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1.00 Credits
1 credit. Every semester Students learn the fundamentals of bellydancing (e.g., hip circles, undulations, shimmies) and progress to layering of movements. Familiarity with Arabic rhythms, cultural knowledge as it pertains to this dance form, finger cymbals, veil work, and choreography are covered. The natural movements of bellydancing, which improve flexibility, endurance, and coordination, are appropriate for all fitness levels.
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1.00 Credits
1 credit. Spring The basics of safe and efficient springboard diving. The course begins with the dive off the poolside, followed by the proper approach and hurdle performed on the diving board, proper body alignment, and the keys to splashless entries. Students learn basic dives, and some progress to somersaulting and twisting dives. Also covered: how to judge diving and the advanced training and analytical tools used in the sport.
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1.00 Credits
1 credit. Every semester Students earn this physical education credit by participating on a varsity athletic team. Requirements: Academic and medical eligibility, and participation in practices and athletic contests for the duration of the athletic season.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Fall The emergence of We s t e rn philosophy in ancient G reece during the age of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Plato, and Aristotle.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Every year A survey of our most important ethical notions and of the philosophers who were most important in shaping them.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Alternate years An introduction to philosophy through an examination of influential views of what it is to be human. Topics include: the relations among people, machines, and animals; the role of culture in shaping people; and the question of whether there is a distinctively human good.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Special topic (offered irregularly) A study of classic attempts to define “the political” as a form of common life inlight of questions posed by 20th-century bureaucracy, totalitarianism, and total war.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Alternate years An introduction to philosophy t h rough a set of related problems in metaphysics, the theory of knowledge, and aesthetics. Topics include knowledge, skepticism, romanticism, and the role of imagination in ethical re fle ction, in art, and in everyday experience.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Special topic (offered irregularly) An introduction to ethics and political philosophy through a study of the limits of human action, as enacted in ancient Greek tragedy and in the dramatic dialogues of Plato.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Alternate years An examination of major 19th- and 20th-century European philosophical and literary texts by Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Sartre, de Beauvoir, and Fanon. Topics include: “the death of God”; alienation; freedom andcommitment; ethics and politics when “everything is permitted”;the interaction of self and other(s) in the definition of individual and social identities.
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