Nov 05, 2024

Spring 2025 Semester Course/Registration Information: Philosophy & World Religions Look Book | New Course: Let's Talk about: Food and Wellness | Service Learning Courses

Beginning today, we will send out daily emails (as needed) containing specific information about Spring 2025 courses and the registration process. These communications will continue until the end of advanced registration on Wednesday, November 20, 2024.  Philosophy & World Religions Look Book | New Course: Let's Talk about: Food and Wellness | Service Learning Courses
 
Philosophy & World Religions Course Look Book
  • The "Course Look Book" from the Philosophy & World Religions department provides detailed information pages in these areas (also attached to this email as a pdf):
    • Philosophy Courses
    • Religion Courses
    • Applied Ethics Courses
       
New Course: Let's Talk About: Food and Wellness
  • ENGLISH 1059 Let's Talk About: Food and Wellness | Section 02 | 11:00 am TTH | Class#: 14054 | Deb Diamond Young
  • This course will satisfy the UNIFI Engage: Oral Communication learning area or a UNIFI Connect Elective
  • Course Description:
    • Students will develop speaking, listening, reading, and group communication skills through the rhetorical study of food and wellness. Students will examine how historical and cultural context shapes the language we use to describe food and wellness, and will analyze a variety of texts to understand how language shapes our understanding of food and wellness. Students will learn how to apply communication principles to a variety of speaking situations. This course fills the UNIFI Oral Communication requirement. 
  • This course would be of particular interest for any healthcare, physical education, and counseling majors who will likely talk to people about food and wellness as part of their careers.
     
Service Learning Courses
  • Service-Learning Courses (designated by "Service Learning Section" in the Enrollment Information Section for a course in the Search for Classes) offer students experiential learning by partnering with a campus or community organization and taking on a service project within the course that benefits the partner.
  • This hands-on experience enables students to better learn the course content while also preparing them for active citizenship and social responsibility.
  • A list of Service Learning courses offered Spring 2025 is available to assist advisors/students to course selection within their major or in a course of interest.