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  • LEAP 1205: Comm Engaged Learning

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Community Engaged Learning (CEL) LEAP carefully considers large-scale problems in our society, and how individuals (like you!) and organizations (like the ones you choose to serve!) work to solve them. We will analyze social disparities, conflict, and the potential for societal change. To deeply explore these issues in a hands-on, dynamic way, you will spend time outside of class working with a non-profit organization. In this class, you WILL make a difference through service. We will discuss the ways social disparities, conflict, and in/equity are explored imaginatively in literature, film, music, and art. Think about a movie you love... chances are, some injustice is the root of the conflict that drives the plot. This course also includes the opportunity for an alternate break to the U's own Bonderman Field Station at Rio Mesa over Labor Day. (riomesa.utah.edu).
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  • LEAP 1210: Soc and Behav Science

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    This course focuses on the intersection of technology and the lived human experience. From digital surveillance of your Insta and Snapchat habits to how Google chooses to autocomplete your search inquiries, our lives are saturated with technology. This course explores how different social science disciplines study our individual and collective lived experiences in a tech-saturated society, and will provide you tools for understanding what is Real in our highly manipulated, artificially individualized, technology enhanced lived experience.
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  • LEAP 1215: Soc and Behav Science

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    What does it mean to be h/Human in the face of life-altering technological change? From reanimation to cyborgs to artificial intelligence, this course focuses on creative imaginings of what it means to be h/Human in connection with technology and technological advancement. Creative analytics will be used to consider the ethics and realities of h/Humanness and the human experience. Literature, art, music, and film that re/present humanness are explored in depth through reading, listening, viewing, and creating.
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  • LEAP 1220: Sustainable Foods

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Sustainable and Equitable Food Systems LEAP takes a close look at interconnected food and water systems as well as global and grassroots efforts to ensure sustainable, broad access to fresh, nutritious, affordable, culturally-appropriate food and adequate clean water.
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  • LEAP 1225: Sustainable Food System

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Take a close look at food and water systems, and grassroots efforts to ensure sustainable, broad access to fresh, nutritious, affordable, culturally-appropriate food, and adequate clean water. Through dynamic community engaged learning, you will connect with groups across the U campus and in the Salt Lake Valley whose missions align with food justice. We will discuss how disparate access to food and water drives the plot of literature, films, music, and art. Chances are, you love a movie whose central conflict includes the search for food or water - think The Hunger Games, Avengers: Endgame, etc. What would YOU do for food if you had to...? This course also includes the opportunity for a visit to the U's own Bonderman Field Station at Rio Mesa (riomesa.utah.edu).
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  • LEAP 1230: Human Boundaries

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    This course confronts a core question: What does it really mean to say that we are human beings? By considering key thinkers in the realms of biology, psychology, anthropology, philosophy, spirituality, and literature we can begin to map this hotly contested intellectual terrain. How if at all must we adjust what it means to be human - that oh-so rarified category - to accommodate, say, the complex social patterns of non-human organisms, or perhaps to bring on board machines that can "think" and "learn" and even "feel"? Finally, we will want to consider how people over time and across cultures have connected human experience to cultural expressions of the divine - to God, or gods, or the spirit world - and here we find that religion and ecology often go hand-in-hand.
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  • LEAP 1235: Human Hierarchies

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    The course focuses on ways modern Western society has been constructed around the ordering principle of inclusion and exclusion. This dividing line may involve race, gender, class, ethnicity, religion, and other markers of difference. We will be especially interested in how social hierarchies (rankings, pecking orders) develop and are perpetuated across time. More optimistically, we will also consider alternative models of social organization and inclusivity. Texts for the course will include fiction, non-fiction, prose poetry, scientific, economic, and socio-philosophical works, as well as popular and documentary film.
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  • LEAP 1240: Humans and Nature

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    In this course we will seek to gain an appreciation of how nature has been understood in America, from the exploratory period of Lewis and Clark, through the scientific advances and social upheavals of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, all the way to the present day. Texts for the course will include scholarly articles, first-person narratives, fiction, poetry, and documentary film. The course aims to provide both a sense of historical scope and cultural breadth.
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  • LEAP 1245: Humans and Society

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Drawing primarily upon fiction, creative nonfiction, personal essays, and film, the course focuses upon human interactions in society. We begin by reading two classic nineteenth century works that will provoke us to examine some foundational questions about human identity. What makes a being human? Do humans possess a single, unified self, or might we be composed of multiple, and perhaps conflicting selves? How might changing social circumstances impact human development and self-consciousness? From there, we will explore more specific forms of individual and group identity, allowing us to reflect upon race, gender, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation - and the myriad "crossings" that complicate identity formation, both within individuals and within communities.
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  • LEAP 1250: Reasoning & Ratl Decisn

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Analyzing and evaluating arguments, basic logical framework, Aristotelian logic and beginning logic of sentences, fallacies, fundamentals of probability, decision theory, and game theory. Prerequisite: LEAP 2700.
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