All Courses
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2021FA - EUR FASHION & DESIGN 01:510:232:01
This course will focus on a series of "moments" in European history when aesthetic styles in clothing became a flashpoint for cultural change. In order to understand the values at stake in the aesthetic choices European men and women made in different eras, students in this class will focus on the tensions between older styles and the adoption of newer styles.
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2021FA - LING,INTNT,SOC MEDIA 01:615:191:MB
Students will examine “internet language” – the forms of computer-mediated communication (CMC) from email to IM, texts to tweets – to understand its affective and social functions and how it relates to other forms of written and spoken English. What linguistics is and how linguists study CMC will be examined throughout the course, using scholarly and popular sources covering topics including grammar, pragmatics, and variation and change.
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2021FA - SOCIOLINGUISTICS 01:615:381:90
This course introduces students with prior training in linguistic theory to a broad array of sociolinguistic issues, including the relationship between linguistic variation and social factors like identity, class and power, the development of pidgins and creoles, code choices in bi-dialectal and bilingual communities, and language change.
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2021FA - JUNIOR SEMINAR 01:750:368:01
Seminar course for new transfer students interested in majoring in physics or astrophysics.
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2021FA - LAW & POLITICS 01:790:106:91
This class is designed to introduce you to the study of law and the courts as an integral part of the political process in the United States, and connections to political science as a subfield. By the end of the semester, each of you will understand the history and principles of the US Constitution, the structure and function of US court systems, the process for selecting judges and justices, how the Supreme Court in particular functions and makes decisions, what factors influence legal decisions, how to interpret Supreme Court decisions, and the on-going debate on the proper role of the Court in a democratic political system.