All Courses

Course System Home All Areas of Study

Select Filters and then click Apply to load new results

Term
Time & Day Offered
Level
Credits
Course Duration

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 — FRE4498.01

Spring 2027
Instructor: Stephen Shapiro
Days & Time: MO,TH 10:00am-11:50am
Credits: 4

In this 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 urban planning and design as well the question of how urban communities and city dwellers react to increasing disconnectedness, anonymity, and solitude.

French

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 — 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 — 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 — 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 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

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 — 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 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

Participating in the Archive — DAN2138.02) (cancelled

Spring 2020
Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
Credits: 2
In this project-based course, we will collectively engage creative documentation, written, discursive and embodied practices in the production of an online zine and podcast in order to explore the challenges of documenting dance processes, live performance, and the creative communities that gather around these practices. Attuning ourselves to the ephemera that surround and
Dance

Participation in a Democracy: What Can I Do to Make a Difference? — POP2351.02

Spring 2020
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati and Brian Campion
Credits: 1
According to Larry Diamond in his lecture on "What is Democracy?" Democracy consists of four basic elements: 1. A political system for choosing and replacing the government through free and fair elections. 2. The active participation of the people, as citizens, in politics and civic life. 3. Protection of the human rights of all citizens. 4. A rule of law, in which the laws
CAPA

Partnering Projects — DAN4242.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Terry Creach
Credits: 2
For those with some prior dance training and a particular interest in the weight-oriented physicality of partnering. We will develop partnering skills through interactive exercises that involve weight sharing, cause-and-effect interactions, momentum and timing. Students will be expected to create partnering work collaboratively and develop material to be performed informally at
Dance

Partnering Projects — DAN4242.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Terry Creach
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
For those with some prior dance training and a particular interest in the weight-oriented physicality of partnering.  We will develop based partnering skills by creating collaborative compositions that involved weight sharing, cause-and-effect interactions, momentum and timing.  We will work to develop material to be performed informally at the end of the term.
Dance

Pathways: An Introduction to Writing — LIT2110.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Wayne Hoffmann-Ogier
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Beginning writers will explore the steps of the writing process as a path for discovery and communication. Weekly papers explore several modes of writing, including description, nonfiction narrative, and both analytical and argumentative essays. The course primarily emphasizes the art of essay construction by focusing on rhetorical patterns, by introducing research techniques,
Literature

Pathways: An Introduction to Writing — LIT2110.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: wayne hoffmann-ogier
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Beginning writers will explore the steps of the writing process as a path for discovery and communication. Weekly papers explore several modes of writing, including description, nonfiction narrative, and both analytical and argumentative essays. The course primarily emphasizes the art of essay construction by focusing on rhetorical patterns, by introducing research techniques,
Literature

Pathways: An Introduction to Writing Essays — LIT2393.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Wayne Hoffmann-Ogier
Credits: 4
Beginning writers will explore the steps of the writing process as a path for discovery and communication. Weekly papers explore several modes of writing, including description, nonfiction narrative, and both analytical and argumentative essays. The course primarily emphasizes the art of essay construction by focusing on rhetorical patterns, by introducing research techniques,
Literature

Pathways: An Introduction To Writing Essays — LIT2393.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Wayne Hoffmann-Ogier
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Beginning writers will explore the steps of the writing process as a path for discovery and communication. Weekly papers explore several modes of writing, including description, nonfiction narrative, and both analytical and argumentative essays. The course primarily emphasizes the art of essay construction by focusing on rhetorical patterns, by introducing research techniques,
Literature

Patrick J. Leahy Public Policy Forum: Saving Democracy Together — APA2154.01

Fall 2026
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Days & Time: Th 7:00PM-8:50PM
Credits: 2

Almost a century ago, Franklin D. Roosevelt alerted Americans to the impending global conflict pitting democracies founded on individual liberty against rising fascist dictatorships pursuing “final solutions.” Drawing inspiration from John Dewey’s progressive philosophy, FDR emphasized, ""In this conflict the part which education plays in each ideology is crucial. Democracy

Advancement of Public Action

Patternmaking and Garment Construction — DRA4119.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Richard MacPike
Credits: 2
This course is designed to teach the student the many steps involved in creating a finished garment from a simple idea, piece of research or sketch. Students will learn the basics of draping, flat patterning, and fitting. Construction of final garment will allow them to explore and employ sewing skills beyond the fundamentals.
Dance Drama