ANT204: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
The science of culture focuses on the learned behavior of the human species. Cross cultural comparisons of a variety of human behaviors provide insights to the question of what it means to be human. Satisfies General Studies Social Science Requirement.

ANT 206: Food and Culture
What do humans eat and why? We will explore both the biological and cultural reasons for human food choice. As omnivores we evolved into a species that is not only capable of, but also needing to eat a wide variety of foods. Culturally, we have developed certain desires for particular foods over others and have identified ourselves based on the foods we eat; this has even produced differences in food choices based on social status. Finally, new food production and processing capabilities of the modern industrial world have thrown open the floodgates, allowing us both to overeat and overspecialize in certain food types. This course will examine the extremely complex interplay of all these forces on the foods we eat and the resulting health and ecological effects.

ANT270:  People of the World
This course will examine the way people live from around the world.  This will be accomplished through ethnographies and films.  All forces which may have combined to produce a particular way of life will be incorporated in the analysis.  These will include ecology, history, politics, economics, etc.  The groups selected for analysis will be predominantly of non-western origins.  Students should emerge with a broader and more sophisticated understanding of humans and their cultural diversity and universality.

CHE 103: Intro to Forensic Science
This is a science lecture and laboratory course in general basic forensic science that will be taught at a level and manner that will allow the student to easily understand and observe some of the basic physical, chemical and biological science used in forensic science. The lecture topics are selected from those most generally encountered issues and considered of importance to the forensic scientist. Lectures will be selected from the following: evidence documentation and recovery, fingerprints and impressions, body fluids, DNA analysis, toxicology, firearms, fires, explosions, conduct in court. The laboratory will introduce the student to the basic operations that are used during investigations in applied forensics.

DIG 315: Web Design
This class integrates Macromedia Flash MX with other applications resulting in web- based design and entertainment for online distribution. This course is intended to aid students in the development of their work within a professional standard emphasizing the concept of form and function. Students are taught appropriate history, aesthetic philosophy and key applications through class lecture and studio projects. They are expected to consider these concerns while formulating their work. In-class critiques and individual instruction will be used to refine student work.

ECO 201: History of Economic Ideas
A survey of the major schools of economic thought from the 17th century to the present. Mercantilist, Physiocratic, Classical, Marxist, Neoclassical, Keynesian, Neo-Marxist, and Modern conventional economic theories will be examined.

ENG 101: Composition
A study of the fundamentals of effective written expression, with emphasis upon student writing. Required of first-year students who need the advantage of greater competency in writing skills.

ENG 102: Writing About Literature
A course designed to improve writing skills, to stimulate an appreciation of the various literary genres, and to demonstrate the relationship of reading and writing. Assignments and projects will provide the foundations for critical analysis.

ENG 235: FILM & LITERATURE: ALFRED HITCHCOCK
This course will be an in-depth study of films by Alfred Hitchcock made during what most critics consider his “golden years”. We will start by reviewing the language of narrative cinema (primarily investigating montage and mise-en-scene with examples from early cinema and the British period of Hitchcock productions) and how it resembles and how it differs from the language of narrative fiction and poetry. This will be followed by a series of in-class, scene-by-scene analysis of seven Hitchcock masterpieces: Shadow of a Doubt; Notorious; Rear Window; Vertigo; Psycho; The Birds; Marnie.. Students will work on two additional Hitchcock films (out-of-class) as the basis of two short critical papers (one of them a comparison of the film with the novel upon which it was based). Course will be taught by Prof. Gary Adlestein who is a member of the English and Art Departments and is also a practicing film and video artist.

ENG235 Contemporary American Literature
Contemporary American Literature examines the work of major writers from 1950 to the present, including Toni Morrison, John Updike, Allen Ginsberg, Sylvia Plath, etc. Students will be challenged to approach various literary forms in new ways and to appreciate the works as artistic creations as well as social and philosophic statements.

ENG235:  Cultural Utopian Literature
Perfect happiness may be an elusive phenomenon, but writers have long speculated about how it could be achieved.  In this course, we will read a wide range of works devoted to descriptions of what a utopian world in different cultures might be like.  And, through an examination of the mutations of the utopian dream through the centuries and different regions of the world, we will perhaps be better able to understand the intellectual tradition that has formed our own world. 

ENG235: Native American Literature
This course introduces students to contemporary Native American literature drawn from a variety of U.S. regions and produced in a variety of forms: short stories, poetry, essays, and novels.  Emphasis will be placed on the cultural context from which this literature is drawn as well as the historical significance. Students will read writers such as Erdrich, Dorris, Alexie, Harjo, and Silko.

HIS101:  Early Civilizations
This course is meant to familiarize you with several of the ancient civilizations that contributed to the formation of the Western and Middle Eastern worlds. We will focus primarily on the societies that developed around the Mediterranean Sea, including the Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Greek, and Roman. Throughout the course, our concern will be with the rise and fall of major empires and their social hierarchies; the emergence and decline of religious cultures; and the ways in which political, cultural, and social phenomena of the ancient world still affect our lives today.

HIS 133: Modern Civilization
The political, intellectual, social, and economic history of Europe from 1648 to the present emphasizing industrialization; the growth of rationalism; the ideologies of liberalism, socialism, and Social Darwinism; and the events and ideologies of the 20th century, such as communism, fascism, and the two world wars.

HIS141:  East Asia to 1800
This course aims to provide a broad overview of the pre-modern histories of China and Japan, focusing on their institutional and cultural interaction, and their influence on the cultures of Korea and Vietnam. Subjects to be explored range from the early development of Chinese philosophy and statecraft to the development of the distinctive warrior ethic in Japan, from the elaboration of official court culture to the emergence of popular cultural forms. Throughout the course, we will consider how Western images of East Asia have shaped our understanding of its civilizations.

HIS142 East Asia from 1800 to the Present
This course examines East Asia in the 19th and 20th centuries with special emphasis on China and Japan. The course includes the opening of East Asia by the Western powers; the modernization process; Japan’s rise to major power status; the Chinese Republican revolution; Japanese imperialism; the War in the Pacific; the Communist take-over of mainland China; the Korean War; Japan’s post-war reconstruction; the Chinese Cultural revolution; the post-Mao era; and Japan’s importance in the Western economy.

HIS151  The Origins of American Civilization
The new societies that emerged in North America in the 17th and 18th centuries were the products of a much broader process of migration, cultural encounter, conquest and exchange that began to accelerate in the Atlantic world after the Columbian voyages of the 1490s. As it turned out, some of these societies also formed the origins of the United States as a nation and the seeds of many of the institutions and impulses of American life. This course explores the colonial and revolutionary periods from both these perspectives.

HIS152: The United States in the Nineteenth Century
The 19th century in the United States, as in many other regions of the world, was a period of fundamental and astonishingly rapid social and economic change. A capitalist world system, in which the American economy played an increasingly important role, implicated more and more people in a planetary web of market relations. Over the same period the process of industrialization altered the material bases of production and consumption with profound implications for the nature of work, the structure of families and people’s perceptions of time. In every aspect of human endeavor – politics, business, science, literature, the arts, sexuality and gender relations, child rearing – individuals, groups, and institutions struggled to adapt and to make sense of these changes. Our task in this course is to pose and to begin to answer a series of questions about these changes and these responses.

HIS 153: United States Since World War I
The major themes of 20th century America will be examined in the course – political and economic changes, technological advances, new social patterns, the impact of sports and leisure, problems of injustice and social breakdown. The continuity of these developments will be contrasted with changes that were forced upon the U.S. by specific events – stock market collapse, depression, war, ’60s trauma, and Reagan conservatism.

HIS 183: History of Technology and Medicine

Necessity is the mother of invention," claims an old proverb. If so, why did Roman steam machines remain paper projects? Why was surgical knowledge from the sixteenth century ignored until the nineteenth? In this course, we shall consider a number of case studies to understand how science and technology have interacted with history, and how much truth there is to this old saying. From the waterwheel to nuclear missiles, to cleanliness and vaccination, we shall see how, in the context of history, there is no single-cause explanation for the success or failure of discovery and invention. The course will encompass a series of readings with online material, some documentary viewing, discussions, and written work.

HIS270:  Modern Germany

This course offers an introduction to major events and themes of modern German history. We will focus on continuities and ruptures in German society during the eras of the Second Empire, the Weimar Republic, National Socialism, the competing Republicans, and the (unified) Federal Republic of Germany. Major questions of the course will include the supposed "special path" to industrial and state formation; the impact of total war; the importance of confessional difference in culture and society; the effects of economic and political crisis; the emergence of the "New Woman"; the nature of Nazi dictatorship; the conditions of genocide; the development of democracy; the German "economic miracle"; the East-German state; and the social and political consequences of German unification. This course is offered through the Degree Start Program (DSP), and will be held at the Lancaster location

IDS221:  Problems in American Culture
This course is designed to explore stated problems of the American past using the insights and materials of literature and history.  The course focuses on particular chronological periods with identification of problems such as the great depression, the radical 60’s, or continuing trends like the American dream.

IDS 234: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
This course explores what could be the single greatest event in human history, contact with other intelligent life in the Universe. Technology has advanced enough to make this a realistic possibility. The areas of Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Astronomy, language, sociology, religion and others are involved in understanding the problems in contacting other intelligences. The students will be expected to read about the many facets of the problem, write essays expressing their views of the problem and do a presentation on one of the many parts of the problem.

IDS 239: Universal Genesis
This course is an examination of events in the universe leading to the development of life on the planet earth, which is a new area of study, termed prebiotic evolution. It will deal with current ideas concerning such events as the origin of the universe; the origin of the elements; the life and death of stars; the origin of planets; the chemical composition and history of the earth; and the chemical evolution of life with its biochemical and physical syntax. The relation of these events to cultural and religious views also will be aired.

IDS 283

Science in Literature
This course is designed to provide insights into how the process of scientific discovery actually worked through exploration of several literary works. A second purpose of this course is to encourage "scientific literacy" in general.

American Counterculture
On the eve of America's entry into World War II the publisher of Time Magazine, Henry Luce, called for a commitment from his readers to the "American Century," a world which dominant United States would successfully promote its political, cultural and economic values. This phrase has come to identify an era that many Americans recall as having been marked by consensus-a broad political and cultural agenda understood and shared by the vast majority of citizens.  Americans were not one in mind in this era, however, and even as they came together as a nation to successfully meet crisis after crisis-the Great Depression, World War II, and the Cold War-a great many participated in cultural movements that ran against the current of the mainstream of American society and politics. This course will consider the histories of some of the countercultures that flourished in the shadows of the American Century and the literature that they produced, a legacy of productive criticism that, in spite of the overwhelming power of mainstream culture in these decades, inspired the social rebellions of the 1960's and 1970's.

IDS284: Vietnam War Era in History and Literature
This course examines the social, political, cultural and literary history of the United States during the Vietnam War Era (1945-1975).  The class employs an interdisciplinary approach, emphasizing both the chronological history as well as the cultural and literary style that emerged from the era.  International and domestic events like the 1954 Geneva Accords, the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, McCarthyism, and the rise of the Counter Culture are considered alongside explorations of literary movements like the Beats, the Black Arts, Psychedelia, and feminism, to give students a deeper appreciation of the linkages between international and domestic politics and culture, and history and the arts more generally.  Several novels, poems short stories and essays related to the war in Vietnam will be read to give students an appreciation of the changing views of the war over the period.  General studies IDS credit.

IDS291:  The Space Program
This course will provide you with an overview of the history and politics of the space program.  While our focus will be on the American space experience, we shall frame this effort in the context of the global interest in space. Topics will include the astronautical pioneers of the turn of the century, the popular fascination with the moon, the German rocket program up to and during World War II, the moon race, the European path to space, and space business.

LAS195: Tradition and Revolution in Contemporary Latin American Literature and Society
Latin American government and society arises out of a tradition of centralized power that is vastly different from that of democratic society in North America. This course provides some insight into the often troubled relationship between the U.S. and its Latin American neighbors. It examines the development of this tradition in some classic statements by D. F. Sarmiento, José MartÌ and Octavio Paz, among others. The bulk of the reading is comprised of literary works that either support or subvert the authoritarian tradition of government and society in Latin America. Emphasis is placed on class discussion analyzing the ways in which the literary works in question tend to support or subvert the portrait of Latin America established at the opening of the semester.

LAS 201: Salsa, Samba, and Santana: The World of Latin Music
Latin music is a rapidly rising phenomenon. This course will explore the roots and evolution of Latin musical styles from their origins in the Catholic cultures of southwestern Europe and its mixing with Native American and African cultures in the colonial Americas beginning in the 15th century. Our main focus will be the urban popular musical styles that emerge in the late 19th century, and which develop into the famous regional styles of Argentine tango, Brazilian samba, Cuban son and salsa, Dominican merengue, Mexican rancheros and baladas, and many others, over the course of the 20th century. We will also consider the roles the Latin regions have had in other styles such as jazz, classical music, rock and roll, and rap. We will assess the varying degrees of success Latin sounds are having in the major world musical markets today.

LAS 215: US and Latin America
The great Latin American “liberator,” Simón Bolívar, commented that “The United States seems destined to plague us with miseries in the name of liberty.” This course examines the historical development of the relationship between Latin America and the United States from Latin American independence to the present, concentrating mostly on the 20th century. We will examine specific historical examples, including the Spanish-American War, the Panama Canal, the occupation of Haiti, the Cuban Revolution, and the drug wars in Colombia. We examine how this relationship developed in specific historical contexts, such as the Cold War, and discuss how the historic relationship and the present day context impact relations between Latin America and the U.S. today.

LAS224:  Colonial Latin America
This survey course examines Latin American history from the time of Columbus’s first voyages to the end of the nineteenth century.  The course will discuss the contact between and mixtures of diverse peoples in the Americas, especially the pre-Columbian populations, the Spanish and Portuguese, and the Africans brought forcibly to the Americas as slave laborers.  We will cover period of conquest, the colonial period, the wars of independence, and the first decades of nation building in Latin America in order to build a foundation in Latin American history.  The course will examine political, economic, social, and cultural factors and how they played off one another throughout the four hundred year period under study.  The readings will be a combination of primary texts and scholarly works on Latin American history, and we will also use film to explore parts of this history.  The course format will be a combination of lecture and discussion.

LAS 225: Introduction to Latin American Studies
This course introduces students to the many aspects of that region of the world known as Latin America. The course is interdisciplinary in nature in order to give students a more complete and unified picture of how the many aspects of cultural, economic, social, and political life in Latin America come together to explain what is generally meant by the phrases “Latin America” and “Latin American.” The course explores native civilizations, historical evolution, political systems and institutions, cultural and artistic movements, social structures, regional economic/development issues, and many other topics such as drug trafficking, the environment and gender studies.

LAS228:  Revolutionaries and Dictators
In the 20th century, Latin American nations experienced cycles of revolutions, democracies and dictatorships.  Revolutions have taken the form not only of familiar guerrilla-based insurrections, but also right-wing military coups.  This course examines this cycle of revolution, democracy and dictators by looking at several of the key revolutionary movements and some of the long dictatorships that have shaped Latin America during that century.  Specifically, it examines the Mexican Revolution (1910-present), the Cuban Revolution (1959-present), and the Zapatista struggle (1994-present), and the political situations that preceded or followed these revolutions.  It also looks at some of the right-wing coups and populist movements, specifically examining cases in Argentina and Chile.  Finally, students discuss if revolution remains a viable way to promote change in Latin America in the 21st century. 

LAS235 Major Authors and Topics in Latin American Literature
This course focuses on major authors, major literary forms, or significant intellectual issues in Latin American and Caribbean literature. Non-English works will be read in translation. May be repeated with a new topic. Recent topics include “Women Writers of the Caribbean” and “Latin American Poetry.”

LAS235 Major Authors and Topics in Latin American Literature
This course focuses on major authors, major literary forms, or significant intellectual issues in Latin American and Caribbean literature. Non-English works will be read in translation. May be repeated with a new topic. Recent topics include “Women Writers of the Caribbean” and “Latin American Poetry.”

MUS 120: Music Appreciation: Intro to Western Music
This course offers an overview of Western classical musical styles, with an emphasis on the symphonic repertory and music by well-known composers such as Bach, Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and Tchaikovsky. Other genres including opera, chamber music, the art song, and church music, will also be explored. We will focus on developing basic musical vocabulary and listening skills, skills that will also be applicable to listening to and thinking about popular musical styles. The connections between music and social context will also be discussed. Concert attendance and listening assignments will be part of the course experience.

MUS 122: Music in World Cultures: An Introduction
A grand tour of the musical styles of the world’s large culture regions: sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and the Islamic world, South Asia, Southeast Asia, the Pacific, East Asia, Amerindia and the Western world. Students are introduced to basic musical concepts with emphasis on understanding musical instrument types and their characteristic sounds. Students listen to recordings of ancient and medieval folk music types of traditional rural communities (work songs, harvest songs, lullabies); the art music of the aristocratic courts (including the South Asian raga and the Western symphony); and the modern musical styles emerging in the contemporary urban and electronic age, from Chinese rock to African rap. Film viewings help students link the diverse musical sounds with social contexts. A visit from a world musician is planned each semester.

MUS 125: All That Jazz
This course will cover jazz history from its obscure origins in the post-Civil War period to the present. The focus will be on important instrumentalists and vocalists of the 20th century, and how they helped to create the different jazz and jazz-related styles, among these: ragtime, blues, hot jazz, Dixieland, swing, bebop, cool jazz, free jazz, and jazz fusion. Among the key performers and composers to be discussed will be Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Benny Goodman, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Dave Brubeck, Herbie Hancock and Keith Jarrett. Basic concepts of jazz performance and various jazz styles will be explored through independent research, listening and discussion. When possible, field trips to live jazz performances will be incorporated.

MUS 126: Music and the Cinema
An introduction to the role of music in cinema, with emphasis on North American films between the 1930s and the present. Students will learn how music aids in the creation of mood, atmosphere, and characterization in films. Special topics include music in the silent film era, musicals, science fiction and horror films, the role of women as subjects and creators in modern cinema, music in the avant-garde and experimental cinema, popular music, rock, and rap in film soundtracks, and music in selected non-Western film industries. Films to be discussed include classics such as Star Wars, The Godfather, and Casablanca, as well as popular recent releases.

MUS 202: Music of Black Africa and the Diaspora
A survey of the music of black Africa, from its ancient origins in the songs and dances of hunter-gatherers to the emergence of contemporary styles of Afro-pop. Extensions and variations of black African musical styles carried to other parts of the world, particularly into the Americas during the period of the Atlantic slave trade will also be discussed. Topics include the music of the griots (praise singers/historians), Afro-Brazilian and Afro-Caribbean styles such as samba and reggae, the modern pop sounds of soukous and mbalax, the spread of rap, and music in contemporary African cinema. Class lectures will cover social-historical issues as well as guided listening and discussions of musical structure, lyrics, choreographic and scenic adjuncts, and performance contexts.

PHI 203: Ethics and Culture
A study of the nature, origin, and development of ethical theories from a historical perspective and their relevance to some significant problems in contemporary life. Special attention is given to the exploration of enduring moral concerns, such as moral relativism, the place of reason in ethics, egoism and altruism, and the nature of moral responsibility.

PHI 204: Contemporary Moral Problems
A philosophical examination of current problems in key areas of society. These problems may include abortion, nuclear war, capital punishment, and famine relief, among others. A strong effort will be made to show the link between these contemporary problems and traditional ethical reasoning and theories, thus enabling the student to formulate moral judgments from a sound philosophical position.

PHI 260: Biomedical Ethics
Biomedical ethics seeks to help students become familiar with the ethical theories that philosophers, physicians, biomedical researchers, and other thinking people have used in coming to understand themselves and their world. Students have the opportunity to apply these theories to some of the most important moral problems in medicine and the biomedical sciences. The course emphasizes critical reasoning and analysis, with the goal of developing students’ ability to distinguish well-supported from poorly supported positions. As the life and death issues of biomedicine are explored, students should begin to understand the complexity of our moral problems and the need for a careful, rigorous and sensitive approach to these problems.

POS 101: American Government
This introductory course presents the dynamics of American politics and government. Such factors as public opinion, interest groups, political parties, mass media, Congress, the Presidency, the bureaucracy, and the courts are analyzed. The national level of American government is emphasized in this course.

PSY 101Y: Introduction to Psychology
Primary attention will be given to basic questions such as the nature of the self, freedom of the will, and the basis for moral and religious belief. The aim is to increase the student’s awareness of some intellectual and practical dilemmas of modern life.

PSY206:  Psychology of Gender
The purpose of this course is to examine the variety of ways in which one can construe issues of gender.  Students are exposed to models of understanding gender from psychological, political, economic, and industrial perspective.  The contents of this course compel students to conduct a personal examination of their own belief systems as they critically explore the dynamics of gender in American society. 

REL152 Religions of India, China and Japan
A study of the major living religions and spiritual practices of India, China and Japan. The emphasis is on the origins and development of such traditions as Hinduism, Buddhism, Shinto, Confucianism and Taoism. The impact that these traditions have had upon culture and how they have dealt with issues of spiritual meaning and formation is emphasized.

REL210:  Japan on Film
This course gives students the opportunity to interact with Asian cultural experience through the study of Asian films.  Films include those made within Japan and also Western films made about Japan.  Students are asked to explore the possible layers of meaning in these films, including Japanese cultural life, character development, religious and philosophical influences, symbolism and cinematic vision.  The class includes both the viewing and discussion of each film to facilitate a deep exploration of interpretation and critique. 

REL 243: Jesus in Literature and Film
The figure of Jesus of Nazareth is a fascinating one to believers and non-believers alike. Yet the gospel accounts of his life and ministry leave many questions unanswered. The course will explore some of the portrayals of Jesus in modern literature and film, sampling such artists as Nikos Kazantzakis and Pier Paolo Passolini. No prior knowledge of the New Testament is expected.

REL278:  Death and Dying
This course will examine the beliefs and practices associated with death in three major types of world religions: Hinduism, Buddhism and Christianity. The meaning of death in each tradition and its relation to myths, symbols, and rituals of the sacred will be explored in depth. The course will also incorporate field trips and personal reflections to encourage students to reflect upon how their own attitudes towards death may be culturally conditioned.

SPA 101: Elementary Spanish
The mastery of patterns of speech essential to understanding, speaking, and reading simple Spanish. Tapes are used extensively to aid the student in comprehension and speaking of the language, and students are encouraged to speak Spanish from the first day of class.

SPA 101Y: Elementary Spanish I
The mastery of patterns of speech essential to understanding, speaking, and reading simple Spanish. Tapes are used extensively to aid the student in comprehension and speaking of the language, and students are encouraged to speak Spanish from the first day of class.

SPA 102: Elementary Spanish II
Continuation of Elementary Spanish I

SPI 183: Diversity in a Multicultural Environment
Living in a multicultural environment is no longer an option for individuals and groups. This course examines select areas in which individuals from various cultures are brought together, thus creating positive and negative consequences. We will examine the U.S. government attempts in re-educating Native Americans, the assimilation issues of various Hispanic groups into our society, and the effects of gender, religion, age and sexual orientation within a macroculture. This course will enable us to better understand how our beliefs and behaviors impact our response to living in a pluralistic society.

SPI 203: Science in the Modern World
This course is designed to enable students to develop an appreciation for how science works through the study of select topics in the natural sciences. Specific topics will change each time the course is taught, but will be drawn from areas of study throughout the natural and physical sciences. Sample topics are likely to include: current developments in animal behavior, genetics, nutrition, the environment, health and medicine, and applications of physics. Topics are addressed in a way that enables students to construct a framework of key scientific concepts and make connections to human life through consideration of the applications of basic scientific principles. In the laboratory, students become involved in the process of doing science, by working in small research teams to design and implement lab exercises aimed at answering specific questions, which also provides the opportunity to develop an appreciation for how science works.

SPI 206: Nutrition Concepts and Controversies
An overview of nutrition principles that influence eating behaviors, impact energy metabolism and maintain health. Surveys the science upon which dietary standards and popular nutritional claims are based. Students perform a comprehensive analysis of their nutritional intake, energy expenditure and fitness patterns. Includes a three-hour lab per week.

SPI 230: Jewish-American Literature and Film
This course explores the Jewish experience in America from the end of the 19th century until today. Through the media of literature and film, the course explores: the immigrant experience, the move toward assimilation, the reaction to the Holocaust, and the return to (a modern form of) tradition. The goal and objective of the course is to gain an understanding of the development of Jewish-American literature since the great migration of the 1880s, and to show how this literature reflected the issues faced by Jewish immigrants as they became part of American society. In addition, the works studied raise issues related to all ethnic groups in America, as well to fundamental American values such as freedom, equality, justice, opportunity and family. General studies humanities-literature credit.

SPI 232: The Holocaust in Literature and Film
This course approaches the Holocaust by examining the challenges and problems encountered in trying to imagine and represent its horror through the media of literature and film. It treats a broad range of issues, including the politics of memory, the value of testimony, the problems of witnessing, the weight of history, and the ethics of representation. The goal and objective of the course is to gain an understanding of important issues relating to the Holocaust, as they have been addressed in literature and film. General studies humanities-literature credit.