This helps students achieve an advanced level of proficiency in Modern Standard Arabic with an exposure to one Arabic colloquial variety using the four-skills (reading, writing, speaking, listening) approach. Students read within a normal range of speed, listen to, discuss and respond in writing to authentic texts by writers from across the Arab world. Text types address a range of political, social, religious and literary themes and represent a range of genres, styles and periods.

Topics course. This capstone course for the environmental concentration in sustainable food brings together students to work on team-based projects related to sustainable food. Project work is complemented by lectures, readings, discussions and field trips throughout the Pioneer Valley. Enrollment limited to 15.

Examination of individual differences and their consideration in the teaching-learning process. Research and prepracticum required. Prerequisites: EDC 238.

Sectioned course. This course provides an introduction to various methods of resistance training. The focus of this class is functional strength training. Students learn specific training methods with a purpose. This is an ideal course for students interested in sport, applied sports medicine and rehabilitation. Enrollment limited to 20.

Topics course. This course is devoted to a slow reading of Don Quijote de la Mancha (1605?15), allegedly the first and most influential modern novel. Our approach to this hilarious masterpiece by Cervantes is through a "queering" focus, i.e., as a text that exposes all sorts of binary oppositions (literary, sexual, social, religious and ethnic), such as: high-low, tradition vs. individual creativity, historical vs. literary truth, man vs. woman, authenticity vs. performance, Moor vs. Christian, humorous vs. tragic.

This two-semester course leverages students' previous coursework to address an engineering design problem. Students collaborate in teams on real-world projects sponsored by industry and government. Regular team design meetings, weekly progress reports, interim and final reports, and multiple presentations are required. Prerequisites: EGR 220, 270, 290 and at least one 300-level engineering course, or permission of instructor. Corequisite EGR 410D.

This course engages the class in a semester-long design or analysis project. Students work in ad hoc teams using a variety of skills and knowledge to address a current issue or question related to environmental sustainability for our local community (specific projects vary from year to year). Students gain direct experience with the range and complexity of activities required to address a real-world environmental problem. Student work is assessed via progress reports, an oral presentation and a final written report.

A writer's workshop that focuses on sharpening and expanding each student's fiction writing skills, as well as broadening and deepening her understanding of the short story form. In addition to analyzing and discussing one another's work, students hone their craft by examining the work of established writers. Writing sample and permission of the instructor are required.

Each colloquium is conducted by means of directed discussion, with emphasis on close reading and the writing of short analytical essays. Priority is given to incoming students in the fall-semester sections of the colloquia. Other students should consult the course director about possible openings. Enrollment in each section limited to 20. A course in the nuts and bolts of poetry. We look at poems and study their techniques (e.g., sound patterns, image development, form). We write and revise our own poems, using these techniques.

This course helps students become proficient in reading, writing and speaking at an advanced level of Korean. This course is particularly appropriate for Korean heritage language learners, that is, those who have some listening and speaking proficiency but lack solid reading and writing skills in Korean. In addition, this course would fortify and greatly expand the skills of those who have studied Korean through the intermediate level or who have equivalent language competence in Korean.