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New courses set for spring
By: Courtney Hudson and Julie Sweetman
Issue date: 10/24/07 Section: News
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Students may notice some new courses in the Spring class schedule book as they plan for next semester.
The classes cover all sorts of topics, including sexual identity, animal ethics and race and evolution.
Hugh Talat Halman, philosophy and religion faculty member, will teach REL 397C: Sufism: Mystical Islam. He said he hopes the course will teach students about how religion is more about love than it is about worshiping.
Halman said religion can benefit students in the "real world."
"Studying religion is always valuable because you need to be a complete human-being to have a career," Halman said.
The course will look at modern and past followers of Sufi. It will show how Sufis become closer to God through song and dance.
Romeo junior Jennifer Jones said she thinks studying religion can be helpful.
"I feel like it would be beneficial for students so they would be more understanding toward other cultures," she said.
Dan Pugh, temporary faculty member in sociology, anthropology and social work, will teach ANT 388A: War in Non-State Societies in the spring.
The class will focus on how war is different from social violence such as capital punishment, witchcraft and homicide.
"I think this course gives a unique view on social violence and I feel that it explains that warfare is a particular kind of violence," he said.
HEV 597O/WST 497S: Sexual Identity will be offered in the spring and will be taught by Brad van Eeden-Moorefield, assistant professor of human environmental studies.
"This course would be beneficial to students because it gives them a chance to interact with something they may or may not be comfortable with and they will have that experience for the real world," he said.
Subjects this course would cover are gay for pay, which is a new study on why a heterosexual person accepts money for sex with another heterosexual person, and issues on keeping sexuality quiet.
Other classes that are being offered this semester are PHL 397A: Animal Ethics and ANT 388B: Race and Evolution.
Animal Ethics will study the moral status of animals and their rights.
Race and Evolution will examine the correlation between science and social policies and how it affects races historically and in the present day.
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The classes cover all sorts of topics, including sexual identity, animal ethics and race and evolution.
Hugh Talat Halman, philosophy and religion faculty member, will teach REL 397C: Sufism: Mystical Islam. He said he hopes the course will teach students about how religion is more about love than it is about worshiping.
Halman said religion can benefit students in the "real world."
"Studying religion is always valuable because you need to be a complete human-being to have a career," Halman said.
The course will look at modern and past followers of Sufi. It will show how Sufis become closer to God through song and dance.
Romeo junior Jennifer Jones said she thinks studying religion can be helpful.
"I feel like it would be beneficial for students so they would be more understanding toward other cultures," she said.
Dan Pugh, temporary faculty member in sociology, anthropology and social work, will teach ANT 388A: War in Non-State Societies in the spring.
The class will focus on how war is different from social violence such as capital punishment, witchcraft and homicide.
"I think this course gives a unique view on social violence and I feel that it explains that warfare is a particular kind of violence," he said.
HEV 597O/WST 497S: Sexual Identity will be offered in the spring and will be taught by Brad van Eeden-Moorefield, assistant professor of human environmental studies.
"This course would be beneficial to students because it gives them a chance to interact with something they may or may not be comfortable with and they will have that experience for the real world," he said.
Subjects this course would cover are gay for pay, which is a new study on why a heterosexual person accepts money for sex with another heterosexual person, and issues on keeping sexuality quiet.
Other classes that are being offered this semester are PHL 397A: Animal Ethics and ANT 388B: Race and Evolution.
Animal Ethics will study the moral status of animals and their rights.
Race and Evolution will examine the correlation between science and social policies and how it affects races historically and in the present day.
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