This course offers an in-depth experiential study of skeletal structure, and includes aspects of the muscular, organ, endocrine, nervous and fluid systems of the human body. The goal is to enhance efficiency of movement and alignment through laboratory sessions, supported by assigned reading, exams and written projects.

Explore the joy of making music with your feet! This course will give you a foundation in the technique and style of four diverse percussive dance traditions: Appalachian clogging, rhythm tap, Cape Breton step dancing, and body percussion. The class is designed for beginners, and the steps will be broken down into clear, approachable elements. Community, rhythm, playfulness, and musicality will be emphasized! Tap shoes recommended.

Taught in English, the course explores comparative racial and ethnic politics in the U.S. during the 20th century. We will analyze the creation and maintenance of structural inequalities through laws and policies targeted at persons of color in the areas of healthcare, transportation, immigration, labor, racial segregation, and education. Through readings, lectures and films, we will discuss critical histories of community struggle against social inequality, registering the central impact that race, class, gender, sexuality, and citizenship have had on efforts toward social justice.

This seminar provides an introduction to natural language processing, the discipline of getting computers to understand human language. We will cover core ideas and algorithms relevant to both speech processing and text processing, with emphasis on applications in human-computer natural language interaction. Students will design and complete an open-ended final project.

This intermediate-level course will give students hands-on experience designing and developing robots. Not traditionally lecture-based, material will be delivered through an initial set of tutorial-style laboratory sessions. In the first few weeks, students will learn basic hardware components through the use of a microcontroller (e.g., the Arduino Uno). Students will then pitch and develop a robot for the remainder of the semester; a three-dimensional printer is available to produce components for student designs.

What makes a great leader? Can we identify who should be a leader? Are leaders born or made? How does an education in the liberal arts prepare someone to become a leader? Through reading a mix of the Great Books of Western Civilization (e.g., Homer, Plato, Shakespeare) and contemporary classics in leadership studies, we will explore these and many other related questions.

A multidisciplinary examination of the various ways humans have understood, represented, experienced, and justified war over time and across cultures. The course considers the representation of war through art, literature, and music. It analyzes possible causes of war, including innate human drives, gender differences, socialization, and economic and resource competition. In addition, it examines justifications for war from a range of ethical perspectives. Faculty from various disciplines will be asked to guest lecture.

The statistics sections of biology articles have become so technical and jargon-filled that many biologists feel intimidated into skipping them or blindly accepting the stated results. But how can we ask relevant questions or push the boundaries of knowledge if we skip these sections? Using lectures, data collection, and hands-on analysis in R, this course will connect statistics to biology to help students develop a gut instinct for experimental design and analysis.

What happened after the introduction of Impressionism - that is, after the radical challenge to modernist painting's way with the canvas and its image of everyday life? This seminar will explore the proposals put forward by Seurat, van Gogh, Gauguin, and Toulouse-Lautrec.

This course will focus on city maps and bird's-eye views in order to explore urban representation and symbolism. Emphasis will be on European imagery from the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries, but the overall scope will range from ancient to modern times, encompassing western and non-western places and works. The class includes units on the history, theory, and form of the city (including utopian and ideal cities); approaches to representing the city (maps, models, pictorial views); and case studies (Kaifeng, Kyoto, Paris, Siena, Tenochtitlan, Venice, and others).