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2.00 Credits
These two courses address sociocultural issues central to the South Asian region of the world, home to approximately 1.5 billion peoples, and they model for students the strengths of multidisciplinary approaches to the study of this area. Anthropology and ethnomusicology study human culture from distinct but complementary disciplinary perspectives. While ethnomusicology is a relatively young discipline with a hybrid theoretical toolbox and a specifically performative focus, anthropology brings to bear a broad and deep body of theory on the study of social structure and cultural expression. The professors of the two courses will give guest lectures in one another's classes during the semester. Students who wish to complete this connection should plan to enroll in both courses in the same semester. Connections: Anth 295 Peoples and Cultures of South Asia and Musc 221 Music and Dance of South Asia
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3.00 Credits
The Cold War and post-Cold War history studied in Hist 206 are intimately connected to U.S. foreign policy and the foreign policy studied in Pols 229 forms and shapes the substance of much of the history of this period. Students taking these paired courses will be exposed to the historical analysis of critical events and documents that have had and continue to have an impact on the formulation and implementation of U.S. foreign policy. They will learn about the political structures and relationships that led to the formulation of foreign policy over time, and they will have a chance to debate and critique policies, thus developing their critical thinking and analytical skills. Connections: Hist 206 Modern America: 1945 to the Present and Pols 229 United States Foreign Policy
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2.00 Credits
This two-course connection enables students to apply the historical study of modern America to their understanding of the art and culture of the period. Students must take Hist 206 and one of the creative arts or humanities courses. Connections: Hist 206 Modern America: 1945 to the Present with Arth 318 Art since 1945 or Eng 247 African American Women's Literature or Eng 249 Hollywood Genres or Eng 256 The Discourses of Cultural Diversity in U.S. Fiction or Eng 257 Race and Racism in U.S. Cinema or Musc 273 African American Originals II: Rhythm and Blues, Rock and Contemporary Jazz or Rel 223 Religion in Contemporary America
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1.00 Credits
English Renaissance poets explored the resources of their language in the new age of print and were fascinated by techniques of Latin, French and Italian versification. Their experimentation with sound and word patterns makes their work particularly interesting to study with the analytical tools available through computer programs. Recent advances in computer software-hypertext, database methodologies, and the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI)-have made it possible to query texts for recurrences of linguistic and lexical features and to "automatically" prepare exhaustive concordancesand stylistic textual analyses. Students participating in this connection will discover how programming (or scripting) facilitates top-down thinking and practice with real-world, problem-solving skills such as problem decomposition and writing algorithms. They will be required to complete work in one course that relies on work already done in the other. In Computing for Poets (Comp 131) all students will be expected to design experiments by asking original questions of a book, poem, author or corpus of texts, and to write computer programs in Perl to analyze a given text. This might be an ancient work, a set of poems or even a student's paper written for some other course. Students who have first taken Eng 313, however, will be required to use authors studied in that course for their experiments. In a final programming project, students will write software to conduct an authorship attribution experiment using 17th-century poets. Students who take Eng 313 after completing the current version of Comp 131 will be required to write an analytic paper on one of the poets from the authorship attribution experiment they have performed in that course. Connections: Comp 131 Computing for Poets and Eng 313 Early Modern English Poetry
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2.00 Credits
What are secrets and why do we need to keep them hidden Once we have secrets, how do we keep other people, companies, organizations, and countries from uncovering them Your computer log-in password and your credit card number are two secrets you want to keep hidden from strangers. Microsoft's source-code is a secret, and the formula that produces Coca-Cola is coded, locked in a vault, and kept under tight security. Al Qaeda has secrets that the U.S. government wants to know. The U.S. government has military secrets, diplomatic secrets and policy secrets it doesn't want anyone, even allies, to know. This two-course connection enables students to relate the "hows" of encoding secret information inthe math course to the "whats" and the "whys" doing so in the domains of government and business in the political science and economics courses. Students will learn what information policymakers and planners believe is necessary to keep secret and how to construct unbreakable codes to keep these secrets secure. Connections: Math 202 Cryptography with Pols 229 United States Foreign Policy or Pols 379 National Security Policy or Econ 361 Industrial Organization and Public Policy
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2.00 Credits
Much of contemporary Western culture-its political, ethical and legal systems; its artistic, musical and literary expressions; its scientific theories and rational explanations; its theological and metaphysical commitments-originates in the ideals and institutions of classical Greek culture. This two-course connection focuses on the times, places and events of ancient Greece within which some of the most important classical ideas arose. Such contextualization will illustrate both the universal nature and the potential application of classical ideas while deepening students' understanding of the historical conditioning and particularity of them. Connections: Hist 100 Ancient Western History with Phil 203 Ancient Philosophy
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3.00 Credits
Students in these connected courses will study the material and institutional frameworks that generated pre-modern political theories and will come to understand the complexities of putting these theories in practice and the often nearly unbridgeable gap between the ideal and the real. Early European history saw the development of the majority of basic legal and political structures and ideologies (e.g., common law and jury trials, representative government and the separation of church and state). Knowledge of these ideas and practices, and of the theorizing behind them, becomes crucial to our understanding of such historical phenomena as nation-state building, imperialism, the conduct of war and efforts to establish systems of national and international law. Connections: Hist 101 The Development of Modern Europe from the Medieval Era to 1789 and Pols 207 Political Theory: Ancient Greece to the Renaissance
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2.00 Credits
This two-course connection examines questions of race, ethnicity, religion, gender and sexuality in the contexts of empire, nation and transnational cultural identities. Combining the study of French language and literature with either sociology course makes it possible to interrogate colonial and postcolonial discourses, conflicts and identities. Connections: Fr 235 Introduction to Modern French Literature with Soc 200 Social Movements or Soc 280 The Asians and America
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2.00 Credits
The ease with which anyone can create and post a Web site has resulted in a proliferation of Web pages, most of them not very interesting and poorly designed. This two-course connection enables students to learn basic graphic design principles and then apply them to Web pages that incorporate interesting graphics, animation and dynamic content. Such successful pages can be made only by learning programming and other techniques beyond the skill of most Web masters. Connections: Comp 161 Web Programming, Graphics and Design with Arts 250 Graphic Design I
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3.00 Credits
Our experience of music, whether by Beethoven, Billie Holiday, the Beatles or the Bad Plus, consists of the emotions and subjective impressions communicated and inspired by the arrangement of sounds. As in verbal communication, both the sounds themselves and the particular method of organizing them determine these effects. In Musc 114, the focus is on the vocabulary, grammar and syntax of this language of sound (the "message"). InPhys 107, the focus is on the actual sounds themselves, in terms of their mathematical and physical relationships (the "medium"). Studying musicalmaterial from both these perspectives deepens our understanding and appreciation of this essentially mysterious phenomenon. Connections: Musc 114 Music Theory I: Fundamentals of Harmonic Practice with Phys 107 or Musc 107 The Physics of Music and Sound
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