LoginInterdisciplinary Studies
INTS 200.6 - 1&2(3L)
CULTIVATING HUMANITY
This full-year course encompasses multidisciplinary material from both humanities and social science disciplines, coupled with a rich and intense community service-learning experience with those from other cultures and biographies. In this course we explore some common themes – what does it mean for us to be human, and how can we become more humane in the world? How does this process transform us as individuals and what obligations does it impose on us as ethical world citizens? Some of the engaging topics in the course include the necessity for critical self-examination to be human, the way social roles define us, moral development and moral disengagement, the demands of human dignity, empathy as the basis of world citizenship, understanding different perspectives and cultures, human rights, and the case for humanitarian intervention. The course is taught by a number of professors working together to encourage critical thinking, encourage curiosity, develop practical skills, and emphasize ways of integrating material from different disciplines. Our goal is to offer students some of the tools and skills needed to develop a coherent worldview and embrace the citizenship demands of a global era.
Prerequisite(s): 18 credit units of university study or permission of the director.
Note: The course may only be used toward requirement 7 in Arts and Science programs.
INTS 202.3 - 1/2 (3L)
Ukrainian History and Culture: An Introduction
This course offers a multidisciplinary introduction to Ukraine, its history, culture, and peoples from historical, cultural, political and anthropological perspectives. Along with an overview of major developments in Ukrainian history, culture and nation building, the course also focuses on the outcomes and meanings of these developments to contemporary Ukrainians, their neighbors, and the Ukrainian diaspora. Topics include — the rise and fall of Kyivan Rus and Galicia-Volhynia, the Polish and Lithuanian rule, the Cossack Era, the birth and decline of Hetmanate, the impact of Russian and Austrian Imperial rule on Ukraine, the growth of national consciousness in the 19th century, the first World War and the quest for independence, industrialization and collectivization in Soviet Ukraine in the 1920-30s, the famine of 1932-33, Stalin’s repressions of 1930s, Western Ukraine between the Wars, Ukraine during the Second World War, Soviet Ukraine in the 1950-1980s, and independent Ukraine in a global context.
Prerequisites: 15 credit units of university studies
 Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed.”— St. Thomas More |
