'Includes eight to ten dual or tri meets. Seven Sisters Tournament, NEWMAC Championship, and the New England Championships. Season runs mid-October through March.'

'For riders with significant Western-style riding experience. The class will focus on further refinement and effective use of the aids for training in equitation, pleasure, trail, and reining. By permission only.'

'For riders highly competent on the flat, in the hunt seat, or in dressage discipline who have less or minimal expertise over fences. Working on the flat, riders will be challenged with classic equitation and dressage principals. On jumping days, they will be led step by step to work on position and the fundamentals of jumping.'

'With the completion of the sequencing of the human genome, where does science go now? Many scientists have chosen to investigate our genome at the level 'above genetics', or Epigenetics. Epigenetic changes are not coded in the DNA sequence, yet they are heritable through cell division. Epigenetics is an exciting field of science that is beginning to explain the unexpected. Why are identical twins not perfect 'clones' of each other? Why are even cloned animals not perfect 'clones'?

The statistics sections of biology articles have become so technical and jargon-filled that many biologists feel intimidated into skipping them or blindly accepting the stated results. This course will connect statistics to biology and will help develop a gut instinct for experimental design and analysis with an emphasis on understanding rather than formulas. We will review methods and assumptions for the most common approaches with examples from current biological literature and discuss how we can apply these tools to increase our understanding of our own research and of the world around us.

'Ocean ecosystems are of tremendous ecological importance and provide many billions of dollars worth of services annually, yet our marine systems face serious threats due to overfishing, climate change, ocean acidification, pollution, and the spread of invasive species. Conservation and management strategies aim to protect our remaining marine resources and restore those that have been lost or damaged. In this course, we will study the scientific evidence documenting the most pressing threats to marine ecosystems and examine available strategies for mitigating these threats.

'Ocean ecosystems are of tremendous ecological importance and provide many billions of dollars worth of services annually, yet our marine systems face serious threats due to overfishing, climate change, ocean acidification, pollution, and the spread of invasive species. Conservation and management strategies aim to protect our remaining marine resources and restore those that have been lost or damaged. In this course, we will study the scientific evidence documenting the most pressing threats to marine ecosystems and examine available strategies for mitigating these threats.

'This course explores the modern literature of Japan and Korea in a cultural and historical context, beginning with the genesis of their first modern novels, passing through left-wing literature and modernist experimentation of the 1920s and 1930s, colonialism, WWII and Korean War accounts, student democracy activism in the 1960s, and ending with the rise of women writers in the 1970s and 1980s. While parallels between the two national literatures are assumed at the outset, we will also discuss important differences and the cultural and historical factors that may account for them.'

'Since the mid-nineteenth century, Americans have viewed Japan as the Orients most exotic and mysterious recess, alternately enticing and frightening in its difference. Intense economic relations and cultural exchange between Japan and the U.S. have not dispelled the image of Japanese society and culture as fundamentally different from our own. In this course, we will strive for greater understanding of shared experiences as well as historical particularities. Issues covered may vary from one semester to another, but frequently focus on work, women, minorities, and popular culture.

'This course introduces students to major religious and spiritual traditions, with a special focus on miracles, healing, and the end of life. These themes have been the subject of both fascination and fear among human beings for thousands of years. Within each tradition, we will examine miracles, healing, and death/afterlife from three different lenses: a) major doctrinal developments and debates throughout history, b) ritual practices, and c) selected scriptural texts and literature.