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The Hollow Form: Introduction to Ceramics — CER2221.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Barry Bartlett
Credits: 4
This objective of this class is to help students learn a set of handbuilding techniques in the ceramic arts that have given rise to a vast history of ideas using the hollow form. Unlike traditional sculptural techniques used in wood, stone and metal, ceramic forms have depended on the interior space, the void, to define both symbolic meaning and formal structure.
Visual Arts

The Human Animal — BIO2118.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
Credits: 4
Humans are animals and share many traits with other animals. In this class a biologist and dancer will engage students in an exploration of structures and functions that permit all animals to process information, move, and react to their environments. How have these structures and functions evolved?  Can these insights inform how humans think, respond, move, and create?
Science Mathematics and Computing Dance

The Human Condition: Hannah Arendt — PHI4101.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Paul Voice
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) was a major political theorist whose work has become increasingly influential in recent years. A student of Martin Heidegger and Karl Jaspers, her extensive writings cover such topics as the nature of power, the meaning of the political and the problem of totalitariansim. This seven-week course is a critical exploration of some of her major works,
Social Science

The Human Condition: Hannah Arendt — PHI4101.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Paul Voice
Credits: 4
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) was a major political theorist whose work has become increasingly influential in recent years. A student of Martin Heidegger and Karl Jaspers, her extensive writings cover such topics as the nature of power, the meaning of the political, and the problem of totalitariansim. This course is a critical exploration of some of her major works, including The
Society Culture and Thought

The Image in Islamic Cultures — AH2128.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
Despite the widespread but erroneous assumption that Islam prohibits images, figurative representations have been abundantly produced in Islamic societies since the early years of Islam. With a particular focus on painting and the art of the book, this course will examine the central place of images in Islamic cultures from the early modern period to the present. While images
Visual Arts

The Immigrant Novel — LIT2540.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
The immigrant novel often bears the burden of “building bridges” between cultures, portraying “the good immigrant” or “the tragic immigrant” as a helpless individual on a journey to assimilation in a new country. But, for over a century, alongside the stereotypical immigrant novels, there have been numerous irreverent immigrant novels that push back against oversimplification,
Literature

The Improvising and Composing Vocalist — MVO2302.02) (new course code as of 11/1/2021

Spring 2022
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Credits: 1
Voice is an instrument with an incredible range of expression, and there is much to explore in the realm of vocal improvisation and composition. Through a series of exercises developed for the vocal improviser, with an emphasis on strengthening the foundation of theory and ear training, students will be encouraged to think holistically about the possibilities of voice. Students
Music

The Inexorable(Middle)March of Time — LIT4384.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Manuel Gonzales
Credits: 4
Diving deep into George Eliot's brilliant, funny, heartbreaking novel, Middlemarch, a novel whose story spans only the years 1829 to 1832, we will examine the use and passage of time by one of the 19th century's most insightful and incisive authors. Eliot at once slows down and then speeds us through time, rounding back, leaping forward, using to great effect the omniscient
Literature

The Infinite — Canceled

Spring 2015
Instructor: Andrew McIntyre
Credits: 1
The infinite is a theme that recurs in human thought, in places as disparate as philosophy, architecture, literature and mathematics. We will look at how mathematics has been influenced by the infinite, and the ways in which it has come to terms with it. We will mostly look at what mathematicians call the theory of sets: can one infinite collection be called bigger than another
Science Mathematics and Computing Modules: Transferable Approaches

The Invention of the 19th Century: A seminar on Honoré de Balzac — LIT4329.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Marguerite Feitlowitz
Credits: 4
Oscar Wilde liked to say that Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) invented the 19th century. The Human Comedy (La Comédie Humaine) comprises approximately 3,000 characters in a total of 92 novels, sketches, stories, and philosophical tales. For the first time in the history of the novel, characters recur—a star of one book may reappear as a minor figure in the intricate social
Literature

The Japanese Language and its Reflection of Values and Morals in Folktales — JPN2110.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Satomi LaFave
Credits: 4
Folktales are very interesting sources through which to gain an increased understanding of the cultural values and morals passed on from generation to generation. Gaining insight through these tales can improve comprehension of modern Japanese and the common cultural foundations upon which it is built. In this beginning Japanese course, students will be introduced to some
Languages

The Jazz Age Revisited — LIT2304.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Benjamin Anastas
Credits: 4
"It was an age of miracles, it was an age of art, it was an age of excess, and it was an age of satire," F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in his epitaph to the Jazz Age. It was something else too: a social and literary revolution, fueled by new communications technology, music, popular entertainment, the end of racial segregation, and a creative renaissance in a neighborhood in Upper
Literature

The Jazz Age Revisited — LIT2304.02

Fall 2020
Instructor:
Credits: 4
"It was an age of miracles, it was an age of art, it was an age of excess, and it was an age of satire," F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in his epitaph to the Jazz Age in 1931. It was something else too: a social and literary revolution fueled by new communications technology, mass popular entertainment, Jazz and the Blues, and a bold “collaborative energy” (Ann Douglas) between the
Literature

The Jazz Age Revisited — LIT2304.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Ben Anastas
Days & Time: M/W 8:00AM-9:50AM
Credits: 4

“It was an age of miracles, it was an age of art, it was an age of excess, and it was an age of satire,” F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in his epitaph to the Jazz Age in 1931. It was something else too: a social and literary revolution fueled by new communications technology, mass popular entertainment, Jazz and the Blues, and a bold “collaborative energy” (Ann Douglas) between

Literature

The Jewish Annotated Gospels — MED2121.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Michael Cohen
Credits: 4
Jesus, Paul, Peter, James, Jesus' mother Mary and Mary Magdalene were all Jews even though they appear prominently in the Christian Bible, also known as the New Testament. Their lives were imbued with Jewish history, beliefs, and practices. Often those nuances and meanings are lost when those texts are read without that understanding. In this class we will read some of the
CAPA Literature

The Jewish Annotated New Testament — APA2180.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Michael Cohen
Credits: 2
Jesus, Paul, Peter, James, Jesus' mother Mary and Mary Magdalene were all Jews even though they appear prominently in the Christian Bible, also known as the New Testament. Their lives were imbued with Jewish history, beliefs, and practices. Often those nuances and meanings are lost when those texts are read without that understanding. In this class we will read some of the
CAPA

The Journey and the Pity: Revisiting Dante’s Inferno — LIT4597.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
T.S. Eliot famously said, “Dante and Shakespeare divide the world between them.” Agree or disagree, but the work of Dante Alighieri, the fourteenth century Florentine poet and statesman, remains vital to the study of poetry and its history—particularly as the lyric tradition intersects with long-form narrative and Christian allegory begins reconciling with pagan mythology in
Literature

The Journey II: The World Between the Great Wars — HIS2208.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Eileen Scully
Credits: 4
Students in this course are a select group of people who sign on to travel the world in the inter-war era (1919-1939). Robust participation is required of all, and students must master information about each place we visit in order to move on to the next destination. The journey starts out in Paris, as preparations are underway for the conference that will produce the Treaty of
Society Culture and Thought

The Key to Songs — MTH4419.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
Credits: 4
An intermediate review of theory based on a broad range of pop, classical, and jazz songs from the last centuries and from across the world. We'll start with a primer on scales, intervals, and basic chordal moves such as the rhythm changes, then progress to chromaticism, modulation, and extended triadic harmonies. Students will compose songs in a variety of styles, but also be
Music

The Key To Songs — MTH4419.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
Credits: 4
A seminar on advanced harmony, based on in-class analyses of a broad range of classical, pop, and jazz songs. Students will learn about chromaticism, pivot chords, modulation, and extended triadic harmonies, while composing songs in a variety of styles. Students must have a good knowledge of notation and harmony, be willing to tackle in-depth harmonic analyses and aural
Music

The Key to Songs — MTH4419.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
Credits: 4
A seminar on advanced harmony, based on in-class analyses of a broad range of classical, pop, and jazz songs. Students will learn about chromaticism, pivot chords, modulation, and extended triadic harmonies, while composing songs in a variety of styles. Songwriters studied will include Mozart, Schubert, Mahler, Strauss, Weill, The Beatles, Radiohead, Gershwin, Monk, and other
Music

The Key to Songs — MTH4419.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Nick Brooke
Credits: 4
A seminar on advanced harmony, based on in-class analyses of a broad range of classical, pop, and jazz songs. Students will learn about chromaticism, pivot chords, modulation, and extended triadic harmonies, while composing songs in a variety of styles. Students must have a good knowledge of notation and harmony, be willing to tackle in-depth harmonic analyses and aural
Music

The Kiln as a Tool — CER2136.02

Spring 2015
Instructor: David Katz
Credits: 2
This course will look into the use of the kiln as an integral tool and part of the creative process in ceramic art. We will explore various different kilns and firing techniques, learning the roles of fire and atmosphere in transforming glaze components into desired surfaces. We will also discuss the history of kiln technology and how this has effected the development of wares,
Visual Arts

The Kimono Project: A design process — DRA2321.02

Fall 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
This is a class for students interested in costume design and theatrical design in general. In this course, students will take an emotional response from their own personal history through a complete design process including the construction of a final garment(s) - a kimono. We will look at how artists from different mediums have interpreted their own source material. Each
Drama