This course offers the opportunity to read contemporary poetry and meet the poets who write it. Class sessions alternate with readings by visiting poets. Graded Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory only. Course may be repeated.

The Qur'an, according to the majority of Muslims, is God's word revealed to Muhammad through angel Gabriel over a period of 22 years (610-632 CE). This course will introduce students to Islam's scriptural text: its content, form, structure, and history. It will also situate the Qur'an in the larger frame of the genre of Scripture: What does it mean for a text to be revealed? Study of the Qur'an as a 7th- century product, as well as the history of reception of this text.

1815-1914: a century of fundamental change without a general war. The international order established at the Congress of Vienna and its challengers: liberalism, nationalism, Romanticism, socialism, secularism, capitalism and imperialism.

1815-1914: a century of fundamental change without a general war. The international order established at the Congress of Vienna and its challengers: liberalism, nationalism, Romanticism, socialism, secularism, capitalism and imperialism.

1815-1914: a century of fundamental change without a general war. The international order established at the Congress of Vienna and its challengers: liberalism, nationalism, Romanticism, socialism, secularism, capitalism and imperialism.

Topics course. We work intensively in this course with the rich variety of literary works produced by Emily Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, Anne Bronte and their shadowy brother Branwell, examining also the remarkable mid-Victorian phenomenon of their household in a remote vicarage. They were a family blighted beyond measure (all died young, and in quick succession) and blessed beyond measure (two of the sisters are among England's greatest novelists).

Topics course. Magical realism is a powerful genre that takes ordinary people and places them in extraordinary circumstances. In this class, you join a long line of writers who have turned to the marvelous real as a way to tell a story. Whether you seek to write short stories or develop a novel, we discover and discuss some of the field's most celebrated, established and promising new writers, while creating works that have a sense of wonder and style. Come prepared to read, discuss, workshop, and write your own marvelous tales. No fiction writing experience necessary.

This course teaches the basic skills of film production, including camera work, sound recording, editing, and preparation and completion of a finished work in film and video. Students will submit weekly written responses to theoretical and historical readings and to screenings of films and videotapes that represent a variety of aesthetic approaches to the moving image. There will be a series of filmmaking assignments culminating in an individual final project for the class. The development of personal vision will be stressed.

Film/Photography/Video Studies Seminar: This course is open to film, photography and video concentrators in Division III and others by consent of the instructor. The class will attempt to integrate the procedural and formal concentration requirements of the College with the creative work produced by each student. It will offer a forum for meaningful criticism, exchange, and exposure to each other. In addition, various specific kinds of group experience will be offered, including lectures and critiques by guest artists.

This course will focus on installation and performance in conversation with diverse media: video, digital, audio, photo, film, and the plastic arts. The thematic focus of the seminar will critically engage issues of technology, vision, and site. Also of importance is the nature of video as electronic technology and the relationship of immediacy that it has with both performance and installation. This is a rigorous theory/practice workshop class designed specifically for upper division students.