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| 60000 Level Courses (60800-60999) *60803 PAX AMERICANA: UNITED STATES FOREIGN RELATIONS IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Now that the Cold War is over and the twentieth century is coming to a close, how well did the United States fulfill its destiny of making the past hundred years the "American Century" that so many Americans predicted in the 1890s? This course offers some perspectives as answers by tracing the development of a global American foreign policy from the period following the Spanish American War until the end of the Cold War. It also examines the forces - both foreign and domestic - that influenced those policies as the United States tried to formulate new diplomacies to meet each of the ever changing challenges in world affairs of this most dynamic century. *60903 BRITISH HUMOR FROM THE GOONS TO THE YOUNG ONES "British Humor," as exemplified in popular culture by Monty Python's Flying Circus has gained acceptance in the U.S., but is actually based on a long tradition that has its roots in the special love of wit, puns, paradoxes, and epigrams the English have manifested since the Viking invasions. Even though sensing the laughable and absurd is a universal trait, humor is expressed according to cultural differences and values of class, education, or special interest. Students in this course will look at British Humor on radio, TV, and film and attempt to define its unique attributes.
60953 MODERN ASTRONOMY: FROM THE ORIGIN OF THE UNIVERSE TO BLACK HOLES An introduction to recent developments in astronomy and astrophysics: how the Universe began and how will it end, the age of the cosmos, the origin of galaxies, the birth, life, and death of stars, stellar and galactic black holes, millisecond pulsars, supernovae, comets and quasars, and the worlds of the solar system. Questions to be pondered include: Where and what is the missing mass? Are we alone in the Universe? Are we in danger from a comet colliding with earth? Where and how did life originate? The latest discoveries by the Hubble Space Telescope, Cassini, and other space missions are also discussed.
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