Heritage

103	Heritage Seminar I: Issues in Community: Citizenship and Justice (WI)	4 credits
Students in Heritage I will ask the questions: What is a community? What communities are we members of? What role does the individual play in a community? What are the expectations and responsibilities of full participation in a community? The seminar asks why communities form, what purposes are served by communities, and what benefits or costs are accrued by members of a community. In seeking answers to these questions, students will also contemplate the role communities have in promoting and inhibiting justice, liberty, and equality among their members and between members of different communities. Texts in Heritage I focus primarily on traditions from the West.

104	Heritage Seminar II: Issues in Cultural Interaction (WI)	4 credits
Heritage II focuses on encounters between individuals and communities from different cultures, in particular Asian and Latin American cultures. Examining what it means to have a cultural legacy--a heritage--within a complex global community, students are challenged to make intellectual and personal sense of one or more cultures beyond the Western world. Students in Heritage II will explore the following questions: How do you fit into the world? What is culture? What are the "stumbling blocks" to understanding people from other cultures? What does it mean to be a global citizen? In particular, the course fosters global thinking, problem solving, understanding, and communication by engaging questions of individuality and community, tradition and innovation, status quo and change, rationality and spirituality, and conflict and cooperation. The texts in the Heritage II seminar represent multiple world cultures.