This is an introductory survey of African-American music in the 20th century, from blues to hip hop. The course gives a broad overview of the major developments in African-American music and places those developments in a social context through a series of informal lectures and listening seminars. This course is a survey of fundamental problems in several major divisions of philosophy, such as ethics, logic, philosophy of religion, philosophy of art and metaphysics. This course offers an overview of the basic aims, approaches and types of issues in philosophy, while enabling students to explore the place of philosophy in the development and justification of personal values. This class is designed to survey the governments in England, the U.S., Germany, France and other modern nations.
Special emphasis is placed on political theory.
This course aims to introduce students to the debate on the post-war British state and society. This class is designed to build confidence and give poise to the public speaker. Students experiment with narrative, informative, persuasive and descriptive speeches. Current developments in communication theory and social psychology are discussed and students learn the interaction between the speaker, speech and audience. This class is designed to introduce students to the various theories and contributions in the field of psychology.