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construct a comprehensive understanding of this historical period and its lasting
significance. The cultural significance of topics such as the Brooklyn Bridge,
Frank Lloyd Wright, Albert Einstein, the Arts and Crafts movement, the birth of the
skyscraper, automation, the atomic age, the digital age, and Postmodernism
show the relationship between diverse modes of expression and demonstrate
how innovations in science and technology affect the ways reality is perceived
and depicted. Assessments for the course are essay-based and project-based
and are designed to allow students to develop and demonstrate their analytical
reasoning critical thinking skills and ability to communicate ideas in multiple
modes of discourse.
IE358 Phenomenology: Husserl, Cantor, Jung
One trimester
Credit: One unit core elective credit.
Meeting pattern: Three periods per week including lab.
What is awareness? How is dreaming different from ordinary awareness? What
does mathematics have to do with awareness? Are different kinds of awareness
related? In this course, students explore these and other questions as they
engage in a seminar-style study of what is commonly spoken of as “mind, soul,
spirit, or consciousness” – not as a biochemical product or metaphysical
construct but rather as experienced in the moments of lived time. Through
reading, reflection, class discussion, and writing short papers, students develop
an understanding of awareness as it is lived now in moments of a transfinite
continuum. Readings include The Phenomena of Awareness: Husserl, Cantor,
Jung by C. Tougas (Routledge: 2012) and selections from Plato, Aristotle, Saint
Augustine, Immanuel Kant, Søren Kierkegaard, Edmund Husserl, Edith Stein,
Albert Camus, Georg Cantor, and C. G. Jung.
IE360 Global Understanding
One trimester
Credit: One unit core elective credit.
Prerequisite: Completion of at least two trimesters of AS303 Writing and
American Studies or AS305 American Studies.
Meeting Pattern: Four periods per week including lab. Since meetings of this
course must be coordinated with schools in other countries, the meeting pattern
may include one or more weekly evening class meetings, to be announced
prior to registration.
In this course, designed to bring a global experience to NCSSM students, we
develop and foster cross-cultural understanding in partnership with students in
other parts of the world. Through a shared virtual classroom, we explore our
cultural differences and similarities in dialogue with students and faculty at
schools in countries other than the United States. We engage in discussions
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