Same as ENG 203. Chretien de Troyes's Yvain; Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra; Cervantes' Don Quixote; Lafayette's The Princesse of Cleves; Goethe's Faust; Tolstoy's War and Peace. Lecture and discussion. CLT 203/ENG 203, like CLT 202/ENG 202, is among the courses from which comparative literature majors choose two as the basis of the major. Students interested in comparative literature and/or the foundations of Western literature and wanting a writing-intensive course should take 202 or 203 or both.

Same as ENG 203. Chretien de Troyes's Yvain; Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra; Cervantes' Don Quixote; Lafayette's The Princesse of Cleves; Goethe's Faust; Tolstoy's War and Peace. Lecture and discussion. CLT 203/ENG 203, like CLT 202/ENG 202, is among the courses from which comparative literature majors choose two as the basis of the major. Students interested in comparative literature and/or the foundations of Western literature and wanting a writing-intensive course should take 202 or 203 or both.

For qualified juniors and seniors. Admission by permission of the instructor and director of the program. No more than 4 special studies credits may be taken in any academic year and no more than 8 special studies credits total may be applied toward the major.

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.