This course is an introduction to the music, life, and legacy of the composer Johann Sebastian Bach, whose music inspired generations of composers and performers across genres. In addition to studying some of his works in depth and his biography, we will explore the cultural and historical context in which he worked, raising questions about performance, instruments, religious life, and patronage. We also look at his influence on music in the nineteenth century, the controversies around his St. John Passion in the twentieth, and his legacy in the twenty-first century.

How does Korea’s tumultuous history affect women’s lives on the Korean screen? This class aims to foster a comprehensive and critical understanding of the ways in which Korean women's roles and representations have changed in cinema from the colonial era to the present. We will raise questions related to changed notion of womanhood, women’s sexuality, and political and national allegory surrounding the female body.

How have writers and film directors responded to the rapid transformation of Korean society? In what ways have their works shaped the experience of Koreans? This course examines Korean literature and film’s representation on the diverse political and social changes that have occurred on the Korean Peninsula in the modern era.

Topics course.: How do cells respond to their environment? Cells reside in a highly dynamic physical environment and respond to mechanical forces by converting them into biochemical signals using complex molecular machineries. The disruption of the mechanosensing mechanism as result of dysfunctional ECM mechanics or misregulations of proteins can lead to pathological conditions such as bone and muscular diseases, or cancer metastasis.

Third Year Chinese II: This course will be taught by Chen Zhu, a visiting professor of Chinese from the Hampshire College China Exchange program, and supervised by K. Johnson. Students entering this class will be expected to have completed Intermediate Chinese or the equivalent of an intensive college-level second year Chinese language course. The main text for the semester will be Today's World. Emphasis will be placed equally on speaking, reading, and writing. Students should have completed Integrated Chinese Level 2 or equivalent to enter this class.

Elementary Chinese I: This course will be taught by Chen Zhu, a visiting professor of Chinese from the Hampshire College China Exchange program, and supervised by Professor Kay Johnson. It will cover the second semester of beginning Chinese. The course will follow the Integrated Chinese textbook series. The class will cover speaking, reading, and writing Chinese characters. Required books are: Integrated Chinese Textbook Level 1, Part 2; Integrated Chinese Workbook Level 1, Part 2; Integrated Chinese Character Workbook, Level 1, Part 2.

As students and teachers, we spend our lives immersed in the world of books, yet we focus mainly on the final product: the "content." We are often told that we are in the midst of a technological and cultural revolution. The "death of the book" (and sometimes, of reading and literature themselves) is proclaimed with increasing frequency. How can we possibly judge such claims? For that matter, just what is a "book"? Are the changes taking place today unique, or have similar upheavals occurred in the past?

Same as SDS 291. Formerly MTH 247. Theory and applications of regression techniques; linear and nonlinear multiple regression models, residual and influence analysis, correlation, covariance analysis, indicator variables and time series analysis. This course includes methods for choosing, fitting, evaluating and comparing statistical models and analyzes data sets taken from the natural, physical and social sciences. Prerequisite: one of the following: PSY 201, GOV 190, MTH 220, ECO 220, or the equivalent or a score of 4 or 5 on the AP Statistics examination. Enrollment limited to 25.

Same as MTH 291. Formerly MTH 247. Theory and applications of regression techniques; linear and nonlinear multiple regression models, residual and influence analysis, correlation, covariance analysis, indicator variables and time series analysis. This course includes methods for choosing, fitting, evaluating and comparing statistical models and analyzes data sets taken from the natural, physical and social sciences. Prerequisite: one of the following: MTH 201/PSY 201, GOV 190, MTH 219, MTH 220, ECO 220, or the equivalent or a score of 4 or 5 on the AP Statistics examination.