Glbl 350A: Serving the Global Community
Professor: Tom Shaw
Term: Fall 2008
Location: Stevenson 3065
Time: Alternating Tuesdays 4-5:50pm
* There is no class Tuesday, August 26. The
first class meeting is Tuesday, Sept. 2nd
Objectives
The primary goal of this course is to sensitize students to 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 not only of poor and oppressed
"others," but in an existential sense, characterizes all of
our 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.
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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