This interdisciplinary course explores the practice and ethics of community-based learning (CBL) through relevant readings and lectures. Students interact with guest speakers (faculty, community partners, and peers) who provide first-hand perspectives on how CBL connects to local, national, and global issues. The course provides a point of entry and orientation to students new to CBL, as well as an opportunity for in-depth discussion among students at all levels of familiarity with CBL. IDP 120 serves as the gateway course for the Community Engagement and Social Change Concentration.

The poetry concentration stipulates a senior capstone project integrating the skills and perspectives learned through the electives in the concentration and the internships or practical experiences. Students will complete an independent project under the rubric of a group special studies. For example, students might produce and print a chapbook of their own poetry; a portfolio of translations; an integrated packet of curriculum materials for teachers of poetry in a particular grade (K-12), or curate an online exhibit of some part of the poetic process, such as drafts.

Required for all seniors pursuing the Museums Concentration, this seminar provides a forum for students to develop research capstone projects that synthesize their previous coursework and practical experiences for the Museums concentration. These projects are supplemented by weekly seminar meetings in which students will explore and critique the mission and work of museums and contemporary forces shaping them. Class sections will also provide a forum for progress reports and discussion of individual research projects as well as final presentations.

The capstone seminar brings together a cohort of concentratorsto explore contemporary issues at the intersection of archives and public history. The readings encourage students to ask expansively "what counts as an archive?" In addition, each concentrator will complete an independent project, usually an exhibit that draws upon concentrators' own expertise developed through their coursework and their practical experiences. Open only to students in the Archives Concentration. Enrollment limited to 15.

An introduction to the theoretical and practical questions of building archives as well as a sampling of the surprising insights produced by archival research. The seven -- week lecture series will highlight archival discoveries made by faculty researchers, both the eureka moments of personal discovery and the ways archival research enriches and often significantly revises existing narratives or scholarly interpretations. Professional archivists and public historians will reflect on contemporary directions and challenges in their fields. Weekly readings and several short essays.

Same as FRN 480.

Electrophysiological recording of signals from neurons, including an independent project in the second half of the semester. BIO 300 must be taken concurrently.

Electrophysiological recording of signals from neurons, including an independent project in the second half of the semester. BIO 300 must be taken concurrently.

The function of nervous systems. Topics include electrical signals in neurons, synapses, the neural basis of form and color perception, and the generation of behavioral patterns. See website (tinyurl.com/bio300) for full syllabus. Prerequisites: BIO 200 or 202. Laboratory (BIO 301) must be taken concurrently.

The course is intended to provide the student with the academic writing skills necessary to successfully undertake writing assignments in the upper-division Spanish courses. The focus of the course will be on expository and argumentative writing, but some attention will be devoted to writing narratives and descriptions. Grammar will be reviewed within the context of the writing assignments. Prerequisite: SPN 220 or sufficient proficiency in Spanish. Enrollment limited to 19. Priority given to majors, minors and second-year students planning on a JYA.