Admission by permission of the Program in Middle East Studies, normally for junior and senior minors in Middle East Studies, and for qualified juniors and seniors from other departments. Offered both semesters each year.

A course emphasizing physical chemistry of biological systems. Topics covered include chemical thermodynamics, solution equilibria, enzyme kinetics, and biochemical transport processes. The laboratory focuses on experimental applications of physical-chemical principles to systems of biochemical importance. Prerequisites: 224 or permission of the instructor, and MTH 112.

A writer's workshop designed to explore the complexities and delights of creative nonfiction. Constant reading, writing, and critiquing. Admission by permission of the instructor. Organized as a writers' workshop, this course is designed to encourage students already proficient in writing to view their own and others' essays as works of art. Correctness in spelling, grammar, and punctuation will be assumed from the beginning. Much emphasis will be placed on the development of each student's personal voice and on the ripening of her own particular talents.

A historical survey of the principal styles and monuments of western music from the time of Haydn and Mozart to the time of Stravinsky and beyond. Open to all students (including first-years) who have had previous musical experience or who have obtained permission of the instructor.

A calculus-based introduction to the properties, structure, formation and evolution of stars and galaxies. The laws of gravity, thermal physics, and atomic physics provide a basis for understanding observed properties of stars, interstellar gas and dust. We apply these concepts to develop an understanding of stellar atmospheres, interiors, and evolution, the interstellar medium, and the Milky Way and other galaxies. Prerequisites: two semesters of college-level physics and second-semester calculus.

Independent coaching and the study of advanced coaching tactics and strategy in a specific sport. Prerequisite: 505d. This is a full-year course.

Topic(s) course. Adventure uses an organization of the landscape that has influence far beyond the usual boundaries of fiction. This course examines the structuring elements of this traditionally masculine genre: who can be a hero? Where can heroes go, what do they receive when they arrive, and what happens when they come home? Who lives where in the spaces that such fiction explores? What characterizes the landscape of adventure fiction? Who can cross significant boundaries and who cannot? What gender and class demarcations do these fictions enforce?

A study of theories of growth and development of children from prenatal development through adolescence; basic considerations of theoretical application to the educative process and child study. Directed observations in a variety of child-care and educational settings. Enrollment limited to 55.

This course is an exploration of the various dance styles, forms and symbols attributed to the classical societies of Western Africa. The course will focus on those dances whose origins are (historically) found in the Old Mali Empire, i.e. (Mali, Senegal, the Gambia, Guinea) as well as Nigeria and Ghana. It will specifically examine the dance styles of the Serer, Lebou, Djiolla, Bambara, Wolof, Sauce, Malinke, Manding, Yoruba and Twi peoples of these regions. Enrollment limited to 25.

Each topic will focus on a particular literary epoch, movement, genre or author from German literary culture. All sections taught in German. For some, German culture had a shadowy international profile even before the Nazis came to power. This seminar examines the works of the imagination that contributed to this dark image, including the Faust legend, the works of horror once called ?German tales,? and the haunted screen of Weimar cinema. We will also consider the transformed understanding of such works in the aftermath of the Holocaust.