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This course will provide students with the knowledge and tools to create their own animations using Adobe After Effects and Photoshop. Techniques covered include (but are not limited to) isolating objects and animating layers, working with masks and shapes, photographic/collage approaches, including distorting/animating with the Puppet Tools, and working with 2D images in 3D space. Sound design, composition, editing techniques, color grading, and other image-making principles will be explored through a series of short animation experiments. In each project, students will be challenged to develop aesthetically interesting, visually abstract approaches to their ideas. No previous video editing experience is required.

365体育博彩_365体育app-彩票*官网 will read the novels and literary essays of Toni Morrison. In the process we will explore the features of what Morrison calls the African American novel. 365体育博彩_365体育app-彩票*官网 will aso come to recognize and understand Morrison's mastery of craft and subject in the production of amazing stories that speak the "truth in timbre." The goals are to read, learn and grow in your understanding of the possibilities and limitations of rendering a people's lived experience.

This course will survey the proliferation of Black representation in television shows with particular focus on the 1970s through 2000s. 365体育博彩_365体育app-彩票*官网 will review variety shows like Flip Wilson and Richard Pryor, sitcoms like Amos 'n' Andy and Julia and entertainment shows like Soul Train and In Living Color. Special focus will be devoted to Black family shows like The Jeffersons, Sanford and Sons, The Cosby Show and The Fresh Prince of Bel Air. Students will be introduced to concepts in cultural theory and cultural criticism. This course will appeal to students interested in the intersection of popular culture and race relations. Caution: 365体育博彩_365体育app-彩票*官网 will watch a lot of TV.

The American Revolution stands undeniably as a watershed moment in the history of global human societies. This historical period witnessed the emergence of a new republic principled upon radical ideas of social equality and the inherent rights of human beings while the architects of that same republic materially benefited from the forced labor of half a million souls kept in bondage. This readings-heavy, discussion-based course calls on students to familiarize themselves with writings and historical sources that emerged from the Revolutionary Era and Early National Period produced by both the traditional "founders" as well as those who levied sharp critiques and challenges to the uniquely optimistic and inequitable age the Revolution ushered into existence. Students will ideally walk away with both an extensive knowledge of the facts of the American Revolution, as well as enduring questions about the grand "experiment" that the Revolution birthed.

This course offers an extended study of the social and political philosophy of W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963). As someone who dedicated his life's work to studying "the Negro problem" and "the program of Negro freedom," Du Bois's reflections on racial discrimination, social, political, and economic inequality, the possibility of racial integration, and the meaning of racial self-determination continue to inform how we think about racial justice and injustice in the U.S. The course focuses on three main questions in Du Bois's thought. The first question has to do with the psychology of race. That is, what motivates white racial prejudice? And how does racial discrimination affect Black people's relation towards the self and others? The second question regards social, political, and economic inequality. Do poor whites and poor Blacks suffer from the same kind of inequality? Or are there specific social factors that explain the unequal distribution of inequality in the U.S.? Lastly, the third question regards integration and self-determination. Is racial integration possible in the U.S.? Is Black self-determination compatible with racial integration? While the course centers on Du Bois as a historical thinker, we will focus on how his social and political philosophy can help us think about our present racial relations.

Materials chemistry is one of today's most dynamic research fields, with a significant impact on social development and our way of life. Ceramics, polymers, semiconductors, superconductors, alloys, and composites are the materials of choice for a wide range of applications, from building materials and advanced microelectronics to food packaging and medical implants. To develop or select the proper material for a given application, scientists and engineers must understand the structure of various materials at the microscopic level. This is because macroscopic properties (density, chemical resistance, color, biocompatibility, etc.) are dictated by chemical structure. Today's chemists, engineers, physicists, and biologists are working diligently to develop exotic new materials to enable the revolutionary technologies of the future. The course will present a survey of the field and explore the frontiers (e.g., nanotechnology) of the field via the primary literature. Students must have completed CHE-241 in order to enroll in this class.

Approximately 13 of the 48 known human nuclear receptors (NRs) have approved, clinically used drugs, accounting for roughly 15-20% of all pharmacological drug targets. These include drugs to treat cancer (breast, prostate, blood), autoimmune disorders, diabetes, high cholesterol, osteoporosis, and thyroid diseases. Nuclear receptors are proteins that modulate gene expression through the recruitment of repressor or activator complexes, ultimately controlling expression of downstream gene products. This course will examine the structure and function of the steroid, thyroid and retinoic acid receptors in the cell and drugs that modulate these systems.

Must be a senior Chemistry or Biochemstiry major. Nanoparticle chemistry is among today's most rapidly advancing and interdisciplinary research areas, with profound implications for technology, medicine, energy, and the environment. Nanoparticles, including metallic, semiconductor, polymeric, and ceramic systems, exhibit unique size-dependent optical, electronic, magnetic, and catalytic properties that differ dramatically from those of their bulk counterparts. These materials are central to applications ranging from targeted drug delivery and biomedical imaging to solar energy conversion, environmental remediation, and advanced electronics. To design or deploy nanoparticles effectively, scientists must understand how structure, composition, surface chemistry, and morphology at the nanometer scale govern macroscopic performance. Properties such as reactivity, fluorescence, conductivity, and biocompatibility are dictated by atomic arrangement, quantum confinement effects, and interfacial phenomena. In this course, students will explore the synthesis, functionalization, characterization, and application of nanoparticles, with an emphasis on connecting nanoscale structure to emergent properties. The course will survey foundational concepts and examine cutting-edge developments in nanoscience through analysis of the primary literature.

Intro to Computer Networks provides a rigorous, systems-oriented introduction to the principles and design of computer networks, emphasizing formal models, protocol analysis, and performance evaluation. 365体育博彩_365体育app-彩票*官网 study layered network architecture through the TCP/IP stack and analyze the mathematical and algorithmic foundations underlying reliable data transfer, flow control, congestion control, and routing. Topics include application-layer protocols (HTTP, DNS), transport-layer mechanisms (TCP state machine, sliding window protocols, congestion control algorithms such as AIMD), network-layer design (IP addressing, subnetting, longest-prefix matching, distance-vector and link-state routing algorithms), link-layer protocols, error detection and correction, and fundamentals of wireless networking. If time permits, the course will also introduce fundamental concepts in network security, including basic cryptographic primitives and secure communication protocols.

This course will explore the works of the Nobel Prize-winning economist James M. Buchanan. The course will delve into his role as the founder of two fields in economics: Public Choice and Constitutional Political Economy. The course will particularly examine the cross-disciplinary nature of Buchanan's work from an economic and political science perspective. Additionally, we will explore how Buchanan challenged the mainstream methodological approach in economics by examining his focus on subjectivism, his shift away from maximization toward an exchange paradigm, and related themes. The course will take a comprehensive look at Buchanan's work throughout his life and explore why it still matters for today within a PPE framework.

This class will investigate the social phenomena of crime and punishment through the analytical tool kit of political economy. Students will learn a variety of theoretical approaches and apply them to understand and explain historic and contemporary trends. Theoretical approaches will include rational and strategic decision making, public goods theory, bureaucratic incentives, comparative institutional analysis, and industrial organization. Key applied topics covered during the semester will include criminal behavior, the historic origins of criminal law and law enforcement services, the potentials and limits of both public and private provisions of policing and punishment, and the historic and contemporary patterns of crime and punitive trends across social contexts. Finally, students will assess the viability of historic and current criminal justice reform movements.

This course uses microeconomic theory to analyze the determinants of earnings and labor market outcomes. It will explore key topics, including the returns to education and experience, workplace incentives, discrimination, unionization, and compensating wage differentials, as well as public sector labor markets and issues of retirement and aging. The course aims to develop a deeper understanding of how economics can explain individual and firm behavior in labor markets and the policy debates surrounding them. After completing the course, the successful student will be able to apply a human capital framework to analyze labor market phenomena and evaluate related policy issues.

Studies show that reading poetry and fiction about illness helps both doctors and patients. More and more medical schools in the U.S. require a "Narrative Medicine" course, recognizing that language has the capacity to comfort us in times of need. How do writers, poets, filmmakers, visual artists, and historians portray the sick? What social, cultural, psychological, and medical issues do they raise in these portrayals? 365体育博彩_365体育app-彩票*官网 will read, watch, and discuss creative depictions of AIDS, Covid 19, Chagas disease, and other conditions as well as texts about mental health. How have societies around the world classified sickness and how have they treated bodies and minds that are unwell? How have communities of color, women, and LGBTQ patients described their hospitalizations and diagnoses? This is an interdisciplinary class that includes literary analysis, philosophy, history, political science, global health, epidemiology, and other disciplines. The class will host visiting speakers. It will also have a significant community engagement component.

365体育博彩_365体育app-彩票*官网 will read the novels and literary essays of Toni Morrison. In the process we will explore the features of what Morrison calls the African American novel. 365体育博彩_365体育app-彩票*官网 will aso come to recognize and understand Morrison's mastery of craft and subject in the production of amazing stories that speak the "truth in timbre." The goals are to read, learn and grow in your understanding of the possibilities and limitations of rendering a people's lived experience.

This course will survey the proliferation of Black representation in television shows with particular focus on the 1970s through 2000s. 365体育博彩_365体育app-彩票*官网 will review variety shows like Flip Wilson and Richard Pryor, sitcoms like Amos 'n' Andy and Julia and entertainment shows like Soul Train and In Living Color. Special focus will be devoted to Black family shows like The Jeffersons, Sanford and Sons, The Cosby Show and The Fresh Prince of Bel Air. Students will be introduced to concepts in cultural theory and cultural criticism. This course will appeal to students interested in the intersection of popular culture and race relations. Caution: 365体育博彩_365体育app-彩票*官网 will watch a lot of TV.

IMMIGRATION AND EXILE IN GLOBAL LITERATURES How do writers, poets, playwrights, and filmmakers imagine the global migration of people in the 20th and 21st centuries? How do they respond to economically-motivated migration, political exile, eco-migration (caused by global warming and climate change), and other forms of resettlement? 365体育博彩_365体育app-彩票*官网 will read texts that investigate problems faced by immigrant communities (e.g. racism, xenophobia, abuse of power by institutions, immigrant detention camps, separation of refugee families, etc), problems within the immigrant communities, and issues raised by anti-immigrant movements and legislation.

"The Super Bowl Halftime Show an unmistakably American media spectacle that is also globally relevant. The show uniquely merges different aspects of American culture, including music, sports, commerce, fashion, media, technology, politics, and more. Though the first Super Bowl audience in 1967 enjoyed a musical performance at halftime, it took decades for the show to become the big-budget, prime-time, live television event that we have come to expect. As the game itself became more culturally relevant, the standards for the performers and production value increased while the culture of celebrity changed. The Halftime Show is often a platform for social, political, and artistic statements and, consequently, a source of controversy. 365体育博彩_365体育app-彩票*官网'll study the origins of the show, its evolving partnerships with the NFL and various corporate entities, and select scandals and triumphs that dot its history. By studying Halftime Shows, we can better understand pop culture in different points in American history as well as the societal factors that shaped it." Mollie Ables is a professor in the Music Department and teaches classes on music's role in history and society. She is also an avid baker, a slow but persistent runner, and a dog-enthusiast.

The medieval theologian Thomas Aquinas once claimed, "There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship." Centuries before him the Greek historian Herodotus said, "Of all possessions a friend is the most precious." And more recently, in the mid-twentieth century, C. S. Lewis wrote, "Friendship is unnecessary.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that gives value to survival." In this freshman tutorial, we will ask: What is friendship? What makes someone a friend? What qualities or characteristics are part of friendship? Through the insights of significant writers, as well as through stories, in both literature and film, we will investigate these questions and try to deepen our understanding of friendship. Various recent studies suggest that American men are not doing well in the realm of friendship. Why is this? How do men in particular cultivate and engage in friendships, and what meaning and purpose do they find in them? Friendships are a gift and blessing, a source of happiness and camaraderie, care and comfort in a harsh world, but they also present difficult challenges and can produce disappointments and heartache. Most of us would say that friendships are a vitally important part of life, but are we somehow less well equipped today to take the time and make the commitments involved in developing strong and enduring friendships? Finally, how can we facilitate and form meaningful friendships at Wabash? If, as the old proverb has it, "Shared joy is multiplied and shared grief is divided," we all need friends with whom we care share the things that matter. Prof. Jon Baer has taught in the Religion Department for more than twenty years. His main areas of interest are American religion, church history, and sociology and anthropology of religion. He has taught several freshman tutorials, though this is his first time with the topic of friendship. He and his wife Carolyn live in Crawfordsville, where they raised their three now-adult children.

The Agony, Ecstasy, and Artistry of Professional Wrestling "From humble beginnings in the late 19th century, professional wrestling has grown into a nearly $4 billion global industry. The largest annual pro wrestling event, Wrestlemania, generated over $66 million in live ticket sales and over 1 billion minutes of streaming in 2025. The most successful pro wrestlers, such as Gorgeous George or Hulk Hogan, become global icons. Pro wrestling is athleticism, vaudeville, and soap opera rolled into one. As a storytelling medium, it intertwines reality, fiction, and illusion - and occasionally fantasy and horror. And for 150 years it has cultivated equal parts love among fans across cultures as disparate as the United States, Mexico and Japan, and contempt among those who view it as nothing more than unsophisticated, pointless violence. 365体育博彩_365体育app-彩票*官网 will examine the history and culture of pro wrestling ("the business," to its practitioners) through the stories of those who shaped its storytelling methods and language. 365体育博彩_365体育app-彩票*官网 will study heroes and villains, men and women, deals and double-crosses, and music and clothing. 365体育博彩_365体育app-彩票*官网 will learn how and why wrestlers endure physical punishment, ruthless employment conditions, the risk of substance abuse, and the toxic effects of travel and fame. 365体育博彩_365体育app-彩票*官网 will examine how wrestling adheres to timeless rules and yet also reflects the historical and cultural moment. 365体育博彩_365体育app-彩票*官网 will study how the wrestlers build a match and how the writers build a story arc - all in the pursuit of sustained fan attention and the elusive-but-magical audience "pop." And finally, we will learn about why you never, ever call pro wrestling fake. And perhaps along the way we will learn how to cut a promo on DePauw" A native of South Carolina, Professor Preston Bost earned his Bachelor's degree in psychology from Yale University in 1993. He completed his doctorate in cognitive psychology at Vanderbilt University in 1998, specializing in the study of human memory. He joined the Wabash College faculty in 2000, and has taught a wide range of courses focusing on cognitive processes such as visual perception, communication, decision making, and memory. His current research focuses on the psychology of conspiracy theories. Dr. Bost served as chair of the Psychology department from 2007-2013, helped establish the College's first permanent Office of Institutional Research starting in 2014, and is currently the chair of the Social Sciences division. In his free time he enjoys sports (all of them!), Great British Baking Show-inspired scone-making, reading, jaunts to the local comics store, muscle cars, slowing down over an iced coffee, and any time he gets to learn something new.

The world is poker, not chess. 365体育博彩_365体育app-彩票*官网 are often confronted with situations where we must make decisions without all of the information we would need to do it perfectly. This tutorial will explore just how to make those decisions well by learning about various card games. Our focus will primarily be on No-limit Texas Hold 'Em, but we will also explore Blackjack, Uno, and Euchre, to name a few. Be ready to learn more about how our minds form beliefs, how they respond to decision-making under pressure, and also math. (from 2025): When Dr. Eric Dunaway was a high school student, he was told by a prolific Physics teacher that every young man must know how to do two things before he graduates college: drive a stick-shift and play poker. Dr. Dunaway is proficient in both and wants to help others learn more about them too. He teaches classes on economics, strategy, and more!

This tutorial section introduces foundational skills needed to excel in a liberal arts education by taking the books of classical authors in hand and beginning to read. The title of the course, Reading Plato, should be taken, first, quite literally: on the first day of class and proceeding throughout the first half of the semester, we will work through Plato's Symposium. Students will prepare assigned readings in advance of each class meeting, and in class we will read important passages aloud and discuss the text. Students will develop foundational skills in close and careful reading, interpretation, and analysis by cooperatively constructing a baseline understanding of the reading in class and exploring disagreements. Second, the title of the course highlights a recent controversy that arose when a state university system compelled a professor to remove selections from the Symposium from a course syllabus due to Plato's treatment of race and gender. Working through the Symposium will provide an occasion for reflecting on campus speech and academic freedom concerning controversial and sensitive issues. Third, the title of the course raises the question of what it means to read classical authors in the sense of inheriting, critically interrogating, and transforming their works in acts of renewing creativity. The course will conclude with discussion of some seminal creative appropriations of Plato's Symposium in art and literature. Jeffrey Gower teaches Philosophy and contributes to the program in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. His teaching and research interests include social and political philosophy, environmental philosophy, Continental philosophy, and Ancient Philosophy. He enjoys music, movies, and long walks in the woods, searching for the right spot.

The ancient world was filled with monsters who threatened the lives of human beings and the natural order of the universe. They needed to be conquered, destroyed, or banished by heroes or gods for the safety of all. Beyond the myths, however, these monsters have deeper significance, reflecting fears and embodying social concerns. In studying the monstrous, we can learn about the anxieties of the ancient Greeks and Romans as well as our own. 365体育博彩_365体育app-彩票*官网 will investigate the different roles and representations of monsters in ancient texts and art, consider how our notions of the monstrous are influenced by those of our ancient predecessors, and compare them to modern depictions. Dr. Theodora Kopestonsky (Dr. K) is a Greek archaeologist and Classics professor who has a passion for studying ancient dead Greek guys and their stuff (especially little clay figurines), is an expert on Corinthian nymphs, and hails from a triad of sisters, but you will only find out by taking the class whether or not she is a gorgon!

While often celebrated as a pastime, baseball serves as a lens for examining globalization, migration, and power. This course examines the racial and economic forces driving the talent pipelines that connect Latin America and East Asia to American stadiums, exploring how these movements reflect global power structures. By evaluating the collision of social identity and market forces, and pairing these cases with an exploration of the Moneyball revolution, students will develop data literacy and critical thinking skills. The course will hone students' essential skills through a multi-stage writing process and seminar discussion, helping build the intellectual confidence and peer support networks necessary for long-term success in a liberal arts environment. Ryan Yu-Lin Liou is an Assistant Professor of Political Science, an award-winning researcher and teacher who grew up in Taiwan, where baseball is practically a second national language, and has been watching the sport through a political lens ever since.

If a computer can think, how would we even know? And what does "thinking" mean in the first place? This course begins by stepping back from artificial intelligence to consider intelligence itself. Drawing on ideas from across cultures and disciplines, we'll explore how humans, animals, and machines learn, reason, and make sense of the world. Through a mix of readings, discussions, writing, experiments, and simulations, we'll test different ways of understanding intelligence and see where they succeed or break down. The goal isn't to settle the question, but to sharpen it: to develop a clearer sense of what's really being asked when we call something "intelligent," and why that question is harder than it first appears. Colin McKinney is Associate Professor and Department Chair of Mathematics and Computer Science at Wabash College, and a master's student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. His work ranges from computer hardware and programming languages to artificial intelligence and the history of mathematics and computing, but he's especially interested in how ideas connect across fields and across time. His classes revolve around big questions and trying out different ways of approaching them: sometimes by reading, sometimes by experimenting, and sometimes by arguing about what counts as a good answer. Outside of class, he enjoys learning languages (his French is passable enough to earn compliments from Parisian waiters, and he can curse in Klingon), cooking, traveling, and PC gaming. He lives in Crawfordsville but considers Texas home, which means he has high standards for barbecue and tacos.

This course explores selected songs from Latin America and the stories behind them. While students familiarize themselves with genres such as tango, pasillo, corridos, salsa, samba, Bossa Nova, Nueva Canción, mariachi, among others, this musical journey aims to provide an introductory map of the essential history and culture of the region. From the zoomorphic ocarina of the Pre-Columbian times to the many Latin American cousins of the Spanish guitar, we will examine questions on personal and cultural identity, societal and political issues, traditions, unity, loyalty, lifestyles, loneliness, joy, fear, heartbreak, friendship, and love. Prof. María Cristina Monsalve is from Quito, Ecuador and she teaches courses in Spanish language, literature, and culture. She enjoys singing and playing several string instruments such as guitar, ukelele, cuatro and charango.

In this Freshman Tutorial, students will be invited to examine the first decade of the 2000s to better understand the world they were born into. Students will explore Y2K, 9/11, the War on Terror, the 2008 Financial Crisis, and the election of Barack Obama in 2008 alongside the cultural and social struggles and changes within and outside of the United States. In this course, students will be engaging with academic secondary sources from different disciplines as well as primary sources to get an insight into how U.S. Americans and people around the world understood, lived, survived, and attempted to thrive during the tumultuous decade that kicked off the 2000s. Dr. Noe Pliego Campos will be starting his fourth year at Wabash College in Fall 2026, and he is excited to lead his first Freshman Tutorial. A historian and a scholar of gender and screen cultures, he has taught courses such as "The History of the Men's World Cup," "Youth in the Global 1980s," and "Masculinity in Films from the Americas." More importantly, he loves to work with students as they develop their own passions and critical thinking, reading, and writing skills. 365体育博彩_365体育app-彩票*官网lcome!

Born to Run: How Running Defines the Human Experience Human beings were born to run. That, at least, is the theory proposed by evolutionary scientists Dan Lieberman and Dennis Bramble, and it is the premise with which we will begin our liberal arts inquiry into how running defines the human experience. 365体育博彩_365体育app-彩票*官网 will use tools from anthropology, history, literature, film, coaching, and more to understand how and why people run. Although humans are poor sprinters compared to other mammals, our unique biological adaptations for endurance make us the greatest long-distance runners on the planet. For that reason, we will focus primarily but not exclusively on the endurance aspects of running. And because the best learning includes both theory and praxis, we will also run! 365体育博彩_365体育app-彩票*官网 will supplement our classroom knowledge with running activities that are appropriate to our capabilities, and we will write and discuss how our own experiences inform our understanding of the subject. Participants in this course will NOT be evaluated on running ability. Final grades will be based on written and oral work. Texts for the course will include Born to Run by Christopher McDougall, Why 365体育博彩_365体育app-彩票*官网 Run by Bernd Heinrich, Good for a Girl by Lauren Fleshman, and Once a Runner by John L. Parker. Films will include Endurance, Without Limits, and Saint Ralph. Professor Redding majored in German and ran cross country at Wabash College. After graduating in 1988 and earning his doctorate, he taught German and coached cross country at a small liberal arts college in Pennsylvania before joining the Wabash faculty in 2002. He teaches all levels of German language, literature, and culture, and he still runs: to date he has completed over 80 races of marathon length or longer, including 16 100-milers.

To Hell and Back: Underworld Journeys in World Myth and Fairy Tale This tutorial explores the recurring human obsession with darkness, transformation, and return. Drawing on texts from ancient Greece, pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, nineteenth-century Germany, modern Brazil, and contemporary Japan, students explore how many cultures have imagined an underworld and how their heroes navigate it. 365体育博彩_365体育app-彩票*官网 read Philip Pullman's retelling of the Brothers Grimm alongside Ovid's Orpheus, the Mayan Hero Twins of the Popol Vuh, and Neil Gaiman's Coraline, and view Marcel Camus's Orfeu Negro and Miyazaki's Spirited Away. Dr. Rogers began his career at Wabash College in the last century, before many of you were even born. After graduating from the University of Colorado, he completed his graduate studies in Spanish literature at the University of Kansas, where he became a lifelong fan of Ecuadorian literature and the Jayhawks. Like Orpheus descending into the underworld, he has made his own kind of journey into darkness and back: he has walked the Camino de Santiago several times, a pilgrimage that, like so many of the narratives in this course, is organized around the logic of descent, endurance, and transformation. His scholarly work on Latin American literature has taken him deep into traditions that this tutorial places at its center. As a specialist in Ecuadorian literature and the broader Latin American canon, he brings firsthand expertise to the Popol Vuh and its extraordinary Hero Twins, whose descent into Xibalba remains one of the most viscerally imagined underworlds in any literary tradition. His more recent research on the connections between Asian and Latin American Studies gives him a particular investment in the cross-cultural conversation this course stages between Miyazaki's Spirited Away and the Mesoamerican, European, and Brazilian texts we read alongside it. The question that drives his scholarship (how cultures imagine the border between the living and the dead, the known and the unknown) is, in many ways, the question that drives this tutorial. A diehard Wabash sports fan, he looks forward to the baseball season and to holding office hours at Goodrich Ballpark during home games. He promises that discussions of Orpheus, Coraline, and the underworld are entirely appropriate for a baseball diamond.

Ska is a genre of music that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s. It gave rise to both rocksteady and reggae and has seen multiple resurgences, often known as waves. Today ska is often seen as a silly novelty genre but the genre, sometimes referred to as the music of liberation, has a much more serious origin and history. It is indeed a fun style of music meant to make people dance but its history is filled with musicians tackling serious social issues from freedom to gun violence to racism and beyond. This course will study those social issues that permeated through the first, second, third, and current waves of ska; from its origins on Orange Street in Kingston Jamaica in the late 1950 and early 1960s to the punk influenced 2 Tone revolution in England in the late 1970s and early 1980s to silly/fun ska punk in America in the 1990s. The course will introduce students to how historians and social scientists can study the context and actions of the music scene and thus, why ska, is so much more than its reputation may reveal. Nick Snow is an economist whose work is on various political economy topics, and he loves vinyl records and enjoys playing the guitar.

How do writers, filmmakers, and visual artists imagine the global migration of people in the 20th and 21st centuries? 365体育博彩_365体育app-彩票*官网 will research and discuss economically-motivated migration, political exile, a relatively new concept of eco-migration (caused by global warming and climate change), and other forms of resettlement. 365体育博彩_365体育app-彩票*官网 will investigate problems faced by immigrant communities (e.g. racism, xenophobia, abuse of power by institutions, immigrant detention camps, separation of refugee families, etc), problems within the immigrant communities, and issues raised by anti-immigrant movements and legislation. 365体育博彩_365体育app-彩票*官网 will also visit the Global Village and attend a naturalization ceremony in Indianapolis. Agata Szczeszak-Brewer teaches creative writing and literature, including science fiction. She also volunteers as a Court Appointed Special Advocate and a chair of Immigrant Allies, a local nonprofit group. She loves gardening, hiking, biking, and traveling to see her family in Poland.

The Freedom Carnival: AI Spectacles, Fairground Scams and the Algorithms of Liberty How do we distinguish agency from manipulation? This first-year tutorial examines how systems of illusion, seduction, and emerging technologies shape our understanding of free will. The course explores connections between classic "carnival scams" (confidence games, rigged systems, sleight of hand) and contemporary forms of influence, including targeted advertising, popular entertainment, and identity branding. Students will investigate how trust is constructed and exploited across different contexts, from sideshow tricks to machine learning systems, asking: What does it mean to be "free" in environments designed to guide or constrain our choices? What are the boundaries of freedom and what and the benefits of deception. Professor 365体育博彩_365体育app-彩票*官网edman worked as a photographer, pre-school teacher, sound artist, salesman, magician and pizza delivery driver before teaching at Wabash. After a few decades in the mountains, he packed up his degrees in Film studies, Digital Media and Sculpture, and married another Midwesterner before heading to Wabash. When not playing guitar, interrogating film, making art or practicing sleight of hand he vigorously attempts to beat his daughters at any game they dare to challenge him in.

This tutorial uses infectious disease and public health as lenses to explore questions about human experience, suffering, moral obligation, and the meaning of community. Through a variety of readings, film, art, discussion, and community engagement, together we will consider why (and with what) some people suffer more than others, what we might owe others, and what it means to pursue the "common good." Not merely theoretical, the plan for this tutorial is to engage locally with areas of community need so that we can more critically reflect, learn, and grow. A member of the Biology Dept. and Director of the Wabash Global Health Initiative, Dr. Eric 365体育博彩_365体育app-彩票*官网tzel loves to engage students in experiential learning that forces them to consider deeply their role and place in life. A father of 5 grown kids and a professor of 30 years, Dr. 365体育博彩_365体育app-彩票*官网tzel has led immersion courses to places like the rainforest, mountains, and urban coast of Peru and the barrier reef of Belize.

The city of Paris casts an alluring spell on our imagination. The Eiffel Tower.the Louvre.Notre-Dame de Paris.cafés.croissants.romance.we all crave to experience these places, tastes, and seductions and succumb to their charm. But in this class, as we think critically in true Wabash style, we will try hard not to get too dazzled by Paris's famous lights. Looking mostly at modern Paris, we will consider the violent revolutions, the social movements, the massive urban planning initiatives, the two World Wars, and the waves of population migrations from former French colonies (and beyond) that have shaped the city into what it is today. Considering Paris through French history, art, literature, music, film, and popular culture, as well as through American perspectives on France and its people, we will gain a deeper and more nuanced understanding of this city's legendary influence in the world. Karen Quandt teaches French in the department of Modern Languages and Literatures. When she is not teaching, reading, or writing, she is devising schemes to get back to Paris or planning immersion trips for her students. Otherwise, she splits her time between attending her older son's swim meets and listening to her younger son play cello.

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Studies show that reading poetry and fiction about illness helps both doctors and patients. More and more medical schools in the U.S. require a "Narrative Medicine" course, recognizing that language has the capacity to comfort us in times of need. How do writers, poets, filmmakers, visual artists, and historians portray the sick? What social, cultural, psychological, and medical issues do they raise in these portrayals? 365体育博彩_365体育app-彩票*官网 will read, watch, and discuss creative depictions of AIDS, Covid 19, Chagas disease, and other conditions as well as texts about mental health. How have societies around the world classified sickness and how have they treated bodies and minds that are unwell? How have communities of color, women, and LGBTQ patients described their hospitalizations and diagnoses? This is an interdisciplinary class that includes literary analysis, philosophy, history, political science, global health, epidemiology, and other disciplines. The class will host visiting speakers. It will also have a significant community engagement component.

What is an illegal drug? This course examines the history of drugs in society by first asking what an illegal drug or intoxicant might be. The class will then consider how different cultures have accepted or rejected drugs based on their usefulness or danger to the social order. 365体育博彩_365体育app-彩票*官网 will examine changing cultural attitudes toward drugs, the rise of modern drug regulation, and the development of pharmaceutical drugs. Key topics will include: The growth and regulation of the opium trade in the 19th century; Drugs and Sports; Alcohol policies in the 19th and early 20th centuries; The global war on drugs; Appreciation for Cannabis, Alcohol, Meth, Viagra, Chocolate, and Coffee; The use and administration of LSD and amphetamines by various governmental agencies. This course is suitable for first-year and advanced students interested in history, sociology, and public health. There is no immersion trip associated with this course, but to be blunt, in addition to short assignments, in-class experiments, and two exams, students will have a daily dose of reading and discussion.

How has the Internet changed what we know about the past? In this hands-on course, we'll answer that question by focusing on the history of immigration. 365体育博彩_365体育app-彩票*官网'll roll up our sleeves and collaboratively play--and sometimes fail--with AI chatbots, online archives, and digital narration tools. Throughout, we'll think about the implications of doing immigration history on the Internet, including the ethical challenges of sharing immigrants' stories and reducing human lives to data. 365体育博彩_365体育app-彩票*官网'll conclude the semester with a 365体育博彩_365体育app-彩票*官网b-based research project. No experience in computer science, digital media, or migration history required, although an interest in at least one of these is recommended!

What is an illegal drug? This course examines the history of drugs in society by first asking what an illegal drug or intoxicant might be. The class will then consider how different cultures have accepted or rejected drugs based on their usefulness or danger to the social order. 365体育博彩_365体育app-彩票*官网 will examine changing cultural attitudes toward drugs, the rise of modern drug regulation, and the development of pharmaceutical drugs. Key topics will include: The growth and regulation of the opium trade in the 19th century; Drugs and Sports; Alcohol policies in the 19th and early 20th centuries; The global war on drugs; Appreciation for Cannabis, Alcohol, Meth, Viagra, Chocolate, and Coffee; The use and administration of LSD and amphetamines by various governmental agencies. This course is suitable for first-year and advanced students interested in history, sociology, and public health. There is no immersion trip associated with this course, but to be blunt, in addition to short assignments, in-class experiments, and two exams, students will have a daily dose of reading and discussion.

How do empires emerge and endure? Is it guns, gold, ideas, or something else? This course offers a deep dive into the historical forces that built Brazil and the US into the global giants they are today. Focusing on points of comparison and connection, we'll examine the engines of empire--slavery, resource extraction, and culture--and how they propped up spheres of influence that spanned continents. Join us as we weigh historians' arguments and develop our own about the rise and survival of the American superpowers.

The American Revolution stands undeniably as a watershed moment in the history of global human societies. This historical period witnessed the emergence of a new republic principled upon radical ideas of social equality and the inherent rights of human beings while the architects of that same republic materially benefited from the forced labor of half a million souls kept in bondage. This readings-heavy, discussion-based course calls on students to familiarize themselves with writings and historical sources that emerged from the Revolutionary Era and Early National Period produced by both the traditional "founders" as well as those who levied sharp critiques and challenges to the uniquely optimistic and inequitable age the Revolution ushered into existence. Students will ideally walk away with both an extensive knowledge of the facts of the American Revolution, as well as enduring questions about the grand "experiment" that the Revolution birthed.

Studies show that reading poetry and fiction about illness helps both doctors and patients. More and more medical schools in the U.S. require a "Narrative Medicine" course, recognizing that language has the capacity to comfort us in times of need. How do writers, poets, filmmakers, visual artists, and historians portray the sick? What social, cultural, psychological, and medical issues do they raise in these portrayals? 365体育博彩_365体育app-彩票*官网 will read, watch, and discuss creative depictions of AIDS, Covid 19, Chagas disease, and other conditions as well as texts about mental health. How have societies around the world classified sickness and how have they treated bodies and minds that are unwell? How have communities of color, women, and LGBTQ patients described their hospitalizations and diagnoses? This is an interdisciplinary class that includes literary analysis, philosophy, history, political science, global health, epidemiology, and other disciplines. The class will host visiting speakers. It will also have a significant community engagement component.

How has the Internet changed what we know about the past? In this hands-on course, we'll answer that question by focusing on the history of immigration. 365体育博彩_365体育app-彩票*官网'll roll up our sleeves and collaboratively play--and sometimes fail--with AI chatbots, online archives, and digital narration tools. Throughout, we'll think about the implications of doing immigration history on the Internet, including the ethical challenges of sharing immigrants' stories and reducing human lives to data. 365体育博彩_365体育app-彩票*官网'll conclude the semester with a 365体育博彩_365体育app-彩票*官网b-based research project. No experience in computer science, digital media, or migration history required, although an interest in at least one of these is recommended!

Gentlemen of Wabash, enter into Miguel de Cervantes' world of the (wannabe) knight. Don Quijote is the first modern novel and one of the funniest books ever written. No respectable critic or philosopher fails to mention, analyze, or interpret it. No other book in the world, except for The Bible, has been translated to more languages, undergone more editions and reprints, or generated as many books and articles about it. El Quijote is an icon to the Humanities, Spanish culture, and world literature. 365体育博彩_365体育app-彩票*官网 will study the novel's cultural perspective, idealism versus realism, humor in response to seriousness, madness in relation to meaning, and modernity set against the nostalgia for medieval chivalry. This course will also explore El Quijote as an ever-evolving pop culture icon: literature, art, film, and television. Come acquire the ability to read and respond to a classic Spanish text in this student-centered course. Join us in studying Part I of Don Quijote de la Mancha, one of the most important books ever written.

Ghosts mark loss, repetition, and return, and Spanish cinema is filled with them. This course will ask why. Through in-class discussions, presentations, and written assignments, we will explore Spain's culture and history through "hauntings" in film, photography, and visual art. To do so, we will employ and interrogate methods drawn from trauma theory, the study of historical memory, art history, and film and cultural studies. The course will be conducted in Spanish.

This is an ROTC course held on the campus of Purdue University. It meets on Purdue's academic calendar. Fall Semester 2026 at Purdue is from August 24 - December 19, 2026. Purdue's Fall Break 2026 is October 12-13, 2026. Purdue's academic calendar is at https://catalog.purdue.edu/preview_program.php?catoid=18&poid=336 82.

This is an ROTC course held on the campus of Purdue University. It meets on Purdue's academic calendar. Fall Semester 2026 at Purdue is from August 24 - December 19, 2026. Purdue's Fall Break 2026 is October 12-13, 2026. Purdue's academic calendar is at https://catalog.purdue.edu/preview_program.php?catoid=18&poid=336 82.

This is an ROTC course held on the campus of Purdue University. It meets on Purdue's academic calendar. Fall Semester 2026 at Purdue is from August 24 - December 19, 2026. Purdue's Fall Break 2026 is October 12-13, 2026. Purdue's academic calendar is at https://catalog.purdue.edu/preview_program.php?catoid=18&poid=336 82.

This is an ROTC course held on the campus of Purdue University. It meets on Purdue's academic calendar. Fall Semester 2026 at Purdue is from August 24 - December 19, 2026. Purdue's Fall Break 2026 is October 12-13, 2026. Purdue's academic calendar is at https://catalog.purdue.edu/preview_program.php?catoid=18&poid=336 82.

This is an ROTC course held on the campus of Purdue University. It meets on Purdue's academic calendar. Fall Semester 2026 at Purdue is from August 24 - December 19, 2026. Purdue's Fall Break 2026 is October 12-13, 2026. Purdue's academic calendar is at https://catalog.purdue.edu/preview_program.php?catoid=18&poid=336 82.

This is an ROTC course held on the campus of Purdue University. It meets on Purdue's academic calendar. Fall Semester 2026 at Purdue is from August 24 - December 19, 2026. Purdue's Fall Break 2026 is October 12-13, 2026. Purdue's academic calendar is at https://catalog.purdue.edu/preview_program.php?catoid=18&poid=336 82.

This is an ROTC course held on the campus of Purdue University. It meets on Purdue's academic calendar. Fall Semester 2026 at Purdue is from August 24 - December 19, 2026. Purdue's Fall Break 2026 is October 12-13, 2026. Purdue's academic calendar is at https://catalog.purdue.edu/preview_program.php?catoid=18&poid=336 82.

This course explores how sound (music, noise, silence, and voice) shapes the experience of fear in cinema. Drawing from music, philosophy, media studies, and cultural theory, students will examine how sound design and film scoring help construct suspense, dread, shock, and atmosphere from early cinema to experimental and contemporary film. Topics include the music of cinematic tension, the psychology and uncanny aesthetics of noise, the role of sound production and music in filmmaking, and the cultural implications of sound and fear. Students will learn through screenings, analysis, discussion, and hands-on projects creating and recording scary soundtracks. No prior music or film training is required.

This course is designed for both new and experienced vocalists to enhance their onstage storytelling prowess. Students will participate in musical theatre scene study and analysis, applying improvisation, Laban Movement Analysis, and somatic body practices to their solo storytelling toolkit. The course culminates in a class-wide cabaret where students present work to peers and pals for a night of storytelling and community, celebrating the spontaneity of the singing actor.

The defining element of a 'Wabash Man' is a song. If you met every graduate of our college, you would find rich people and poor people, black people and white people, athletes and klutzes, people from dozens of countries around the world, and even a few women. But you would be hard pressed to find a Wabash graduate who can't at least stumble through the words of "Old Wabash." Music is about inclusion. But by defining who belongs, it also defines those who don't. Most Americans struggle to sing the Star Spangled Banner. But even those who don't speak English can recite the first four words! If border patrol agents used the words to "Yankee Doodle" as a shibboleth for entry, it's hard to see how a non-citizen would ever get in. Music is inherently political. Even when it's not explicitly so, it reflects the society that produces it, the audience that listens to it, and the means by which the former finds the latter. Early German nationalists knew that Beethoven could help them define who was German. Later German nationalists knew that too. African Americans and Jews took music from the plantations and shtetls they left behind, fashioning it into Blues and Jazz when Classical conservatories wouldn't teach them and 'respectable' concert halls wouldn't let them perform. They found a wider audience when people like Elvis Presley 'borrowed' their songs, recorded them, and made them famous. That music went on to define a generation defined by its counter-cultural ethos - and was brought back to Africa and the Caribbean (from whence it once came) where national heroes like Bob Marley and Fela Kuti used it to resist colonial oppression and dictatorship. Modern leaders listened and learned from this, which is why Korea promotes K-pop and Putin imprisons Pussy Riot. It's also why Bruce Springsteen objected to Ronald Reagan's use of "Born in the USA" - and why Ronald Reagan evidently didn't know (or didn't care about) the words. This course will focus on musical repertory related to specific regimes, societies, movements, and historical periods. The course will require students to examine music as propaganda and as protest. It will also invite students to engage with contemporary debates on such issues as censorship, cultural appropriation, political violence, and intellectual property. Of particular interest will be the role of music in the development of 19th Century European Nationalisms (as with Beethoven and Wagner); the inseparable relationship between music and politics in African and Afro-Caribbean anti-Imperialism (as with Fela Kuti and Bob Marley); and the role of music in the American Civil Rights movement. Our goal is for students to understand the relationship between music and politics both historically and in their own lifetimes, equipping them to analyze music that is both political and politicized.

Could a computer genuinely think? Are we in a simulation? Is there a God? Are we free to choose how we will act in the world? What do we owe to one another, and to ourselves? Is it really a good idea to think critically, or should we trust what experts tell us? Could a banana duct-taped to a wall really be a work of art? How would you go about answering these questions? Philosophers think through these questions, and many others, by developing and critiquing arguments for possible answers to them. This course will serve as an introduction to philosophy via an in-depth study of philosophical arguments such as these. In the course, you will learn to use argument-mapping software to clearly and precisely articulate the structure of philosophical arguments so that you can understand and evaluate them more effectively. In addition to introducing you to some fascinating philosophical topics, this course will greatly improve your skills in reading and writing texts (including articles and papers for other classes!) that contain arguments. I'd also like to describe what this course will be about by offering a point of caution about it. This course will be difficult. 365体育博彩_365体育app-彩票*官网 will work slowly and pay close attention to the details. These are valuable habits that are very hard to practice in today's technological milieu. Be honest with yourself: When's the last time you really gave your full attention to something challenging? 365体育博彩_365体育app-彩票*官网're going to practice focusing on things that are very difficult, and you will get better at it throughout the course. But it will feel very slow, and very laborious at times. I hope you will trust me that the payoff will be worth it.

This course offers an extended study of the social and political philosophy of W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963). As someone who dedicated his life's work to studying "the Negro problem" and "the program of Negro freedom," Du Bois's reflections on racial discrimination, social, political, and economic inequality, the possibility of racial integration, and the meaning of racial self-determination continue to inform how we think about racial justice and injustice in the U.S. The course focuses on three main questions in Du Bois's thought. The first question has to do with the psychology of race. That is, what motivates white racial prejudice? And how does racial discrimination affect Black people's relation towards the self and others? The second question regards social, political, and economic inequality. Do poor whites and poor Blacks suffer from the same kind of inequality? Or are there specific social factors that explain the unequal distribution of inequality in the U.S.? Lastly, the third question regards integration and self-determination. Is racial integration possible in the U.S.? Is Black self-determination compatible with racial integration? While the course centers on Du Bois as a historical thinker, we will focus on how his social and political philosophy can help us think about our present racial relations.

What is the relationship between the three pounds of wet biomass in your skull and the fact that you understand the sentence that you are currently reading? This question, as with many good philosophical questions, is simple to state but very difficult to answer. On the one hand, you are a thinking being: you have thoughts, feelings, desires, wishes, and a rich inner mental life to which you alone have access. There is something that it is like to be you. On the other hand, you are a physical being: you are composed primarily of water and carbon, and constitute a complex system of biochemical reactions. You are the sort of thing that can be studied, and whose behavior can be explained, by biochemistry, neuroscience, and psychology. What are we to make of these two aspects of ourselves? In this course, we will survey the major theories in analytic philosophy of mind as frameworks for understanding the mind and its place in nature. 365体育博彩_365体育app-彩票*官网 will then bring these frameworks to bear on one of the most pressing philosophical questions of our moment: could an artificial system be conscious, and if so, how would we know? This question is no longer merely hypothetical. Contemporary AI systems are trained on vast amounts of data and develop from that training in ways that even their creators cannot predict. Is it possible that such systems could develop functional analogs to conscious states; internal states that influence their behavior in ways that parallel human conscious experience? Whether such states could constitute genuine experience, or merely its simulacrum, is precisely the kind of question that the philosophy of mind is uniquely equipped to address.

Both capitalism's defenders and its critics have a difficult time defining it. Private property, markets, and for-profit commerce long predate 16th/17th century Europe, where capitalism is typically said to have originated. So what exactly is it? When we defend it or criticize it, what exactly are we defending or criticizing? In this course, we will study texts from across disciplines (including philosophy, history, and political economy) that have tried to understand the system under which we live - in terms of its nature, benefits, drawbacks, origins, and possible futures.

Despite the political upheavals through which actually existing communism underwent during the 20th century, Karl Marx's (1818-1883) philosophy continues to be useful not only for describing social relations in the 21st century, but also for providing norms to criticize unjust social relations. However, while orthodox Marxism explained social relations along the single category of class oppression, contemporary thinkers from the global south such as Charles Mills (1951-2021) and Enrique Dussel (1934-2023) offer innovative interpretations of Marx's central ideas to describe and criticize racial and colonial forms of oppression. Common to Mills and Dussel is that their appeal to Marx aims to challenge liberal ethical and political conceptions of justice and injustice by accounting for the material aspects of the oppression. This Senior Seminar will introduce students to Marx's philosophy through a detailed analysis of Mills' and Dussel's interpretations, as well as to these thinkers' challenge to ethical and political liberalism. Among others, these discussions will require us to consider topics in the philosophical areas of social ontology, epistemology, and ethics.

Many of interesting questions in physics are often best approached using computational tools. This half-credit course will be an introduction to simple methods of computer simulation, including Monte Carlo simulations, linear systems, root finding, among other topics. A student, having completed this course, will be able to create small programs in Python to simulate problems arising in physics or engineering, explain how the underlying numerical techniques function and how they are expressed in code, be able to document his code and explain it to others, and understand the advantages and disadvantages in time and complexity of various methods. This is a first-semester course.