Students will learn basic conversational Tibetan, including understanding speaking conventions, and using phonetic dictionaries and other resources. This course will include opportunities to practice speaking informally with participants from the Tibetan community in Portland. Note: this class will track closely with the "Beginning Written Tibetan" class offered on Tuesday nights.

This will be a 10-week class that focuses on various types of physical disabilities and the barriers one faces each day. The class will be structured so that students participate and actually have the ability to experience some of the aspects of each disability discussed. Students will engage in the experience on Tuesdays, and discuss and debrief their experiences on Thursdays. Students will sign up to check out one of the available wheelchairs during the term to be used for 3-days. This will allow the student to try the chair in various setting such as stores, their own home, and simply maneuvering around campus. A waiver will be signed by each student that prevents any action against the school should a student injure themselves trying something unsafe while using the wheelchair.

This course is an introduction to oppression and the types of oppression that exist in North American society. The focus of the class is on the impact of oppression on women and comes from a feminist perspective.

Emphasis on basic grammar, syntax, listening, reading comprehension, vocabulary building, writing and speaking on a beginning level. For non-native speakers.

Selective works of the author Salman Rushdie will be examined and discussed. Rushdie's works cover a broad genre of literary styles, therefore we will try to examine the various genres as the basis of exploring and interpreting the author's fiction. Genres such as Post-Modernism, Surrealism, Post-Colonialism, Post-Imperialism - just to name a few - will be examined in an introductory fashion to raise the student's curiosity for further research. This may whet the students' appetite to look further into the works of other authors who write in these genres, whether in fiction or criticism.

Women have made huge strides in the United States and throughout the world, yet many traditional forms of repression remain, and new forms have emerged. "Women and Crime" will introduce you, using feminist methods, to the role women have in the American judicial system. Women from diverse backgrounds are increasingly lawyers, judges, police, and correction officers. Feminists' lobbying efforts have strengthened laws dealing with some of the crimes against women, such as rape, battering, sexual harassment, and stalking (Raffel & Sokoloff, 1995). But the system still does not treat women well, laws and the attitudes of those empowered to carry out the laws have done much new damage to women. Throughout the term we will explore the concept that crime is a social construct, a status conferred by society. We will also gain a broad perspective on women in the criminal justice system.

The Literature of Surrealism course will attempt to cover many of the topics which are important for a better understanding of the history of the movement. Beginning with what came before it, we will then look at the initial literature which the movement created. From there, we will look at the different types of writing which the different Surrealist members created. As a conclusion, we will look at broader topics which can be seen in works throughout the movement, and we will look at a work that was influenced by "Surrealist" style. All of this will be done in order to stress the importance of literature in a movement which is most often remembered for its visual manifestations. Thus, by the time that the class is over, students will be able to fully grasp what the term "Surrealist" means and they will have a better understanding of what the Surrealists were trying to accomplish through their work.

Course planned for a little group considering the idea of committed, intense and cooperative teamwork experience. Each individual student will research for a unified group vision, understanding, and experiment of performance. Research and practical approach to the class work is based on the "Song of Songs" as an exemplary piece of Hebrew cultural tradition. The study planned around multileveled meaning and interpretation of the poem. Also, the advantage of practical exercises for modern performance concepts based on visual interpretation of "Song of Songs." Work influences by Polish Theater sources especially the examples of visual theater/stage design and ideas of Kantor, Szajna, Witkacy, Wyspianski, and Grotowski. The opportunity of development of the masks, costumes, and set design around project of "Song of Songs."