Workshop members should arrive willing to explore and to expand their interests through the long poem and/or the lyric essay. We'll experiment with the "malleability, ingenuity, immediacy, [and] complexity" available in these forms. Workshop members will also keep regular journals, research areas of interest, submit formal (typed) passages and self-contained segments of writing for peer review, and respond to peer and published works.

About the prose poem, poet Campbell McGrath asks, "Do the formal fields end where the valley begins, or does everything that surrounds us emerge from its embrace?" We will explore this well-established (yet liminal) form in workshop. Assignments will include weekly readings and responses to published and peer work, imitations, and writing exercises. Each workshop member is required to maintain a course journal and to complete one formal presentation of the work of a published (prose) poet.

What happens when an identity that was assumed to be singular and inherited becomes a matter of choice and self-fashioning? Jewish experiences, identities, and cultures changed dramatically after the Second World War. Today's "new Jews" can be secular or spiritual, rooted or transnational, radical or reactionary, Zionist or anti-Zionist, fans of Sacha Baron Cohen, Balkan Beat Box, or the transgender punk-klezmer group Schmekel. Jews globally are experimenting with new ways of expressing, performing, and questioning Jewishness.

This class will continue the work done in Tonal Theory I. We will be studying part writing and voice leading, as well as continuing the process of understanding and using basic chromatic harmony. Within this study, we will begin to look at large scale forms and structures. Some composition assignments will be included along the way as we assimilate new theoretical knowledge. Topics and repertoire for study are drawn from European classical traditions as well as jazz, popular, and non-western musics.

In this advanced level poetry workshop, students will explore strategies for generating new poems and revising older work, always with the intention of surprising themselves. Drawing primarily from the Afro-Diasporan, Latin American and Caribbean surrealist and magical realist canons, students will be encouraged to break free of their usual processes and practices in order to write the poems they never knew they wanted to write.

When Lucille Clifton passed away in February 2010, American poetry lost one of its brightest and most consistent lights. The author of thirteen poetry collections, as well as many volumes of children's literature, Ms. Clifton was that rare poet whose work could reach into lecture hall, prison dayroom, coffee shop, or community center, and touch anyone who was ready to be annealed. In art and in life, she has inspired legions of writers and readers and continues to give us much to consider.

Not available at this time.

Advanced and current topics in solid state physics. Prerequisite: PHYSICS 816.

This course focuses on student dialogue about issues of difference, identity and community to facilitate intergroup understanding. Students actively engage, read about, and examine social justice issues in small groups. GenEd (SB, U)

This course focuses on student dialogue about issues of difference, identity and community to facilitate intergroup understanding. Students actively engage, read about, and examine social justice issues in small groups. GenEd (SB, U)