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Fall 2019

Exploring the World Through Research — ANT4238.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Miroslava Prazak

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Credits: 4

How do social scientists gather primary data for the study of social life? This workshop course provides an opportunity for students to learn and practice the fundamental non-positivist research techniques necessary to study of social phenomena, namely interviewing, participant observation, and focus group discussions. Workshops and field projects will provide the opportunity

Society Culture and Thought

Extragalactic Astronomy and Cosmology — PHY4103.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Hugh Crowl

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Credits: 4

Galaxies are massive collections of stars, gas, dust, and dark matter. They are both the birthplace of stars and planets and the signposts of the universe. By studying what happens inside galaxies, we are able to understand the conditions under which stars form. By studying the galaxies themselves, we can understand how the environment shapes their structure and makeup. By

Science and Mathematics

Faculty Performance Production: Everybody — DRA4152.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Kirk Jackson

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Credits: 4

Everybody by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is a modern interpretation of the 15thC Morality play, Everyman, in which the character of Everyman is summoned by God to make account of his life before passing into the unknown afterlife. Everyman solicits entities such as Friendship, Kinship, and Love to accompany him, only to discover that few of these can be taken from this life into the

Drama

Female Architect / Fictive Archive — VA4130.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Anne Thompson

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Credits: 2

A readings course centered on the Usdan Gallery survey of fictional twentieth-century Czech architect Petra Andrejova-Molnár, created by artist Katarina Burin as a feminist meditation on the absence and erasure of women designers within the modernist canon. Exhibition components such as biographical texts, staged photographs, drawings, furniture, décor, and models provide the

Visual Arts

Feminist Fabulist Fiction — LIT2298.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Anna Maria Hong

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Credits: 4

Reading works by Ursula LeGuin, Octavia Butler, Angela Carter, Clarice Lispector, A. S. Byatt, Natsuo Kirino, James Tiptree, Jr., John Keene, Lindsey Drager, Han Kang, and others, we will investigate the realm of fabulist fiction or literary works invoking the genres of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. We will read short stories, novels, and novellas that emphasize

Literature

Feminist Philosophy — PHI2102.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Catherine McKeen

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Credits: 4

Contemporary feminism is a multi-faceted social justice movement to end gender-based oppression. Feminist movements have deep and interesting intellectual roots. In this course, we will excavate and investigate these roots. Throughout the course we will explore various contested conceptual terrains, such as: agency, affinity, body, equality, difference, desire, freedom, power,

Society Culture and Thought

Fiddle — MIN2227.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: John Kirk

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Credits: 2

For the experienced (2+years of playing) violinist. Lessons in traditional styles of fiddling – Quebecois, New England, Southern Appalachian, Cajun, Irish, and Scottish. This tutorial is designed to heighten awareness of the variety of ways the violin is played regionally and socially in North America (and indeed around the world these days) and to give practical music skills

Music

Field Course in Coral Reef Biology — BIO4239.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Elizabeth Sherman

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Credits: 2

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. In order to gain a more robust understanding of reefs, we will study reefs on site in the Caribbean. Students will learn the taxonomy, identification and

Science and Mathematics

Film Scoring — MCO4101.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Nicholas Brooke

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Credits: 2

The practice of underscoring movies is as old as film itself, from early improvised accompaniments to silent films, to the orchestrations of Ennio Morricone and Louis and Bebe Barron. In this course, we will look and listen to a variety of films and sound scores throughout the ages, analyzing the way in which they act as counterpoint to content and the visual score. Written

Music

First-Year Dance Intensive — DAN2107.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Elena Demyanenko

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Credits: 4

Primarily for first-years, but for any student who has a serious interest in dance, whether or not they have previous dance experience. We will consider many aspects of dance making, embodiment, and performance. We will work towards constantly evolving ways to be one’s own teacher, by recognizing the patterns, heightening awareness of observation and selecting easier, more

Dance

Forests: An Introduction to Ecology and Evolution (with lab) — BIO2109.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Kerry Woods

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Credits: 4

New England is one of the most heavily forested regions in the United States. 14,000 years ago it was covered by ice. When humans arrived about 11,000 years ago, they found extensive, well-established forests — and began reshaping the landscape through hunting and fire and, beginning about 2000 years ago, farming. European colonists caused further ecological change by expanding

Science and Mathematics Environment

Form and Process: Investigations in Painting — PAI2107.02, section 2

Fall 2019

Instructor: J Blackwell

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Credits: 4

This course introduces a variety of materials, techniques and approaches to painting with oils. Emphasis is placed on developing and understanding of color, form and space as well as individual research and conceptual concerns. The daily experience of seeing, along with the history of art, provides a base from which investigations are made. Formal, poetic, and social

Visual Arts

Form and Process: Investigations in Painting — PAI2107.01, section 1

Fall 2019

Instructor: Ann Pibal

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Credits: 4

Visual Arts

Foundations of Global Politics — POL2103.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Rotimi Suberu

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Credits: 4

In this wide-ranging introduction to the study of international politics, we will be exploring how states and non-state actors negotiate their interactions in an increasingly interconnected, interdependent and globalized world. Core themes will include: contending theoretical approaches to international relations (realism, liberalism/idealism, constructivism, structuralism,

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Foundations of Photography: Digital Practice — PHO2153.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Elizabeth White

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Credits: 4

This course offers an overview of foundational tools and techniques in digital photographic practice. Students will learn to shoot with digital SLR cameras, process raw files in Lightroom, properly scan negatives, and produce digital portfolios and high quality inkjet prints. In addition to technical instruction, a selection of images from historical and contemporary

Visual Arts

French Comedy — FRE4122.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Stephen Shapiro

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Credits: 4

This course will examine the comic in French theatre, literature, politics, and film in order to answer a deceptively simple question: What makes us laugh? In theoretical readings we will consider whether laughter is a universal, cross-cultural function. Additionally, we will look at special, sub-genres of the comic, such as satire and parody, in order to question the

Cultural Studies and Languages

GANAS — APA4154.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher

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Credits: 4

In terms of public action, GANAS remains a community-driven, cross-cultural association that provides students with volunteer opportunities to engage with the predominantly undocumented Latino migrant worker population. These opportunities are facilitated by the group itself, in addition to partnerships with organizations such as Head Start, and the ��Ź�� Free Clinic.

CAPA

Gender and Agriculture: Market and Subsistence — APA2244.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Tatiana Abatemarco

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Credits: 4

This course examines the intersections of gender and agriculture, focusing on feminist and queer theories of agriculture. Students will examine international and local examples, queer agricultural movements, women farmers, capitalism, agrarianism, and the spectrum from subsistence to market-based to commodity agriculture. We will observe trends toward urbanization and consider

CAPA

Gender and Security in the 21st Century — SCT2130.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Kate Paarlberg-Kvam

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Credits: 4

This course is designed to critically examine twenty-first century security discourse and the ways it interacts with the gendered constructions of people’s lives. Combining the interdisciplinary approaches of feminist studies, cultural political economy, and critical security studies, we will examine the meanings of “security,” its manifestations around the world, and the ways

Society Culture and Thought

Gender in Early Modern Europe — HIS2102.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Carol Pal

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Credits: 4

The aim of this course is to interrogate historical perceptions of women and gender in the early modern era, and to develop a critical approach to primary source documents. We attempt to complicate constructions of ideal feminine behavior by examining the evidence that shows what women actually were up to. In addition to the ways in which major writers and thinkers saw women,

Society Culture and Thought

Genesis — HIS2220.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Carol Pal

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Credits: 4

Genesis is the first book in a compilation known collectively as the Bible. It is a text of enormous literary value, and one of our earliest historical chronicles, providing foundational material for Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Yet how many of us know what it actually says? How did it come together, what is the narrative, and how does it relate to the ideas and events of

Society Culture and Thought Literature

Genome Jumpstart: An Introduction to Bioinformatic Analysis — BIO2117.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Amie McClellan

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Credits: 4

This course offers an immersive experience into the world of DNA, genes, and genomes in eukaryotic organisms. In addition to getting a grasp of the foundational biology, we will become familiar with the computational algorithms and methodologies used to analyze and mine the ever-increasing data generated from whole-genome sequencing, high-throughput proteomic analyses, and our

Science and Mathematics

Global Environmental Systems in the Anthropocene — ENV4123.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Kerry Woods

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Credits: 4

It's about anthropogenic climate change, but also the history of global systems over millennia and longer, effects of human civilization and agriculture on global nutrient and hydrological cycles, etc. -- with focus on planetary scale. This course views global processes through the lens of ecosystem science (sometimes called 'biogeochemistry', which tells you something about

Environment Science and Mathematics

Gothic Vision: Specters of Subversion, Medieval to Tomorrow — AH4108.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: J Vanessa Lyon

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Credits: 4

The Gothic is a worldview equally at home in nostalgia and strangeness. It thirsts for arcane, even perverse, knowledge and is frequently motivated by a fearful fascination with the foreign. In Gothic novels (the first of which appeared in London in 1764) psychic ‘interiority’ is revealed in dark spaces tainted by unthinkable crimes or haunted by spirits. But if seeing is

Visual Arts

Graduate Assistantship in Dance — DAN5301.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Dana Reitz

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Credits: 4

Graduate students in Dance are integrated into the dance program as teaching assistants, production assistants or dance archival assistants. In consultation with their academic advisor and the dance faculty, MFA candidates develop an assistantship schedule of approximately ten hours weekly.

Dance