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IDS 110 (1 credit)

India through Music and Cinema

India produces the greatest number of films in the world and Indian-produced films consitute one of the most globalized forms of media. Since India is now one of the world's key exporters of popular culture ranging from Bollywood films, music, film scores (e.g., Rahman), clothing, clothing styles, and cuisine to the West, it is important that our students become more knowledgeable about India and its diverse cultures and forms of cultural expression. India vibrates with diversity that is reflected in its landscapes and its people and their languages, people, religions, foods, clothing, musical and cinema traditions. This course serves as an interdisciplinary introduction to cultural diversity of India as represented through Bollywood films.

Coordinator and Instructor: Srinivas Krishnan, CAWC artist-in-residence, Fall 2009 and Fall 2010.

IDS 151(1 credit)

Diversity Seminar

This seminar is designed to engage students in critical thought and discussion of the intersections of race, class, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, nationality, religion, and disabilities, their personal unique and diverse identities, and the ways we can construct a more inclusive society. The course involves weekly discussion, critical evaluation, and reflection. The seminar exposes students to new knowledge and understanding of their own cultural and physical diversity and that of the surrounding society and challenges them to think about how individual and collective thinking, attitudes, and civic engagement in matters related to cultural diversity promote the practice of democracy. The course is open to students enrolled in the Mosaic Living Learning community. To learn more about the Mosaic program, visit their website.

Instructors are drawn from faculty and staff representing a variety of disciplines and student affairs offices.
 

Coordinator and Instructor: Mary Jane Berman
Guest Instructors:Vanessa Cummings, Fall 2009
                           Alysia Fischer, Fall 2012
                           Yvania Garcia, Fall 2010 and Fall 2011
                           Tim Staples, Fall 2009

IDS 153 (1 credit)

Issues in Cultural Diversity

Each academic year the Center for American and World Cultures programs focus on a particular theme related to cultural diversity, which is explored in IDS 153. This course is offered every semester.

Coordinator and Instructor: Mary Jane Berman

AY 10-11, "Holocaust and Genocide Education"
This year the lecture series was office in the spring 2011 as a companion course to the Annual Holocaust and Genodaide education Program.

Guest Instructor: Rachel Gartner

AY 08-09, “Religion and Community”
The goal of the “religion and community” theme is to broadly expose our students to major issues related to the world’s major religious beliefs and practices. The course facilitates development of students “religious literacy”.

Guest Instructors: Jacqueline Rioja Velarde
                            Lisa Poirier

AY 07-08, “Diversity: Engaging Your Global Future Now”
IDS 153 is a companion course of the Center for American and World Cultures fall 2007 Series “Diversity: Engaging Your Global Future Now”. This course will allow you to explore and reflect about how/why global changes and interdependence in the 21st century affect the world’s environmental and cultural diversity and development. In this class you will analysis these themes from an interdisciplinary perspective focused on crucial aspects such as race/ethnicity, nationality, gender, class, religion, sexual orientation, livelihood, life style among other cultural manifestations.

Guest Instructor: Jacqueline Rioja Velarde

AY 06-07 “Intersecting Lives: Globalization is Diversity in the 21st Century”
This course will allow you to explore and reflect about how/why global changes and interdependence in the 21st century affect the world’s environmental and cultural diversity. IDS 153 offers you the opportunity to analysis these themes from an interdisciplinary perspective focused on crucial aspects such as race/ethnicity, nationality, gender, class, religion, sexual orientation, livelihood, life style among other cultural manifestations.

Guest Instructor: Jacqueline Rioja Velarde

IDS 154 (2 credits)

Introduction to Study Abroad
In an ever-changing global community, students choose to study abroad for a multitude of reasons. In this course, students will begin to consider some of questions and issues that will be part of their travel, study, and daily life abroad. They will also begin to develop intellectual tools that they can use to cope with culture shock and the development of lifetime cultural competencies.  The course will help prepare them for their international education experience.

Coordinator and Instructor: Mary Jane Berman
Guest Instructors:Sarah Coban, Spring 2012
                           Alysia Fischer, Spring 2013
                           Karla Guinigundo, Fall 2013
                           Aliya Rahman, Spring 2012 and Fall 2010
                           Cheryl Young, Spring 2011

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 IDS 156 (1 credit)

Study Abroad Reentry Seminar

Study abroad is a transforming learning experience. Such an experience affects student personal and academic life enhancing their cross-cultural understandings of the world. IDS 156 brings students opportunities to reflect upon what they learned abroad and articulate their experiences to themselves and others so that they might further build their new intercultural competence and enhance their global perspective. This course, which offers comprehensive reentry support for students who participated on study abroad programs, focuses on academic reintegration, civic engagement, professional development as well as the psycho/emotional aspect of the reentry process.

Coordinator and Instructor: Jacqueline Rioja Velarde
Guest Instructors: Alyssa Klein, Fall 2012
                            Sarah McNitt, Spring 2011

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IDS 159 (3 credits)

Strength through Cultural Diversity

This course serves as an interdisciplinary introduction to cultural diversity. A primary goal is to facilitate students’ abilities to build their cultural competencies and their abilities to work toward a socially just and inclusive world by providing the conceptual tools and vocabulary to think about, discuss and experience cultural diversity. Topics covered include multiculturalism, ethnocentrism, prejudice, discrimination, privilege, the impacts of social and cultural change, and the engagement of students in the global community. This course is part of the Miami Plan for Liberal Education and fulfills IIIB World Cultures.

Further information about the Miami Plan can be found at www.muohio.edu/academics/miamiplan. It also fulfills the School of Business diversity requirement, http://www.fsb.muohio.edu/prospective-students/undergraduate/graduationr.... We offer three sections (10 weeks in length) each semester.

Coordinator and Instructor: Alysia Fischer 
Guest Instructors: Adetutu Abatan, Spring 2009-Spring 2011
                            Oliver Mogga, Spring 2009-Spring 2011

IDS 259 (3 credits)

Introduction to the Myaamiaki

The course offers an interdisciplinary examination of the Myaamia (Miami Tribe) as a living people, within a living culture—a people with a past, present and future. It explores pre-contact economy, social and political organization; the historic period of contact, treaties and federal legislation and the cultural basis of Myaamia responses, as well as present-day issues of concern to the dependent sovereign nation of the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma. Additionally, common perceptions about Native Americans within U.S. culture will be challenged. (Pre-requisite IDS 159, BWS 151, EDL 204, ATH 155, ATH 175, ATH 185, SJS 165, SOC 153, SOC 165, or WGS 201)

 Coordinator and Instructor: Alysia Fischer

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IDS 177 (1-3 credits)

Independent Study
CAWC Instructors:
Mary Jane Berman
Alysia Fischer
Jacqueline Rioja Velarde