Glbl 350A: Serving the Global Community
Professor: Tom Shaw
Term: Fall 2009
Location: Stevenson 3065
Time: Alternating Mondays 6-7:50pm
Objectives
The primary goal of this course is to sensitize students to the multi-faceted
ways to be of service, and will explore the need, importance and value
of service to others. This goal (at least for this course) derives not
from religious sentiments, but from knowledge, understanding and awareness
of how other people around the world live, and of the challenges and conditions
they face in life. In concert with the goals of a global studies curriculum,
this course aims to highlight the basic struggle for survival that characterizes
the plight of not only poor and oppressed "others," but in an
existential sense also describes our own lives. The idea is to probe below
the surface of conditions in everyday life to discover "what really
matters" to people, and to clarify and shape values that motivate
service to others and an interest (academic or otherwise) in the lives
of people around the globe.
Requirements to pass the course:
1. Attendance. Only 1 absence is permitted.
2. Participation. Regularly participate in class discussions.
3. Reading. Have reading done before coming to class.
Required texts. (available at Northlight Books)
1. Kleinman, Arthur What Really Matters: Living a Moral life amidst uncertainty
and danger. Oxford University Press. ISBN-10: 019533132X
2. Pipher, Mary The Middle of Everywhere: Helping Refugees Enter the American
Community. Harvest Books. ISBN-10: 0156027372
Class Schedule:
*Note: before the 1st class, read Chap. 1,
Introduction, in Kleinman's book.
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