Undergraduate Courses

Platforms are instrumental in mediating a wide range of phenomena, including
social interaction, economic transactions, resource access, information circulation, cultural experiences, and more. Their ubiquity in everyday life is documented in concepts of platformization and platform capitalism and an emerging discipline of platform studies. This course explores the metaphors, histories, logics, and materialities of platforms. Through lenses of media studies, political economy, and anthropology, students investigate the implications of platforms in contemporary life.

This course focuses on the essentially communicative aspects of American government, including the preparation of candidates, the electoral process, political advertising and public relations. It also includes the use of strategic communication to influence political agendas, the formation of public policy, and the process of political debate.

Why do so many high school students apply to study at expensive institutions when there are cheaper alternatives available? Who is able to attend, and who is excluded? Why do college costs keep rising so fast? Shouldn’t college be free? Students explore answers to these kinds of questions in this course. Students explore a range of economic concepts and empirical evidence that speaks to the value of Field available for additional information in footerhigher education for individuals and societies; state and institutional financial aid policies; and university budgets and spending priorities.

Looking at the rhetoric of public relations we examine the principles and assumptions in the process of analyzing the process of political campaigns. Focuses on an analysis of what is reported to the mass media and how the 'gatekeepers,' reporters, editors and producers of news filer the messages. Also, discussion on how public relations participates in the creation of viewpoints that eventually become well established and widely held.

Private or group lessons (by examination) in pop/jazz bass, supplemented by extra assignments, outside practice, and observation.

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Private or group lessons (by examination) in pop/Jazz piano, supplemented by extra assignments, outside practice, and observation.
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Private or group lessons (by examination) in pop/jazz saxophone, supplemented by extra assignments, outside practice, and observation.

Private or group lessons (by examination) in pop/jazz piano, supplemented by extra outside practice, and observation

Private or group lessons (by examination) in pop/jazz trumpet, supplemented by extra assignments, outside practice, and observation.

Students participate in a variety of activities and assignments to help them create and enact their own curriculum, lessons and activities in the space of a 21st century secondary music classroom. Students gain practical experience in learning and teaching contemporary popular music instrumentation including guitar, electric guitar, electric bass, ukulele, drum-kit, keyboard, and other electronic instruments.

This class addresses how colonialism and postcolonialism are shaped and mediated through images and the gaze. The dynamics of colonial history motivate and shape colonial and postcolonial perceptions and influence their patterns of global circulation when the boundary between the world out there and the nation at home is increasingly blurred. Course surveys a range of image texts through various media (photography, television, cinema) and sites (war, the harem, refugee camps, prisons, disasters); nationalist mobilization, counter-insurgency, urban conflict, disaster management, the prison system, and the war on terror.

The course empowers students to improve the social impact of data-driven analysis. Students explore human experiences shaped by algorithms, machine learning, and artificial intelligence while learning how to systematically collect, share, analyze, visualize, and interpret data. The course provides historical background on issues of data privacy, digital exclusion, and online discrimination. Building both quantitative reasoning and critical thinking skills, the course is designed for students either in the sciences or humanities. No statistics prerequisite.

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