INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES (IDS)

Courses

GLS 100: INTRO TO GLOBAL STUDIES

Credits 3

The course introduces students to several of today’s most pressing global issues and demonstrates how they are interconnected. It explores, subject to various perspectives, the issues of ethnic violence, world water concerns, climate change, the spread of tropical diseases, development basics, and current international status of HIV/AIDS. Attention is devoted to the debate over globalization and the development of international institutions. Available to freshmen/sophomores or by permission. Counts in the core as an additional scientific and quantitative reasoning course or as a social science. Also double counts as a global awareness course in the core.

GLS 112: PERSPECTIVES ON GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN RELIEF

Credits 1
This course challenges students to develop critical judgment about complex global justice issues like migration and climate change. Students will take advantage of the expertise and resources of Catholic Relief Services (CRS) as they learn more generally about a challenging social problem, and then consider how Catholic social teaching can help individuals and organizations formulate and implement potential solutions. Course content will be drawn from the annual CRS Faculty Learning Commons core theme and associated resources and will require students to gain a deep understanding of that year’s theme and the relevant humanitarian efforts of CRS. Students will work together on a major public advocacy project to education the campus and/or local community about the global issue and the work of Catholic Relief Services.

IDS 425: SEMINAR IN SERVICE-LEARNING

Credits 3
Thee capstone course for CSL minors, IDS 425, an independent study course, combines interdisciplinary readings, critical thinking and analysis, and community service. Students are encouraged to explore the connections between text and experience, between ideas and lived events. Students are engaged in 45 hours of community service throughout the semester. They pursue a research project of their choice. The culmination of the seminar is a research paper and a formal presentation.