Description
Prerequisite: instructor approval. This course entails an intensive exploration of globalization processes, developing and developed world dynamics, socio-economic, racial and ethnic stratification and the role social activism plays in making a just world a reality. Particular emphasis is placed on active engagement in field experience communities, journaling techniques and group and self-reflective processes. Specifically, the goals of this course are to: 1) reflect on divergent global perspectives (the other [persons, cultures and structures]); 2) reflect on one's sociological place (the social self); 3) develop critical intellectual abilities (the mind); and 4) develop a cultural and materialistic humility (the spirit). Included in this course is a required two-week field immersion in Jamaica.