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The Scriptorium: Visual Culture — WRI2151.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Camille Guthrie
Credits: 4
How do we organize and understand our perceptions of the world? How do we look at objects? At paintings and photographs, advertisements and films? What do we see, and not see, when we visit a new place, or when we encounter an animal? And, importantly, how do we perceive and comprehend each other? This scriptorium, a “place for writing,” will function as a class for beginning
Writing

The Scriptorium: Visual Culture — LIT2252.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Camille Guthrie
Credits: 4
How do we organize and understand our perceptions of the world? How do we look at objects? At paintings and photographs, advertisements and films? What do we see, and not see, when we visit a new place, or when we encounter an animal? And, importantly, how do we perceive and comprehend each other? This scriptorium, a “place for writing,” will function as a class for beginning
Literature

The Scriptorium: Visual Culture — Section 1 - LIT2252.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Camille Guthrie
Credits: 4
How do we organize and understand our perceptions of the world? How do we look at objects? At paintings and photographs, advertisements and films? What do we see, and not see, when we visit a new place, or when we encounter an animal? And, importantly, how do we perceive and comprehend each other? This scriptorium, a “place for writing,” will function as a class for beginning
Literature

The Scriptorium: Visual Culture — Section 2 - LIT2252.02

Spring 2015
Instructor: Camille Guthrie
Credits: 4
How do we organize and understand our perceptions of the world? How do we look at objects? At paintings and photographs, advertisements and films? What do we see, and not see, when we visit a new place, or when we encounter an animal? And, importantly, how do we perceive and comprehend each other? This scriptorium, a “place for writing,” will function as a class for beginning
Literature

The Scriptorium: Visual Culture — WRI2151.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Camille Guthrie
Credits: 4
This scriptorium, a “place for writing,” serves as a class for writers interested in improving their academic essay-writing skills. We will read to write and write to read. Much of our time will be occupied with writing and revising—essai means “trial” or “attempt”—as we work to create new habits and strategies for our analytical writing. As we practice various essay structures
Writing

The Scriptorium: What Is Culture? — WRI2168.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Alex Creighton
Days & Time: MO,TH 1:40pm-3:30pm
Credits: 4

The Scriptorium, a “place for writing,” is a class for writers interested in improving their critical essay-writing skills. We will read to write and write to read. Much of our time will be occupied with writing and revising—essai<

Writing

The Scriptorium: Writing Ź Place — LIT2503.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Camille Guthrie
Credits: 4
This scriptorium, a “place for writing,” will function as a class for bilingual or multilingual writers interested in improving their essay-writing skills. We will read to write and write to read, following the originator of the form, Montaigne. Much of our time will be occupied with writing and revising—essai means “trial” or “attempt”—as we work to create new habits and
Literature

The Self, the Soul, and St. Augustine — LIT2339.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Ben Anastas
Credits: 2
We live in an age of rampant confession, so it can be difficult to conceive of a world without it. Augustine’s Confessions—which the Bishop of Hippo dictated to a team of scribes between 397 and 400 C.E.—is one of those rare literary works that marks a very clear before and after. In this two-credit course we’ll spend the term reading the whole of the Confessions slowly and
Literature

The Silk Road — HIS4116.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Carol Pal
Credits: 4
n this course, we examine six moments of intellectual encounter between "east" and "west" along the storied routes of the Silk Road.  These encounters spanned a millennium, from the fifth century BCE to the fourteenth century.  We will be reading travel narratives written by these adventurers – Herodotus, Xuan Zang, Al-Biruni, Marco Polo, Ibn Battuta, and Sir John
Society Culture and Thought

The Sins of Nature: The Dark Side of Animal Behavior — BIO2141.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Blake Jones
Credits: 2
Nature is often violent and unforgiving, but few understand the extent to which animals engage in behaviors that, if judged by human ethical standards, would be considered malicious, immoral, or even evil. This provocative course will challenge our understanding of morality through the lens of non-human behaviors. Throughout this course, you will uncover the ecological and
Science and Mathematics

The Slow Burn — LIT4171.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Manuel Gonzales
Credits: 2
Some novels are slow, let's not beat around the bush. Some novels are languorous, moving at a narrative- and sentence-level pace that forces you to slow down how quickly you move your eyes across the page, how carefully you attest to the language, the meandering, lengthy, lingering sentences, the sonorous and lulling structure of long and digressive paragraphs. Trying to read
Literature

The Social Life of Crude Oil — ANT4118.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: David Bond
Credits: 4
Crude oil keeps the contemporary in motion. This basic fact has become as bland a platitude as it is an unexamined process. From plastic bags to electricity, from synthetic fertilizers to the passenger plane, from heat for our homes to fuel for our cars, our world is cultivated, packaged, transported, and consumed in the general momentum of hydrocarbon expenditures. These well
Social Science Environment

The Social Life of Photographs — PHO4133.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Liz White
Days & Time: WE 8:30am-12:10pm
Credits: 4

This studio/ seminar invites students to engage both creatively and critically, by making work and through readings and discussions. Throughout the course, students will consider the social life of photographs, with particular emphasis on past and present ways of making and

Photography

The Social Life of Trash — ANT4126.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Cecilia Salvi
Credits: 4
The last decade has seen an explosion of people around the world making everyday products- handbags, books, cups, jewelry, art, bricks, etc.- from residual materials that are destined for the landfill. In addition to demonstrating concern over environmental issues, their endeavors demonstrate how repurposing can be an individual, social, and collective right. Using primarily
Society Culture and Thought

The Social Natures of Crude Oil — APA4127.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: David Bond
Credits: 4
Crude oil keeps the contemporary in motion. This basic fact has become as bland a platitude as it is an unexamined process. From plastic bags to electricity, from synthetic fertilizers to the passenger plane, from heat for our homes to fuel for our cars, our world is cultivated, packaged, transported, and consumed in the general momentum of hydrocarbon expenditures. These well
CAPA Society Culture and Thought Environment

The Songwriter's Guitar — MIN4362.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
Credits: 2
Self-taught guitar playing often begins with the recognition of simple patterns, evolving into complexity. These patterns, while helping us gain familiarity, can eventually become a constrictive box, requiring new material to refresh the old. How do we make a song more effective through focusing on guitar, how can we make a song find its destination? This course develops each
Music

The Songwriter’s Guitar — MIN4362.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
Self-taught guitar playing often begins with the recognition of simple patterns, evolving into complexity. These patterns, while helping us gain familiarity, can eventually become a constrictive box, requiring new material to refresh the old.  How do we make a song more effective through focusing on guitar, how can we make a song find its destination? This course develops
Music

The Spanish Avant-Garde. From "Avignon Street" to "Guernica" — SPA4216.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: luis gonzalez-barrios
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course is a survey of the avant-garde artistic movement in Spain, ranging from Pablo Picasso’s Las señoritas de la calle Avignon (1907) to the first appearance of Guernica (1937) in the international exhibition in Paris (1937). These two works by Picasso are used as an example of the increasing politicization of the -ismos (cubism, ultraism, surrealism), an artistic
Languages

The Special Immigrant Visa Program: A Research Seminar and Case Study of Immigration Reform — ANT4119.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
In his first months in office, President Biden announced a withdrawal of all US troops from Afghanistan, as well as a review of the Special Immigrant Visa Program, designed to provide protection for those Afghan nationals who worked with the United States. The current program is slow and confusing, and many Afghans are being killed while they wait for these visas. The situation
Society Culture and Thought

The State of American Democracy and the November 2024 Elections — POP2357.03

Spring 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 1
This Pop Up Module will be led by students under the facilitation of Susan Sgorbati and Vermont State Senator Brian Campion. Students will create and structure the Fall 2024 Public Policy Forum for Ź students and students across the United States, focusing on the November elections. The Forum will be viewed in the context of the state of American democracy, viewed
CAPA

The Study Center for Group Work: Threeing — APA2214.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Caroline Woolard
Credits: 2
If group work is both the most necessary and the most difficult endeavor of our time, what methods are necessary for collaboration in the arts? In this seminar and studio, students will focus on a method for group work that was developed by the video-artist (not politician) Paul Ryan between 1971 and the end of his life, in 2013. Threeing is "a voluntary practice in which three
CAPA

The Textual City — SPA4805.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
Credits: 4
This course will chart the development of identity within the postcolonial Latin American city. The latter will be read both literally and as a guiding metaphor, as a reality ordered by ideas. We will use interdisciplinary theoretical models as discursive markers, selected from architecture, politics, philosophy, literature, and photography, in order to problematize urban
Cultural Studies and Languages

The Textual City — SPA4704.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
Credits: 4
This course will chart the development of identity within the postcolonial Latin American city, focusing on (though by no means limited to) Buenos Aires as a touchstone case. The latter will be read both literally and as a guiding metaphor, as a reality ordered by ideas. We will use interdisciplinary theoretical models as discursive markers, selected from history, architecture,
CAPA Languages

The Textual City — SPA4805.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
Credits: 4
This course will chart the development of identity within the postcolonial Latin American city. The latter will be read both literally and as a guiding metaphor, as a reality ordered by ideas. We will use interdisciplinary theoretical models as discursive markers, selected from architecture, politics, philosophy, literature, and photography, in order to problematize urban
Languages

The Theory and Practice of Hardware Hacking — CS4121.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Andrew Cencini Hugh Crowl
Credits: 4
This class will focus on the fundamentals of electronics and how we can use our understanding of electronics to build internet-connected systems that measure and/or interact with the environment around us. Students will learn the fundamentals of electronics and circuits and hardware/software programming, and then apply that knowledge to group and individual projects, such as
Science and Mathematics