Contents


Message from the Freeman-Thornton Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education......................2 Overview of Sophomore College ...............................................................................................................4–5 Course Listings ...............................................................................................................................................6–17 American Foreign Policy in the 21st Century ....................................................................................6 Biography in History, Fiction, and Elsewhere ....................................................................................6 Comparative Anatomy and Physiology of Mammals .....................................................................7 Conservatism and Liberalism in American Politics and Policy .....................................................7 Darwin, Evolution, and Galápagos .........................................................................................................8 Economic Policies of the Presidential Candidates ............................................................................8 Energizing a Sustainable Future ..............................................................................................................9 Environmental and Geological Field Studies in the Rocky Mountains .....................................9 Ghost Stories: Why the Dead Return and What They Want From Us ........................................10


Good Food, Fast Cars, Great Spaces: Creative Connections between Architecture, Cooking, Photography, and Design ...........10 Hip Hop as a Universal Language .........................................................................................................11 Language, Identity, and the Power of Public Discourse ...............................................................11 Learning Theater: From Audience to Critic at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival ................12 Lives of Consequence ...............................................................................................................................12 Measles and Sneezles and Things That Go Mumps in the Night ...............................................13


Mixed Race in the New Millennium: Crossings of Kin, Culture, and Faith in the 21st Century ...............................................................13 Natural History, Marine Biology, and Research ................................................................................14 People, Land, and Water in the Heart of the West ..........................................................................14 Responses to the AIDS Epidemic ..........................................................................................................15 Spanish Immersion ....................................................................................................................................15 The Face of Battle ........................................................................................................................................16 The Meaning of Life: Moral and Spiritual Inquiry Through Literature ...................................16


Student Comments ............................................................................................................................................17 Indices .....................................................................................................................................................................18 Photo Credits ........................................................................................................................................................18 Program Dates .....................................................................................................................................................19


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