Imagine a future where women make up fifty 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. Gender, Work, and Family. Both the family and work are social institutions in which gender inequality is constructed and maintained. This seminar explores men's and women's experiences in family and work, with particular emphasis on the contemporary United States. The Ghost in the Atom.