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Study Group 1 — DAN5405B.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 2
What does studying together offer us critically that studying alone might not? Ariella Azoulay refers to studying with companions as a method of unlearning. What are the shifts experienced when you are studying with and alongside others? What conditions might group study provide that allow different questions and understandings to emerge? If, as Irit Rogoff states, “All
Dance (MFA)

Studying Place by Metes and Bounds — ENV4232.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Miroslava Prazak
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Credits: 4
In New England, parcels of land were traditionally described in reference to specific existing landscape features—a system called “metes and bounds.” This course, grounded in the ecology, history and culture of the Ź region over its 250-plus year history, explores human interactions with the biophysical environment to produce livelihoods as well as economic commodities
Society Culture and Thought Environment

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

Fall 2024
Instructor: Lena Retamoso Urbano
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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

Sustainable Agriculture, Building Regenerative and Resilient Communities — APA2348.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Kelie Bowman
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Credits: 2
Climate change, poverty, and food access are all compelling and urgent issues confronting our society. Growing local food is one significant way we can respond. Having received the Ź Fair Food Initiative Grant with the mission to develop educational training programs in agriculture/food system workforce development and to create small business, this class will be
CAPA

Sustainable Development — PEC2255.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Lopamudra Banerjee
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Credits: 2
In simple terms, economic development aims to enhance people's material well-being. However, achieving this without harming the environment or compromising the needs of diverse groups across different contexts and timeframes is a challenge. How can we reconcile this tension and balance these competing priorities? This is the central question of sustainable development. In this
Society Culture and Thought

Sustainable Development Goals — APA2357.02

Fall 2024
Instructor: Andy Galindo
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Credits: 2
Sustainable development has been defined as development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. It calls for concerted efforts towards building an inclusive, sustainable, and resilient future for people and planet. For sustainable development to be achieved, it is crucial to harmonize three core
CAPA

Systems 2: Software Architecture and Design-From virtual machines to compilers — CS4382.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Darcy Otto
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Credits: 4
Have you ever wondered what a computer is and how it actually works? In this course, we’ll answer the software half of this question. We will start with virtual machines and develop a high-level language, write a compiler, and an operating system. By the end, we will have developed a software hierarchy that makes the hardware we designed in Systems 1: Hardware Architecture and
Science and Mathematics

Tai-Chi 37 forms — CSL2132.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Ginger Lin
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Credits: 2
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. In this course, students will get some practical experience with Tai-Chi martial art and learn a little bit about Daoist philosophy in the process. Students also will get some practical experience with Qi Gong (Ba Duan Jin). Qi-Gong
Cultural Studies and Languages

Teaching to Transgress: Radical Pedagogy Practicum — EDU4402.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 4
In Teaching to Transgress, the late bell hooks writes, “As a classroom community, our capacity to generate excitement is deeply affected by our interest in one another, in hearing one another’s voices, in recognizing one another’s presence.” For hooks, ‘excitement’ is key to learning, not merely because it generates entertaining learning spaces, but because learning itself (as
Education

Tessellation — DES2102.01) (cancelled 5/2/2024

Fall 2024
Instructor: Farhad Mirza
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Credits: 4
This course is an introduction to tessellation, also known as space filling, or packing. Through drawing exercises on various grids (which also happen to be tessellations) we will learn about edges and vertices, moving to regular, semi-regular, and edge tessellation among others, eventually proceeding from planar tiling to packing in three dimensions. Tessellation is a spatial
Visual Arts

The "I" of the Beholder — LIT4386.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Franny Choi
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Credits: 4
From Maggie Nelson’s Argonauts, to Hanif Abdurraqib’s essays on pop music, to Saidiya Hartman’s writing on archives of the transatlantic slave trade, many writers have taken up the task of looking at history, art, and culture by first looking inward. This 4-credit class will explore autotheory, first-person cultural criticism, and other critical writing with a distinctly
Literature

The Art of Mediation and Negotiation — APA2354.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
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Credits: 4
This class will examine conflict resolution theory and practice. We will explore the nature of conflict, principled negotiation and the mediation process. The skills of active listening as well as multi-party collaborative problem-solving will be introduced. The class will offer a 24 hour Certificate in Mediation Training. Classes will include readings, discussion and role-play
CAPA

The Baroque Imaginary — AH4117.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Vanessa Lyon
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Credits: 4
The Baroque has fascinated--and incensed--historians, cultural critics, and philosophers from Walter Benjamin and Erwin Panofsky to Gilles Deleuze and Peter Greenaway. Often aligned with an artistic ‘Golden Age’ exemplified by the complex and discomfiting works of Bernini, Rubens, Velázquez, and Vermeer, the Baroque has also been associated with ruinous decadence and excess,
Visual Arts

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

Fall 2024
Instructor: Dana Reitz
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Credits: 4
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 Field Recorder and the Plein Air Musician — MCO4398.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 2
A field recorder is a novel invention that suggests a relationship towards travel, motion and the capturing of fleeting events or ideas outside of the traditional studio and in the “field”. What do we call this plein air musician, who might they be? If the Impressionist painter chased the light outdoors, what does the plein air musician chase? This class explores how we can
Music

The Global Enlightenment: 18th-20th cent. Literature — LIT2563.01) (day/time updated as of 5/10/2024

Fall 2024
Instructor: Mariam Rahmani
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Credits: 4
This course takes a comparative approach to the global Enlightenment. Exploring ideas of the human and humanity developed across the world at this period, we pursue the idea that forms of difference such as race, gender, and sexuality became essential to defining “human” and “humanity.” Indeed our contemporary world grapples with this legacy. We ask: who is allowed to be fully
Literature

The Great Transformation in 2024 — SCT2109.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: David Bond
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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. Nearly 80 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 fell
CAPA Society Culture and Thought

The Hand as Tool — CER2317.03

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 2
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 Hand as Tool — CER2317.01, section 1) (canceled 8/1/2024

Fall 2024
Instructor: Anina Major
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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 Hand as Tool — CER2317.02, section 2) (canceled 8/1/2024

Fall 2024
Instructor: Anina Major
Days & Time:
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 Hand as Tool — CER2317.02

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
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 Journey and the Pity: Revisiting Dante’s Inferno — LIT4597.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 4
T.S. Eliot famously said, “Dante and Shakespeare divide the world between them.” Agree or disagree, but the work of Dante Alighieri, the fourteenth century Florentine poet and statesman, remains vital to the study of poetry and its history—particularly as the lyric tradition intersects with long-form narrative and Christian allegory begins reconciling with pagan mythology in
Literature

The Perfect Chorale — MTH4149.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
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Credits: 2
In this class we’ll set hymn tunes for four voices, SATB ‐ one of the classic methods of studying harmony. We’ll look at the virtuosic chorales of Bach--arranging, reharmonizing, and revoicing each one--while singing everything we write. Emphasis will be on choosing idiomatic chords and creating elegant and singable counterpoint. Towards the end, we’ll look at more contemporary
Music

The Poetics of Protest — LIT2541.01) (cancelled 4/23/2024

Fall 2024
Instructor: Franny Choi
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Credits: 2
What makes a poem political? Why do some poems, chants, and slogans circulate in political contexts, while others don’t? In this course, we will read poems from the 20th and 21st Century that have gone under the banner of “protest poetry” and examine the tools of craft that socially-engaged poets have utilized to further their work. Beginning with poets writing under Soviet
CAPA Literature

The Power of Image — SPA4305.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Lena Retamoso Urbano
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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