Investigate shamanism and experience nature in a non-linear fashion. See nature through the perspective of indigenous cultures to determine if elements of these belief systems have relevance in modern society.

This course is structured to deliver a broad understanding of the dynamics in the equine world by introducing equine students to a wide range of professionals within the equine industry (e.g. horse trainers, stable owners, business/investors, researchers, feed companies, and veterinarians). Participation in scheduled lectures given by equine professionals. Lectures will be offered in the evening and will be open to the public. Weekly meetings with the instructor will be required.

This course examines legal structures that social and environmental enterprises currently used to accomplish their missions?nonprofit organizations, traditional for-profits, L3Cs, B Corporations, cooperatives and other business forms that place ?Planet? and ?People? ahead of or on an equal footing with ?Profit.? The course contemplates the advantages and disadvantages of using these forms to accomplish these missions, how they should be adopted or modified, and whether society should devise other structures to further these missions.

Do you have problems understanding grammar explanations in foreign language classes? Would you like to be fluent in a foreign language but feel that you need some extra help to get past the beginner level? If you want to streamline your language learning experience, and learn some linguistic and cognitive strategies that will allow you to acquire a second language more easily, this seminar can help you. We will explore some findings in second language acquisition research that can help you develop learning strategies that go way beyond outdated flashcards.

This seminar will look at the use of clothing for communicative expression and cultural meaning, and the way it has been represented in the media. Our interdisciplinary approach will be informed mainly by cultural studies and film/media studies but will draw in other discourses and fields such as journalism, cultural anthropology, visual rhetoric/semiotics, gender and sexuality studies, performance theory, and design practices. Our main examples will include cinema, television, street-style and personal style blogs, fashion journalism, and advertisements.

This course will introduce students to fundamental "design thinking" and graphic communication skills in architecture.
Students will gain an understanding of drawing as a vital means to see, analyze, and represent essential aspects of the
visual environment. Emphasis will be placed on freehand drawing and sketching, using UMass buildings as case
studies.

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Recent advances in molecular biology, neuroscience and developmental biology, to name just three areas of biology, call for reconsideration of current social views and legal practices. When does life begin? When does it end? When
is ethical to manipulate our genetic material? Which of us is responsible for his actions, and how should those
who show aberrant behaviors (or even beliefs) be treated? Students will read introductory articles considering
these issues, discuss and consider relevant data, and prepare a presentation and term paper on a subject of

This course examines the history of the ideas that have animated Arab society since the time of the "Arab Renaissance" in the mid 19th century, through colonial and postcolonial times, and up until the present. Through close readings of selected texts in this historical canon, we will examine the following questions and themes: how do Arab thinkers conceive of "Arab" identity? How do "Arab" identities relate to "other" identities? How has political freedom been defined by these authors?

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