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4.00 Credits
This eight-day January course integrates theory with scientific technical skills on a unique field-expedition in a mountain range in North America. Students learn the foundation principles of snow science and avalanche study through readings, classroom learning and field experience, and explore the relationship between human behavior and decision-making, and how it affects snow pack stability. Topics include snow science, mountain weather, geology, avalanche search and rescue, backcountry travel, and the human-nature interaction and relationship in a mountainous winter environment, as well as backcountry wilderness skills necessary to recreate, travel and study safely in a mountainous, winter environment. This course is designed for the student who is interested in exploring, study or research, or teaching or leading groups in a mountainous winter environment.
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4.00 Credits
Offered as part of the Adirondack Semester. This field-oriented course emphasizes the natural history, ecology, geology, geography and climate of the Adirondacks. Primary emphasis is on the taxonomy, life histories, local adaptations and uses of Adirondack flora and fauna. Basic ecological concepts such as succession, competition, energy flow, food webs and nutrient cycles are studied by means of field trips and field studies. Study may also be made of stars, seasons and the movement of principal parts of the solar system as they apply to the Adirondacks. Students learn how to record observational data as well as how to conduct an experiment.
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4.00 Credits
Offered as part of the Adirondack Semester. This course looks at our interaction with the natural world through an individual and artistic eye. We consider the purpose of art in general through a look at the genre of nature writing, nature journaling, papermaking, sketching, poetry and artistic representation. Students try their hand at various modes of artistic expression and mine their own experiences in the outdoors for raw material, to explore the intersection of self and the natural world, that internal landscape where the "eye" and the "I" meet. Through a series of focusreading and creative writing assignments, sketching exercises, creative workshops and a gallery visit, students are encouraged to slow down, observe and reflect on the personal relationship they have with the natural world.
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4.00 Credits
Using the Adirondacks as a case study, this course examines current activities in land planning and the importance of historical context. Study of Adirondack history begins with 16th-century information from European explorers and Native Americans. Emphasis is then placed on industrial and recreational use in the 19th century. The course highlights formation of the State Forest Preserve and the Adirondack Park, and regulations governing private land use. Study of the present utilizes political theory such as internal colonization and core-periphery. The course employs local examples through discussion and field trips.
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4.00 Credits
Offered as part of the Adirondack Semester. Our current environmental problems are due primarily to the total volume of human consumption. This course focuses on the problem of high consumption in developed countries and possible solutions for it. Is this high consumption necessary for our happiness, or could we be just as happy while doing less damage to the natural world? If we could, as many environmentalists argue, why do so few of us live as though we truly believe that? Is it possible to consume less, either as individuals or as a society? What kinds of changes are feasible in society to reduce our damage to the natural world? The course offers a theory of happiness intended to make it possible to answer these questions. Also offered as Environmental Studies 310 and Philosophy 310.
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4.00 Credits
shared thematic concerns (e.g., the role of women) or a periodspecific examination of non-Anglo drama. Prerequisite: varies.
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4.00 Credits
Fundamentals of classical ballet including barre, center work and across-the-floor movements with emphasis on body alignment and elements of ballet style. Material is presented in a progression from basic to more complex. Lectures consist of pertinent references to dance history, terminology, movement theory and dance films illustrating related subject matter. Elective only; does not count toward completion of major or minor.
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4.00 Credits
This is a practicum credit for acting in, assisting the director of or performing dramaturgical support for faculty-directed productions in the University Theater. Students are selected through the regular production audition process and credit is determined in advance of auditions, based primarily on the size of the role or function and the time commitment involved in preparing/rehearsing and performing it. The faculty director of each production will set available credit units at either .25 or .5; a student may take up to 1 unit of Performance and Communication Arts 101. However, it is not necessary to take the credit to participate in the productions. Pass/fail grading only. Elective only, does not count toward completion of major or minor.
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4.00 Credits
The study and practice of creating scenery for the stage, this course also explores the operation of the theater's physical plant. Material is presented in lectures and is further illustrated through the activities of the production studio.
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4.00 Credits
An introduction to the basic mental and physical skills used in acting, including use of imagination, understanding of the self, character analysis, body flexibility and expression, and voice and diction. Coursework includes exploratory and centering exercises, improvisational techniques and scene and monologue study.
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