Facility in reading Latin will open new worlds for the student to explore: classic Roman poetry from Virgil and Ovid, the historical texts of Livy and Tacitus, Medieval philosophy, the Roman Catholic liturgical tradition. The vocabulary as well as much of the thought in the legal and scientific professions have come to us from the ancient Romans, so Latin can also help students prepare for graduate studies and entrance exams in these fields.

This is an exciting, invigorating dance program to help get you in shape. Students will interrogate their bodies and look at day-to-day issues that can keep them healthy through movement, nutrition and by journaling behaviors that can be detrimental to their personal growth. There will be an intensive work-out at every session and various workshops that address health issues to bring harmony to your body, mind and soul. Students need not have had previous movement training to participate.

This course will focus on the milestones of human development from conception through death. We will consider the nature of physical, cognitive and psychosocial development throughout the lifespan addressing major theories, as well as current research that explains how and why developmental change occurs. Some of the practical topics to be explored will include child rearing, learning disorders, adolescent rebellion, adult midlife crisis and caregiving for elderly parents. This course serves as a prerequisite for upper-division work and graduate school admission in psychology, education, and the health care professions.

How do we, today, remember the struggle for civil rights between 1954 and 1968? In this course we will study literature, focusing on how and why particular stories about the civil rights era have become ingrained in popular memory. We'll compare novels by authors such as Morrison, Johnson, Baldwin, and Walker to key films about the movement, and inquire how fiction complicates the iconic images that have so crucially shaped popular memory.

This course investigates the history of the artistic self-portrait from earliest examples of self-expression to contemporary visual art forms. There will be scholarly reading on the theories and concepts of self-portraiture while the studio portion will work to build a variety of skills using traditional and digital photographic techniques, skills for image manipulation, techniques of assemblage and mixed media art, as well as studying live and for-camera performance.

In this dynamic workshop, students will learn basic theories and skills designed to analyze conflicts within intimate relationships and to restore love, compassion and healthy communication when it is possible. We will focus on romantic relationships, relationships between parents and children and interactions between siblings. Along these lines, we will examine the role of self-awareness, support systems, forgiveness and love as ways of coping with such challenges as trauma, divorce and stress. The four-credit option involves a research paper and an online component.