Students in this course investigates the structure, function and physiology of cells, the properties of biological molecules, information transfer from the level of DNA to cell-cell communication, and cellular energy generation and transfer. The development of multicellular organisms and the physiology of selected organ systems is also explored. In addition to attending lectures, each student participates in discussion sections that will focus on data analysis and interpretation while integrating mechanisms across scales. Laboratory (BIO 151) is recommended but not required.

An introduction to techniques of personality research and their application to the experimental study of personality. Based on discussions of current research, students design and conduct original research either individually or in teams. Prerequisites: 112 and either 270 or 271 and permission of the instructor.

What were the objects of desire in the decades leading up to and following the American Revolution? What kind of material world did Americans create by the turn of the 20th century? This course examines American consumerism and cultural change using material and visual culture as evidence. Students will have the unique opportunity to experience firsthand access to the rich collections at Historic Northampton, including household furnishings and historic dress. We will learn how to ?read? objects as sources and develop skills for interpreting them.

This course investigates the management of water as a common pool resource. As concerns over water scarcity and quality increase, this course asks how we can manage this precious and endangered resource in an equitable and efficient way. We first explore common mental models of water as a public and private good, then move forward towards envisioning water related issues not only as problem of natural resources but also as a collective action situation.

Emphasis includes in-class discussion and study of dance history and dance research, current research methods in dance, the use of primary and secondary source material. Students will complete a dance history research paper on a topic of their choice. Prerequisite: two semesters of dance history.

This course offers an in-depth exploration of aesthetic and interpretive issues in dance performance. Through experiments with improvisation, musical phrasing, partnering, personal imagery and other modes of developing and embodying movement material, dancers explore ways in which a choreographer?s vision is formed, altered, adapted, and finally presented in performance. Audition required. May be taken twice for credit.

This course offers an in-depth exploration of aesthetic and interpretive issues in dance performance. Through experiments with improvisation, musical phrasing, partnering, personal imagery and other modes of developing and embodying movement material, dancers explore ways in which a choreographer?s vision is formed, altered, adapted and finally presented in performance. May be taken twice for credit.

THE 398 is designed as the capstone course in the Theatre major. Students from across the sub-disciplines of theatre work in groups as theatre companies. Each group collaborates to establish a mission statement, ties their company to historical and contemporary theatre practice, chooses a season, writes a broad range of dramaturgical, educational, and promotional materials, and presents work (scripts, designs, scenes, etc.) from the season. A range of guest artists and outside faculty work with the students on the act of collaboration, and on the building of a company and a mission.

To act, to perform is to speculate with your body. Theatre is a transformative experience that takes performer and audience on an extensive journey in the playground of the imagination beyond the mundane world. Theatre asks us to be other than ourselves. We can for a time inhabit someone else's skin, be shaped by another gender or ethnicity, become part of a past epoch or an alternative time and space similar to our own time but that has yet to come. As we enter this 'imagined' world we investigate the normative principles of our current world.