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Amazonian Reform
Get PDFThis paper intends to show how Pope Francis’ ecclesiology and environmental consciousness are intimately related. Pope Francis calls on the church as a community to come together to preserve important environments like the Amazon rainforest from human devastation. This communal call is similar to how Pope Francis uniquely calls on the local church to be involved in general ecclesial matters
Librarians and Instructional Technologist Moving Forward Together with Video Classes
No full textHistorically the CSB/SJU Media Department was a division of the libraries. However, in early 2018 the administration decided to move the department under IT Services as a result of a consultant\u27s recommendation which came out of program review for the department. This change has helped the libraries and Instructional Technology (formally media services) form a more focused partnership. Miranda Novak is the Assistant Director for the newly-formed Instructional Technology group and Sarah Gewirtz is the Information Literacy Librarian working together to ensure that the library partnership and values continues as this department transitions to its new organizational structure. During our presentation we will discuss how the librarians and instructional technologists are working together; how we are incorporating information literacy into technology classes; how we redesigned the classes to incorporate more hands-on learning; discuss the beginnings of our assessment plan; and, explain how this new structure has impacted everyone involved
Nibi Eteg: Where the Water Is
No full textOver this past year, ETL produced a documentary on the spiritual and cultural significance individuals have with water. The two stories the team chose to parallel were from the perspectives of Hindu individuals in India and the band of Chippewa Native Americans in Red Lake, Minnesota. Both of these stories explored the connection people share with water, either by religious or cultural practice. Throughout the film, we identified the presence of a gap within American ties to water. The gap, we learned, is not a failure in forming a connection, nor understanding the significance of water, but that individuals struggle to perceive the connection they have with water. In failing to form connection, we succeed at forming apathy towards the water we survive by.
Following our documentary premiere, ETL worked in partnership with 13 other campus clubs and organizations ranging from Women’s Leadership and Campus ministry to Chemistry Club and College Democrats and Republicans, to put together Water Week, a week-long journey allowing students to see the importance of and connection we share with water as we walk along our everyday lives. This initiative is one that will continue every year with these clubs, and we hope will expand to even more as the years continue
CSB Class of 2018 Commencement Celebration
No full textMay 12, 2018 One Hundred and Third Year HCC Fieldhouse College of Saint Benedict Beth Dinndorf was the guest speaker and Maranna Gunnerson was the student speaker
Heart Rate Variability: Impact of Neuroticism and Social Isolation
Get PDFPsychologists are interested in self-compassion and its effects on our biopsychological well-being. A common method found throughout much research in assessing this is through heart rate variability. In the present study, we attempt to see whether or not self-compassion has an impact on one’s heart rate variability as a higher HRV indicates one is better able to adapt to stress. Self-compassion was measured beforehand through an online self-compassion survey that contained subscales measuring neuroticism. We also tested to see if social isolation would have an impact on HRV. Social isolation was implemented through a computer program game titled CyberBall, in which the researchers programmed the “game” to include or exclude the participants. There were two groups in the study with one starting in the isolation condition and ending in the non-isolation condition and the other starting in the non-isolation condition and ending in the isolation condition. Participants’ HRV was measured while they played CyberBall. We hypothesized that a lower heart rate variability would be produced during the isolation condition. We unfortunately found no significant change in HRV predicted by this hypothesis. However, our second hypothesis predicted that the more neurotic a participant was, the lower the heart rate variability would be. Results supported this hypothesis and suggest that neuroticism is an important variable when analyzing heart rate variability
Pawnbroking in Pre-1949 China: ‘Soft Strategies’ for Overcoming a Negative Image
Get PDFThe means for enhancing the image and business legitimacy of a socially discredited industry—pawnbroking in pre-1949 China—are explored. Previous studies suggest companies operating within such industries cannot solely rely on hard marketing strategies “to maximize sales and profits as they do with soaps and shoes” (Davidson, 2003, p.7). Instead, they must find soft strategies for improving company and industry image and legitimacy
This Will Change Everything: Teaching the Climate Crisis
Get PDFWe argue that U.S. sociologists have been woefully remiss in incorporating the climate crisis into our research agendas and even more, into our teaching. After laying out the gravity of the situation we issue a call for sociologists to consider whether they wish to continue this striking denial of responsibility to our students and to knowledge production. We then present four ways that we have infused our understanding of climate change, climate crisis, and climate justice into courses on global issues, social movements, inequality, and much more. We believe that “climate justice” – the key concept that drives our concern as scholar-activists working closely with undergraduate students – allows for a proper sociological emphasis on structured inequality and relational/intersectional thinking. The essay also points interested readers to resources that we have created, and invites them to contribute to a new project on writing case studies for teaching the climate crisis
College Hookup Culture and Christian Ethics: The Lives and Longings of Emerging Adults
No full textWhat happens at college parties? Why do students dress and behave the way they do? Who has power, and what kind? And are college students happy overall with party and hookup culture? In response to undergraduates’ skepticism of researchers’ accounts of hookup culture, the author engaged 126 college students as ethnographers to observe and analyze this complex social reality at parties. Part I presents their results, revealing a disillusionment with contemporary sexual and relational norms that challenges benevolent or even neutral views of hookup culture. Part II brings students into conversation with Christianity’s narrative of what it means to become fully human and experience genuine joy and fulfillment. The spokesperson for this vision is theologian Johann Metz, whose portrait of Jesus struggling to become fully human by embracing poverty of spirit resonates with today’s college students. Comparing Jesus’s way of being in the world with their college culture’s status quo, many undergraduates discover in Metz’s Poverty of Spirit a countercultural path to authenticity, happiness, and fulfillment. Part III culminates in a call to action: with understanding of contemporary norms gained in part I, and poverty of spirit as explored in part II, these chapters explore obstacles to sexual justice on college campuses, identify key commitments necessary for change, and envision how undergraduates can work to create the college culture they truly desire and deserve.https://digitalcommons.csbsju.edu/theology_books/1017/thumbnail.jp