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Ornithology
This course emphasizes field identification of locally common species and habitats.
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Students read Plato's Apology in its entirety. While continuing the study of Greek prose grammar and style, this course presents students with the fundamental challenge of Plato's Socrates, a...
This course begins with a review of beginning Greek that includes readings in Xenophon's Memorabilia and then turns to the study of Plato's Crito, a prose dialogue in which Socrates discusses the...
A.N. Whitehead once said that all of Western philosophy was but a footnote to Plato. This course provides a close study of the Republic, perhaps Plato's most important and influential work....
The comedies of Plautus are the earliest complete works of Latin literature we have. Adapting the plots of earlier Greek plays, Plautus made them his own by adding such distinctively Roman...
This course provides experienced students a rich opportunity to pursue the successful completion of a professional portfolio of artwork featured in an end-of-term thesis exhibition in the Mayer...
This sequence of courses is offered fall (GER502), winter (GER503) and spring (GER504) and focuses on recognized masterpieces of German writing, with both classical and contemporary authors...
This course introduces students to the complexity and dynamism of the African past, from antiquity to the dawn of the 20th century. The course begins with an examination of the Nile Valley...
This sequence of courses is offered fall (BIO310), winter (BIO320) and spring (BIO330). This course follows the same sequence of topics as does Biology 210/220/230 but uses a different textbook....
This sequence of courses is offered fall (CHE310), winter (CHE320) and spring (CHE330). An introduction to the theoretical framework of modern chemistry, this laboratory-based course is designed...
This course provides an introduction to the economic way of thinking and covers the fundamentals of both microeconomics and macroeconomics. We begin by examining supply and demand and the role of...
This introductory physics course covers a similar sequence of topics as does Physics 210/220/230, but assumes a greater mathematical competence (see prerequisites). After taking this three-term...
The printmaking course is a comprehensive studio experience that emphasizes experimentation and creativity while providing a strong technical basis. Students explore a variety of print processes,...
Private music lessons offer students an individualized learning experience with a private instructor. In the lessons, students develop technique and expression, while they explore the repertoire...
This course centers on puppet construction and animating inanimate objects to tell a story. Looking as far back as the 5th century, students study the history and evolution of this ancient art...
This course seeks to outline the mathematical underpinnings of the present theory of the microscopic world. Beginning with a brief review of the dilemmas faced by physics at the turn of the 20th...
Scientists agree that there are few genetic differences between people of different races and ethnicities. Social scientists thus contend that racial distinctions are a product of society and...
This course explores literary works where fantasy or mythical elements merge with reality, introducing us to an unexpected or surprising world. Representative works are chosen from authors such as...
Images, ideas, stereotypes and symbol systems of religion surround us in popular culture, whether in movies, television shows, sports, fashion, the internet, music or literature. From Disney to...
America has always been a mix of various peoples and faiths. This course examines the religious traditions that make up the American religious and cultural landscape, focusing on Judaism,...
This course teaches students how to use qualitative action research to investigate and improve culture, policy and practice. After learning the fundamentals of social scientific research,...
This course examines Russian history from the Decembrist uprising of 1825 to Stalin's show trials and the destruction of the Old Bolsheviks in the late 1930s. After a brief survey of autocracy and...
Students in this course will learn to use a microcomputer to control output devices and interpret input sensors. Students will complete a series of small projects that will culminate with a...
Similar in scope to HIS204, this course will be taken simultaneously with LAT220 and provides a deeper historical background to the authors that students will read in second-year Latin and beyond...
This course explores the meaning of the Roman interpretation of satire (satura, meaning "medley") and how the literary form developed from an improvisational, personal story set to meter to a...
Rushdie, the multiple-award-winning author of Midnight's Children, The Satanic Verses and Haroun and the Sea of Stories, was twice named the "winner of all winners" on the 25th and 40th...
Nobel Prize-winning Irish author Samuel Beckett once said, "Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness." And yet his words have proven central - necessary even - to the way...
Whether it is Tolkien's Lord of the Rings or H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds, science fiction and fantasy can not only delight our imagination but also help us understand our real, present...