COR 295 2 - Caring for Ourselves, the World

Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3

This COR 2 seminar has been designed as an opportunity to explore the connections between our life work as helping professionals, development as leaders in these careers, and building resilience through self-care and mindfulness. Using the lens of the COR 2 essential questions (Who am I and who could I become? What are the needs and opportunities of the world? What is my role in building a just and compassionate world?), the class will pose such questions as, What are the relationships between self and community, and between personal activities and public service? What responsibilities exist in these relationships? How do social forces (e.g., poverty, racism, and sexism) shape these roles and inform one’s responsibilities? Through reading, discussion, and service activities, students will reflect upon community experiences, how these experiences influence their personal and public worlds, and their personal values in relation to these spheres, while identifying and examining their own value systems as they are situated in the values systems of other contexts, including those of their service sites and the Dominican tradition. Class members must have a concurrent field placement within their majors, and content will be based in part of the experiences of students in these placements.

Course Fee: $40
Prerequisite(s): Completion of COR 1 or COR 199 or COR 199 in progress; two full-time semesters of college credit, excluding retro credits, AP credits, and college credit earned while in high school.