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Spring 2025

Queer Asian Pacific American Literature — LIT2529.01) (cancelled 5/2/2024

Spring 2025

Instructor: Franny Choi

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Credits: 4

To be LGBTQIA and AAPI is to occupy two disparate, marginalized identities that seem constantly to be shifting. What might the literature of this intersection teach us about larger questions of community, belonging, and resistance? This 2000-level class attempts to locate a Queer Asian Pacific America through literature, from the work of early Chinese American lesbian poets

Queer French (in English) — FRE2109.02

Spring 2025

Instructor: Stephen Shapiro

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Credits: 2

In this course, we will examine French culture’s engagement with questions of sexuality and gender, with a focus on authors, artists, theorists, and others who have questioned ideas of normative sexuality from the Middle Ages through the 21st century. Authors and texts to be studied may include Marie de France, Gabrielle d’Estrées et une de ses soeurs, Montaigne, l’Abbé de

Cultural Studies and Languages

Queering Creation in the Arts of Latin America — SPA4606.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Lena Retamoso Urbano

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Credits: 4

For this course, we will analyze, in depth, authors such as Pedro Lemebel, Manuel Puig, Mario Bellatin, Ana Mendieta, José Donoso, and Carmen Ollé, who are representative voices of the counter cultural 20th and 21st Century Latin American literary and artistic scenery. We will discuss how different authors from diverse periods and regions develop queer textual and performative

Cultural Studies and Languages

Race and the Poetic Avant-Garde — LIT4587.01) (cancelled 5/2/2024

Spring 2025

Instructor: Franny Choi

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Credits: 4

How does one resist the imperative to tell a neat, digestible story about racial identity? What new stories become possible when poets conduct, in Haryette Mullen’s words, “an open-ended investigation into the possibilities of language?” In this advanced literature seminar, we will read works by BIPOC writers who employ innovative methods to question, disrupt, and reimagine

Race in Publishing — CS4389.01) (cancelled 8/6/2024

Spring 2025

Instructor: Mariam Rahmani

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Credits: 4

This is a truly interdisciplinary opportunity for students to be part of a real-world project, develop data collection and analysis skills, and learn how to apply them to social problems in the humanities. That racialized and gendered pay gaps plague the arts and publishing, to say nothing of the broader U.S. American labor market, is well known. What is not well documented,

Radio Plays: Making Theatre for Radio and Podcast — DRA2305.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Dina Janis

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Credits: 4

A performance-based course for folks interested in this medium. It is not necessary to have elaborate skill in sound design and editing, though students with this interest are welcome to enroll. All students will perform as actors in each other’s projects. Each week the class will listen to examples of current Radio Play and Theatre Podcast content, writing up play reports and

Drama

Re-Thinking Society: Radical Visions — PHI2161.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Paul Voice

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Credits: 4

In this introductory course you will read a wide range of political philosophers and theorists who rethink and reimagine society. Beginning with the “masters of suspicion”, Marx, Nietzsche, Mill, and Freud, we will explore radical social visions from thinkers such as Rosa Luxumburg, Herbert Marcuse, Franz Fanon, Steve Biko, Michel Foucault, John Rawls, Chantel Mouffe, and

Society Culture and Thought

Reading Writing: Spectacular Failure — LIT4383.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Manuel Gonzales

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Credits: 4

I often suggest to students in a writer’s workshop that they should, when submitting work for class, aim for spectacular failure, figure out the breaking point of their own abilities and charge headlong past them, because there is no better place to test one’s limits than in a workshop full of peers working at the same goal. In this generative writing workshop, I’m putting my

Literature

Reading and Knitting the Forested Landscape — BIO2242.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie

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Credits: 4

Why would a forest ecology course include an assignment to knit a wool hat? In this class we will explore the lasting impact of sheep on the Vermont landscape, from the earliest settler-colonizers through today’s small batch fiber mills and second growth forests studded with stone walls. Sheep, and especially a 19th century boom in merino sheep, radically altered Vermont’s

Science and Mathematics Environment

Reading and Writing Fiction Nonfiction: The Emergence of Prose — LIT4333.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 4

The purpose of this workshop is to focus in on what brings us to writing. Beyond familiar objectives such as “I want to write a novel” or “I’m a poet working on poems” or “I want to write about the time this happened to me or to my family or in my country,” we will go further in to ask how do we want to feel while we’re writing? What do we want to experience at the

Literature

Reading and Writing Nonfiction: Archival Work — LIT4601.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: An Duplan

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Credits: 4

The archive––and using archival materials as the generative basis for creative output––is having a moment. The visionary scholar-writer Saidiya Hartman has popularized once unknown terms like “critical fabulation” and “documentary poetics” through genre bending works like Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments and erasure projects like poet Nicole Sealey’s The Ferguson Report: an

Black Studies Literature

Reading and Writing Poetry: Image and Detail — LIT4536.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Michael Dumanis

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Credits: 4

This poetry workshop focuses on the ways writers deploy language to achieve precision, vividness, sensory richness, singularity, and emotional resonance. We will begin by developing an understanding of the difference between a detail and a visual image, and the distance between the abstract concept of a thing and the sense of the concrete thing itself. We will go on to explore

Literature

Reading and Writing: Archival Work — LIT4589.01) (cancelled 10/8/2024

Spring 2025

Instructor: Ben Anastas

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Credits: 4

The archive--and using archival materials as the generative basis for creative output--is having a moment. The visionary scholar-writer Saidiya Hartman has popularized once unknown terms like "critical fabulation" and "documentary poetics" through genre bending works like "Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments"; erasure projects like poet Nicole Sealey's "The Ferguson Report: an

Reading as a Collective Act: Thinking Through Dance and Performance — DAN4819B.01

Spring 2025

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Credits: 4

This course aims to experiment with generative and alternative forms of reading that can be thought of as not only a methodology, but as a practice that supports us as we engage in research with, alongside and through study in dance and performance. We will ask ourselves what it means to read and “make sense” of texts and events today…together. *For BFA students this

Reading Revolution — LIT4602.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Michael Dumanis

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Credits: 4

In this seminar, we join in consideration of our consciousness in the act of creation on and off the page, as a means and expression of revolution. We explore what a revolution in reading as writing and writing as reading means, in experience, for each of us; rather than relegating our understanding of consciousness to total mystery, the object of this class is to directly and

Literature

Reimagining Representation — PHO2113.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Terry Boddie

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Credits: 4

Photography was used for scientific purposes and a tool of imperial colonization during the early years of its invention. These two things have helped shape its history of representation of the human figure. Marginal groups of individuals when they were represented in photography were often presented in a visually limiting and often stereotypical manner. The contemporary

Visual Arts

Riffing with Shakespeare and his Doubles — DRA2380.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Jean Randich

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Credits: 2

Shakespeare not only inspires radical staging approaches, but has also provoked contemporary playwrights to reimagine, refashion, and retell his stories to include, as Sarah Mantell puts it, "Everything that Never Happened." In this course we will dive into some of Shakespeare's classics and read them alongside contemporary adaptations that plunge us into worlds that are both

Drama

Sculpture Studio/Advanced practice — SCU4217.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: John Umphlett

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Credits: 4

This course asks each student to work in a self-directed way among a community of critical thinkers. Finding one’s voice, as a maker, requires research sources of influence and inspiration. Students are expected to undertake a significant amount of work outside of regular class meetings. At this point in your Visual Arts Education you must be able to represent serious attention

Visual Arts

Seminar: Building Ethical Data Governance for Organizational Excellence — CS4389.01) (cancelled 5/10/2024

Spring 2025

Instructor: Meltem Ballan

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Credits: 2

In today's data-driven world, organizations must prioritize data privacy, ethics, and governance to build trust with customers, comply with regulations, and harness the power of AI responsibly. This course explores the fundamental concepts of data governance, ethics, and their interplay in organizational success. Participants will learn practical strategies for implementing and

Senior Projects — MCO4376.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Michael Wimberly

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Credits: 4

This course will serve as a workshop and forum for senior music students who are planning to present their senior projects in Spring 2025. In this course, we will meet and discuss students’ projects produced through any creative practice, including, but not limited to, performance, installation, musical show, and publication. Students will be expected to complete most of their

Music

Senior Thesis Workshop — DAN4803B.01

Spring 2025

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Credits: 4

This course is designed to be the culmination of the BFA program for all dance majors. Each student will propose a thesis project, develop goals and objectives for the semester, and present their work. Modes of practicing, situating and expressing thesis project research will be mobilized and extended through ongoing critical dialogue. We will attend to, in practice, the urgent

Sing What You Write — MVO2304.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Kerry Ryer-Parke

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Credits: 2

Do you compose songs but lack confidence in your singing? Learn skills to get your ideas across clearly while preserving your unique sound. We’ll study successful singer-songwriters to see how they do it, then study and apply breath, alignment, diction, phrasing, mic technique and timing to help you sing anything you can imagine writing.You

Music

Social and Emotional Learning — PSY2386.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Emily Waterman

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Credits: 2

The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the field of social and emotional learning (SEL). We will cover relevant SEL frameworks, particularly the CASEL framework. We will review research on the association between social and emotional learning constructs and short- and long-term outcomes. We will then explore the effectiveness of evidence-based social and

Society Culture and Thought

Socially Engaged Art Seminar: Creative Repair — VA4408.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Yoko Inoue

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Credits: 4

Threading together. This course focuses on developing collaborative group projects which reflect the concept of collective sharing that lies at the heart of various arts collectives in Asia. We start by creating a place and space for a communal gathering centered on the collective action of repairing and transforming clothing. Core topics are anchored in the cultural discourse

CAPA Visual Arts

Software Product Development — CS2152.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Michael Corey

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Credits: 4

Why are some apps to hard to put down, while others break new ground and then go away? What are the commonalities across the digital surfaces you use everyday? What do you call that menu with three horizontal lines (a hamburger menu!). There are patterns and processes around making digital products that tie your digital life together. In this class we will examine the process

Science and Mathematics