This course offers the opportunity to read contemporary poetry and meet the poets who write it. Class sessions alternate with readings by visiting poets. Graded Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory only. Course may be repeated.

The exploration of similarities and differences in the cultural patterning of human experience. The comparative analysis of economic, political, religious and family structures, with examples from Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Oceania. The impact of the modern world on traditional societies. Several ethnographic films are viewed in coordination with descriptive case studies. Limited to first-year students and sophomores. Total enrollment of each section limited to 25. Offered both semesters each year.

An introduction to the structure, design and operation of the Internet, including the electronic and physical structure of networks; packet switching; how email and web browsers work, domain names, mail protocols, encoding and compression, http and HTML, the design of web pages, the operation of search engines, beginning JavaScript; CSS. Both history and societal implications are explored. Prerequisite: basic familiarity with word processing. Enrollment limited to 35. The course will meet for half of the semester only.

A scholarly project completed under the supervision of any member of the program. Permission of the instructor required.

By permission of the Archaeology Advisory Committee, for junior or senior minors.

This seminar is designed to provide students participating in the Washington Internship Program with an overview of the various approaches to conducting research in the discipline of political science. Students will be introduced to methods of quantitative and qualitative research, data acquisition and hypothesis testing. The seminar's more specific goal is to help students understand the process of planning, organizing, and writing an analytical political science research paper. Enrollment limited to juniors and seniors in the Washington Internship Program.

For students engaged in independent projects or research in connection with Japanese, Chinese, or Korean language and literature.