SEM-213 |
Literature & Environment |
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This course explores the human connection to the natural environment, in mostly British and American literature | |||
from the eighteenth through twentieth centuries. This exploration will combine readings in fiction, poetry, and | |||
non-fiction sources to understand better our connection to the world around us and our function within it. In | |||
addition to exploring this in literature, students will be asked to develop and express an understanding of their | |||
own connection to the environment and the choices they make about it, based on the value systems studied. | |||
This course focuses on the earth, one of the five critical concerns of the Sisters of Mercy: women, non-violence, | |||
earth, anti-racism, and immigration. This course meets the University ' s definition of writing intensive. |
3.00 |
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SEM-214 |
SEM 214 Divas of Music: From Bingen to Beyonce |
This course is an interdisciplinary survey of the history of women in music, illuminating the contribution of women composers, conductors, patrons, and performers and the ways in which they have influenced Western and American musical traditions( including classical and popular music). Some key figures to be covered will include Hildegard von Bingen, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, Clara Schumann, Nadia Boulanger, Marian Anderson, Madonna and Beyonce. The course will investigate depictions of women in music as well as culture, reinforcing one of the five critical concerns of the Sisters of Mercy: women, non-violence, earth, anti-racism, and |
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immigration. The course meets the University ' s definition of writing intensive. |
3.00 |
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SEM-215 |
The Bible as Literature |
This course explores the Bible as a work of literature, including its mythical, historical and cultural contexts, using appropriate critical concepts. Readings will be in the major books of the Old and New Testaments( New Revised Standard Version). This course focuses on women, one of the five critical concerns of the Sisters of Mercy: women, non-violence, earth, anti-racism, and immigration. This course meets the University ' s definition of |
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writing intensive. |
3.00 |
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SEM-216 |
Role of Women in the Graphic Novel |
This course examines the roles and representations of women in graphic novels from the comic book archetypes to complex female characters and contemporary authorial voices. This course focuses on women, one of the five critical concerns of the Sisters of Mercy: women, non-violence, earth, anti-racism, and immigration. This course |
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meets the University ' s definition of writing intensive. |
3.00 |
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SEM-217 |
Conflict & Peace in Science Fiction |
This course introduces students to the genre of science fiction literature and its unique ability to examine social, ethical, and cultural issues by placing them outside reality. Students will explore a variety of science fiction works, both literary and film, focusing on issues of non-violence. The speculative nature of the genre allows writers to depict how alternate or future histories deal with issues of violence, conflict, and peace. Can these works offer audiences a new vision of how we might approach these same issues on our home planet? This is one of the questions we will explore in this course. This course focuses on non-violence, which is one of the five critical concerns of the Sisters of Mercy: Earth, non-violence, women, racism, and immigration. This course meets the |
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University ' s definition of writing intensive. |
3.00 |
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SEM-218 |
Women in the Christian Scriptures |
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This seminar explores the Bible ' s New Testament as a literary and spiritual text, including its mythical, historical, | |||
theological, and cultural contexts, using appropriate critical concepts. Readings are in the major books of the New | |||
Testament( New Revised Standard Version). We will have a particular focus on women of the New Testament and | |||
the parts they play in the text, exploring also scholarly research on several related topics. |
3.00 |
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SEM-220 |
The Ethics and Politics of Capitalism |
This is a course that explores the religious and philosophical underpinnings and moral implications of |
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contemporary capitalism and its relationship to human flourishing and human suffering. |
3.00 |
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