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4.00 Credits
This course investigates the artistic and imaginative creative processes through which culture and music are expressed in non Western societies. Various music cultures are studied through readings, audio recordings, videos, student oral presentations, written papers, guest lecturers, and experiential musical performances. Students learn about different cultural ideas of what music is, what its powers are, and how it relates to other aspects of life. Credits: 4 Clock Hours - (Lect-Lab): (4-0)
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One of the most recurrent depictions in various film genres, television programs, and art historical material is the figure of genius - natural, successful, failed, corrupted, artificial, and subversive. This course investigates the appearance and limits of such representations within film and visual culture. Credits: 4 Clock Hours - (Lect-Lab): (4-0)
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4.00 Credits
This is an interdisciplinary course that explores gender issues in a performative environment such as theatre. Students develop historical, critical, analytical and expressive skills in the selected discipline. Focus is on understanding the modes of expression with regard to knowledge of historical and contemporary works and issues from a variety of different genres and cultures. Credits: 4 Clock Hours - (Lect-Lab): (4-0)
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4.00 Credits
The Maya, the largest Native American ethnicity in the Americas will be the subject of an interdisciplinary analysis employing techniques from archaeology, art, history, ethnohistory, and social anthropology. Each era of the Maya past will involve a distinct mode of analysis focused on urban space and architecture, the production of religious and secular art, and the structure of daily life. Credits: 4 Clock Hours - (Lect-Lab): (4-0)
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This course investigates the interplay between truth, rationality and the values that shape our lives. Does our knowledge represent an objective reality or is it so imbued with political, economic, religious, and other values as to merely reflect our own cultural standpoint Can we - and should we - disentangle the demands of reason from the influence of social values Credits: 4 Clock Hours - (Lect-Lab): (4-0)
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3.00 Credits
Selected philosophies of many North American indigenous peoples are the focus of this course. Both traditional philosophies and those which have changed through contact with American societies will be studied. Writings and other materials from the perspectives of scholars and Native peoples themselves will provide a basis for discussion, writing assignments and research on aspects of the living traditions of indigenous peoples. Credits: 3 Clock Hours - (Lect-Lab): (3-0)
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4.00 Credits
This course examines the critical arguments anarchists make against the capitalist nation state system. Popular culture perceptions of anarchy, the ways that political and economic systems construct commonly held beliefs, and presuppositions about human nature, ownership, equality and the roles of laws are studied. The course also examines alternative models of living in the world. Credits: 4 Clock Hours - (Lect-Lab): (4-0)
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4.00 Credits
This course explores how various modes of resistance are launched, maintained, and sometimes falter in a number of different sociological, historical and cultural contexts. Mainstream corporate media tend to portray resistance movements as trivial or fanatical. This course asks students to examine different modes of resistance to various forces as disparate as nation-states, international policies sponsored by various states, and international organizations. Credits: 4 Clock Hours - (Lect-Lab): (4-0)
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Game theory is the formal analysis of strategic situations. This course will provide students with a structured approach to tactical problem solving. It will also consider the interplay between strategic behavior and social structures, norms, and the human psyche. Although the course involves theoretical modeling, no mathematics beyond elementary algebra is required. Credits: 4 Clock Hours - (Lect-Lab): (4-0)
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4.00 Credits
This course explores the ways that the socio-cultural systems of sex/gender and scientific production influence one another. Using an interdisciplinary approach informed by sociology, the history of science, and feminist critiques of knowledge, this course examines issues such as the socialization of women into scientific communities; the ways that scientific methodology and questions carry gender bias; and strategies for critically analyzing the cultural assumptions of science. Credits: 4 Clock Hours - (Lect-Lab): (4-0)
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