KEYS 4003 Contemporary Slavery and Human Trafficking (3) Slavery is illegal globally, yet more people are enslaved/ trafficked today than they were at any point in history. There are approximately 27 million slaves in the world, which is more than the total number of people taken from Africa during the three centuries of the transatlantic slave trade. Work performed by slaves has become an important part of the global economy; many of the products we use and consume, from children's toys to clothes and electronic goods, are made from materials and components that have been produced by slaves. This course begins with a brief history of slavery in the ancient world through to the present time. The local, national and global economic, political, social, cultural and legal policies, structures, institutions, conditions and practices (or lack thereof) that sustain contemporary slavery and the trafficking of human beings will be examined. The question of what can and must be done to eradicate slavery will be addressed throughout the course. Applied real-world opportunities: Documenting and understanding one's own slavery footprint will help students identify ethical dilemmas in counteracting modern day slavery in every day life. Students will have an opportunity to interact with local organizations involved in combatting slavery and human trafficking and may also participate in transcribing interviews for the Bijlmer Project. This course will examine the status of women and women's rights locally, nationally and globally. This includes analyses of the economic, political and cultural policies, structures, institutions, constraints and conditions that affect the status and rights of women. Possible topics addressed may include: violence against women, women's health, women's education and economic development, women in leadership and LGBT rights. Experiential component: Interviews of NGO workers or service learning at homeless/women's shelters. This interdisciplinary course explores leadership styles and assists students in developing their strengths in order to develop a distinctive philosophy of leadership. Students will be given the opportunity to develop their leadership through an assessment of their own strengths, projects to develop KEYS 4005 Global Gender Rights (3) KEYS 4008 Leading From Where I Am (3)
arts events, an arts advocacy team project focusing on identifying an arts lack in a community and rectifying it. KEYS 4019 Art & Social Engagement: How Do the Arts Impact the World? (3) Whether visual art, performance art, music, film, dance, or theater — art surrounds our lives daily and mirrors our interactions as social beings. The arts are one of the principal drivers of social change, while social engagement also forms a fundamental motive for artistic expression. This course will examine the socio-political implications of art production. To approach the cultural settings of art and social engagement, students will consider (through readings, discussion, written essays, audience involvement, and personal projects) how art histories (i.e. essays/reviews/criticism, and the academic disciplines of art history, musicology, theatre history, etc.), art receivers (viewers/audience/ participants), and art producers (artists), interact in creating and experiencing works of art that address social and political events. Applied real-world opportunities: Students will reflect on the production of socially engaged art and on themselves as primary actor/audience via discussion, audience involvement (attending/ experiencing), lecture/ presentations, and group and/or personal projects.
leadership and learn how to exercise leadership in teams, and reflections on these experiences. Applied real-world opportunities: Shadowing community leaders and/or a team leadership project with a real-world application to address a challenge in the students' community. KEYS 4011 Crossing Borders: Language and Power (3) This course considers the relationship between language and power, particularly in the way global languages like English enable populations and societies in positions of power to protect their political, literary, philosophical and religious interests. Experiential component: Students will design and present a conference addressing issues discussed within the course using social media to maximize audience outreach and impact. social action? Is the city merely the background, the context, of urban research? In this interdisciplinary course, we will examine the city as a cultural construct and the city as the site and object of local and global social struggles. Students will explore themes and concerns in the study of urban spaces/places, including how the city has informed imaginations of the social norms, inequality, justice, and the good life. For example, the city has nurtured modernist dreams of the perfectible society, and conversely, has fed rabid fears of social disorder and violent contagion. The city is an object of contention, complexly entwined with notions of class, gender, race, and ethnicity. Applied real- world opportunities: The experiential component will be tailored to fit the urban problem being investigated by the class. Some possibilities include: shelter and soup kitchens, work with refugees, work with local government agencies, interviews with stakeholders. KEYS 4012 City Life (3) (VIE) Is space merely a container of KEYS 4014 Social Movements and the Impact of Technologies (3) Students will explore social movement thematic topics including: the history of social movements, the connection between social justice and social movements, social movement theories, and ethics. Social movement case studies may consist of some of the following movements: American Civil Rights Movement, Black Panthers Movement, Apartheid, Student Activism/Vietnam Protest, Women's Movement, LGBTQ+ Movement, Environmental Movement, American Right-Wing Movement,
White Nationalism, Antifa, Extremists Movements, Global Movement, and New Movements such as BLM. Those seeking social change have always made use of the communications technology of the day to promote causes. Hence, the impact of technologies will be an ongoing thread that weaves through each theme with an emphasis on technological systems including social networks and social media. Connections to current-event examples of social movement and protest activity will regularly supplement course material. Applied real-world opportunities: Students will conduct research on a current social movement issue(s) and contribute data to that topic. Research will also include the use of technology to reach a wide audience. Students will disseminate research findings to the Webster community or other appropriate stakeholder groups. KEYS 4016 Business, Behavior, Health and Society (3) This course will examine the intersection of business, behavior, health, and society. We will consider the business of health (e.g., weight loss companies, 24 hour gyms, advertising of the fad-type health products and programs, and advertising of health products and of unhealthy products such as fast food). We will also examine the culture of health and illness (e.g., comparing cultures to look at healthy and unhealthy behaviors and the cultural perceptions of those behaviors). Across these questions we will consider how these issues play out in the context of contemporary societies. Applied real-world opportunities: Students will conduct an audit of their own access to health-supporting environments (e.g., memberships) and compare this familiar access to something new (e.g., a different culture). The experiential component also includes options for assisting with human subject studies on the effects of advertising on diet or the success of weight loss or get-fit programs and creating a business plan for a health-related company. KEYS 4018 Plays and Concerts and Inks, Oh my!: Encountering Art in Our Communities (3) What is art? What is community? This course explores how a community is reflected in art and how its arts are a reflection of that community. After developing an awareness of what kinds of artistic efforts exist in a particular community, students will bolster these efforts through practical, hands-on activities. Applied real-world opportunities: Multiple field trips to
MATH 1430 College Algebra (3)
Covers sets, the real number system, functions, equations, inequalities, and logarithms. GCP Coding: (QL)
MATH 1610 Calculus I (5)
Introduces differential and integral calculus of a single variable. Topics include limits, derivatives, integrals and applications. introduces calculus of transcendental functions. Only offered in a 16-week format. May be repeated once for credit. Prerequisite: High school trigonometry, precalculus, or MATH 1480 with a grade of B or better. GCP Coding: (QL) MDST 1010 Media Foundations (3) Students will learn the history and impact of all media formats as well as the theories and thinkers behind mass communication scholarship. The course focuses on media systems, structure and ethics as well as the relationship between the media and society.
MDST 1050 Media Writing (3)
This course offers an introduction to principles, style and mechanics of writing for print, Web and broadcast
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