ATTRIBUTES: Core History, Peace & Justice. 32522 GIS 2000- 001 INTRODUCTION TO GLOBAL STUDIES Together we will investigate the most important moral and material issues of the 21st century via discussions that depend on regular class participation. Social movements are oft-seen, but little understood phenomena. What are the major problems facing our global society? In this course students will examine the lived experiences, conditions, and events of undocumented immigrants as represented by those who were, or who remain without legal documentation in the US. This year's Freedom School was entirely online. We will also be attentive to the differences amongst and between women of various groups. 34374 THL 5000-003 DO BLACK LIVES MATTER TO GOD: A THEOLOGICAL EXPLORATION OF RACE AND RESISTANCE
Though some attention will be paid to “traditional” ethical problems such as abortion, euthanasia, and assisted suicide; the primary focus of the course throughout will be on ethical problems encountered in the clinical or research setting such as those arising in the context of organ donation, surrogate decision-making, research on human subjects, reproductive technologies, end-of-life issues, futility, managing moral distress, conscience protections for health care workers, cooperation in evil and others. MWF 9:30-10:20 Eckstein This course in community interpretation prepares the interns to be verbal interpreters and/or translators of (oral and written) documents, from English to Spanish or vice versa, by introducing them to the basic theory and strategies for written translation and oral interpretation. The Holocaust was one of the seminal events of the twentieth century, responsible for introducing such words and phrases as ‘genocide’ and ‘crime against humanity’ into our modern vocabulary. This course introduces students to the interdisciplinary study of what we broadly term “the global”. This is a 1 Credit Class. As some people may judge prematurely, this course is not just a trashing and thrashing of whites; whiteness is far more complex than that, as it structures our identities, institutions and ideologies. It will include a sustained critique and where applicable appreciation of views that shape, our culture such as Individualism, relativism, socialism, capitalism and the effects of technological advancement. TBD Costello As you participate in this course please remember this definition of a documentary: “Documentaries are about real life; they are not real life. Contact Chair of Humanities for Registration. This is not a lecture course. This is accomplished by developing the communication skills of dialogic listening, empathy, and intentional engagement. The academic program in Peace & Justice, open to all students in the University, offers an interdisciplinary approach to topics of peace and social justice. This course is an attempt to shine an analytical light onto this modern phenomenon by tracing the causes of genocide through their historical, sociological, political, neurological, colonial, and religious roots. 29730 PJ 5000-002 TOP: AGITATING FOR JUSTICE ATTRIBUTES: Peace & Justice, Asynchronous, Core History. We will look at the ways in which the Latin American context shapes and informs the activity of philosophy. IN THE MOD. W 4:30-7:30 Bowen
We shall end the course with an examination of possible strategies and practices for challenging and disrupting the systemic and interpersonal injustices that can separate and divide us one from one another with an aim at what our society might look like if privilege and oppression of groups did not occur. 22554 MAT 1290-001 TOP: A MATHEMATICAL EXPLORATION of FAIRNESS Objects for interpretive critique come from practices of everyday life as well as music, social media and "selfies," cinema, fashion, shopping, and "slanguage," paying special attention to issues of representation and power. 28464 CRM 1001-001 INTRODUCTION TO CRIMINOLOGY Finally, the course will focus on practical ways students can use what they learn to become effective leaders at Villanova and beyond. Finally, this course emphasizes the importance of understanding the criminal justice system as one of many social institutions relevant for crime reduction, and furthermore, stresses the ways in which effective criminal justice policy is contingent on the vitality of other social institutions (family, school ,community, and economy). In response many cities are working to reduce their environmental footprint, and sustain healthy economic, social and cultural life. ATTRIBUTES: Environmental Studies, Ethics elective (ETST) Core Theology. We all have multiple intersecting identities and ones which yield different lived experiences and opportunities. 32224 EDU 2202-001 SOCIAL FOUNDATIONS OF EDUCATION II The purpose of this course is to prepare its students to understand and analyze sustainability issues being faced by cities. ATTRIBUTES: Peace & Justice, Core Theology. We will examine the issues and personalities that made Russia ripe for revolution and the various radical groups that threatened the Tsarist state. ATTRIBUTES: Core Theology, Theology, Peace & Justice. ATTRIBUTES: Ethics Politics and the Law Elective (ETPL), Core Theology, Diversity 1. How did African Americans come to embrace nonviolence in their quest for justice during the civil rights movement? The major components of the criminal justice system (police, courts, and corrections) are analyzed with attention to possible tensions between due process and crime control, bureaucratic efficiency and adversarial checks-and-balances, and the law in theory and the law in practice. How, historically, has the black experience been constructed through rhetorical discourse, and how does that process continue, in our present, 21st century context? This course is intended to introduce the students to think critically about these and similar questions in an interdisciplinary framework. Is our understanding of the human person sufficient to rise to the challenge of life in the twenty-first century? Christianity’s ‘preferential option for the poor’ and vision of the ‘reign of God’, based upon Jesus of Nazareth’s life and ministry, as well as Catholicism’s holistic worldview, offer a fundamental reproach to the flawed anthropological assumptions of capitalism, as a political and economic system, while offering alternative ordering principles, orientation, and living witness to a truly just vision of society, marked by love of God, neighbour, and all creation. An overview of age or disability discrimination will be selected according to student interests, if time permits. This special section includes an in-depth case study of the country of Madagascar, a country which Villanova has a unique relationship through our involvement with CRS (Catholic Relief Services). Throughout the course, we will consider social movements from multiple perspectives, particularly those of activists, researchers, states and opposition groups. T 11:30-1:20 Laury The course will be divided into three chronological periods. MW 3:00-4:15 Hirschfield Understanding perpetrators and our own human nature is of vital importance if we are to be proactive members of the world community who can smell smoke before there is fire. The course is designed to provide a fundamental understanding of how crime is defined as well as the historical crime trends in the U.S. and current explanations for these patterns. This course will seek to understand contemporary concerns about race in America against the backdrop of and in reference to notions of the kind of dignity that our understanding of American democracy seems to promise to uphold and respect. (no performance experience required!) Readings will include Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen by Jose Antonio Vargaz (2018), The Distance Between Us by Reyna Grande (2013), The Line becomes a River by Francisco Cantu (2018), and Diary of an Undocumented Immigrant by Ramon Tianguis Perez (1991). In the class discussions issues of human rights and mechanisms of oppression will be discussed in general terms, as well as specifically in historic moments, such as the Rosas dictatorship in Argentina (1835-52), the Mexican Revolution (1910-20), the Cristero wars (1926-29), the Colombian civil wars known as “la violencia: (1948-60’s), and finally the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile (1973-69). Not long into the reflection, we introduce a crucial complexity. September 24, 2014 Curriculum Vitae for Billie Murray Page 7 One Billion Rising Human Trafficking Panel. TBA Getek Soltis. What do we really mean by the word “fair”? How can we agitate Christian theologies, re-reading the Jesus tradition for communal liberation? Students will explore how foreign assistance, donor agendas, local partnerships, impact investing, civil society strengthening, gender equity, peacebuilding, and social justice can be integrated into a holistic approach to development. CST will discuss the Catholic account of what it means to be human and of what we ought to be doing with our lives. TR 4:00-5:15 Schrad
TBA Getek Soltis. The course takes students through an exploration of the concept of public service as a “vocation,” envisioning public service as a means of self-expression through which citizen-servants discover meaning and purpose in their lives by promoting the common good as well as forging and developing the bonds of community among a body of diverse people. This course introduces the sociological study of race, ethnicity, and assimilation. He brings a wealth of experience and love for the poor to this course. ATTRIBUTES: Core Social Science, Peace & Justice, Diversity 1 & 3. 22493 HUM 2004-001 SOCIETY Disability Studies refers to the examination of disability as a historical, social, political and cultural phenomenon. MWF 1:30-2:20 Ryan Students will glean a deeper understanding of homelessness through readings and class discussions, and through interacting with people who are experiencing homelessness at the Student-Run Emergency Housing Unit of Philadelphia. TR 1:00-2:15 Kolsky MW 3:00-4:15 Hirschfield By the end of the course, students will be also particularly cognizant of the distinctions between refugees and internally displaced persons as well as different challenges that they tend to face in relation to the current normative and institutional arrangements put in place internationally. Social foundations of Education traces the development of schooling in the United States from the Colonial period to the present. First, we begin by examining the multifaceted institutions undergirding the longevity, success and ultimate demise of the Ottoman Empire. In particular, we’ll examine how students and people of color, grounded in faith, have mobilized successful campaigns to redistribute power and resources to those who have been denied access. Through an introduction to the historical methods of social and cultural history we will explore and compare women in a variety of countries to examine lived experiences of race, ethnicity, class, region and sexuality. Students will learn how international development is done from professionals working for a major international relief and development agency and from Villanova professors drawing on their various disciplines and own research. TR 11:30-12:45 Koch
This course examines a range of human rights stories through a balance of context and close reading, where stories are studied both for what they say and how they say it. Why did philosophers like Montesquieu and statesmen like James Madison think that justice is better served in a modern republic than in the regimes recommended by Aristotle? EDU Majors and Minors Only. MW 4:30-5:45 Wallace The course takes students through an exploration of the concept of public service as a “vocation,” envisioning public service as a means of self-expression through which citizen-servants discover meaning and purpose in their lives by promoting the common good as well as forging and developing the bonds of community among a body of diverse people.