Think Again: How to Reason and Argue. Energy 101. Listening to World Music. About the Course With the click of a mouse, now more than ever we are able to access sounds made by people from all around the world.
And yet, most of us don't listen to the wide diversity of music available to us, probably because it sounds so strange. This class will open up the world of music to you. We begin with a brief history of recording technology, the music industry and the place of world music in that narrative; you are introduced to keywords for talking about music cross-culturally; and then proceed to half a dozen musical cultures around the world.
AIDS. About the Course Did you grow up in a world without red ribbons, AZT, the AIDS Memorial Quilt, or Project Red?
If you did, chances are good that you came of age before 1981 and are a member of the last generation of humans on this planet to be able to say that you remember those ‘carefree days when all you had to worry about was getting pregnant, herpes, and a bad reputation’ (AID Atlanta). On June 5, 1981 the CDC released a Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report describing the first five cases of what later became known as the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, or AIDS. On that day human history broke into two generations: Those who can remember a time before the AIDS pandemic and those who can't. No matter what generation you grew up in, what we all have in common is a curiosity about AIDS. The Modern World: Global History since 1760. Contraception: Choices, Culture and Consequences.