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In this lecture Professor Michael Drout focuses on language as a whole and how it develops and is learned. He points out the amazing ability that children have for speaking and comprehending a language...

Tipping Point author Malcolm Gladwell gets inside the food industry's pursuit of the perfect spaghetti sauce - and makes a larger argument about the nature of choice and happiness.

The Souls of Black Folk is a well-known work of African-American literature by activist W.E.B. Du Bois.

The main purpose of this course is to answer the question, “How does language relate to the world?” In order to do this we will have to explore a lot of related questions...

This course provides a sampling of problems and methods used by sociologists, with concrete examples from everyday life, history, and contemporary events.

Future Shock is a 1972 American short documentary film directed by Alex Grasshoff and narrated by Orson Welles. It was screened at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival, but wasn't entered into the main competition. It is based on the book of the same name.

Constable Al Arsenault, along with six other policemen, document the people on their beat to create a powerful film about drug abuse.

Scared Straight! is a 1978 documentary directed by Arnold Shapiro. Narrated by Peter Falk, the subject of the documentary is a group of juvenile delinquents and their three-hour session with actual convicts.

Seth Godin argues the Internet has ended mass marketing and revived a human social unit from the distant past: tribes.

Psychologist Barry Schwartz takes aim at a central tenet of western societies: freedom of choice.