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Richard Wright and James Baldwin — LIT2193.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: benjamin anastas
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
"As writers we were about as unlike as any two writers could possible be," James Baldwin wrote of his early mentor and sometimes rival Richard Wright. "We were linked together, really, because both of us were black." Now that both writers have been canonized, we can read their major works together, side by side, and identify the resonances and irreconcilable differences that
Literature

Riffing with Shakespeare and his Doubles — DRA2380.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Jean Randich
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

Riso Printing: Photographs — PHO2209.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Veronica Melendez
Credits: 2
A Risograph is a digital duplicator designed for high volume print jobs. Using technology that plays off of screen printing and color copiers, Riso prints retain a unique handmade aesthetic while having the convenience of digital editing and reproduction. In this class students will learn how to print photographs using a Risograph Duplicator. The first 7 weeks of this course
Visual Arts

Robert Frost and the Rural Authentic — LIT2353.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Stephen Metcalf
Credits: 2
Robert Frost was born in 1873, the year Thomas Hardy published Far From The Madding Crowd, and he died in 1963, the year Bob Dylan brought out Freewheelin’. In a life that spanned the better part of the 20th century, Frost experienced the emergence of modern America. His poetry–with its focus on the small New England village and the family farm, and its exquisitely preserved
Literature

Roberto Bolaño — SPA4804.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
Credits: 4
This is a paradoxical course. Roberto Bolaño explicitly shunned magical realism, the Boom years, the subsequent imitations, supposedly liberating Latin American literature from its hobnobbing with the establishment, and yet maintained filial ties to Dadaism, surrealism, modernism, Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar’s Rayuela, perhaps the first Boom novel. Despite the breadth
Languages

Robot Dreams: Artificial and Human Identities in Literature and Popular Culture — LIT2402.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Ben Anastas
Credits: 4
In this course we will trace artificial intelligence (AI) in literature and film from the industrial revolution to the ‘hive mind’ of rave music and the age of the Internet. What is the proper response to the prospect of ‘dehumanization’, and to the absorption of individual identity into mass culture? In attempting to answer this question, writers and filmmakers often find
Literature

Robotics and STEM Education: A Workshop — EDU2107.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Hugh Crowl
Days & Time: FR 10:30am-12:20pm
Credits: 1

In this course, students will gain experience with using simple programmable robots and how they can be utilized in STEM education. The focus of this class will be on learning and designing lessons for K-12 students utilizing these robots. This class is accessible for students at all levels of computer programming experience (including none). 

Education Physics Computer Science

Rock and Metal Technique for Band Vocalists — MVO4252.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Virginia Kelsey
Credits: 2
This class focuses on contemporary singing styles such as rock, heavy metal, and pop, specifically pertaining to students' work with bands on campus. We will explore the fundamental concepts of singing through the preparation of repertoire for the students’ bands. Students may occasionally be assigned other repertoire relevant to specific technical goals. Group warm-ups and
Music

Room Tone — MCO4106.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
Credits: 1
As part of the Room Tone Festival (mid-April), students will work on projects that explore the juncture of sound and space, listening and location. In this workshop, students will develop a location-specific toolkit with sound artist Michelle Nagai '97. As a group, we will examine daily practices of observation, recording, and research. The end goal can be an
Music

Rubens + Rauschenberg: Racing and Revisioning Genealogies of Modern Art — AH4126.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Vanessa Lyon
Days & Time: WE 2:10pm-5:50pm
Credits: 2

The seventeenth-century Flemish painter-diplomat Peter Paul Rubens is at the heart of a course that proposes the intrinsic baroqueness of diverse strains of high modernism. Our transdisciplinary project crosses entrenched nationalistic and chronological borders between modern and early modern art and artists including Bacon, Guston, Manet, Newman, Picasso, Bearden, and

Art History

Rubens and Rauschenberg: Racing and Re/visioning Genealogies of Modern Art — AH4123.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Vanessa Lyon
Credits: 4
The seventeenth-century Flemish painter-diplomat Peter Paul Rubens anchors a course proposing the residual baroqueness in diverse strains of high modernism. Our transdisciplinary project crosses entrenched nationalistic and chronological borders between modern and early modern art and artists including Bacon, Guston, Manet, Newman, Picasso, Reinhardt, and Titian in addition to
Visual Arts

Rules of Engagement: Art Curatorial Practices that Animate the Public Realm — VA4122.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Carol Stakenas
Credits: 4
This seminar investigates the creation and curation of contemporary art in the public realm from the 1960s to present day through the work of a range of artists from Allan Kaprow, Border Arts Workshop, Adrian Piper, Group Material, Suzanne Lacy and Mel Chin to Wafaa Bilal, Blast Theory, Andrea Fraser, Jeanne van Heeswijk, Pablo Helguera, Ultra-red and more. The class will
Visual Arts

Running for President in 2020 — APA2319.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: David Bond
Credits: 2
The past four years has overturned long standing wisdom about American democracy. COVID-19 has further upended the status quo and eroded threadbare political norms without clarity about what exactly will come next. Whether as students or citizens or international visitors, the political present in the US seems to exceed the given forms of scholarly analysis, principled
CAPA

Russian Jewish Literature and Film — LIT2203.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Alexandar Mihailovic
Credits: 4
The roots of Russian Jewish literature reach back into the Pale of Settlement of the pre-revolutionary era. The vibrant cosmopolitan city of Odessa on the Black Sea provided an important cultural model for the style and political stance of Jewish literature written in Russian. Although Stalin’s purges and the second World War affected all social levels and ethnic groups within
Literature

S.230 From Start to Veto: Renewable in Vermont — MOD2302.02

Fall 2016
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati and Brian Campion
Credits: 1
Senate bill 230 was constructed in response to the interest of Vermonters in having a say in where renewable energy is sited in their communities. Although an important piece  of legislation to Vermonters, the constant interplay among science, emotion, business and an overwhelming amount of data caused this bill to regularly be in jeopardy of failing and was
CAPA Modules: Transferable Approaches

Sacred Harp College — MPF4125.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Kitty Brazelton
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1
For experienced Sacred Harpers only. You must be familiar with Sacred Harp repertoire and know how to lead from the 'hollow square'. We will focus on learning to teach and key Sacred Harp. And we will always sing. Attendance will be the only criterion for evaluation.  
Music

Sacred Harp Singing School — MPF2100.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Kitty Brazelton
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1
We meet once a week for singing school. We sit in a hollow square. Altos, north. Trebles, east. Basses, west. And the tenors, who lead from the south. Many songs in the Sacred Harp tunebook, published by two Georgians in 1844, tell of death and salvation. But there are social tunes, about Buonaparte, old mother, rambling and roving, or singing school itself. Most of our tunes
Music

Sacred Spaces — ARC4160.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Donald Sherefkin
Credits: 4
The history of architecture is replete with marvelous constructions that were built to establish a sacred ‘center’ - to give meaning to the world. This studio will look at examples from history of the variety of ways that sacred spaces have been created. Students will develop a series of projects to explore the possibilities of creating ineffable, numinous spaces that may
Visual Arts

Sacred to Profane in the Whirlwind of History — LIT2506.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Marguerite Feitlowitz
Credits: 4
We will read an international selection of 20th and 21st century Jewish writers who wrestle with religion, myth, history, and language. The agon extends to writing itself—narrative forms, notions of reality, memory, horror, and, in the face of it all, outrageous humor and invention. Expect to read Kafka, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Cynthia Ozick, David Grossman, Yoel Hoffman, David
Literature

Sage City Symphony — MPF4100.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Kerry Ryer-Parke
Credits: 1
Sage City Symphony is a community orchestra which invites student participation. The Symphony is noted for the policy of commissioning new works by major composers, in some instances student composers, as well as playing the classics. There are openings in the string sections, and occasionally by audition for solo winds and percussion. There will be two concerts each term.
Music

Sage City Symphony — MPF4100.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Kerry Ryer-Parke
Credits: 1
Sage City Symphony is a community orchestra which invites student participation. The Symphony is noted for the policy of commissioning new works by major composers, in some instances student composers, as well as playing the classics. There are openings in the string sections, and occasionally by audition for solo winds and percussion. There will be two concerts each term.
Music

Sage City Symphony — MPF4100.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Music Faculty
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1
Sage City Symphony is a community orchestra which invites student participation. The Symphony is noted for the policy of commissioning new works by major composers, in some instances student composers, as well as playing the classics. There are openings in the string sections, and occasionally by audition for solo winds and percussion. There will be two concerts each term.
Music

Sage City Symphony — MPF4100.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: TBA
Credits: 1
Sage City Symphony is a community orchestra which invites student participation. The Symphony is noted for the policy of commissioning new works by major composers, in some instances student composers, as well as playing the classics. There are openings in the string sections, and occasionally by audition for solo winds and percussion. There will be two concerts each term.
Music

Sage City Symphony — MPF4100.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke (Conductor is Michael Finckel)
Credits: 1
Sage City Symphony is a community orchestra which invites student participation. The Symphony is noted for the policy of commissioning new works by major composers, in some instances student composers, as well as playing the classics. There are openings in the string sections, and occasionally by audition for solo winds and percussion. There will be two concerts each term.
Music