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Course Offerings

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• Ancient Greece and Rome in the Movies
• The Art and Science of the Human Body
• Beer, Wine, and Whiskey: Society under the Influence
• Beyond the Bubble: Experience Salem
• Bloomsbury and Modernism
• Changing Times: The Music and Lyrics of Bob Dylan
• Comic Books and Graphic Novels
• Engaging Art: The Operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan
• Freedom and Necessity
• The Geography of Food
• Irish Music, Culture, and Revolution
• Jerusalem
• Journeys across the Pacific: From Asia to America
• Juggernauts of Popular Culture: The Internet and Consumerism
• Karl Marx: Is He Still Worth Reading?
• Laughter in the Darkness: The Drama of Samuel Beckett
• Living Mathematics: The Greatest Discoveries of the Last 30 Years
• Making the Grade: Motivation and Academic Success
• The Manhattan Project: Studies in Science and Lessons for Mankind
• Maps
• Music, Identity, and Place
• Music, the Brain, and Ecstasy: How Biology Informs Aesthetics
• Pandemic!
• Picturing Christ's Passion: From the Catacombs to Mel Gibson and Beyond
• Pursuing Happiness: Choice or Chance?
• Reading and Writing the Wild: Nature and Civilization
• Revolution as a Vocation
• The (R)evolution of Almodóvar's Films: Art, Sex, and Transgression
• Skating on the Edge of the Unthinkable: The Nuclear Arms Race
• Tocqueville's Democracy in America
• Tolstoy's Anna Karenina
• Torn between Two Cultures: The North African Experience in France
• Utopian Visions
• Voices for Change: Fifty Years of Speaking Up
• "Whiskey's for Drinkin', Water's for Fightin'": Water in the American West
• Willamette Naturalist 2.0
• Women and Power