2012-2013 Academic Year Calendar - Marianopolis

Arts and Sciences: Art History - Art - BiologyEnvironmental EthicsMany people are concerned abouta variety of environmental issues,from pollution to global warming tothe extinction of species. They saythat we “should” do somethingabout those issues. But what ethicalassumptions underlie this “should”?Is it a concern for human well-being?For animals? For all living things?For ecosystems? In other words, what“things” count morally? Moreover,what does taking humans, animals,living things or ecosystems into moralconsideration involve?Video GamesThis course focuses on importantethical and social issues associatedwith video games. Students arerequired to consider video gamescritically and analytically from avariety of perspectives. The first partof the course provides students withthe historical, technical, cultural andphilosophical background necessaryfor them to accomplish this. Thesecond part of the course focuses onspecific social and ethical issues, suchas: health benefits and concerns;general effects of video games onreal-life behaviour; addiction andsocial isolation; virtual communitiesand economies; promotion ofviolence; in-game sexuality;censorship and rating systems;gender, race and other stereotypes;in-game propaganda and advertising;on-line gambling; piracy and hackerculture; cheating; video games as art;and educational applications.Art History (520)Thematic Studies In History of Art:Medieval and Renaissance Art520-903-MS (3-0-3) 2 creditsAn increasingly humanistic worldview began to emerge in WesternEurope between the eleventh and theearly sixteenth centuries, or in arthistorical terms, from Romanesqueto High Renaissance. The ways inwhich humanism affected the riseof naturalism, individualism, andclassicism in the arts provides acentral theme for students learningto understand the differences betweenthe later Middle Ages and theRenaissance in painting, sculptureand architecture.Art: 16th to 19th Century520-120-MS (3-0-3) 2 creditsBy examining the history of Europeanart from the end of the Renaissancethrough to nineteenth-centurymodernism in the context of thepolitical, religious, social andintellectual conditions of the time,students learn to identify the effects ofthe Reformation, the Enlightenmentand the Industrial Revolution onartistic production. They also becomefamiliar with the persistence of theclassical tradition, the main characteristicsof movements such as theBaroque, Neoclassicism, Romanticism,Realism and Impressionism and thestyles of significant artists within eachof these historical categories.Art (510)Introduction to Studio Art510-100-MS (3-0-3) 2 creditsThe aim of this foundation course isto encourage artistic discovery and todevelop hands-on skills and fluencyof expression in a variety of media.Fundamentals of drawing, painting,3-D architectural model construction,and digital imaging provide a base forcourse content.Biology (101)General Biology I101-701-MS (3-2-3) 2.66 creditsThis course investigates the levelsof organization of living organisms,their diversity and mode of life.Topics discussed include: thestructure and function of cells andcellular organelles; genetic materialand protein synthesis; cell division,Mendelian inheritance and populationgenetics; the diversity of the maintaxonomic groups; aspects of humanphysiology.Biology II101-702-MS (3-2-2) 2.33 creditsPrerequisite: General Biology I101-701-MSThis course discusses the molecularbasis of living organisms in thegeneral framework of cellularhomeostasis. The principal areas ofinvestigation include the following:biochemical structure and functionof macromolecules; enzymes andenzyme regulation; bioenergetics ofcellular respiration and photosynthesis;DNA replication and protein synthesis;regulation of gene expression; celldifferentiation; features of the immunesystem, cell signalling and responsemechanism.98