Creating Communities

Catalog description

This course, designed for students in the Dean's Fellows program, asks students to think critically about the taken-for-granted concept of "community" as related to their identities as first-year students in the Dean's Fellows program at a Catholic, Jesuit university in urban Omaha, Nebraska. Students will consider how community is more than a group of people, but rather a mix of personal and public contexts, boundaries, and possibilities. Students will explore their newfound identities in the community of Creighton, will conduct anthropological research into "organic" (non-academic) intellectual communities on campus, and will work with a community partner (via the Office of Academic Service Learning) to publicize an issue on Creighton's campus. Throughout, students will explore the communities they are entering, and the systems of power and privilege at play in these communities. CO: COM 101 .