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Philosophical Problems — PHI4239.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Paul Voice
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Credits: 2
This course invites students to research and write a paper on a philosophical topic of their own choosing. Students will be required to clearly state the philosophical problem they want to research, construct a detailed bibliography, and write a paper that explains the problem, engages with the philosophical literature, and advances an argument.
Society Culture and Thought

Photobooks — PHO4371.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Luiza Folegatti
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Credits: 4
This course explores how photographers work with the materiality of the medium to create representations of desired realities and interrogate “official histories,” especially those connected to colonization, migration, and gender. The course will look at techniques for intervened photography and photo-collage and apply them to creating photobooks. Students will be encouraged to
Visual Arts

Piano — MIN4333.01, section 1

Spring 2025
Instructor: Yoshiko Sato
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Credits: 2
Individual private piano lessons for more advanced students. Audition required. A weekly hour-long lesson time is arranged with the instructor.
Music

Piano — MIN4333.02, section 2

Spring 2025
Instructor: Christopher Lewis
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Credits: 2
Individual private lessons with focus on the classical repertoire. Students are accepted by audition. Students will meet with the instructor weekly on scheduled class days, at times to be arranged with the instructor. A minimum of 20 minutes practice per day is expected. Two excused absences permitted, with every effort made for make-up lessons. Participation in Tuesday evening
Music

Piano Lab I: Beginning Piano — MIN2249.02, section 2

Spring 2025
Instructor: Yoshiko Sato
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Credits: 2
Have you been thinking about learning to play the piano? Perhaps you have a little experience from childhood and want to get back into it? Do you want to learn to read sheet music and understand the basics of music theory? Maybe you are completely new to playing an instrument, and want to give it a try? If you answered yes, then Piano Lab I might be right for you. Lessons are
Music

Piano Lab I: Beginning Piano — MIN2249.03, section 3

Spring 2025
Instructor: Benjamin April
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Credits: 2
Ever had the desire to learn the piano, but never had the time? Piano Lab may be for you! In Piano Lab I, you will learn the basics of keyboard playing, including how to read both standard notation and chord charts. Scales, chords, and basic music theory are also taught. No prior experience is necessary, and beginners are welcome!
Music

Piano Lab I: Beginning Piano — MIN2249.01, section 1

Spring 2025
Instructor: Chris Rose
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Credits: 2
Have you been thinking about learning to play the piano? Are you completely new to playing an instrument and want to give it a try? Do you have a little experience from childhood and want to get back into it? Are you a singer, songwriter, producer, or composer who wants to know how to accompany themselves, learn to read sheet music and chord symbols, and understand the basics
Music

Plastics and Public Health — APA4254.02) (cancelled 11/12/2024

Spring 2025
Instructor: Megan Wolff
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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 that time. The impact of plastic as litter is undeniable, both in the oceans and on land. But recent findings about the impacts of plastic on human health demonstrate that this is not just a litter problem, it is a health one. As we follow the path of microplastics we
CAPA

Plastics, Microplastics and Human Health — APA2028.02

Spring 2025
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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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 that time. The impact of plastic as litter is undeniable, both in the oceans and on land. But recent findings about the impacts of plastic on human health demonstrate that this is not just a litter problem, it is a health one. As we follow the path of microplastics we
CAPA

Platform: Projects in Drama — DRA4311.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Dina Janis
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Credits: 4
The purpose of this course is to create a platform for students to express themselves through theatrical performance. We are interested in projects that are inclusive and allow for and celebrate diversity. All applicants must be interested in developing their project while investigating what it means to create a supportive, inclusive community that regularly engages in group
Drama

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

Spring 2025
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

Portfolio 2 — DAN5422B.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Donna Faye Burchfield
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Credits: 6
During this course, students will begin to reflect, gather, articulate, and compose their extensive body of professional work in the field of dance by organizing their work into a text which will be bound. The portfolio is developed to include a thoughtful and critically developed artist statement, current CV, written narrative of their work, press public reviews, and a list

Post-Mao Chinese Rock and Roll — CHI4511.01) (cancelled 9/19/2024

Spring 2025
Instructor: Ginger Lin
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Credits: 4
In this course we will explore the ways in which modern and contemporary Chinese culture is expressed in music. Using authentic materials, such as popular songs, music videos and music articles as springboards, students will communicate about current events and culture in China. Each class or every other class, students will be given a different song, video or article with a

Poverty and Vulnerability — PEC4382.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Lopamudra Banerjee
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Credits: 4
Poverty signifies a state of deprivation where individuals fail to meet a minimum standard of living, while vulnerability indicates the risk of poverty within a population. Several key questions emerge from discussions on these issues: Who are the poor and the most vulnerable? How do we measure poverty and assess vulnerability? Why does poverty persist, and why are some
Society Culture and Thought

Practice Lab — DAN5401B.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Donna Faye Burchfield
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Credits: 2
Students are given opportunities to deepen their understanding of and relationship to movement practices.  The LABS take the form of a series of classes and/or workshops and can include both lecture/discussion and studio classroom formats. The LABS create an opportunity for students to be in direct dialogue with a variety of practioners, points of view and approaches to

Price Theory — PEC2218.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Lopamudra Banerjee
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Credits: 4
A central element of the “economic problem” is coordination of people’s economic actions. In a market economy, prices play a crucial role in addressing this problem. This course examines how the system of prices works, and when it fails. This is an introductory course in microeconomic theory and applications, designed for students in their first and second years of college. We
Society Culture and Thought

Problems of Political Development — POL4260.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Rotimi Suberu
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Credits: 4
Many polities in the world today, particularly in the global South, lack durable, legitimate and effective political institutions and governmental systems. These countries are in the throes of wrenching political transitions and crises that compound weak governance institutions with economic malaise, social polarization, cultural‐territorial fragmentation and/or state
CAPA Society Culture and Thought

Processing and Making in Rhino 7 — DES4102.01) (cancelled 10/14/2024

Spring 2025
Instructor: Derek Parker
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Credits: 2
Processing and Making in Rhino 7 is an introductory course in Digital Fabrication using Computer-Aided Design (CAD) and Computer Numerically Controlled (CNC) equipment. This course will explore the use of 3D Printers, CNC Laser Cutters, and CNC Routers to create custom objects modeled in Rhino 7. The course will cover the necessary workflows and parameters used for each machine

Processing and Making with Rhino 8 — DES4103.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Derek Parker
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Credits: 2
Processing and Making in Rhino 8 is an introductory course in Digital Fabrication using Computer-Aided Design (CAD) and Computer Numerically Controlled (CNC) equipment. This course will explore the use of 3D Printers, CNC Laser Cutters, and CNC Routers to create custom objects modeled in Rhino 8. The course will cover the necessary workflows and parameters used for each machine
Visual Arts

Producing the Sound of Tomorrow’s Albums and Television Shows — MSR4370.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 2
This 7-week course offers a hands-on exploration of the challenges faced by today’s audio professionals as they prepare media for record labels, streaming platforms, and television studios. The audio producer’s role is to translate the abstract aesthetic goals of artists from many disciplines into real-world solutions. Each week, we’ll tackle a specific problem in sound
Music

Projection of Images — MA4109.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Sue Rees
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Credits: 2
This will be a condensed class 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 how this brings further information to a form, and shifts the viewer's reading or
Drama Visual Arts

Projections – Animation Projects — MA4202.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Sue Rees
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Credits: 4
The course will be for sustained work on an animation or design project, and should be a space for both experimentation, ambition and a consistent endeavor. Students will be expected to create a complete animation, a series of experiments, projection or interactive project. The expectation is that students will be fully engaged in all aspects of the class from critiques, to
Drama Visual Arts

Propaganda in Modern Chinese Culture — CHI4603.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 4
From banners displayed in public spaces to the resounding messages broadcasted through millions of loudspeakers nationwide, propaganda slogans have played a pivotal role in the Chinese Communist Party's efforts to cultivate a modern socialist society. This course will delve into a curated selection of these slogans spanning from the early communist era to the present day,
Cultural Studies and Languages

Psychology of Gender and Sexuality — PSY2385.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Arita  Balaram
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Credits: 4
This program will examine the categories of gender and sexuality within and beyond the psychological discipline and aims to familiarize students with major theoretical perspectives on gender including social constructionism, feminism, queer theory, and decolonization. The program will draw from psychological empirical research on gender and sexuality across history and culture
Society Culture and Thought

Quantum Mechanics — PHY4211.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Hugh Crowl
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Credits: 4
The microscopic world is fundamentally different from the macroscopic one we encounter on a daily basis. The classical view of particles, mass, and even location break down at the smallest scales. The development of quantum mechanics as a field in the 1920s was a fundamental leap forward for our understanding of atomic physics. Countless current technologies and scientific
Science and Mathematics