produced in the
United States. Students use these skills in response to interdisciplinary
explorations of contested social, cultural, religious, political, and
economic dimensions of American life.
- HUMN 204: Exploring American Culture through Literature (4)
With a focus on American literature and film, this
course seeks to make LSU students educated participants in the creation
and evolution of American culture. To achieve this fundamental
objective, the course introduces students to basic skills of critical
analysis as applied to cultural “texts” produced in the
United States. Students then learn to use these skills and respond
to specific explorations of contested dimensions of culture such as
religion, society, culture, politics, and economics.
- Prerequisite: ENGL 113 or 124
- HUMN 205: Exploring American Culture through Visual and Performing
Arts (4)
With a focus on American visual and performing arts,
this course seeks to make LSU students educated participants in the
creation and evolution of American culture. To achieve this fundamental
objective, the course introduces students to basic skills of critical
analysis as applied to cultural “texts” produced in the
United States. Students then learn to use these skills and respond to
specific explorations of contested dimensions of culture such as religion,
society, culture, politics, and economics.
- Prerequisite: ENGL 113 or 124
- RLGN
- RLGN 304: Adventism in Global Perspective (4)
An interdisciplinary study of Adventism from
its inception in nineteenth-century New England to its present situation
as a multicultural community of faith, including major figures and historical
turning points. The course traces the development of Adventist beliefs
and their relationships to those of other Christian denominations. The
course also considers various aspects of the Adventist lifestyle and
surveys the principal Adventist enterprises-health care, education,
media and missions, as well as Adventist spirituality and the problems
it encounters in a predominantly secular environment.
- Prerequisite: ENGL 113 or 124; junior standing
- RLGN 305: The Experience of Religion in Three Cultures (4)
An examination of the phenomena of religious belief
and experience, and a study of the theologies and institutions that
formalize belief, establish community and insure their preservation
and perpetuation. Special attention is given to Christianity and to
two of the following: Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Animism.
The course interacts with the contemporary world by exploring ways
of developing relevant, persuasive individual and community value systems
and the influence of these systems on individual and community judgments
and choices.
- Not open to students with credit in RELG 237: World Religions.
- Prerequisite: ENGL 113 or 124; junior standing
- NSCI
Each of the NSCI courses critically examines science in light of
religious, philosophical and ethical issues. A major goal of each
course is to lead both science and non-science students to understand both
the importance and the limitations of science.
- NSCI 404: Humans and the Environment (4)
An interdisciplinary survey of issues impacting the environment. The
course will consider environmental ethics and/or moral leadership in issues
such as ecology, environmental resources, resource management, health and
the environment, pollution, etc., and how it impacts the idea of creation
as the grounding of Christian environmental concerns. A major goal
is to help students understand the importance of their role as responsible
citizens in the content of environmental ethics.
- Prerequisite: ENGL 113 or 124; 4 unites that fulfill Theme IVA or
Theme IVB requirements; 4 units of mathematics that fulfill Foundational
Studies III requirements. Students must have junior or senior standing.
- NSCI 405: Scientific Thinking and Religious Belief (4)
This course is an introductory study of the nature
of scientific thinking, its various kinds of interactions with religious
belief, and its impact on contemporary issues. A major goal is to lead
both science and non-science students to understand both the importance
and limitation of science.
- Prerequisite: ENGL 113 or 124; 4 units that fulfill Theme IVA or Theme
IVB requirements; 4 units of mathematics that fulfill Foundational Studies
III requirements; junior standing.
- NSCI 406: Nature and Human Values (4)
This course is an introductory study of the ways
humans try to make sense out of the nature of the universe and their
place in it. The relationships between science and religion are a prominent
theme of the course. A major goal is to lead both science and non-science
students to understand both the importance and limitations of science.
- Prerequisite: ENGL 113 or 124; 4 units that fulfill Theme IVA or Theme
IVB requirements; 4 units of mathematics that fulfill Foundational Studies
III requirements; junior standing.
- NSCI 407: Religion and Rationality (4)
An introductory study of the relationship between
rational reflection and religious conviction. Will focus particularly,
but not exclusively, on links between the methods appropriate to natural
scientific analysis and those useful for the assessment of religious
claims and on the substantive implications of the findings of the natural
sciences for religious belief and of religious beliefs for judgments
in the natural sciences. A major goal is to help students understand
the importance and limitations of the natural sciences.
- Prerequisite: ENGL 113 or 124; 4 units that fulfill Theme IVA or Theme
IVB requirements; 4 units of mathematics that fulfill Foundational Studies
III requirements; junior standing.
- UNST 404: Religious, Moral and Social Aspects
A senior-level seminar and capstone to the general education program and to each student’s major program of studies, considering epistemological, moral, and social issues raised by the student’s discipline. Students explore significant issues both theoretically and as specific problems of contemporary life, bringing their experience and knowledge to bear on the interaction of their values with their discipline. (4)
- Prerequisite: ENGL 113 or 124; junior standing.
- UNST 404A - Art
- UNST 404B - Biology
- UNST 404D - Chemistry
- UNST 404E - Communication
- UNST 404F - English
- UNST 404G - Health
- UNST 404H - History
- UNST 404S - Language
- UNST 404K - Music
- UNST 404M - Psychology
- UNST 404P - Social Work
- UNST 404C - Business
- UNST 404Q - Education
- UNST 404R - Religion
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