If nothing else, organic chemistry is a laboratory-based discipline. This class is designed primarily to enhance a student's laboratory skills in organic chemistry but also to reinforce foundational concepts discussed in previous classes. Each day will begin with a short instructor-led discussion coupled with student planning of the day’s experiments, but the majority of class time will be spent in the laboratory. Students will begin the term with a short synthesis that will introduce basic laboratory techniques.

(Offered as ENGL 355 and AMST 364) “Experience is the Angled Road / Preferred against the Mind / By–Paradox–the Mind itself–” Emily Dickinson explained in one poem and in this course we will make use of the resources of the town of Amherst to play experience and mind off each other in our efforts to come to terms with her elusive poetry.

(Offered as ENGL 355 and AMST 364) “Experience is the Angled Road / Preferred against the Mind / By–Paradox–the Mind itself–” Emily Dickinson explained in one poem and in this course we will make use of the resources of the town of Amherst to play experience and mind off each other in our efforts to come to terms with her elusive poetry.

The basic laws of physics governing the behavior of microscopic particles are in certain respects simple. They give rise both to complex behavior of macroscopic aggregates of these particles, and more remarkably, to a new kind of simplicity. Thermodynamics focuses on the simplicity at the macroscopic level directly, and formulates its laws in terms of a few observable parameters like temperature and pressure.

(Offered as ENGL 441 and EUST 374) [Before 1800] In this course, we read a selection of English and other European lyrics (in translation) from the twelfth through the seventeenth centuries.

(Offered as ENGL 441 and EUST 374) [Before 1800] In this course, we read a selection of English and other European lyrics (in translation) from the twelfth through the seventeenth centuries.

(Offered as COLQ 338 and PSYC 339) Social norms, the unwritten rules that shape our behavior, influence virtually all aspects of our lives, from the clothes we wear to the car we drive to whether and how we vote.  Although people follow these norms to fit in with their social group, they can also make crucial errors in their perception, which can lead to substantial consequences.  This seminar is designed to help students examine the power of social norms, the factors that lead people to misperceive norms, and the consequences of such misperceptions.  We’ll then turn to exami

(Offered as COLQ 338 and PSYC 339) Social norms, the unwritten rules that shape our behavior, influence virtually all aspects of our lives, from the clothes we wear to the car we drive to whether and how we vote.  Although people follow these norms to fit in with their social group, they can also make crucial errors in their perception, which can lead to substantial consequences.  This seminar is designed to help students examine the power of social norms, the factors that lead people to misperceive norms, and the consequences of such misperceptions.  We’ll then turn to exami

Japanese uses three different writing systems, one of which is called Kanji, with characters that were borrowed from China. A linguist, R.A.

This seminar draws on readings from medical and psychological anthropology, cultural psychiatry, and science studies to examine mental health and illness as a set of subjective experiences, social processes, and objects of knowledge and intervention. The course invites students to think through the complex relationships between categories of psychiatric knowledge, techniques of clinical practice, and the subjectivities of persons living with mental illness. The course will take up such questions as: Does mental illness vary across social, cultural, and historical contexts?