Topics course. This seminar will explore the reflections of ancient philosophers on the topic of human flourishing. Questions to be addressed include: What role should reason and thought play in the best life for human beings? What value should be assigned to emotions and desires and to interpersonal relationships? Can individuals flourish in isolation, or does the best life necessarily involve engagement in human communities? We will focus on the views expressed by Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, Greek and Roman Stoics, and the ancient Skeptics.

Topics course. From Medieval love lyrics (Minnesang ) to the seductive verses sung by Marlene Dietrich and beyond, we will read closely, analyze, and discuss a wide selection of poetry including sonnets, ballads, Volkslieder, elegies, forms of free verse, and parodies of various kinds. We will also listen to the musical settings of many poems, classic and popular. Among the poets considered will be Gryphius, Goethe, Heine, Droste-Hulshoff, Rilke, Lasker-Schuler, Brecht, Bachmann, Dursbein, and Hahn.

A continuation of 110. One fifty-minute musicianship section required per week, in addition to classroom meetings. Prerequisite: 110 or permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 18.

This course aims help students reach Advanced proficiency in Arabic through language study and content work focused on Arab history, literature, and current events. We continue to focus on developing truly active control of a large vocabulary thru communicative activities. Grammatical work focuses on complex grammatical constructions and demands increased accuracy in understanding and producing complex structures in extended discourse. Preparation for class and active, cooperative participation in group activities are essential to students? progress in this course.

Topics course. Explores significance of im/migrant workers and their transnational social movements to U.S. history in the late 19th and 20th centuries. How have im/migrants responded to displacement, marginalization, and exclusion, by redefining the meanings of home, citizenship, community, and freedom? What are the connections between mass migration and U.S. imperialism? What are the histories of such cross-border social movements as labor radicalism, borderlands feminism, Black Liberation, and anti-colonialism?

Survey of the major economic, political and social changes of this period, primarily through the lens of race, class, and gender, to understand the role of ordinary people in shaping defining events, including industrial capitalism, colonialism, imperialism, mass immigration and migration, urbanization, the rise of mass culture, nationalism, war, feminism, labor radicalism, civil rights, and other liberatory movements for social justice.

Women's experience and constructions of gender in the commonly recognized major events of the 20th century. Introduction to major thinkers of the period through primary sources, documents and novels, as well as to the most significant categories in the growing secondary literature in 20th-century European history of women and gender.

The emergence, expansion, and maintenance of the Russian Empire to 1929. The dynamics of pan-imperial institutions and processes (imperial dynasty, peasantry, nobility, intelligentsia, revolutionary movement), as well as the development of the multitude of nations and ethnic groups conquered by or included into the empire. Focus on how the multinational Russian empire dealt with pressures of modernization (nationalist challenges in particular), internal instability and external threats.

Chinese society and civilization from the Tang dynasty to the Taiping rebellion. Topics include disappearance of the hereditary aristocracy and rise of the scholar-official class, civil service examination system, Neo-Confucian orthodoxy, poetry and the arts, Mongol conquest, popular beliefs, women and the family, Manchus in China, domestic rebellion, and confrontation with the West.

Sectioned course. Building on skills learned in Fencing I (Foil) epee and sabre and the differences between each style will be taught. Class will cover footwork, positions, offense, defense, and tactics particular to each weapon. Class will incorporate dynamic stretching and plyometric training to improve students? fitness with emphasis on partner drills and bouting, leading to in-class tournaments. Students will also learn about the world of competitive fencing from local events to World Cups and the Olympics. Prerequisite: Fencing I or permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 10.