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Toward a Rigorous Art History — AH2109.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Vanessa Lyon
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Credits: 4
A “rigorous study of art” became the goal of Philosopher and Cultural Critic Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) when his growing distaste for the outlook and methods of his art history professor—the famous and foundational Heinrich Wölfflin—caused him to consider publishing an account of “the most disastrous activity I have ever encountered at a German university.” Striking a balance
Visual Arts

Traditional Music Ensemble — MPF4221.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: John Kirk
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Credits: 2
We will study and perform from the string band traditions of rural America. Nova Scotia, Quebecois, Irish, New England, Scandinavian, African-American dance and ballad traditions. In addition, these will be experienced with listening, practice (weekly group rehearsals outside of class), and performing components. Emphasis on ensemble intuition, playing by ear, and lifetime
Music

Traditional Music of North America — MHI2135.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: John Kirk
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Credits: 2
This course explores music from early Indigenous music right on up to present day practitioners. Some of the traditions studied and practiced will include: Native American, Inuit, Québecois, Appalachian, African-American, Irish, Scottish, British Isle traditions, Cajun, Blues, Gospel, Mariachi, and Conjunto music. Instrumental, dance, and ballad traditions are studied and
Music

Transformational Acting — DRA4409.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 4
Walt Whitman said, “I contain multitudes.” The same can be said of a transformational actor. Playing against gender, age, and type, allows actors to perform the impossible; Become another person. The result is empathy for people that the actor might not otherwise know. It is also really fun! In this class, we will study techniques actors use to become characters who are
Drama

Trends in Adolescent Mental Health — PSY4381.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Emily Waterman
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Credits: 2
Adolescent mental health has become a topic of public discourse, due to research showing increases in depressed mood and anxiety among teens. This course is for students interested in a rigorous reading of the recent (past five years) literature on adolescent mental health. We will discuss methodologies to research adolescent mental health, as well as statistical techniques.
Society Culture and Thought

Unemployment and Inflation — PEC2257.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Lopamudra Banerjee
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Credits: 4
Macroeconomics is very much about tying together facts and theories, and in this course, we will examine how macroeconomic principles can help us understand the nature and causes of inflation and unemployment that is plaguing the world economy in this post-Covid moment. We will also study the tension between policies that quell inflation but give rise to unemployment and worsen
Society Culture and Thought

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

Fall 2023
Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
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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
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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

Victorian Ephemerality: Poetry, Photography, Paper — LIT2532.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Jenny Boully
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Credits: 4
Time collapses while industry and science expands. Looking to the future, the Victorians clung to sentimentality as a response to a world that seemed to have industrialized overnight. From Arnold to Wilde, we’ll explore the prevailing poets of the Victorian era alongside investigations into Victorian visual culture, photography, and paper arts. In a time when letters were
Literature

Violin/Viola — MIN4345.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 2
The course is for students who have prior experience with the instrument. Students are expected to practice daily (minimum of 30 minutes). End-of-semester performance is required.
Music

Virtual Tours of Japan: Explore and Learn Ź Japan — JPN2113.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
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Credits: 5
What do you know about Japan? Would you like to visit Mount Fuji in Shizuoka, the Imperial Palace in Kyoto, or the Ghibli Museum in Tokyo? What do you want to see? Do you want to see traditional performing arts like Noh and Kabuki? Do you want to eat sushi, tonkatsu, ramen, or pizza that is topped with corn, tuna, and mayonnaise? Technology such as Google Earth and 360 video
Cultural Studies and Languages

Visual Arts Lecture Series — VA2999.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Vanessa Lyon
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Credits: 1
Each term, Ź offers a program of five-six lectures by visiting arts professionals: artists, curators, historians and critics, selected to showcase the diversity of contemporary art practices. Designed to enhance a broader and deeper knowledge of various disciplines in the Visual Arts and to stimulate campus dialogue around topical issues of contemporary art and culture
Visual Arts

Visual Arts Lecture Series Seminar — VA4218.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Vanessa Lyon
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Credits: 2
This discussion-animated, readings-based seminar provides art, historical, cultural, and critical contexts for the Visual Arts Lecture Series (VALS). In addition to our ongoing interrogation of the public lecture as such, students present their own work (in any field) and analyze the technical and stylistic aspects of structuring an effective and engaging ‘talk.’ The course
Visual Arts

Voice Performance Intensive — MVO4404.01, section 1

Fall 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 4
Intense study of vocal technique and the interpretation of vocal repertoire, designed for advanced students who have music as a plan concentration and to assist graduating seniors with preparation for senior recitals. Students will increase their knowledge of vocal technique and learn a varied spectrum of vocal repertory for performance and as preparation for further study or
Music

Voice Performance Intensive — MVO4404.02, section 2

Fall 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 4
Intense study of vocal technique and the interpretation of vocal repertoire, designed for advanced students who have music as a plan concentration and to assist graduating seniors with preparation for senior recitals. Students will increase their knowledge of vocal technique and learn a varied spectrum of vocal repertory for performance and as preparation for further study or
Music

Water Dialogues: The Future of Civilization — APA2016.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
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Credits: 4
This course fundamentally will address the following questions: How do we move out of the historical period of industrial waste and big dams to Water Systems that address climate change, water scarcity, water pollution and clean up, hydropower as a renewable resource and building new infrastructure? How does water affect our personal lives through health, sanitation, and
CAPA

What is Capitalism? — PEC2267.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 4
What is capitalism? When and where did it begin? This course introduces students to key features of capitalism as an economic system and a way of life that has had profound social and political consequences for human societies around the world. It is the primary aim of this course to get a better sense for what capitalism really is, and to uncover and evaluate some of the most
Society Culture and Thought

What is economics? — PEC2270.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 4
"Economics is what economists do" says Jacob Viner. But what do economists do? And, how do they do it? This seminar will be concerned with these two questions. Our main objective will be to develop an understanding of economics as a field of study and to explore how economics is applied to understand the large issues of our time that affect our everyday material wellbeing. Our
Society Culture and Thought

What Was Critique and What Comes Next? — APA4207.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: David Bond
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Credits: 4
If progressive scholarship holds anything sacred, perhaps it is critique. Over the past century, critique has become not only the guiding commitment of radical scholarship but also the unflappable identity of the public intellectual. Yet a number of unfortunate assumptions have been built into this manner of engaging the world. Among them, that intellectuals have privileged
CAPA Society Culture and Thought

Why Bodies Matter: An Introduction to Dance Studies — DAN2348.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Levi Gonzalez
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Credits: 4
Even now, or perhaps especially now, the state of our moving and breathing bodies is critical to how we operate in the world. This course is open to students of any discipline who wish to explore the impact and implications of embodiment and its relationship to art, culture, politics and power.  The course will introduce students to some of the principal concerns and
Dance

Why Jazz? How this music known as jazz came to be and how it influenced modern day music — MHI2002.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Jen Allen
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Credits: 2
In this course we will walk through the timeline of how this music, often known as jazz, came into existence and how it proceeded to open doors for many other types of music.  We will look at how the social and political atmosphere of the early 1900s in New Orleans created the perfect environment for the creation of a new and unique music.  We will walk through the
Black Studies Music

Work — PEC4106.01) (cancelled 6/13/2023

Fall 2023
Instructor: Lopamudra Banerjee
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Credits: 4
Why do people work? What is the connection between ‘work’ and ‘employment’? And, how are the concerns of ‘nonwage work’ (especially care work carried in the realm of household) related to that of 'wage' work (carried in the realm of labor market)? This seminar is motivated by these questions. We explore the familiar theories of macroeconomics to answer these questions, and we
Society Culture and Thought

“Culture” in a Globalized World: A Critique — ANT2115.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 4
The ability to easily share culture across borders is often viewed as one of the benefits of globalization. But while enjoying the next Bad Bunny or BTS track, we should keep in mind that powerful global institutions like the United Nations also participate in globalizing culture, frequently with serious consequences. This introductory course explores the ways that the 
Society Culture and Thought