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This course will focus on the structural, thematic and cultural connections between the works and output of Wagner, Nietzsche and Freud as well as the Star Wars and Lord of the Rings film trilogies. The course will explore issues such as the idea of the hero, the cult of violence and masculinity, the role of the mythic in modern life, the influence of the unconscious, the power of symbols, as well as structural aspects of narrative storytelling. The course will also engage with the persistence and transformation of these themes and structures within contemporary popular culture, as well as the pitfalls and promises contained therein.
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What Americans call the "Vietnam War," the Vietnamese remember as the "War of Resistance against the United States for National Salvation." This class seeks to expose students to multiple American and Vietnamese perspectives on a prolonged conflict that profoundly shaped the political, social, and cultural landscapes of both nations.
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The 1960s was a watershed decade in modern American history. The United States that emerged in its aftermath was very different from the United States that existed before it. The common image of the 1960s is filled with hippies, sex, drugs, music, and protest. But what really happened during the 1960s? What changed, and what caused these changes? This course addresses these and related questions by closely examining the political, social, and cultural struggles that occurred in the United States between the mid-1950s and mid-1970s. Examining the 1960s allows us a deeper understanding of postwar American history, revealing the roots of many contemporary issues and conflicts.
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What do nuclear weapons have to do with the nuclear family? How does Playboy magazine connect with women's liberation? How does Nagasaki relate to Vietnam? What does FDR have to do with JFK? The three decades between 1940 and 1970 witnessed some of the most dramatic changes in American history. This course on the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s will serve as an important complement to standard twentieth-century American history courses by providing a deeper analysis of critical cultural, social, economic, and political themes of the postwar era. The forties were a time of transition from New Deal to Cold War. Beyond milk shakes and happy days, the fifties was a decade of contrasts: conformity and discontent, consensus and upheaval. Did father know best in 1950s America? How pervasive were fears of communism and atomic destruction? The 1960s featured love-ins and riots, cultural change and political repression. How can we reconcile the "good sixties" with the "bad sixties"? Can we find the roots of the 1960s protest within the activism of the 1940s and the tensions of the 1950s? Examining diverse sources, we will move past nostalgia and myth to explore these decades in all their complexity by focusing on sources of conflict from a variety of perspectives-film, fiction, art, magazines, poetry, music, social protest and popular memory.
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This course will explore Hip Hop's impact on modern American history and American Pop Culture. Much more than a chronological history of rap, Hip-Hop America: The History and Social Politics of Rap/Hip-Hop in America focuses on the music and culture of Hip Hop and its interrelationship with: modern African-American history; twentieth-century economic, racial, social and political conflicts; notions of American multi-culturalism; the modern-day culture of American suburbs; and ideas concerning commodification, consumerism, and modern-day counter-hegemonic movements.
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Did you know that thousands of years ago Babylonian priests would observe the sky every night, keeping detailed records of their observations? This course is an introduction to the history of the astral and mathematical sciences in the ancient world. Beginning with ancient astronomical records kept by Babylonian priests, we trace the history and development of the astral sciences, primarily astronomy, in the ancient world, and the role of mathematics in the formation of astronomical theories and models based on these observations. Emphasis will be placed on how these knowledge systems developed, and how they were transformed when transmitted between different cultural spheres.
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The whole numbers are the foundation of all of mathematics. Everything we count, everything we measure, everything we quantify depends on them. They have been studied intensely for thousands of years, and yet they still admit fundamental and easily stated questions which we can't answer decisively. Consider, for example, the primes 2, 3, 5, 7, 11. How often do they occur? Can we predict when the next prime will appear? How are they related to one another? These questions are not answered to the satisfaction of mathematicians. Number theory is the branch of mathematics where such questions are formulated and attacked.
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This course is for students who desire additional preparation for calculus or pre-calculus. Many students find calculus courses difficult to comprehend because they do not have the necessary fundamentals to approach the advanced material. Having a solid understanding of functions and equations will allow students to focus on understanding the advanced topics presented in a calculus course instead of struggling with algebraic details.
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This course will cover the history of cryptography from ancient times to the present day. We begin by discussing the simple Caesar-shift cipher and go on to more sophisticated poly-alphabetic ciphers such as the Vigenere cipher and the subsequent invention of cipher discs. We will study some of the best known archeological ciphers, the Rosetta stone and Linear B, and the methods used to break them and give us insight intohistory. We will devote several sessions to the workings of the Enigma machine used by the German army in WWII, and the factors which enabled the Polish and the British to break the cipher. Over the duration of the course, we will develop an understanding of the mathematical concepts used in ciphers and cipher-cracking, such as combinatorics, frequency analysis, and factoring of large numbers into primes. The course will include daily hands-on activities in code creation and code breaking. Fc vlr zxk obxa qefp, vlr tfii ilsb qeb zixpp!
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In “THE ART OF THE FILM” we will examine the dramatic and psychological effects of the techniques used in filmmaking, and some of the central developments in film’s artistic and technological history. The course will be broken down into a series of sections, each based upon a given formal technique (script, character and narrative, camerawork, lighting, mise-en-scene, editing, sound, etc.) or important concepts in film theory (montage, realism, documentary, representation, gender, etc.). The final week is devoted to the close study of one important Classical Hollywood genre, film noir, and its translation into different international cultures (French, German, Chinese etc.).
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