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Media Archaeology: Signal and Data — APA4156.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Erika Mijlin
Credits: 4
A course exploring the 20th and 21st century media technologies, and various understandings of their social significance. Beginning with the development of radio and television, through the emergence of the computer and network technologies such as the internet and social media - this course takes up the questions of the transition from mechanical technologies to signal-based
CAPA

Media Archaeology: Signs and Representation — APA2131.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Erika Mijlin
Credits: 4
An introduction to the study of media technologies and their social impact. We will move somewhat chronologically from the emergence of writing systems through the printing press, photography, and the development of moving images - these mechanical technologies of documentation and communication each initiated a subsequent ripple of social and cultural changes in their time.
CAPA

Media Archaeology: Signs and Representation — APA2131.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Erika Mijlin
Credits: 4
An introduction to the study of media technologies and their social impact. We will move somewhat chronologically from the emergence of writing systems through the printing press, photography, and the development of moving images – these mechanical technologies of documentation and communication each initiated a subsequent ripple of social and cultural changes in their time.
CAPA

Media Convergence and Culture — APA4102.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Erika Mijlin
Credits: 4
A seminar on the changing nature of the relationship between consumption and production of media, and how these newly intersect. With a perspective rooted in the cultural history of forms such as quotation, parody, and collage, in this course we will explore the many transitions in the present media paradigm — the changing aesthetics of digital media content and context, the
CAPA

Media Convergence and Culture — APA4102.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Erika Mijlin
Credits: 4
A seminar on the changing nature of the relationship between consumption and production of media, and how these newly intersect. With a perspective rooted in the cultural history of forms such as quotation, parody, and collage, in this course we will explore the many transitions in the present media paradigm — the changing aesthetics of digital media content and context, the
CAPA

Media Convergence and Culture — APA4102.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Erika Mijlin
Credits: 4
A seminar on the changing nature of the relationship between consumption and production of media, and how these newly intersect. With a perspective rooted in the cultural history of forms such as quotation, parody, and collage, in this course we will explore the many transitions in the present media paradigm -- the changing aesthetics of digital media content and context, the
CAPA Visual Arts

Media Technology and Social Change — APA2203.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Erika Mijlin
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
From the print revolution to the birth of photography, from moving images to social networking, we find that new media technologies are continually adapting to us, as we simultaneously, and more subtly, adapt to them. Every wave of technological innovation leaves human existence more closely intertwined with media of documentation and communication. A central question forms
Advancement of Public Action

Media Technology and Social Change — APA2203.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: erika mijlin
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
From the print revolution to the birth of photography, from moving images to social networking, we find that new media technologies are continually adapting to us, as we simultaneously, and more subtly, adapt to them. Every wave of technological innovation leaves human existence more closely intertwined with media of documentation and communication. A central question forms
CAPA Visual Arts

Media, Technology and Social Change — APA2203.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Erika Mijlin
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
From the print revolution to the birth of photography, from moving images to social networking, we find that new media technologies are continually adapting to us, as we simultaneously, and more subtly, adapt to them. Every wave of technological innovation leaves human existence more closely intertwined with media of documentation and communication. A central question forms
CAPA

Mediated Movement: Camera and the Body in Hybrid Performance — FV4239.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Kate Purdie and Elena Demyanenko
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This hands-on course will explore and analyze the creative choices available and practical tools needed when we instigate a relationship between camera and movement, filmmaker and performer. We will develop common language, scores, and systems in an environment where perspectives of both performer and filmmaker are in conversation. Throughout, we will share and
Dance Visual Arts

Mediation and Negotiation — MOD2110.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Daniel Michaelson
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1
This module includes a twelve-hour training in Mediation and Negotiation skills. Mediation is a facilitated process where a third neutral party helps disputants with conflicting interests negotiate an agreement. The process of Mediation can be used in a range of conflicts such as family, roommate, sports, business, environmental, and international. Capacities such as active
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Mediation and Negotiation — MOD2110.02

Fall 2013
Instructor: Daniel Michaelson
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1
This module includes a twelve-hour training in Mediation and Negotiation skills. Mediation is a facilitated process where a third neutral party helps disputants with conflicting interests negotiate an agreement. The process of Mediation can be used in a range of conflicts such as family, roommate, sports, business, environmental, and international. Capacities such as active
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Medicinal Chemistry — CHE4130.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: janet foley
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
The action of drugs and their mechanisms are of immense importance to people interested in health care. In this tutorial we will examine basic mechanisms of drugs, side effects, clinical trials, and evaluation of efficacy. Students will direct the study by choosing drugs to investigate and by presenting information identifying what they need to know to understand how the drug
Science Mathematics and Computing

Medicinal Chemistry — CHE4130.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Janet Foley
Credits: 2
The action of drugs and their mechanisms are of immense importance to people interested in health care. In this class we will examine basic mechanisms of drugs, side effects, clinical trials, and evaluation of efficacy. Students will direct the study by choosing drugs to investigate and by presenting information identifying what they need to know to understand how the drug
Science and Mathematics

Medieval and Early Modern Female Visionary Writers — LIT2569.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
In this seminar, we’ll read an assortment of Medieval and Early Modern female visionary writers alongside contemporary writers that they inspired. Primary readings will include Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648-1695), writer, nun, and polymath in colonial Mexico and poet Eileen Myles (1949- ), who wrote a play inspired by her life; Margery Kempe (1373-1438) and Margery Kempe
Literature

Medieval Britain and Shakespeare's History Plays — LIT2317.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Annabel Davis-Goff; Carol Pal
Credits: 4
Shakespeare wrote his history plays for an audience living in a newly nationalistic England. It was a realm constructing the idea of Britain as the natural inheritor of Roman glory. But what, precisely, was this new "British" identity? In this course, we will follow the construction of British identity in history and literature. We will study the history of Britain from the
Social Science Literature

Medieval Masculinities — HIS2158.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Stephen Higa
Credits: 4
In an age of knights in shining armor, celibate monks, and lovesick troubadours, what did it mean to be a man? In this course, we will investigate medieval constructions of gender (the roots of our modern Western gender systems) by exploring male privilege, male virtues, male desires, male relationships, and male bodies—sacred, profane, and queer. Students will be expected to
Social Science

Medieval Ritual — MHI4132.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Stephen Higa
Credits: 4
Music always has its context.  Sacred music would not “work” unless buttressed and enhanced by other sacred sounds as well as sacred sights, tastes, smells, places, gestures, texts, and objects.  In this course, we will place Christian music in its context by examining the various ritual, performative, sensual, interpretive, literary, and theological experiences that
Music

Medieval Travelers on the Silk Road — HIS4116.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Carol Pal
Credits: 4
In this course, we examine six moments of intellectual encounter between "east" and "west" along the storied route of the Silk Road. These encounters spanned a millennium, from the fifth century BCE to the fourteenth century. We will be reading primary sources written by these scholar-travelers – Herodotus, Xuan Zang, Al-Biruni, Marco Polo, Ibn Battuta, and Sir John Mandeville
Society Culture and Thought

Meditation Among Us — APA2193.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Dor Ben-Amotz
Days & Time: TH 10:00am-11:50am
Credits: 2

In this class we will explore the practice of meditation as a physical and mental training exercise. In class meditation and discussion, as well as outside reading and writing assignments, will explore Eastern and Western persepctives on ourselves and the world. Discussions will focus on the relationship between meditation, Buddhist philosophy and scientific

Advancement of Public Action

Meet Your Enemy: The Psychology of Generational Cohorts — PSY2237.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: David Anderegg
Credits: 4
In American popular culture, generalizations are rampant about how people in different generations think, behave, or consume. In this course we will look at some of that literature, but also look at generational cohorts in psychology research: what are the promises and pitfalls of research which claims that historical lived experience makes a significant and robust difference
Society Culture and Thought

Meisner Technique — DRA4268.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Jennifer Rohn
Credits: 4
“If you are really doing it, you don’t have time to watch yourself doing it.” Sanford Meisner was an actor and founding member of the Group Theater. He went on to become a master teacher of acting who sought to give students an organized approach to the creation of truthful behavior on stage within the imaginary circumstances of a play. This class focuses on developing an actor
Drama

Meisner Technique — DRA4268.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Jenny Rohn
Credits: 4
"If you are really doing it, you don't have time to watch yourself doing it." Sanford Meisner was an actor and founding member of the Group Theater. He went on to become a Master Teacher of Acting who sought to give students an organized approach to the creation of truthful behavior on stage within the imaginary circumstances of a play. The class focuses on developing an actor
Drama

Meisner Technique — DRA4268.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Jennifer Rohn
Credits: 4
“If you are really doing it, you don’t have time to watch yourself doing it.” Sanford Meisner was an actor and founding member of the Group Theater. He went on to become a master teacher of acting who sought to give students an organized approach to the creation of truthful behavior on stage within the imaginary circumstances of a play. This class focuses on developing an actor
Drama