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Spring 2024

Plastics and Public Health — APA4254.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: David Bond

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Credits: 1

The world’s population has tripled since the 1950s, but production of plastics has increased over 70-fold in the same period. As litter, plastic now blows on the landscape, swells in the ocean, and kills wildlife seemingly everywhere. But recent findings about the impacts of plastic on human health demonstrate that this is not just a litter problem, but a health one. Plastic,

CAPA

Poetry and Technology — LIT4393.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: Franny Choi

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Credits: 2

Since Open AI’s release of ChatGPT, many have wondered—even panicked—about how this new technology would impact literature, including the field of poetry. But literature has always been shaped by the technology of its time. In this 2-credit class, we will look beyond the common assumption of poems as ideally “timeless” to examine how poetry has developed alongside (not against)

Literature

Poverty and Vulnerability — PEC4382.01) (cancelled 10/25/2023

Spring 2024

Instructor: Lopamudra Banerjee

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Credits: 4

Poverty describes the state of deprivation when people cannot meet a minimum desirable standard of living, and vulnerability can be seen as the risk of poverty in a population. In this seminar, we will explore the nature and causes of poverty and vulnerability that we witness around the world, especially after a moment of economic shock and crisis. We will also discuss what

Society Culture and Thought

Processing and Making with Rhino 7 — DA4348.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: Derek Parker

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Credits: 2

Processing and Making with Rhino 7 is a course designed to leverage Computer Modeling to create prototypes, models, and functional objects through digital outputs. These outputs include 3D Printing, Laser cutting and engraving, and CNC milling. This course builds upon the skills learned in the class Modeling and Thinking in Rhino 7, and will explore the relationship between

Visual Arts

Production and Design Projects — DRA4486.01, section 1

Spring 2024

Instructor: Michael Giannitti

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Credits: 2

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

Dance Drama

Production and Design Projects — DRA4486.02, section 2

Spring 2024

Instructor: Michael Giannitti

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Credits: 4

Dance Drama

Professor Milford Graves: Improvisor, Naturalist, Activist — MHI2212.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 1

This seminar investigates various aspects of Professor Graves music, philosophy, research, and visual art. Graves taught at ��Ź�� College for 39 years. He was a visionary drummer who contributed to the exploration of music improvisation during the 60s and 70s while collaborating with many noted composers in the avant-garde category. During this time, Graves observations of

Music

Public Theatre Lab — APA2015.01) (cancelled 11/16/2023

Spring 2024

Instructor: Dina Janis

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Credits: 4

What should a public-facing theater do? Stimulate local business? Enrich the lives of community members? Probe the biggest questions of our time? Support the passions of amateurs? Art-wash corporations? Provide a living wage for professionals? Revive a post-industrial town? Public Theatre Lab is a space to reflect on ways institutions and individuals past and present have

CAPA Drama

Queer French — FRE4805.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: Stephen Shapiro

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Credits: 4

In this advanced course, we will examine French culture’s engagement with questions of sexuality and gender, with a focus on authors, artists, theorists, and others who have questioned ideas of normative sexuality from the Middle Ages through the 21st century. Authors and texts to be studied may include Marie de France, Gabrielle d'Estrées et une de ses soeurs, Montaigne,

Cultural Studies and Languages

Queering Creation in the Arts of Latin America — SPA4606.01) (course description updated as of 10/9/2023

Spring 2024

Instructor: Lena Retamoso Urbano

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Credits: 4

For this course, we will analyze, in depth, authors such as Pedro Lemebel, Mario Bellatin, Manuel Puig, Ana Mendieta, José Donoso, and Alejandra Pizarnik, 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

Cultural Studies and Languages

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

Spring 2024

Instructor: Franny Choi

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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 Society Culture and Thought

Rawls and Justice — PHI4132.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 2

John Rawls (1921-2003) was one of the most important political philosophers of the twentieth century. His first major work, A Theory of Justice (1971) transformed the field of political philosophy and his ideas and arguments remain at the center of the philosophical debate on the question of justice. This course consists of a careful study of the main arguments in his early and

Society Culture and Thought

Re-Thinking Society: Radical Visions — PHI2161.01

Spring 2024

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 Knitting the Forested Landscape — BIO2242.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 4

Why would a forest ecology course include an assignment to knit a wool hat? In this class we will explore the lasting impact of sheep on the Vermont landscape, from the earliest settler-colonizers through today’s small batch fiber mills and second growth forests studded with stone walls. Sheep, and especially a 19th century boom in merino sheep, radically altered Vermont’s

Science and Mathematics Environment

Reading and Writing Nonfiction: Dreamwork — LIT4385.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: Jenny Boully

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Credits: 4

Dreams are oft-dismissed. As a society, we are told that no one is interested in dreams, to not share dreams, that the dreams of others are boring. This course aims to resurrect the dream, to return it to what it used to be regarded as: a vision, a message, a form of meaning, a puzzle to solve, work to be done, mirrors to face--in other words, this course will treat dreams no

Literature

Reading and Writing Poetry: Games and Experiments — LIT4387.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: Franny Choi

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Credits: 4

As poets, we're often conducting little experiments on the page: What happens if I break the line here? Can I make this a sestina? How many rhymes is too many rhymes? In this advanced poetry workshop, we will dig into the experimental impulse and explore rigorous play as a method for expanding our artistic capabilities. We will use games, missions, kinetic activities, and

Literature

Reading and Writing the Short Story: The Body — LIT4005.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 4

Good writing is often described as vivid, visceral, sensual, and therefore rooted in the body. But what makes writing feel embodied? What makes personal bodily experiences feel fleshed out on the page? And how can we use our body as a writing resource? This workshop-based creative writing class will examine the narrative techniques and stylistic choices of a variety of body

Literature

Reading and Writing: the First Novel — LIT4282.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: Ben Anastas

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Credits: 4

Some writers are born gradually over a body of work that allows them to develop a signature style and a series of concerns that will flower over time, while other writers are seemingly born complete–like Athena emerging whole from Zeus’s head–with their first novels. We will read a wide selection of remarkable first novels over the term (examples include Oranges Are Not the

Literature

Reading Ethnography — ANT4218.01) (cancelled 10/17/2023

Spring 2024

Instructor: Noah Coburn

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Credits: 4

This course is an advanced exploration of theory and the history of anthropology by using the most basic of anthropological texts, the ethnography. By carefully analyzing a series of classic and more current ethnographies, students will look at the relationship between approaches, how ethnographic data is presented to the reader and how the shape of the text determines how the

Society Culture and Thought

Really Cold Cases: Exploring America’s Most Notorious Unsolved Crimes, 1850-1950 — HIS2340.01) (cancelled 9/18/2023

Spring 2024

Instructor: Eileen Scully

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Credits: 4

Using films, documentaries, podcasts, historical newspapers, and other tools, we will explore America’s most notorious unsolved cases from the mid-nineteenth century to about 1950. Focusing on specific cases will illuminate larger contexts, including changing understandings of “criminality,” modern policing methods, incarceration policies, the development of forensic science,

Society Culture and Thought

Research Methods — PSY2132.01

Spring 2024

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

Researching Human Rights — POL4257.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: Rotimi Suberu

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Credits: 4

This advanced seminar explores theories, concepts, methods, and cases in qualitative social science research on human rights. It will provide a venue for students to undertake independent, critical, work on human rights, using existing literature and databases. The course will begin with a discussion of contending conceptions and understandings of human rights, followed by a

CAPA Society Culture and Thought

Resisting Colonization: World Dance Histories — DAN2019.01) (day/time updated as of 9/26

Spring 2024

Instructor: Levi Gonzalez

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Credits: 4

The category of “world” dance, frequently used in the West to identify dance from various other cultural locations and traditions, begs the question: What kind of dance is not part of this world? This course introduces students to a selection of global dance practices via scholarship and video that, while not exhaustive, will serve to expand students’ understanding of the

Dance

Reveries — ARC4124.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: Donald Sherefkin

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Credits: 4

Students will develop solitary retreats for a writer/reader/dreamer. We will explore the links between poetics and architecture through the close study of texts and images. The structures will be inspired by poetry and conducive to reverie. There are aspects of poetry that share qualities with architecture: structure, rhythm, repetition, shape, etc. Particular to architecture

Visual Arts

Seminar: Musicmaking In Realtime — MHI2230.02

Spring 2024

Instructor: Michael Wimberly

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Credits: 1

In this seminar students will engage in discussions and conversations on the experience of creating music in today's world. Topics include the notion of "art for art's sake", changing economic and esthetic conditions approaching the music industry, and making sense of the growing use of AI. As part of this seminar, Sharp will share his own experience from decades of composing,

Music