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This course examines the history, rhetoric, and social context of American citizen activism in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Topics will include African American abolitionist and civil rights activism, women's suffrage, the home economics movement, the labor movement, educational reform, and student political involvement on college campuses. We will also pay special attention to how these movements played out locally. Our goal throughout will be to understand how ordinary citizens used language to effect social change - and how we today might do the same. (F) 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Seminar CASL - Administration Department Course Attributes: Lower Division
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This course will expand the study of Shakespeare from its traditional literary medium to its heritage of performance on a variety of stages and to its adaptation to the mediums of film and television. Elucidating Marshall McLuhan's axiom - "the medium is the message" - the course will enable students to understand how a text is inflected by its medium. Students in this seminar are required to participate in a class trip to the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Ontario, Canada. Costs for the tickets and lodging will be partially subsidized. Likely student costs: food and transportation. For further information contact the instructor. (F) 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Seminar CASL - Administration Department Course Attributes: Lower Division
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This course explores the role of fast food in our society. Fast food is something we take for granted, yet it has helped shape our culture as well as our economy and is a key symbol of the American lifestyle to the rest of the world. In this course we will examine the history of the fast food industry, the nature of work in the fast food sector, the global reach of corporations like McDonald's and Starbucks, the environmental impact of food production, and the rise of the "slow food" movement. The course will introduce students to perspectives from the social and behavioral sciences including economics, sociology, anthropology, environmental studies, science and technology studies, politics, and history. (F) 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Seminar CASL - Administration Department Course Attributes: Lower Division
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This course will use visual perception and its organization in the brain and related phenomena such as attention and memory as tools to explore the issue of where in the brain consciousness is located, and what the necessary and sufficient criteria for consciousness are. A central premise is that consciousness, formerly the sole province of philosophers, can now be studied empirically using scientific methodologies. (F) 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Seminar CASL - Administration Department Course Attributes: Lower Division
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This course will focus on gender and close relationships. We will examine how pop culture (including popular movies and self-help psychology books) tend to construct gender as a naturally occurring dichotomy, emphasizing the "vast" differences between women and men. For example, John Gray's relationship self-help book titled "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus" has sold millions of copies and has helped to perpetuate the idea that women and men are so different as to be considered different species. The course will introduce students to perspectives from various disciplines including psychology, sociology, communications and gender studies. Using theory and scientific research from these various disciplines, students will learn to critically examine the ways that gender and close relationships are portrayed in our society. 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Seminar CASL - Administration Department Course Attributes: Lower Division
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This course explores the aspects of the conflict between religion and science in America using the Scopes Trial of 1925 as the primary case study. The trial centered on the teaching of certain ideas generally thought to be part of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution via natural selection. These claims will be evaluated by examining the science of Darwin's "On the Origin of Species". The political debate will be examined first in the context of Thomas Jefferson's writings on democratic policy and science, and then from the perspective of early populist and fundamentalist reaction to Darwinism. The subsequent development of Darwinism patterns in American social, ethical, and literary thought will also be explored, as will the rise of the modern creationist movement. The course will conclude with an analysis of the political, educational, and scientific response to that movement. 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Seminar CASL - Administration Department Course Attributes: Lower Division
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This course seeks to explore how the Second World War has been depicted to American audiences during the previous half century. It focuses on ten major films. The first half of the course examines a series of themes uppermost in the minds of directors during the conflict; the second half of the course will explore how the legacy of the war has been remembered during the previous half century. 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Seminar CASL - Administration Department Course Attributes: Lower Division
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This seminar will introduce students to the following: (1) key primary sources for China and East Asia that focus on global interconnections and exchanges; (2) key theoretical issues tied to thinking about global interconnections; and (3) suggested further readings in secondary sources. Upon completion, students will be familiar with some of the basic ways to think and to find out about exchanges and interactions in world history, and to incorporate Chinese and East Asian materials (in translation) into their research. 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Seminar CASL - Administration Department Course Attributes: Lower Division
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In this class we will look at how our own experiences conform to or challenge popular myths and narratives about the historical and contemporary college experience in America. We will study how college life is constructed in novels, newspapers, diaries, letters, personal interviews, essays, textbooks and films. While reading and writing about the college experience, we will address the intersection between fact and fiction and explore how print and visual representations might shape our perceptions of our world. Overall, students' own stories as college students will be crucial to the class's investigation, assessment and production of college life narratives. 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Seminar CASL - Administration Department Course Attributes: Lower Division
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What does it mean to be human? Can machines fall in love? Can our consciousness be transmitted to another human being or substance? Is language fundamental to communication of thought? If so how would communication with other life forms proceed? These questions have traditionally been the domain of science fiction. However, given advances in technology, scientists are asking these questions with increasing frequency. This course explores the interplay between science and fiction. Each week we will examine a particular question through both science and fiction (book, film, etc) and see to what extent the science coincides with, or deviates from, the fiction. There will be a heavy emphasis on topics in cognitive science - an interdisciplinary science of mind and intelligence encompassing fields such as cognitive psychology, philosophy, linguistics, neuroscience and artificial intelligence. 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Seminar CASL - Administration Department Course Attributes: Lower Division
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