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This course will be a basic examination of the sustainability movement in the fashion industry. It will cover the origins of this movement, define key terms, explore the rise of the fast fashion model, and present some solutions to the negative effects of the fashion industry.

Myths and heroic tales are a vitally important part of any culture. They transmit and reinforce a culture's values, beliefs, mores and taboos. This course explores the various heroic myths and legends across time and cultures and examines how those myths influenced their societies and reinforced and cemented cultural values.

Explore the lives of The First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln and her counterpart Varina Lee, and Julia Dent Grant and Mary Custis Lee, wives of Generals Grant and Lee. These four ladies had far more in common than one would expect. Each of them paid a high price because of their husbands’ roles in history.

In this course we will closely examine the political, military, diplomatic, and social changes that this war wrought throughout the world, and how we are still suffering from its effects today. Videos, activities, editorial cartoons, and class discussions will all be important components of our course.

Learn about the history of the Earth and follow evolution and diversification of life through starting with the evolution of the earliest, unicellular life through the arrival of multicellular life and diversification of animals as they move onto land. In the course we will establish how the evolution and extinction of organisms has shaped our biosphere by examining extinction events such as the fall of the dinosaurs which led to the dominance of mammals and the evolution of our early hominid ancestors.