Supervised individual work in business. A learning contract with a clearly defined project must be approved by supervising faculty member.

This course is designed to introduce students to the theories, concepts, and practices of service-learning in an international setting. Service- learning engages the student in enhancing the common good through the application of learning to service.

This course is designed to introduce students to the theories, concepts, and practices of service-learning in an international setting. Service- learning engages the student in enhancing the common good through the application of learning to service.

This is a zero-credit course which will allow us to track the number of residents (housestaff) at the Univesity.

This course introduces students to some of the objects and methods of inquiry common to the different language areas and fields of study in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. Students will examine the structure and use of spoken language and written language as well as their sociocultural aspects and explore basic linguistic principles, the roles and function of language, and issues involved in first- and second-language acquisition.

A humanities course for the 21st century; this class goes global in unprecedented ways. Team taught by expert instructors representing ten different linguistic and cultural traditions (Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Russian), it trains students in the skill of close reading for the analysis of a wide range of media (literary text, folk text, still image, film, etc.) that challenge cultural identities and cross national boundaries.

Introduces the forms and functions of folklore and mythology, with particular emphasis on the Americas. Folklore opens up questions about the relationship of tradition to modernization, individualism, and community. The course explains how folklore is fundamental to human lives and relates these cultural traditions to identities and values in contemporary society. We give attention particularly to methods of ethnography and field collection to uncover symbols, structures, and functions in expressive culture.

This course aims to help students acquire skills and knowledge needed to promote understanding of individuals/groups from diverse backgrounds, without reinforcing stereotypes in the name of "cultural difference." Toward this end, this course will (1) utilize, as a guide/lead, the concept of "contact zones," zones of exchange that divide but simultaneously connect "us" and "them"; and (2) have each student conduct a semester-long ethnographic project concerning the contact zone.

This course asks students to think critically about the concept of democracy by close examination of the first flowering democracy in ancient Athens, its ancient critics, and comparison to their own experience of contemporary American democracy. Fundamental issues that will engage the students' discussion and writing include: socioeconomic class, individual rights, the scope of government, justice, and democracy and imperialism. Students will develop and articulate their own evaluation of the advantages and disadvantages of democratic government.

The participants in the course will get acquainted, by reading the ancient sources in English translation, with some of the greatest catastrophes and calamities in the Greco-Roman world as described by ancient authors. These events will be considered in the historical and cultural context in which they have occurred. Special attention will be paid to the ways in which ancient people reacted to, explained, and tried to accept these calamities.