Introduction to acting. Includes all or some of the following: improvisation, theater games, monologues, scenes. Required of majors.

Historically, the figure of the "Jew" has been thought of as male. Making male experience normative has in turn shaped how Judaism itself has been understood. Shifting the basic terms and focus to include attention to women, gender, and sexuality significantly re-shapes our understanding of both Judaism and of Jewish culture/history. This course not only "fills in the blanks" of the missing women of Jewish history and tradition, but attends to questions of contemporary forms of Jewish women's and men's gendered lives, identities and sexualities.

This course will examine representations of damsels in distress and heroes in cinema. We will screen a wide variety of films, mostly mainstream Hollywood movies since the 1970s, including Thelma and Louise, Set it Off, and Jordan Peele's Us. Course content will use feminist theories to explore and critique how race and gender work to construct both the damsel and the hero in cinematic representations.

This course explores the art of contemporary theater and the power of live performance through a series of shows the students attend in person, along with theater projects they create in a group. Through engagement with both longstanding and new ways of making theater, students will gain exposure to how live theater is being made in the world today -- an exciting moment of new frontiers and forms. (Gen. Ed. AT)

Current controversies within feminist theory, anchored by Tanesini's 'An Introduction to Feminist Epistemologies', together with critical response to that work. Additional readings from contemporary mainstream and feminist epistemology.

This seminar will cover current research exploring the effects of exercise and sports participation on many aspects of development. We will cover a range of topics including the benefits of free and organized play in childhood, the influences of competitive sports during adolescence and young adulthood, and the importance of continued activity during adulthood and later development. The basic and applied aspects of the research findings will be highlighted whenever possible.

Riemann surfaces are one of the most fundamental objects in mathematics and physics. They arise as zeros of equations in two complex variables, the complex 1-dimensional manifolds (complex curves). They also arise from conformal geometry, namely 2-dimensional oriented real manifolds with a conformal class of Riemannian metrics. That these two view points are equivalent, is already a non-trivial result. Thus, any surface you see in 3-space is in fact an example of a Riemann surface.

Mechatronics as the synergistic integration of mechanical design, electronics design, controls, and embedded programming throughout the product and process design, with the aim to optimize the final design output. Mechatronic product design, with a focus on integrating the various engineering disciplines into electromechanical systems. Students work in teams on mechatronic design projects using a microcontroller development system.

To examine the fundamental relationships between the organization of the workplace, the flow of people, materials, parts and information, and the optimal performance of these system components. Manufacturing and service organizations require that undergraduates of the Industrial Engineering and Operations Research curriculum be grounded in the fundamental concepts, tools, and techniques for planning, design, and analysis of the physical environment and configuration of systems along with the ability to evaluate the dynamic interchanges which interrelates the system components.