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The New York School of Poetry — LIT2198.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Michael Dumanis
Credits: 4
This course will serve as an immersion in the work of several major American poets of the 1950s and 1960s, noted for their humor, irreverence, disjunctive experimentation, charm, and wildness, and collectively known as the New York School. We will begin by focusing on the original generation of New York School poets: John Ashbery, Frank OHara, Kenneth Koch, James Schuyler, and
Literature

The New York School of Poetry — LIT2198.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Michael Dumanis
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course will serve as an immersion in the work of several major American poets of the 1950s and 1960s, noted for their humor, irreverence, disjunctive experimentation, charm, and wildness, and collectively known as the New York School. We will begin by focusing on the original generation of New York School poets: John Ashbery, Frank OHara, Kenneth Koch, James Schuyler, and
Literature

The New York School of Poetry — LIT2198.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Michael Dumanis
Credits: 4
This course will serve as an immersion in the work of several major American poets of the 1950s and 1960s, noted for their humor, irreverence, disjunctive experimentation, charm, and wildness, and collectively known as the New York School. We will begin by focusing on the original generation of New York School poets: John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, Kenneth Koch, James Schuyler, and
Literature

The Nouveau Roman — LIT4181.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Annie Dewitt
Credits: 4
This course will examine the emergence of the "new" avant-garde French novel which came to prominence in the 1950's. We will investigate how these novels questioned the role of literary realism and narrative authority, often subverting traditional elements of fiction including: plot, character, and the all-knowing intelligence of the omniscient narrator. We will also consider
Literature

The Novels of Kazuo Ishiguro — LIT4291.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Stuart Nadler
Credits: 4
In the inscription for Kazuo Ishiguro’s 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature, the committee announced it had chosen to give him the award because his novels had “uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world.” In this class, we will read nearly all of these novels, beginning with Ishiguro’s first, A Pale View of These Hills, and including An Artist of
Literature

The Ocean, The Creek, The Lake: Writing Water — LIT2405.02

Spring 2020
Instructor: Akiko Busch
Credits: 2
As water—through floods and droughts alike—continues to reshape the geography of the world around us, this course will look at waterscapes as written by women: Rachel Carson’s The Edge of the Sea, Annie Dillard’s A Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, and Terry Tempest Williams’s Refuge. Science, poetry, and ideas of conservation converge here. As a marine biologist, Carson wrote with
Environment Literature

The Perfect Chorale — MTH4149.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
Credits: 2
In this class we’ll set hymn tunes for four voices, SATB ‐ one of the classic methods of studying harmony. We’ll look at the virtuosic chorales of Bach--arranging, reharmonizing, and revoicing each one--while singing everything we write. Emphasis will be on choosing idiomatic chords and creating elegant and singable counterpoint. Towards the end, we’ll look at more contemporary
Music

The Perfect Gesture — DAN2148.02

Spring 2016
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 1
Creative gestures possess a cultural DNA.  This lab explores the physical and performative relationship of the body to a student’s cultural whole.  Students will study, explore and negotiate what a perfect gesture might be by viewing (watching video examples), improvising and thinking with their particular body politics.  A primary question holding this lab
Dance

The Personal and Political — PSY2213.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Özge Savas
Credits: 4
What is political? How do we acquire political knowledge? How is political understanding shaped across generations? What is the relationship between power, gender, race, and politics? Why do people participate in social movements? What is a “peaceful protest”? In this course we will examine the interplay between people, power, and politics. We will consider participation in
Music Society Culture and Thought

The Personal and Political — PSY2213.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Özge Savaş
Credits: 4
What is political? How do we acquire political knowledge? How is political understanding shaped across generations? What is the relationship between power, gender, race, and politics? Why do people participate in social movements? What is a “peaceful protest”? In this course, we will examine the interplay between people, power, and politics. We will consider participation in
Society Culture and Thought

The Personal Learning Plan and After-School Workshop: Vermont Act 77 Educational Reform — APA2169.02

Spring 2019
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 1
Vermont Act 77 is a recent bill passed in the Vermont Legislature to enact educational reform. It includes implementing a Personal Learning Plan for all Middle and High School students in public education in Vermont. It is a radical new vision of public education and shares many of the same goals as the Ź College Plan Process. This Module will introduce Ź
CAPA

The Personal Learning Plan: Vermont Act 77 Education Reform —

Fall 2015
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1
Vermont Act 77 is a recent bill passed in the Vermont Legislature to enact educational reform. It includes implementing a Personal Learning Plan for all Middle and High School students in public education in Vermont.  It is a radical new vision of public education and shares many of the same goals as a Ź College Plan Process.  This Module will introduce

The Personal Learning Plan: Vermont Act 77 Educational Reform — MOD2170.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: David Bond
Credits: 1
Vermont Act 77 is a recent bill passed in the Vermont Legislature to enact educational reform. It includes implementing a Personal Learning Plan for all Middle and High School students in public education in Vermont. It is a radical new vision of public education and shares many of the same goals as a Ź College Plan Process. This Module will introduce Ź
CAPA Modules: Transferable Approaches

The Philosophy of Democracy — PHI2115.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
This course examines the philosophical grounds of democracy as well as the critique of democracy. We ask what values and practices ought to anchor our understanding of democracy and engage with debates about the value of democracy. This class requires close reading of primary philosophical texts and a number of written papers.
Society Culture and Thought

The Philosophy of Democracy — PHI2132.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Paul Voice
Credits: 4
This course examines the philosophical grounds of democracy as well as the critique of democracy. We ask what values and practices ought to anchor our understanding of democracy and engage with debates about the value of democracy. This class requires close reading of primary philosophical texts and a number of written papers.
Society Culture and Thought

The Philosophy of Democracy — PHI2132.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Paul Voice
Credits: 4
This course examines the philosophical grounds of democracy as well as the critique of democracy. We ask what values and practices ought to anchor our understanding of democracy and engage with debates about the value of democracy. This class requires close reading of primary philosophical texts and a number of written papers.
Society Culture and Thought

The Philosophy of Hannah Arendt — PHI4131.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Paul Voice
Credits: 4
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) was a 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 revolution. This course is a detailed exploration of some of her major works, including The Human
Society Culture and Thought

The Philosophy of Hannah Arendt — PHI4131.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Paul Voice
Credits: 4
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) was a 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 revolution. This course is a detailed exploration of some of her major works, including The Human
Society Culture and Thought

The Philosophy of Hannah Arendt — PHI4131.02

Spring 2018
Instructor: Paul Voice
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 revolution. This seven week course is a critical exploration of some of her major works, including
Society Culture and Thought

The Physics of Light and Color — PHY2114.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Hugh Crowl
Days & Time: TU 8:30am-12:10pm
Credits: 2

The physics of light and color initially appears simple: light is a wave and the wavelength of light determines color. While this basic physical description of light is easy to state, going deeper quickly opens up large range of questions. How do different wavelengths of light combine to make colors? How does light from different sources interfere? How does light change path

Physics

The Physics of Light and Color — PHY2114.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Hugh Crowl
Credits: 2
The physics of light and color initially appears simple: light is a wave and the wavelength of light determines color. While this basic physical description of light is easy to state, going deeper quickly opens up large range of questions. How do different wavelengths of light combine to make colors? How does light from different sources interfere? How does light change path
Science and Mathematics

The Physics of Sound — PHY2278.02

Spring 2026
Instructor: Hugh Crowl
Days & Time: TU 8:30am-12:10pm
Credits: 2

Physically, sound is simply the compression of air around us. However, this relatively simple description obscures a much richer understanding of sound. From how different sounds are generated and perceived to how different sounds can combine to make something new to how to design acoustically pleasant spaces, the physics of sound plays a key role. This course is about the

Physics

The Physics of Sound — PHY2278.02

Fall 2019
Instructor: Hugh Crowl
Credits: 2
Physically, sound is simply the compression of air around us. However, this relatively simply description obscures a much richer understanding of sound. From how different sounds are generated and perceived to how different sounds can combine to make something new to how to design acoustically pleasant spaces, the physics of sound plays a key role. This course is about the
Science and Mathematics