NSU 2014-2015 Undergraduate Catalog

462 Nova Southeastern University • Undergraduate Student Catalog • 2014–2015 COURSE DESCRIPTIONS 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. In this course, students will examine the literary representations of and responses to life and death in the historical and cultural context of Spain and Latin America through the reading and discussion of poetic, dramatic and narrative works. In addition to literary works, students will be introduced to other forms of artistic expressions (the visual arts, film and music) that reflect a myriad of attitudes and traditions related to life and death in the Hispanic world. In this course, we will attempt to answer the following questions: What are some basic differences in the ways in which Hispanic culture views life and death in comparison with US/American culture? How is the response to life, death and dying different in distinct literary works from Spain and Latin America and what role, if any, do genre, social and historical contexts play? Does the reading of literary works help us come to terms with our own concerns regarding life and death? UNIV 1011Q First Year Seminar: Medical Emergencies (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 explore the theme of the medical emergency through close readings and analyses of narratives written by physicians, nurses, and emergency workers. Students will have an opportunity to present their finding about life and death and the medical emergency in writing and in short class presentations. UNIV 1011R First-Year Seminar: Life and Death in Totalitarian Regimes (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. Using examples from the twentieth century, this course will examine how the individual citizen survives, and sometimes does not survive, in totalitarian regimes. Are there strategies that permit the individual to save life and limb despite the occurrence of political purges, wars, religious persecutions and/or belligerent occupations? Is life and death under such terrible circumstances entirely random or arbitrary? The most difficult question might be: Are there situations when the individual must sacrifice her life to save family, friends, other citizens, or national honor? UNIV 1011S First Year Seminar: Life after Death in Film (3 credits) This course is an interactive seminar for first year still a place for civil disobedience in a representative democracy? Why should disobedience be civil at all? This section of the course will cut across disciplinary lines so that students can become acquainted with contributions from the fields of fictional literature, religion, political science, psychology, philosophy, and history. UNIV 1011L First Year Seminar: Oppression and Repression (3 credits) This course is an interactive seminar for first year students. Connected to the Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences’ annual theme, truth and power, this course introduces students to fundamentals of scholarly life and the expectations of student/faculty learning. This seminar will focus on the "darker" side of American history, a history in which the community chooses, for whatever reason, to oppress or repress a minority group. It will be this classงs objective to ask why this process occurred both at particular times and in regards to particular groups. In doing so, the goal will be to explore the meaning of power relationships in American society and culture. UNIV 1011M First Year Seminar: Art, Print and Power (3 credits) This is an interactive seminar for first year students. Connected to the Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences annual theme, this course introduces students to the fundamentals of scholarly life and the expectations of student/faculty learning by exploring the connection among the arts and the larger cultural community. Students will examine historical and contemporary visual arts used to elicit power and influence and how the visual elements of art and design have been used to send subliminal messages and persuasive doctrines. Students will also discuss aesthetics, propaganda, iconography and semiotics and will learn and practice making stencils and silkscreen techniques to create persuasive prints, posters and images relevant to the annual college theme. UNIV 1011N First Year Seminar: Psychotherapy: The Good, The Bad, and The Lying (3 credits) This course is an interactive seminar for first year students. Connected to the Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences’ annual theme, Truth and Power, this course introduces students to fundamentals of scholarly life and the expectations of student/faculty learning. In this section of the course, we will examine how psychotherapists understand the "truth" of the therapy process. This exploration will focus on how therapists distinguish between the truth of what makes sense in defining good and bad therapy, bad therapy, as well as how therapists handle the issue of deception in therapy. The class will explore how therapists have power over clients as well as the power that clients have on therapists. UNIV 1011P First Year Seminar: Life and Death in Hispanic Literature (3 credits)