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An interdisciplinary study of significant texts from Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Readings may include Virgil's Aeneid, Saint Augustine's Confessions, and Dante's Inferno. The seminar will emphasize critical reflection, writing, and discussionCredits: 4 cr.
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This seminar will include discussions on assigned readings of major essayists, in- and out-of-class writing assignments, a research project, and oral reports. Students will learn to read and write better and learn ways in which discussion and writing help us to think better and to better understand our biases and those of others. For the research project, students will be asked to write about their own place and time. Credits: 4 cr.
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We are surrounded by images and objects every day that teach us what we should look like, buy, and desire. "Looking at Art" analyzes art of the past and present to inform our understanding of our own material world. Along the way, we will survey and critique visual culture from the dorm room to the Shelburne and Fleming Museums.Credits: 4 cr.
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This course will explore origins of many kinds. We will start with the Zen concept of "beginner's mind," then look at creation stories from several cultures. For comparison, we will consider a scientific approach to the origins of Earth and the universe. Then we will open the idea up to other kinds of beginnings, such as stories about coming of age and the possibility of starting over even as an adultCredits: 4 cr.
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The works of these authors will be examined against a broad historical and cultural background of Russia in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The focus will be on various issues: family, love, faith, ideology, social justice, the complexity of human nature, and the quest for a meaningful life. In some semesters both authors will be considered; in others, the course will focus on just one of them. Credits: 4 cr.
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In this course we will study examples of nonconformist behavior. What are the various grids in our lives To what extent is it desirable, or even possible, to abandon them Students will do substantial autobiographical writing, in order to examine the inherited structures in their own experience. Readings may include Galileo, Tolstoy, Thoreau, Jack London, Emily Dickinson, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jon Krakauer. Credits: 4 cr.
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In this course we will study the ways in which writers examine their lives by writing about them, and students will learn how to examine their own lives through reading, writing, and collaboration with peers. Credits: 4 cr.
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This course will introduce students to plays from classical times to the present. We will consider the plays as texts and also as performance events. Through reading, discussion, and regular writing assignments, students will be challenged to understand the relationships between the theatrical worlds that playwrights have fashioned and the world in which they find themselves living. Plays in performance during the semester, both on campus and off campus, will be included in the course syllabus. Credits: 4 cr.
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The intent of this seminar is to introduce students to the rich literature and passionate practice of fly fishing. Classic novels and short stories will be illuminated through an interdisciplinary exploration ranging from film to biology, entomology, fly tying, poetry, and fly casting. In the process we will contemplate questions of philosophy, politics, class, gender, science, religion, life cycles, and the serious pursuit of leisure. The seminar will include some field work; you may get wet. Credits: 4 cr.
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This course is designed to introduce students to American literary and cultural representations of the natural environment, examining a variety of writings that have shaped the way that we understand and treat nature. We will consider a number of relevant disciplines, including environmental philosophy, politics, aesthetics, and ethics. Credits: 4 cr.
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