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Molecular Genetics
This course examines the biochemistry of the gene in greater detail and considers the underlying principles of recombinant DNA technology.
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Girls soccer at Exeter focuses on reaching individual potential within a team concept. The varsity plays a very competitive schedule against other independent schools. The junior varsity plays a...
Varsity softball plays a schedule of games against other New England prep school teams. Practices stress individual improvement and team play. JV softball (composed mostly of underclassmen)...
The girls varsity and JV swimming and diving programs typically will schedule eight dual meets throughout the season, culminating with the New England Prep Championships. A variety of competition...
The team plays a competitive schedule against other private and public schools in New England. Practices are designed to improve team play and individual skills and consist of high-level drills....
The varsity program will emphasize the building of sound fundamental skills and team system play. The schedule will include games and scrimmages against other secondary schools, as well as some...
Terrorism, wars, genocide, refugee crises, economic disparities, economic exploitation, propaganda including "fake news," drug resistant pathogens, natural disasters, global warming, and so on -...
In group classes, students learn basic playing techniques of the hand-drumming traditions of West Africa, the Caribbean and Brazil. They develop their rhythmic skills and sense of ensemble, and...
This course explores the role of gender in shaping humans' identities and power structures in several 20th-century circumstances around the world. Questions of political and legal rights,...
Haunted houses. Vampires. Ghosts. Monsters and the monstrous. Things that scare us and make us question reality are the most notable aspects of Gothic literature and horror. This course will trace...
In this course we will explore the burgeoning literary phenomenon often called the “graphic novel.” What happens to narrative when it unfolds in a hybrid form that joins image to text? What can...
For those students who want to spend a term studying one or two great novels of the francophone world. Possible choices include Roch Carrier, La guerre yes sir! Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary;...
This course offers a close reading of one or more comedies by the Athenian playwright Aristophanes. Irreverent, incisive and, above all, entertaining, the comedies of Aristophanes laid bare the...
Depending on the interests of the students and instructor, this course offers readings in either Greek epic or lyric poetry. In the epic sequence, students will read at least two books of Homer's...
Students will read a play written by one of the three extant Greek tragedians: Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. Discussion and research may include such topics as comparison of other tragedies...
Seminal sustainability thinker and Oberlin College professor David Orr states that "big changes start in places small enough to be innovative and agile, but large enough to be important." Exeter...
"In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. . . ." So begins one of the most influential books in human history. From ancient times until the present, Jews, Christians and Muslims...
Hinduism and Buddhism are having a profound impact on 21st-century culture, through practices such as yoga and meditation; in the study of modern psychology; and in films, television and other...
The readings, discussions and writing in this course will center on a series of Hispanic films chosen for their cultural, historical and artistic value. Students will read scenarios, source...
This course explores Chinese history with a focus on the Qing Dynasty period (1644-1912). History 207 will tackle such questions as: How can Buddhism, Confucianism and Daoism coexist in the same...
This course is an overview of Japanese history and considers how changes in political institutions, economic patterns, social organizations, and cultural practices took shape to transform the...
This is a one-trimester course focusing on the historical development of mathematical ideas, the role of individual character and culture in the advancement of mathematics, and the historical...
Homer's Iliad is the earliest work of Western literature and perhaps its greatest. In this course, students will read Book 1 in the original Greek, attuning themselves to what Matthew Arnold gave...
In this course, students study many of Horace's lyric poems (Odes) and at least one of his Satires. Horace used his verse to discuss topics essential to fundamental human happiness in the face of...
Biology 450 examines how the human body functions. The complexity of and interactions between different systems will be explored. Extensive laboratory investigations, including a mammalian...
In this course students consider human impact on the environment. Issues of human population, demography and carrying capacity will be explored in relationship to the world's food resources and...
"An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone." - Montesquieu In this course we will examine the origins of ideas about human rights as well as those documents, such as the...
What drives human history? Do the pivotal factors such as climate, geography, ecosystems, and microbes lie beyond human control? This course examines the interactions between people and the...