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Fundamentals of Creative Writing — LIT2394.01) (new faculty as of 8/22/2024

Fall 2024
Instructor: Ben Anastas
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Credits: 4
The art of creative writing is also the art of being a witness to the world. In this class, we will learn what forms creative writing can take—focusing primarily on fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction—and discover new ways to see the raw materials of our lives.We will exercise our imaginations through generative experiments and keeping an observation notebook; identify
Literature

Fundamentals of Ecology — BIO2217.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie
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Credits: 4
Ecology is the study of interactions among organisms and their environment. Studying these interactions provides us with the theoretical foundation for understanding many of the most pressing environmental problems. Ecology is a broad field, encompassing research at the scales of individuals, populations, communities, and ecosystems with methods that draw on
Science and Mathematics Environment

GANAS — APA4154.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
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Credits: 4
In terms of public action, Ganas remains a community-driven, cross-cultural association that offers students volunteer opportunities to engage with the predominantly undocumented Latine migrant worker population. We maintain relationships with local organizations and members while developing new ones, along with more conventional classes and readings. Over the past couple of
CAPA

Genetics - Principles and Practice (with Lab) — BIO4207.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Amie McClellan
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Credits: 4
What are genes? How do they work? How are they passed on? This course will provide an introduction to modes of inheritance as well as to genes, their structure, and their regulation. Topics discussed in this class will include, but are not limited to, the molecular structure of DNA and RNA, Mendelian inheritance, molecular properties of genes, and the regulation of gene
Science and Mathematics

Genome Jumpstart — BIO2117.01

Fall 2024
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, students will engage with various online databases and resources, becoming familiar with the computational algorithms and methodologies used to mine and analyze the ever-increasing data generated from whole
Science and Mathematics

Genres and Forms of Poetry — LIT4164.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Michael Dumanis
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Credits: 4
This course will closely examine various modes in which poetry is commonly written, including the elegy, the ode, the ekphrastic, the prose poem, the pastoral, the aubade, and the litany. Students will also be introduced to the vocabulary and practice of traditional prosody, acquire a familiarity with writing in meter and using rhyme, and attempt traditional forms such as the
Literature

Graduate Music Pedagogy — MUS5302.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 2
MFA in Music candidates will attend and observe weekly classes across the music discipline, and have individual meetings with faculty throughout the semester to discuss pedagogical approaches.
Music

Graduate Projects and Research in Music — MUS5303.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 6
This course is designed to assist graduate students with the research and development of their work. The MFA candidate meets weekly with their primary advisor and select core faculty. Students are expected to spend considerable time each week in active, ongoing creative research and practice. Projects and works-in-progress will be presented in public forums, such as Music
Music

Graduate Research in Dance — DAN5305.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Dana Reitz
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Credits: 6
This course is designed to assist graduate students with the research and development of their new work. The weekly format is determined with the students. In class, they show works-in-progress, try out ideas with their colleagues, and discuss issues involved in their creative processes. Though the class meets only once a week, students are expected to spend considerable time
Dance

Graduate Seminar — DAN5408B.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 2
This topic driven seminar focuses on current developments within the field of dance and performance. Students will learn to think of dance and performance through their own embodied experiences and by placing dance, movement, and performance in wider disciplinary, cultural and global contexts.
Dance (MFA)

Graduate Teaching Fellowship in Dance — DAN5304.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Dana Reitz
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Credits: 4
Graduate Teaching Fellows in Dance are integrated into the dance program as teaching assistants. In consultation with their academic advisors and the dance faculty, MFA candidates develop an assistantship schedule of approximately ten hours weekly; the courses they develop and teach are listed in the curriculum. All Teaching Fellows bring their own professional histories and
Dance

Harmonic Spheres — MTH4130.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
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Credits: 4
Composers and improvisers periodically reinvent the wheel, creating systems of scales and tunings, instruments, and even philosophies of harmony and rhythm. In this course, we’ll also explore how to invent your own systems. Beginning with tuning, students will build an acoustic or virtual instrument based on their own temperament. We will then explore harmonic systems that
Music

Hello World: An Introduction to Drawing — DRW2122.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Colin Brant
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Credits: 4
The practice of drawing from observation brings us into direct contact with experiencing the visual world. Working from the human figure, landscape, plants and animals, or any other subject that inspires the imagination, this course introduces the fundamentals of seeing and translation with various drawing materials and approaches. The goals of the course include the
Visual Arts

Henrik Ibsen — DRA4391.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Maya Cantu
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Credits: 4
“All around is stone/And all is soft inside.” –Aurora Aksnes Described as the second most frequently produced playwright in the world after William Shakespeare, Henrik Ibsen continues to provoke, challenge and inspire contemporary audiences with the contradictions in his work. This course explores Ibsen’s immense influence and innovations as an architect of modern drama. The
Drama

Historical Dress: Building the Victorians — DRA4390.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Tilly Grimes
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Credits: 4
In this class we will explore the changing female silhouette of 19th century Victorian Eurocentric fashion. This will include researching the historical garment, determining a pattern, scaling and grading the pattern, creating a mockup, fitting the garment, and constructing the garment out of a fashion fabric and culminating in a fully realized period costume. Depending on
Drama

History of Christianity: From the Hebrews to Henry VIII — HIS2227.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carol Pal
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Credits: 4
The aim of this course is to explore the development of Christianity as a set of interlocking complex systems with an equally complex history. Christianity has been around for 2,000 years, and there is no denying that we live under its enormously powerful influence. Millions have fought and died over it. But even those who identify themselves as Christians often seem to be
Society Culture and Thought

History of Theater I — DRA2156.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Maya Cantu
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Credits: 4
This course offers an introduction to the history and development of world theater and drama. We will experience the dynamic pageant of theater history through an exploration of its conventions and aesthetics, as well as its social and cultural functions. We will study theater history from antiquity through the nineteenth century, reading representative plays ranging from Greek
Drama

How to Build a Forest — BIO2131.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie
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Credits: 4
Ź’s campus supports beautiful examples of temperate deciduous mixed hardwood forests. This class is a deep dive into forest ecology, land use change, and forest succession at a local scale. Students will explore the local forest community composition, structure, and function over the last 15,000 years and discuss the environmental conditions, disturbance dynamics, and
Science and Mathematics Environment

How to Build an Organism (with Lab) — BIO2220.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Blake Jones
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Credits: 4
The organism sits at the heart of biological evolution. Judged on its form and performance, the organism is the ultimate object of natural selection, and thus understanding its development and function is key for understanding the evolution of life. In this course you will learn fundamentals across the levels of biological organization to understand how genetic information
Science and Mathematics

Image Objects — PHO4103.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Liz White
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Credits: 4
As exhibitions and publications such as What is a Photograph? (The International Center of Photography, 2014), A Matter of Memory: The Photograph as Object in the Digital Age (George Eastman Museum, 2016), and Photography is Magic (Charlotte Cotton, Aperture, 2015) attest, there are many contemporary artists whose work with photography draws increased focus to material and
Visual Arts

Impediments to the Growth of Democracy in the Middle East — APA2358.02) (cancelled 9/6/2024

Fall 2024
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
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Credits: 1
This course covers the domestic and international challenges facing the struggle for democracy in Middle Eastern countries, with particular emphasis on Iran. It will focus on the historical and sociocultural underpinning of the democratic concept and examine the causes of democratic success and failure. The struggle for democracy in Iran began in the early 20th century, but
CAPA Society Culture and Thought

Improvisation - Building Community Through Improvisation — MIN4359.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Jen Allen
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Credits: 2
This class will focus on weekly instruction in improvisation through differing styles and feels. We will specifically focus on how group improvisation can help build community and communication.  Explore and develop skills in chord analysis, rhythm and expression through your instrument. We will also touch on the deep history of improvisation. Weekly assignments will
Music

Improvisation for a Catastrophe: Complexity and Resilience — APA2351.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
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Credits: 2
This class will examine the principles of complex systems, improvisation and resilience. Concepts such as self-organization, emergence, pattern recognition, adaptation and non-linear structures will be introduced. Ordinarily, we think of order and form as externally imposed, composed or directed. In this class, however, we will consider new kinds of order, not because they are
CAPA

Independent Study — DAN5410B.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Students propose an independent study plan with approval from Donna Faye Burchfield and select an approved advisor. Credits to be determined between faculty and student.
Dance (MFA)