11 courses with the subject CLU, 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.
While the central focus of CLU 121 is baseball in the Dominican Republic, we will approach that topic from multiple angles. We will learn about Dominican history and culture and the sociology of sports as we work to understand the importance of la pelota in Dominican society.
Students will examine connections between African cultures, and the development of jazz in the United States of America. Focus will be on West African origins, the slave trade, and interactions between black and white Americans. The close connection between the creation of jazz as an art form and the influence African American cultures had on this creative process will be a central figure. The racial tensions through the 20th century and their influence on society and music will also be a core idea.
This course examines the macromolecules of major food groups as well as of food preparation techniques and their chemical reactions. We examine how food science intersects with social, political and economic factors including government dietary guidelines, domestic and global food insecurity, conditions of food sector workers and inequalities in food production, preparation and consumption. The course includes significant experiential and service learning opportunities and classroom lab experiences related to each discipline.
Drawing on the disciplines of political science and film studies, this cluster explores the intersection globalization and sport on economic class, ethnic and national identities across a variety of countries and cultures. The cluster explores how ethnic, class, and national loyalties manifest themselves through sport and culture, with a particular focus on how these themes are presented in film. Both sport and fil evoke strong emotions among fans, and patterns of cultural and economic consumption of globalized sport along with other cultural products occur unevenly across and among societies. Students in the cluster explore cultural, economic and political impacts of globalization on sport ( and other significant cultural products) as expressed through the medium of film. The cluster encourages students to approach these themes in a comparative framework.
Emotions help individuals understand and process their own experiences and reactions. They also shape and are shaped by cultural contexts. This cluster will introduce students to emotions using two disciplinary perspectives: psychology and history. Students will learn about the psychology of emotions, which includes the theoretical role of cognition and the impact on social relationships, and about the history of emotions, which studies the cultural expression of emotions in historical contexts. The course will introduce students to psychological and historical methodologies and will explore examples of emotions and a diverse range of historical topics. In doing so, students will learn the value and limitations of both disciplinary approaches.
How we tell the stories of our past reflects our own values and interests. This course will examine public memory as a manifestation of the perceptions, displays, and uses of the past by communities and nations. Public memory is contested and changing, and this course will examine the theory of public memory as well as some examples, as it is studied by historians, sociologists, political scientists, and others. Students will explore personal and political topics related to public memory.
This cluster approaches the human experience of illness and mortality by way of bioethics and narrative ethics. With a focus on cancer and AIDS, we will explore the biological underpinnings, successes, and challenges in diagnosis and treatment as we study the moral questions posed by authors, narrators, and characters in literary and cinematic texts depicting these diseases. This class’s interdisciplinary approach to illness seeks to deepen student understanding of the ethical responsibilities in decision-making that occurs in health care, storytelling, and our daily lives. By the end of the semester, students will have a greater sense of how the humanities and science complement one another in advancing medical treatment, theorizing mortality, promoting health, and cultivating the compassion that sustains us.
This is an interdisciplinary introduction to the ways that Appalachian people have engaged their environments throughout history and today. The course is divided into three units: storytelling, belief, and justice. Each unit works within a different discipline (including literature, folklore, history, anthropology) to explore the diverse ways that Appalachian communities have engaged the world and their place in it.
Stars and Sculpture combines two disciplines that emphasize and employ the skills of observation. Artists have been inspired by the night sky and astronomical phenomena for centuries. Students in this cluster will continue in this spirit as they transform the information gained from their study of astronomy into physical objects and visual experiences created as part of their sculpture course. Research into historical examples of the overlapping interests of art and astronomy will enrich the study of both disciplines
This course will explore decision making from a mathematical perspective and from a psychological and neuroscientific perspective. We will explore of how to make various types of decisions optimally and we will explore how people actually make decisions, how typical human decisions deviate from optimality, and how we can use mathematically modelling to understand human decision making.
This summer seminar has students apply the literature on nationalism to analyze the dynamics of peacebuilding related to the nationalist/sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland between the Protestant (Unionist) and Catholic (Irish nationalist) communities. In this cluster students survey the interdisciplinary academic literature on nationalism and nationalist conflict prior to traveling to Northern Ireland. They will then travel to Belfast participating in three academic modules offered by faculty at Queen’s University Belfast All students will participate in the Week 1 Module: Belfast: Culture, Identity, History and Politics. For weeks 2 and 3 they will select either the Irish Studies or Divided Societies based on their particular academic interests in nationalism and national identity. These models will help students understand the situation in Northern Ireland as a “contemporary expressions of nationalism,” for this particular version of PS 345. After completing these modules through the Queen’s University Summer School, students will apply the general theories of nationalism to help them analyze specific elements of national identities in Northern Ireland and efforts at conflict resolution and peacebuilding related to the sectarian conflicts there. Upon returning to the United States students will apply what they learned in N. Ireland back to the seminar and finish their specific research projects linking specific aspects of the historical and contemporary inter-group conflicts to the wider nationalism literature.
Source: Westminster College's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 59
