Sustainability Course Repository

Are some wars morally justifiable? How should states respond to terrorism? How should governments respond to social injustice within their own borders? Do states owe reparations or compensation to the descendants of victims of state-sponsored violence and discrimination? This course begins by examining the principal theories of contemporary ethics (consequentialism, deontology, and virtue ethics), a debate over moral and cultural relativism, and three competing views on the nature of justice in ...

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This course will allow students to gain and refine mathematical skills useful for citizenship. Topics covered include voting theory, statistics, the mathematics of personal finance and taxation. In addition, students will learn why quantitative literacy is important for everyone in our society and explore barriers to achieving this type of literacy. This course includes a required service-learning component. Each student will volunteer at least 18 hours over the course of the quarter, tutoring c...

Read more about HUMT-2100 : Quantitative Reason Justice

The world is experiencing historically unprecedented levels of economic inequality. This course discusses the meaning and measurement of economic inequality, providing you a historical and cross-national perspective on current levels of inequality. It uses macroeconomic concepts to measure and explain economic inequality across nations. It then turns to microeconomic theory, using it as a framework for the exploration of competing explanations of economic inequality within nations. The course ev...

Read more about HUMT-2110 : Economics of Wealth & Inequality

Prepares students for competition in intercollegiate Ethics Bowl by teaching them how to analyze real-world ethical dilemmas using interdisciplinary research, moral theory, and political philosophy. Each quarter the class examines a new set of cases taken from a variety of fields. Past cases have featured controversies over criminal law, corporate misbehavior, the government's responsibility to help victims of climate change, and the regulation of biotechnology.

Read more about HUMT-3500 : Applied Ethics Workshop

The changing roles of schools within society; the public debates surrounding those roles: ethical, political, and practical issues. Discussion, writing, and presentations.

Read more about HUMT-3710 : Education & the Polity

The origins and principles of Jesuit education, St. Ignatius to the present. Purposes and perspectives of specific techniques, extra-curricular activities, public service, concern for the poor and the marginalized.

Read more about HUMT-4710 : Jesuit Education

In this course students explore education in urban schools. Students develop an understanding of the importance of quality teaching with an Introductionduction to culturally relevant pedagogy, learning theories, learning disabilities, inclusive practice, and immigrant education. Practical strategies for improving reading and math comprehension will also be addressed. Multicultural education provides the framework for this course, and thus the commitment to social justice and educational equity g...

Read more about IDLS-2020 : Teaching Diverse Classrooms

Introductionduces students to interdisciplinary liberal studies, both as an academic discipline and as an increasingly significant development in scholarship. Students will explore the historical, social, and philosophical foundations of liberal and interdisciplinary studies. Topics include leadership, freedom, education, personal identity and responsibility, diversity, and the classic sense of interdisciplinary liberal studies as crucial to intellectual development and good citizenship. Since a...

Read more about IDLS-2300 : Interdisciplinary Inquiry

This course is designed to help students connect their service interests with their leadership gifts in order to pursue ethical and effective social change throughout their lives. Through a variety of experiential activities, readings, class lectures, guest presentations and discussions, students will explore critical questions and practices in preparation for a lifetime of engaged leadership in their communities.

Read more about IDLS-3000 : Leadership for Comm Engagement

Introductionduces students to the complexity and importance of education, including philosophical and historical orientations, purpose of schools, and contemporary educational issues. Especially explores diversity as reflected in today's school population as well as personal beliefs and attitudes towards diversity. Practitioners such as school counselors, family support workers, education administrators, and other education reformers will likely participate in class meetings at Bailey Gatzert El...

Read more about IDLS-3010 : Critical Issues in Education