This course will examine the intrinsic immediate nature of drawing that allows the sculptor's voice to emerge. The class will work in a detailed and planned manner, build constructed models to scale and experiment with the intuitive use of drawing mediums. Some drawing projects will have physical weight, command space or become sculptural by using a variety of drawing materials, such as pigment, string and tape.

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.

A course in language and culture for elementary-level students with some previous study of French. The videotape-based method French in Action provides a lively story line and cultural context for a thorough review of grammar, and the development of listening and speaking skills. The course concentrates on vocabulary building, writing, and developing ease and competence in spoken French.

How often do you update your Facebook status? Do you use Twitter to follow world crises? What's your favorite resource for information about a new topic? This course focuses on ways digital media are being used to enhance learning in private and public spaces. Students will have the opportunity to enhance their knowledge about digital citizenship, explore the attributes and limitations of participatory culture, and build a foundation for empirical study of social phenomena.

This two-credit independent study course, which is the culminating experience of the educational studies minor, requires analysis and synthesis of key ideas that emerged during focused study in the minor. Students will work with a faculty advisor of the Educational Studies Program Committee as they plan, write, and present a capstone paper.

This course will examine a number of major literary texts from the Lyrical Ballads of Wordsworth and Coleridge through Conrad's Heart of Darkness. The focus will be on major poets and novelists of the period, but we will also consider some nonfiction prose writers as well. The course will be particularly concerned with the literary response to social change such as the migration from the country to the city, the rise of industry, the situation of women, and the legacy of imperialist expansion.

Although nineteenth-century political economists and social theorists often invoked the family as the building block of social organization, novelists paradoxically persisted in portraying families that were anything but exemplary. In this course we will explore how literary representations of families articulate and resist ideas of class, gender, privacy, and identity. We will track the evolving concept of family in novels by Austen, E. Bronte, Gaskell, A.