Depending upon the range of interest, we will consider offering it in the spring, but most student report much greater satisfaction with starting their study of herbology outside in the green field, forest and gardens. Mark Greenberg Explore the basis and expression of existentialist thought and ideas in the works of several prominent writers. We will also watch and discuss several films, the perfect companion for winter gloom. There will be 2-3 short papers and a term paper. The Stranger, Samuel Beckett Waiting For Godot.
Complete group meets twice a week.
Shelley Vermilya A look back at 20th Century American History, with a few forays before 1900, to explore how and why lesbians and gays have been excluded from and maginalized by social and cultural discourse, and what we were doing in the meantime. We'll examine early attempts to organize homophile movements, how and why lesbian and gay communities began forming during and after World War II, the sociocultural developments that led to Stonewall, the birth of the modem Liberation Movement and its impact on the 1970's and beyond, AIDS and its effects on lesbians and gays in the 1980's and 90's, Queer culture, and how we have culturally impacted the dominant society we all live within, yet still struggle to be a part of. Stress on literature and the arts. Alicia Weiss Students will emerge with a basic knowledge of the general principles of chemistry that will inform their work in the environmental sciences and hopefully, their lives. We will consider these concepts as they apply to familiar daily phenomena, such as environmental and physiological processes.