Overview of popular music in the U.S. from colonial times to the present, with a focus on the history of rock. We will examine eighteenth and nineteenth-century war songs, slave songs, spirituals, minstrel and vaudeville songs, blues and ragtime, jazz, Tin Pan Alley, swing, country-western, rock, punk, and hip hop. Requirements:
readings from the textbook as well as additional assigned readings, guided listening activities in and out of class, and written critical evaluations. Substantial required reading and written assignments. (Gen.Ed. AT)

First in a sequence of four courses providing students with skills necessary to communicate in Spanish on a variety of general-interest topics. For students who have little or no Spanish.

First in a sequence of four courses providing students with skills necessary to communicate in Spanish on a variety of general-interest topics. For students who have little or no Spanish.

The course covers modern decision procedures for formal hardware verification based on SAT solvers, decision diagrams and those based on computational algebraic geometry. Equivalence and property checking applications are covered. Students learn the development and application of computer-aided verification (CAV) tools to control and datapath-dominated hardware designs. Homework assignments consist of theory, application and CAV tool development projects.

A century ago WEB Du Bois wrote two of the most important books on race in the American canon (The Souls of Black Folk and The Gift of Black Folk). These works were, in part, pursuing a mission to educate white America on the realities of racism in our country. Du Boise's dream was that America would undergo a cultural evolution that would transform mainstream American society into one that was able to understand and appreciate the humanity of African Americans.

Second of a sequence of four courses providing students with skills necessary to communicate in Spanish on a variety of general-interest topics.

This course will focus on basic Stanislavski techniques: concentration, imagination, relaxation, objective/action, and beats/scene analysis. Each student will apply these concepts to one open scene, one monologue and one realistic contemporary scene.