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Painterly Painters Portraiture — AH4122.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Vanessa Lyon
Credits: 2
According to art historical tradition, “painterly painters” are those whose work exhibits a gestural, often loose, facture that makes the viewer conscious of its painted quality through visible brushwork, inchoate, haptic, blotches and sometimes, heavy impasto. Portraits, like painterly painting, are thought to be largely concerned with fixing or situating individuality,
Visual Arts

Painters and Fashion — DRA2261.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
This is a fashion history class inspired by the exhibition “Fashioned by Sargent” at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. We will be examining the works of various artists and how they were inspired by and influenced the world of fashionable dress. Some of the questions we may explore include: How did the artist alter the original garment? How did the artist’s work influence the
Drama

Painting in Context — PAI2110.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Andrew Spence
Credits: 4
There are many reasons Painting continues to be relevant over the long course of its history. This history and its consequential styles are the focus for art making and discussion in this class. Students develop their own visual thinking in the context of specific periods in Painting. Weekly projects and reading assignments, group critiques and other art related discussions
Visual Arts

Painting Practice — PAI4214.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Ann Pibal
Credits: 4
This course will provide the student a broad platform from which to continue investigations in painting. Emphasis will be placed on cultivating research and conceptual concerns as well as the continued development of an understanding of materials, color, form, and space. Students will look to examples of twentieth and twenty-first century artists and their studio practices to
Visual Arts

Painting Studio — PAI4204.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Ann Pibal
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course will provide the student a broad platform from which to continue investigations in painting. Emphasis will be placed on cultivating individual research and conceptual concerns as well as the continued development of an understanding of color, form, and space. The daily experience of looking, along with the history of art will provide a base from which investigations
Visual Arts

Painting Studio — PAI4204.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Ann Pibal
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course will provide the student a broad platform from which to continue investigations in painting. Emphasis will be placed on cultivating individual research and conceptual concerns as well as the continued development of an understanding of color, form, and space. The daily experience of looking, along with the history of art will provide a base from which investigations
Visual Arts

Painting Studio: Visual Inquiry in Context — PAI4220.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Ann Pibal
Days & Time: TU 2:10pm-5:50pm
Credits: 4

This intermediate level painting course will take as its platform the investigation of writing by artists about art and artists. While developing their own self-defined studio practices, students will engage with primary documents of art history - artists' essays, letters and sketchbooks. Students will work to establish a sense

Painting

Painting the Extended Field — PAI4303.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Melissa Thorne
Credits: 4
This course takes its name from a pivotal painting exhibition held in Sweden in 1997.  In this show, the curators attempted to question the parameters of Painting, and to track “Painterly” qualities in other media.  Since at least the mid-20th Century, artists have experimented with an elastic definition of painting -- as a form that can be sculptural,
Visual Arts

Pakistani Fiction — LIT4269.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Brooke Allen
Credits: 4
The literature of the Indian subcontinent has a rich and ancient history. The violent partition of India in 1947 and the birth of the new nation of Pakistan saw a new national consciousness and literature emerge. In this class we will read the work of a variety of Pakistani writers. Authors considered will probably include, but might not be limited to, Jamil Ahmad, Fatima
Literature

Papermaking with Plants — SCU2304.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
Papermaking is an ancient, traditional craft with a history that reflects our fundamental humanity. It is a process that simultaneously relies on and reveals the nature of plants and place. Papermaking With Plants engages with the materiality of both paper and plants through observation, hands-on making, inquiry, research, and design. Through this exploration, we will acquire
Visual Arts

Papermaking With Plants — SCU2304.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Lily Carone
Credits: 4
Papermaking is an ancient, traditional craft with a history that reflects our fundamental humanity. It is a process that simultaneously relies on and reveals the nature of plants and place. Papermaking With Plants engages with the materiality of both paper and plants through observation, hands-on making, inquiry, research, and design. Through this exploration, we will acquire
Visual Arts

Paris noir — FRE4802.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Maboula Soumahoro
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4

Because of its location in the Atlantic world, Paris occupies a specific place within the African Diaspora and Africana studies. The course is an invitation to reflect upon the widely accepted imagination developed around the City of Lights: a space of ancient and refined cultural, intellectual, artistic, and culinary traditions. However, seeking to go

Languages

Paris on Screen — FRE4498.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Stephen Shapiro
Credits: 4
In this intermediate-low level course, we will study the representation of the city of Paris on film in order to examine modernityʹs challenges to tradition. In particular, we will focus on the question of how urban communities and city dwellers react to increasing disconnectedness, anonymity, and solitude. We will also examine contemporary urban planning and the repercussions
Cultural Studies and Languages

Paris on Screen : Tradition and Modernity — FRE4117.02; section 2

Fall 2015
Instructor: Stephen Shapiro
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
In this intermediate-low level course, we will study the representation of the city of Paris on film in order to examine modernityʹs challenges to tradition. In particular, we will focus on the question of how urban communities and city dwellers react to increasing disconnectedness, anonymity, and solitude. Films will include Tanguy, La Haine, Chacun cherche son
Languages

Paris on Screen : Tradition and Modernity — FRE4117.01; section 1

Fall 2015
Instructor: Stephen Shapiro
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
In this intermediate-low level course, we will study the representation of the city of Paris on film in order to examine modernityʹs challenges to tradition. In particular, we will focus on the question of how urban communities and city dwellers react to increasing disconnectedness, anonymity, and solitude. Films will include Tanguy, La Haine, Chacun cherche son chat, Paris,
Languages

Paris on Screen Tradition and Modernity — FRE4498.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Stephen Shapiro
Credits: 4
In this intermediate-low level course, we will study the representation of the city of Paris on film in order to examine modernityʹs challenges to tradition. In particular, we will focus on the question of how urban communities and city dwellers react to increasing disconnectedness, anonymity, and solitude. Films may include Tanguy, La Haine, Chacun cherche son chat, Paris,
Cultural Studies and Languages

Paris on Screen: Tradition and Modernity — FRE4117.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Stephen Shapiro
Credits: 4
In this course, we will study the representation of the city of Paris on film in order to examine modernity's challenges to tradition. In particular, we will focus on the question of how urban communities and city dwellers react to increasing disconnectedness, anonymity, and solitude. Films will include Le Fabuleux destin d'Amelie Poulain, La Haine, Chacun cherche son chat
Languages

Paris on Screen: Tradition and Modernity — FRE4498.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Stephen Shapiro
Credits: 4
In this intermediate-low level course, we will study the representation of the city of Paris on film in order to examine modernityʹs challenges to tradition. In particular, we will focus on the question of how urban communities and city dwellers react to increasing disconnectedness, anonymity, and solitude. Films may include Tanguy, La Haine, Chacun cherche son chat, Paris
Languages

Paris on Screen: Tradition and Modernity — FRE4498.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Stephen Shapiro
Credits: 4
In this intermediate-low level course, we will study the representation of the city of Paris on film in order to examine modernityʹs challenges to tradition. In particular, we will focus on the question of how urban communities and city dwellers react to increasing disconnectedness, anonymity, and solitude. Films may include Tanguy, La Haine, Chacun cherche son chat, Paris,
Languages

Paris on Screen: Tradition and Modernity — FRE4498.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Stephen Shapiro
Credits: 4
In this intermediate-low level course, we will study the representation of the city of Paris on film in order to examine modernityʹs challenges to tradition. In particular, we will focus on the question of how urban communities and city dwellers react to increasing disconnectedness, anonymity, and solitude. We will also examine contemporary urban planning and the repercussions
Cultural Studies and Languages

Paris on Screen: Tradition and Modernity — FRE4498.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Stephen Shapiro
Credits: 4
In this intermediate-low level course, we will study the representation of the city of Paris on film in order to examine modernityʹs challenges to tradition. In particular, we will focus on the question of how urban communities and city dwellers react to increasing disconnectedness, anonymity, and solitude. Films may include Tanguy, La Haine, Chacun cherche son chat, Paris,
Cultural Studies and Languages

Paris to Ars Nova — MTH4104.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Kitty Brazelton
Credits: 4
Begin with the Notre Dame School composers in Paris at the end of the 12th century. Construct a narrative for the shape of musical thought as it progresses into the ornate musical experimentation of the French Ars Nova in the late 1400s. Study (and sing!) works by Pérotin and teacher Léonin, then compare our findings to the more contemporaneous theories of the prolific monk
Society Culture and Thought Music

Partial Differential Equations and Fourier Series — MAT4134.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Andrew McIntyre
Credits: 4
Many of the laws of physics and engineering may be expressed in terms of partial differential equations. These include the laws of heat conduction, wave motion, electromagnetism, fluid mechanics, quantum mechanics, and statics. This course will cover these key linear partial differential equations and the methods of solution through Fourier series. Fourier series are also of
Science and Mathematics

Participating in Politics: The Anthropology of Democracy — ANT2204.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Noah Coburn
Credits: 4
This course challenges students to think beyond basic institutional definitions of democracy. It will provide an introduction to some basic anthropological tools that approach political systems more holistically through participant-observation research, studying the ways in which people experience concepts such as civil society. By looking at a series of non-Western political
Social Science CAPA