UNIV 349 - Transfer Year Seminar: Democracy in the Crosshairs

Class Number: 2295

Description: Hours: Three hours lecture per week Prerequisite: Junior Standing or Consent of Instructor Description: This interdisciplinary seminar for first year transfer students promotes successful intellectual and social transition to CSU Channel Islands through a problem-based approach. Students examine the modern world and issues facing societies from multiple perspectives, and develop and convey to others analyses of and solutions to problems using the methodologies, tools and techniques of academic disciplines. Students will develop inquiry skills that emphasize critical thinking and independent learning as well as identify how universities and specific disciplines relate to social problems. The seminar promotes student reflection on prior learning at other institutions and its relationship to the CI mission and their degree program, and aims to increase student engagement in intellectual life at the university. Themes will vary. Students will meet outside of class for one hour on a bi-weekly basis in small groups with a peer leader.

Status: Open

Session: Regular Academic Session

Units: 3.00

Class Components: Lecture

Career: Undergraduate

Start Date: 01/19/2019

End Date: 05/24/2019

Grading: Letter Grade

Enrollment Total: 9

Available Seats: 16

Wait List Capacity: 15

Wait List Total: 0

Textbook Status: Required

ISBN: 9780199685363

Title: Fascism

Author: Passmore

Publish: Oxford Univ Press Canada

Textbook Status: Required

ISBN: 9780804190114

Title: On Tyranny

Author: Snyder

Publish: Penguin Random House, Inc

Textbook Status: Required

ISBN: 9781524762933

Title: How Democracies Die

Author: Levitsky

Publish: CROWN PUB INC

Textbook Status: Required

ISBN: 9780195304541

Title: First Democracy

Author: Woodruff

Publish: Oxford University Press