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Enduring Questions
& Topics Courses

Enduring Questions Seminars & Topics Courses

Enduring Questions Seminars examine significant enduring human questions from an interdisciplinary perspective. These seminars can fulfill a Lourdes University Core Curriculum Requirement, but may not be used to complete any general education requirement. Requires a paper reflective of a 300-level course. Prerequisite: Junior Standing

Enduring Question Seminar Options for Spring 2013

BUS 399 A Enduring Questions Seminar: What Makes a Leader (3)

This seminar course explores the nature of leadership by examining contemporary leadership theory and relating it to relevant examples found in works of literature, philosophy, and history. Themes that will be explored, among others, include character, communication, vision, motivation, success, and failure. Lessons will be extracted from select leadership figures in literature and history. Prerequisite: Junior Standing.

ENG 399 A Enduring Questions Seminar: Sins Against Science (3)

This course analyzes how scientific knowledge is disseminated to popular audiences, considering in particular miscommunications like hoax, fraud, and media misrepresentation. Crosslisted with BIO 399. Prerequisite: Junior Standing.

BIO 399 A Enduring Questions Seminar: Sins Against Science(3)

This course analyzes how scientific knowledge is disseminated to popular audiences, considering in particular miscommunications like the hoax, fraud, and media misrepresentation. Crosslisted with BIO 399. Prerequisite: Junior Standing.

Topics Course Options for Spring 2013

BUS 299 J - Topics in Global Management (3) – J Session

Examines a wide variety of important contemporary topics in the field of global management. The course helps students apply theories and compare the differences between the practices of management in different regions throughout the global environment.

HST 299 J - Topics in Public History (3) – J Session

This course will expose students to the many roles of historians in the public sphere by examining and incorporating the theoretical and practical elements of managing historical agencies. Emphasis will be placed on interpretation systems, educational opportunities, management, funding, as well as the preservation and conservation of collections. The goal will be to understand the various ways that history is brought to the general public outside the classroom setting and appreciate the academic as well as practical side to maintaining a historical agency.

SWK 499 HYJ - Topics in Social Work: Attachment and the Parent-Child Relationship – J Session Hybrid

One of the most important early relationships human beings develop is with parents or primary caregivers, since they are among the very first individuals with whom children come into contact when they enter the world. While a general understanding exists in modern society that parents should protect their children, the realities of life sometimes tell a different story. In this course we will use Attachment Theory as a paradigm from which to examine several approaches and theorist viewpoints to the impact of early interactions on an individual’s later relationships. Prerequisite: junior standing or permission of instructor.