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Spring 2023

Political Ideologies in Action: Socialism in the United States — POL4241.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: John Hultgren

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Credits: 4

In his 1906 work, "Why is there no socialism in the United States?," German sociologist Werner Sombart famously mused that American socialism had been ship-wrecked “on reefs of roast beef and apple pie.” While the relative affluence of American workers certainly impacted Leftist organizing at that time, there is a storied history of socialist thought and practice in the United

Society Culture and Thought

Population Ecology and Ecological Models — BIO4116.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Katie Montovan

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Credits: 4

This course provides a theoretical and quantitative exploration of the processes and principles associated with population dynamics. We will learn about key ideas in population ecology (such as density dependence, competition, evolution, predation, and parasitism) and then learn about how to represent these theories as mathematical models. We will learn to use the programming

Science and Mathematics Environment

Positionality and Time — PAI4419.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Annette Lawrence

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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

Power — PHI2121.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Catherine McKeen

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Credits: 4

There is a central guard tower that looks out over all the cells. Within the cells, the inmates are constantly observable. Brutal force becomes unnecessary. The inmates will control their own behavior, often without even realizing it. This is the modern way of power, according to Michel Foucault: furtive, efficient, diffuse, minute, and ubiquitous. In this course, we’ll

Society Culture and Thought

Pretty Lies, Ugly Truths, and Deep Fakes: An Introduction to Oil Painting — PAI2109.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: J Blackwell

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Credits: 4

Fake news, reality television, “IRL” - asserting the veracity of our perceptions is a constant preoccupation in contemporary culture. What is real? Realism is a widely used term with multiple connotations: verisimilitude, authenticity, objectivity, truth, fact. In this course we will consider how painting reflects and/or perverts “reality” by making imitations of historical

Visual Arts

Production and Design Projects — DRA4486.02, section 2

Spring 2023

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 4

This project-based class is for designers doing intermediate or advanced level work in lighting design, scenic design and/or stage management, those developing and implementing theatrical designs, as well as stage managers of faculty or student directed projects being produced on campus. In a studio atmosphere, students will share work in process each week, from inception

Drama

Production and Design Projects — DRA4486.01, section 1) (time added 12/9/2022

Spring 2023

Instructor: Michael Giannitti

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Credits: 2

Dance Drama

Projection_Mapping_Design — MA4106.01

Spring 2023

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 shifts the viewers reading or understanding.

Drama Visual Arts

Psychedelics: Mind and Brain — BIO2277.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 2

Psychedelic substances can induce remarkably profound altered states of consciousness. Derived from plants, fungi, and even animals or synthesized in the laboratory; these mind-altering substances have played important roles in medicine, religious practices, and social movements across cultures and time. Today, we are experiencing a “psychedelic renaissance”, as interest

Science and Mathematics

Punk Culture: An Interdisciplinary Approach — ANT4222.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Steve Moog

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Credits: 4

At its inception in the mid-1970s, punk was theorized as a white, working-class youth “subculture.” Today punk is recognized as a global cultural phenomenon thriving in places far removed from its points of genesis in North America and northern Europe. Scholars and punks alike have long noted adherences to independent cultural production and do-it-yourself ethics as unifying,

Society Culture and Thought

Questing the Bizarre: Writing, Rewriting, and Un-Writing in Hispanic Literature — SPA4403.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Lena Retamoso Urbano

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Credits: 4

Julio Cortázar, the Argentine writer, is interested in characters, objects, animals, sounds, experiences, circumstances, and places that help him to configure unusual literary worlds. In this course, we will explore the different ways in which his short stories, in dialogue with the works of a wide array of Latin American and Spanish writers/poets such as Augusto Monterroso,

Cultural Studies and Languages

Quliritaa: S/he tell a legend — VA4318.03

Spring 2023

Instructor: Yoko Inoue

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Credits: 2

Alaska Native oral forms of education, history and legend benefit from a profoundly personal relationship-based approach to one of the most important ways we connect. Verbal communication is breathing, evolving, raw with vulnerability and very much rooted in a present form of communion. Reciprocity and relationships are foundational values of Yup’ik culture, and it makes sense

Visual Arts

Race, Robots, and Asian/American Literature — LIT2603.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Michael Dumanis

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Credits: 4

From Blade Runner to Ex Machina, visions of robotic futures are populated with Asian bodies, settings, and cultural forms. How is it that robots became so closely linked to the racialization of Asian/American people? What might we learn about the latter by examining how the former shows up in our cultural imagination? And how have Asian diasporic writers handled these

Literature

Radio Plays (Advanced): Making Theatre for Radio and Podcast — DRA4221.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Dina Janis

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Credits: 4

A performance-based course for folks interested in this medium who have completed Part One or have comparable experience. It is not necessary to have elaborate skill in sound design and editing, though students with this interest are welcome to enroll. All students will perform as actors in each other’s projects. Each week the class will listen to examples of current Radio Play

Drama

Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man — LIT2277.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Ben Anastas

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Credits: 4

Before Donald Glover donned prosthetic whiteface for the “Teddy Perkins” episode of Atlanta, before Get Out flipped the contemporary horror movie on white audiences, Ralph Ellison’s 1952 novel Invisible Man turned the bildungsroman, a realist staple since the 18th century, into a wild phantasmagoria about structural racism in the U.S. and the experience of Black Americans. “All

Literature

Re-Thinking Society: Radical Visions — PHI2161.01

Spring 2023

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 Luxumburg, Herbert Marcuse, Franz Fanon, Steve Biko, Michel Foucault, John Rawls, Chantel Mouffe, and

Society Culture and Thought

Reading and Writing Nonfiction: Mourning and Grief — LIT4458.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Jenny Boully

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Credits: 4

The elegy is typically understood as a poetic form which laments the dead: how might the elegiac essay or memoir work toward or away from the poetic tradition? What might be the qualities of the prose elegy? We will read works such as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Notes on Grief, Naja Marie Aidt’s When Death Takes Something From You Give It Back: Carl’s Book, Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint

Literature

Reading and Writing Poetry: Conjuring El Duende — LIT4147.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: An Duplan

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Credits: 4

For Federico García Lorca, the duende was an elusive, powerful aspect of the poem. Poetry that embodies the duende carries within it the capacity to transmit life’s most tragic and enraptured states. The duende is the mark of a fully realized poetics. As poets, then, what does it mean to channel Lorca’s duende into our own writing? Is Lorca’s creative ecstasy possible for us

Literature

Reading and Writing Short Stories: Narrative Shape-Shifting — LIT4003.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Michael Dumanis

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Credits: 4

The traditional short story often follows a traditional form. A story begins when some clear incident incites a causal chain of events. Over the course of these events, action and tension breathe life into the story until it reaches a climactic scene. When the balloon can get no fuller, it pops, deflates, or sails away (this is known as the denouement). In this class, we will

Literature

Reality and Dreams: Robert Musil and the Vienna Secession — LIT4148.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Ben Anastas

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Credits: 4

The Austrian writer Robert Musil (1880-1942) never lived to complete his multi-volume Modernist masterpiece The Man Without Qualities. Written obsessively over more than twenty years and conceived of as an ironic epitaph to the culture of Mitteleuropa that had slid blindly into the catastrophe of the First World War, the novel–and its author–became embroiled in the dark

Literature

Reimagining Representation — PHO4370.01

Spring 2023

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 human figure. Marginal groups of individuals when they were represented in photography were often presented in a visually limiting and often stereotypical manner.

Visual Arts

Representing Sexuality and Gender On Screen — MS4105.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Teddy Pozo

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Credits: 4

This advanced media studies course explores the relationship between censorship and self-expression, with a particular focus on queer and feminist readings of Hollywood cinema and the history of the adult film and video industry in the United States. From the Motion Picture Production Code, to the ratings system, to SESTA-FOSTA, U.S. media industries have sought respectability

Visual Arts Society Culture and Thought

Research Methods — PSY2132.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Özge Savaş

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Credits: 4

This course provides you with an overview of how research is conducted in psychology. By the end of the course, you will become thoughtful, smart, and critical readers of social scientific research, while also having the basic skills to carry out a simple research project. We will survey different research methods commonly used in psychology, including survey methodology,

Society Culture and Thought

Responding to Site / Site Specific Dance — DAN4331.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Levi Gonzalez

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Credits: 2

In this course we will work with specific sites as the spark for dance. By developing an awareness of location through our senses, and propelled by symbiotic relationships, we will activate dances in partnership with place. We will explore indoor and outdoor locations. We will walk, sit, vocalize and move with an internal awareness of and relationship to the external conditions

Dance

Restorative Practices and Sexual Misconduct on Campus — APA4114.02

Spring 2023

Instructor: Alisa Del Tufo

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Credits: 2

Restorative practices can bring accountability, repair and healing in situations where there has been harm, including situations of sexual misconduct. These highly structured and mediated processes are always voluntary and can provide outcomes that are much more meaningful than formal Title IX proceedings. In this seven-week class, we will explore current practices that are

Advancement of Public Action Society Culture and Thought