This course will examine alternative cultures of medicine in the United States, predominantly in late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries. We will investigate diverse traditions specific to three groups: African-Americans, American Indians, and immigrants. […]
Category: Spring Semester Courses
CC 325 EV: From Nationalism to Patriotism
This interdisciplinary seminar will seek to develop both theoretical and empirical appreciation of nationalism and patriotism in a global perspective. […]
CC 215: The Christian Tradition
This course introduces students to central developments in the history of Christianity and to diverse forms of Christianity today. It also explores the nature and purpose of Christian theology and encourages students to reflect more deeply on their own religious convictions and questions. The course focuses on the close reading and discussion of primary texts in the Christian intellectual and spiritual tradition. […]
CC 300 DX: Global Humanitarianism Examined
This class examines the connection between intergovernmental agencies and the nonprofit sector—humanitarian aid—in historical perspective. Its reach is global. […]
CC 325 B: Theology and Ecology
All of us live on earth, but there are alarming signs that we are not living well. Climate change. Ozone depletion. Deforestation. Poisoned waterways. Hypoxic zones. Soil erosion. […]
CC 255: Interpretation: Self, Culture, Society
Continuing the important questions addressed in the First-Year Program–what it means to be human–this course examines the ways that human beings are deeply social creatures that both make and are made by their communities. […]
CC 300 HX: Human Nature
Many people have an intuitive sense of what “human nature” is. Sometimes they appeal to their intuitions as a way excusing behavior (“It’s human nature to want to win” or “it’s in our nature to sin”), and sometimes as a way of condemning behavior (“Terrorism is inhuman” or “if she had an ounce of humanity, she would apologize”). What do people mean when they make claims like these? […]
CC 300 SAX: The London Stage
This 3-hour seminar is CC 300 SBX The London Stage–and it will include excursions to Buckingham Palace, The National Gallery, The British Museum, and Stratford-Upon-Avon; tours of the National Theatre, Shakespeare’s Globe, and Westminster Abbey; and tickets to 10 plays and musicals performing at a wide variety of theatres throughout Greater London. […]
CC 300 G: The End of the World
Humanity now has the power to destroy ourselves – and not just ourselves but all life on Earth – in ways both unprecedented and terrifying. We live under the loom of an ecological crisis that’s potentially apocalyptic in scope and the product of human handiwork. […]
CC 300 FX: Religion and Politics in Eastern Europe
This course examines the complicated dynamics of religion and politics in Eastern Europe. […]