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orders. Special emphasis is given to the nature and qualityof information, fractals, game theory, artificial intelligence,consciousness, self-replication, genetic algorithms, and selfregulationvia feedback that introduces concepts such asautopoiesis and bifurcation points. May be applied toward thelower general education science breadth requirement.SCI 3105 PSYCHOBIOLOGY 3Explores recent advances in understanding the anatomy,physiology, and role of the nervous system. Emphasizesperception, male-female differences, brain laterality,cognition, dyslexia, trends in parapsychology, anddevelopmental influences on emotions and may be appliedtoward the lower-division general education science breadthrequirement.SCI/SCJ 3110 ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY:DYNAMIC LIVING SYSTEMS PERSPECTIVE 4This course explores the structure and function of the humanbody from a dynamic systems perspective. A traditionaloverview of all body systems and anatomical features willbe presented. Additionally, the course will explore theintersection of anatomy and physiology systems with thewellness and psycho-emotional dimensions of embodiment.Various visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learning methodswill be utilized to facilitate optimum retention and practicalapplication of primary terms and concepts.SCI 3300 MIND, BRAIN, AND BODY INTERACTION 3We are privileged to live in an era of profound awakenings tothe age-old mystery of Self—the mind/brain, the dimensionsof the body, and the meaning of the soul, spirit, and themultidimensionality of self. We are able to ask scientificallydeeper questions that unabashedly look to human spiritualand psychic experiences for deeper scientific understandingsof this mystery. To explore this realm is to take on legitimatequestions that never would have dared to have been askedtwenty—or even ten—years ago. We will attempt to dojust that in this course using the Science of Wholism as ourguide to newer understandings and questions about ourmind/brain and mind/body and about the dimensions ofreality in which they exist. Equally important in exploringthese vistas is remaining grounded and attentive to the reductionisticscience that we have all grown up with. It offersvaluable answers to questions that are looking at the specificsimmediately in front of us and needs to be integrated withthe gestalt patterns of Wholism. [Wholism relates to theargument and philosophical discussion in science regardingreductionism and wholism retaining to explanation ofphenomena by its subunits, i.e., parts or as a whole. Wholismis a philosophical approach to understanding. This wordwholism usually is used in the context of mind, body, andspirit. Holism, by contrast, is the integrative approach toproblem solving, emphasizing the importance of the wholeand the interdependence of its parts, such as in systemstheory.]SCI 3305 BIOLOGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS 3This course provides an introduction to the nature,origins, contents, and theories of consciousness. Biologicalfoundations of perception, awareness, and consciousness willbe emphasized. The course will consider the phenomenologyand causation of normal and pathologic consciousness.SCI 3310 THE BODY AS PATTERNS OF ENERGY 1Introduces theories that view the body as a self-organizing,self-regulatory pattern entity. The course reviewselectrochemical processes of metabolism and explores howfeedback and homeostasis maintain an identity that constantlyadapts, senses, responds, and grows.SCI 3315 SCIENCE OF WHOLISM: PRACTICALITIES 1We all know about IQ, and within the past 15 years haveappreciated more and more the great importance of EQ oremotional intelligence. Now is the time to focus on what canbe called SQ or spiritual intelligence. The spiritual dimensionof our psyche underlies all that transcends our limited ego—our need for meaning, for a sense of belonging to somethinggreater than ourselves, for vision and value.SCI 3400 TOPICS IN EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY 3Despite the evidence provided by paleoanthropologists,archeologists, and geneticists, there is still much debateconcerning Darwin’s thesis about the origins of species andinheritance of traits. Course topics in this area will examinecatch phrases such as descent with variation, survival of thefittest, sociobiology, and genetic essentialism as a way ofcharacterizing evolutionary theory. The student will also beintroduced to various geological epochs and basic taxonomyand cladistics.SCI 3500 SUSTAINABILITY: MEANING AND PRACTICE 3This course will be a critical engagement of the three Es ofsustainability—Environment, Economics, and social Equity.Attention will be brought to both the global and localdimensions of environmental degradation, to the role ofmultinational corporations in government regulation (or lackof it), to issues of social equity in regard to the emergence ofThird-World societies, and to the increasingly urgent problemsof social stratification within the industrialized world.The course will introduce systems concepts of feedback,autopoiesis, bifurcations, overshoot, and criticality. It willexplore the viability of technological remedies and variouspolitical solutions.SCI 3501 TRUTH, LIES, AND SUSTAINABILITY 3This course is designed to build on the foundations of SCI3500. It examines in depth the key issues facing us by wayof case-study analysis. Factors like energy conservation andusage, water resources, pollution, and new technologies willbe discussed in light of political and social contexts. Studentsare encouraged to think critically within the disciplines ofenvironmental science, ecology, psychology, politics, andeconomics. Special emphasis will be given to cross-culturalissues and the global economy.SCI 4110 SYNCHRONICITY 3Synchronicity can be defined as “the immediacy of certainhuman experiences and the distancing effects of thevarious rational theories that purport to explain the world,”according to physicist F. David Peat. This course exploresthe multidimensionality of living systems with an emphasison erasing dualistic notions about mind and matter andintroducing the ideas of complexity, chaos, feedback,patterning, and the role of models in the ways we understand“reality.” Many ideas gleaned from the “New Physics” willalso be covered in depth.72 SCHOOL OF EDUCATION AND LIBERAL ARTSJOHN F. KENNEDY UNIVERSITY