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Fall 2023

100 Experiments
Jonathan Kline
A Brief Introduction to Astronomical Observing
Hugh Crowl
A History of Economic Thought
Emma Kast
Advanced Animation
Bronwyn Maloney
Advanced Chamber Music
Nathaniel Parke
Advanced Dramaturgy
Maya Cantu
Advanced Film/Video Projects I
Mariam Ghani
Advanced Improvisation: Scene Work
Shawtane Bowen
Advanced Printing and Projects in Lithography
Thorsten Dennerline
Advanced Projects in Architecture
Donald Sherefkin
Advanced Projects in Dance
Dana Reitz
Advanced Workshop for Painting and Drawing
Ann Pibal
Anatolian Rock Ensemble: Psychedelia and Social Change in Modern Turkey
Joseph Alpar
ARCHIVE and ACCESS: PUBLICATION, PEDAGOGY, and MUTUAL AID as PUBLIC ACTION
Elæ Moss, MFA Teaching Fellow
Banjo
John Kirk
Bass Intensive
Michael Bisio
Bass with Bisio
Michael Bisio
Beginning Cello I
Nathaniel Parke
Beginning Guitar
Hui Cox
Beginning Voice: Movement and Flow
Kerry Ryer-Parke
Beyond Plastic Pollution
Judith Enck
Beyond Story
Mariam Ghani
Black Mountain/Beat Poetry
Sandra Simonds
Bodies in Inner and Outer Spaces
Terry Boddie
Calculus: A Classical Approach
Andrew McIntyre
Cello
Nathaniel Parke
Changing Our Lens: Restorative Justice on Campus and Off
Alisa Del Tufo
Chemistry 1: Chemical Principles (with Lab)
John Bullock
Chemistry 2: Organic Structure and Bonding (with Lab)
John Bullock
Chemistry 3: Organic Reactions & Mechanisms (with Lab)
Fortune Ononiwu
Child Development
Emily Waterman
Chosen Family Style: Queer Asian Pacific American Literature
Franny Choi
Chromophilia: Investigations in Color
Ann Pibal
Class Brass: Brass instruments for all levels
Chris Rose
Class Brass: Brass instruments for all levels
Chris Rose
Climate Change and the Food System
Mark Schapiro
Co/Lab: Mediating Performance
Mariam Ghani
Collaborative Opera
Kamala Sankaram
Collecting and Vetting Public Data for Research
Michael Corey
Composing for Instruments
Allen Shawn
Conservation Paleobiology
Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie
Contemporary Feminisms of Latin America
Cecilia Salvi
Costume Design: clothing, body, context
Tilly Grimes
Creative Practices in Sensory Geopolitics
Maia Nichols
Dalcroze Eurhythmics: Experiencing Body, Expressive Body
Chris Rose
Dance Intensive: Embodiment, Technique, Improvisation, Performance
Levi Gonzalez
Deep Looking: An Introduction to Drawing
Beverly Acha
Delights of Ephemera
Anne Thompson
Dining Culture in Taiwan
Ginger Lin
Directing II
Kirk Jackson
Disasters and Urban Modernity
Lopamudra Banerjee
Doubleness
Sherry Kramer
Earth Journalism
Mark Schapiro
Ecopoetics: Earth, Air, Water, and Fire
Sandra Simonds
Education for a Democracy: The Patrick J. Leahy Public Policy Forum
Susan Sgorbati, Brian Campion, & Eileen Scully
Electroacoustic Improvisation Workshop
Amirtha Kidambi
Electronics and the Voice
Amirtha Kidambi
Embodying Structure: Construction of the Corset
Richard MacPike
Embodying Text
Kirk Jackson
Encounters: Drawing On-Site
Beverly Acha
Entry to Mathematics
Timothy Kane
Environment and Public Action
David Bond
Environmental Geology
Tim Schroeder
Ethical Translation: Eye on Race, Gender, and Queerness
Mariam Rahmani
Evolution, Cognition, and Behavior
Blake Jones
Examining Space
John Umphlett
Experimental Sound Practices
Senem Pirler
Faculty Performance Production: Airline Highway by Lisa D’Amour
Dina Janis
Families: Love and Power in the Domestic Sphere
Miroslava Prazak
First World Problems: Microcinema and popular media
Ginger Lin
Five Obstructions
Nicholas Brooke
Form and Process: Introduction to Painting
Ann Pibal
Foundations of Photography/Analog
Jonathan Kline
Foundations of Photography: Digital Practice
Elizabeth White
From Concept to Reality: Participatory Action Research and Restorative Practice
Alisa Del Tufo
From the Edo to Meiji Period: Examining Equality and Equity through the Examinations of Japanese Society
Ikuko Yoshida
From the Stoics to Ubuntu: Philosophies of the Good Life
Catherine McKeen & Paul Voice
Fundamentals of Creative Writing
Jenny Boully
Fundamentals of Creative Writing
Nicolette Polek
GANAS
Jonathan Pitcher
Gender and Sexuality in Chinese Culture
Ginger Lin
Genesis
Carol Pal
Ghostly Body- The Art of Absence
Mina Nishimura
Graduate Assistantship in Public Action
Susan Sgorbati
Graduate Research in Dance
Dana Reitz
Graduate Research in Public Action
Susan Sgorbati
Graduate Teaching Fellow Assistantship in Dance
Dana Reitz
Growing a body like a plant
luciana achugar, MFA Teaching Fellow
Hello World: An Introduction to Drawing
Colin Brant
Historical Dress: Drawing Connections Exploring Historical Icons Through Representation in Film and Art
Tilly Grimes
History of Science: From Aristotle to Newton
Carol Pal
History of the Book
Carol Pal
History of Theater I
Maya Cantu
Horror Writing and the (Postcolonial) Afterlife
Anaïs Duplan
How to Build a Forest
Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie
Human Rights in Global Politics
Rotimi Suberu
Hyper Body! – Anarchic Ballet to Water Movement to African Dance to Floor Ninja to Body Architecture to Shining Zombie to Unknown Transformation…..
Kota Yamazaki
In Sickness and In Health: An Introduction to Medical Anthropology
Miroslava Prazak
Infinity
Andrew McIntyre
Insider Perspectives on the Francophone World I
Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly
Instrument Building
Nicholas Brooke
Intermediate Guitar
Hui Cox
Intermediate Painting: From Practice to Discovery
J Blackwell
Intermediate Video: Sensorium
Mariam Ghani
Intermediate Voice
Kerry Ryer-Parke
Intermediate Voice
Kerry Ryer-Parke
Intermediate Voice
Virginia Warnken Kelsey
Intermediate Voice
Virginia Warnken Kelsey
Intro to Animation
Bronwyn Maloney
Intro to Animation
Bronwyn Maloney
Intro to VR
John Crowe
Introduction to Harmony
Nicholas Brooke
Introduction to International Law
Andy Galindo
Introduction to Political Ideologies
John Hultgren
Introduction To Quantitative Reasoning and Modeling
Kathryn Montovan
Introduction to Relief Printing
Thorsten Dennerline
Introduction to Sound Recording and Mixing
Senem Pirler
Introduction to Video
Sahraa Karimi
Introduction to Video
Sahraa Karimi
Introduction to Violin/Viola
Joana Genova
Introduction to Web Programming
Meltem Ballan
Jazz Ensemble
Jen Allen
Kilns and Firing Techniques
Anina Major
Kilns and Firing Techniques
Anina Major
Knowing the self and the other: Critical explorations of psychoanalytic and psychotherapeutic case studies
Maxwell Levis
Language and Culture in the Pacific
Leah Pappas
Language as System and Social Behavior
Thomas Leddy-Cecere
Language typology: Patterns and universals in language
Leah Pappas
Latin America: A Paratext
Jonathan Pitcher
Le cinéma-monde d’Alice Diop
Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly
Life Drawing Lab
Colin Brant
Life Drawing Lab
Colin Brant
Linear Algebra
Andrew McIntyre
Literature of the Holocaust
Sandra Simonds
Looking closer; making work
John Umphlett
Mad Props: Theatrical Property Design and Production
Seancolin Hankins
Making Melody
Séamus Egan
Mandolin
John Kirk
Minimalism
Nicholas Brooke
Modeling and Thinking in Rhino 7
Derek Parker
Modern Guitar
Hui Cox
Modern Music and Jazz Theory
Jen Allen
Mouvements
Stephen Shapiro
Movement Practice: Dreamtime into Daytime
Erin Ellen Kelly, MFA Teaching Fellow
Music Theory I – Applied Fundamentals
John Kirk
Music, Gender, and Sexuality in the Middle East
Joseph Alpar
Musical Forms
Allen Shawn
Myths and Legends from the Spanish-Speaking World
Lena Retamoso Urbano
Navigating Media in Institutional History
Maia Nichols
Network Science
Kathryn Montovan
Neuroscience
Blake Jones
Once Upon a Time: Exploring Children’s Historical Fiction
Eileen Scully
Papermaking with Plants
Lily Carone
Paris on Screen: Tradition and Modernity
Stephen Shapiro
Perceptions of Reality in 20th Century Latin American Literature
Lena Retamoso Urbano
Performance Project: BRUJX
luciana achugar, MFA Teaching Fellow
Performance Project: Liminality Portal; Dancing Within and Beyond the Frame
Erin Ellen Kelly, MFA Teaching Fellow
Performance Project: Pressing Face Against That Window
Kota Yamazaki & Mina Nishimura
Philosophical Reasoning
Catherine McKeen
Photography and Migration
Luiza Folegatti
Photography Remade
Elizabeth White
Physics I: Forces and Motion (with Lab)
Tim Schroeder
Piano
Chris Rose
Piano
Christopher Lewis
Piano
Yoshiko Sato
Piano Lab I: Beginning Piano
Chris Rose
Piano Lab I: Beginning Piano
Chris Rose
Piano Lab I: Beginning Piano
Chris Rose
Piano Lab II
Yoshiko Sato
Piano – Intensive
Christopher Lewis
Picture Pattern Paper Model
Farhad Mirza
Poetry & Performance
Franny Choi
Practicing Courage in Dance Making
Levi Gonzalez
Pre-Fellowship Class For Endeavor Foundation Environmental Action Fellowship
Judith Enck
Presentation of Statistics
Josef Mundt
Pretty Lies, Ugly Truths, and Deep Fakes: An Introduction to Oil Painting
J Blackwell
Prominent Works of Japanese Authors
Ikuko Yoshida
Qualitative Inquiry
Özge Savaş
Queer Renaissance
J. Vanessa Lyon
Radio Plays: Making Theatre for Radio and Podcast
Dina Janis
Rakugo and Humor: The Art of Storytelling
Ikuko Yoshida
Reading & Writing: Spectacular Failure
Manuel Gonzales
Reading and Writing Nonfiction: Ambience, Architecture, & Environment
Anaïs Duplan
Reading and Writing Poetry: Word Choice and Linebreak
Michael Dumanis
Rethinking Capitalism: Climate, Poverty, Jobs and Public Action
Steven Hail
Richard Wright and James Baldwin
Benjamin Anastas
Sacred Spaces
Donald Sherefkin
Seminar on International Mediation in Armed Conflicts
Rotimi Suberu
Senior Projects in Literature
Benjamin Anastas
Senior Seminar in Society, Culture, and Thought
Eileen Scully
Senior Seminar in Society, Culture, and Thought
Eileen Scully
Silkscreen Printmaking
Corinne Rhodes
Spatial Audio Practices
Senem Pirler
Species of Spaces
Donald Sherefkin
Stars and Galaxies
Hugh Crowl
Surrealism in Latin America: Origins and Reception
Lena Retamoso Urbano
Sustainability and Social Justice
John Hultgren
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Human Rights, Peacebuilding and the Environment
Andy Galindo
Tai-Chi 37 Forms
Ginger Lin
Teaching Languages and Cultures K-6
Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly
Tessellation
Farhad Mirza
The Actor’s Instrument
Oliver Wadsworth
The Actor’s Instrument
Shawtane Bowen
The Animal that therefore I am
John Hultgren
The Art of Rehearsing
Dana Reitz
The Art of Stage Design
Michael Giannitti
The Blazing World
Catherine McKeen
The Body Acoustic: Toward a Sense of Place
Dana Reitz
The Camp Aesthetic
Maya Cantu
The Data Science Foundations
Meltem Ballan
The Flower Songs of the Hungry Coyote: Pre-Columbian Indigenous Poetry
Anaïs Duplan
The Hand as Tool
Anina Major
The Inexorable(Middle)March of Time
Manuel Gonzales
The Kimono Project: A design process
Tilly Grimes
The Magical Object: Visual Metaphor
Sherry Kramer
The Musical “Other”: Exoticism, Appropriation, and Multiculturalism
Joseph Alpar
The New York School of Poetry
Michael Dumanis
The Personal and Political
Özge Savaş
The Real Housewives of Lit
Manuel Gonzales
The Scriptorium: Monsters!
Camille Guthrie
The Scriptorium: Monsters!
Camille Guthrie
The Third Decade of Life
Emily Waterman
The “I” of the Beholder
Franny Choi
Theater Games and Improvisation
Shawtane Bowen
Theoretical Ethics: The Nature of Moral Judgments
Paul Voice
There Is Always a Clock
Sherry Kramer
Thermal and Statistical Physics
Hugh Crowl
Topics in Ceramic History: Global Perspectives
Anina Major
Toward a Rigorous Art History
J. Vanessa Lyon
Traditional Music Ensemble
John Kirk
Traditional Music of North America
John Kirk
Transformational Acting
Oliver Wadsworth
Trends in Adolescent Mental Health
Emily Waterman
Unemployment and Inflation
Lopamudra Banerjee
Victorian Ephemerality: Poetry, Photography, & Paper
Jenny Boully
Violin/Viola
Joana Genova
Virtual Tours of Japan: Explore and Learn About Japan
Ikuko Yoshida
Visual Arts Lecture Series
J. Vanessa Lyon
Visual Arts Lecture Series Seminar
J. Vanessa Lyon
Voice Performance Intensive
Virginia Warnken Kelsey
Voice Performance Intensive
Kerry Ryer-Parke
Water Dialogues: The Future of Civilization
Susan Sgorbati
What is Capitalism?
Emma Kast
What is economics?
Lopamudra Banerjee
What Was Critique and What Comes Next?
David Bond
Why Bodies Matter: An Introduction to Dance Studies
Levi Gonzalez
Why Jazz? How this music known as jazz came to be and how it influenced modern day music
Jen Allen
“Culture” in a Globalized World: A Critique
Cecilia Salvi

Spring 2023

A Celebration Service
Thomas Bogdan & Levi Gonzalez
A Celebration Service – The Dancer’s Ensembles
Thomas Bogdan & Levi Gonzalez
A Collective Portrait of America: Literary Memoir Since the Civil War
Rachel Lyon
A History of Mathematics
Timothy Kane
Advanced CAPA Workshop
Susan Sgorbati
Advanced Ceramic Projects
Aysha Peltz
Advanced Chamber Music
Nathaniel Parke
Advanced Improvisation Ensemble for Dancers and Musicians
Susan Sgorbati & Michael Wimberly
Advanced Improvisation: The Game of the Scene
Shawtane Bowen
Advanced Mixing Techniques
Senem Pirler
Advanced Piano
Christopher Lewis
Advanced Piano – Intensive
Christopher Lewis
Advanced Projects in Architecture
Donald Sherefkin
Advanced Projects in Dance
Dana Reitz
Advanced Projects in Dance
Dana Reitz
Advanced Projects in Video II
Jen Liu
Advanced Sculpture
John Umphlett
Advanced Voice
Kerry Ryer-Parke
Advanced Voice
Thomas Bogdan
Advanced Workshop for Painting and Drawing
Ann Pibal
Alternate Visions: Seeing the world through Women and LGBTQIA+ Contemporary Photographers
Farzana Wahidy, MFA Teaching Fellow
An Introduction to the Rust Programming Language
Michael Corey
Analog Avatars
Erin Ellen Kelly, MFA Teaching Fellow
Anarchist Anthropologies
Steve Moog
Ancient to Modern Environments: Near and Far
Tim Schroeder
Animation Projects
Sue Rees
Another Audience: Performance with/for/of/by/through/between the More-than-Human
Nicole Daunic
Anti-Perspective
Farhad Mirza
Architectural Graphics
Donald Sherefkin
Bad Citizen: letting go of being good for a better world and A New Dream
Being, FKA Kriss Mincey, MFA Teaching Fellow
Bad Romance: Shakespeare’s Poetry
Camille Guthrie
Balkan Music Ensemble
Joseph Alpar
Ballet Anarchy
Kota Yamazaki
Bass Intensive
Michael Bisio
Bass with Bisio
Michael Bisio
Beans Give Back 2.0
Alexis Elton
Beginning Cello II
Nathaniel Parke
Beginning Guitar
Hui Cox
Beginning Violin/Viola
Joana Genova
Beginning Wheel Throwing
Aysha Peltz
Bennington Past and Present
Eileen Scully
Beyond Le Triangle et l’Hexagone: Narrating the (Hi)story and the Self
Maboula Soumahoro
Beyond Plastic Pollution
Judith Enck
BLACK IS THE JOURNEY: sampling the intellectual and artistic productions of the African Diaspora
Maboula Soumahoro
Butoh Intensive—In search of dance of darkness
Mina Nishimura
Call and Response: A Practical Storytelling Method to Build Food Based Community
Gillian Goddard
Cell Biology (with Lab)
Amie McClellan
Cello
Nathaniel Parke
Clothing Beyond Binary
Michael Sylvan Robinson
Comparing Political Institutions
Rotimi Suberu
Composing for Improvisers: Analyses, Creation and Community
Kyoko Kitamura
Conflict Resolution Theories: An Introduction
Michael Cohen