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Piano – Intensive — MIN4418.01) (cancelled 12/6/2023

Spring 2024
Instructor: Christopher Lewis
Credits: 4
Individual private lessons for motivated intermediate and advanced students, with focus on the classical repertoire. Students will meet with the instructor twice per week on scheduled class days, at times to be arranged with the instructor. A minimum of one hour practice per day is expected. Two excused absences permitted, with every effort made for make-up lessons.
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Piano – Intensive — MIN4418.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Christopher Lewis
Credits: 4
Individual private lessons for motivated intermediate and advanced students, with focus on the classical repertoire. Students will meet with the instructor twice per week on scheduled class days, at times to be arranged with the instructor. A minimum of one hour practice per day is expected. Two excused absences permitted, with every effort made for make-up lessons.
Music

Picture Pattern Paper Model — VA4322.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Farhad Mirza
Credits: 4
In this course, we will explore the visual and spatial potential of cut paper models. The course will begin with a number of directed drawing and model-making exercises, and end with original work made with paper, knives, and glue. Students will study and do research on paper models by a variety of contemporary artists and architects–Zarina's paper houses, Siah Armajani's
Visual Arts

Picture Pattern Paper Model — DES4105.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Farhad Mirza
Days & Time: TH 8:30am-12:10pm
Credits: 4

In this course, we will explore the visual and spatial potential of cut paper models. The course will begin with a number of directed drawing and model-making exercises, and end with original work made with paper, knives, and glue. Students will study and do research on paper models by a variety of contemporary artists and architects–Zarina’s

Design

Pictures from Home — PHO4795.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Liz White
Credits: 2
Exploring “home” as photographic site and subject, this course invites students to make work in response to prompts, and supports the development of an independent project through regular group critiques. Students will learn about historical and contemporary artists who have used their domestic space to make photographs, and consider how intimate life and everyday objects can
Visual Arts

Pieces of Time — MPF4105.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Susie Ibarra
Credits: 2
In honor of the quartet recording of drums and percussion music by Milford Graves, Andrew Cyrille, Famadou Don Moye and Kenny Clarke,  Pieces of Time delves into the vocabulary and structures of jazz drumming and percussion. While studying the styles of these drummers , the class will also examine drumming and percussion styles within the genre. This
Music

Pieces of Time — MPF4105.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: susie ibarra
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
In honor of the quartet recording of drums and percussion music by Milford Graves, Andrew Cyrille, Famadou Don Moye and Kenny Clarke, Pieces of Time delves into the vocabulary and structures of jazz drumming and percussion. While studying the styles of these drummers , the class will also examine drumming and percussion styles within the genre. This ensemble will reconstruct
Music

Place: Setting - the Dining Room — ARC4146.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Donald Sherefkin
Credits: 4
The place of the shared meal is a locus of multiple design problems, from the place setting to the chair, and from the table to the room itself. It is a site of routine and ritual where, along with sustenance, we enjoy sensory and aesthetic pleasures, and social interaction. The routines and rituals of eating have changed significantly over the past several generations. This
Visual Arts

Placing Anthropocene Stories: The Place of Imagination within Environmental Transformation — ENV4112.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
Extreme weather events, rising sea levels, species extinctions, chemical contamination, and uneven human suffering mark the Anthropocene. In this new epoch, humanity’s influence on the Earth system has become a geological and planetary force. Telling stories about planetary and geological change that resonate with people is critically important, yet also deeply challenging. The
Environment

Placing Art at the Heart of Community Building — APA2304.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Miroslava Prazak Kerry Ryer-Parke
Credits: 4
“Great art is like bypass surgery. It allows us to go around all of the psychological distancing mechanisms that turn people cold to the most vulnerable among us.” Lin-Manuel Miranda While recent crises have revealed troubling divides in most societies of the world, the resulting disruption invites the possibility of kinder, more peaceful and equitable communities. When the
Society Culture and Thought CAPA Music

Plains Songs: Willa Cather, Katherine Anne Porter, and Alice Munro — LIT2550.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Doug Bauer
Credits: 4
The fictions of Cather, Porter and Munro form a sequential chronology of influence and inheritance that spans the 20th century. Drawing deeply from their origins in Nebraska, Texas, and Ontario respectively, each of these writers explores the place from which she came and the various places her characters are subsequently drawn to – in some cases familiarly rural, in others
Literature

Plains Songs: Willa Cather, Katherine Anne Porter, and Alice Munro. —

Spring 2016
Instructor: Doug Bauer
Credits: 4
  The fictions of Cather, Porter and Munro form a sequential chronology of influence and inheritance that spans the 20th century. Drawing deeply from their origins in Nebraska, Texas, and Ontario respectively, each of these writers explores the place from which she came and the various places her characters are subsequently drawn to – in some cases familiarly rural, in

Plan Computing Projects — CS4133.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
Have a coding project in mind for your advanced work in computer science? This class will give you space to explore your idea, share your work with others, and get feedback as you develop and refine your code. Group projects are also possible within this setting. new time as of 12/13/2021
Science and Mathematics

Planet Earth — ES2108.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Chelsea Corr
Credits: 4
In 1972, the crew aboard the Apollo 17 spacecraft captured what would become one of the most widely used photos of all time: an image of Earth as seen from 45,000 km above.  From this view, it was apparent that our home planet is a complex system consisting of a web of interconnected biological, chemical, and physical components. We will explore the physical aspects of
Science and Mathematics Environment

Plant Diversity and Ecology — BIO2240.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Kerry Woods
Credits: 4
Plants define the biological environment. All other organisms depend on plantsʹ capacity for photosynthesis. Plant structure and chemistry have shaped animal (including human) evolution, and we directly depend on plant products for food, medicine, structural materials, and many other things. Yet few people can name even the dominant plants in their environment, explain what
Science and Mathematics Environment

Plant Diversity and Ecology — BIO2240.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Kerry Woods
Credits: 4
Plants define the biological environment. All other organisms depend on plantsʹ capacity for photosynthesis. Plant structure and chemistry have shaped animal (including human) evolution, and we directly depend on plant products for food, medicine, structural materials, and many other things. Yet few people can name even the dominant plants in their environment, explain what
Science and Mathematics Environment

Plant Ecology and Floristics — BIO4112.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Kerry Woods
Credits: 4
An intensive quantitative and field-based study of local plants and plant communities.   Work will include intensive documentation of local natural areas with intensive field-work involving plant identification, community sampling, and environmental measurement/description.  In addition, there will be opportunity to learn and apply tools like dendrochronology
Science and Mathematics Environment

Plaster Working — SCU2127.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: John Umphlett
Credits: 2
This seven week intensive class will be focused on understanding some basic methods for working with plaster. We will take a look at variety of gypsum products to understand their similarities and differences. Plaster has an amazing way of mimicking life. In this class, we will learn the states at which plaster transforms and use our hands to open our minds to the endless ways
Visual Arts

Plastic Pollution and What Students Can Do Ź It — APA2176.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Judith Enck
Credits: 2
Plastic pollution is gaining international attention for the damage it is doing to human health, fish and wildlife, the climate, the ocean and communities. This class will explore the dimensions of the problem, the root causes of plastic pollution and the need for innovation. The class will be taught in the Center for the Advancement of Public Action and will have a major focus
CAPA Environment

Plastic Pollution and What You Can Do Ź It — APA2176.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Judith Enck
Credits: 4
Plastic pollution has emerged as a major environmental, health and economic issue with direct links to climate change. 9 million metric tons of plastic enter the ocean each year. In the next decade, there will be 1 lb of plastic in the ocean for every 3 lbs of fish.  Plastics are made from chemicals and a by-product of fracking. And we can't recycle our way out of this
CAPA Environment

Plastic Pollution: What Can We Do Ź It? — APA2164.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Judith Enck
Credits: 2
The cover on “National Geographic” had a powerful artist rendering of an ocean iceberg, with a giant plastic bag hidden below the surface of the water.  The magazine cover headlined: “Planet or Plastic?  18 billion pounds of plastic ends up in the ocean each year.  And that’s just “ the tip of the iceberg.”   Take a look at that edition of National
CAPA

Plastic Pollution: What Can We Do Ź It? — APA2164.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Judith Enck
Credits: 2
The cover on “National Geographic” had a powerful artist rendering of an ocean iceberg, with a giant plastic bag hidden below the surface of the water. The magazine cover headlined: “Planet or Plastic? 18 billion pounds of plastic ends up in the ocean each year. And that’s just “ the tip of the iceberg.” Take a look at that edition of National Geographic (June 2018). If the
CAPA Environment

Plastics and Public Health — APA4254.02) (cancelled 11/12/2024

Spring 2025
Instructor: Megan Wolff
Credits: 1
The world’s population has tripled since the 1950s, but production of plastics has increased over 70-fold in that time. The impact of plastic as litter is undeniable, both in the oceans and on land. But recent findings about the impacts of plastic on human health demonstrate that this is not just a litter problem, it is a health one. As we follow the path of microplastics we
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Plastics and Public Health — APA4254.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: David Bond
Credits: 1
The world’s population has tripled since the 1950s, but production of plastics has increased over 70-fold in the same period. As litter, plastic now blows on the landscape, swells in the ocean, and kills wildlife seemingly everywhere. But recent findings about the impacts of plastic on human health demonstrate that this is not just a litter problem, but a health one. Plastic,
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Plastics, Microplastics and Human Health — APA2028.02

Spring 2025
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 1
The world’s population has tripled since the 1950s, but production of plastics has increased over 70-fold in that time. The impact of plastic as litter is undeniable, both in the oceans and on land. But recent findings about the impacts of plastic on human health demonstrate that this is not just a litter problem, it is a health one. As we follow the path of microplastics we
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