This course examines policies, laws and regulations affecting legacy and digital media, including media ownership, universal service, intellectual property, advertising, online privacy, free speech, media diversity and digital content creation. Students are introduced to practices of public interest advocacy and media technology policy-making in the U.S.

This course examines slavery in the civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome, especially the history of slavery and the literature and laws that shape its practice and emerge from it. Satisfies the Integrative Experience requirement for BA-Clsics majors.

This course examines the emergence and material culture of the Etruscan people from their roots in the Italic Iron Age (circa 1000 BCE) through its absorption into the Roman sphere.

The spring semester of the year-long Honors capstone course is devoted to carrying out and writing up the research projects that students designed in the fall. Students will both complete their own independent research projects and provide comments and suggestions on each other's work at weekly class meetings. The majority of the semester will be devoted to data collection as well as the analysis and interpretation of research findings. Students will prepare the final reports associated with their thesis research, in the form of an archivable Honors Thesis.

This course focuses on heritage, in both its tangible and intangible forms. Using three themes, we critically consider why the past matters. In section one we focus on heritage policy, examining how certain places or practices are recognized as ?heritage? under US laws such as the National Register of Historic Places or international guidelines such as UNESCO?s World Heritage List. The second section focuses on sustainability, exploring the increasingly common use of heritage tourism as a form of sustainable economic development.

Overview of the history of African-Americans from the development of colonial slavery and the rise of African-American communities and culture. African background; Black protest tradition including abolitionism; the distinct experience of Black women. (Gen.Ed. HS, U)