A writer?s workshop that focuses on sharpening and expanding each student?s fiction writing skills, as well as broadening and deepening her understanding of the short story form. In addition to analyzing and discussing one another?s work, students hone their craft by examining the work of established writers. Writing sample and permission of instructor required.

A writer?s workshop designed to explore the complexities and delights of creative nonfiction. Constant reading, writing and critiquing. Admission by permission of the instructor. This course invites students with an interest in science to learn skills for creatively communicating science news, concepts and history. Class time is devoted to discussions (call them dissections) of assigned readings, including books, articles, plays, poems and blogs that treat scientific themes.

Each colloquium is conducted by means of directed discussion, with emphasis on close reading and the writing of short analytical essays. Priority is given to incoming students in the fall-semester sections of the colloquia. Other students should consult the course director about possible openings. Enrollment in each section limited to 20. A course in the nuts and bolts of poetry. We look at poems and study their techniques (e.g., sound patterns, image development, form). We write and revise our own poems, using these techniques.

This course helps students become proficient in reading, writing and speaking at an advanced level of Korean. This course is particularly appropriate for Korean heritage language learners, that is, those who have some listening and speaking proficiency but lack solid reading and writing skills in Korean. In addition, this course would fortify and greatly expand the skills of those who have studied Korean through the intermediate level or who have equivalent language competence in Korean.

Introduction to musique concrete, analog synthesis, digital synthesis and sampling through practical work, assigned reading, and listening. Enrollment limited to eight. Prerequisites: a semester course in music theory or composition and permission of the instructor.

An introduction to the techniques of gathering and analyzing astronomical data, with an emphasis on observations related to determining the size scale of the universe. Telescope design and optics. Instrumentation for imaging, photometry and spectroscopy. Astronomical detectors. Computer graphics and image processing. Error analysis and curve fitting. Prerequisites: at least one of AST 224, 225, 226 or 228, and one physics course at the 200-level.

An examination of the works of some major moral theorists of the Western philosophical tradition, and their implications for our understanding of the nature of the good life and the sources and scope of our moral responsibilities. Enrollment limited to 25 students.

An introduction to spoken and written Japanese. Emphasis on the development of basic oral proficiency, along with reading and writing skills. Students acquire knowledge of basic grammatical patterns, strategies in daily communication, hiragana, katakana and about 90 Kanji. Designed for students with no background in Japanese.

An introduction to spoken and written Japanese. Emphasis on the development of basic oral proficiency, along with reading and writing skills. Students will acquire knowledge of basic grammatical patterns, strategies in daily communication, hiragana, katakana, and about 90 Kanji. Designed for students with no background in Japanese.

Review of grammar and practice and improvement of reading skills through the study of authors such as Plato, Lysias and Euripides. Prerequisite: 100y.