Superb Summer Courses
Looking to fulfill liberal education or major requirements? Seeking something to do over the summer? Fear not—there are plenty of superb courses available from the College of Liberal Arts! Here’s a sampling of twelve excellent classes, ranging from the psychology of advertising to the use of music in movies.
May Term
Work with classmates, museum professionals, and instructors to create an exhibition celebrating local Black art and artists.
Analyze media images and messages, gaining insight into media industries, media effects, and principles of literacy.
How does advertising affect your brain? Why do some advertisements work while others fall flat? Explore a range of theories that explain how advertisements influence memory, attitudes, emotions, and behaviors.
How do we determine what is right and wrong? How should we live our lives? Moral and ethical thought are applied to problems and major public disputes.
Analyze eight films that focus on justice, the law, and the legal system-what do they reveal about contemporary politics, and the relationship between law and justice?
Use translation to improve your Spanish accuracy, gaining a brand new insight into the factors that you must take into consideration when using the Spanish language.
Summer Term
Explore Korean film from the Japanese colonial period to the present day, from technical aspects to historical representations. Discuss the emergence of the Korean film industry under colonial modernity up through the recent boom in South Korean film and television.
Learn about the interactions between mapping technologies like phones, drones, and GPS work and society, and see how this technology saves lives, rigs elections, and spies on people.
Compare and contrast women’s experiences throughout the world from a cross-cultural/historical perspective, exploring feminist scholarship, film, oral history, and more.
Learn about the relationships between language and social variables such as age, sex, and race—how does language indicate social status and affect public policy and education?
Explore the use and representation of music and musicians in film-how is music used to underscore action, characterization, and feeling? Sample film musicals, films about musical life, and films whose structure is musically based.
Analyze the impact of race, class, and gender inequalities in the United States. Through an intersectional approach, examine how these and other social forces work institutionally, conceptually, and in everyday life. This course is cross-listed with AAS 3251W.
