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CLUSTER COURSES
The PSS department offers many cluster courses in the Westminster Plan curriculum.   A cluster consists of two linked courses taught by two faculty form different disciplines to the same group of students.  Clusters offer opportunities for students to integrate knowledge and to develop into a community of learners.  All students are required to take at least one cluster (two courses).    The clusters currently offered by PSS and the last term in which they were offered are listed below.
Letting them in/Keeping them out
SOC 102 Deviance
And 
SPE 202 Small Group Communication
Fall 2002

America at War in the Age of Rock and Roll
PS 150 The Politics of Rock and Roll
And
ENG 104 War Literature and Film
Fall 2002

Aging:  Biological and Social Dimensions
SOC 301 Gerontology
And
BIO 103 Biology of Aging
Fall 2002

Changing Visions of Delinquency:  Literature and Sociology
SOC 201  Juvenile Delinquency
And
ENG 102  Children’s Literature
Spring 2002

Celtic Adventures (Travel Course)
PS 234  Irish Politics
And
REL 266 Celtic Spirituality
Spring 2002

The “Black” and the “Jew”:  Minorities in France and the U.S.
CLC 122 Comparative Literature and Culture
And
SOC 109 Minority, Majority Relations
Spring 2002
 

Putting them away:  Institutionalization in the U.S.
SOC 108 Social Problems, Social Policies
And
HIS 309 Institutions of Care and Control
Spring 2002

Women's Images and Roles in Developing Countries
SOC 150: Women in Cross-Cultural Perspective
And
CLC 141   Images of Women in Latin American Literature
Fall 2003

Law, Literature and Film
PS 214  The Courts
And
ENG 120  Law and Literature

A new travel cluster focusing on South African Politics and Economics is underdevelopment for Fall 2003/January 2004.
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