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The Black Aesthetic — LIT4267.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Ben Anastas
Credits: 4
This course will focus on the history and practice of the black aesthetic, as it has been defined by African Americans from three incarnations: slave narratives, the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920鈥檚 and 30鈥檚 and the Black Arts Movement of the 1960鈥檚 and its evolution thru the end of the 20th Century. There will be assigned readings from various literary critics,
Literature

The Blazing World — PHI4246.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Catherine McKeen
Credits: 2
Margaret Cavendish鈥檚 The Blazing World, published in 1666, is many things- an early experiment in science fiction; a biting satire of gender norms; a visionary feminist utopia (or unsettling authoritarian dystopia); a sample of imagination-driven travel writing; the work of a 17th c. woman making a daring claim to literary, political, and intellectual authority; and a text very
Society Culture and Thought

The Body Acoustic: Toward A Sense of Place — DAN2112.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Days & Time: TU,FR 2:10pm-4:00pm
Credits: 4

How do we physically understand the spaces we are in? How is each of us affected by them? How do we develop a deeper sense of place? The Body Acoustic aims to heighten awareness of the reciprocal relationship between the built environment and our senses. Light and sound, distances, height, volume, surfaces, angles/curves and

Dance

The Body Acoustic: Toward a Sense of Place — DAN2112.02) (cancelled

Fall 2021
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
How do we physically understand the spaces we are in? How is each of us affected by them? How do we develop a deeper sense of place? The Body Acoustic aims to heighten awareness of the reciprocal relationship between the built environment and our senses. Light and sound, distances, height, volume, surfaces, angles/curves and a/symmetries all affect one鈥檚 movement through
Dance

The Body Acoustic: Toward a Sense of Place — DAN2112.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 2
How do we physically understand the spaces we are in? How is each of us affected by them? How do we develop a deeper sense of place? The Body Acoustic aims to heighten awareness of the reciprocal relationship between the built environment and our senses. Light and sound, distances, height, volume, surfaces, angles/curves and a/symmetries all affect one鈥檚 movement through
Dance

The Body Acoustic: Toward a Sense of Place — DAN2112.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 2
How do we physically understand the spaces we are in? How is each of us affected by them? How do we develop a deeper sense of place? The Body Acoustic aims to heighten awareness of the reciprocal relationship between the built environment and our senses. Light and sound, distances, height, volume, surfaces, angles/curves and a/symmetries all affect our movement through interior
Dance

The Body Acoustic: Toward a Sense of Place — DAN2112.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 2
How do we physically understand the spaces we are in?  How is each of us affected by them?  How do we develop a deeper sense of place? The Body Acoustic aims to heighten awareness of the reciprocal relationship between the built environment and our senses. Light and sound, distances, height, volume, surfaces, angles/curves and a/symmetries all affect one's movement
Dance

The Body Acoustic: Toward a Sense of Place — DAN2112.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 2
How do we physically understand the spaces we are in? How is each of us affected by them? How do we develop a deeper sense of place? The Body Acoustic aims to heighten awareness of the reciprocal relationship between the built environment and our senses. Light and sound, distances, height, volume, surfaces, angles/curves and a/symmetries all affect one鈥檚 movement through
Dance

The Body Acoustic: Toward a Sense of Place — DAN2112.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: dana reitz
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
How do we physically understand the spaces we are in? How is each of us affected by them? How do we develop a deeper sense of place? The Body Acoustic aims to heighten awareness of the reciprocal relationship between the built environment and our senses. Light and sound, distances, height, volume, surfaces, angles/curves and a/symmetries all affect our movement through
Dance

The Body Acoustic: Toward a Sense of Place — DAN2112.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 4
How do we physically understand the spaces we are in? How is each of us affected by them? How do we develop a deeper sense of place? The Body Acoustic aims to heighten awareness of the reciprocal relationship between the built environment and our senses. Light and sound, distances, height, volume, surfaces, angles/curves and a/symmetries all affect one鈥檚 movement through
Dance

The Body Acoustic: Toward a Sense of Place — DAN2112.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 2
How do we physically understand the spaces we are in? How is each of us affected by them? How do we develop a deeper sense of place? The Body Acoustic aims to heighten awareness of the reciprocal relationship between the built environment and our senses. Light and sound, distances, height, volume, surfaces, angles/curves and a/symmetries all affect one鈥檚 movement through
Dance Drama Visual Arts

The Body is a Time Machine — DAN4382.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Nicole Daunic
Days & Time: TU,FR 10:30am-12:20pm
Credits: 4

What remains of dance? The lament of dance鈥檚 ephemerality coincides with broader Western temporal projects conceived through the linear unfolding of human progress and social evolution, relegating our movements to an irretrievable past. In this course we will interrogate these spatio-temporal frameworks in order to re-member and reimagine

Dance

The Body is a Time Machine — DAN2422.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Nicole Daunic
Days & Time: TU,FR 10:30am-12:20pm
Credits: 4

What remains of dance? The lament of dance鈥檚 ephemerality coincides with broader Western temporal projects conceived through the linear unfolding of human progress and social evolution, relegating our movements to an irretrievable past. In this course we will interrogate these spatio-temporal frameworks in order to re-member and reimagine

Dance

The Body Politic — POL2105.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Crina Archer
Credits: 4
From ancient Athens to the present, the human body has served as a compelling metaphor for political community and the nation state. This course interrogates the mechanisms of this metaphor in its various articulations across classical, modern, and contemporary Western political thought. We will read works of canonical and contemporary political theory to ask how the
Society Culture and Thought

The Body Politic — POL2105.01; section 1

Fall 2015
Instructor: Crina Archer
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
From Plato to the present, the human body has served as a compelling metaphor for political community and the nation state. This course interrogates the mechanisms of this metaphor in its various articulations across ancient, modern, and contemporary Western political thought. In the first half of the course, we read works of political philosophy to ask whether and how the
Society Culture and Thought

The Body Politic — POL2105.02; section 2

Fall 2015
Instructor: Crina Archer
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
From Plato to the present, the human body has served as a compelling metaphor for political community and the nation state. This course interrogates the mechanisms of this metaphor in its various articulations across ancient, modern, and contemporary Western political thought. In the first half of the course, we read works of political philosophy to ask whether and how the
Society Culture and Thought

The Body Remembers: Embodiment, Representation, and the Racial Imaginary — APA4240.02

Spring 2017
Instructor:
Credits: 2
This course will engage the socio-historical processes and technologies through which the gendered and racialized black body circulates in the public realm. Toggling between the present, past and future, students will engage with specific visual and material representations of black bodies and their attendant consumption, including 鈥渞unaway slave鈥 listings; the Clarence Thomas
CAPA

The Body Speaking — DAN2352.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Levi Gonzalez
Credits: 4
This class incorporates speaking, language, sounding and scoring as activities that can be integrated with movement in complex and novel ways, through both structured and improvisatory practices.  Through these practices, we will access the expressive and artistic possibilities of sound and language as an extension of the body. Additionally, we will look at the work of
Dance

The Book of Deuteronomy the Book of Jonah — MED2122.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Michael Cohen
Credits: 2
The Book of Deuteronomy and the Book of Jonah are two pivotal books of the Bible. The former stands apart from the first four books of the Bible as a retelling of what previously occurred according to the text. In that retelling changes were made to many relevant topics and issues essential for the advancement of public well being. We will explore those areas ranging from
CAPA

The Book of Deuteronomy and the Advancement of Society — MED2114.03

Fall 2015
Instructor: Michael M. Cohen
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1
The Book of Deuteronomy stands apart from the first four books of the Bible as a retelling of what previously occurred according to the text. In that retelling changes were made to so many relevant topics and issues essential for the advancement of public well being. This class will explore those areas ranging from humans the environment, the setting up a judicial
CAPA Environment Modules: Transferable Approaches

The Business Side of Music — MHI2322.02

Spring 2022
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Credits: 1
The business side of music, from contracts to audio distribution platforms, is an important component of an artist鈥檚 life which cannot be ignored. Kyoko Kitamura 鈥 musician, former journalist, former executive director of the arts organization Tri-Centric Foundation 鈥 will share real life examples and analyses, starting with the pandemic and the force majeure clause, its impact
Music

The Business Side of Music — MHI2322.02

Spring 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 1
The business side of music, from contracts to audio distribution platforms, is an important component of an artist鈥檚 life. Kyoko Kitamura 鈥 musician, former journalist, former executive director of the arts organization Tri-Centric Foundation 鈥 will share real life examples as well as cover various topics of interest including the effects of the pandemic, music
Music

The Camp Aesthetic — DRA2167.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Maya Cantu
Credits: 4
An elusive sensibility that defies definition, camp is everywhere in 2023, as fueled by the worldwide juggernaut success of 鈥淩uPaul鈥檚 Drag Race.鈥 Sometimes seen as gaudy, perverse or excessive, camp is a sophisticated and consummately theatrical style, doubly viewing life as theater and gender as performance. Camp鈥檚 essence 鈥渋s its love of the unnatural: of artifice and
Drama Literature Society Culture and Thought

The Camp Aesthetic — DRA2167.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Maya Cantu
Credits: 4
Sometimes seen as gaudy, perverse or excessive, camp is a sophisticated and consummately theatrical style, doubly viewing life as theater and gender as performance. Camp鈥檚 essence 鈥渋s its love of the unnatural: of artifice and exaggeration,鈥 as Susan Sontag argued in her epochal and controversial 1964 essay 鈥淣otes on Camp.鈥 Developing historically as a language of the closet,
Drama