6 courses with the subject LS, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
LS 130ID: African American & Other Cul Tr3.00
The aim of this interdisciplinary Freshman Studies course is to 42 enable students to examine the process of human identity formation in Western and non-Western contexts. The course aims also to enable students to examine themselves as individuals and as citizens – their beliefs, values, morals, customs, fears, strengths, talents, ethnicity, ways of coping and challenging, attitudes toward learning, and interaction with other humans. Students will conduct inquiry into the systems and factors of this process beginning with those which may have formed their individual identities: family, religious, political, and socio-cultural systems. Inquiry will be based on readings from a wide variety of cross-disciplinary materials, brainstorming through questioning, and analyzing arguments across the disciplines. LSP: HU
LS 135Science, Technology, Ethics Three credit hour
An introduction to the basic principles of biological and physical science and its impact on human life. Current issues in science and technology pertaining to the environment and human health are discussed.
This interdisciplinary course introduces the modern practices and applications of social, economic, and political theory. These practices and applications build competence in understanding and using institutions that affect social and economic events. Emphasis is placed on processes and events that affect different cultural groups and societies.
LS 237Studies in World Cultures Three credit hours
This multidisciplinary sophomore level course, through the methodology of history, introduces students to the religion, art, social organization, economics, politics, literature, and philosophy of various cultures. Contributions of Western and non-Western cultures will be examined. There is, however, a strong emphasis on non-Western cultures.
This multidisciplinary course, through the methodology of history, enables students to analyze the social organization, economics, politics, science and technology, literature, art, religion and philosophy of various cultures and civilizations up to 1500. Patterns of interaction between civilizations and the relevance of the past for the present are also considered. Contributions of Western and non-Western cultures and civilizations are examined.
