Colloquia Colloquia First Year Colloquia Below is a list of first-year colloquia being offered for the spring semester of 2001. Students must obtain the instructor's signature on a permission slip to participate in a colloquium. For more information, contact the colloquium instructor. Through an eclectic selection of readings and a series of required field trips that culminate in an overnight in late April, we will be exploring some of those roles.
Enrollment is limited to ten.
Permission of Instructor is required. Some climbers may be prompted to embrace mountaineering for motives akin to Mallory's cryptic sense of noblesse oblige. But for others there are, and were historically, more tangible explanations for exploring moutains. After the moutain world began to be entered with gusto by aplinists in the 18th century, a diverse group of individuals affiliated themselves with the moutain enterprise. This course will examine the evolution of mountaineering and the contexts into which it was thrust by a variety of people who sought to adapt it to their own lives and times.