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Fall 2024

Ecologies and Ethics of the Soundscape — MS2113.01

Fall 2024

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 4

What is a soundscape, and how does it matter to our daily lives, our environments, and the media we consume? The term soundscape refers to the range of sounds in a certain place and time, from a hospital’s array of beeping medical machines to the familiar noises of the places you call home. In this course, students will explore the concepts and creation of soundscapes in visual

Society Culture and Thought

Economics of Work and Employment — PEC4219.01

Fall 2024

Instructor: Lopamudra Banerjee

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Credits: 4

The seminar centers on fundamental questions concerning labor: Why do people work? What is the relationship between ‘work’ and ‘employment’? And how do the concerns of ‘nonwage work’—specifically care work within households—intersect with wage work within the labor market? These inquiries motivate our exploration. We will delve into established theories in labor economics and

Society Culture and Thought

Effort Lab — DAN4345.01

Fall 2024

Instructor: Elena Demyanenko

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Credits: 2

Dancers have been tuning their relationship to effort since the beginning. We know when we can do an estimation of the movement, just to tell if the steps will line up with the meter of a song. We also know when we need to practice with full momentum, otherwise our partner won’t be able to feel our weight shift. Effort Lab is a practice of naming and

Dance

Elements in Video: Simplicity of Method — FV2314.01

Fall 2024

Instructor: Jen Liu

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Credits: 4

This production course is designed to get students producing video immediately: we will look at basic techniques with an emphasis on simple and self-devised methods of media production, efficient approaches to lighting and sound, and emphasize quick turnover time to create a great amount of work in a relatively short period of time. The course will address hybrid methods such

Visual Arts

Embracing Difference — ANT2107.01

Fall 2024

Instructor: Miroslava Prazak

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Credits: 4

Why are cultures and societies so different, and simultaneously, so similar? This introductory course examines some of the theoretical and methodological approaches of anthropology in exploring human culture and society. We explore various ethnographic examples to develop an anthropological perspective on economy and politics, social organization, kinship and family life,

Society Culture and Thought

Endocrinology: The Hormonal Symphony — BIO4322.01

Fall 2024

Instructor: Blake Jones

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Credits: 4

Dive deep into the world of endocrinology, a critical field of study that explores the body's hormonal systems and their pivotal role in orchestrating various physiological and behavioral processes. This comprehensive course is designed for students with a keen interest in understanding how hormones, the chemical messengers of the body, develop, integrate, and regulate our

Science and Mathematics

Energy, Entropy and Quantization — CHE2129.01

Fall 2024

Instructor: John Bullock

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Credits: 4

In this class we will explore the concepts of energy, entropy and quantization to discover how their dancing interplay determines the structure and dynamics of the world around us. Our aim will be to understand the organizing principles that drive all chemical and physical processes. Doing so inevitably involves mathematics, but the associated understanding goes beyond

Science and Mathematics

Environmental Action Fellowship Pre Fellowship Class — APA4162.02

Fall 2024

Instructor: Judith Enck

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Credits: 1

Students who have applied and who have been accepted into the Endeavor Environmental Action Fellowship will take this pre-fellowship class. It is required in order to do the fellowship during field work term. It will prepare the student to have a very effective paid fellowship experience during field work term.

CAPA Environment

Environmental Geology — ES2102.01

Fall 2024

Instructor: Tim Schroeder

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Credits: 4

Earthʹs life‐supporting environmental systems are controlled by a complex interplay between geologic and biological processes acting both on the surface and deep within the planetary interior. This course will explore how earth materials and physical processes contribute to a healthy environment, and how humans impact geologic processes. Topics covered will include: earth

Science and Mathematics Environment

Environmental Political Theory — ENV4240.01

Fall 2024

Instructor: John Hultgren

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Credits: 4

What is nature? Who gets to speak for nature? What is the institutional arrangement, political economic system, and form of political community best suited to cultivating a more sustainable relationship with the more-than-human realm? These questions are most effectively grappled with by putting political theory into conversation with environmental studies. In cultivating this

Environment Society Culture and Thought

Examining Space — SCU2214.01

Fall 2024

Instructor: John Umphlett

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Credits: 4

This introductory course will investigate basic building techniques and principles behind making Sculpture through experiential learning. Within the first couple of weeks of term we will participate in an Iron Pour. The students will shape wax and prepare sand-molds for participation. The students will also be introduced and immersed within a community of artists off campus.

Visual Arts

Experimental Sound Practices — MSR2123.01) (cancelled 5/6/2024

Fall 2024

Instructor: Senem Pirler

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Credits: 4

In this introductory course, students will expand their understanding of music by delving into experimental sound practices. During this course, students will create sound compositions, electroacoustic pieces, and performances/installations. The topics will include soundscape composition, binaural sound recording, introduction to modular synthesis,

Society Culture and Thought Music

Faith in Literature — LIT2562.01) (cancelled 8/22/2024

Fall 2024

Instructor: Ben Anastas

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Credits: 4

In his book The Secular Age, the Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor writes about what he describes as a “widespread sense of loss … if not always of God, then at least of meaning.” This contemporary crisis of meaning has been well-considered by social scientists, journalists, and artists. In the wake of this, some wonder whether we are entering a “post-secular” age, with a

Literature

Federalism and Peacebuilding — POL4103.01

Fall 2024

Instructor: Rotimi Suberu

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Credits: 2

As a constitutional structure for combining self-rule and shared rule, federalism often crops up in negotiations designed to rebuild or reconcile societies torn or threatened by civil wars in contexts as diverse as Bosnia-Herzegovina and Ukraine in Europe, Myanmar and the Philippines in Asia, Iraq and Syria in the Middle East, and South Sudan and Somalia in Africa. But are

CAPA Society Culture and Thought

Feminist Writing by Women of Color, 1970s-80s — LIT2543.01

Fall 2024

Instructor: Franny Choi

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Credits: 4

1970 was a watershed year for Black feminism, with the publication of several monumental books including The Black Woman: An Anthology, edited by Toni Cade Bambara. How did women writers of color contend with race, class, gender, and sexuality in the decades leading up to the coining of the term “intersectionality?” What works from this period were foundational for

Black Studies Literature

Fiddle — MIN4327.01

Fall 2024

Instructor: John Kirk

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Credits: 2

For the experienced (3+years of playing) violinist/violist. Lessons in traditional styles of fiddling – Quebecois, New England, Southern Appalachian, Scandinavian, Cajun, Irish, and Scottish. This course is designed to heighten awareness of the variety of ways the violin is played regionally and socially in North America (and indeed around the world) and to give practical music

Music

Film Titles — CSL2005.01

Fall 2024

Instructor: Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly

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Credits: 2

Film openings both credit all the film "makers" and set the tone for what will follow. Unlike the cover of a book, they immerse the viewer in a multi-sensory experience designed to engage and prepare. Explored as palimpsests, these opening titles will be examined as examples of paratexts, as well as entry points into the films they introduce and the cultures they reflect.

Cultural Studies and Languages Visual Arts

Flourishing: Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics — PHI2136.02

Fall 2024

Instructor: Catherine McKeen

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Credits: 2

Virtue is a habit. To be ethical is to choose the mean between extremes. Happiness is not a goal, but a state. In popular culture, Aristotle's ethical views are often represented in slogan form. In this seven-week course, we will interrogate and unpack the meanings of and ideas behind these slogans. We will carefully investigate the theory embodied in Aristotle's central

Society Culture and Thought

Form and Process: Introduction to Painting — PAI2107.01

Fall 2024

Instructor: Ann Pibal

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Credits: 4

This course introduces a variety of materials, techniques and approaches to working with oil paint. Emphasis is placed on developing and understanding of color, form and space as well as individual research and conceptual concerns. The daily experience of seeing, along with examples from art history and contemporary art, provide a base from which investigations are made. Formal

Visual Arts

Foundations of Photography/Analog — PHO2204.01

Fall 2024

Instructor: Terry Boddie

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Credits: 4

This is an analog film-based black-and-white photography course designed for those with little or no experience in photography. Emphasis will be placed on the application of technique in terms of personal expression through the selection and composition of subject matter. The course comprises technical lectures, darkroom demonstrations; lectures on historical and contemporary

Visual Arts

Foundations of Photography: Digital Practice — PHO2153.01

Fall 2024

Instructor: Liz White

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Credits: 4

This course offers an overview of foundational tools and techniques in digital photographic practice and aims to help students find new sources of inspiration, deepen their creative work, and enhance their ability to present it. Students will learn to shoot with digital SLR cameras using manual settings, manage, process, and manipulate digital image files, properly scan

Visual Arts

Foundations of Python Programming: Theory and Practice — CS2141.01) (cancelled 5/10/2024

Fall 2024

Instructor: Meltem Ballan

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Credits: 2

Foundations of Python Programming: Theory and Practice is a comprehensive introductory course designed to equip students with essential programming skills using the Python language. Throughout the course, students will delve into fundamental programming concepts such as variables, data types, control structures, functions, and object-oriented programming principles. They will

Science and Mathematics

Fourier Analysis, Differential Equations, and Mathematical Methods — MAT4140.01

Fall 2024

Instructor: Andrew McIntyre

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Credits: 4

This class is a broad survey of mathematical theories and techniques which are applied in the physical sciences and engineering, but also are of interest in their own right. The class will cover fundamentals of ordinary and partial differential equations, fundamental to classical mechanics, electrodynamics, quantum mechanics, and chemistry. A large part of the course will cover

Science and Mathematics

From the Edo to the Meiji Period: Examining Equality and Equity through the Examinations of Japanese Society — JPN4302.01

Fall 2024

Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida

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Credits: 4

This is the third term Japanese course. In this course students will learn and examine Japan’s drastic social changes during the Edo period and the Meiji period to investigate what equality and equity meant to Japanese people. During the Edo Period (1603-1868), Japan closed its doors to other countries for about two hundred fifty years, and this isolation helped Japan develop

Cultural Studies and Languages

Fundamentals of Buddhism and Meditation — DAN2411.01

Fall 2024

Instructor: John Bullock

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Credits: 2

In this class we will investigate the basic tenets of Buddhism and the practice of meditation. The class will focus on discussions of the reading and writing materials as well as in-class meditation experience. The goal of this course is to deepen our collective understanding of the intimate connection and complementarity of Buddhist ideas and meditation. The class discussions

Cultural Studies and Languages Dance