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Metal Workshop Part II — SCU4110.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: John Umphlett
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
For the second seven weeks we will develop skills in working with equipment that lends itself to non- ferrous metals, other exotic alloys, and stainless steel. We will gain knowledge of GTAW welding in the areas of direct current electrode negative (DCEN), direct current electrode positive (DCEP), and also AC welding. With new technologies we are able to adjust the output
Visual Arts

Metamorphoses: Borders and Beyond — Devising Multicultural Theater — DRA2165.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Jean Randich
Credits: 4
This course on devised theater is aimed at students who have experienced living in more than one culture and are interested in creating a multilingual theater piece inspired by their own experiences of crossing cultures, sensing boundaries, and the role of transformation. We will read selections from contemporary writers, such as Marjane Satrapi, Gloria Anzaldua, and Kapka
Drama

Methods and Analysis in Sociophonetics — LIN4105.02

Spring 2020
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
Through this course, students will develop practical and theoretical familiarity with the essential “toolkit” of sociophonetic methods and analytical techniques, including but not limited to: principles of experimental design, ethical field practice, acoustic analysis, and statistical techniques in language research.  Students will refine and advance these skills via their
Society Culture and Thought

Metric Spaces and Geometry — MAT4162.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Andrew McIntyre
Days & Time: TU,FR 8:30am-10:20am
Credits: 4

Everything is geometry! This class is about two things: first, about how mathematicians have extended the concept of "geometry" beyond triangles and circles, into higher-dimensional spaces, curved spaces, spaces of functions, discrete spaces, and more. Second, about how this extension of "geometry" can allow us to apply our powerful geometric intuition to a wide range of

Mathematics Computer Science

Metrics of Prosperity II: Labor Markets — PEC2280.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Emma Kast
Credits: 4
This course introduces students to econometric approaches to asking and answering questions about the economy, with a specific focus on labor markets. The primary aim of the course is to understand how economists analyze data to determine causal effect. We will analyze data sets to explore socioeconomic questions centered around labor such as: What factors affect a person’s
Society Culture and Thought

Metrics of Prosperity: Data Analysis for Health, Well-being, and the Economy — PEC2108.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Emma Kast
Credits: 4
This course introduces students to econometric approaches to asking and answering questions about health, well-being, and the economy. The primary aim of the course is to understand how economists analyze data to determine causal effect. We will analyze data sets to ask and answer socioeconomic questions such as: What factors affect a person’s income, and how do we know? How
Society Culture and Thought

Microeconomics — PEC2250.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Robin Kemkes
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Economics is the study of how individuals and societies allocate scarce resources – labor, natural resources, capital – toward competing ends to sustain life and enhance its quality. This course develops the basic tools of microeconomic analysis and advances critical thinking around the dominant neoclassical approach to economic problem solving. We begin with a comparison of
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Middle Eastern Diasporic Experience in Theatre and Cinema — APA2155.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Burcu Seyben
Credits: 4
This course will focus on the plays, films, playwrights, directors and theatre companies exploring the diasporic experience of the recent Middle Eastern migrants. The course will explore how Middle Eastern Diaspora Theatre responds to the recent political climate, the conflict and wars in the Middle East. The course will look at the works of those artists who have left their
CAPA

Middle Eastern Ensemble — MPF4358.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
This ensemble will introduce students to playing the music of the Middle East and neighboring areas. Students will learn a diverse repertoire of traditional urban, village, and popular music drawn from Arabic, Armenian, Greek, Hebrew, Kurdish, Ladino, Persian, Turkish, and other ethno-linguistic backgrounds. We will also study music by artists who have successfully blended
Music

Middle Eastern Ensemble — MPF4358.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Joseph Alpar
Credits: 2
This ensemble will introduce students to playing the music of the Middle East and neighboring areas. Students will learn a diverse repertoire of traditional urban, village, and popular music drawn from Arabic, Armenian, Greek, Hebrew, Kurdish, Ladino, Persian, Turkish, and other ethno-linguistic backgrounds. We will also study music by artists who have successfully blended
Music

Migration and Migrants in Theatre, Film, and Documentaries — DRA2175.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Burcu Seyben
Credits: 4
Migration and migrants have been explored extensively in theatre, film and documentaries. The Immigrants’ Theatre Project by NYC-ARTS in New York, Royal Court Theatre in London, and Gorki Theatre in Berlin are some of the theatre companies that especially help immigrant playwrights to develop works about the experience of migration. Ariane Mnouchkine, Robert Lepage and Rimini
CAPA Drama

Migration, Diaspora and Exile: New Voices in the Literature of Global Dislocation — LIT2286.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Benjamin Anastas
Credits: 4
The recent mass migrations of people due to armed conflict, the globalized economy, the fall of the colonial world order and climate change have unsettled political establishments throughout the West and set of waves of pro-nationalist and anti-immigrant protests. In literature, however, the voices of the dispossessed have arguably never been stronger or more influential. This
CAPA Literature

Migration, Identity, Belonging — PSY4379.01

Fall 2020
Instructor:
Credits: 4
How are refugees, asylum-seekers, and immigrants different? What are the reasons people migrate? What creates the conditions for illegality? Why are people being deported? What does integration mean and who is integrated? In this course, we will follow a migrant-centered approach in investigating macro (e.g., institutional), meso (e.g., intergroup) and micro level (e.g.,
Society Culture and Thought

Miles Davis (1926-1991): Jazz Pioneer — MHI2226.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Bruce Williamson
Credits: 4
This course will study the 40‐year career of legendary jazz trumpeter and innovative band leader Miles Davis. We will examine his beginnings in the Be‐Bop movement as a sideman with Charlie Parker, his two famous quintets (one with John Coltrane and Cannonball Adderley, the other with Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock), his collaborations with arranger Gil Evans, and his
Music

Miles Davis (1926-1991): Jazz Pioneer — MHI2226.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Bruce Williamson
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course will study the 40‐year career of legendary jazz trumpeter and innovative band leader Miles Davis. We will examine his beginnings in the Be‐Bop movement as a sideman with Charlie Parker, his two famous quintets (one with John Coltrane and Cannonball Adderley, the other with Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock), his collaborations with arranger Gil Evans, and his
Music

Miles Runs the Voodoo Down: Rock Drumming through a Jazz Lens — MIN2260.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Brian Chase
Credits: 4
Using the classic Miles Davis track as a reference point, this performance based course will focus on the jazz tradition as establishing the foundation for contemporary drumming styles, particularly that of rock, as well as rhythm-and-blues and modern jazz.  Class time will be organized into two main emphases, that of drumming technique and method, and that of drumming
Music

Mindfulness Drawing: Meditation and the Art of Observation — DRW2116.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: J Blackwell
Credits: 2
This course explores mindfulness as both a practice and integral part of the art making process. Using drawing as a form of meditation, we will also look at artists and art movements that embrace meditation as a mark-making medium. Through in-class meditation, studio work, and discussion, students will be introduced to ideas and practical hands on techniques which will
Visual Arts

Minds and Machines — PHI2138.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Kimberly Van Orman
Credits: 4
This course will introduce some key ideas from the philosophy of mind and focus on how they can help us understand the nature of minds and conscious experience.  Topics will include: animal minds, persons, artificial intelligence, free will, perception and conscious experience. Questions we will focus on include: What is the relationship between our mind and body, and what
Society Culture and Thought

Minimalism — MTH4210.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
Credits: 2
An advanced seminar in analyzing the diverse streams of musical minimalism. We’ll look at minimalism’s conceptual roots in the 1960s, and trace influences from the visual arts, as well as early works of Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Fluxus, Cage, and the Scratch Orchestra. The seminar will combine on‐the‐score and aural analysis and contrast open score, aurally taught, and
Music

Minimalism — MTH4210.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
Credits: 2
An advanced seminar in analyzing the diverse streams of musical minimalism. We’ll look at minimalism’s conceptual roots in the 1960s, and trace influences from the visual arts and dance, as well as early works of Reich, Glass, Fluxus, Eastman, and the Scratch Orchestra. The seminar will combine on‐the‐score and aural analysis and contrast open score, aurally taught, and
Music

Mixed Media in Ceramics — CER4270.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Barry Bartlett
Credits: 4
This class will investigate the nature of combing non-ceramic materials with the medium. Student's will be appropriating objects from a diverse array of sources such as antique and hobby stores, outdoor sculpture and garden centers, souvenir shops, etc. and either translating them into ceramic forms or integrating them with fabricated forms. Using this combined arrangement
Visual Arts

Mixing Techniques — MSR4110.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Senem Pirler
Credits: 2
In this course, we will explore various mixing objectives and techniques through critical listening sessions, analysis, and hands-on projects. We will focus on the fundamentals of mixing, shaping the sounds through dynamic range processors and modulation tools, and various other techniques. Students will have an opportunity to practice their mixing skills through multitracks,
Music

Mobility and Circulation — ANT2206.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Eileen Scully
Credits: 4
Moving and circulating through local, national, and global space—whether for economic opportunity, military conquest, pilgrimage, tourism, or otherwise—has long been one of humanity’s great preoccupations. Human mobility at once represents a source of liberation for people seeking a new life, a challenge to governments looking to control and monitor their
Society Culture and Thought