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Lowell, Plath, and After — LIT2575.01

Instructor: Michael Dumanis
Days & Time: MO,TH 10:00am-11:50am
Credits: 4

This seminar will study the mid-20th century revolution in poetic style and content known as "confessional poetry," a school of poetry that gave voice to the private and personal, highlighting extreme autobiographical experience, as well as subjects that were previously seen as improper or taboo, including mental health, sexuality, suicidal ideation, trauma, menstruation,

Lyric Theory — LIT4616.01

Instructor: Franny Choi
Days & Time: TU 10:30am-12:20pm
Credits: 2

What is the lyric? How did lyric poetry emerge as a genre, and how have reading practices evolved alongside it? This is a 2-credit survey class exploring theoretical engagements with the modern idea of the lyric, including readings in genre theory, new criticism, structuralism,  post-structuralism, and beyond. Drawing primarily from <

L’Afrance: un livre/un film — FRE4607.02

Instructor: Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly
Credits: 4
Vive l’Afrance! This film title (Gomis, 2001) summarizes the goal of this course: an exploration of the rich variety of shared and conflicting francophone identities. Constructed within or outside of France, the identities studied in this course will encompass West African, French, and/or Caribbean spaces. The discussion of notions such as « créolisation » and «

L’Amica Geniale — ITA4609.01

Instructor: Barbara Alfano
Credits: 4
This course focuses on Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan quartet--L'amica geniale (2011), Storia del nuovo cognome (2012), Storia di chi fugge e di chi resta (2013), and Storia della bambina perduta (2014). The study of the four novels will also be an opportunity to focus on the history of Italy from the end of WW II to nowadays, on Italian and Neapolitan women writers, and on Naples

Machine Learning — CS4256.01

Instructor: Justin Vasselli
Credits: 4
In the course of our daily lives we interact with many systems that have been trained to perform their jobs not based on meticulously designed domain-specific algorithms, but instead based on large amounts of data.  This is the foundation of Machine Learning. Today, everything from auto-complete to spam-filtering is done using machine learning techniques.  This course

Mad Props: Theatrical Property Design and Construction — DRA2312.01

Instructor: Seancolin Hankins
Days & Time: FR 2:10pm-4:00pm
Credits: 2

An exercise in planning, communication, creativity and resourcefulness, property design applies to film, television, and theatrical production. This course will look at theatrical props and set dressing from a property designer’s perspective. Starting with a script, we will uncover the questions you didn’t know needed answering in order to comprehensively produce or curate

Mad Props: Theatrical Property Design and Production — DRA2312.01

Instructor: Seancolin Hankins
Credits: 2
An exercise in planning, communication, creativity and resourcefulness, property design applies to film, television, and theatrical production. This course will look at theatrical props and set dressing from a property designer’s perspective. Starting with a script, we will uncover the questions you didn’t know needed answering in order to comprehensively produce or curate

Mad Props: Theatrical Property Design and Production — DRA2312.01

Instructor: Michael Giannitti
Credits: 2
An exercise in planning, communication, creativity and resourcefulness, property design applies to film, television, and theatrical production. This course will look at theatrical props and set dressing from a property designer’s perspective. Starting with a script, we will uncover the questions you didn’t know needed answering in order to comprehensively produce or curate

Mad Props: Theatrical Property Design and Production — DRA2312.01

Instructor: Seancolin Hankins
Credits: 2
An exercise in planning, communication, creativity and resourcefulness, property design applies to film, television, and theatrical production. This course will look at theatrical props and set dressing from a property designer’s perspective. Starting with a script, we will uncover the questions you didn’t know needed answering in order to comprehensively produce or curate

Madame Bovary — LIT4270.02

Instructor: Benjamin Anastas
Credits: 2
Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert, is universally regarded as one of the two or three greatest French novels. It was the object of an obscenity trial in 1859, though the prosecution failed to establish anything indecent in its content. The book is also regarded, by novelists and critics alike, as almost perfect in construction - musical in the unfolding of the story, vivid,

Madame Bovary Middlemarch: Small Worlds, Big Novels — LIT4128.01

Instructor: Manuel Gonzales
Credits: 4
Virginia Woolf once famously said of Middlemarch that it was "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people" and George Eliot's novel is widely considered one of the best novels, written in English, of the 19th Century. Gustav Flaubert's Madame Bovary is considered by many as one of the best novels ever written and is perhaps the first 'modern' novel ever published.

Magical Realism and Black Speculative Fiction: On Radical Cosmogony — LIT4603.01) (course description title updated as of 11/11/2024

Instructor: An Duplan
Credits: 4
Writers like Nnedi Okorafor, N.K. Jemisin, and Samuel Delany have helped define the field of Black speculative fiction. Fantasy, sci-fi, and horror seem to all meld together in this field, allowing writers to combine the supernatural with the technological. Likewise, writers of Central and South America like Isabel Allende, Gabriel García Márquez, and Elena Garro have largely

Mail Art — VA2229.01

Instructor: Anne Thompson
Credits: 4
This course examines the history, politics and ephemeral nature of mail art, a format seeing a renaissance with COVID-19 social distancing. Activities consider how artists and art movements have used the mail to subvert institutional structures, restrictive conditions and oppressive regimes, often leading to new forms of art making and distribution. Parallel to looking at mail

Main Meanings — ARC4383.01

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
“…fictions focused on buildings often seem to use them as a code by which to bury their main meanings.” – Robert Harbison, Eccentric Spaces In her lecture How We Narrate Our Yesterday Determines How We Imagine The Future, Mariam Kamara describes the loss of our capacity to read architecture when we subscribe, uncritically, to totalizing histories that are disproportionately

Makam and Usul — MTH4150.01

Instructor: Joseph Alpar
Credits: 2
This music theory course will introduce students to the art of makam, the melodic system of Ottoman Turkish music, and usul, its rhythmic counterpart. The course is designed to assist students in understanding makam (a melodic mode) and usul (a rhythmic cycle) in multiple ways. We will primarily learn through the meshk system, an Ottoman music educational

Make Kitchen Communal Again: Culinary Participation and Storytelling — APA4245.02

Instructor: Yoko Inoue
Credits: 2
Building strong community support infrastructure is essential in the age of global pandemics as it has been during past emergencies and disasters. At this pivotal moment, communal kitchens can be reframed as vital, alternative social spaces to foster democratic learning. In this space we can regain the importance of cross-generational skillsharing and reclaiming community

Make Kitchen Communal Practicum — APA4302.01

Instructor: Yoko Inoue
Credits: 4
Building strong community support infrastructure is essential in the age of global pandemics, as it has been during past emergencies and natural disasters. Civic engaged actions and intentional social practices which are embedded in the locale have become more crucial when government agencies’ responses to the emergencies are slow or delayed. Can we revitalize or create new

Makers Making/ Performance in the 21st Century — DAN2131.01

Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
Credits: 2
"Isn't every artist essentially starting from nothing, no matter what they might have presented to theater directors or financiers? Isn't the meaning of a work always discovered, to some extent, by its creator during the process of making it?" (Roslyn Sulcas). These are just some of the questions about the making, style, process, logistics, methods, and systems makers

Makers Making/Performance in the 21st Century — DAN4129.01

Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
Credits: 2
“Isn’t every artist essentially starting from nothing, no matter what they might have presented to theater directors or financiers? Isn’t the meaning of a work always discovered, to some extent, by its creator during the process of making it?” (Roslyn Sulcas). These are just some of the questions about the making, style, process, logistics, methods, and systems makers employ