If you are intrigued by how things work, try Jim Mahoney's Whirlwind Tour of Physics or Joe Mazur's Math for Scientists . If you love music and would like the experience of singing great choral music, take Chorus with Susan Klein. And if listening to great works of music is more your style, take German Opera from Mozart to Early Wagner. You get the idea. However well-defined your interests are coming into Marlboro, keep in mind that broad study in your first two years will add to the dimensions of your current interests and will open doors to new ones.
Broad study is a common theme throughout the Course Book.
You will note that Sample Programs of Study in every field indicate courses across the curriculum which are highly recommended to enrich and inform your study of an area. If you are interested in creative writing and have been writing poetry or fiction since you were 6 years old, don't limit yourself to creative writing, literature, and poetry classes. Faculty member T. Wilson, who teaches writing, poetry, and literature, says wisely, Writers must know words and language and what has been done with them before, but it certainly helps to know, as well, something of politics or economics or the stars or how to chop a mortise with a chisel. Hold onto your interests , but consider connections. But keep your options open .