Outdoor & Wilderness Ethics: Students will participate in various outdoor activities and learn about the seven principles of Leave No Trace, Wilderness Ethics, and local land issues. Students will learn techniques for disseminating low impact skills for backpacking, rock climbing, canoeing and more. Successful graduates of this course will gain skills to teach Leave No Trace techniques and ethics to their clients, friends and family. This class includes one overnight trip where students will hike, camp, and climb.

Thru Hiking: Have you ever dreamed of hiking the Appalachian Trail, Pacific Crest Trail, or The Long Trail? Students will learn how to select gear and equipment for long distance hiking, prepare mail drops, meal plan for weeks at a time and execute a thru hike. The class will section hike portions of the Robert Frost Trail during the semester, while planning for two different 3-day hikes, with a non-refundable lab fee of $100 due by the second week of class. The lab fee will cover transportation, equipment, food, mail drops, permits, camping fees, and map.

Rape Aggression Defense: Basic Physical Defense for Women: The Rape Aggression Defense system is a program of realistic self-defense tactics and techniques. The system is a comprehensive course for women that begins with risk awareness, prevention, reduction, and avoidance, while progressing on to the basics of hands-on defense training. It is dedicated to teaching women defensive concepts and techniques against various types of assault, by utilizing easy, effective and proven self-defense/martial arts tactics.

In the last decade, queer scholars have turned away from the study of identity and textuality to consider the role of affect and emotion in the production, circulation, and regulation of sexuality, race, and gender. This course examines a new body of work in queer studies and sexuality studies that explores emotion and affect as central to operation of social, political, and economic power. Topics will include, mental illness, hormones, happiness, sex, trauma, labor, identity, and social movements, among others.

Three quotes mark the doorway of this course. "Poetry of the political imagination is a matter of both vision and language. Any progressive social change must be imagined first, and that vision must find its most eloquent possible expression to move from vision to reality. Any oppressive social condition, before it can change, must be named and condemned in words that persuade by stirring the emotions, awakening the senses.

This theatre workshop focuses on the art of adapting source material into original plays. We will closely examine several contemporary stage adaptations alongside their source material (including Kander & Ebb's musical "Cabaret" from the novel "Goodbye to Berlin" by Christopher Isherwood, and Mary Zimmerman;s "Metamorphosis" from Ovid.) Over the course of the semester, students will be asked to respond to these works, undertake various creative writing exercises and ultimately write their own adaptation play script.

This dramatic literature class will take a look at two forms of theatre that maintain their roots in realistic exchanges while allowing us to drift into realms of pure imagination. The semester will be divided into two. First we will explore the European roots of Theatre of the Absurd through the plays of Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco and Harold Pinter. Then we will look at the South American tradition of Magical Realism and how it has inspired contemporary American playwrights such as Tony Kushner and Sarah Ruhl.

This seminar is designed for students pursuing a Division III project related to childhood, youth, or learning, and is appropriate for students whose primary work is in any of the five schools. We will begin the semester by considering the assumptions, perspectives, and methodologies involved in different disciplinary approaches to work related to childhood, young people, and/or education. The remainder of the course will involve students' presentations of works in progress, peer editing and feedback, and sharing strategies for completing large independent projects.

"Micro-fictions," like "traditional short stories," require awareness of pacing, sentence, detail, and music. In this workshop, we'll study and practice micro-fiction (also known as "quick fiction" or "short, short stories"). We'll consider the ways that pacing and sentence structure are instrumental in establishing tone and narrative structure.