NSU 2014-2015 Undergraduate Catalog

459 Nova Southeastern University • Undergraduate Student Catalog • 2014–2015 COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Sciences’ annual theme, this course introduces students to fundamentals of scholarly life and the expectations of student/faculty learning. Students will examine the situations of historical and fictional figures whose suffering brings to them a sense of self-worth as well as a connection to nation, religion, or ethnic group. China, Germany, Afghanistan, and the U.S. are examples of some of the nations and cultures that are explored, and through these examples, students will delineate historical, legal, political and social issues related to identity. UNIV 1010S First Year Seminar: Play Ball: America through the Eyes of Sports (3 credits) This course is an interactive seminar for first year students. Connected to the Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences’ annual theme, this course introduces students to fundamentals of scholarly life and the expectations of student/faculty learning. The class will focus on the way that sports have played a vital role in American culture and history, helping shape and define who we are, as individuals and as Americans. Students will explore how sports have helped shape American society and have also reflected the cultural and social tensions that have enveloped America in the last century. UNIV 1010T First Year Seminar: Human Animals (3 credits) This course is an interactive seminar for first year students. Connected to the Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences’ annual theme, this course introduces students to fundamentals of scholarly life and the expectations of student/faculty learning. This course will examine the question, what kind of animals are human beings? Are human beings unique sorts of animals having a peculiar set of capacities and proclivities that distinguishes them significantly from other animals on this planet? Or are humans rather more like other animals than we previously allowed ourselves to believe? Do animals feel empathy for each other, treat one another fairly, cooperate toward common goals, and help each other out of trouble? In short, do animals demonstrate morality? This course will cut across disciplinary lines so that students can become acquainted in new research findings in animal behavior, animal cognition, and philosophy. UNIV 1010U First Year Seminar: Identity and Popular Culture (3 credits) This course is an interactive seminar for first year students. Connected to the Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences’ annual theme, this course introduces students to fundamentals of scholarly life and the expectations of student/faculty learning. This course explores popular culture and its effects on conceptions of self in contemporary U.S. society. Students will consider the formation of identity categories such as race and ethnicity, social class, gender and sexuality through an examination of messages sent by the media. Students will study popular cultural texts of their choosing including music, music videos, advertising, television and film. also intellectually and emotionally, as well? This course which is connected to the Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences’ annual theme of good and evil gives students the opportunity to ask these questions by examining positive and negative effects of popular culture. Relying on theories and methods of the field of cultural studies, students will be introduced to scholarly life as they analyze and critique popular cultural “texts” such as music and music videos, movies, television shows, and advertising. UNIV 1010N First Year Seminar: The Most Evil States: Hitler’s Germany and Stalin’s Russia (3 credits) This course is an interactive seminar for first year students. Connected to the Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences’ annual theme, this course introduces students to fundamentals of scholarly life and the expectations of student/faculty learning. This course looks at two periods in history, Germany from 1933-1945 and the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1953. It poses the question, how could civilized and educated people in the Soviet Union and in Germany commit crimes of such magnitude in the name of state ideology. During the semester students will explore the methods Hitler and Stalin employed to terrorize, deceive, control and manipulate citizens. They will consider the role of the secret police, the army, propaganda, show trials and law as instruments of terror regimes. Students will be confronted with a number of disturbing similarities between dictatorships of the far right and the far left. UNIV 1010P First Year Seminar: The Femme Fatale in Literature and Film (3 credits) This course is an interactive seminar for first year students. Connected to the Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences’ annual theme, this course introduces students to fundamentals of scholarly life and the expectations of student/faculty learning. Students will examine the archetype of the femme fatale in literature and film within the context of the 2009-10 college theme of good and evil. UNIV 1010Q First Year Seminar: Roots, Rock, Reggae (3 credits) This course is an interactive seminar for first year students. Connected to the Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences’ annual theme, this course introduces students to fundamentals of scholarly life and the expectations of student/faculty learning. The class will focus on the evolution of reggae music, from its roots in ska to its most recent incarnation as dancehall. Students will also engage in cultural studies/performance studies readings of reggae lyrics, recorded performances, and music videos, particularly within the context of identity. UNIV 1010R First Year Seminar: Tragedy, Memory and National Identity (3 credits) This course is an interactive seminar for first year students. Connected to the Farquhar College of Arts and