Survey of the history of popular music, focusing on the United States. The course examines influential music genres and individual artists as well as situating their repertories within sociocultural, political, economic, and technological contexts. (CD, D) First Session Course: Cultural Diversity
Survey of music, history, and culture from selected societies around the world. (CD, D) Second Session Course: Cultural Diversity
A study of the musical sources of American culture and the six streams of music in the United States: folk and ethnic musics, offsprings of the rural South (country music, blues, rock), jazz and its forerunners, popular sacred music, popular secular music, and art music. […]
Examines the basic concepts of several representative philosophers, including their accounts of the nature of knowledge, persons, God, mind, and matter. (D) Second Session Course:
Examines the nature of happiness and meaning and the epistemic, ethical, and political issues surrounding their pursuit. Focus varies by instructor. (D) First Session Course:
A study of ethical issues that arise in health care and the life sciences such as informed consent, experimentation on human subjects, truth-telling, confidentiality, abortion, and the allocation of scarce medical resources. (D) Second Session Course:
A study of pressing ethical issues in contemporary life, such as abortion, euthanasia, animal rights, affirmative action, marriage, cloning, pornography, and capital punishment. (D) First Session Course:
Field work in a public or private setting with related readings and an analytical paper under the direction of a faculty member. Students initiate the project and secure the permission of an appropriate instructor. Normally one course in an appropriate subfield is taken prior to […]
Overview of the qualitative and quantitative methods prominent in studying political science. Attention is given to the relationships between theory, method, and findings by focusing on the need to make systematic empirical observations. P-STA 111 must be taken before or concurrently with this course. First […]
General introduction to the field; social organization and disorganization, socialization, culture, social change, social inequality, and other aspects. (D) First Session Courses:
