CDL COURSE ENTRY FORM


Author: Bernice Kennedy/SUNY
Last modified by: Laura Wait/SUNY
Composed: 09/15/2000 04:26 PM
Curriculum Committee Approval Date:
Modified: 04/22/2016
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Course Number: (prefix) CUL (number) 242404 ESC 2.0 Course number: CUST-2010 CUST-2010An Introduction to Culture

Name: An Introduction to Culture
Datatel Title: (30char) An Intro to Culture

Area Coordinator: Eric Ball Department Code: 10CU Team: Humanities

Liberal Study? YES Level: LOWER Credits: 4 Prerequisite? NO
General Education Course? YES GenEd Approval Term/Year:

GenEd Area 1: 7. HumanitiesFully or Partially: f
GenEd Area 2: Fully or Partially:



Pre-registration Information?
Course will be offered (for online course descriptions, proposed offerings for by term views and web views)
Spring 1		Course will be offered (for final term listings, online registration, online bookordering, web views)
Spring 1
First Term Offered: (Required Format: YearTerm - i.e., 2005SP)
Last Term Offered in Print Version:
Title Changes: Prefix changed from SOC to CUL effective Fall '16 term. Catalog updated 4/22/16. LWait
AC Changes:
BK Number: 20

Description: In this introductory study, students will examine, share, and expand their individual understandings of and interests in culture. Broadly defined for this study, "culture" refers to the diversely basic beliefs and activities by which groups of human beings understand, make meaningful, and sustain common experiences. Every student will begin with a common reading taken from anthropology (an academic discipline devoted to the study of cultures): Paul Rabinow’s Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco. Then, students will investigate their own themes and questions about culture by using items from pertinent reading lists representing a variety of endeavors and academic disciplines (anthropology, sociology, and social psychology, as well as history, philosophy, and literature). This study is meant to be individualized, in collaboration with the mentor, so that all students can follow their own curiosity. It is also organized as an "online seminar" so that all participants can learn from each other. Thus, combining individual inquiry and common discussion, the participants can create a diverse learning community, a "culture," of their own.

Note: each student will be responsible for obtaining some of the additional individualized reading materials from a library, local bookstore, or other source. The Rabinow text is available at the Empire State College Bookstore.

This course fully meets the General Education requirement in Humanities.

Generic:



Major Course Area
Social Science		Minor Course Area
Cultural Studies, Environmental Studies		SLN Disciplines
Anthropology
Additional Course Requirements
Video Component, WWW Computer Conference		 Undergrad Certificate Association:


0


Meets General Education Requirement

Required Booknote:
NOTE: For courses with a required video component, a $55.00 rental fee is included in the total amount listed for course materials. $15.00 will be refunded from Empire State College when tapes are returned to the bookstore in good condition within two weeks of the term ending date.
Optional Booknote:


Archive Course:

genedcode for dpplanner: 7^f~8

genedfull area for dpplanner: Humanities