• Discuss how culture and food define each other; its social identity and symbolic expression
• Describe food acquisition, choices, preparation, consumption, etiquette, and social stratification
• Demonstrate how food influences aspects of sex, love, marriage, family and kinship
• Analyze the role of food in economics, politics, power, freedom, religion, purity and taboo
• Identify peculiarities relative to visual, olfactory, textural, and gastronomic preferences
• Compare and contrast food values, nutrition standards, healthy body and esthetics
• Suggest practical applications of findings and means of information sharing

Course Description
Study of Aristotle's logic, physics, metaphysics, and philosophy of language.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

• Discuss the biography of Aristotle and influences which shaped his thought.
• Show familiarity with Aristotle's logic, physics, metaphysics, biology, psychology, aesthetics, ethics and politics.
• Demonstrate familiarity with critical literature on Aristotle.
• Discuss the influence of Aristotle on subsequent western thought including philosophy, physics, and theology.

Course Description
Writing pieces of nonfiction, ranging from the personal essay to essays on travel, film, politics, and the contemporary scene.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

• Discuss the steps in the development of a non-fiction piece including invention, drafts, revisions
• Articulate introductory level understanding of non-fiction writing structures, techniques and research methods
• Refer to specific examples of your experience developing works of fiction you have written. Examples from published works from other authors may also be used to demonstrate illustrate these concepts.
• Discuss the fundamentals and elements of non-fiction tradition and site key examples
• Analyze a published work discussing all relevant elements

• Explain what is the purpose of public budgeting and what budgets are expect to accomplish
• Define governmental revenues, governmental spending, and the sources of borrowing
• Describe the budgeting cycle and the politics involved in the budgetary process
• Discuss the techniques used in budgetary analysis
• Explain the roles of personnel involved in governmental budgeting
• Explain the process of capital budgeting and how it relates to debt management
• Describe the relationship between the economy and public budgeting.

• Demonstrate familiarity with international historical events.
• Show knowledge of contending approaches to International Relations.
• Break down and interpret events according to levels of analysis.
• Examine past processes according to tools acquired in the course.
• Explain the role of power and conflict in International Relations.
• Explore novel international phenomena of cooperation, such as: globalization, integration, the rise of the NGOs, and the emphasis on the environment.
• Analyze the gap between poor nations and wealthy ones, and its implications.

• Identify pre-Columbian social, political and cultural history of in the Spanish-speaking regions of Latin America: Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America, the Andean Region and the southern cone
• Identify post-Columbian social, political and cultural history of in the Spanish-speaking regions of Latin America: Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America, the Andean Region and the southern cone
• Explore the ideas and contributions of selected authors focusing on comparisons and contrasts of the different civilizations of Spanish speaking countries in Latin America.

• Describe democracy and what it means in the United States today.
• Briefly describe the United States Constitution, and explain what is meant by a "living" Constitution.
• Identify the many ways citizens participate in government, especially through public opinion, interest groups, political parties, and the media.
• Describe the roles of the three branches of American government: executive, legislative, and judicial.
• Explain citizens' rights and the concept of "due process."
• Summarize the movement toward equality under the law for minorities.
• Identify ways in which thinking critically allows citizens to help elected officials find solutions to current and potential problems in the democracy.

Course Description
The major philosophical systems and movements from the pre-Socratics to Plotinus with special emphasis on Plato and Aristotle.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

• Identify and discuss the major Pre-Socratic philosophers.
• Identify and discuss contributions of major figures from the different schools of Hellenistic thought, basic contributions made to philosophy and the differences and conflicts among them.
• Identify and discuss the transformation from cosmology to ethics achieved by Socrates and Plato.
• Discuss the Plato's ideas of education, politics and the soul in Republic.
• Discuss the methods and teaching developed by Plato in his early, middle and later dialogues.
• Discuss Aristotle's criticism of Platonic forms.
• Discuss Aristotle's physics and ideas of the Soul.
• Discuss Aristotle's notion of virtue.
• Discuss key points of Aristotle's aesthetics as found in the Poetics.
• Demonstrate familiarity with primary sources as well as critical literature on the periods.
• Address the influence of Greek philosophy on subsequent western thought.

• Explain the tension between continuity and transformation in the history of art.
• Discuss ways that visual art echoes human experience.
• Differentiate between different periods and styles of art.
• Examine the interplay between art and the areas of religion, politics, and culture.
• Discuss varying styles of representation and abstraction.
• Examine the emergence of artistic self-preoccupation.
• Demonstrate appreciation of various types of visual art.