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Fall 2019

Comparative Political Corruption — POL4102.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Rotimi Suberu

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Credits: 2

Political corruption is broadly understood to involve the exploitation of public office for private gain. It is a longstanding problem, and it persists more or less in every society, including old democracies and developing countries. This course explores the definitions, drivers, patterns, effects and control of political corruption from a global perspective. Key topics

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Conflict Resolution: Theory Practice — MED2116.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Michael Cohen

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Credits: 4

This course will present an interdisciplinary approach to the theory of conflict resolution. Theories of conflict resolution, not mediation skills, will be introduced and then explored through a number of different prisms. These will include the macro issues of the nature of peace, the environment, the media, NGOs, as well as the role of religion and the Bible. There will also

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Conspiracies: Past, Present, Always — HIS2112.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Eileen Scully

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Credits: 4

Conspiracy theories have a long and interesting history in American politics and culture. Indeed, some of today's most interesting and diabolical conspiracy theories actually took hold in the era of the American Revolution. They have persisted across generations and centuries, periodically exploding into epidemic-level mass paranoia. Through select case studies, primary

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Contemporary Native American Literature — LIT4126.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Manuel Gonzales

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Credits: 4

As Stephen Graham Jones writes in his essay, "Letter to a Just-Starting-Out-Indian-Writer and Maybe to Myself": So many readers and critics and students and professors, they don't engage [Native] writing as art, they engage it as an ethnographic lens they can use to focus attention on peoples and cultures and issues and crimes and travesties and all the 'other' that'll fit in a

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Creating Field Guides to ��Ź�� — APA2217.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Marina Zurkow, MFA Teaching Fellow

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Credits: 2

In this 7-week workshop we will uncover aspects of ��Ź��, perform research, tell stories, and design booklets using the familiar form of the field guide. A field guide is a manual used to identify things (birds, trees, minerals and more) in their natural environment. It follows certain rules, such as an identification system, a grammar, a map, and a how-to use section. All

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Critical Conversations in Society, Culture Thought: The Great Transformation at 75 — SCT2132.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: John Hultgren, David Bond, Lopamudra Banerjee

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Credits: 4

This course will introduce students to Society, Culture Thought by engaging with the work of one of ��Ź�� College's most remarkable former professors, Karl Polanyi. Seventy-five years ago, fleeing the rise of Naziism in Europe, Polanyi arrived at ��Ź��, and gave a series of public lectures that offered a bold new interpretation of what had gone wrong as the world

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Design from Nature — DRA4236.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Charles Schoonmaker

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Credits: 2

This is a class for students interested in Costume Design. We will work with inspiration from the natural world to design clothing, one example being Christian Dior’s ‘Tulip line’ of 1953. Students should be confident about their ability to express ideas in a graphic platform and medium, and interested in expanding their understanding of clothing design. The classic tools for

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Digital Life — MS2104.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Brian Michael Murphy

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Credits: 4

Digital technology is changing our understanding of what it means to be human, and rewriting our definitions of life, the body, love, death, and other concepts and embodied experiences. Through engaging contemporary narratives like The Circle and Black Mirror, we will explore the theory of technogenesis—the idea that humans have always coevolved with their tools. We will read

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Dining Culture in China — CHI2117.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Ginger Lin

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Credits: 4

“Have you eaten yet?” This common Chinese greeting is just one of many common phrases that shows the centrality of food to Chinese culture. In this course we will focus on the theme of Chinese food and dining culture as an entrée into the study of Chinese language and culture. As Chinese grammar is very simple with no verb conjugation, no plural, no gender, no articles or

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Directing II — DRA4376.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Kirk Jackson

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Credits: 4

We will address the process of discerning a text’s dramatic potential and realizing that potential in performance by developing and implementing a directorial approach through analysis and rehearsal techniques. The term is divided between exercises and rehearsal of individual projects. The work of the course will culminate in a director’s approach essay, a rehearsal log, and a

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Discrete Mathematics — MAT4139.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Carly Briggs

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Credits: 4

Discrete mathematics studies problems that can be broken up into distinct pieces. Some examples of these sorts of systems are letters or numbers in a password, pixels on a computer screen, the connections between friends on Facebook, and driving directions (along established roads) between two cities. In this course we will develop the tools needed to solve relevant, real-world

Science and Mathematics

Diversity of Coral Reef Animals — BIO2339.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Elizabeth Sherman

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Credits: 4

Coral reefs are among the most diverse, unique and beautiful of ecosystems on the planet. Alas, they are also quite vulnerable to various environmental assaults and most of the reefs on earth are in real jeopardy. Students will learn the taxonomy, identification and characteristics of the animals which live in coral reefs. We will discuss the major biological innovations that

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Drawing Intensive: Conditions for Visual Inquiry — DRW4238.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Ann Pibal

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Credits: 4

What strategies do artists use to efficiently develop an initial idea? How does one sustain a meaningful, vital, creative inquiry? How can a direct connection be made between daily life and making images, and between the personal, and public or political worlds? This intermediate level course will address these questions through an intensive immersion in drawing and

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Drumming: An Extension of Language — MIN2120.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Michael Wimberly

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Credits: 2

This course serves as an introduction to rhythms, chants, and musical practices from Africa, Brazil, Cuba, Haiti, and the African Diaspora. Using indigenous percussion instruments from these territories, students will use their hands, mallets, and sticks to play traditional folkloric rhythms and melodies. Additional topics will cover history, culture, language, and dance. This

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Dying in Diaspora — SCT4108.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Emily Mitchell-Eaton

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Credits: 4

This class examines geographies of death, dying, and mourning as experienced by migrants living in diaspora or exile. In it, we will map out the multiple mobilities of grief and death—the circulation of emotions, cadavers, toxins and cancers, and mourning relatives gathering to grieve—and the political, and imperial, factors that co-produce death and mobility—such as the U.S.

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Economic Development — PEC4105.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Lopamudra Banerjee

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Credits: 2

Much of economics is concerned with problems of development, as the essential object of the entire economic exercise is improvement in people’s material conditions of living and their quality of life. In this seminar we will examine the evolution in economic thinking about development—its nature, its causes, and the choice of strategies for facilitating the process of economic

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Economy and Ecology — PEC2253.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Lopamudra Banerjee

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Credits: 2

Simply put, economics deals with the material world, and ecology is concerned with the living world. How do the two worlds meet and interact? This seminar explores this intriguing question. This broad question can be analyzed in terms of more pointed queries: What are the feedbacks between the economic and the ecological systems? How do markets and incentives affect people’s

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Education, Inc. — SOC4104.02

Fall 2019

Instructor: Debbie Warnock

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Credits: 2

In this course, we will examine the rise of market-based approaches to K-12 education reform in America. What are the theoretical arguments for implementing free market reforms in public schooling? What are examples of school choice policies and what are the consequences of these for students and families? How has the increased privatization and marketing of schools influenced

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Embracing Difference — ANT2107.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Miroslava Prazak

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Credits: 4

Why are cultures and societies so different, and simultaneously, so similar? This introductory course examines some of the theoretical and methodological approaches of anthropology in exploring human culture and society. We explore various ethnographic examples to develop an anthropological perspective on economy and politics, social organization, kinship and family life,

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Ethical Community Collaborations — APA2161.02

Fall 2019

Instructor: Aaron Landsman, MFA Teaching Fellow

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Credits: 2

This course uses case studies from socially-engaged art projects along with in-class work and research on how to collaborate with specific communities in an ethical, mutually beneficial way. We will explore how to use a strategic planning process, transparent communications and realistic expectations around time and money in partnerships that cross boundaries of race, class,

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European Literature Between the Wars — LIT4170.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Stuart Nadler

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Credits: 4

In the immediate aftermath of WWI, Europe found itself dramatically reshaped. In the place of the now-dead Dual Monarchy were six new nation states set between borders haphazardly drawn by victors of the war in order to smite the losers. An economic crisis swept the continent, leaving millions starving and rendering the German Mark nearly worthless. In the east, the Soviet

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Experiential Anatomy/Somatic Practices — DAN2149.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Elena Demyanenko

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Credits: 4

This is a studio class for any discipline intended to deepen the understanding of your own moving body. We will be studying kinesthetic anatomy by approaching the material through visual, cognitive, kinesthetic, and sensory modes. Class time will be divided between discussion of anatomy and kinesthetic concepts, and engagement with the material experientially through movement

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Experimental Black Women Poetry — LIT4129.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Phillip Williams

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Credits: 4

Defining experimental poetry can be mystifying inasmuch as all writing can be considered experimenting with language. The notion of experimentation, however, has often been denied writers of African descent across the globe. Often relegated to the margins in discussions of innovative and avant garde poetics, Black women have throughout time lead the charge of excavating

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Experimental Sound Practices — MSR2123.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Senem Pirler

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Credits: 2

In this introductory course, students will expand their understanding of electroacoustic music by creating their own sonic narratives. The topics will include soundscape composition, 3D sound recording, surround sound (5.1), site-specific sound work, and electromagnetic field listening. There will be an emphasis on production and experiential learning through exercises and

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Exploring the Work and Legacy of Jerzy Grotowski — DRA2219.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Jennifer Rohn

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Credits: 2

"No one else in the world, to my knowledge, no one since Stanislavski, has investigated the nature of acting, its phenomenon, its meaning, the nature and science of its mental, physical, emotional process as deeply and completely as Grotowski"-Peter Brook Jerzy Grotowski is considered one of the most influential theater practitioners of the 20th century. In this course we will

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