World Views

Statement of the Competency: to think critically about world views. Students who successfully complete the WORLD VIEWS course in Humanities should be able to:

  • Analyze the elements and historical development of world views
  • Explain the major ideas, values and implications of a world view
  • Organize and synthesize elements of a world view into a coherent pattern
  • Conduct a reasoned and critical comparison of world views

The WORLD VIEWS course introduces students to the idea of using conceptual frameworks for understanding, from culturally and historically diverse standpoints, how the world is structured, functions and develops. Students are encouraged to increase their awareness and understanding of different views of humanity and its place in the world.

Please note that not all the courses listed below are offered every term:

Course Number Course Name C - L - H Hrs
345-102-MQ A Conservative World View?  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-102-MQ Ancient China and Beyond  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-102-MQ Art, Film and Media Witnessing  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-102-MQ Bad Attitudes: An Introduction to Pessimism and Skepticism  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-102-MQ Classic Ideas Revisited Through the Contemporary Lens  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-102-MQ Comparative World Views  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-102-MQ Creative Resistance and Social Change  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-102-MQ Cultural Identity and Cultural Rights  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-102-MQ Diversity in Women's Movements  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-102-MQ Early Childhood Education  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-102-MQ Enlightened Consciousness  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-102-MQ Folklore and Fairytale  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-102-MQ Gothic Literature and the Romantic Tradition  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-102-MQ Imagining the Future  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-102-MQ Introduction to Ideologies  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-102-MQ Justice  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-102-MQ Justice 2 (Journeys)  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-102-MQ Justice, Development and Change  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-102-MQ Medieval Civilization  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-102-MQ Money  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-102-MQ Music and World Views  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-102-MQ Nietzsche and Dostoevsky  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-102-MQ Political Ideologies  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-102-MQ Political World Views  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-102-MQ Problems in Modern Political Thought  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-102-MQ Psychoanalysis, Marxism, Feminism  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-102-MQ Public Stories: Journalism, Democracy and The Media  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-102-MQ Signifying Nothing: Pessimism and the Tragic World View  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-102-MQ The Death of Homo Economicus  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-102-MQ The Enlightenment and Romanticism  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-102-MQ The Flavor of Reasons  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-102-MQ The Unseen World: Magic in Ritual, Fairy Tale and Fantasy  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-102-MQ Understanding Culture Through Artworks and Artifacts  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-102-MQ Views of the Environment in Art  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-102-MQ Violence and Nonviolence  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-102-MQ Visions, Rebellions and Elections: Religion and Politics  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-102-MQ Voices and Views of the Black Atlantic World  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-102-MQ Weird, Wonderful and Persuasive: The World Views of Western Philosophers  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-102-MQ World Views of Indigenous Peoples  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-102-MQ Worldviews in 1968  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-102-MQ Worldviews of the Ancients  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-102-MQ Worldviews on Diseases  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-102-MQ Worldviews with New School  3 - 0 - 3 45 
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Last Modified: July 28, 2014