This class will explore classics of world literature (mostly novellas) such as The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Tolstoy, No One Writes to the Colonel by Garcia Marquez, The Metamorphosis by Kafka, The Samurai's Garden, by Gail Tsukiyama, The Road by Cormac McCarthy, and the films The Mission and Death in Venice. Our textbooks will be Classics of Modern Fiction, fifth edition and the Tsukiyama novel. We will discuss each text in seminar and produce two four-page literary-critical response papers. Students desiring eight credits will also read Breaking the Tongue by Vyvyane Loh and Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe and write an additional paper.

This weekend intensive course is designed for students who either are, or plan to be, in the position of managing their own work groups, heading up large companies, starting businesses that change society, managing the world's most important non-profits, or serving in government. It will introduce basic language, concepts, tools and problem-framing methodologies that are needed to develop management skills such as motivating others, team-building, developing self-awareness, and communicating supportively.

This weekend intensive course is designed for students who either are, or plan to be, in the position of making things happen: leaders who will head up large companies, start businesses that change society, manage the world's most important non-profits, and serve in the highest echelons of government. It will introduce basic language, concepts, tools and problem-framing methodologies that are needed for students to develop management skills such as leadership, decision-making, understanding power and influence, and solving problems creatively.

This course will focus on using the computer to create and manipulate waveforms. Students will learn how to use the "C" programming language to synthesize waveforms while learning about their mathematics. Students will create short compositions using FM, AM, granular, and other synthesis techniques. We will listen to contemporary and historical experiments in sound synthesis and composition, and students will be asked to write a short paper on synthesis algorithms. Students will learn how to program in "C" under a Linux or OS X system. The overall emphasis of this class will be in learning how to address the computer in a spirit of play and experiment, and find out what composition can become. There will be weekly readings in aesthetics, contemporary research in computer music, along with readings in synthesis techniques and programming. Students of all levels of experience are welcome.

In the world of traditional Japan, the word Dogu-the Way of the Tool-described a relationship between an artisan woodworker and the implements of his trade in the same way that Chado-the Way of Tea-described the tea ceremony or Shado-the Way of Writing-described calligraphy. It connected the process of designing and building with a much broader pattern of meaning. Participants in this class will explore those patterns in the context of making several traditional Japanese woodworking tools and then learning to use them with care and precision.

Artist's self-portraits offer unique insight into how they record themselves in a given mood or state of being at a given point in time. The artist is not interpreting someone else as is the case in portraiture; rather they are examining, exposing and discovering the inner self. It is this direct, inner observation which makes the self-portrait so compelling both to viewers and the artists themselves. This course is designed to develop the skills and confidence needed to accurately and expressively render a self-portrait. We will study the anatomy and basic proportions of the head; we will practice a range of drawing techniques in a variety of media to develop seeing and rendering skills; and we will study a number of famous self-portraits, discussing the expressive content and subtleties of each one. Students will be expected to complete technical assignments and develop their work outside of the drawing sessions and class time and be prepared to discuss their work in critique sessions. This all-level program offers appropriate support for freshmen as well as supporting those ready for advanced work.

This course will examine the lives of ordinary and extraordinary women who carved out their economical, social and political rights during the development of our nation. The focus will shift from the uncompromising founding mothers who took their electrifying stand at the Seneca Falls Conference, to the women of the western journey, slave and free black women, southern women of slave-holding families during the Civil War, immigrant women and their families, and finally, to the no-holds-barred fight by the politically sophisticated women crusaders for ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment.