We live in an age of ongoing global protest, growing authoritarianism, and permanent conflict and crisis in both advanced liberal democracies in the West and fragile states in the global South. This class reflects on the normative ideals that media institutions, producers and users should uphold to foster ethical relationships of responsibility and hospitality toward marginalized communities.

With lab. Time and frequency description of acoustic signals. Physiology of the peripheral and central auditory systems. Topics in psychoacoustics, including methodology, absolute and differential sensitivity, loudness, pitch, frequency and intensity resolution, and binaural hearing. Prerequisites: COMM-DIS 211, PHYSICS 114.

With lab. Time and frequency description of acoustic signals. Physiology of the peripheral and central auditory systems. Topics in psychoacoustics, including methodology, absolute and differential sensitivity, loudness, pitch, frequency and intensity resolution, and binaural hearing. Prerequisites: COMM-DIS 211, PHYSICS 114.

This course focuses on a wider range of philosophical and theological responses to the Holocaust, primarily-but not only-in the Jewish tradition.

Talks by local and visiting faculty, as well as film screenings and performances, designed to introduce students to the multi-layered connections between Asia and Asian America. Areas that will be considered include: popular culture, youth subcultures, labor, issues of gender and sexuality, and migration and immigrant communities. Discussions emphasize how issues play out at local, national and transnational levels.

Students will engage in meaningful literature research and dialogue about whether organic standards are meeting the needs of both environmental and community sustainability. We will also consider the benefits of sustainable agriculture, both in the sense of conservation of land and soil as limiting natural resources, as well as the sense of community with the farm and food production as the center of family and local community life.