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Planet Earth — ES2108.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Chelsea Corr
Credits: 4
In 1972, the crew aboard the Apollo 17 spacecraft captured what would become one of the most widely used photos of all time: an image of Earth as seen from 45,000 km above.  From this view, it was apparent that our home planet is a complex system consisting of a web of interconnected biological, chemical, and physical components. We will explore the physical aspects of
Science and Mathematics Environment

Plant Diversity and Ecology — BIO2240.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Kerry Woods
Credits: 4
Plants define the biological environment. All other organisms depend on plantsʹ capacity for photosynthesis. Plant structure and chemistry have shaped animal (including human) evolution, and we directly depend on plant products for food, medicine, structural materials, and many other things. Yet few people can name even the dominant plants in their environment, explain what
Science and Mathematics Environment

Plant Diversity and Ecology — BIO2240.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Kerry Woods
Credits: 4
Plants define the biological environment. All other organisms depend on plantsʹ capacity for photosynthesis. Plant structure and chemistry have shaped animal (including human) evolution, and we directly depend on plant products for food, medicine, structural materials, and many other things. Yet few people can name even the dominant plants in their environment, explain what
Science and Mathematics Environment

Plant Ecology and Floristics — BIO4112.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Kerry Woods
Credits: 4
An intensive quantitative and field-based study of local plants and plant communities.   Work will include intensive documentation of local natural areas with intensive field-work involving plant identification, community sampling, and environmental measurement/description.  In addition, there will be opportunity to learn and apply tools like dendrochronology
Science and Mathematics Environment

Plaster Working — SCU2127.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: John Umphlett
Credits: 2
This seven week intensive class will be focused on understanding some basic methods for working with plaster. We will take a look at variety of gypsum products to understand their similarities and differences. Plaster has an amazing way of mimicking life. In this class, we will learn the states at which plaster transforms and use our hands to open our minds to the endless ways
Visual Arts

Plastic Pollution and What Students Can Do About It — APA2176.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Judith Enck
Credits: 2
Plastic pollution is gaining international attention for the damage it is doing to human health, fish and wildlife, the climate, the ocean and communities. This class will explore the dimensions of the problem, the root causes of plastic pollution and the need for innovation. The class will be taught in the Center for the Advancement of Public Action and will have a major focus
CAPA Environment

Plastic Pollution and What You Can Do About It — APA2176.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Judith Enck
Credits: 4
Plastic pollution has emerged as a major environmental, health and economic issue with direct links to climate change. 9 million metric tons of plastic enter the ocean each year. In the next decade, there will be 1 lb of plastic in the ocean for every 3 lbs of fish.  Plastics are made from chemicals and a by-product of fracking. And we can't recycle our way out of this
CAPA Environment

Plastic Pollution: What Can We Do About It? — APA2164.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Judith Enck
Credits: 2
The cover on “National Geographic” had a powerful artist rendering of an ocean iceberg, with a giant plastic bag hidden below the surface of the water. The magazine cover headlined: “Planet or Plastic? 18 billion pounds of plastic ends up in the ocean each year. And that’s just “ the tip of the iceberg.” Take a look at that edition of National Geographic (June 2018). If the
CAPA Environment

Plastic Pollution: What Can We Do About It? — APA2164.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Judith Enck
Credits: 2
The cover on “National Geographic” had a powerful artist rendering of an ocean iceberg, with a giant plastic bag hidden below the surface of the water.  The magazine cover headlined: “Planet or Plastic?  18 billion pounds of plastic ends up in the ocean each year.  And that’s just “ the tip of the iceberg.”   Take a look at that edition of National
CAPA

Plastics and Public Health — APA4254.02) (cancelled 11/12/2024

Spring 2025
Instructor: Megan Wolff
Credits: 1
The world’s population has tripled since the 1950s, but production of plastics has increased over 70-fold in that time. The impact of plastic as litter is undeniable, both in the oceans and on land. But recent findings about the impacts of plastic on human health demonstrate that this is not just a litter problem, it is a health one. As we follow the path of microplastics we
CAPA

Plastics and Public Health — APA4254.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: David Bond
Credits: 1
The world’s population has tripled since the 1950s, but production of plastics has increased over 70-fold in the same period. As litter, plastic now blows on the landscape, swells in the ocean, and kills wildlife seemingly everywhere. But recent findings about the impacts of plastic on human health demonstrate that this is not just a litter problem, but a health one. Plastic,
CAPA

Plastics, Microplastics and Human Health — APA2028.02

Spring 2025
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 1
The world’s population has tripled since the 1950s, but production of plastics has increased over 70-fold in that time. The impact of plastic as litter is undeniable, both in the oceans and on land. But recent findings about the impacts of plastic on human health demonstrate that this is not just a litter problem, it is a health one. As we follow the path of microplastics we
CAPA

Plate Lithography Workshop — PRI2117.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Michael Smoot
Credits: 2
This seven week workshop will cover the basic concepts and techniques for producing lithographic prints using aluminum plates, photo-lithographic plates, and pronto plates. Additionally, students will have the opportunity to explore more experimental techniques like photocopy lithography and aluminum foil lithography. Lithography is a printmaking process that allows for the
Visual Arts

Platform: Projects in Drama — DRA4311.03

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 1
The purpose of this course is to create a platform for students to express themselves through theatrical performance. We are interested in projects that are inclusive and allow for, and celebrate diversity. All applicants must be interested in developing their project while investigating what it means to create a supportive, inclusive community that regularly engages
Drama

Platform: Projects in Drama — DRA4311.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Dina Janis
Credits: 4
The purpose of this course is to create a platform for students to express themselves through theatrical performance. We are interested in projects that are inclusive and allow for, and celebrate diversity. All applicants must be interested in developing their project while investigating what it means to create a supportive, inclusive community that regularly engages in group
Drama

Platform: Projects in Drama — DRA4311.02

Spring 2022
Instructor: Dina Janis
Credits: 2
The purpose of this course is to create a platform for students to express themselves through theatrical performance. We are interested in projects that are inclusive and allow for, and celebrate diversity. All applicants must be interested in developing their project while investigating what it means to create a supportive, inclusive community that regularly engages in group
Drama

Platform: Projects in Drama — DRA4311.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Dina Janis
Credits: 4
The purpose of this course is to create a platform for students to express themselves through theatrical performance. We are interested in projects that are inclusive and allow for and celebrate diversity. All applicants must be interested in developing their project while investigating what it means to create a supportive, inclusive community that regularly engages in group
Drama

Platform: Projects in Drama — DRA4311.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Dina Janis
Credits: 4
The purpose of this course is to create a platform for students to express themselves through theatrical performance. We are interested in projects that are inclusive and allow for, and celebrate diversity. All applicants must be interested in developing their project while investigating what it means to create a supportive, inclusive community that regularly engages in group
Drama

Plato: Middle and Late Dialogues — PHI4257.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Catherine McKeen
Days & Time: TH 1:40pm-5:20pm
Credits: 4

Aristocles (known to us as "Plato") lived and wrote in Athens in the 5th c. BCE. More than 2400 years later, Alfred North Whitehead’s famous remark still resonates: “The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato…the wealth of general ideas scattered through them…have

Philosophy

Plato: Symposium — PHI2163.02

Fall 2025
Instructor: Catherine McKeen
Days & Time: TU,FR 10:30am-12:20pm
Credits: 2

It is 416 BCE. A group of Athenian men are gathered together for a party, a celebration, a symposium. Among the company are the tragic playwright Agathon, Agathon’s lover Pausanias, the beautiful but doomed Phaedrus, the comic playwright Aristophanes, the doctor Eryximachus, and the (also perhaps doomed) philosopher Socrates. Diotima, a priestess from Mantinea, puts in a

Philosophy

PLAY! — APA2100.02

Fall 2021
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
Students will research their favorite games and use its framework to create reimagined experiences inspired by the nature of the games. For example, a classic game of hide-and-seek could be upcycled into an academic treasure hunt or a clue-based quest. Can you imagine what school would be like if the campus turned into a giant version of your favorite video game or board game?
CAPA

PLAY! — APA2100.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
Students will research their favorite games and use its framework to create reimagined experiences inspired by the nature of the games. For example, a classic game of hide-and-seek could be upcycled into an academic treasure hunt or a clue-based quest. Can you imagine what school would be like if the campus turned into a giant version of your favorite video game or board game?
CAPA

Playing and reality: The work of D.W. Winnicott — PSY4117.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: David Anderegg
Credits: 4
This seminar will delve deeply into the life and work of D. W. Winnicott, the British psychoanalyst famous for his work on playing, internal creative life, and the interplay between creative and psychotic elements in fantasy. We will read about the British psychoanalytic world in which Winnicott developed; his biography; some of his popular work, including transcripts of his
Society Culture and Thought

Plays About Plays — DRA4435.01

Spring 2027
Instructor: Abe Koogler
Days & Time: WE 2:10pm-5:50pm
Credits: 4

In this advanced class, we will read and write plays about plays (or in which a play or performance is essential to the plot). Readings will likely include Hamlet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Seagull, Jackie Sibblies Drury's We Are Proud to Present, Anne Washburn's 10 out of 12 and Mr. Burns, Alice

Drama

Plays From Plays From Plays — DRA2155.01; first seven weeks

Fall 2015
Instructor: Kathleen Dimmick
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
Where do plays come from? In this course we’ll look at the bloodline of plays: origination myths, tales, folklore, and, of course, other plays. We’ll read and discuss plays by Aeschylus, Euripides, Shakespeare, Buchner, Zola and their followers – Racine, Alfred Jarry, Sarah Kane, Neal Bell, Elizabeth Egloff, and others.
Drama Literature