Special Schedule: Saturday & Sunday, January 14-15; class trip to NY on Sunday, January 22; Saturday, January 28; Saturday, February 18 Since the early 20th century, downtown New York has been... more

This traditional art form, more than 1,000 years old, relies on hand-pressing techniques, watercolors, and rice paste. Quite distinct from Western printmaking traditions, it uses no oil-based inks... more

Since the very first films, of workers walking out of factories, the documentary film has continually changed in response to the time. What began as an experiment with technology has evolved into a... more

This class will explore historical and contemporary photography through the lens of the photographic genre, both through the practice of photographing and through lectures on artists practicing in... more

This writing course will be useful to writers of fiction or literary nonfiction, and also to people who may be interested in writing personal projects, professional reports, or articles for general... more

Special Schedule: Saturday & Sunday, March 10-11; Saturday & Sunday, March 17-18; Sunday, April 1 In the book-length poem One with Others, C.D. Wright investigates - by incorporating... more

The last half of the 20th century has seen the establishment of a literary canon of classics from many places in the Third World: India, Africa, South America, and the Caribbean. Some authors have... more

Foundational course option: Students taking the course with this option will receive more extensive and detailed feedback on their work through more frequent writing assignments and individual... more

This course offers an introduction to modern British literature and culture, with an emphasis on the ways in which literary form responds to and shapes the movements of history. We begin with the... more

Foundational course option: Students taking the course with this option will receive more extensive and detailed feedback on their work through more frequent writing assignments and individual... more

A graph is a set, called a vertex set, along with a collection of unordered pairs of vertices, called edges. Because the definition of a graph is so simple, graphs can be used to model many real... more

Emotions have been described as reflecting the "wisdom of the ages" because of their biologically-rooted communicative and motivational importance. Emotions help prepare us for different courses of... more

Special Schedule: Friday to Tuesday, March 16-20 This course investigates the biology of non-marine mammals and focuses on those inhabiting northeastern North America. We examine the lives of... more

Progress in the molecular biosciences continues to accelerate at an ever-increasing pace at the same time that it touches more and more aspects of everyday life. In this course we will consider a... more

Why did the Taliban forbid television? Why do Creationists reject evolution? Why did Gandhi insist that Indian nationalists spin their own thread? Throughout the last century, resistance has been... more

Emotions have been described as reflecting the "wisdom of the ages" because of their biologically-rooted communicative and motivational importance. Emotions help prepare us for different courses of... more

Special Schedule: Saturday & Sunday, February 11-12; Saturday & Sunday, March 24-25; and Saturday, April 14. What can we learn about education in the contemporary U.S. by looking closely... more

This course introduces students to a scholarship and a method of analysis that melds the historical with the institutional, applied to understanding the evolving state/society relationship in... more

Foundational course option: Students taking the course with this option will receive more extensive and detailed feedback on their work through more frequent writing assignments and individual... more