Imagine a future where women make up 50 percent of the scientific community. This course examines the status of women in science through an exploration of the lives, times, and works of women scientists, past and present. Music for the Dance. This seminar explores the temporal and formal aspects of music composed for the dance. The first part of the course examines the courtly dance forms of the early Baroque and their relationship to the emergence of the orchestral and keyboard dance suite in the late Baroque.
Students analyze meter, tempo, and rhythmic pattern in relation to the actual dances.
No technical knowledge of music is required. A central issue in human society is the production and use of energy. This seminar encompasses a wide-ranging examination of energy issues, including energy sources and transformations, the history of energy technology, environmental issues, and alternative sources of energy. Quantitative reasoning is required to analyze energy issues, although no specific background beyond high-school mathematics is expected. Field trips are required.