In this advanced class, students will focus on continued development of technical skills, understanding basic jazz music forms, developing a vocabulary of 'trick' or 'flash' steps, and gaining a historical perspective on tap dance. Class will include periodic video showings and lecture/demonstrations regarding tap dance history and styles.

A continuation of Dance 287. The focus now shifts specifically to performance and the notation of complex rhythmic structures. Working as an ensemble, the class will create a music/dance suite, using body music, movement, vocal work, and music visualization as our inspiration. Emphasis will be placed on odd and mixed meters and rhythmical accuracy. Students will contribute both movement and musical material. Class time will be run like a professional rehearsal. Outside work will focus on musical research, choreography and music notation.

Each dance major will be expected to be involved in a senior project during her final year of study. She should sign up for D390, for both fall and spring semesters. Senior projects can vary, from choreographic or performance work to research topics.

This course is designed to give students practical, hands-on experience in the translation, from French to English, of a literary work. We will begin the semester with readings in translation theory before moving on to the selection (by students) of a literary text. Students will work collaboratively in teams on a collective translation; teams will meet on a weekly basis with the professor for a detailed review of the work in progress.

Real and metaphorical confinement has inspired novels, plays, poetry, films, testimonials, and works of art in France and the French-speaking world. How have writers, filmmakers, and artists represented the experience of material, psychological and metaphysical constraints? How have they imaginatively transcended and transformed closed spaces such as prisons, convents, asylums, Romantic malaise, colonial rule, the 'univers concentrationnaire,' illness, and the limits of the human condition?

What is race? Who decides? Are we a 'postracial' society? This course focuses on historical, social, psychological, and legal underpinnings of the social construction of race and examines how perspectives on race have influenced the lives of students and teachers in schools. Class sessions compare the old vs.

This course emphasizes understanding, speaking, and writing in a contemporary context. It also promotes creativity with presentations and original group projects. It includes Web activities, films, short stories, and frequent conversation sessions with language assistants who are native speakers.

This course emphasizes understanding, speaking, and writing in a contemporary context. It also promotes creativity with presentations and original group projects. It includes Web activities, films, short stories, and frequent conversation sessions with language assistants who are native speakers.

This course emphasizes understanding, speaking, and writing in a contemporary context. It also promotes creativity with presentations and original group projects. It includes Web activities, films, short stories, and frequent conversation sessions with language assistants who are native speakers.

A review of Italian through film. Cultural and linguistic aspects of five to six films and related readings will be the focus of this course and the starting point for class activities, conversation, written exercises, and grammar review. This interdisciplinary approach offers students an opportunity to explore Italian culture deeply, while at the same time improving their reading, writing, and speaking skills. The course also features regular conversation sessions with language assistants who are native speakers.