Authors vary from year to year, but they are generally chosen from a list that includes epic and lyric poets, historians, orators, comedians and novelists, depending on the interests and needs of the students. May be repeated for credit, provided the topic is not the same. Prerequisite: two courses at the 200-level or permission of the instructor. A study of Ovid's transmission and adaptation of Greek myths in the Metamorphoses. Attention is paid to Ovid's Augustan milieu and to the extraordinary afterlife of the Metamorphoses, particularly in Renaissance art.

An introduction to the structure, design and operation of the Internet, including the electronic and physical structure of networks; packet switching; how email and web browsers work, domain names, mail protocols, encoding and compression, http and HTML, the design of web pages, the operation of search engines, beginning JavaScript; CSS. Both history and societal implications are explored. Prerequisite: basic familiarity with word processing. Enrollment limited to 35. The course meets for the first half of the semester only.

Arranged individually with graduate students.

Selections from the Aeneid, with attention to literary, historical and cultural aspects. Prerequisite: 212 or permission of the instructor.

Sectioned course. The basic techniques of attack and defense, footwork, rules, equipment, strategies and techniques involved in foil fencing. A brief historical background of the tradition and origins of fencing. Enrollment limited to 16 per section.

By permission of the Archaeology Advisory Committee, for junior or senior minors.

This is a high-intermediate course that aims at increasing students' ability to communicate comfortably in Spanish (orally and in writing). The course explores an array of issues relevant to the Spanish-speaking world, and prepares students to think more critically and in depth about those issues, with the goal of achieving a deeper understanding of the target cultures. Materials used in the class include visual narratives (film), short stories, poems, plays and essays. Enrollment limited to 18 per section. Prerequisite: SPN 120, 200 or the equivalent.

This upper-level seminar explores central currents in film theory. Among the ideas, movements and concepts we examine are formalist, realist, structuralist, psychoanalytic, feminist, and poststructuralist theories, as well as auteur, genre, queer and cultural studies approaches to questions regarding the nature, function and possibilities of cinema. We also consider how new media and new media theories relate to our experience in film and film theory. We understand film theory readings through the sociocultural context in which they were and are developed.

For students engaged in independent projects or research in connection with Japanese, Chinese or Korean language and literature.