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3.00 Credits
3 credits Designed to acquaint the student with the scientific basis for evaluation of coastal problems and the political realities of funding and policy, focusing on the New Jersey Shoreline. Course topics will include consideration of waste disposal in ocean systems, depletion of ocean resources, physical and biological ramifications of human activities on the environment, and the political problems in dealing with mitigation of environmental stresses.
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1.00 Credits
1 credit Provides students with an exposure to and insight into other cultures. Consists of both travel and study components. While traveling, students will be required to attend lecture/discussion sessions, site tours, and other planned activities. This experience will be preceded and followed by additional academic work to be conducted on campus. Study topics may include aspects of the historical, social, business, economic, political, and aesthetic cultural components appropriate to the location(s) visited. The travel component of the course will be scheduled to avoid conflict with normal semester offerings, i.e., May of the freshman year. No foreign language skills are required. Limited to qualified freshman Honors students.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Seeks to identify the ways in which modernist and postmodernist film and literature have supported and deconstructed (unveiled and undermined) socio-economic and sexual power. Using critical tools derived from American, European, and Latin American political, cultural, literary, and feminist theory, the course will analyze the ideological contents and accompanying formal strategies which structure the works of such filmmakers as Bu?el, Godard, Fellini, Marleen Gorris, and Fassbinder, and of such writers as Garcia Lorca, Borges, Boll, Garcia Marquez, and Monique Wittig.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Examines three major American political movements of the 1960s-the black movement, the student movement, and the feminist movement-with an emphasis on the interactions among philosophy, politics, and culture. These themes are studied using original sources including theoretical writings by the movements' main proponents and texts describing particular events and developments in political and social history. Source materials may also include documentary films and recordings which represent the cultural assumptions of the period.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Investigates the history and literature of World War I in order to understand how it shaped the civilization of the 20th century and how it affected the lives of those who experienced it.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits What is Artificial Intelligence (AI) In what ways can computers "think" How is their"thinking" similar to and different from thatof humans Through readings, lectures, discussions, and creative projects, students will investigate evidence of intelligence in various disciplines including music composition, art, and human and non-human systems. We will examine predictions for AI that date back to the 1930s and ponder likely developments in this area in the 21st century. No prior experience with computers or music is required.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Integrates the basics of molecular biology with the philosophy of science. Students will explore the nature of the relationships among atoms, molecules, DNA, proteins, cells, and genetic engineering. Molecular biology will be used as the content to explore such philosophic questions as: What is the nature of scientific methodology What is the nature of scientific observation and explanation What is the nature of scientific laws and theories Students will also discuss the scientific and ethical implications of genetic engineering.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Involves reading major European historical novels of the 19th century. Students will discuss why the vogue for historical fiction began and why the novels of Sir Walter Scott had such a tremendous impact on the genre. Examined will be such questions as the definition of historical fiction, the importance of historical accuracy, the relationship of literature and history, and the influence of historical differences in the development of historical fiction in different countries.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Examines the relationships between political culture (e.g., enlightened reform, revolution, or reaction) and musical discourse in periods selected from Viennese classicism, Biedermeier/romanticism, post-romanticism and expressionism. Major emphasis will be placed upon how composers such as Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Mahler, and Schoenberg exploited and developed musical forms, and chose and set texts to respond to the imperatives of their political and cultural environments.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Examines Symbolist literature and Impressionist music. Students will come to understand some interrelationships between literary and musical creativity in the late 19th and 20th centuries by studying the Symbolist literature movement in music history-two movements that had significant impact on Modernism and that continue to influence contemporary creative work.
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