Contemporary Issues
OFFICE: 2073 Humanities and Social Sciences Building, Muir College,
(858) 534-3589
Director
Patrick J. Ledden, Ph.D.
Courses
Lower-Division
22. Human Sexuality (4) A survey of the
nature and problems of human sexuality in the development of the individual,
in cultural traditions and values, and in social roles and organizations,
particularly with regard to contemporary America. L. Ross
40. Contemporary Issues: The AIDS Epidemic (4) Using
current information, this course will deal with the worldwide spread of
AIDS, particularly into communities, colleges, and universities. Discussion
topics: origin, infection, biology, clinical expression, risks, vaccines,
epidemiology, and the social, ethical, economic, and legal aspects of
this epidemic.
50. Information and Academic Libraries (2) An
introduction to research strategies directed at satisfying the information
needs of the student using the academic library, with emphasis on the
UCSD library system. Library techniques will be acquired through lectures
and discussion, problem sets, and a term project. Students will learn
to extend these techniques to independent research.
Upper-Division
136. The Anthropology of Medicine (4) (Same
as ANGN 128.) Theoretical approaches to and cross-cultural analyses of
the role of the medical profession, the sick and the healers, and culture
as communication in the medical event. The theoretical anthropological
aspects of medical practice and medical research will include a consideration
of the Great Traditions of medicine as well as primitive and
peasant systems. Western medicine will be considered in the foregoing
framework, with issues of contemporary concern by way of introduction.
Prerequisite: upper-division standing. L. Ross
195. Discussion Leading in Contemporary Issues (4) Students
will lead groups of ten to twenty students in discussions of contemporary
concern. Students will meet with the professor to plan and prepare for
their discussions to be held weekly. Students will also consult with another
faculty member specializing in their topics for further check on reading
materials and course of discussion. (P/NP grades only.) Prerequisite:
Contemporary Issues 196 and consent of the director of Interdisciplinary
Sequences.
196. Contemporary Issues Workshop (2) A
workshop for potential discussion leaders in the Contemporary Issues
Program. Students will investigate topics for discussion and methods
of presentation and inquiry. Participating in the workshop does not
guarantee selection as discussion leader. (P/NP grades only.)
198. Group Studies in Contemporary Issues (4) Group
studies, readings, projects, and discussions in areas of contemporary
concern. Course is set up so that students may work together as a group
with a professor in an area of contemporary concern whereby the group
emphasis would be more beneficial and constructive than individual special
studies. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. (P/NP grades only.)
199. Special Studies in Contemporary Issues (2-4) To
be offered during fall, winter, and spring quarters. Permission of the
director of Interdisciplinary Sequences is required. The 199 course
is to be made up of individual reading and projects in the areas of
contemporary concern. Term paper and/or completed project is required.
This class is given under special circumstances, e.g., student abroad.
(P/NP grades only.)
500. Apprentice Teaching in Contemporary Issues (4) A
course in which teaching assistants are aided in learning proper teaching
methods by means of supervision of their work by the faculty: handling
of discussions, preparation and grading of examinations and other written
exercises, and student relations. Prerequisite: graduate standing.
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