Designed to support beginning Italian students in improving their conversational skills, this course offers intensive practice in pronunciation, vocabulary, oral comprehension and conversation. It includes class discussions, role-playing and short oral presentations. Prerequisite for the fall course: one semester of ITL 110 or placement exam to ensure correct language level.

In this course we read as writers and write as readers, analyzing the poetic devices and strategies employed in a diverse range of contemporary poetry; gaining practical use of these elements to create a portfolio of original work; and developing the skills of critique and re-vision. In addition, students read and write on craft issues, and attend Poetry Center readings/Q&A's. Enrollment is by permission of the instructor.

Same as CLT 203. Chretien de Troyes's Yvain;Antony and Cleopatra; Cervantes' Don Quixote; Lafayette's The Princesse of Cleves; Goethe's Faust; Tolstoy's War and Peace. Lecture and discussion.

A colloquium integrating foundations, the learning process and curriculum. Open only to Smith senior majors.

A continuation of 220. Prerequisite: CHI 220 or permission of the instructor.

Topics course. This course takes as its departure, Lee Baker's text From Savage to Negro and his final chapter in particular, "The Color Blind Bind," in which he articulates the complexities of eradicating race as a meaningful concept while simultaneously dealing with its resultant institutionalized effects. Students will be asked to think through the historical formation of race as a concept, structure, and as a lived reality; what it means to be color-blind and/or post-race at this juncture in primarily U.S.

Techniques of modern biochemistry: ultraviolet spectrophotometry and spectrofluorimetry, SDS polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, Scatchard analysis, and a project lab on linked enzyme kinetics. Prerequisite: BIO 203. BCH 252 is a prerequisite or must be taken concurrently.

This course will be taught at Amherst College campus. The colloquium represents an interdisciplinary capstone experience for students concentrating in African studies. Drawing on the resources of faculty in the Five College African Studies Council, we will seek to synthesize and productively utilize the Africa-oriented coursework, study abroad, internships, and research experiences of class participants.

Same as MTH 101. This course is intended for students who need additional preparation to succeed in courses containing quantitative material. It provides a supportive environment for learning or reviewing, as well as applying, arithmetic, algebra and mathematical skills. Students develop their numerical and algebraic skills by working with numbers drawn from a variety of sources. Enrollment limited to 20. Permission of the instructor required. This course does not carry a Latin Honors designation.

Same as QSK 101. This course is for students who need additional preparation to succeed in courses containing quantitative material. It provides a supportive environment for learning or reviewing, as well as applying, arithmetic, algebra and mathematical skills. Students develop their numerical and algebraic skills by working with numbers drawn from a variety of sources. Enrollment limited to 20. Permission of the instructor required. This course does not carry a Latin Honors designation.