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This course familiarizes you with (1)the basic disorders of the diagnostic system, (2)the issues involved in defining abnormality and diagnoses, and (3)the ways in which biological, environmental and psychological factors may contribute to abnormal behavior.

Critical examination of major and selected minor writers from the colonial period through Hawthorne and Melville.

This course is designed to offer you a novel and innovative alternative to conventional classes in the humanities and social sciences.

Comparison of ethics from a Christocentric perspective and a philosophical perspective. Relationship between Christian thought and western philosophical traditions with regard to classical and contemporary moral issues and their relation to current political and social issues.

The Central Intelligence Agency as an instrument of United States policy toward Third World nations.

This course will focus on recent novels that have been described by the term "magical realism." Magical realism engages the usual devises of narrative realism, but with a difference: the supernatural is an ordinary matter, an everyday occurrence, accepted and integrated into the rationality and materiality of literary realism.

Advanced interpersonal communication concepts dealing with relationship disintegration and crisis intervention.

Origins, development, and results of the crusades from the eleventh through the thirteenth centuries.

Relationship between ethnicity, socialization, personality, behavior issues related to current race relations.

Comparison of novels representing various periods in Western cultures with emphasis on a broad historical perspective on the genre, as well as its special characteristics.