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Spring 2023

Technology Entrepreneurship — CS4313.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Meltem Ballan

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Credits: 4

Entrepreneurship is not just about start-ups. It is a problem-solving frame of mind that requires technical expertise, a business sense, an ability to anticipate the future, and an appreciation of social context. In this course students are required to group in the first course. The teams will have business acumen, technology acumen and marketing acumen/product acumen. First

Science and Mathematics Society Culture and Thought

The Actor’s Instrument — DRA2170.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Shawtane Bowen

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Credits: 4

Acting, when done well, is the pure expression of human emotion and spirit through text. To do so effectively, one must have adequate training. The actor’s voice, body, mind, and spirit are the tools of the trade and in this course, we will work to hone each one. This course provides a safe environment for the actor to explore and play in the pursuit of bringing texts to life.

Drama

The Art of Literary Translation: Your Histories, Texts, and Authorial Selves — LIT4319.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Marguerite Feitlowitz

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Credits: 4

It may well be that the closest, most interpretative, and creative reading of a text involves translating it from one language to another. Questions of place, culture, epoch, voice, gender, and rhythm take on new urgency, helping us to deepen our writerly skills and sensibilities. In this course, you will translate a myriad of texts, including works you have written, or are

Cultural Studies and Languages Literature

The Basic Calligraphy Strokes for Beginners — CSL2003.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Ginger Lin

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Credits: 1

Mastering the eight basic calligraphy strokes requires great patience and concentration. However, once those and stroke order are mastered one will be able to copy any of the thousands of standard Chinese characters. Calligraphy has also been shown to be an effective form of meditation and art therapy. This class will provide the students with foundational theory and practice

Cultural Studies and Languages

The Beautiful City: Plato's Republic — PHI4402.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Catherine McKeen

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Credits: 4

Plato’s Republic stretches its insistent intellectual tendrils into just about every corner of the Western intellectual tradition. The Republic is ostensibly about constructing a maximally just political community. This is the kallipolis, the “beautiful city.” Along the way, however, Socrates and his interlocutors wrestle with inter-tangled philosophical questions about truth,

Society Culture and Thought

The Big Picture: Stewarding Artists’ Legacies (FWT Course) — VA4406.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Liz White

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Credits: 1

What forces and individuals contribute to shaping an artist’s legacy? What happens to all of the objects, materials, and correspondence that artists create during their lifetime? What is a catalogue raisonné? This one-credit remote module will introduce students to the nascent field of artist-endowed foundations, and invite the consideration of philosophical and creative

Visual Arts

The Business Side of Music — MHI2322.02

Spring 2023

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 1

The business side of music, from contracts to audio distribution platforms, is an important component of an artist’s life. Kyoko Kitamura – musician, former journalist, former executive director of the arts organization Tri-Centric Foundation – will share real life examples as well as cover various topics of interest including the effects of the pandemic, music

Music

The Faulkner Fan Club — LIT2408.01) (cancelled 1/5/2023

Spring 2023

Instructor: Manuel Gonzales

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Credits: 4

You sent in your application weeks ago and now you've finally gotten your swag: your Faulkner patch, your Faulkner commemorative button, the coffee mug with Faulkner's pen and ink drawn face on it, and your special edition copy of Absalom! Absalom!, and maybe now you're wondering, Well, who else is in this club? Wonder no more. In this class, we'll be reading not Faulkner but

Literature

The Haggadah of Passover: An Exploration — MED2123.02

Spring 2023

Instructor: Michael Cohen

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Credits: 1

The Haggadah is the book that provides the outline for the Passover Seder. The Haggadah combines history, myth, ritual, theater, food, and other elements as it tells a story of and celebration of Freedom. While the earliest building blocks of the Haggadah are found in the Biblical text the Haggadah has evolved over millennia showing the influences of many different eras and

Advancement of Public Action

The Hand as Tool — CER2317.01

Spring 2023

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

Visual Arts

The Image in Islamic Cultures — AH2128.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 4

Despite the widespread but erroneous assumption that Islam prohibits images, figurative representations have been abundantly produced in Islamic societies since the early years of Islam. With a particular focus on painting and the art of the book, this course will examine the central place of images in Islamic cultures from the early modern period to the present. While images

Visual Arts

The Manner of Moving — DAN2242.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Dana Reitz

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Credits: 2

This is designed for those who are interested in excavating and investigating their own ways of moving. By becoming more grounded, more aware and more observant, students will be able to experience presence in motion. We will be thoroughly exploring, modifying, rearranging, expanding and ultimately reconsidering how we move. While creating small movement scenarios, students

Dance

The Renaissance — HIS2341.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Carol Pal

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Credits: 4

This course is a survey of the cultural, social, and religious movements that transformed Europe between 1350 and 1600. These revolutions in Western thought gave birth to the Enlightenment, and the intellectual outlook that still characterizes our culture today. Using primary source materials such as letters, literature, court records, diaries, and paintings, we examine both

Society Culture and Thought

The Scriptorium: Monsters! — WRI2159.01, section 1

Spring 2023

Instructor: Camille Guthrie

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Credits: 2

This Scriptorium, a “place for writing,” functions as a class for writers interested in improving their critical essay-writing skills. We will read to write and write to read. Much of our time will be occupied with writing and revising—essai means “trial” or “attempt”—as we work to create new habits and productive strategies for our analytical writing. As we write in various

Writing

The Scriptorium: Monsters! — WRI2159.02, section 2

Spring 2023

Instructor: Camille Guthrie

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Credits: 4

Writing

The Slow Burn — LIT4171.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Manuel Gonzales

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Credits: 2

Some novels are slow, let's not beat around the bush. Some novels are languorous, moving at a narrative- and sentence-level pace that forces you to slow down how quickly you move your eyes across the page, how carefully you attest to the language, the meandering, lengthy, lingering sentences, the sonorous and lulling structure of long and digressive paragraphs. Trying to read

Literature

The View Camera Contemporary Practice — PHO4256.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Jonathan Kline

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Credits: 4

This course explores the many possibilities of using a large format camera to image the world and its unique ability to render light, texture, and form with exquisite detail. Particular attention will be paid to image manipulation employing tilts and swings, light meter techniques, and using three emulsions: black and white negatives, color negatives, and color transparencies.

Visual Arts

Topping It Off — DRA2138.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Richard MacPike

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Credits: 2

Nothing can inform, conceal, or embellish like a hat. Students in this course will learn about a variety of millinery techniques and materials by making a series of hats.

Dance Drama

Toward a Rigorous Art History — AH2109.01

Spring 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

Tracing a Wound: In Usdan Gallery with artist Emilio Rojas — VA4317.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Anne Thompson

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Credits: 1

In his practice, multimedia artist Emilio Rojas embodies a series of encounters—or tracings—through the intersecting bio-politics of pandemic, systemic racism, border closures in tandem with the rise of nativist rhetoric, and disproportionate vulnerabilities for BIPOC communities. This course extends from Rojas’s exhibition in Usdan Gallery, "tracing a w̶o̶u̶n̶d̶ through my

Advancement of Public Action Visual Arts

Traditional Music Ensemble — MPF4221.01

Spring 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

Transformational Acting — DRA4409.01

Spring 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

Trashy — FV2323.02

Spring 2023

Instructor: Jen Liu

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Credits: 2

This is a 7-week screening and discussion-based seminar on the concept and look of “trashiness” in modern and contemporary media and art practices. We will look at a broad range of art practices and short films/media, primarily from the latter half of the 20th century into the 21st, with work produced in an independent/alternative context, though in conversation with

Visual Arts

Ukulele Comprehensive — MIN2230.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: John Kirk

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Credits: 2

A comprehensive course in learning musical skills on the ukulele. We will learn the history of the uke, from its Portugese and Indigenous Hawaiian origins, and both traditional and contemporary styles. Music theory and playing techniques will be learned and practiced. Awareness of traditional styles of playing the instrument will be furthered through a listening component and

Music

Visionary Architecture — ARC4123.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Donald Sherefkin

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Credits: 4

Architectural propositions consist of images and models that postulate a reimagined reality. Sometimes these go so far as to posit new worlds. These often operate in an expressly experimental mode. This studio will explore the history of visionary architecture as expressed through texts and images, ranging from Piranesi and Raymond Roussel, to Lebbeus Woods and Italo Calvino.

Visual Arts