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General Education

GED 204 Gender/Sexuality in Literature and Films
1 Term; 3 Credits
This course is designed to introduce students to the issues of gender and sexuality
within modern films and literature. It will provide a comprehensive overview of socio-cultural
factors that have shaped literary and cinematic representations of gender and sexuality.
Through the discussion of a number of literary texts and movies, the course aims to stimulate
philosophical thinking on sexuality and human difference, examine forces of bias, and
ultimately provoke thought about the relationship among gender, films and literature, and
culture.

GED 205 Quantum Physics, Religion and Faith / Nature and Spirituality
GED 208
1 Term; 3 Credits
How did the universe come into being? What accounts for our existence? How do we
make sense of the universe? Religion and science have many answers to these and like
questions, answers that may often diverge but sometimes they do meet. Unlike the world of
classical physics, quantum mechanics (sometimes labelled as new physics) look at the
universe as a coherent and integral whole; however, the basic concept itself is not new.
Indeed, the connectedness and wholeness of the world was known to medicine men, priests,
shamans, sages, monks in the ancient world. This course aims to explore the convergence of
quantum physics and religions on the issue of creation of the cosmos, the nature of matter and
reality, and how this vision of reality according to quantum physics reenchant the cosmos and
enable humanity to feel at home in the universe again.

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