Course Guide – Mays Landing Campus – Fall 2010 

Course TitleDescription

ARTS AND LITERATURE

 

The Family in Contemporary American Literature
56:606:611:A1
Th 6:00 – 8:40 PM
Professor Richard Drucker 
richmdrucker@yahoo.com 

This course will evaluate the nature of the changes through novels written by a culturally diverse group of American authors. We will begin the course by constructing a collective definition of the family, drawn from class participants, and will continue to refine that definition throughout the semester. We will look at how specific authors construct the identities of their characters in terms of family values, and analyze the influence of family in helping to construct an individual’s identity. The class will evaluate specific ‘family values’, such as autonomy, self development, curiosity, optimism, and creativity and conflict. We will examine family roles, how these roles can change historically, and the consequences for the concept of family.

   

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION

 

Problems of Identity 
56:606:641:A1
W 6:00 – 8:40PM
Professor Ed Young 
profyoung@verizon.net 

This course will focus on various ways in which one’s personal identity is a much more problematic concept than it may initially seem.

Areas of study will include but may not be limited to questions of metaphysics/ontology (what does it mean to exist as an individual?), epistemology (how do I know who I am?), ethics (what moral significance attaches to being an individual?), sociology (e.g., what is the role of the individual in society?), and political philosophy (e.g., how do power relations impact the means by which an individual’s identity is established?).

Students will be encouraged to consider the investigations of these questions to be an opportunity for personal growth as well as academic enlightenment.

 

   
Journies to Heaven, Hell and Other Worlds 
ONLINE COURSE
56:606:642:A1
Cross-listed: 56:606:642:W1; 56:606:642:01 
By Arrangment 
Professor Kenneth banner 
banner@camden.rutgers.edu
Most religions and cultures around the world have stories of ascending  to heaven, descending to hell or traveling to another reality.  They  usually take the form of dreams, visions, near-death experiences or  even claims of physical ascent.  This course will examine accounts  from both the ancient past and the modern world.  It will explore how  scholars study such narratives and what they can teach us about  religious experience and religion itself.
   

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