Sustainability Course Repository

This seminar is a focused study of a prominent question of social concern (inequality, representation, provision of healthcare, environmental degradation) and how society has responded to this concern. The topic as well as the perspective of this class will vary with and reflect the disciplinary background of the faculty member leading the course. Analysis of the particular social issue will be both theoretical and empirical. The explicit aim of this course is to envision a policy response that ...

Read more about HONR-2580 : Promoting the Common Good: Crafting Social Policy

In this course, students are actively engaged in the creation of original artistic as they examine the process and product of artists whose work has instigated social and political change. Various pieces are used to allow students insight into how art reveals the internal struggles of those striving against injustice, those facing ethical and emotional challenges within the context of the greater social system in which they find themselves. Students will gain perspective on the context of social...

Read more about HUMT-1210 : Creative Expression Peace Just

This course examines the ways that social constructions such as race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, ability, among others, contribute to minoritization and social inequalities. It Introductionduces students to major theories of structural exclusion and applies these theories to specific examples drawn from students' everyday lives and contemporary culture.

Read more about HUMT-1315 : Difference Power Change

This course will examine the key terms, ideas, and theories that are at the heart of peace and justice studies as an academic discipline. Students will read foundational texts in the discipline and explore the ways they help to interpret important case studies of social change. Especially important in this regard is the exploration of types of peace (negative and positive) and violence (direct, structural, and cultural), justice as it applies to social and political institutions, the history of ...

Read more about HUMT-1325 : Introductionduction to Peace and Justice Studies

This course Introductionduces students to the theory and practice of Ignatian discernment and of community engagement. Through 18 hours of involvement with a community partner, students will analyze models of community engagement and the ways the community partner addresses a social issue. This course is the third in a series and will provide an opportunity to apply concepts from previous courses including (a) power and privilege in community engagement and (b) examples of social justice within ...

Read more about HUMT-1330 : Discern & Community Engagement

Leadership cannot take place in a vacuum. It arises in cultural, political, and social contexts, bearing the marks of each. In this course we will contextualize the work of citizens and leaders by examining the history of Seattle, its neighborhoods, and the immediate environment of Seattle University in particular. The course Introductionduces students to case studies in this city's history as the means to understand various conceptions of leadership and citizenship. Studies will physically expl...

Read more about HUMT-1450 : Contexts for Leadership

Who decides where students go to school? How and where have the benefits of American education been distributed and why? How has the past shaped the present? The story of American public education is, among other things, a story about place: you can't talk about schools without talking about neighborhoods, and you can't talk about neighborhoods without talking about schools. In this class, we will begin to contextualize your work in local schools by looking at the history of Seattle and Seattle ...

Read more about HUMT-1460 : Teaching in the City

If the land beneath Seattle University could speak, what would it tell us? What account would it offer of its first inhabitants and their legacies? This course Introductionduces students to the culture, art, stories, and experiences of the Indigenous Peoples living in the areas now known as Oregon, Washington, Montana, British Columbia, and Alaska. It reveals excluded stories and brings students into contact with present-day representatives of these cultures. It seeks both to cultivate a more ca...

Read more about HUMT-1830 : Indigenous Peoples of the Pacific Northwest

Is religion a force for peace or violence? Is religion a pretext used to justify political agendas? Is some violence uniquely religious? Is peace possible without the sacred? How can believers find justification in the same tradition for both peace and violence? This course considers these questions in a variety of contexts and eras. It assumes no prior background with religion and Introductionduces students to concepts important for the study of conflict and peace. By examining material that ha...

Read more about HUMT-1860 : Religion, Conflict, & Peace

Does natural science occupy a privileged position when it addresses perennial questions about human nature? Are religious beliefs compatible with a scientific worldview? What are social identities and in what sense can we describe gender and race as social constructs? How do social identities inform our understanding of the world? Given all that we know about the way that our lives are shaped by biology and culture, can we still describe human beings as free? The aim of this course is to Introdu...

Read more about HUMT-2000 : Philosophy of Human Person & Social Identity