This course focuses on various forms of performing arts such as dance, drama and music, performance theory and their history, Indigenous theatre of Bangladesh and popular music in society.
Course Catalogue
Course Code: GED 410
Course Name:
Introduction to Performing Arts
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
Course Code: GED 411
Course Name:
Objectivity and Its Loss
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
The nature and limits of objectivity in the context of biomedical practices and institutions will bne taught under this course. Topics include conceptions of objectivity, conflict of interest, inappropriate influence, individual ethical failings, cognitive biases, and other linguistic and social sources of error and bias. Emphasis will be on identifying strategies for counteracting the various threats to objectivity.
Course Code: GED 416
Course Name:
Business Ethics and Leadership
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
The course will be designed to introduce and examine different leadership qualities and enable the students to reason about the role of ethics in business. The students will examine lives and works of 5-7 leaders. Also they will discuss real life ethical dilemma cases from marketing, operations, human resource, accounting, finance and other related fields.
Specific course objectives include:
1. To learn from leadership qualities demonstrated by leaders in the past.
2. To be able to recognize ethical issues in business. And finally …
3. To critically examine the students’ own ethics and leadership qualities and test them in conversation among peers.
Students who should attend:
This course requires heavy participation on behalf of the students in their learning. Almost 80% of the grades will depend on class participation and presentations.
Course Code: GED 416
Course Name:
Global Migration and Citizenship
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
The movement of people across borders is a defining characteristic of the modern age. Migrants’ contribute to the economies of the host and homeland, but also exacerbate inequality, enflame nationalist sentiments, and spread values that threaten existing power structures. This course explores the causes of international migration; how governments regulate it; and how it transforms our ideas of citizenship.
Course Code: GED 418
Course Name:
South Asian Art and Architecture
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course will offer a comprehensive idea on South Asian art and architecture from the beginning to the present. Through this course students will learn about the patterns of development in the field of art and architecture, painting, sculpture, famous monuments and minor art objects of South Asia, major artists and architects. Besides, the course will interpret the varied ways in which South Asian art reflects and shapes social, religious, cultural, political and economic milieu of South Asia.
Course Code: GED 419
Course Name:
Ethnic Identity and Nationalism
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course focuses on study of key issues debated by anthropologists regarding ethnicity and nationalism, with examination of concepts such as identity, cultural citizenship, transnationalism-globalization, gender, home, and acculturation-hybridity.
Course Code: GED 429
Course Name:
The Visual Culture of South Asian Women
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
Considers women as patrons and producers of ancient and medieval art and architecture, and examines the imaging of women in ancient and medieval works of art. Topics include feminist perspectives in ancient medieval history and art history, patronage by royal and aristocratic women, costume and textile production, and the art and architecture of female monastic communities.
Course Code: GED 438
Course Name:
Origin and Development of Bangla Language*
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course is designed to provide a comprehensive idea of the Indo-European parent speech, Indo-Iranian, Old Indo-Aryan, Middle Indo-Aryan, Old Bangla, Modern Bangla languages and the evolution of Bangla scripts.
* This course will be taught in Bangla
Course Code: GED 439
Course Name:
Science, Perceptions and Reality
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
It is improbable that scientific discoveries could make us give up commonsensical beliefs. It is even less plausible that commonsense could make us reject established scientific theories. So when science and commonsense appear to clash, as they do over colors, solidity, mental content, values, and death, serious philosophical problems arise. The course will investigate possible responses to these problems.
Course Code: GED 443
Course Name:
Gender and Society
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
The course focuses on various contemporary issues on gender and society. Topics include Theories of gender and their development, origin of family, feminist theories, feminist anthropology, women and gender, nature, culture and gender, patriarchy vs. matriarchy, kinship and gender, psychology of gender, women and religion, gender and society in the developing countries, gender and nationalism.