A highly interactive course, focusing on scene work, using the Stanislavsky approach to acting. Classes include preparation exercises leading to the relaxation, concentration, and imagination of the actor. Practical tools explored in the course are designed to offer the student greater vocal, physical, and imaginative freedom and clarity as well as text analysis skills. Course includes characterization work and introduces the unique nature of the monologue.

This seminar explores practical issues confronting thesis students in doing research and writing. Students will have the opportunity to share their research projects, identify strengths and weaknesses, formulate research questions, locate their projects in a larger academic literature, and discuss the overall structure of the thesis. In addition, students in 326 will join those in 226 for activities that could include reading field notes, narrative analysis of texts, survey design, coding and measurement of quantitative variables, and/or visual analysis.

This seminar explores practical issues confronting thesis students in doing research and writing. Students will have the opportunity to share their research projects, identify strengths and weaknesses, formulate research questions, locate their projects in a larger academic literature, and discuss the overall structure of the thesis. In addition, students in 326 will join those in 226 for activities that could include reading field notes, narrative analysis of texts, survey design, coding and measurement of quantitative variables, and/or visual analysis.

This seminar explores practical issues in doing research in anthropology and sociology. Depending on student interest, activities could include reading field notes, narrative analysis of texts, survey design, coding and measurement of quantitative variables, and/or visual analysis. Students will have an opportunity to think about how to develop a class paper into an independent study, how to organize research for a thesis, or how to make sense of research and internship experience off-campus or during study abroad.

In no other culture has literature occupied the central role it enjoyed in nineteenth-century Russia. Political, social, and historical constraints propelled Russian writers into the roles of witness, prophet, and sage. Yet, far from being limited to the vast, dark Big Question novels of legend, Russian literature offers much humor, lyricism, and fantasy. We will focus on the Russian novel as a reaction to western European forms of narrative and consider the recurring pattern of the strong heroine and the weak hero.

Offers an interdisciplinary perspective on social, economic, and political features of contemporary development in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, regions referred to as the Third World or the South, and provides an introduction to theoretical origins and definitions of economic growth, development, and underdevelopment.

This course will examine the fundamental structural organization of the mammalian body. The lecture portion of the class will focus largely on humans, and students will gain practical insight into other mammalian systems in the laboratory.

Students will explore a number of musical styles and approaches, including twentieth century techniques, in the process of creating their own works. Students will read compositions in class, with the possibility of performances at the end of the semester.