Hip-Hop is one of the few cultures that can simultaneously promote wasteful consumerism, misogyny, homophobia, and violence, while also developing multi-ethnic, multi-linguistic, multi-faith, and multi-class alliances. This course will chart the birth and maturity of Hip-Hop culture, considering its impact on contemporary national dialogues about race, gender, sexuality, class, politics, and religion. The course content will trace the historical origins of Hip-Hop from the mid-1960s into the present, drawing on a host of written, audio, and visual sources.
Cross Listed With: 21:014:250:W5:02084
Hip-Hop is one of the few cultures that can simultaneously promote wasteful consumerism, misogyny, homophobia, and violence, while also developing multi-ethnic, multi-linguistic, multi-faith, and multi-class alliances. This course will chart the birth and maturity of Hip-Hop culture, considering its impact on contemporary national dialogues about race, gender, sexuality, class, politics, and religion. The course content will trace the historical origins of Hip-Hop from the mid-1960s into the present, drawing on a host of written, audio, and visual sources.
Cross Listed with: 21:512:226:W5:02085
Major issues confronting the American economy: the nature of our private enterprise system; the role of government; the influence of the banking system; the problem of controlling inflation and deflation; and the requisites for a high level of national income, employment, and a rising standard of living.
Consumer theory and market demand; production theory and market supply; market equilibrium; income distribution; and international trade.
Explores the roots of buyer behavior from a managerial perspective, drawing on the disciplines of psychology, sociology, and anthropology. Topics include perception, learning, communication, cognition, memory, motivation, and attitudes of consumers.
This course explores ethical and philosophical issues and moral dilemmas within the field of criminal justice, including principles of justice, deontology and utilitarianism, philosophical issues in sentencing, police and ethics, ethics and research, and the scope of state control are discussed in this course.
Addresses the historical influences that have defined women's roles and experiences and have contributed to current reevaluations of women's place in modern society; provides an overview of developments in various fields. 21:988:201 emphasizes the humanities.
This course is designed to illuminate all school community members & in particular teachers’ understanding of the linguistic and cultural diversity among former and current English language learners in the United States through a thorough review of the research on language development in the social context. Understanding how cultural factors influence many aspects of second language learning and use will enable teachers to discover and incorporate the relationship between culture, language teaching, and learning. Language and cultural differences affecting English language learners’ success will be covered extensively to provide language teachers and community members with the knowledge and tools necessary to promote and participate in equity and social justice; to make developmentally appropriate educational decisions; and to recognize the implications of diversity for teaching and learning in a multicultural society.
For students with a good command of the Spanish language who wish intensive study in commercial and business usage; practical vocabulary and procedures used in business letters and documents, banking, trade, and accounting as practiced in the Spanish-speaking world; conducted in Spanish.
This course aims to examine the complex interplay of psychological, sociocultural, and biological factors in developing and expressing sexual attitudes and behaviors. This will be accomplished through lectures, readings, films, and a set of written discussion board assignments. We will cover a wide variety of topics, including the major psychological theories of sexuality, patterns of sexual arousal and response, the development of gender and gender identity, variations in sexual orientation, attraction processes, and romantic love, sexual dysfunctions and sex therapy, typical and atypical sexual behaviors, as well as the psychological effects of pornography.
Every effort will be made to present the relevance and applicability of each course topic to your own life.
By the end of the course, you should have a greater understanding of your own and others’ sexual functioning and practices. You should also appreciate different perspectives on sexuality and improve your ability to communicate on this topic.
