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Spring 2024

Form and Process: Introduction to Painting — PAI2107.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 4

This course introduces a variety of materials, techniques and approaches to working with oil paint. Emphasis is placed on developing and understanding of color, form and space as well as individual research and conceptual concerns. The daily experience of seeing, along with examples from art history and contemporary art, provide a base from which investigations are made. Formal

Visual Arts

Foundations of Global Politics — POL2103.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: Rotimi Suberu

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Credits: 4

In this wide-ranging introduction to the study of international politics, we will be exploring how states and non-state actors negotiate their interactions in an increasingly interconnected, interdependent and globalized world. Core themes will include: contending theoretical approaches to international relations (realism, liberalism/idealism, constructivism, structuralism,

CAPA Society Culture and Thought

Foundations of Photography: Digital Practice — PHO2153.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 4

This course will discuss practices and ethics around digital photography and experiment with foundational tools and techniques, aiming to create space for students to develop their own interests within the possibilities of the medium. Classes will combine practical exercises, discussions around the work of contemporary LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC photographers, and readings on the

Visual Arts

Functional Programming and Computation—Exploring the foundations of Computer Science — CS4110.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 4

What is computation? This is the question that birthed Computer Science as a discipline, and serves as the focal point of this course. Our plan for answering it is twofold. First, we will introduce functional programming through Scheme (a dialect of Lisp). Unlike imperative languages, functional programming tends to emphasize techniques such as lambda

Science and Mathematics

Fundamentals of Creative Writing — LIT2527.01) (time updated as of 10/17/2023

Spring 2024

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 4

What makes a poem a poem as opposed to a piece of fiction or an essay? Does every essay have to “tell the truth”? What about fiction that is purely autobiographical? This class will look at the various genres of creative writing and think about how, where, and why we draw lines between these modes. We will begin by studying the basic elements of poetry (line, image, stanza),

Literature

Funk...as Rhythmic Counterpoint — MPF4111.01) (cancelled 10/2/2023

Spring 2024

Instructor: Michael Wimberly

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Credits: 2

This course explores approaches to interlocking patterns within a rhythm section by looking at funk based genres such as Afro-pop performed by artists Fela Kuti, and Youssou N’Dour. Brazilian funk performed by Airto Moreira, George Duke, and Antonio Jobim, and American artists such as Chaka Khan, Sly Stone, P-Funk and Prince. Composing, arranging, transcribing, and notating

Music

Game Theory — PEC2272.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: Lopamudra Banerjee

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Credits: 4

This course introduces game theory and strategic decision-making in economics. We use this framework to study how incentives and interdependence influence economic behavior. Throughout the course, you will learn essential economic concepts such as rationality and decision-making under uncertainty. Additionally, you will analyze canonical game forms, including static games,

Society Culture and Thought

Games and Probability — MAT2377.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: Andrew McIntyre

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Credits: 4

Throughout history, people have played games — games of chance and games of skill. Many of us grew up playing all kinds of different games, and most of those are infused with the core tenets of statistical reasoning and understanding: probability, risk assessment, expected value, and game theory. This course will look at statistics and probability through this lens. We will

Science and Mathematics

Games, Puzzles, and Modular Systems — PRI4119.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: Thorsten Dennerline

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Credits: 4

This upper-level printmaking course will explore games, puzzles, and modular building systems as inspiration for both two and three-dimensional work. The class is structured around a series of projects for which rigorous experimentation and play is encouraged. We will collaborate to teach each other techniques, engage with each other’s work, and explore the improvisational

Visual Arts

Gender in Early Modern Europe — HIS2102.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: Carol Pal

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Credits: 4

The aim of this course is to interrogate historical perceptions of women and gender in the early modern era, and to develop a critical approach to primary source documents. We attempt to complicate constructions of ideal feminine behavior by examining the evidence that shows what women were actually up to. In addition to the ways in which major writers and thinkers saw women,

Society Culture and Thought

Glitch Feminism — FV4326.01) (cancelled 10/11/2023

Spring 2024

Instructor: Jen Liu

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Credits: 4

This course borrows its name from Legacy Russell's essay, then book of the same name, but uses it as a container to consider the history of fembots in science fiction in the 20th century, then arrive in the 21st century with various takes on cyberfeminism and hybrid biobodies, with a particular interest in the global south and diasporic perspectives. We will look at a

Visual Arts Society Culture and Thought

Global Environmental Politics — POL2108.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: John Hultgren

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Credits: 4

Contemporary efforts to confront our most pressing ecological problems are characterized by a tension between the global realities of these problems and the territorial borders and logics that define sovereign nation-states. This course will explore this tension in three parts. First, we will engage with a variety of theoretical and conceptual debates introduced by scholars of

Environment Society Culture and Thought

Gospel Music; Share the Joy — MUS2256.03

Spring 2024

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 1

This singing ensemble is dedicated to the preservation and performance of African-American sacred music. The repertoire will consist primarily of spirituals and gospel music as understood in the historical, spiritual and social context. These genres have been a fundamental component of the African American musical heritage and have influenced numerous genres both in

Music

Graduate Assistantship in Public Action — APA5101.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: Susan Sgorbati

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Credits: 4

Graduate students in Public Action are integrated into the CAPA and related discipline areas as teaching assistants. In consultation with the faculty, MFA candidates develop an assistantship schedule of approximately 5 hours weekly.

CAPA

Graduate Research in Dance — DAN5305.01

Spring 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 Research in Public Action — APA5102.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: Susan Sgorbati

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Credits: 6

This class is designed for MFA students to research and develop new work, show work-in-progress, be in critical dialogue with their colleagues, and discuss issues involved in the development of new work. The weekly format is determined with the students. Outside of class, students develop their own independent creative projects that will be presented to the public, either

CAPA

Graduate Seminar on Pedagogy and Public Action — APA5103.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: Susan Sgorbati

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Credits: 4

This course is centered on conducting research and mapping the field of socially and civically engaged pedagogy within a global context. What capacities and skills do students who create artworks in collaboration with the public need to acquire and what is the history of teaching these practices?

CAPA

Graduate Teaching Fellowship in Dance — DAN5304.01

Spring 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

Grids and Layouts — DA2177.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: Farhad Mirza

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Credits: 4

This course is a basic introduction to analog and digital layouts for poster design, book-making, cutouts, fold-outs, stencils and other things that require the arrangement of information relative to how it will be presented. Students will begin by working on handmade projects (on regular and gridded paper) with the help of rulers and cutting mats, and eventually move to

Visual Arts

Hearing Voices: a Master Class in Literary Journalism — LIT4395.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 4

Voice, in writing, goes beyond style and tone to something like identity; at best, a writer’s voice is a direct conduit to their exact nature—their mind, their individuality, their blind spots, their soul. In this course, we’ll learn to hear voices more clearly. We’ll analyze what animates the work of writers like Patricia Lockwood, Ellen Willis, Greg Tate, John Jeremiah

Literature

Historical and Natural Alternative Processes in Photography — PHO4132.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: Eddy Aldana

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Credits: 2

This 2-credit course will explore working with classical and natural alternative processes including Cyanotypes, Anthotypes, and Chlorophyll prints among others. Students will learn the histories of each process and see how artists are working with those processes in today’s day and age. The Cyanotypes will be produced on fine art paper and fabric, and the Anthotypes will be

Visual Arts

Histories of Numbers — MAT2484.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: Tim Kane

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Credits: 4

As mathematics has become increasingly complex and abstract, so too have the number systems necessary to define and work within each expansion. The development of the concept of number parallels that of mathematics itself, intertwined in a symbiosis where numbers generate new mathematical fields and mathematical insight unveils deeper understanding of numbers. This

Science and Mathematics

History of Directing: Traditions and Experiments — DRA2252.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: Jean Randich

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Credits: 4

We will work semi-chronologically from the late 19th to the early 21st century, examining how the “director” emerged as a seminal force in the experimental theater. Parallel movements in film will be considered, but our focus remains on live performance. We will read historic manifestos, critical responses, and examine videos and visual research. We may read contemporary case

Drama

History of Theater II — DRA2282.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: Maya Cantu

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Credits: 4

This course offers a continuing introduction to the history and development of world theater and drama. We will experience the vibrant pageant of theater history through an exploration of its conventions and aesthetics, as well as its social and cultural functions. Starting in the nineteenth century, we will read representative plays ranging from the advent of stage Realism and

Drama

Hyper Body!- Anarchic Ballet to Water Movement to African Dance to Floor Ninja to Body Architecture to Shining Zombie to Unknown Transformation….. — DAN2156.01) (updated course description as of 11/9/2023

Spring 2024

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 2

This course is designed for students who preferably have ballet experience or equivalent physical training in any movement forms. Anyone who would like to recultivate, reactivate, improve, deepen, expand, develop or break the relationship to their own body and commit to consistent physical learning, are welcomed. This course also might support to correct any distortions in

Dance