Our job in this course is to write reviews each week that, first and foremost, make good reading. We will work hard on developing descriptive skills in writing by reading our work to each other. How can our writing create images that move across time and space? We will learn by looking at the work of some of the great reviewers what kinds of things a reviewer looks for, and how, in a relatively short amount of space, a reviewer manages to convey the magic of the evening in print. Sometimes a show doesn't work: who takes responsibility?

Molecular ecology utilizes the spatial and temporal distribution of molecular genetic markers to ask questions about the ecology, evolution, behavior, and conservation of organisms. This science may utilize genetic variation to understand individuals, populations, and species as a whole ("How does habitat fragmentation affect connectedness among populations?"; "From where do particular groups originate?").

This course focuses on the theory and practice of agroecology as an approach to addressing both social and ecological health and well-being in farming systems. Students will become familiar with the ecological conditions that support or undermine the health of agro-ecosystems and the effects of different agricultural methods on the maintenance of biodiversity in farm fields and the surrounding landscape. We will also consider the social conditions that support or undermine the well-being of both human and natural systems, and social movements that attempt to promote alternative approaches.

What happened to the passenger pigeon, the dodo bird, and the wooly mammoth? Why did the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse? How can we explain the destruction of the World Trade Center? How did smallpox get eradicated? Why did the stock market crash in 2008? All of these are examples of full or partial collapses that could be explained by the following mathematical mechanisms: randomness, emergence, evolution, instability, nonlinearity, and networks. This course will explore the basics of these mathematical mechanisms in the context of collapses.

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This Division III seminar will be organized around students' Division III Independent Study Projects. Students will be responsible for presenting their Division IIIs in progress several times during the semester and for providing serious, thoughtful written feedback on one another's work. We will also address general and shared issues of conducting research, formulating clear and persuasive analysis, and presenting results both orally and in writing.

This course is for Division III students who are in their final semester and whose projects are based on ethnography, interviewing, oral history, community-engaged research, and other participatory methodologies. The course will be organized around students' Division III projects and will focus on writing as a critical juncture in the research process when questions of interpretation and representation loom large.

This course will look at globalization and contemporary art through the lens of border culture, a term that refers to the "deterritorialized" nature of a subject when she is removed from her context or place of origin. Her themes include borders within the realms of language, gender, ideology, race, and genres of cultural production.

Although we talk readily of "postmodernism," do we really know what "modernism" was about? Never did change seem to be as dramatic and rapid as in the first half of the twentieth century. Leftists and rightists, avant-gardists and traditionalists alike, spoke of the age of the masses, characterized by conscript armies and political mass movements, mass production of commodities, and mass media.

In this advanced seminar we will use poetry as a site of thinking about children and childhood in the U.S. We will consider questions of power, perspective, and experience regarding children and adults, examine works primarily in 20th century American poetry, and explore poetry-writing in relation to thinking about children and childhood. Our goal will be to balance attention to questions about ideas with questions about creative form.