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Spring 2022

Platform: Projects in Drama — DRA4311.03

Spring 2022

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 1

The purpose of this course is to create a platform for students to express themselves through theatrical performance. We are interested in projects that are inclusive and allow for, and celebrate diversity. All applicants must be interested in developing their project while investigating what it means to create a supportive, inclusive community that regularly engages

Drama

Playwriting as Civic Inquiry - The Supreme Court and the Corporate Person — DRA4408.01

Spring 2022

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 4

Over the past two centuries U.S. business corporations have gained civil rights originally intended for flesh-and-blood people. In this course we will work as a team of artist-investigators to (1) understand how this happened; (2) what some of the downstream consequences have been; (3) review ways artists and activists have tried to intervene with this development through

CAPA Drama

Political Economy of Imperialism — PEC2264.01

Spring 2022

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 4

This course focuses on imperial expansion and anti-imperial movements for self-determination in the eighteenth through twentieth centuries. Conceptualizing differences and similarities between modern and earlier empires, we will explore questions such as: What is the relationship between imperialism and the spread of capitalism? What are the political and economic factors that

Society Culture and Thought

Positionality and Time — PAI4419.01

Spring 2022

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 4

A course that begins with defining the words positionality and time. Once defined we will examine the relationship between positionality and time through the history of painting. Class exercises will include researching art works through the lens of positionality and time, presenting on individual findings, and making paintings in response to or informed by the research.

Visual Arts

Prima dell'_Amica geniale_: Elena Ferrante's Short Novels — ITA4613.01

Spring 2022

Instructor: Barbara Alfano

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Credits: 4

Elena Ferrante's novels are all written in the first-person. The narrator of her stories and their fictitious author weave a fabric in which they purposely overlap, suggest non-existent biographical references, lie to tell some truth, and ultimately consign to the reader a particular authorial profile as much as unforgettable female protagonists. This course explores the

Cultural Studies and Languages Literature

Printing with Purpose — PHO2461.02

Spring 2022

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 2

Throughout this course students will learn how to use the Epson 3880 and P800 printers to create high quality prints from their existing digital image files. Using adjustment layers in Photoshop, students will focus on color correcting, sharpening, and modifying curves in their images. While getting familiar with preparing their files for printing, students will also

Visual Arts

Problems of Political Development — POL4255.01

Spring 2022

Instructor: Rotimi Suberu

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Credits: 4

Many polities in the world today, particularly in the global South, lack durable, legitimate and effective political institutions and governmental systems. These countries are in the throes of wrenching political transitions and crises that compound weak governance institutions with economic malaise, social polarization, cultural‐territorial fragmentation and/or state

Society Culture and Thought

Production of Unconventional Space — SCU4120.01

Spring 2022

Instructor: John Umphlett

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Credits: 2

This class will be fabricating a large inflatable structure (ultimate synthesis of the first seven weeks). The first two classes will be dedicated to critical discussions on form, membrane properties, and the final showing environment. The chosen form will be digitized and the 3D model will be used to leverage logistics of the large form and patterning. The digital model will

Visual Arts

Projection _ Mapping _ Design — MA4106.01

Spring 2022

Instructor: Sue Rees

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Credits: 4

The class will be concerned with projecting images, and mapping these onto a variety of forms. The content will be created in a number of programs. How this interacts with a location/space, a surface, an object, a performer, a body will be explored in the class, as well as and how this brings further information to a form and shift the viewers reading or understanding.

Dance Drama Visual Arts

Projects in Documentary Photography — PHO4369.01

Spring 2022

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 4

This course offers students a hands-on opportunity in documentary photography where each student will learn about and develop long term projects. Students will conceptualize, produce, and edit photographs for a specific documentary project, and present a final product. This course will enable students to brainstorm about and select a long-term subject, undertake the

Visual Arts

Protein Research: Methods and Projects — BIO4109.01

Spring 2022

Instructor: Amie McClellan

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Credits: 4

Research questions in cell biology and biochemistry often require the ability to study the proteins at the heart of the inquiry. This course will give students hands-on experience with techniques for quantifying proteins, detecting protein expression, assessing protein-protein interactions, and determining whether a protein is folded, stable, and/or soluble. Additionally,

Science and Mathematics

Quantum Mechanics — PHY4211.01

Spring 2022

Instructor: Hugh Crowl

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Credits: 4

The microscopic world is fundamentally different from the macroscopic one we encounter on a daily basis. The classical view of particles, mass, and even location break down at the smallest scales. The development of quantum mechanics as a field in the 1920s was a fundamental leap forward for our understanding of atomic physics. Countless current technologies and scientific

Science and Mathematics

Queering Creation in the Arts of Latin America — SPA4606.01

Spring 2022

Instructor: Sarah Harris

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Credits: 4

For this course, we will analyze, in depth, authors such as César Moro, Pedro Lemebel, Alejandra Pizarnik, and Felipe Cussen, who are representative voices of the counter cultural 20th and 21st Century Latin American literary and artistic scenery. We will discuss how different authors from diverse periods and regions develop queer textual and performative strategies to

Cultural Studies and Languages

Quick Studies — DAN4144.01

Spring 2022

Instructor: Dana Reitz

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Credits: 2

For each class, students will bring in short movement studies for performance that day. These can be made for solo or group exploration, and as soon as they are done, we will let them go and move on to the next work in the series. Throughout this practice, we will notice timing, spacing, and detail. By attending to the movement qualities, inherent technical challenges, and

Dance

Re-thinking History: Critical Perspectives on Modern and Post-modern Dance — DAN2409.01

Spring 2022

Instructor: Levi Gonzalez

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Credits: 4

This course is open to any student who wishes to explore the complicated ways in which histories form around discourses of the body, culture, aesthetic philosophy, and power. We will examine the aesthetic principles of modern and postmodern dance history; explore the artistic work of key and neglected figures from this history; and place this work within a larger social,

Dance

Re-Thinking Society: Radical Visions — PHI2161.01

Spring 2022

Instructor: Paul Voice

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Credits: 4

In this introductory course you will read a wide range of political philosophers and theorists who rethink and reimagine society. Beginning with the “masters of suspicion”, Marx, Nietzsche, Mill, and Freud, we will explore radical social visions from thinkers such as Rosa Luxemburg, Herbert Marcuse, Hannah Arendt, Franz Fanon, Steve Biko, Michel Foucault, John Rawls, Chantel

Society Culture and Thought

Reading and Writing Fiction: Space and Place — LIT4508.01

Spring 2022

Instructor: Paul La Farge

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Credits: 4

Some writers invent houses; some invent cites; others invent worlds. What do these different kinds of space express? In this class, we’ll think about the way fiction writers make use of real and imagined geographies, and how the representation of space constructs a social order: upstairs vs. downstairs, wilderness vs. civilization, oriented vs. disoriented. How, in narrative

Literature

Reading and Writing Poetry: Poet’s Proof—Existential, Ephemeral, Ethereal, Empirical, and Other Evidences — LIT4377.01

Spring 2022

Instructor: Jenny Boully

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Credits: 4

In her 1983 essay, “A Poet’s Prose,” Susan Sontag set out to demarcate what exactly marks exemplary prose written by poets. Similarly, in this course, we will aim to demarcate “A Poet’s Proof;” that is, we will attempt to name and showcase the very many intangible evidences that a poet brings forth in making manifest in language those otherwise hazy, hidden, and invisible

Literature

Reading and Writing: Literary Journalism — LIT4141.01

Spring 2022

Instructor: Ben Anastas

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Credits: 4

With the practice of journalism undergoing its most profound changes since the invention of the television, this course will steep students in the traditions of criticism, literary non-fiction, reporting and cultural journalism that thrived during the golden age of print and have persisted in the Internet era. We’ll work our way through literary criticism from Robert Boswell to

Literature

Regions and Cuisine: Traveling Japan with Matsuo Basho — JPN4603.01

Spring 2022

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 4

In this sixth-term Japanese course, students will follow the footsteps of a prominent Japanese poet in the seventeen-century, Matsuo Basho, and learn about different regions and cuisines of Japan. As students "imaginary" travel to various regions of Japan, they will learn about historical and scenic places that are depicted in Basho’ poems and various local cuisines in

Cultural Studies and Languages

Reimagining Representation — PHO2113.01

Spring 2022

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 4

Photography was used for scientific purposes and a tool of imperial colonialization during the early years of its invention. These two things have helped shaped its history of representation of the body. Marginal groups of individuals when they were represented in photography were often presented in a stereotypical manner. This course will offer students an opportunity to

Visual Arts

Research Experience in Applied Mathematics — MAT4289.01) (cancelled

Spring 2022

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 4

In this research-based course, students will work as a team to apply their mathematical and other relevant skills to a pre-chosen problem coming from a business, industry, or government (BIG) partner. The goal will be to creatively and collaboratively develop a solution for the problem, and professionally present the results of their work to the partner organization. One

Science and Mathematics

Research Methods in Ecology and Evolution with Lab — BIO2250.01

Spring 2022

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 4

Ecologists and evolutionary biologists investigate the relationships between organisms and their environments and how these relationships shape the species we see today, but how? This class will focus on the methods used in the fields of ecology and evolutionary biology. Students will learn how to successfully design and carry out experiments in the lab and the field, how to

Science and Mathematics

Resilience, Farming, and Food Access — APA2338.01

Spring 2022

Instructor: Tatiana Abatemarco

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Credits: 4

What is a resilient community food system? How is community health impacted by food access and quality? How can we build food systems to adapt to changing climate, poverty, and health crises? What farming systems and practices best support community and ecological resilience? This class will explore these questions through the lens of resilience theory, which describes how

CAPA Environment Society Culture and Thought

Resisting the Stitch — DRA2126.01

Spring 2022

Instructor: Richard MacPike

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Credits: 2

This class is an exploration in fabric modification through the use of dyes and various stitched resist techniques often referred to as shibori. Students will learn to work with acid, direct, cold process, union, and natural dyes. Concurrently students will learn a variety of resist techniques such as kanoko, mokume, orinui, makinui, karamatsu, boshi, arashi, itajime, adire

Dance Drama