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Small Working Group Sessions Costa Rica Labor Workshop
No full textThis document explains the objectives of sessions that were held during the Costa Rica Labor Workshop that took place from June 6-9, 1999
Draft 2000 HOLA Letter to Prospective Students
No full textDraft of HOLA letter to Latino/a prospective students who have been accepted to the class of 2004, inviting them to the Pre-Frosh weekend even
Appointment of Joan Friedman as Co-Director of the IC
No full textLetter from Dean Smith to Professor Friedman confirming their appointment as one of the three co-directors of the Intercultural Cente
En busca de la felicidad de quien?
No full textIn this article, Oulahan explains the contradiction between the ideals that the United States stands for, particularly life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and actions that it is taking, such as the recent approval of commerce with China that will most likely result in harmful consequences for the people of this country
Development & Evolution
No full textWhen you look around in your everyday life it is possible to find a vast array of different kinds of animals, from ants to humans to squirrels and everything in between! All the more incredible is the \ud
fact that this is just a small subset of the entire variety of animals – there are many more animals no longer alive and many living animals that you can’t even see by just looking around. Despite this impressive diversity we are all related to one another by a shared genetic code. There has been long-standing curiosity about the origins of animal diversity and more recently about how changes to the genetic code may lead to changes in animal form. However to begin to understand these types of questions we first need to examine another, equally incredible process: how a single fertilized egg transforms into a whole organism. This process is what we term “developmental biology” and at its core again is the genetic code. The genetic code contains information needed to build an organism and during development that genetic information is translated into physical form. But if the cells of an organism all contain basically identical genetic information how is this used to make the many different cells of the body and to direct the assembly of those cells into a functional unit such as ourselves? Once we begin to understand this process of building individual \ud
organisms we can then ask how changes in developmental mechanisms lead to differences we see between organisms. In this upper-level biology course we therefore explore some of the basic \ud
principles of developmental biology and how they relate to questions of evolution and animal diversity
Documentary Film and Approaches to Truth
No full textThis course explores the challenge of truth-telling in documentary film and video. A prevailing belief in documentary as a truthful medium has presented documentary makers and audiences with a series of complex problems in the creation, consumption and interpretation of the documentary, in all its forms (among them essay films, cinema verité, social issue films, personal documentary and, more broadly, reality TV, nightly news, surveillance tapes, home movies, etc.) What practices have documentarians engaged in to acknowledge, deny, complicate and perhaps solve the problem of truth-telling? How have viewing habits and cultural dialogues evolved to address this problem? What is the relationship of the documentary film to history, knowledge, power and representation? Where might the documentary be heading in the age of corporate globalization, media consolidation, multivalent identities, and the camcorder, smartphone and internet “revolutions?” We will approach the topic through readings, film viewings, discussions,and production and editing of short videos
Fundamental Physics II
No full textThis course focuses almost exclusively on electricity and magnetism (E&M) as separate and\ud
as unified phenomenon. The unification of these two seemingly distinct entities held and\ud
continues to hold deep theoretical and practical significance