All Courses

Course System Home All Areas of Study

Select Filters and then click Apply to load new results

Term
Time & Day Offered
Level
Credits
Course Duration

Unique Prints: 3-D Prints and Modular Works — PRI4272.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Thorsten Dennerline
Credits: 4
This course is an introduction to unique prints, or prints that are not necessarily printed as an edition. We will emphasize the making of mixed media prints using a broad range of methods from monotypes to digital prints. The class is structured around a series of projects where rigorous experimentation is encouraged. Students will learn various non-typical printmaking
Visual Arts

Unique Prints: 3-D Prints and Modular Works — PRI4272.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Thorsten Dennerline
Credits: 4
This course is an introduction to unique prints, or prints that are not necessarily printed as an edition. We will emphasize the making of mixed media prints using a broad range of methods from monotypes to digital prints. The class is structured around a series of projects where rigorous experimentation is encouraged. Students will learn various non-typical printmaking methods
Visual Arts

Unlocking Italian Culture II — ITA4214.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Barbara Alfano
Credits: 4
Entering the worlds of Italy is an integral part of learning the language. We will continue exploring Italian culture through the lens of journalism: you will be journalists exploring Italy and reporting about it. In this, you will be supported by specific web tools, role-play, videos, and online newspaper and magazines. The class will create its own magazine. Meanwhile, you
Languages

Unlocking Italian Culture II — ITA4122.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Barbara Alfano
Credits: 4
Entering the worlds of Italy is an integral part of learning the language. We will keep exploring Italian culture through ideas of space, supported by role-play, music, film, videos, and the Internet. Meanwhile, you will advance in the study of the language. Students will continue developing their ability to carry out everyday and more complex tasks in Italian. By the end of
Languages

Unlocking Italian Culture II — ITA2108.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Barbara Alfano
Credits: 4
Entering the worlds of Italy is an integral part of learning the language. Students will continue exploring Italian culture through ideas of space, supported by role-play, music, film, videos, and the Internet, along with different authentic materials. In this course, we will focus in particular on public spaces and their social activities. Meanwhile, students will also advance
Languages

Unlocking Italian Culture II: Reporting Italy — ITA4214.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Barbara Alfano
Credits: 4
Entering the worlds of Italy is an integral part of learning the language. We will continue exploring Italian culture through journalism: you will be journalists exploring Italy and reporting about it. In this, you will be supported by specific web tools, role-play, videos, and on line newspaper and magazines. The class will create its own magazine. Meanwhile, you will advance
Languages

Unlocking Italian Culture II: Reporting Italy — ITA4214.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Barbara Alfano
Credits: 4
Entering the worlds of Italy is an integral part of learning the language. We will continue exploring Italian culture through the lens of journalism: you will be journalists exploring Italy and reporting about it. In this, you will be supported by specific web tools, role-play, videos, and on line newspaper and magazines. The class will create its own magazine. You will also
Languages

Unlocking Italian Culture: I — ITA2106.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Barbara Alfano
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This is an introductory course in Italian that will open the door to the inner aspects of the Boot's culture. Most of Italian social life revolves around close interpersonal relationships and attachment to places. Both aspects, for the good and the bad, shape an Italian's day from the morning coffee to the late dinner at home and do affect an individual's entire life. Through
Languages

Unpacking The Vault: Hidden Narratives in the Ź Art Collection — VA4137.02

Fall 2017
Instructor: Anne Thompson
Credits: 2
The Ź art collection is a kind of mystery. Sequestered in a basement space called "the vault,” the collection’s contents—its depth and breadth—are not fully known. On display around campus are some Abstract Expressionist–era paintings by celebrated former students, faculty, and area residents such as Helen Frankenthaler, Paul Feeley, and Jules
Visual Arts

Up/Side/Down — VA4321.01) (cancelled 7/17/2023

Fall 2023
Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
Credits: 4
This is a practice for participants of any discipline who are interested in exploring the intersections between movement and drawing, actions and traces. We invite you to join us in an experiment. We want to consider/reconsider/resist/undermine/overwhelm/explode the question of how to make work under uncertain circumstances. These explorations will take the form of happenings.
Dance Visual Arts

Up/Side/Down — VA2237.01) (cancelled 7/17/2023

Fall 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
This is a practice for participants of any discipline who are interested in exploring the intersections between movement and drawing, actions and traces. We invite you to join us in an experiment. We want to consider/reconsider/resist/undermine/overwhelm/explode the question of how to make work under uncertain circumstances. These explorations will take the form of happenings.
Dance Visual Arts

Up/Side/Down: Drawing = Movement — DRW2164.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: J Blackwell
Credits: 4
This is a practice for participants of any discipline who are interested in exploring the intersections between movement and drawing. We invite you to join us in an experiment. We want to consider/reconsider/resist/undermine/overwhelm/explode the question of how to make work under uncertain circumstances. These explorations will take the form of happenings. Happenings depend
Dance Visual Arts

Upending Clay: Non-Traditional Methods Alternative Techniques — CER2122.02

Fall 2014
Instructor: david katz
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
***Time Change*** This course is intended to strip away assumptions about clay and explore its raw potential as a sculptural medium. We will focus on non-traditional methods of working with the material, utilizing structural armatures, embracing unfired clay, experimenting with various additives, and non-ceramic surfaces. With an emphasis on experimentation and research
Visual Arts

Upside/down 2.0: Business in the 21st Century — APA2156.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Charles Crowell
Credits: 4
We have all unknowingly adsorbed business startup mythologies in our culture as fact – like the viability of starting in a garage or basement, starting small, and with little capital, as well as whatever clickbait faux news (“Young Billionaires!”) we read in the newest online forum dedicated to start-up culture. These success stories are all wrong, or “upside /down”, for the
CAPA

Upside/down: Business in the 21st Century — APA2300.01

Fall 2016
Instructor:
Credits: 4
We have all unknowingly adsorbed business startup mythologies in our culture as fact - like the viability of starting in a garage or basement, starting small, and with little capital, as well as whatever clickbait faux news (“Young Billionaires!”) we read in the newest online forum dedicated to start-up culture. These
CAPA

Urban Design and Development — ANT4216.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Timothy Karis
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course applies the perspectives and methods of anthropology to explore and critique patterns of urban design and development around the world, paying attention to the interactions between structural forces (urban planning and design practices, global capitalism, city and state policies) and locally produced cultural meanings and political activities involving the use of
Society Culture and Thought Visual Arts

Urban Disasters: Economics, Risk, and the City — PEC2286.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Lopamudra Banerjee
Days & Time: TU 2:10pm-4:00pm
Credits: 2

Catastrophic events—droughts, earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, and landslides—are growing in frequency and intensity around the world. As more of the global population concentrates in urban areas, the nature and consequences of these natural hazards are taking on a distinct and often violent shape in today’s metropolises and megacities. This course investigates how urban

Advancement of Public Action Environment Political Economy

US-Africa Relations — POL4252.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Rotimi Suberu
Credits: 2
US foreign policy toward Africa has been characterized variously as one of indifference, neglect, selective/constructive engagement, disengagement, reengagement, and so on. This course probes the US‐Africa relationship in the light of the seeming reprioritization of that interaction by the United States since 9/11. Topics, readings, assignments, and presentations will explore
Society Culture and Thought

US-Russian Relations, Past and Present — HIS4115.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Eileen Scully
Credits: 4
In 1852, a leading American newspaper proposed that, “As we look into the future, with the past and the present for our guides, we see two great objects looming up conspicuously above all others, Russia and the United States …. What is to be their mysterious fate and their mission in the World? What can we now seize upon to guide us in calculating their future history?” Though
Society Culture and Thought

Uses and Abuses of Statistics — MAT2103.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Hugh Crowl
Credits: 4
This course will attempt to answer the question "What is valid data -- and how do you know?" By looking at real life data sets, we will work on reading, assessing, and producing statistics as they relate to different fields. We will work to locate the source data, understand statistical language, and look at how the visual representation of data can change how we perceive facts
CAPA Science Mathematics and Computing Society Culture and Thought

Uses and Abuses of Statistics — MAT2103.01

Spring 2017
Instructor:
Credits: 4
This course will attempt to answer the question "What is valid data -- and how do you know?" By looking at real life data sets, we will work on reading, assessing, and producing statistics as they relate to different fields. We will work to locate the source data, understand statistical language, and look at how the visual representation of data can change how we perceive facts
Science and Mathematics

Vampire as Cultural Critic — CUR4401.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Anne Thompson
Days & Time: MO,TH 10:00am-11:50am
Credits: 4

This seminar explores the cinematic vampire as a symbolic curator, critic, and connoisseur, one who collects, consumes, and reflects cultural concerns. Through films paired with philosophical and critical texts, we examine how vampires serve as mirrors, archivists, aesthetes, and subversive observers and how filmmakers stylistically foreground or reframe aspects of the

Curatorial Studies

VAPA Evolving — ARC4111.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Donald Sherefkin
Credits: 4
VAPA was conceived as a facility that would provide an "...evolving environment for the performance of all forms of art and open to the most challenging ideas and personalities from either inside or outside the college environment..." [The Art Policy Committee, 1964] VAPA has undergone significant change over the course of forty years, with new programs and studios created for
Visual Arts Environment

Varied Vessels — CER4226.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Aysha Peltz
Credits: 4
This intermediate to advanced-level course is for students interested in continuing their studies in ceramics with a focus on the vessel. Students who are on campus may work in the ceramics studio and can choose any ceramic building technique they would like to continue exploring: hand-building, slip casting, throwing, digital printing. Students who are studying remotely will
Visual Arts

Varied Vessels: from Useful to Fanciful — CER4154.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Aysha Peltz
Credits: 4
In this course, students will continue to develop their ceramic skills with a focus on the vessel. Readings, discussions, and research will support student’s individual search for personal expression through the making of vessel forms. The Usdan Gallery will be hosting a ceramic vessel exhibition during the second half of the term. This show will provide students with the
Visual Arts