This course will use the current KIN 110 course content framework enhanced with additional problem solving, critical thinking, and student-centered learning activities and assignments. For example, for the topic on diet, exercise and weight control, students in the honors section will be asked to estimate their own personal energy balance by determining individual energy intake and expenditure and discuss the implications in terms of personal weight management.

Course offered in Italian in two sections at 400 and 500 levels, with different course requirements for graduate and undergraduate students. The course will address, in particular, the relationship between literature, theory and thinking in Italo Calvino's late works and essays. Special emphasis will be placed on Calvino's effort in approaching the complexity of modern experience through his encyclopedic writing technique. Requirements: weekly readings and assignments, two compositions, midterm, presentation and final exam. Taught with ITALIAN 497L.

In this course, students will become familiar with the major currents of thirteenth-century Italian poetry and will explore Dante?s Divine Comedy as an encyclopedic compendium of medieval thought as well as a very personal vision of the individual?s place in the universe, a journey that is as meaningful now as it was 700 years ago. Taught in English with ITALIAN 497J but with extra meetings in Italian.

Examines theoretical practical impacts of new media and technology on history, including examining the influence of digital history on how we research, write, present, and teach history.

This course explores methods for studying material culture and assesses historical writings focusing on objects as historical evidence. The collections, buildings and grounds of Historic Deerfield provide a laboratory for first-hand examination of objects, the built environment and the landscape in order to test a variety of approaches for analyzing artifacts and to develop the skills and knowledge needed to interpret the meanings of material productions in their historical contexts. Analysis of high chests, dwelling houses, bed hangings,

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This is a junior writing seminar. As such, we will work both to understand the history of Israel and the Palestinians and to write about it (you choose your focus) correctly, clearly, and with proper attention to evidence. Your grade will be based mainly on a final research paper.

This seminar will focus on the sacrificial systems of humans from their earliest discernible developments among human foraging groups, through their increasing elaboration in cultures based on agriculture, to their extreme developments and inversions in complex cultures. We will especially focus on the meanings given to human sacrifice and martyrdom in complex cultures. Among the many cultures we will be touching on are the Ainu and Nootka, the Aztec and Romans, the modern Indians and Europeans.

Between 1650 and 1820, New England's economy largely rested on its maritime prowess: shipbuilding, fishing, whaling, and blue-water commerce. It is the argument of this course that such success was not simply a matter of economic evolution by laissez faire principles but an expression of New England culture, including its political economy, its religion, and its family.

This class explores the long and contentious relationships between the United States and the Latin American nations. It focuses on the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, analyzing the Spanish-American war, upheaval in Central America in the 1920s, the place of Cuba within the growing informal U.S. empire, trade relations with the South American nations, the impact of the Cold War on the hemisphere, the role of the CIA in destabilizing and overthrowing popularly elected government, and the U.S.