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CRN: 41076
Tuesdays & Fridays 1:45-3:25 pm
Instructor: Mark Caselli

This first-year seminar course, Issues in Healthcare, is designed for students who may be interested in pursuing a career as a medical professional. It will explore the many facets of the road to becoming a health care provider or manager and an advocate for global health. We will examine the political, ethical, moral, cultural, educational, and financial issues that affect the delivery of health care both in the United States and in many other countries in the world. Aspects of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, physician assisted suicide, the opioid epidemic, the COVID-19 pandemic, current vaccination issues, and the social and cultural determinants of health will be explored with emphasis on how they affect our nation鈥檚 healthcare and the practice of medicine. This course will utilize lectures, student presentations, specially selected readings, and documentaries to assist in class discussions on medical and healthcare issues.

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CRN: 41077
Tuesdays & Fridays 1:45-3:25 pm
Instructor: Christie Vanderhook

Why do some individuals thrive during a lecture, while others need to build, sketch, or discuss to truly grasp a concept? How We Learn introduces first-year college students to the foundational theories of human learning, cognitive psychology, and the practical methods used to reach diverse minds. This course shifts the narrative away from a traditional, “one-size-fits-all” approach to processing information. Instead, students will explore cognitive learning modalities (visual, auditory, kinesthetic) and developmental theories to discover how the human brain absorbs and retains knowledge. Whether applied to the teaching profession, leadership, or personal academic growth, this course demonstrates how to simultaneously scaffold struggling learners and deepen critical thinking for advanced thinkers, ensuring everyone has the opportunity to succeed.

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CRN: 41078
Mondays & Thursdays 11:20-1:00 pm
Instructor: Natalia Santamaria Laorden

In this course, we will examine how languages operate and the difficulties of translating and interpreting in health care and human services contexts, as well as the legal frameworks in which languages operate in health care contexts in the United States. We will learn about the emotional attachment to your first language and how using a second one can be used as a defense mechanism to repress upsetting emotions. Specifically, we will focus on the needs of native speakers of Spanish and Spanish-English bilingual speakers. We will also look at historical cases of misinterpretation in depth, like Willie Ramirez鈥檚, that led to tragic consequences. The third module of the course will include an introduction to Spanish vocabulary and expressions related to health care and an understanding of cultural specificities. Finally, in the fourth module, students will explore a topic of their choice in regards to languages and health care, as well as representation of health in movies like 鈥淭he Farewell鈥�, 鈥淚nside Out鈥�, 鈥淪uper Size Me鈥�, etc.

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CRN: 41079
Mondays & Thursdays 11:20-1:00 pm
Instructor: Rafael Perez-Padilla

Science fiction and fantasy have historically served as platforms to deliver social critiques, leveraging unique 鈥榰nreal鈥� elements to offer insight into our own society. This course analyzes how speculative fiction portrays systems of oppression and resistance against them, alongside the historical and modern contexts they might resemble.

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CRN: 41080
Mondays & Thursdays 11:20-1:00 pm
Instructor: Janine Lanzisera

Hero? Sub? Hoagie? Join us as we explore examples of language variation including code-switching, dialects, idioms, local lingo, slang and regionalisms across different communities.聽 Students will examine how sociolinguistic factors influence communication and cultural expression.聽 Schmooze a bit and develop the gift of gab.聽 Through discussion and analysis of real-world examples, this course develops an understanding of the relationship between language, culture and society.

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CRN: 41081
Mondays & Thursdays 2:15-3:55 pm
Instructor: Yolanda del Amo

Mobile image technology and social media platforms have radically changed photography and altered our society, from socio-political movements to our personal lives. While smartphone cameras are technically easier to use than traditional ones, they have as much potential to create aesthetically strong work with conceptual depth. Through photography projects, readings, written assignments and class discussions, students will produce, distribute and reflect on mobile images and their larger impact. Topics covered: understanding the advantages and limits of a smartphone camera, mobile photography as high art, camera proliferation and its social and political ramifications, digital imagery and the construction of identity. Students will utilize their mobile phones and social media platforms to complete individual and group projects.

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CRN: 41082
Mondays & Thursdays 2:15-3:55 pm
Instructor: Jason Hecht

This course will introduce students to the historical and empirical foundations of economic and financial ideas and their influence on our current understanding of issues and problems within both subjects. Human societies have dealt with the problem of survival by organizing their economies according to tradition, authoritarian rule, or the capitalist market. Keen observers of economic behavior 鈥� from Plato to Adam Smith to John Maynard Keynes and Joseph Schumpeter have all attempted to explain: 1) what should an economy produce; 2) how should it produce its output; and 3) how should the output be distributed. These are the 鈥渂ig questions鈥� of both economics, and to a lesser extent, finance. Current questions and issues about labor-displacing technological change, wealth and income distribution, the concentration of stock market valuation and greater market power will be analyzed through the lens of economic and financial evolution and embedded in America鈥檚 long-term economic and financial data.

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CRN: 41083
Mondays & Thursdays 2:15-3:55 pm
Instructor: Ruma Sen

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CRN: 41084
Mondays & Thursdays 2:15-3:55 pm
Instructor: Regina Clark

Using various social media platforms and writing prompts to generate ideas, students will focus on creative writing from micro fiction to journaling, that is more visual, colorful, and dynamic in nature.

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