Course Listing | ��Ź�� College

Spring 2025

Chemistry 2: Organic Structure and Bonding (with Lab) — CHE4212.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Fortune Ononiwu

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Credits: 4

Building on structural and reactivity insights developed in Chemistry 1, this course delves into molecular structure and modern theories of bonding, especially as they relate to the reaction patterns of functional groups. We will focus on the mechanisms of reaction pathways and develop an understanding for how those mechanisms are experimentally explored. There will be numerous

Science and Mathematics

Chromophilia: Investigations in Color — PAI4215.01) (cancelled 10/24/2024

Spring 2025

Instructor: Ann Pibal

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Credits: 4

Chromophilia, a term coined by contemporary artist David Batchelor, refers to intense passion and love for color. What is it about color that has the power to induce reverie, and conversely to manipulate, or disgust? How does color work? What is the role of color in painting? In language? How do we understand and respond to color from phenomenological, poetic, philosophical,

Visual Arts

Cinematic Shorts: Acting for Film and Video — DRA4382.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Dina Janis

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Credits: 4

In this advanced acting class, students will learn some of the basic techniques of film acting, creating short form projects which will allow them to gain experience working for the lens rather than for the stage. Students will work with the book: Acting For Film by Cathy Haase, and using various selected monologue and scene material, will create and present short videos which

Drama

Clothes: Reduce, Reuse, Redux — DRA2382.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Tilly Grimes

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Credits: 2

A sustainable design process with found clothing Every year, roughly 92 million tons of clothing end up in landfills. This course seeks to support students rescuing our cast-offs by upcycling fast fashion. Students will explore how to deconstruct garments, rethink their intention, and reconstruct them anew. We will conceptualize a mini collection for theoretical “clients”/

Drama

Composing for Improvisers: Analyses, Creation and Community — MCO4140.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Michael Wimberly

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Credits: 4

This course is for students interested in investigating musical improvisation and composition, and their relation to a musical community. Selected students will form an ensemble and will be guided to compose at their own level: 1) for the ensemble, 2) for a section of the ensemble, e.g., duos, trios, and 3) for solo. Through working together, participants will develop a common

Music

Composition and Creation of New Vocal Works — MCO4247.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 6

This six credit course is a collaborative music creation experience for composers and singers. This course will be taught in two sections (Section 1: Singers, Section 2: Composers) which will meet separately and as a combined group on a weekly basis. It will be co-taught by Virginia Kelsey and Allen Shawn. Composers and singers will work together over the course of the

Music

Composition and Creation of New Vocal Works- Composers — MCO4172.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Allen Shawn

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Credits: 4

This 4-credit course is a collaborative music creation experience for composers and singers. This course will be taught in two sections (Section 1: Singers, Section 2: Composers) which will meet separately and as a combined group on a weekly basis. It will be co-taught by Virginia Kelsey and Allen Shawn. It will be co-taught by Virginia Kelsey and Allen Shawn. Composers and

Music

Composition and Creation of New Vocal Works: Singers — MCO4170.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Virginia Kelsey

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Credits: 4

This 4-credit course is a collaborative music creation experience for composers and singers. Composers and singers will work together over the course of the semester to create new music for solo voice and small vocal ensemble using various collaborative practices to highlight and celebrate the individualistic nature of the voice. Singers will receive technical vocal instruction

Music

Computability and Logic — CS4383.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Darcy Otto

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Credits: 4

This is not your typical class in computer science, or in formal logic; but you will learn a lot about both by taking it. Our subject will be one of the most important and influential papers that has ever been written—"On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem," by Alan Turing. This is the paper that birthed computer science as a discipline.

Science and Mathematics

Conflict Resolution and Dialogue — APA2364.03

Spring 2025

Instructor: Susan Sgorbati

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Credits: 1

This Module will introduce Conflict Resolution skills in Mediation and Negotiation, Gender-based Conflict Resolution, Inter-cultural Dialogue, Restorative Justice Practices, Facilitation skills, Complex Systems Analysis and Conflict Transformation for Social Justice. Practitioners in these fields will give guest workshops. Course dates: April 14, 16, 21, 23, 28; May 5

CAPA

Constructed Languages: Between Entertainment and Idealism — LIN4106.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Tom Leddy-Cecere

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Credits: 2

This course will explore the world of artificial or constructed languages (“ConLangs”), and examine their characteristics, their use, and the motivations behind their development. ConLangs have captured the public imagination as a creative product in literature, film, television, and gaming; this enriches the lesser known but equally engrossing history of artificial

Cultural Studies and Languages Society Culture and Thought

Contemporary Chinese Poetry — CHI4220.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Ginger Lin

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Credits: 5

While the language of classical Chinese poetry is largely inaccessible to today’s native Chinese speakers, the poetry of the ten contemporary poets featured in this course is written in the vernacular, providing a rich source of authentic texts. This course integrates language learning with the study of poetry, focusing on poets ranging from the "Mist Poet" Gu Cheng to Feng

Cultural Studies and Languages

Conversation — FRE4602.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly

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Credits: 4

Montaigne considered conversations as the “most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds.” From 17th-century French salons to the current social debates, conversations reflect and shape our lives. This natural penchant for causeries not only continues to permeate the whole society, it also impregnates other forms of representation. Magritte’s “Art of conversation” where

Cultural Studies and Languages

Creating substance prevention programming on campus — APA2362.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 2

The use of substances (alcohol and common drugs of abuse) on campuses for recreation and stress management has had a long storied history. As more campuses focus on wellbeing, including ��Ź��, the emphasis has transitioned to creating space for students to think critically about these topics and dig deep into the myths and culture about use on campus. Using this as our

CAPA

Critical Dance Processes: Actions II — DAN4820B.01

Spring 2025

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Credits: 4

CONTEMPORARY SYSTEMS - an interior material approach to movement encourages provocative thought and an immersive approach to the subject matter of the body. The work demands a high degree of physicality and input from the dancers, encouraging them to execute movement with intention, curiosity, and empathy. The pedagogical approach emphasizes immersive collaborative models in

Critical Dance Processes: Research II — DAN4818B.01, section 1

Spring 2025

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Credits: 2

Critical Dance Processes: Research II positions research as a multifaceted practice that includes dancing, reading, writing, drawing, sound-making and theatrical design. The course weaves studio practice and group study in a variety of collaborative, experimental and performative configurations. Time in class will be devoted to combinations of lectures, workshops, exercises,

Critical Dance Processes: Research II — DAN4818B.02, section 2

Spring 2025

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Credits: 4

Crocheting the Classics: The Daisy and the Chain and Phoebe Junior — LIT2546.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Jenny Boully

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Credits: 4

The Great Exhibition of 1851 was meant to showcase the greatest inventions and industries of the Victorian age. Included among the various treasures from around the world, such as machinery, paintings, and gems, were samples of crochet, an art that became increasingly popular during the Victorian age. The idea of domestic handcrafts seemed to be counter to the industrial

Literature

Culture and Public Health — ANT2112.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Rebecca Dinkel

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Credits: 4

Public health policies, practices, and the communication thereof, have radically been altered since the COVID-19 pandemic. This cultural shift has been encouraged through social media, which many have argued have spread misinformation about public health and medicine. This course examines how anthropology can be a tool for understanding societal and cultural framing of public

Society Culture and Thought

Decolonial Perspectives on Indigenous Mesoamerica — ANT4223.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Rebecca Dinkel

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Credits: 4

This course focuses on the ethnohistory of Indigenous peoples of Mesoamerica that spans parts of Mexico and Central America, through an Indigenous perspective from native authored texts spanning pre-Columbian, colonial, and contemporary times. The course develops a decolonial perspective on Indigenous Mesoamerica – challenging accounts of Indigenous Mesoamerican cultures and

Society Culture and Thought

Deep Looking: An Introduction to Drawing — DRW2267.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Beverly Acha

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Credits: 4

Learning to draw is as much about learning how to use your hand as it is learning how to see. Drawing from observation fundamentally alters our experience of the everyday while also teaching us about ourselves: what we notice and overlook, what we find pleasure in and what we don’t, and so much more. In this course, students will practice and develop their observational drawing

Visual Arts

Digital Book Project: Social and Cultural Values in Japan (Intermediate) — JPN4402.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida

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Credits: 4

This fourth term Japanese course is designed for students to create digital books which will teach Japanese children how to embrace cultural differences. First, students will read short stories for Japanese children and watch Japanese animations to examine how Japanese children are expected to behave and communicate with others. Students will also analyze social and cultural

Cultural Studies and Languages

Digital Modelling and Animation — MA2103.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Sue Rees

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Credits: 2

This course introduces students to the basic language of 3D animation and modeling. Students will be expected to become familiar with the basic principles of the MAYA program. A series of modeled objects placed in locations will be created. The emphasis will be on becoming proficient with modelling forms, texturing using Arnold Renderer, adding lights and cameras. Additionally,

Visual Arts

Digital Physical Cycles — VA4325.01) (cancelled 10/31/2024

Spring 2025

Instructor: Farhad Mirza

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Credits: 4

“…every form of making a world through our encounters with things is fully multi-modal. It is principally a mixture of modes of know-how (technê) and modes of know-what (epistêmê) with more complex combinations of the two wherein the hard distinction between technique and episteme collapses.” —Reza Negarestani, What does it take to make anything at all? This is a

Digital Text Layout — DES2104.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Gus Ramirez

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Credits: 2

In this course, students will work in Adobe Illustrator on text and layout specific projects. Starting with the foundations of Illustrator, the course will progress to basic and advanced functions of the typographic interface. The use of artboards and layer management, pen tools and path-finders, text and type formatting, color management, and printing will be practiced through

Visual Arts