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Preparing for Field Work in Public Action — CANCELLED

Fall 2015
Instructor: Erika Mijlin
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1
This module is designed for Seniors who are preparing to do Field Work related to public action. Seniors working on public action projects are especially encouraged to enroll. As a group, we will discuss and workshop strategies for: clarifying project purpose and goals; connecting this FWT with your Plan; researching and understanding the organizations or groups you will be
CAPA Modules: Transferable Approaches

Presentation of Statistics — MAT2246.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Josef Mundt
Credits: 4
Data can come to us in many forms: tables, charts, graphs, observations, experimental results, and other less formal avenues. To best understand the world around us, we must be able to take that data, answer questions, and then convey those answers to others in a clear, concise manner. This course will show different methods for presenting statistical data to others as well as
Science and Mathematics

Presentation of Statistics — MAT2246.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Andrew McIntyre
Credits: 4
Data can come to us in many forms: tables, charts, graphs, observations, experimental results, and other less formal avenues. To best understand the world around us, we must be able to take that data, answer questions, and then convey those answers to others in a clear, concise manner. This course will show different methods for presenting statistical data to others as well as
Science and Mathematics

Presentation of Statistics — MAT2246.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Josef Mundt
Credits: 4
Data can come to us in many forms: tables, charts, graphs, observations, experimental results, and other less formal avenues. To best understand the world around us, we must be able to take that data, answer questions, and then convey those answers to others in a clear, concise manner. This course will show different methods for presenting statistical data to others as well
Science and Mathematics

Presentation of Statistics — MAT2246.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Andrew McIntyre
Credits: 4
Data can come to us in many forms: tables, charts, graphs, observations, experimental results, and other less formal avenues. To best understand the world around us, we must be able to take that data, answer questions, and then convey those answers to others in a clear, concise manner. This course will show different methods for presenting statistical data to others as well as
Science and Mathematics

Presentation of Statistics — MAT2246.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Andrew McIntyre
Credits: 4
Data can come to us in many forms: tables, charts, graphs, observations, experimental results, and other less formal avenues. To best understand the world around us, we must be able to take that data, answer questions, and then convey those answers to others in a clear, concise manner. This course will show different methods for presenting statistical data to others as well as
Science and Mathematics

Pretty Lies, Ugly Truths, and Deep Fakes: An Introduction to Oil Painting — PAI2109.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: J Blackwell
Credits: 4
Fake news, reality television, “IRL” - asserting the veracity of our perceptions is a constant preoccupation in contemporary culture. What is real? Realism is a widely used term with multiple connotations: verisimilitude, authenticity, objectivity, truth, fact. In this course we will consider how painting reflects and/or perverts “reality” by making imitations of historical
Visual Arts

Pretty Lies, Ugly Truths, and Deep Fakes: An Introduction to Oil Painting — PAI2109.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: J Blackwell
Credits: 4
Fake news, reality television, “IRL” - asserting the veracity of our perceptions is a constant preoccupation in contemporary culture. What is real? Realism is a widely used term with multiple connotations: verisimilitude, authenticity, objectivity, truth, fact. In this course we will consider how painting reflects and/or perverts “reality” by making imitations of historical
Visual Arts

Price Theory — PEC2218.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Lopamudra Banerjee
Credits: 4
A central element of the “economic problem” is coordination of people’s economic actions. In a market economy, prices play a crucial role in addressing this problem. This course examines how the system of prices works, and when it fails. This is an introductory course in microeconomic theory and applications, designed for students in their first and second years of college. We
Society Culture and Thought

Price Theory — PEC2218.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Lopamudra Banerjee
Credits: 4
A central element of the “economic problem” is scarcity. In a market economy, prices play a crucial role in addressing this problem. This course examines how the system of prices work. This is an introductory course in microeconomic theory and applications. We will explore the basic ideas in the course verbally and through written expositions, and we will use graphs and
Society Culture and Thought

Price Theory — PEC2218.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Lopamudra Banerjee
Credits: 4
Price is the terms on which goods are bought and sold in a market. We often calculate prices in terms of the money we pay when we buy goods. But, for economists, prices are the relative value of goods. And, as Oscar Wilde pointed out in 1890: "Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing." Now, how do the relative values of goods get translated into
Society Culture and Thought

Price Theory — PEC2218.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Lopamudra Banerjee
Credits: 4
A central element of the “economic problem” is coordination of people's economic actions. In a market economy, prices play a crucial role in addressing this problem. This course examines how the system of prices work, and when it fails. This is an introductory course in microeconomic theory and applications. We will explore the basic ideas in the course verbally and through
Society Culture and Thought

Prima dell'_Amica geniale_: Elena Ferrante's Short Novels — ITA4613.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Barbara Alfano
Credits: 4
Elena Ferrante's novels are all written in the first-person. The narrator of her stories and their fictitious author weave a fabric in which they purposely overlap, suggest non-existent biographical references, lie to tell some truth, and ultimately consign to the reader a particular authorial profile as much as unforgettable female protagonists. This course explores the
Cultural Studies and Languages Literature

Print and Process — PHO4246.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: May Hemler
Credits: 2
The focus of this course is preparing digital files for large inkjet printing. Starting with capture, students will learn how to make images with the intention of printing them larger than 20 inches. Students may work with analog negatives or digital RAW files and will learn how to properly scan and import. Students will learn how to appropriately organize and catalog their
Visual Arts

Print Assemblage — PRI4115.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Jesse Connor
Credits: 4
Print Assemblage is a course that explores printmaking as a base medium/material for a variety of mixed media projects. Students will bring to class various levels of printmaking experience, and be challenged to look beyond a traditional approach to printmaking.Demonstrations will be given in intaglio, monotype, woodcut along with variety of bonding and coating methods that
Visual Arts

Printing with Purpose — PHO2461.02

Spring 2021
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 1
Throughout this course students will learn how to use the Epson 3880 and P800 printers to create high quality prints from their existing digital image files. Using adjustment layers in Photoshop, students will focus on color correcting, sharpening, and modifying curves in their images. While getting familiar with preparing their files for printing, students will also
Visual Arts

Printing with Purpose — PHO2461.02

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
Throughout this course students will learn how to use the Epson 3880 and P800 printers to create high quality prints from their existing digital image files. Using adjustment layers in Photoshop, students will focus on color correcting, sharpening, and modifying curves in their images. While getting familiar with preparing their files for printing, students will also
Visual Arts

Prints into Books — PRI4216.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Thorsten Dennerline
Credits: 4
This advanced level course combines printmaking and bookmaking. We will explore techniques such as relief printing, pressure printing, monotype, and collograph, integrating our prints into a variety of book structures. For the first 7 weeks, we will work in the Word Image lab using Vandercook proofing presses, and also in the printmaking studio located in VAPA. Students
Visual Arts

Probability — MAT4287.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Andrew McIntyre
Credits: 4
This first course in probability will take a classical approach, following the classic text by Will Feller, An Introduction to Probability Theory and its Applications. In particular, the topics will include: combinatorial analysis; combination of events, conditional probabilities, and independence; analysis of fluctuation; standard probability distributions (including binomial,
Science and Mathematics

Probability and Bayesian Statistics — MAT4221.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Katie Montovan
Credits: 4
This course will provide a theoretically rigorous introduction to Bayesian Statistics. We will begin with concepts from probability, build to the Bayesian theory, and apply what we learn to analyze common types of data using the computer program R. The Bayesian approach to data analysis will be compared with the more commonly-taught Frequentist approaches and students. Students
Science and Mathematics

Problems of Knowledge — PHI2164.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Paul Voice
Days & Time: MO,TH 10:00am-11:50am
Credits: 2

This course is an introduction to the theory of knowledge in the analytical tradition. We will engage with topics such as skepticism about the external world, the nature of belief, truth, and justification, as well as foundationalism and coherentism,, internalism versus externalism, along with other topics.

Philosophy

Problems of Political Development — POL4255.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Rotimi Suberu
Credits: 4
Many polities in the world today, particularly in the global South, lack durable, legitimate and effective political institutions and governmental systems. These countries are in the throes of wrenching political transitions and crises that compound weak governance institutions with economic malaise, social polarization, cultural‐territorial fragmentation and/or state
Society Culture and Thought

Problems of Political Development — POL4255.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Rotimi Suberu
Credits: 4
Unlike the more stable democracies of Western Europe and North America, many countries of the developing world lack durable, legitimate and effective political institutions or governmental systems. These countries are in the throes of wrenching political transitions and crises that compound weak political institutions with economic malaise, social polarization and/or cultural
Society Culture and Thought