WEEK 01: THE BEATLES

The Beatles, "Help!" (US #1, 1965)

Week 01: The Beatles

We 08.22

Class: Syllabus review

Upcoming:

Week 02: Madonna

Mo 08.27

Class: Introductions; Lecture—“A PowerPoint Presentation How-to”

We 08.29

Read: eR—“Does Pop Sound Louder, Dumber, and More and More the Same? One Study Says So” (Slate), “Growing Up Gaga” (New York), “Musicians' Brains Might Have an Edge on Aging” (US News & World Report), “Stanford Researcher Maps Melodies Used in Holocaust to Control Prisoners” (Stanford University)

Class: Lecture—“Writing as a Process”