INTG300_202420

Spring 2024 INTG 300 Course proposal information - SUBJECT TO CHANGE

19333 01AQuest for Meaning: Travel as Reality and Metaphor

Ketchum, R

Exploring travel as reality and as metaphor will serve as the connecting thread of this course. Travel interrupts ordinary ways of knowing and disrupts our assumptions. Movement across space and time can bring us into contact with what we perceive as strange. Those encounters often challenge us to examine our truths and invite us to confront injustices that we observe. As we explore a variety of travel narratives (of tourism, migrations, pilgrimage, and exploration), we will open spaces for storytelling about the four-year liberal arts learning experience as a metaphorical journey. In written and spoken form, each course participant will create a travel narrative that tells the story of their own quest for meaning and connection.

19653 02A: Creating a Record

Harkins, M

When a musical artist makes an album, what music is included? What binds all the tracks together to make that album unique? By looking for individual and unique threads from their Integrated Portfolio (aka "Their Record"), students will create their own album of academic success from the work they have collected during their time at CSB/SJU. During this time of "album creation," students will 1) explore how their time here is connected to their time before they got here and the time after they leave; and 2) how they will incorporate their work here into a future responsible and good life.

19654 03A Quest for Meaning: Travel as Reality and Metaphor

Ketchum, R

19655 04A: Love on the Rocks

Cunningham, A

Love is the essential fuel that drives human lives. Threaten the people, pursuits, and personal ideals we dearly love and you threaten our basic reasons to carry on. Significant adversities like loneliness, grief, social strife, and oppression can send human beings crashing into the rocks that can wreck a life. In this course, we’ll wrestle with cultivating and sustaining a good, meaningful life in the face of serious adversities.

19656 05A: Living, Learning, Loving, Thinking

Keller, J

Graduating CSB/SJU students are entering a rapidly changing world, socially, politically, environmentally, and technologically. This course offers students the opportunity to synthesize their undergraduate learning and reflect on their values prior to graduation so they will be well equipped to answer, for themselves, the questions of how to live, learn, love, and think in the decades ahead.

19212 06A: Leading a Life that Matters

dos Santos, P

In this section of INTG 300, we will explore the connection between a responsible life, the common good, and your college experience in the context of vocation, education, and the labor market.

19658 08A: Love on the Rocks

Cunningham, A

19659 09A TR: Cyber-Wisdom and the Common Good

Kachelski, R

In this course, we will examine a recent framework describing "cyber-wisdom", including how it can be developed individually and in the service of the common good. Through class discussions and writing assignments, we will critically evaluate this proposed framework and the authors’ suggestions for the cultivation of cyber-wisdom. Students will reflect on their own experiences with digital technologies, the challenges inherent in their ubiquitous use in the modern world, and the risks they may pose to the well-being of individuals, communities, and societies. We will also discuss the potential for using digital technologies in ways that promote the common good.

19660 10A: Finding a Place to Stand

Callahan, M

Storytelling is perhaps the oldest and most universal art form humans have. Unlike playing the oboe or applying oil paint to a canvas, we all participate in the art of storytelling, and we have been doing so since before we could walk or talk. This class will examine how our stories intersect with the stories of others and how this intersection can serve to connect us and move all of us toward a deeper understanding of the world and our place in it.

19661 11A: Life on the Page

South, Y

What happens when you put your life on the page? This class explores how our stories intersect with the stories of others and can bring us together on the path toward the common good. We will develop our ability to tell stories in personal essays and give a TED-style talk based on one of these essays. Expect to read great personal essays, a novel or some short stories, and watch a rom com or two.

19662 12A: Life on the Page

South, Y

19663 13A: Law and the Common Good

Haeg, G

This course will examine how the political and legal systems work for the common good. The class will focus on works of fiction and non-fiction and address how the political and legal systems produced laws that expanded civil liberties and civil rights in the US from the 1950s to today.

19664 14A: Americans on the Move: Empire, Violence, and Immigration

Larkin, B

This course will examine the causes and consequences of contemporary Central American immigration into the US. Students will examine the historical and current factors that have caused Central Americans to move from their homelands to the US. They will also examine the truth of popular accounts of immigration and its impact on the US. Last, they will consider just responses to Central American immigration.

19665 15A

Johnson, J

19717 16A MWF: Courageous Connections in Personal and Professional Communication

Lynch, J

This class examines the beauty and fun of prioritizing friendships in personal and professional life. Students will study the science of looking at authentic connection amidst a chaotic world of social media and pandemic confusion. The courage to be real in relationship developments is catalyst to ignite support in personal and professional lives. Further, students learn to give and receive to create rich friendships and as they learn to do the work of commitment. Finally, students learn to build friendships with diverse individuals who experience backgrounds with differing levels of acceptance and belonging. The class celebrates healthy relationships and robust conversations.

19718 17A Courageous Connections in Personal and Professional Communication