Learn the craft of improvisational acting to foster team building, develop spontaneity, sharpen concentration, increase listening skills, solve problems, recognize and develop basic elements of storytelling and stretch creative imagination. With the focus on taking risks and exploring moment to moment, improvisation allows the student to access once again the aspect of self that creates in the form of play. Overcome inhibitions in a supportive, creatively stimulating
environment that emphasizes process rather than performance.

This course is appropriate for beginners and for low and high intermediate students who wish to improve oral proficiency. All instruction is in French. Be prepared to work hard both in class and outside class, and to learn more French than you might imagine possible in a short five weeks.

This course will explore the theory and reality of international organizations. Problems such as climate change, the financial crisis and unequal development require global solutions. Yet institutions, such as the UN, which are designed to confront them are weak and widely distrusted. The course will explore this dilemma, the global political and economic system and how social movements influence global change. We will also study the cultural knowledge/skills needed to work effectively at the global level.

Environmental study is an essential part of a liberal arts education in the 21st century, given the serious environmental impacts that each of us makes in our personal and professional lives. This course will introduce students to this exploding, interdisciplinary field, with a focus on creating a world that is environmentally sustainable and socially just. Environmental problems and solutions will be studied by drawing from the biophysical sciences, the social sciences, policy and the humanities.

This course will provide an overview of special education including models, theory, history, legislation, characteristics of various disabilities and disorders, individualized education plans and teaching strategies for students with a wide range of abilities. The class is intended for pre-service teachers, practitioners or people interested in working with individuals with disabilities.