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This course engages students in the practice of Community Service Learning, including consideration of what constitutes appropriate and effective community service, and how to learn deeply from this experience. Each time it is offered, it is organized around a topic of public concern that draws on a variety of perspectives, and it places students with community organizations in service that relates directly to the course topic. Students therefore integrate academic learning with experiential learning.

This course engages students in the practice of Community Service Learning, including consideration of what constitutes appropriate and effective community service, and how to learn deeply from this experience. Each time it is offered, it is organized around a topic of public concern that draws on a variety of perspectives, and it places students with community organizations in service that relates directly to the course topic. Students therefore integrate academic learning with experiential learning.

Stretch, Strength, Balance and Turn. Learn cool moves from Hip Hop, Jazz Dance, Tap Dance, Modern Dance and African Dance in a safe low-pressure environment. Exercises geared specifically towards the development of strength and stretch for men are combined with learning movement combinations and techniques that can be applied to any kind of dance discipline. Learn how to balance and remember moves, to music that ranges from Hip Hop, and Rock and Roll, to World Music and more avant-garde composers.

An overview of dance as a performing art in the 20th century, focusing especially on major American stylistic traditions and artists. Readings, videos, research projects, and discussions explore principles, historical and cultural contexts. Also taught at Mount Holyoke and Smith. (Gen.Ed. AT)

Writer's workshop with emphasis on fiction. May be repeated by M.F.A. candidates for a total of 24 credits.

American fiction from the colonial period to the present. The course may focus on a small or large time period, and it will consider the language and form, method and content that mark a distinctly American tradition.