23 courses with the subject INTD, 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.
INTD 100X(E, S, FYS) Energy and Society3
This course addresses how energy is produced and used for society and the impact this production and usage has on society. The basic science of energy will be covered. Guest speakers will guide the students through discussions of the various complex human issues involved. Various elements of the course will introduce the student to the academic life, foster relationships with the faculty, using library resources, developing skills at completing projects and working in groups.
The historical origins of the Vietnam War, including the period of French colonialism and the American intervention; the politics, economics, and military strategy in Vietnam during the war years and today; present relations with China and the USSR. Why were we there and why did we fail?
The course will examine the historic, physiologic, social, cultural, emotional and economic issues affecting men’s health. The course explores strategies to assist students to gain information regarding men’s health issues, adopt healthier lifestyles, and use health care services appropriately. Health issues related to culture and diversity will also be addressed. Class members will be expected to actively participate in all discussions.
An examination of the often contrasting impressions of historical personalities, as they are portrayed in plays and films and as they appear to historians. Historical figures to be considered include Caesar, Richard III, Thomas More, Lincoln and Churchill.
INTD 108Health and Legal Implications of Chemical/Drug Abuse3
A team-taught course that deals with the neurophysical, health, and legal implications of alcohol/drug abuse, via: its biochemical effects and aspects, its legal and social consequences, and its health and lifestyle implications.
A study of mathematical topics related to art, architecture, and design through the ages. Topics include: musical ratios, golden ratio, polygons, tilings, symmetry, circles, spirals, Platonic solids, perspective, and fractals. Visual artists include: Vitruvius, Palladio, Le Corbusier, Villard de Honnecourt, Leonardo, Dürer, Escher, and Greek, Islamic, and Indian designers.
(With appropriate administrative approvals, it fulfills the First-Year Seminar General Education requirement) This course introduces students to the Ignatian mission of the University of Scranton and guides their engagement with it, including in its intellectual, spiritual and social aspects.
This course is designed as an introduction to the foundational theory of and skills essential to legal studies. As such, it functions as the cornerstone of the Legal Studies concentration, although any student may enroll.
Students will make the transition from high school to college-level writing, research & speaking through a series of workshops, conferences, writing assignments & oral presentations. This course satisfies both the Oral Communication & the Written Communication requirements in the University’s General Education curriculum.
Students will explore the ways in which we have come to understand the terrorist attacks of September 11, as well as the ways those attacks have shaped how we understand ourselves and our world. We will analyze the ways 9/11 has been and continues to be represented through multiple media and genres, e.g. architecture, commemoration, art, non-fiction, fiction, film, governmental discourse, journalism, poetry, and theatre.
A science course for non-science majors that introduces students to the scientific method through an analysis of the roles played by Jesuits, and others, in development of various scientific disciplines. This seminar emphasizes the application of a scientific approach in the problem solving process.
INTD 122X(S, FYS) Ignatian Citizenship and Contemporary American Politics3
This seminar explores Ignatian humanism as a pathway for understanding citizenship in contemporary American society. It examines ancient texts as influences on Renaissance humanism and, thus, Ignatian humanism and its appreciation of civic responsibility. The concept of citizenship in American Political Science and American politics is examined using that lens.
This course engages students in discussions and experiments to facilitate their understanding of how the body physically responds and adapts to stress and how resilience can help one navigate stressful situations. A variety of tools and exercises will be utilized to demonstrate how an individual can enhance their resilience.
An exploration of the cataclysmic event in Jewish history known as the Holocaust. The course will examine the subject from the perspective of various academic disciplines – historical, sociological, philosophical, artistic, and literary, among others – and will include a field trip to the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C.
INTD 210(P, E) Catholic Bioethics: Biotechnology and Human Dignity3
The current scientific understanding of human fertilization and development, reproductive technologies, human cloning, stem cell research, gene and medically defined death will be reviewed. Pertinent ethical considerations will be discussed, presenting the Catholic perspective in dialogue with the major philosophical approaches.
C/IL 102/102L or equivalent) Study of the biology of HIV and AIDS, impact of the epidemic on various social groups and countries. The epidemiology of the disease and the response of health-care systems and governments. Opportunity for American Red Cross certification in basic HIV facts and eligibility for HIV Instructor certification will be included as part of the course. Open to all majors.
INTD 212The Loyola Experience3
This course is an interdisciplinary study of the life of St. Ignatius Loyola. The course is recommended as a companion to The Loyola Experience: An Ignatian Pilgrimage. The pilgrimage retraces the steps of the early Jesuits, visiting important Ignatian sites in Spain and Rome, from Loyola castle in the Basque region of Spain to the Gesu in Rome.
This course offers an introduction to feminist and gender theories and to their multimedia methods of applications in the digital era. Elements of feminist/gender thought and praxis will be analyzed and interpreted through a variety of disciplinary perspectives.
An introduction to the physics of lighting, sound and special effects in the context of theatrical production. Readings will explore both underlying physics and theatrical aesthetics. Assignments include applications in color, reflection and refraction of light, acoustics and aesthetics in sound, and an exploration of special effects such as stage fog.
(Pre-requisite: To be eligible, students must have completed either a service trip of at least one full week, or relevant study abroad course or program within one year before the course begins. The experience may have been domestic or international.) According to the Ignatian Pedagogical Paradigm, genuine education requires a process of reflection to follow experience before moving into action. Such a process is particularly important for students who have had an immersion experience among the economically disadvantaged. This course offers such students the opportunity to reflect on, process and analyze what they have experienced in a variety of ways.
This course, which follows the Presidential Colloquy and bridges students’ first and second years, nurtures their leadership skills and sense of civic responsibility. The course is designed to foster students’ sense of what they wish to accomplish during their undergraduate experience along with their understanding of the larger social implications of their studies, their community involvement and their lives. Students engage in interdisciplinary readings and discussions, real-time shared reflection on the meaning of their summer employment and civic engagement, and the mentoring of incoming first-year students.
WRTG 105 , WRTG 106 , WRTG 107 or equivalent) The seminar-style course focuses on women’s history in northeastern Pennsylvania, 1880-1945. Students will identify, research and analyze primary documents to enrich the fund of knowledge on women’s history in the state. Some travel is planned to historic sites in the region. Topics engage disciplines from science to law to art.
INTD 333(CA, P) The Bible in Image and Text3
This team-taught course is a study of the interpretation of major biblical stories and figures in the Christian theological tradition and in art history. The marriage of Christian text and image is a natural and long-lived one; it provides an exciting way to integrate knowledge of various major themes such as creation and last judgment, and of many great biblical figures, such as Moses and Christ.
