Special Schedule: 3-Week Course: July 1- July 18 - Tuesday and Thursday nights, 6:00-9:30pm, Saturday July 6, 9:00am-4:30pm, and Saturday July 20, 9:00am-4:30pm. Color is central to our perception... more

The monotype print is a free form of printmaking more akin to painting than to the traditional woodcut or etched print. It is also a process in which the artist encounters fewer technical... more

Special Schedule: One-week immersion, August 12-16 (Monday-Friday) 9:00 am to 5:00 pm This course explores the history, theory, and the aesthetics of non-fiction filmmaking from the origins of... more

Special Schedule: Wednesday nights, 6:00-9:00pm, Saturdays (7/6, 7/20 and 7/27) from 9:00am-12:30pm, and Saturday, 7/13 is an all-day field trip to NYC This class is structured around a series of... more

This research seminar will consider the lives and work of the small group of mainly Jewish, left-wing intellectuals who reshaped American culture in the two decades after World War II. 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

This is a course for those who want to write with greater facility and with increased attention to the design of each piece. Students may choose to focus on narrative essays, memoir, or fiction.... more

This class will analyze selected texts from each of the ten most recent winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature, examining the internal cultural, intellectual, and aesthetic dynamic of each work,... more

Special Schedule: 3-Week Course: July 1- July 18, Mondays through Thursdays from 2:00-5:00pm This seminar is for poets and writers, as well as non-poets who seek a creative path to understanding... more

A mathematical model is a representation, in mathematical terms, of a concept, object, system or process. Solutions to the model equations are used for the purpose of solving real-world problems.... more

Special Schedule: One-week immersion, August 12-16 (Monday-Friday) 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Amphibians and reptiles are two different groups of vertebrates, as different from each other as birds are... more

The public is more in touch with geographic information than ever before. Technologies such as Google Earth and smart phone geolocation applications like Urban Spoon, Zillow, and Facebook have... more

Special Schedule: One-week immersion, August 5-9 (Monday-Friday) 9:00 am to 5:00 pm The fields of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology are constantly in the news in articles ranging from transgenic... more

Special Schedule: One-week immersion, June 24-28(Monday-Friday) 9:00 am to 5:00 pm The goal of this course is introduce students to the wide variety of developmental experiences of children around... more

Until the 'disenchantment of the world' in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Europeans lived in a universe shot through with hidden and awesome power. God's action in the world... 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

Nationalism is the desire of an ethnic group, a nation, to have a state of its own. It emerged as a powerful organizing principle for states and social movements in the 19th century and was integral... 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

Globalization is considered by many to be the most powerful transformative force in the modern world system. Modernization and technology have effectively made the world a smaller place with respect... more

Europe in 1945 was a scene of human and material devastation, after six years of relentless and merciless combat. Demoted in world affairs and faced with staggering economic costs of recovery,... more

Special Schedule: One-week immersion, June 24-28(Monday-Friday) 9:00 am to 5:00 pm The goal of this course is introduce students to the wide variety of developmental experiences of children around... more

The 1960s were a turbulent but stimulating time for the world of jazz. The R&B-based soul jazz movement was at its peak and often at odds with the still-developing avant-garde aesthetic.... more

Watercolor and related water-based media have long been associated in art with the ephemeral and gestural--fleeting movements captured. Paper--the ever present background--and its interrelationship... more

The photographic series is a course designed to forego assignments or adherence to genre in favor of developing a body of work over the course of a semester exploring the student's individual... more

This writing course begins with relatively playful writing exercises that help you generate new material, along with strategies for shaping, re-shaping, and editing your work. The course assignments... more

How much are we shaped by our historical times and places? How much power do we have to make our historical conditions respond to our needs and desires? These are the questions at the foundation of... more

This course will serve both as an introduction to the Arthurian legend and to its cinematographic representation since the 1940s. Medieval texts will be paired with films that are "based" - more or... more

From its earliest exemplars to its most recent reinventions, the novel has always been a variegated literary form, its boundaries under constant revision by way of constant encroachments from and... more

The course begins with an overview of the planets, moons, comets and asteroids that comprise our Solar System. Modern issues such as why Pluto is no longer designated as a planet will be discussed.... more

Connecticut's growth from a few clustered colonies to a vibrant state in the Union was triggered and facilitated by its geologic resources. Soils in the Central Valley attracted early settlers... more

This course will focus on the intersecting fields of psychology, education, and assessment. In particular, the course will focus on best practices and innovations in the design and implementation of... more

This course examines the historical origins, philosophical foundations, and case law of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. As the text of the Constitution states, freedom of... more

This course is an introduction to debates about the state of political life around the world in the post-cold war era. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, capitalism and democracy seem to have... more