Course Guide – Brookdale Campus – Fall 2011 

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CULTURAL DIVERSITY

 

Issues in International Relations 
56:606:621:W1
Tu 6:00 – 8:40 PM
Professor Michael Rossi 
mrossi1@rci.rutgers.edu 

 

This course seeks to develop students’ skills in understanding how state and non-state actors interact with one another at the international level. Through an examination of the actors, the issues, and events, which transcend national boundaries, we will examine three general themes:
  • What are the strategic choices that confront states?
  • Why do states choose the courses of action they do?
  • How does the international political system structure and shape the beliefs and the courses of action that states follow?

Several disciplines, including history, economics, philosophy and power politics, will be utilized to help us understand international relations.

 

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION

   
Contemporary Moral Issues 
ONLINE COURSE
56:606:642:W1
Cross-listed: 56:606:642:01; 56:606:642:A1 
By Arrangment 
Professor Ed Young 
profyoung@verizon.net

This course will focus on the study of articles written on a broad range of contemporary issues of ethical concern. These issues potentially include but not limited to capital punishment, abortion, euthanasia, sexuality, animal welfare, and poverty. Studying the works of respected thinkers on these matters will afford students an opportunity to think more thoroughly and systematically about these issues than would otherwise be likely.

Major western ethical theories, potentially including but not necessarily limited to those authored by Bentham, Mill, Aquinas, Kant, and Aristotle will also be studied. Representing the most widely studied attempts to bring unity to our particular judgments of right and wrong under a more general ethical perspective, they are not only the basis of many of the articles we will study, but are also useful in revealing inconsistencies in our own views.

   

RESEARCH IN LIBERAL STUDIES

 

56:606:689:01
Professor Stuart Charme
scharme@camden.rutgers.edu

Independent study of a special interest to the student, under supervision of an advisor chosen in consultation with the program director.

56:606:690:01
Professor Stuart Charme

 
 

MATRICULATION CONTINUED

 

56:606:800:01
Professor Stuart Charme