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I am a Material — SCU4112.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: John Umphlett
Credits: 2
What is a more valuable piece of matter? String, cotton-balls and rubber bands may be what should be affixed to your unique prosthetic to complete a given task… This course will cover information and techniques related to body casting, wire rope rigging, fabrication, and other building processes.The students will be asked to keep a journal which will be the most important
Visual Arts

Ideas Arrangements Effects — APA2178.02

Fall 2019
Instructor: Kenneth Bailey, MFA Teaching Fellow
Credits: 2
How do we come to understand what we are doing when attempting to change or interfere with a messy complex social problem? How can we know if the thing we want to do to improve a social problem will work or backfire? There are many lessons from psychiatrists like RD Laing to cultural heroes like Hermès on this topic. Ideas Arrangements Effects will overview several lessons from
CAPA

Ideas Arrangements Effects — APA2178.02

Spring 2021
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
How do we come to understand what we are doing when attempting to change or interfere with a messy complex social problem? How can we know if the thing we want to do to improve a social problem will work or backfire? There are many lessons from psychiatrists like RD Laing to cultural heroes like Hermès on this topic. Ideas Arrangements Effects will overview several lessons from
CAPA

Identità e cucina: Food in Italian Regional Cultures — ITA4216.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Barbara Alfano
Credits: 4
In Italy, regional cuisine is an essential component of local identities and a crucial element to understand diversity in the national context. This course focuses on the food practices and typical dishes of Italian regional cultures as the students advance in the study of the language. This course is offered at the elementary level and conducted in Italian. The class will
CAPA Cultural Studies and Languages

Identities and Affinities — PHI4109.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Rotimi Suberu
Credits: 4
Each of us has multiple social identities. We belong to different social groups and are categorized along various social dimensions. What is involved in being a member of a race, gender, class, nation, sexual affinity, ethnic, or religious group? Are these groups somehow “natural” or objectively real? Are these groups “social constructs”? What, ultimately, is the social world
Society Culture and Thought

Idiosyncratic Tools — SCU4216.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: John Umphlett
Credits: 2
Use a hammer to hit a nail into a chunk of wood. Anyone may smash a cube office , carve a toy car or with strong encouragement, allow the hammer to sign its initials on your thumb - VBS (violet burning sunset.) Idiosyncratic devices enhance one's own senses. Once we completely understand the specific functions for which a tool is designed, we begin to tune senses back to the
Visual Arts

Idiosyncratic Tools — SCU2205.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: John Umphlett
Credits: 2
Use a hammer to hit a nail into a chunk of wood. Anyone may smash a cube of ice, carve a toy car or with strong encouragement, allow the hammer to sign its initials on your thumb - VBS (violet burning sunset.) Idiosyncratic devices enhance one's own senses. Once we completely understand the specific functions for which a tool is designed, we begin to tune 
Visual Arts

If I Loved you Less, I Might be able to Talk about it More: Jane Austen's Heroines — LIT2510.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Manuel Gonzales
Credits: 4
In this seminar, we will train our eyes on four of Jane Austen’s novels — Pride and Prejudice, Northanger Abbey, Mansfield Park, and Persuasion — with an aim to discover what connects and binds Jane Austen’s heroines together, what separates these women from each other, and to explore Austen’s evolution as a writer through the evolving nature of her protagonists. We will
Literature

If Only There Were a Mediator Between Us: The Book of Job and Conflict Resolution — MED2119.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Michael Cohen
Credits: 2
The Book of Job is one of the great philosophical books of the Bible which addresses many relevant issues including, but not limited to, justice, friendship, responding to life's trials. Written as a series of dialogues between Job and his friends its pages address conflict through many forms and issues. We will read and discuss its pages as we explore the process of resolving
CAPA

Image Objects — PHO4103.02

Spring 2018
Instructor: Elizabeth White
Credits: 2
This course meets the second seven weeks of the term, and through group critiques, assignments, artist slideshows, and readings, explores the broad range of physical forms that photographic works can take. As recent exhibitions and publications such as What is a Photograph? (The International Center of Photography, 2014), A Matter of Memory: The Photograph as Object in the
Visual Arts

Image Objects — PHO4103.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Liz White
Credits: 4
As exhibitions and publications such as What is a Photograph? (The International Center of Photography, 2014), A Matter of Memory: The Photograph as Object in the Digital Age (George Eastman Museum, 2016), and Photography is Magic (Charlotte Cotton, Aperture, 2015) attest, there are many contemporary artists whose work with photography draws increased focus to material and
Visual Arts

Image Objects — PHO4103.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Elizabeth White
Credits: 4
As recent exhibitions and publications such as What is a Photograph? (The International Center of Photography, 2014), A Matter of Memory: The Photograph as Object in the Digital Age (George Eastman Museum, 2016), and Photography is Magic (Charlotte Cotton, Aperture, 2015) attest, there are many contemporary artists whose work with photography draws increased focus to material
Visual Arts

Image Projection — MA2138.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Sue Rees
Credits: 2
The class will be concerned with investigating the interaction of projected imagery (video, animation, still imagery) with a location, an object, a stage, a viewer. Investigation will center on how projections can be integrated into, and bring further information to a location, a set, a text. Various examples will be looked at and researched. Sites and texts will be used as a
Visual Arts

Image Weaving: Unorthodox Practices in Contemporary Printmaking — PRI4207.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Sarah Amos
Credits: 4
This energetic class will be part project based and part experimental lab that fosters a critical and analytical viewpoint toward the Collagraph, Lithograph and Monoprint techniques while disrupting their traditional values and appearances. These printmaking techniques will then be used as a building platform for exploring new ideas by interweaving them together. Traditional
Visual Arts

Imaginary Worlds — DRA2313.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Michael Giannitti
Credits: 4
In this course we will consider playwrights who have created imaginary worlds as a means of escaping from, critiquing, or simply distorting the real world. In doing so, we will consider how imaginary worlds might open up new spaces and possibilities for our own world, as well as how they reflect a playwright’s unique vision and philosophy. We will consider the inherent
Drama Literature

Imagination, Creativity: Aesthetics and Philosophy of Music — MHI2324.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Credits: 1
In this course students will establish an expanded definition of ‘Music’ as inspired by the Sufi Master Hazrat Inayat Khan who wrote the mysticism of sound. This book confirmed my reason and purpose for playing music. In discussing this book, we can open up to other possibilities of understanding while discovering the music inside of us. With the acceptance and realization that
Music

Imagining Our Futures: Conflict and/or Peace? — APA2284.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Days & Time: WE 2:10pm-5:50pm
Credits: 2

This class will examine interesting thinkers about our future.  Artists, anthropologists, afro futurists, writers, scientists and philosophers have all thought about what we are facing in our futures. Books and essays such as “The Fourth Turning” by Neil Howe, “The Dawn of Everything” by David Graeber, “The End of History” by Francis Fukuyama, 

Advancement of Public Action

Imagining the Future of the Arts in America — APA4155.02

Fall 2016
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 2
Demographic and technological changes are challenging institutions, organizations and practices that traditionally have supported artists in their contribution to American culture. What would it mean to radically rethink the future of arts and culture in America?  This course will include a review of the traditional models that have supported American artists historically
CAPA

Immigration in U.S. History — HIS4119.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Alexander Jin
Days & Time: TU 2:10pm-5:50pm
Credits: 4

This course examines the history of immigration to the United States. How did this country become a “nation of immigrants”? How did immigration become so central to American national identity? What are this country’s purported ideals on the subject and has it ever lived up to them?  

History

Immortal Media — MS2106.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Brian Michael Murphy
Credits: 2
In this introductory course, we will analyze media preservation projects that attempt to create immortal media—artifacts that last beyond the end of the world. From the Depression to the digital age, preservationists have responded to the social, cultural, technological, and ecological crises of their moment by projecting fears about their own mortality onto media artifacts,
Society Culture and Thought

Immortal Media — MS2106.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Brian Michael Murphy
Credits: 4
In this introductory course, we will analyze media preservation projects that attempt to create immortal media—artifacts that last beyond the end of the world. From the Depression to the digital age, preservationists have responded to the social, cultural, technological, and ecological crises of their moment by projecting fears about their own mortality onto media artifacts,
CAPA Society Culture and Thought

Immortality — LIT2300.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Manuel Gonzales
Credits: 4
Immortality. Everyone seems to want it. Or, well, practically everyone. Well, not me. I don't want it. But, look, even the world's oldest recorded epic hero, Gilgamesh, struggled against the notion of mortality and his own impending, inevitable death, and ever since (and probably long-before) members of our species have sought ways to subvert it. This course aims to explore
Literature

Impediments to the Growth of Democracy in the Middle East — APA2358.02) (cancelled 9/6/2024

Fall 2024
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 1
This course covers the domestic and international challenges facing the struggle for democracy in Middle Eastern countries, with particular emphasis on Iran. It will focus on the historical and sociocultural underpinning of the democratic concept and examine the causes of democratic success and failure. The struggle for democracy in Iran began in the early 20th century, but
CAPA Society Culture and Thought

Impressionism — MTH4116.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
Credits: 2
This seminar will look at works by Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel, as well as by Erik Satie, Les Six, Fauré, and diverse U.S. composers at the turn of the 20th century. We will start by looking at Debussy’s Preludes as a microcosm of his harmonic style, and then analyze major orchestral works including Jeux, L’Après Midi d’un Faune, and La Mer. Ravel’s Tombeau de
Music