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Speaking of Earth: Environmental Speeches that Moved the World — MOD2163.03

Fall 2021
Instructor: Michael Cohen
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Credits: 1
In this course, based on the book Speaking of Earth, edited by Alon Tal, we will read twenty inspiring speeches by leading environmentalists around the world that examine a broad range of environmental issues. Included in the course is Rachel Carson's defense of her ground breaking book Silent Spring, Prince Charles's passionate call for sustainable agriculture, and the Dalai
CAPA Environment

Stage Management Process — DRA2251.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Michael Giannitti
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Credits: 2
The centrality of the stage manager as collaborative artist and manager in the production process is explored by students in this class. Readings, discussions, and projects on topics including scheduling, play breakdowns, prompt book preparation, blocking notation, ground plan and theatre layout, and the running of rehearsals and performances are included. The relationship of
Dance Drama

Still + Moving Image — PHO2156.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Jonathan Kline
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Credits: 4
In this remote course we will explore the rich terrain between photography and film from the early 20th century to the present moment. Through weekly screenings, pdfs of published texts, and synchronous small discussion groups, we will study the still/moving image work of Moholy-Nagy, Helen Levitt, Gordon Parks, Mary Ellen Mark, RaMell Ross, and others. Written responses will
Visual Arts

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs — CS4380.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Jim Mahoney
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Credits: 4
A classic computer science textbook, SICP (Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, also known as "the wizard book") is a deep examination of some of the core ideas of programming and computer science, including an introduction to functional programming, mutable state, register machines, and building a compiler from first principles. This course will work through its
Science and Mathematics

Surrealism in Latin America: Origins and Reception — SPA4505.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Sarah Harris
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Credits: 4
What do we mean when we talk about a “surreal experience”? Which historic, cultural, and literary implications are behind this colloquial expression? How did (and does) Surrealism manifest in Modern Latin American artistic expressions, and how is that manifestation connected to Pre-Columbian cosmology? In this course, we will study the premises of the French surrealist
Cultural Studies and Languages

Tai-Chi Qi-Gong — CSL2132.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Ginger Lin
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Credits: 1
Tai-Chi (Taiji) is a Chinese martial art and meditation system. The symbol of Tai-Chi is the famous Chinese Yin and Yang symbol also called Taiji. Qi-Gong is a form of gentle exercise intended to increase one’s vital energy (qi), hence the name. Qi-Gong and Tai-Chi are both commonly practiced by Chinese people. In this course, students will get some practical
Cultural Studies and Languages

Take On, Take Off: from Inspiration to Travesty — DRA2288.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Kirk Jackson
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Credits: 4
Whether motivated by adoration or outrage, playwrights re-imagine the work of others: updating, inverting, eviscerating, and sometimes even improving on original source material. This class will examine, compare, and speculate on those motivations and values as to whether a given interpretation is a “take on” or a “take off”. We will address adaptation tactics, including these
Drama

Teaching January 6 — APA2277.02

Fall 2021
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 2
The January 6 Insurrection at the US Capitol stunned America and the world. What happened and why? What historical and current events culminated in the near collapse of the Great American Experiment? This class develops the tools and builds the curriculum for teachers so their students will learn the political, racial, economic and cultural roots of this violent event and
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The Art of Stage Design — DRA2250.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Michael Giannitti
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Credits: 4
A set design communicates lots of information to an audience, and provides the physical world in which a performance takes place. In his book The Dramatic Imagination, the great set designer Robert Edmond Jones wrote: “…we may fairly speak of the art of stage designing as poetic, in that it seeks to give expression to the essential quality of a play rather than to its outward
Drama

The Bible as a Key to Environmental Thought — MED2120.02

Fall 2021
Instructor: Michael Cohen
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Credits: 1
This survey course will analyze the environmental dimensions and lessons of the book of Genesis and other books of the Bible, and at times from other traditions as well. Through the use of mostly contemporary commentators the text of the Bible will also be read as an environmental text. The course will also examine the scores of references to nature and the environment with an
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The Body Acoustic: Toward a Sense of Place — DAN2112.02) (cancelled

Fall 2021
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 2
How do we physically understand the spaces we are in? How is each of us affected by them? How do we develop a deeper sense of place? The Body Acoustic aims to heighten awareness of the reciprocal relationship between the built environment and our senses. Light and sound, distances, height, volume, surfaces, angles/curves and a/symmetries all affect one’s movement through
Dance

The Body Acoustic: Toward a Sense of Place — DAN2112.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Dana Reitz
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Credits: 2
How do we physically understand the spaces we are in? How is each of us affected by them? How do we develop a deeper sense of place? The Body Acoustic aims to heighten awareness of the reciprocal relationship between the built environment and our senses. Light and sound, distances, height, volume, surfaces, angles/curves and a/symmetries all affect one’s movement through
Dance Drama Visual Arts

The Book of Deuteronomy the Book of Jonah — MED2122.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Michael Cohen
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Credits: 2
The Book of Deuteronomy and the Book of Jonah are two pivotal books of the Bible. The former stands apart from the first four books of the Bible as a retelling of what previously occurred according to the text. In that retelling changes were made to many relevant topics and issues essential for the advancement of public well being. We will explore those areas ranging from
CAPA

The Curatorial: Your Top Ten — VA2230.02

Fall 2021
Instructor: Anne Thompson
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Credits: 2
This class explores curatorial thinking through the process of compiling a Top Ten, a media staple that invites cultural producers to discuss ten things they like or recommend. Creating a Top Ten, like curating, involves making selections within parameters including (but not limited to) history, context, aesthetics, politics, style and preference. A good Top Ten is a cohesive
Visual Arts

The Daoist Tales — CHI4113.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Ginger Lin
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Credits: 4
If Confucianism is the Yang of Chinese culture, then Daoism is the Yin. Not only has Daoism had a profound influence on traditional Chinese art and thought, but this philosophy remains relevant to modern life in both the East and West. Students will be introduced to the main precepts of philosophical Daoism through modern Chinese interpretations of Taoist Tales. Students will
Cultural Studies and Languages

The Hand As Tool — CER2317.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Yoko Inoue
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Credits: 4
Clay responds directly to touch, retains memory and is forced through the dynamic process of firing to fix a point in time. This class will introduce students to a variety of hand-building techniques to construct sculptural and/or utilitarian forms. Students will develop their skills by practicing techniques demonstrated in class. Through making students skills will increase,
Visual Arts

The Key to Songs — MTH4419.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
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Credits: 4
An intermediate review of theory based on a broad range of pop, classical, and jazz songs from the last centuries and from across the world. We'll start with a primer on scales, intervals, and basic chordal moves such as the rhythm changes, then progress to chromaticism, modulation, and extended triadic harmonies. Students will compose songs in a variety of styles, but also be
Music

The Language of Persuasion — SPA2103.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Sarah Harris
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Credits: 5
Students with little or no background in Spanish will learn the language through an immersion in the study of advertising and propaganda from the Spanish-speaking world. An examination of Spanish and Latin American print, radio, film, and television advertisements, as well as political cartoons and propaganda, will allow students to consider critically the truths, half-truths,
Cultural Studies and Languages

The Magical Object — DRA2116.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Sherry Kramer
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Credits: 4
There is a great difference between a prop and an object that is built or filled with the dramatic forces of a play or film. These objects fill with meaning and power and the hopes of the characters, and ours. But how do we generate a magical object that can organize an entire work of timebound art? We will pursue our investigation in the timebound arts of theatre and film,
Drama Visual Arts

The Mathematics of Optimal Strategies: Introduction to Game Theory — MAT2250.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Katie Montovan
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Credits: 4
We typically think of games (like football, scrabble, and bridge) as entertaining competitions where each player or team tries to outsmart, outrun, or generally be better than their opponent. In this course, we will broaden this definition of a game to be any interaction between individuals where there are well-defined rewards that depend on what the opponent decides to do. In
Science and Mathematics

The Philosophy of Democracy — PHI2115.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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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 Political Economy of the American Coast: Past, Present, and Future of a Dynamic Landscape — ENV4111.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 4
How and why has the coast become so central to American cultural and economic life? Who has benefited from the rapid growth of coastal development over the last century, and who has been excluded? What does the future hold for coastal landscapes and communities, and what can be done to address emerging inequalities and vulnerabilities? This course will examine the past, present
Environment Society Culture and Thought

The Power of Image — SPA4305.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Sarah Harris
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Credits: 4
The Mexican photographers, Manuel Álvarez Bravo and Graciela Iturbide, and the Chilean documentary film director, Patricio Guzmán, have a common call: to document the impossible. In this course, we will explore the different ways in which each of these artists use images to capture and re-frame the complexity of their cultural heritage, as well as the beauty and intricacies of
Cultural Studies and Languages

The Problem of Sylvia Plath — LIT2122.02

Fall 2021
Instructor: Mark Wunderlich
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Credits: 2
Sylvia Plath is one of the most widely-read and influential poets of the 20th century, yet her work has been read through the lens of her biography in ways that have serious consequences of interpretation. Knowing what we do about the life of this important artist, how can we read the poems and prose in ways that counter the received narratives of tragedy and self-destruction?
Literature

The Regeneration Generation: Rebuilding the Natural Abundance of Earth — APA2329.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
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Credits: 2
Practical steps can be taken today to reverse the major environmental, social, health, and political downward-spirals that have defined the previous few decades on Earth. The growing global tragedies are born from a system of industrial resource management that creates scarcity—empowering the few—as opposed to creating abundance—empowering the many. A movement is growing around
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