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Fall 2023

The Art of Stage Design — DRA2250.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Michael Giannitti

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Credits: 4

A set design communicates lots of information to an audience, and provides the physical world in which a performance takes place. In his book The Dramatic Imagination, the great set designer Robert Edmond Jones wrote: “…we may fairly speak of the art of stage designing as poetic, in that it seeks to give expression to the essential quality of a play rather than to its outward

Dance Drama

The Blazing World — PHI4246.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Catherine McKeen

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Credits: 2

Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World, published in 1666, is many things- an early experiment in science fiction; a biting satire of gender norms; a visionary feminist utopia (or unsettling authoritarian dystopia); a sample of imagination-driven travel writing; the work of a 17th c. woman making a daring claim to literary, political, and intellectual authority; and a text very

Society Culture and Thought

The Body Acoustic: Toward a Sense of Place — DAN2112.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Dana Reitz

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Credits: 2

How do we physically understand the spaces we are in? How is each of us affected by them? How do we develop a deeper sense of place? The Body Acoustic aims to heighten awareness of the reciprocal relationship between the built environment and our senses. Light and sound, distances, height, volume, surfaces, angles/curves and a/symmetries all affect one’s movement through

Dance

The Camp Aesthetic — DRA2167.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Maya Cantu

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Credits: 4

An elusive sensibility that defies definition, camp is everywhere in 2023, as fueled by the worldwide juggernaut success of “RuPaul’s Drag Race.” Sometimes seen as gaudy, perverse or excessive, camp is a sophisticated and consummately theatrical style, doubly viewing life as theater and gender as performance. Camp’s essence “is its love of the unnatural: of artifice and

Drama Literature Society Culture and Thought

The Data Science Foundations — CS2132.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Meltem Ballan

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Credits: 4

The Data Science Foundations provides an interactive introduction to common algorithms and techniques in data science. This class covers data preprocessing, regression techniques, supervised and unsupervised learning algorithms, decision trees, neural networks, ensemble methods, model evaluation techniques and ethics. Throughout the course, students are encouraged to

CAPA Science and Mathematics

The Drama-Free Workshop — DRA4123.01

Fall 2023

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Credits: 2

This class will concentrate on confidence building for actors/performers or anyone tired of letting a smartphone dictate their feelings of success. Goals will include cultivating positivity and confidence around performing. We will explore as a group how criticism is the enemy of creativity. The goal for this class is that students gain confidence through games and exercises

Drama

The Drama-Free Workshop — DRA4123.02

Fall 2023

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 2

Drama

The Flower Songs of the Hungry Coyote: Pre-Columbian Indigenous Poetry — LIT2536.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: An Duplan

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Credits: 2

While much of our study of North and Central American poetry begins after the arrival of Christopher Columbus, indigenous poetic traditions begin centuries before. Nezahualcoyotl, or the “Hungry Coyote,” is considered one of the greatest poets of pre-colonial Mexico. His “flower songs” inspired an entire generation of pre-Columbian Native poets, whose work we can read as a

Literature

The Hand as Tool — CER2317.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Anina Major

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Credits: 4

Clay responds directly to touch, retains memory and is forced through the dynamic process of firing to fix a point in time. This class will introduce students to a variety of hand-building techniques to construct sculptural and/or utilitarian forms. Students will develop their skills by practicing techniques demonstrated in class. Through making, students' skills will

Visual Arts

The Inexorable(Middle)March of Time — LIT4384.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Manuel Gonzales

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Credits: 4

Diving deep into George Eliot's brilliant, funny, heartbreaking novel, Middlemarch, a novel whose story spans only the years 1829 to 1832, we will examine the use and passage of time by one of the 19th century's most insightful and incisive authors. Eliot at once slows down and then speeds us through time, rounding back, leaping forward, using to great effect the omniscient

Literature

The Kimono Project: A design process — DRA2321.02

Fall 2023

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 2

This is a class for students interested in costume design and theatrical design in general. In this course, students will take an emotional response from their own personal history through a complete design process including the construction of a final garment(s) - a kimono. We will look at how artists from different mediums have interpreted their own source material. Each

Drama

The Magical Object: Visual Metaphor — DRA2116.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 4

There is a great difference between a prop and an object that is built or filled with the dramatic forces of a play or film. These objects fill with meaning and power and the hopes of the characters, and ours. But how do we generate a magical object that can organize an entire work of timebound art? We will pursue our investigation in the timebound arts of

Drama

The Musical "Other": Exoticism, Appropriation, and Multiculturalism — MHI4131.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Joseph Alpar

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Credits: 4

This seminar examines how the cultural “Other” has been represented in Western music. We will study a large repertory of orchestral, operatic, chamber, and solo works from the early Baroque period through the twenty-first century, investigating the uses and abuses of non-Western musical sources by composers and centering how politics and ideology inform the creation of these

Music Society Culture and Thought

The New York School of Poetry — LIT2198.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Michael Dumanis

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Credits: 4

This course will serve as an immersion in the work of the New York School of poetry: successive generations of imaginative American poets noted for their humor, irreverence, disjunctive experimentation, charm, and wildness. Significant attention will be paid to the effect of close friendship and community, homosexuality, painting and other visual arts, and New York City urban

Literature

The Personal and Political — PSY2213.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Özge Savaş

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Credits: 4

What is political? How do we acquire political knowledge? How is political understanding shaped across generations? What is the relationship between power, gender, race, and politics? Why do people participate in social movements? What is a “peaceful protest”? In this course, we will examine the interplay between people, power, and politics. We will consider participation in

Society Culture and Thought

The Real Housewives of Lit — LIT2528.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Manuel Gonzales

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Credits: 4

Beginning with Medea and Lysistrata, we will look at various women, 'housewives' you might say (though I wouldn't, not to their faces) through literature, possibly moving into Taming of the Shrew and MacBeth, skipping ever so lightly into the 19th century to pop in on Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë, before moving firmly into the modern literature of the early- and mid- and

Literature

The Scriptorium: Finding Meaning in the Madness — WRI2160.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 4

The Scriptorium, a “place for writing,” is a class for writers interested in improving their critical essay-writing skills. We will read to write and write to read. Much of our time will be occupied with writing and revising—essai means “trial” or “attempt”—as we work to create new habits and productive strategies for analytical writing. As we write in various essay structures

Writing

The Scriptorium: Monsters! — WRI2159.01, section 1

Fall 2023

Instructor: Camille Guthrie

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Credits: 4

The Scriptorium, a “place for writing,” is as a class for writers interested in improving their critical essay-writing skills. We will read to write and write to read. Much of our time will be occupied with writing and revising—essai means “trial” or “attempt”—as we work to create new habits and productive strategies for analytical writing. As we write in various essay

Writing

The Scriptorium: Monsters! — WRI2159.02, section 2

Fall 2023

Instructor: Camille Guthrie

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Credits: 4

Writing

The Third Decade of Life — PSY2241.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Emily Waterman

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Credits: 2

In this course we will draw from the fields of developmental psychology and sociology to discuss the third decade of life, or approximately ages 18 to 30. We will ask questions such as: When does adolescence end, and when does adulthood begin? Is ‘emerging adulthood’ an accurate term to describe this period? What should be the purpose of our 20s? Are recent demographic trends

Society Culture and Thought

Theater Games and Improvisation — DRA2123.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Shawtane Bowen

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Credits: 4

Whose class is this anyway? Improvisation is for everyone. Life is made up as it happens and improv is no different. This course will explore the basic elements of improvisation. Through short and long form theater games, pattern and rhythm exercises, we aim to heighten observation, listening skills, and ensemble building. Character, object, and environment work will be

Drama

Theoretical Ethics: The Nature of Moral Judgments — PHI4114.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 4

Theoretical Ethics aims to uncover the sources of moral knowledge and the foundations of moral obligation. You will engage in a detailed reading of two classical moral theories and study contemporary interpretations and applications of these theories. You will be expected to contribute substantially to class discussion, write two essays and present a draft of your final essay

Society Culture and Thought

There Is Always a Clock — DRA4384.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 4

The hero has till sundown to get out of Dodge. The heroine has to take the full course of cancer treatments. The polar vortex is coming. The iceberg is waiting for its date with the Titanic. They say that the main character of every story is time. In timebound art forms, there are two times running in parallel: the story’s, and the audience’s. Almost all works for the

Drama

Thermal and Statistical Physics — PHY4108.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Hugh Crowl

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Credits: 4

In the wake of the Industrial Revolution, physicists developed thermal physics as a way of improving the efficiency of steam engines. At nearly the same time, the development of statistical physics gave birth to an understanding of how large ensembles of particles interacted. We will study both the macroscopic (“Thermal”) and microscopic (“Statistical”) view of systems and the

Science and Mathematics

Topics in Ceramic History: Global Perspectives — CER2148.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Anina Major

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Credits: 4

The study of ceramics is the study of human history in all of its cultural diversity, from artisanal pottery to highly sophisticated modern product design or contemporary sculpture. This course will explore ancient, indigenous and historical ceramics with lectures and discussions around clay materials, technology, art, and culinary traditions.

Visual Arts