Survey of topics relevant to skill acquisition and performance, including detailed analysis of perceptual, decision-making, and effector processes. Independent research required.

Exercise, sport and outdoor activities all require energy to perform. The study of these energetic events is the basis of this course. We study how the body adapts to repeated bouts of physical activity and how the body can perform a single event. This course is highly applied. Short lectures accompanied by relevant laboratory experiences are the methodology. Prerequisite: BIO 150 or permission of the instructor. This course also counts toward the major in biological sciences. Enrollment limited to 20.

A study of whether sport has served to promote or inhibit ethnic/minority participation in the American Dream. Biological and cultural factors are examined to ascertain the reasons for success by some groups and failure by others as high-level participants. The lives of major American sports figures will be studied in depth to determine the costs assessed and rewards bestowed on those who battled racial, ethnic, and/or sexual oppression in the athletic arena.

Discover the fundamental properties of stars from the analysis of digital images and application of basic laws of physics. Extensive use of computers and scientific programming and data analysis. Offered in alternate years with 225. Prerequisities: PHY 115, MTH 111, plus one astronomy class.

This course explores the astronomical roots of clocks and calendars, and relies on both real and simulated observations of the Sun, Moon and stars. In addition to completing weekly projects based on collecting and interpreting data, students independently research a clock and a calendar from another culture, either ancient or modern. There are no prerequisites, and students from all disciplines and backgrounds are welcome. Enrollment limited to 25 per section.

A consideration of theoretical problems (definitions of satire, responses to satire, satiric strategies) followed by a study of the development of satire from Horace and Juvenal through Shakespeare, Swift, Pope, Austen, and Byron to Waugh, West and Vonnegut. Some attention will be given to differences between male and female satirists.

Topics course. Reading and discussion of all Waugh?s novels (and some of his travel-books and journalism), from his early satires of the 1920s and 30s such as Decline and Fall and Vile Bodies, through his turn to explicit religious polemic in Brideshead Revisited and Helena, to his recreation of the Second World War in the trilogy Sword of Honour. Admission is by permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 12.

This seminar compares the literary and cultural consequences of two recent waves of migration of South Asian peoples: post - World War II migrations of ?skilled/unskilled? labor to Britain; and the post - 1965 migrations to North America.

This capstone course offers an intensive research-based study of a single important work of literature in English, seen in its social, historical, and intellectual context on the one hand, and in terms of its reception history on the other. Course may be repeated once for credit with different topic and instructor. Permission of the instructor required. Enrollment limited to 12. There are many ways in which a book may be ?big.? In this course, we explore the vastness contained in the relatively few pages of T.S.

In this workshop, more advanced fiction-writing students pursue two chief aims: to become stronger, more sophisticated writers in ways that feel natural to them, and to broaden their horizons by pursuing experimentation in new styles and subjects. At the same time, students continue to work on honing their observational and revision skills through attention to their own work and work of their peers. Coursework includes emphasis on becoming a skillful and sophisticated critic, readings from diverse contemporary writers and occasional ad hoc exercises.