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Climate Science and Policy — ENV4109.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Tim Schroeder
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Credits: 2
This course will seek to understand the relationship between climate change science and policy, allowing students to study the scientific basis behind policies to address one of our most pressing issues. We will examine major climate policies and proposals 鈥 like the Paris Agreement, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports, and the Inflation Reduction Act 鈥 with an
Science and Mathematics Environment Society Culture and Thought

Collective dance practice and healing as creative process — DAN4363.01) (day/time updated as of 10/9/2023

Spring 2024
Instructor: luciana achugar, MFA Teaching Fellow
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Credits: 2
This course is open to students with prior experience with dance and improvisation; or to those who have taken any of achugar鈥檚 prior classes using the Pleasure Practice.  During this course we will engage in a creative process together, attempting to create a performance based work as a collective using methods from somatic healing modalities and achugar鈥檚 Pleasure
Dance

Color Photography: History and Practice — PHO4266.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Jonathan Kline
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Credits: 4
This course offers students the opportunity to explore the history of color photography and to research a wide range of work from the 20th 21st centuries. Working with either analog or digital capture, students will solve a series of creative assignments and conclude the term by producing a final portfolio of personal work that demonstrates sustained inquiry and engagement.
Visual Arts

Community and Liberation Psychology — PSY4382.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: 脰zge Sava艧
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Credits: 4
In this course, students will become familiar with the foundational texts of community and liberation psychology. We will read and discuss Latin American origins of Liberation Psychology using texts written by Ignacio Martin Bar贸, Paulo Freire and others, as well as the foundational decolonial texts that emerged from continental Europe such as ones written by Franz Fanon. We
CAPA Society Culture and Thought

Composing for Improvisers: Analyses, Creation and Community — MCO4140.01) (new course code as of 11/7/2023

Spring 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 4
This course is for students interested in investigating musical improvisation and composition, and their connection to a musical community. The students selected for this course will form an ensemble. They will be guided to compose, at their own level, 1) for the ensemble, 2) for a part of the ensemble (duos, trios) and 3) for solo. There is no right or wrong approach. The
Music

Computer Science Principles — CS2131.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Meltem Ballan
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Credits: 4
This course is designed for all students. Computer Science Principles is an introductory course that introduces students to the breadth of the field of computer science. Students will learn to design and evaluate solutions and to apply computer science to solve problems through the development of algorithms and programs. Students will be provided real world  insights,
CAPA Science and Mathematics

Conspiracies: Past, Present, Always — HIS2112.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 4
Conspiracy theories have a long and interesting history in American politics and culture. Indeed, some of today鈥檚 most diabolical conspiracy theories actually took hold in the era of the American Revolution. They have persisted across generations and centuries, periodically exploding into epidemic-level mass paranoia. Through select case studies, primary documents, cultural
Society Culture and Thought

Construction methods in a wood-shop — SCU2309.01) (cancelled 9/15/2023

Spring 2024
Instructor: John Umphlett
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Credits: 2
Have you ever wanted to understand how to safely build some of the most basic things in your life and not know where to start? This seven-week course is recommended for students interested in developing their technical skills by introducing building methods and understanding strategies within the wood-shop.. This class is designed for beginners who would like to understand how
Visual Arts

Contemporary Chinese Poetry — CHI4220.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Ginger Lin
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Credits: 5
While the language of classical Chinese poetry is practically inaccessible to even today鈥檚 native speakers of Chinese, the poetry of the five contemporary poets studied in this course is written in the vernacular and serves as a rich source of authentic texts for this course, which integrates language learning with poetry study. The five poets, all born after 1980, each offers
Cultural Studies and Languages

Crocheting the Classics: Elizabeth Gaskell's North South — LIT2530.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Jenny Boully
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Credits: 4
The Great Exhibition of 1851 was meant to showcase the greatest inventions and industries of the Victorian age. Included among the various treasures from around the world, such as machinery, paintings, and gems, were samples of crochet, an art that became increasingly popular during the Victorian age. The idea of domestic handcrafts seemed to be counter to the industrial
Literature

Cuisine, Culture, and Identity — FRE4226.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Stephen Shapiro
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Credits: 4
鈥淭ell me what you eat and I will tell you who you are鈥 鈥揃rillat-Savarin While food sustains life, it also gives it meaning. This course will focus on how the culture of food and eating has played an important role in the construction of the religious, national, ethnic, and individual identities of the French-speaking world. How have migration and the realities of the post
Cultural Studies and Languages

Culture, Environment and Sustainable Living — ANT2117.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Miroslava Prazak
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Credits: 4
In this seminar, we examine how Western and non-Western cultures, both past and present, perceive and shape key environmental and social issues. Through readings, discussions and films we will evaluate the potential of environmental and cultural studies to address some of the most urgent contemporary problems. To work toward an understanding of what is today called
Society Culture and Thought Environment

Curator, Artist, Impresario: Modes of Exhibition Making — VA2244.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Anne Thompson
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Credits: 4
This introductory class traces the historical evolution of contemporary curatorial practice. We start with the early tradition of curators as experts and custodians of collections. Building on that foundation, we examine the twentieth-century emergence of the curator as a visionary impresario and producer of global exhibitions. Throughout, we consider how artists since the
Visual Arts

Dalcroze Eurhythmics: Music of the Body, Mind, and Spirit — MFN2121.01) (cancelled 11/27/2023

Spring 2024
Instructor: Chris Rose
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Credits: 2
What do you know that your sentient, feeling body did not first experience? The musician Emile Jaques-Dalcroze (1865-1950) invented Eurhythmics to explore this question. Self-awareness, self-expression, and musical knowing are all seated in the body, the fundamental constant of all experience. So how do we honor that truth in our learning? We notice and name discrete events,
Music

Dance Workshop Extension — DAN2000.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
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Credits: 1
Dance Workshop has been held at 51成人猎奇 since its beginning in 1932. It is a meeting place for all dance students, dance faculty, and staff. Here, students of all levels, undergraduate through graduate, show and discuss works in progress. All of the participants practice articulating and refining their own processes, and all are involved in learning how to see and
Dance

Deco Depression: Representing Race, Gender, and Sexuality between the Wars — AH2111.01) (new course code 2/14/2024

Spring 2024
Instructor: Vanessa Lyon
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Credits: 2
The raucous and repressive but also radical and recalcitrantly white supremacist period c. 1918-1941 has many names. In the U.S. this generation-long span between the two World Wars encompasses or overlaps, e.g. The Harlem Renaissance, The Jazz Age, The Depression, Prohibition, The Dust Bowl, The Progressive Era, and Jim Crow. In this visual studies course, we鈥檒l investigate
Visual Arts

Decolonizing Art Methods — FV4327.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 4
In the last few years, decolonizing contemporary art has been a rallying cry, as a means of criticizing the cultural perspectives that established institutions promote, and which ones they put on mute. In this course we will unpack what this has meant for artists, looking at artistic bodies of work, institutional case studies, and readings to shape an ongoing conversation as
Visual Arts

Deep Looking: An Introduction to Drawing — DRW2267.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Beverly Acha
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Credits: 4
Learning to draw is as much about learning how to use your hand as it is learning how to see. In this course, students will practice and develop observational and representational drawing skills by looking closely at our subjects from life and using a variety of physical drawing materials. We will explore various approaches to drawing what we see and experience and discuss the
Visual Arts

Descending the Ivory Tower: Public Anthropology and the Prospect of a Better Tomorrow — ANT2214.01) (cancelled 4/27/2023

Spring 2024
Instructor: Steve Moog
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Credits: 4
Most anthropological knowledge never makes it out of academia; it is constructed, consumed, and interrogated by PhDs. This is not meant to be judgmental, merely a statement of facts. In the last decade, though, anthropology has paid more attention to using its insights to engage practical, everyday issues and make its knowledge more accessible to those outside of universities
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Design With a Vintage Lens — DRA4389.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 4
This fashion history and design class is for students with a background and interest in theatrical design. We will examine and explore vintage garments from the instructor鈥檚 personal collection and the 51成人猎奇 costume collection. The class will explore the garments, looking at the materials and their construction, the designers who created them, and their historical
Drama

Devising: Creation Stories — DRA2319.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Jean Randich
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Credits: 4
Devising is a form of collaborative creation in which the performers themselves author every moment of the performance. It is made by and belongs to them. In this course we will devise a theatrical work inspired both by creation myths and contemporary stories, and what they mean for us today. Students will adapt myths and stories they choose from current events to bring an
Dance Drama Music Visual Arts

Difficult Dancing — DAN4329.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Levi Gonzalez
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Credits: 2
In this course, students will learn technically demanding movement material from various contemporary dance choreographers. Specifically, we will focus on movement material that the instructor himself participated in creating and performing. We will stitch this movement material together to create an original dance piece that will be performed in the Works in Motion dance
Dance

Digital Modeling and Animation — MA2103.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Sue Rees
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Credits: 2
This course introduces students to the basic language of 3D animation and modeling. Students will be expected to become familiar with the basic principles of the MAYA庐 program. A series of modeled objects placed in locations will be created. The emphasis will be on becoming proficient with modeling forms, texturing using Arnold Renderer, adding lights and cameras.
Visual Arts

Digital Screens: Developmental and Cognitive Consequences — PSY4383.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Emily Waterman
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Credits: 2
Many organizations estimate that children spend up to six or more hours per day looking at screens. Screens are ubiquitous in multiple settings including school and home. This course is dedicated to a rigorous reading of the research and scientific literature on children鈥檚 screen time. We will explore social, cognitive, and developmental effects of screen time, integrating
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