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Interdisciplinary Studies – Academic Disciplines – Communications and Women's Studies Communications Studies and Women's Studies are wide-ranging globally important disciplines with applications in fields as diverse as education, law, business and nonprofit administration, for a few examples. Arizona State University has excellent programs in both Disciplines. The ASU Hugh Downs School of Human Communication takes a comprehensive approach to the area of "Communications," encompassing both Undergraduate and Graduate Studies. By studying and critiquing human communications, ASU's program seeks to create "knowledge, creativity and understanding" vital to families, workplaces and communities. Stressing foundational knowledge of communication theories, research methods, conceptual knowledge and practical communications skills, the program is focused on creating globally effective professionals in communications-related fields such as law, business, sales, human resources, public relations and management of nonprofit organizations. By preparing undergraduates and graduates for communications-related fields that are relevant worldwide, ASU is addressing the needs of an increasingly complex, shrinking globe. Equally globally relevant is Arizona State's Women's Studies program. ASU offers Women's Studies within the broader context of "Social Transformation," a field that also probes African and African American Studies, Asian Pacific American Studies, Culture, Society and Education, Justice and Social Inquiry. Clearly, ASU's Women's Studies program is not a narrow topic that is merely focused inward; rather, it is an interdisciplinary, diverse, multiple-perspective program seeking to engage students in various majors, minors and other fields of study. The obvious object of such a program is its students' readiness for local and global relevance by tackling such subfields as gender, health, sexuality, science and technology, work, globalization, ecology, social policy, violence prevention, media, film, performance and the arts through specifically named subfields such as: Culture; Economics; Film; History; Literature; Politics; and Science. In sum, though Communications Studies and Women's Studies are treated as distinct Disciplines, their ultimate purpose is the preparation of individuals for worldwide multidisciplinary relevance.

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aggressor and victim (Enders, and Bevington). The idea of presenting violence, torture, and cruelty through fiction is a dangerous combination in which the related laws, drama, and poetry cannot present the lighter side of art and culture. The medieval authors presented the sufferings and culture of their societies. The French authors not only harmed their credibility in metaphor but at the same time the audience of these drams and fiction were also taught unethical practices. These included that finding truth through torture and violence. The creativeness within the drama and fiction was also damaged through projecting violence and the phenomenon that physical pain cannot resist language and it has to take a medium to flow out of the creative minds (Enders, and Bevington).

Sequential, opaque negotiations can provide tremendous advantage in certain negotiation scenarios involving multiple parties. This is demonstrated not only in more recent game theory developments but is also clearly observable in a variety of practical examples. A more collaborative consensus building approach can also be advantageous in some scenarios, but would not have been as effective in the Harborco negotiations.

The "dissoi logoi" fragment attributed to Protagoras is used to explain the form and function of Gorgias' "Encomium of Helen". Gorgias' work is contextualized within the rhetorical world of 5th century BCE Athenian legal practice--his defense of Helen of Troy is described in terms of a modern Christian offering a "devil's advocate" defense of the actions of Eve, or the snake, in the Book of Genesis. Gorgias' role within the practice of the Sophists in classical Athens is explored, and the ramifications of offering a praise and defense of Helen is shown to be an illustration of Sophistic practice by insisting that there are "dissoi logoi" or two sides to every story.

This paper is an analysis of The Consolations of Philosophy by Alain de Botton. It focuses on the author's analysis of the death of Socrates. De Bottom argues that philosophy's greatest strength is its ability to question conventional wisdom, given that so many of what we regard as 'truths' are really unspoken cultural assumptions. Socrates became unpopular because of his questioning of the definition of values such as piety, courage and virtue.

Corporate governance is generally regarded as a good and honest topic but some governments are accused of going too far. On the other side of the spectrum, there are those that say that corporations need to be reined in because of scandals like Enron. This study proposal relates to exploring where the proper balance is and should be.

Grendler, Paul F. Schooling in Renaissance Italy: Literacy and Learning 1300-1600. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991.

Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle are the most famous of the ancient Greek philosophers. All three of them have left a deep impact on the Western philosophy. In this paper we will look at the main points of their…

In this chapter, I examine similarities and differences between The City of Joy by Dominique Lapierre (1985) and Song of Kali by Dan Simmons (1985) with regard to the themes of the Western journalistic observer of the Oriental Other, and the fascination-repulsion that inspires the Occidental spatial imaginary of Calcutta. By comparing and contrasting these two popular novels, both describing white men's journey into the space of the Other, the chapter seeks to achieve a two-fold objective: (a) to provide insight into the authors with respect to alterity (otherness), and (b) to examine the discursive practices of these novels in terms of contrasting spatial metaphors of Calcutta as "The City of Dreadful Night" or "The City of Joy." The chapter further argues that these spatial metaphors are redolent of what Peter Stallybrass and Allon White (1986) refer to as the "phobic enchantment" (p. 124) of the Occidental social imaginary for the poverty, squalor and the horror of the Third World.