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ARTS AND LITERATURE |
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American Music in the 1960s ONLINE COURSE 56:606:612:90 By Arrangement Professor Laurie Lally llally@camden.rutgers.edu |
This course will examine the musical response to a society in political and cultural unrest. The music of artists such as Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin, the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, the Grateful Dead and Janis Joplin will be explored. We will also examine the split between rock and roll and rock itself and the subgenres of rock which include hard rock, soft rock, folk rock, progressive rock, heavy metal, jazz rock and acid rock. |
POLITICS AND SOCIETY |
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Utopias and Dystopias ONLINE COURSE 56:606:622:02 W 7:20 – 8:40 PM Th 6:00 – 8:40 PM Professor Ted Goertzel goertzel@camden.rutgers.edu |
Discussion and analysis of novels and other literary works that portray utopias or dystopias, and of real world efforts to build utopias as social experiments. Each student will choose one literary utopia or dystopia and one real world experiment to discuss with the seminar and to present to students in an undergraduate Social Movements class. The class will meet online from 7:20 to 8:40 p.m. on Wednesday evenings as a small group and on Thursday evenings together with the Social Movements class. We will use video conferencing software so students must have broadband internet access and a computer with a microphone, headphones and a video camera (available inexpensively). Enrollment is by permission of instructor. |