Sectioned course. Hydro Fitness is a full body conditioning course utilizing water as the primary medium for exercise. This course incorporates exercises designed to improve students? aerobic and anaerobic capacities through activities performed in the water. These activities will include cardiovascular, flexibility, resistance training, injury prevention, and rehabilitation exercises. This course will benefit individuals suffering from joint pain associated with the ankle, knee, hip, and back. This is not a swimming class, but comfort in both deep and shallow water is required. (E)

These one-credit topics are designed to give students a weekly study of a specific dance technique to augment their on-going training. Students registered for a topic in this course must have completed or be concurrently registered for a related two-credit technique class and are required to be at the high intermediate or advanced level in that technique. Dance faculty should be consulted concerning questions about level placement.

The study of social behavior considered from a psychological point of view. Topics include interpersonal behavior, intergroup behavior, and social cognition. Prerequisite: PSY 100 (formerly PSY 111) or PSY 269. Enrollment limited to 25 students.

Topics course. The course, which is co-taught by Paula Giddings (Smith) and Bayo Holsey (Duke) via real-time video-conferencing, will investigate the relationship between memory weighted by race and gender and the construction of public history in the U.S. and the Diaspora. The course will include texts and guest lectures by authors from the Meridians: feminism, race and transnationalism journal. Public history will include memorialization, texts and popular culture. (E)

Destroyed by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 CE, Pompeii preserves traces of every aspect of life from shop signs and graffiti to a temple of the Egyptian goddess Isis to richly decorated houses. This course will focus on analyzing that material culture record to see what it can reveal about the town's social and economic structure, its politics, patterns of worship, its places of entertainment, and its burgeoning sex industry.

Why do some students think about college as the natural next step in their education, while others do not consider college as an available option? What are the various factors that influence college access and what types of resources and programming contribute to the inclusion and retention of first generation and underserved students in college and universities.

In this class, students will have the opportunity to explore three-dimensional ideas in depth by developing one or two sculptures through a series of iterations over the course of the semester. This will allow students to focus on material and technical concerns, learn about the process of imagining and making, and engage in and respond to constructive criticism while they take ideas as far as they can. To engage this process fully, students will also share working drawings, maquettes, and illustrated proposals with each other and research influences and methods.

This course will familiarize the student with the basic principles and techniques of programming and using Arduino microcontroller boards and integrating them with sensor and actuator circuits. Emphasis on general problem-solving skills and creativity in developing programs and circuits. This will be a project-based course; the majority of class time will be spent experimenting and building. Prior engineering experience not required, but the student should be comfortable with basic analytical thought and a beginning familiarity with simple electronics.