Themes Page (Gender and Culture, Globalizatin, Human Beginnings and Endings, The Mississippi River
The Global Villiage

You will be pre-registered in three courses, total.
Introduction to Higher Education: Global Village (Orientation)
and either
College Reading and Writing or Fundamentals of Speech Communication
plus one of the following courses below:

We live in a global village. World music, the forces of globalization, the global environment, conflicts from across the world, all influence our lives and careers. This theme will explore what it means to live in the Global Village.

Introduction to Global Studies

This course introduces students to a framework for viewing the world as a unit and explores a variety of contemporary global issues such as economic development, environmental problems, status of women, world population and its implications, ethnic conflicts, etc.

Interdisciplinary Approach to Latin American and Caribbean Immigrants in U.S. Society

This course focuses on immigration as a process, not an event, and on the diversity of the Hispanic experience in the U.S. It integrates historical, economic, and cultural sources to achieve a broad perspective in understanding the fastest growing ethnic group in the 21st century.

Topics in World Literature: Families Across Cultures in Literature.

This course utilizes literature from cultures outside of the US and Great Britain to explore the meaning of family and family relationships. The course is a general introduction to the literature of differing cultures.

Politics and Violence

A study of the modern and enduring questions about violence, its origins, causes, and its cures. This course explores violence from a political science as well as from an interdisciplinary perspective.