NSU 2014-2015 Undergraduate Catalog

464 Nova Southeastern University • Undergraduate Student Catalog • 2014–2015 COURSE DESCRIPTIONS UNIV 1012E First Year Seminar: Good and Bad Medicine (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 good medicine, bad medicine through close readings and analyses of narratives written by physicians and others as they explore such areas of medicine as organ transplantation, pediatrics, and surgery, and especially as they encounter these areas of medicine during their medical education. UNIV 1012F The Person Behind the Couch: The Self of the Therapist (3 credits) This course is an interactive seminar for first year students. Connected to the Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences’ annual theme, identity, this course introduces students to fundamentals of scholarly life and the expectations of student/faculty learning. In this course, we will examine how psychotherapists are human beings who impact and are impacted by what happens in the therapy room. The course examines the identity of the therapist as they are an equally important component (as is the client) in the therapeutic relationship. UNIV 1012G Medical Identities: Biographies of Present and Past Practitioners (3 credits) This course is an interactive seminar for first year students. Connected to the Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences’ annual theme, identity, this course introduces students to fundamentals of scholarly life and the expectations of student/faculty learning. Students will explore the theme of identity in medicine through close readings of biographies written by physicians like Sanjay Gupta and Anthony Youn as well as other medical practitioners whose lives have contributed to the profession. Through analyses of these readings, students will have opportunities throughout the course to explore their own possible contributions to the profession. UNIV 1012I Language and Identity: How Who we Are Influences What we Say and Why we Say It (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 to fundamentals of scholarly life and the expectations of student/faculty learning. This course explores fundamentals of identity theory through the study of language. Students will examine how language informs/ is informed by identity through a dialogic relationship. Students will explore a multitude of cultural facets that influence the relationship between language and identity including transnational conceptions of individuality, cultural norms regarding appropriate and inappropriate use of This course is an interactive seminar for first year students, which is connected to the Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences’ annual theme of Life and Death. This course introduces students to fundamentals of scholarly life and the expectations of student/faculty learning. This course explores water as the "molecule of life", the basis of all biological systems and the most critical resource on Earth- and as "blue oil", a valuable resource/commodity. Using narrative lectures and in-class discussion of assigned readings, students will explore how competition for increasingly scarce fresh water is reshaping human ecology and becoming a major source of regional and international conflict. UNIV 1012B First Year Seminar: Life and Death of a Pop Star (3 credits) Is there a connection between Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley, or Whitney Houston’s early deaths? A fading public opinion, a waning talent, and simply aging may combine into a toxic mixture which adds pressure to already stressful lives. What other factors may contribute to the demise of those in the public spotlight and could the fusion be lethal? A comparison of some of Pop’s greatest talents who died before their time will be the topic of this course—Kurt Cobain, Amy Winehouse, Karen Carpenter, Jim Morrison, Andy Gibb, Janis Joplin, and so many more. And, we will ask the question,—Who’s next?" UNIV 1012C First Year Seminar: Bad Blood: Stories of Evil (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 course will explore how evil has been conceptualized and explained in various cultures and periods. Students will explore what some philosophers and theologians have said about the concept of evil. The course will also examine some examples of how this concept manifested itself in the graphic arts, literature, and film. UNIV 1012D First Year Seminar: Words that Wound: The Ethics of Language Use (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 how people have used concepts of good and evil to justify their ethical and unethical use of language. The course will examine tensions between freedom of speech and hate speech, as represented in popular culture and the media. Students will critically assess the relationships between the ethical use of language and actions identified as “good” and “evil.”