Introduction to the study of criminology, definitions of crime, criminals and delinquents, demographics of crime and criminals, the work of the courts, law, police, and punishment in the production and administration of crime and criminals, society and crime, problems of prevention and control.

Increases basic fluency in speaking, reading, and writing. Prerequisite: POLISH 120 or equivalent.

Popular music is a repertoire. While in some ways its inner workings may seem simpler than Western Classical music, its musical materials can be extremely complex and varied. This becomes especially true when considering the music materials? interactions with their cultural surroundings and means of social production. This class will balance musical analysis with this social theory, delving into rock?s compositional norms (harmony, syntax, rhythms, and the like) while asking why these choices are made.

The medieval world often appears as a lawless time where knights made right. But if we look closely at the writings of the Middle Ages, we see complicated legal codes and systems of justice. How did medievals understand law? How did they create it? And most of all, how did reimagine it in their literature? This FFYS will take up the questions of law and its representation in the pre-modern world. At the end of the course, we will look at the laws that govern student lives on this campus and beyond.

How does literature?both reading and writing it?help us to better understand ourselves? How do we represent ourselves in writing? Through poetry, fiction, and essays, this course will consider literature as a mode of self-discovery and self-presentation. Our readings will range from work by activists like Ta-Nehisi Coates and Audre Lorde to comic writers Trevor Noah and David Sedaris, from the poetry of Lucille Clifton and Walt Whitman to public writing on campus. We will also dabble in some literary writing of our own, exploring how we write our own lives.

We?re accustomed to writers adopting pen names, and we certainly expect that novelists and poets will make up characters and stories that differ from their own lives. But is it okay for a white person to write a story from the perspective of a person of color? What if that writer uses a pseudonym that misleads the reader about their ethnic identity? What if a writer claims to have grown up in poverty, spent time in prison, or survived cancer?.when they didn?t? What legal rights do readers have to know the ?truth? about the identity of an author or the life of a memoirist?

This course is an interdisciplinary exploration of the body through the lens of women?s, gender, and sexuality studies, critical race theory, social justice feminism, dis/ability studies, and queer theory. We will explore the operations of power on and in the body, asking: What are some of the ways in which bodies are marked as ?deviant? and/or ?pathological?? Which bodies get to count as ?normal? and how does the normalization of sex, race, and gender help to shape our lived experience and our negotiations of power, pleasure, and difference?

In this course, students will participate in a professional-grade writer?s workshop geared for beginners. They will read instructive texts and participate in writing and thinking exercises in order to think about the important stories in their lives and how to begin to tell these, and other stories, as an anchor point toward beginning to understand themselves in the changing contexts of their lives as college students.. Students will write their own pieces through formal workshopping with peers and consultation with the instructor.