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Level Courses
*71393 RELIGION AND VIOLENCE
This course explores the highly ambiguous relationship between religion and violence. It provides an overview of situations in the world today that are examples of this ambiguous relationship. Ethical teachings regarding violence in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are examined. Students are exposed to authors who seek to comprehend violent behavior using explanatory theories. Responses to 9/ll/2001 written by a Jew, a Christian, and a Muslim are encountered. The goal is to allow students in the course to develop an understanding of various dimensions (ethical, social, psychological, political, and theological) of the relationship between religion and violence.
INSTRUCTOR: Dr. Charles Bellinger
*71733
SCIENCE, SCIENTISTS, AND SOCIETY
This course is a cross-disciplinary course
in the natural sciences. It will acquaint you with the workings
of science and scientists by examining recurring themes and selected
episodes in the history of science. We will consider the nature
of the scientific enterprise and how science differs from or is similar
to other areas of human endeavor such as art, religion, philosophy,
economics, etc. After taking this course you will have a better
understanding of science and how it works and of the complex relationship
between science and the intellectual, cultural and social milieu in
which it is practiced. You will learn the nature of scientific
explanation and the limits of scientific understanding.
INSTRUCTOR: Dr. John Breyer
http://www.geowww.geo.tcu.edu/faculty/breyer/breyer.html
71813 THE COLD WAR AT HOME AND ABROAD
From the end of the Second World War in 1945 until the collapse of the Soviet Union forty-five years later, the Cold War dominated the domestic and foreign affairs of the United States. This course examines the origins of the Cold War and some of the consequences, including the development and application of the containment policy, McCarthyism, the wars in Korea and Vietnam, various other interventions, the de-bates over diplomatic issues, and the various strategies employed by different presidential administrations. Students will have a chance to do some reading on these subjects and to discuss them. Also they will view episodes from CNN’s production, “The Cold War”. The requirements consist of short weekly papers based on the readings and also a kind of term project, a five-seven page critique of John Lewis Gaddis' book, We Now Know. The other readings are T.G. Paterson and J.G. Clifford, America Ascendant: U.S. Foreign Relations since 1939 and R.J. McMahon and T.G. Paterson, The Origins of the Cold War, 4th ed.
*71843 THE ETHICS OF COMMUNICATION
An examination of contrasting models and standards of communication
ethics. Students apply these perspectives to specific situations in
politics, advertising, interpersonal communication and writing.
INSTRUCTOR: Dr. Paul
King http://www.spc.tcu.edu/
*71903
PREPARING FOR THE CHALLENGES OF THE NEW CENTURY
The last two decades of the 20th century
ushered in
tumultuous changes in the economic, social, and political
landscape; these transformations would have an indelible impact
on the emerging society of the 21st century. This course is designed
to provide a forum for analysis and discussion of some of the most significant
issues of global politics in the new Millennium. While the attempt is to dissect these
issues primarily on their own terms, we would also discuss the challenges
they pose to the United States and the global community.
INSTRUCTOR: Dr. Manochehr Dorraj http://www.pol.tcu.edu
71943
ANCIENT MYSTERIES: REAL
AND IMAGINED
In
addition to providing an overview of Ancient Mediterranean and Near
Eastern History from the Paleolithic age to the fall of Rome, this course
explores in some detail various controversial topics that have generated
popular interest and often engendered misinformation.
These topics are analyzed in a scholarly manner in order to solve
the "mystery" or expose common misperceptions and pseudo-scholarship.
Typical topics include the following:
the fall of Rome, the historical Jesus, other Biblical topics,
the pyramids, the Neanderthal problem, and the search for the Trojan
War.
*71973
LAW AND SOCIETY
This course examines the relationship between
legal institutions and social processes. Course readings and discussion
will focus on the social and political nature of law; the creation and
organization of law in modern societies; social functions of law; the
limits of law as an instrument of social change; the legislation of
morality; democracy, individualism and law; criminal behavior and individual
rights; and the use of scientific information in law.
INSTRUCTOR: Dr. Carol Thompson http://www.soc.tcu.edu/FAC.html
