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The story of Vietnam is told through its music. Situated on the coast of Southeast Asia, Vietnam is a country with a long history of conflict, acculturation, and ancient traditions. This course is centered around culture and identity through musical discovery of Vietnamese popular, folk, and classical music ranging from imperialist time periods to the present day. We will explore how the Vietnamese diaspora impacted Vietnamese musical development around the globe. Affiliate school: School of Music.

Many art forms reflect and comment on the political and cultural climates of their time. Art may serve as a lens or mirror for sensitive social issues, and act as a catalyst for change. But nowhere, perhaps, can one find artistic expressions of a culture as powerful and uncomfortable as in twentieth-century dance.

This course surveys rock music in the immediate post-Beatles period from 1970 to 1990, two decades witnessing an unprecedented diversity of rock music styles. Close reading of representative works by numerous artists (such as David Bowie, The Rolling Stones, Patti Smith, Sex Pistols, Talking Heads, Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen, Madonna) will develop critical listening and basic music-analytic skills. Scholarly works from numerous perspectives (musicological, sociological, historical) are engaged closely and intended to introduce students to the academic response to rock music.

Our focus is on the development and application of laws in America, with the United States Constitution and the Supreme Court as constant guides. Be clear that this is not a "Constitutional Law" offering, but rather a jurisprudence course; that means we look at "the law's" evolution from three different perspectives: moral, ethical, and legal. Simply put, though certainly not simple to achieve, we seek to understand "where" our country was before historically significant Supreme Court cases and "where" we are today.

This course explores how the law has been used or could possibly be used to address the issue of climate change and its environmental and societal consequences. Focus is primarily on state and federal domestic law, but international agreements and aspirations, and foreign domestic laws are also considered. Students examine questions about climate change and law, such as: Is law an appropriate vehicle to address climate change? What are the limits of law in this area? To what extent should responsibility for climate change be sought, assigned, or penalized?

This course focuses on building community in a variety of settings. Students study community building in a variety of contexts through academic and popular press articles, podcasts, videos and by building community on campus. In small teams, students help build community with a campus club. Questions examined include: Why do people behave in certain ways? What helps and what detracts from building meaningful community? Students read, listen, watch, observe, interact, question, write, converse, and experiment.

In 1976, leadership theorist and political scientist James McGregor Burns wrote that "Leadership is one of the most observed and least understood phenomenon on earth." While this still rings true today, social science researchers have since discovered much about how leadership processes function. This course introduces students to contemporary scholarship in the field of leadership studies and asks them to apply aspects of that research to cases studies in American history. Affiliate school: School of Business and Leadership.

This course uses literatures of Muslim societies to introduce students to themes from the history of Islam that are often neglected in discussions of the religion. Two themes in particular will be explored: travel and transgression. Students will study the famous and famously complex Thousand and One Nights from a variety of perspectives. This work will help students to think about the space covered by premodern Islam, meaning both the imagined geographical space through which characters travel and the wide range of expressions of Islam in the premodern period.

What is the purpose of a prison? Why do we punish, and how do we determine what is just punishment? How does punishment feed off and into the major bases of social division and inequality -- race, class, sexuality, ethnicity, gender, age, and nationality? This course explores the history, theory and social and cultural consequences of imprisonment and punishment in the U.S. while addressing the Seminar in Scholarly Inquiry 1 learning objectives. Affiliate department: Religious Studies.

This seminar examines Western philosophical and religious approaches to a range of topics and cases in contemporary bioethics, especially those posing challenges for public policy.