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This course introduces students to the demands and conventions of academic reading and writing. It focuses on analyzing texts, building effective arguments, and using evidence and secondary source material. Instruction on the stages of the writing process,…
Despite (and perhaps because of) globalization, the internet, and other features of contemporary life, formal bureaucratic organizations continue to shape the world we live in. Government affairs—both domestic and foreign—are still largely the province of…
This course teaches students how to solve problems, both with and without code, with an emphasis on correctness, design, and style. Topics include computational thinking, abstraction, algorithms, data structures, and computer science more generally. Problem…
This is a course for playwrights, fiction writers, and screenwriters. The course explores specific techniques of William Shakespeare's character creation, with the aim of enlarging our own technical repertoire as contemporary writers. Techniques we explore…
This course examines the design, development, and evaluation of learning programs as a strategic and analytical process that extends beyond the design of individual courses. Applicable to corporate, educational, and nonprofit contexts, students explore…
The rise of generative artificial intelligence (AI) presents new opportunities and challenges for anyone creating digital media products—from photographers and podcasters to application developers, user-experience (UX) designers, game creators, and learning…
In this proseminar, students develop the skills necessary to engage in graduate-level research in the field of museum studies. Students read classic scholarly texts in museum studies and complete short assignments designed to hone their academic writing…
This course helps business professionals improve their writing so that they are better equipped to accomplish their educational and professional goals. Students practice some of the essential forms of business writing, including e-mail messages, cover…
This course provides instruction in writing for students considering careers or advanced study in the natural, computational, or applied sciences. Through critical reading of key examples of the genres of scientific literature, students study how scientific…
What are the effects of displacement on tradition, storytelling, and cultural belonging? How does forced migration influence narration, creative expression, and imagination? What are the powers and potentials of artistic communication after existential…
What do humanist scholars do and how do they do it? This preparatory course introduces students to the fundamental skills, techniques, and methods that are applicable for study in any one of the disciplines offered in the humanities, including languages and…
This course analyzes the ethical, social, and policy implications of global demographic change. Through a sustainability lens, students engage with issues such as declining fertility, population aging, migration pressures, and climate-related displacement.…
The goal of this course is to develop skills for making corporate investment and financing decisions. Topics include discounted cash flow and other valuation techniques; risk and return; capital asset pricing model; corporate capital structure and financial…
This course surveys William Shakespeare's comedies, including famous works such as A Midsummer Night's Dream , Twelfth Night , and The Tempest , as well as less produced plays like The Two Gentlemen of Verona . Although the primary focus of study is the plays…
Visions, spirit possession, near-death experiences—experiences of ecstasy are universal in the history of religions. Psychology of religion attempts to explain such experiences using current understandings of the mind. At times, the study of ecstatic…
In this course, we investigate trust, the buyer's decision process, modern selling methodologies, persuasion, and the art of influence. Students apply ideas from each class in their own environment and have the opportunity to sharpen their skills in an…
Born in Florence to expatriate parents and widely familiar with Europe from boyhood family trips, John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) displayed social savoir faire already in 1874 at eighteen on arrival in Paris to train as a professional painter. His portfolio…
In Rabelais and His World , Mikhail Bakhtin argues that the grotesque—the exaggerated, the excessive, the strange, and the malformed—lowers what is elevated and elevates what is low, collapsing distinctions between sacred and profane, ruler and fool, and…
This course is intended to provide a thorough introduction to the poetry of Archaic Greek lyric. Readings cover the major Archaic Greek lyric poets, from Archilochus through Bacchylides and Pindar. Over the course of the semester, students become proficient…
This advanced fiction-writing course focuses on writing thrillers—dark, engrossing, and suspenseful plot-driven stories involving the push and pull between protagonist and antagonist. The course is intended for students who want to write a thriller novel; it…
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