HC 231H: Music and Politics
How does music relate to politics and power in social movements, subcultures, and the marketplace? This course will explore the relationship of music to politics, focusing on popular music in the 20th century in the US and UK. We will read about, write about, and listen to music from across genres and political moments including labor and civil rights songs, blues, R&B, hip hop, and pop, and we will look at the political contexts in which these forms of music are produced, performed, and consumed.
HC 199H: Academic Success
This course is designed to prepare you for college by helping you develop educational goals, think about personal strengths and weaknesses, familiarize yourself with college resources and services and make connections with other incoming freshman.
Intensive Oxford Tutorial
Six to eight quarter credits.An eight-week, very Intensive Oxford Tutorial course, taught in the Oxford style by a regular Oxford tutor. The tutorial will be in a subject selected from a list of 130+ diverse options, presumably but not necessarily in the your major. In some cases, self-selected tutorial topics can be arranged for this "bigger" tutorial course, though not all subjects are available.
England and Englishness
This courses explores cultural and historical expressions of Englishness from the early middle ages to the twenty-first century. Notions of Englishness are always embedded in specific contexts: there is no ahistorical core to English identity. Yet some themes have been remarkably pervasive through the centuries, even while being reiterated in new circumstances: we will return again and again to questions of language, gender, and relations with non-English communities in the British Isles and beyond.