'This course introduces students to a range of contemporary somatic therapy practices and their application to dance technique and performance. The philosophies and methodologies of these therapies will be investigated through a combination of readings, workshops with local practitioners, and experiential exploration. Therapeutic practices include: Mind Body Centering, Yoga, Pilates, Gyrotonics, Alexander Technique, Feldenkreis Technique, and others.'

'This course is designed for students of many fields, including dance, education, and psychology to answer questions such as: How do I access learning and teaching through the medium of the body and movement? How do I teach others how to become change agents through dance? How can I create a program of dance that will challenge and invigorate young people in schools, so that all youth can have access and share their own inspiring movement and culture?

'Tap II expands the vocabulary skills of the beginner, and seeks to increase speed and technical ability while deepening the dancer's connection to music. Class will include periodic video showings and lecture/demonstrations regarding tap dance history and styles.'

This course will focus on the development of improvisational dance skills and the way these inform choreographic sourcing strategies. Classes will begin with improvisational movement explorations that emphasize shifting between the comfortable/familiar and the new/unknown. Students will then collaboratively build movement choreographies using compositional methods that draw from the improvisations. There will be repeated opportunities in the last part of class to perform this material from different points of view.

'Through the writings of such thinkers as Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Marx, and Mill, we will examine central issues of modern Western political thought. Understanding modernity to entail a turn from political legitimacy based on the will of God to political legitimacy based on the conscious designs of human beings, we will focus on the significance of this turn for questions of sovereign power, the relationship between rulers and ruled, human nature, and the meaning of freedom.'

'This course offers a history of women in performance, from the colonial era to the present day. Americans inherited a European theatrical economy that was largely male dominated, though actresses played a central role on stage and in the public imagination. Today, while serious inequities remain, women are gaining access to the most privileged and powerful positions in a swiftly changing field.

'All the world's a stage. This course surveys the era of literary history that invented this powerful idea. The drama of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries is a drama obsessively self-conscious, bursting with disguises, confidence tricks, cross-dressers, rituals, masques, and plays-within-plays. Reading Shakespeare as well as his rivals and peers (Marlowe, Jonson, Webster, and others), we will consider how theater, and the idea of theater, illuminates such concepts as desire, evil, gender, and ideology.

'A topical coverage of development economics used in conventional textbooks does not do justice to the evolution of integrated thinking in the field. A topical organization also does not do justice to the topic linkages or to the important debates in the field. This course adopts a history of macro development economics thought approach with an emphasis on alternative approaches right up to the current debates. While the field started in the 1940s, the influence of classical economists including Marx on the pioneering development economists and the field will also be traced.'

'This course explores a number of economic issues relevant to women in the economy and an introduction to the economic concepts and analytical tools necessary to understand those issues. We will pay particular attention to the issues faced by professional women and women in business. We will examine issues of gender equality and discrimination, the interaction between family roles and work, and the challenges faced by women in running large organizations.'

'The Big Problems of the World are enormously complex and pose daunting challenges for our generation and those of our children and grandchildren. Climate, pollution, energy, and nuclear power are only a few of the increasingly critical issues. A leader, whether she is President or a teacher, in Congress or in the media, in business or as a voter, needs to understand not only the science and technology that underlie the problems and possible solutions but also how science works. How does science define and pursue a problem? Engage in debate? Communicate with the public?