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Audio broadcasts for MUS 412: Opera as drama taught by SSU Professor Mark Siebert as a radio Side-band course during Spring 1981 and Spring 1986. This course covered the presentation of drama though musical means in opera, from its beginnings in the earlier 17th century to the present.

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Audio broadcasts for PAC 407: Individual Freedom and the State taught by SSU Professor Peter Wenz as a radio Side-band radio course during summer 1981. This course explored the tension between individual freedom and the state action, focusing on the paradox that the state often requires what individuals would not freely choose, yet the social order it secures appears to be the precondition of all freedom. Based on the recorded lectures of the 1977 Intersession.

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Audio broadcasts for PAC 407: Families taught by SSU Professor Harry J. Berman as a Radio Side-band course during Spring 1980. This course covered the history of the family, images of the family in popular culture, family therapy, patterns of marriage and divorce, sex roles and family life. Based on the recorded lectures from the SSU 1979 Intersession and two other national conferences on the family.

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Audio broadcasts for PAC 425: Science & Human Values taught by SSU Professor Malcolm P. Levin as a radio Side-band course during Spring 1980. This course examined significant discoveries in several area of basic science research and their impact on human values with the attendant implications for public policy. Sciences dealt specifically are astronomy and cosmology, physics, ecology, and human genetics. Based on recorded lectures from the 1977 Intersession.

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"Contemporary Perspectives on Abraham Lincoln" was originally presented as the 1976 Lincoln Intersession at Sangamon State University. Fourteen scholars discussed themes in American History addressed by Lincoln and his contemporaries. The Intersession served as the basis for the 1978 course, "Contemporary Perspectives on Abraham Lincoln." Used re-edited audio cassette tapes have frequently been used as the basis for a media or self-study course.

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Audio broadcasts for GER 402: Perspectives on Aging taught by Gari Lesnoff-Caravaglia as a Radio Side-band course during the fall 1981. This course covered an overview of disciplines related to the field of aging. Represented are perspectives of biology, psychology, and sociology, and new horizons in gerontology such as cellular biology, environmental design and psychopathology.

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Audio broadcasts for GER 493: Health Care of the Elderly taught by SSU Professor Gari Lesnoff-Caravaglia as a Radio Side-band course during Fall 1981. This course covered health delivery systems by identification and discussion of health care needs of the elderly including economic, professional, psycho-social and logistic factors in designing systems to meet those needs.

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Audiocassettes for PAC 481: The Energy Decade, Intersession March 14-21 1981. This course covered the growing concern for energy, food supplies and resources and the increasing cost and abundant fossil fuels and their affect on socio-economic issues. This course also examined regional and community reactions as well as creative alternatives to problems considered primarily global in nature.

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Audio broadcasts for PAC 445: American Identity taught by SSU professor Mike Lennon as a radio Side-band course during Fall 1976. This course examined the questions of American Identity from five topical viewpoints: The American Mission, Nature & Technology, Excellence & Equality, Pop Culture and Elite Culture, Ethnicity: Group and National Identity. Based on the recorded lectures of the 1975 Intersession.

Scope and Contents Oral History Tapes & Memoirs, consisting of oral history interviews recorded on cassette tapes and conducted by the the Oral History staff and others since 1972. The memoirs are edited typed transcripts of the taped interviews. The master copies of the tapes and memoirs are stored in the Oral History Master Manuscript and Collateral file (file cabinets). Most typed memoirs are open for research, but some are closed and a few others may not be copied. The collateral files contain...