{"id":2982,"date":"2026-02-27T15:01:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T15:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/?p=2982"},"modified":"2026-03-17T20:38:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T20:38:22","slug":"uri-political-science-class-creates-magna-carta-playlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/2026\/02\/27\/uri-political-science-class-creates-magna-carta-playlist\/","title":{"rendered":"URI Political Science class creates Magna Carta playlist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Professor Cheryl Foster designed an innovative assignment for her political theory class (PSC 341), asking students to find songs that thematically match sections of the Magna Carta.<br>\u00a0<br>Students were tasked (in groups during class) with selecting a specific piece of music to mirror the preoccupations\/major themes of an assigned section from the Magna Carta primary document, which they had read and annotated for homework.<br>\u00a0<br>Some of the songs included were \u201cSteal My Girl\u201d by One Direction, which described the protections against immoral abuse of women by those in power; \u201cDirty Work\u201d by Steely Dan, which described the protections against the random use of land seizures and taxation by a monarch; and \u201cKarma Police\u201d by Radiohead, which described the need for clear rules and a fair justice system to protect people\u2019s rights, especially after King John treated people unfairly and abused his power.<br>\u00a0<br>A link to the playlist and the complete list of songs and descriptions can be found below:<br>\u00a0<br><a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/open.spotify.com\/playlist\/5FFsGYboJzuBamHzhTcico?si=56107509734e4e80&amp;pt=5c18f5ca33b8cd76c18d76fcc430b00d__;!!Jh1S!gLkGIiFYQYMhSO-LqmxuoCYd7Ifie9qh7lkmaLmblEt17z_LOi_7TJ_SUvScxVG5f0zjgeiVitsgvP68FJ6xNA$\">https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/playlist\/5FFsGYboJzuBamHzhTcico?si=56107509734e4e80&amp;pt=5c18f5ca33b8cd76c18d76fcc430b00d<\/a><br>\u00a0<br><strong>Hurricane: <\/strong>resistance to and invocation of a pattern of wrongful imprisonment<br>\u00a0<br><strong>Taxman: <\/strong>indiscriminate and irresponsible taxation by the sovereign<br>\u00a0<br><strong>Steal My Girl: <\/strong>safeguards against immoral abuse of wives, widows, and women by monarchs or those in power<br>\u00a0<br><strong>Bad Boys: <\/strong>rebuke to illegal use of royally-appointed sheriffs and accountability for other ill-behaved local administrators<br>\u00a0<br><strong>Dirty Work:<\/strong> Baronetcy safeguards against ill-gotten and indiscriminate use of conscription, taxation, and land seizures by the monarch<br>\u00a0<br><strong>The Hanging Tree: <\/strong>appeal to solidarity and habeas corpus in the wake of arbitrary, inconsistent, and abusive trial\/civic practices by the sovereign<br>\u00a0<br><strong>Riot: <\/strong>naturally-felt injustice and a cry for change in the face of persistent abuses by monarch<br>\u00a0<br><strong>Karma Police:<\/strong> Appeal to structural regulations based on rights and replacement system of justice in the wake of King John&#8217;s abuses<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Cheryl Foster designed an innovative assignment for her political theory class (PSC 341), asking students to find songs that thematically match sections of the Magna Carta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5432,"featured_media":2983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5432"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2982"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3007,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2982\/revisions\/3007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}