5 courses in the 1975–76 Undergraduate Calendar, read from the scanned original. The text comes from OCR, so check the scanned page before relying on a detail.
IFS 201Student-Initiated Workshops on Technological and Social Problems (WOTASP) Workshops on Technological and Social Problems
have been established to increase University involvement in seeking solutions to urgent technological and social problems, and to develop in students the ability to work with fellow students from a variety of disciplines in defining complex problems, demonstrate resourcefulness in obtaining relevant information and evaluate the merits of alternative solutions with a view toward constructive utilization of the findings. Workshops are to be student-initiated, planned and directed.
This course provides partly an introduction to, and partly an overview and synthesis of, social phliosophy and the social sciences. The unifying themes are the continued emphasis on normative questions and foundational and methodological questions about social philosophy and social science. Although all the social sciences are touched upon, somewhat more emphasis is given to politics, economics, sociology and anthropology than to psychology as such. In general, questions are raised via normative issues, especjally the issues of social justice, and through interaction the idea of social planning becomes prominent, Winter term
This course will concentrate on the question of the possibility of a nonviolent approach to resolving human conflict with special emphasis on the nature and uses of power, the nature of the nation state and the problem of relating a personal ideal to the realities of communal life. (First-year students admitted with permission of the instructor.)
Leisure from both historical and contemporary perspective; leisure as viewed by the Utopians ~ the dream versus the reality; as a class phenomenon; as non-work; as culture-pop and otherwise; and as a problem. Leisure and social institutions; the family, the school, the church, the polity, the economy. Leisure and the future of man.
An examination of the terms and forms of expression characteristic of non-fiction presentation in the media of print, radio and television. Lectures, seminars and workshops will be combined to seek to establish basic criteria for media expositions, to assess them and’ apply them to individual student projects.