Advanced and current topics in high energy physics.

Writer's workshop with emphasis on fiction. May be repeated by M.F.A. candidates for a total of 24 credits.

Same as SPN 291. A course designed for students who have spent a semester, summer, Interterm or year abroad. After introducing the methodology of digital storytelling, in which images and recorded narrative are combined to create short video stories, students write and create their own stories based on their time abroad. Participants script, storyboard, and produce a 3–4 minute film about the challenges and triumphs of their experience, to then share it with others. Prerequisite: Significant experience abroad (study abroad, praxis, internship, Global Engagement Seminar, or other).

Topics course. May be repeated once with a different topic.: Starting in the late 18th century, avant-garde artists began to explore the claim that logic and rationality cannot account for all of human experience; they were fascinated by madness, dreams, the irrational and the sublime. We investigate this phenomenon from a literary, artistic and philosophical point of view, from the time of the Enlightenment philosophers to the 20th century. We read stories by Nerval, Tolstoy and Kafka; Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights; poems by Baudelaire, Rimbaud and Rilke, as well as philosophical essays.

A survey of urban, architectural, and landscape design from the seventeenth-century colonies of Spain, Great Britain, and The Netherlands to modernist movements in the first half of the twentieth century that had international reach and forged a distinctively American image.

"Poetry," writes Yusef Komunyakaa in his essay collection Blue Notes, "is an act of meditation and improvisation. And need is the motor that propels the words down the silent white space." In this intermediate poetry workshop, students will consider various perspectives on the revision process and explore strategies for re-drafting poems-in-progress.

This course is an opportunity to experience the many activities that make up outdoor adventure. Students will be introduced to natural areas in the local region. In the winter, activities may include showshoeing and cross country skiing. As spring arrives, students will canoe, sea kayak, hike, and climb. This course is an opportunity to get out each week and learn new outdoor adventure skills.

This course focuses on the relationship between achieving climate stabilization, on the one hand; and advancing economic growth, expanding job opportunities and raising living standards, on the other. We consider these issues, and the relevant literature, for countries and regions of the global economy at all levels of development.

With construction being one of the most dangerous occupations, workplace safety is crucial for every successful building project. This course teaches basic safety concepts through guest lectures and the self-guided study of OSHA principles. Students acquire the 10-hour OSHA safety training (and card) as part of this course (at a small, additional cost), which is the basic requirement for any work on construction sites.