An inquiry into the rules governing the representation of war in the late-19th, 20th, and 21st century, this course will focus on a variety of international conflicts, with particular attention to the wide variety of ways in which the experience of war is communicated to non-combatants: film, journalism, memoir, narrative, photography, poetry, etc. The history of U.S. involvement in these recent wars, as well as those which are on-going, will be a central focus of our course.

The Psychology of Current events gives students the time and resources to examine the world around them through a Social Psychological lens. We will explore topics such as race, class, and gender as we draw material from the news, psychological journal articles, and primary source texts. Using these foundational texts as a jumping off point, we will discuss the social psychological underpinnings of the events currently affecting the world today. This class requires student participation and is writing intensive.

A 2016 interactive article in The New York Times "Culture" section claimed via its title, "There Is No Escaping Shakespeare." Showing over fifty clips gleaned from film, television, and music videos, the piece aptly demonstrated how Shakespeare permeates various levels of not only Anglophone culture but global culture as well. Rather than simply studying Shakespeare's works in their own historical context, we will explore them as entities that travel through various media, historical periods, and cultural contexts.

Students in this course will be exposed to the process of designing and creating web pages, following some of the most commonly used technologies used in real-life scenarios: HTML, JavaScript, and Cascading StyleSheets (CSS). Successful students will therefore learn both how to build web pages and how to create simple programs. The course will begin by exposing students to the process by which a web client and a web server talk to each other, and where the different pieces necessary for this communication are located.

The use of music in film, a "grand tour" of the aesthetics and dramatic techniques of film music since 1895. Excerpts from "silent era" and sound films will be viewed and studied as examples of film music development and the composer's art. (Gen.Ed. AT)