The primary goal of the course is to provide students with a foundational knowledge of transformative literature from around the world as well as fundamental reading, writing, speaking and analytical skills. This first course in the sequence introduces students to great texts from antiquity to the birth of the modern era. Its goal is to create life-long learners, open to the world, and sensitive to other points of view. It exposes students from across the university to the ideas, skill-set and inspiration that animates from the liberal arts, and it also introduces them to liberal arts faculty.

SCLA 10100 Crit Think & Com I-Honors

Crit Think & Com I-Honors

SCLA 10100 Transformative Texts, Critical Thinking And Communication I: Antiquity To Modernity

Transformative Texts, Critical Thinking And Communication I: Antiquity To Modernity

The primary goal of the course is to provide students with a foundational knowledge of transformative literature from around the world as well as fundamental reading, writing, speaking and analytical skills. This second course in the sequence introduces students to great texts from the modern era. Its goal is to create life-long learners, open to the world, and sensitive to other points of view. It exposes students from across the university to the ideas, skill-set and inspiration that animates from the liberal arts, and it also introduces them to liberal arts faculty.

SCLA 10200 Crit Think & Com II-Honors

Crit Think & Com II-Honors

SCLA 10200 Transformative Texts, Critical Thinking And Communication II: Modern World

Transformative Texts, Critical Thinking And Communication II: Modern World

The course takes a social science-based approach to investigating the American university by examining contemporary college life, the history of the American academy, social and environmental issues on campus, and opportunities for engagement with the wider community. Students will improve their speaking, listening, reading, writing skills in English so that they can actively participate in social and academic communication.

SCLA 11000 Language And Cultural Exchange I: Self In Context

Language And Cultural Exchange I: Self In Context

Students will continue to develop the foundational language skills and knowledge that they need to succeed in their other classes at Purdue and to prepare for further academic and professional opportunities. Students will also deepen their understanding of American culture and improve their ability to think about cultural differences in positive ways. In a sense, this class will be a bridge to help you transition to other language-intensive courses at Purdue where you need to read, write, and speak frequently and/or work in groups (such as business, engineering, literature, public speaking, and social sciences).

SCLA 11100 Language And Cultural Exchange II: Texts And Contexts

Language And Cultural Exchange II: Texts And Contexts

In this interdisciplinary course, students read case law to understand legal reasoning and constitutional doctrines and identify major constitutional conflicts. It explores how the forces of technology, economics, politics, environmental change, scientific development, and medicine transform constitutional law.

SCLA 20000 Cornerstones In Constitutional Law

Cornerstones In Constitutional Law

As a lecture/discussion course, Liberal Arts Influentials features speakers from a diverse range of Liberal Arts majors and introduces students to the myriad career opportunities available to Liberal Arts graduates. Speakers represent careers in the arts, media, industry, politics and more. Students are encouraged to initiate dialogue with working professionals. Only students enrolled in the College of Liberal Arts may register for GS 30000: LA Influentials.

SCLA 30000 Liberal Arts Influentials

Liberal Arts Influentials

Special topics, varying from semester to semester. Course content will be drawn from areas not dealt within the regular curriculum.

SCLA 49100 CLA Intl Stdnt Service Intship

CLA Intl Stdnt Service Intship

SCLA 49100 Alternate Break In Selma

Alternate Break In Selma

Special topics, varying from semester to semester. Course content will be drawn from areas not dealt within the regular curriculum. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.

SCLA 49100 Dammon Dean's Scholar

Dammon Dean's Scholar

SCLA 49100 Transformation In Columbia

Transformation In Columbia

SCLA 49100 Wilke Undrgrd Rsch Intern Prgm

Wilke Undrgrd Rsch Intern Prgm

SCLA 49100 Technology, Strategy, & War

Technology, Strategy, & War

SCLA 49100 Create & Cultrl Exprss Ireland

Create & Cultrl Exprss Ireland

SCLA 49100 Thayer Scholar Seminar

Thayer Scholar Seminar

SCLA 49100 Coffee, Comnty & Change Rwanda

Coffee, Comnty & Change Rwanda

This course is for students in the Dammon Dean's Scholars program or the Margo Katherine Wilke Undergraduate Research program. This course is required each semester a student participates in either program. Permission of instructor required.

SCLA 49105 Liberal Arts Undergraduate Research Experience

Liberal Arts Undergraduate Research Experience

This course, whose specific topics might change, focuses on strategy and military studies on a global scale. The course will be rooted in all the elements of strategy (political, military, economic and cultural), plus strategic theory and technology's impact on it. The course exposes students to a set of historical and contemporary strategic dilemmas that involved difficult trade-offs, costly investments, wild risks, incredible victories, and crushing defeats. This is a multidisciplinary course that focuses on several core ideas and principles that cut across schools of thought and examples from past, present and future.

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