This course will be a graduate-level seminar focusing on the human resources practices and processes of the public sector. The course will provide exposure to the socio-political foundation of this nation's civil service and provoke critical analysis of the evolution of human resource management within education, government and non-profit organizations. However, this course is also concerned with organization and human resource development from a global perspective as well.

Absolute predictability becomes tedious and uninteresting. Total uncertainty and randomness grows bewildering and ultimately boring. Great developments in science and the arts-in fact all creative work-often occur at a tense juncture between the poles of order and chaos. This program will investigate how artists and scientists have creatively tried to make sense of their world and the major innovations that have occurred in the process. By making astronomical observations, working with geometrical models, and examining the development of classical Greek astronomy through the Copernican Revolution, we will learn how the scientific method includes initially disordered data, highly ordered theories based on those data, new observations that supercede the original data, a collapse of order, and repeat of the process. In the arts, from Greek and Elizabethan tragedy/comedy, Chinese opera and Bunraku puppet theatre (and other great traditions in music, dance, film and visual art), we have developed highly ordered classical forms (and conventions) and seen them evolve through adaptation, subversion and technology into new forms.

Orissi, one of the major classical dance styles of India, combines both rhythmic movement and expressive mime. This class will be devoted to the principles of Orissi dance: the synthesis of foot, wrist, hand and face movement in a lyrical flow to express the philosophy of yoga. Throughout the quarter we will study tala (rhythm). Students will keep a journal of class notes, discuss the readings and have cross-cultural dialogues.

Students entering this course should have completed Orissi, Beginning I. The class will focus on technique, music (especially raga), tala or rhythm patterns used in Orissi dance, and both the nrtta (pure dance) and the abhinaya (mimetic dance) components. We will be working with nuances in wrist work, facial expressions and torso work, legato upper body balanced with firm footwork. Finally, we will hone dance criticism skills.