Course Listings

This course will take a deeper look at one application of the fundamental concepts and reactivity learned in Organic Chemistry: dyes. From textiles to medicine to cutting-edge experiments using fluorescence, organic dyes are chemical tools with a long and fruitful history. This course will focus on the organic chemistry of designing, synthesizing, and using dyes, and will engage with primary literature. This one-half credit course meets for the first half of the semester.

This course will explore the world of 2D retro-style video game programming. Students will be introduced to several software development tools, such as MakeCode Arcade, Python, and GameMaker. Students will produce a series of small games, and the course will culminate with development of a larger project to showcase to the college community. No previous experience with computer programming is expected or required. This course will develop general programming skills for students seeking to take CSC-111 in the future. Note: each half semester is identical, and so students should not register for both. 1st half semester course

This half-semester course looks at the way sacred texts, and the literary traditions that respond to and dramatize sacred texts, explain birth and death. Where did humans come from, what is our purpose, and what happens to use when we die? These are the questions that religious traditions around the world attempt to answer, and we will read the stories, poems, sacred texts, and plays that explore how theories of how we begin and how we end means we should live. 1st half semester course

Most people in the history of the world have been in one sense or another religious. And most religions have a subset of their followers who are really religious. Let's call that subset "monks." Set apart from ordinary life, Christian, Hindu and Buddhist monks have different expectations and patterns of prayer, behavior and community. We will study the writings of and about some of these groups over time. The course will also look at groups today that are not considered monastic in order to understand organizations that you might one day manage: Is the Sphinx Club member like a monk of Wabash? Should large companies divide their employees into groups that are "true believers" and gig workers, like monks and laity? What can our current epidemic of loneliness and despair learn from the monastic tradition of community and hospitality? The course will likely involve an overnight trip to a monastery. First-half semester class. Can be taken along with REL 273: Mystics, or by itself.