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Senior Seminar in Society, Culture, and Thought — SCT4750.02, section 2

Fall 2023
Instructor: Eileen Scully
Credits: 2
Students undertaking culminating work in Society, Culture, and Thought (SCT) complete individual research projects. The process generally begins with students presenting ideas and proposals in their sixth-term Plan Meetings. To support these projects, SCT faculty offer a combined research seminar (2 credits) and various specialized group tutorials (2 credits). These are co
Society Culture and Thought

Senior Seminar in Society, Culture, and Thought — SCT4750.01, section 1

Fall 2023
Instructor: Eileen Scully
Credits: 2
Students undertaking culminating work in Society, Culture, and Thought (SCT) complete individual research projects. The process generally begins with students presenting ideas and proposals in their sixth-term Plan Meetings. To support these projects, SCT faculty offer a combined research seminar (2 credits) and various specialized group tutorials (2 credits). These are co
Society Culture and Thought

Senior Seminar in Society, Culture, and Thought and CAPA — SCT4750.04; section 4

Fall 2015
Instructor: David Bond
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This advanced research seminar offers students the opportunity to conduct advanced work in social science and public action in the form of an independent research project. For some students, this will be the first half of a year-long thesis that involves field work and/or the collection of data. For others, this will be a one-semester long project. For all students, however,
CAPA Society Culture and Thought

Senior Seminar in Society, Culture, and Thought II — SCT4751.02; section 2

Spring 2016
Instructor: Miroslava Prazak
Credits: 4
This research seminar offers students the opportunity to conduct advanced work in social science in the form of an independent research project. For some students, this will be the first half of a year-long thesis that involves field work and/or the collection of data. For others, this will be a one-semester long project. For all students, however, the process in
Society Culture and Thought

Senior Seminar in Society, Culture, and Thought II — SCT4751.01; section 1

Spring 2017
Instructor: Noah Coburn
Credits: 4
This is the second half of the SCT senior seminar, designed as a venue for students to complete their advanced work. For most students, this seminar will focus on analyzing data collected for their senior work during the first term or during Field Work Term and using that analysis to complete their senior projects. Aside from a few shared readings, the bulk of what individuals
Society Culture and Thought

Senior Seminar in Society, Culture, and Thought II — SCT4751.01; section 1

Spring 2016
Instructor: Carol Pal
Credits: 4
This research seminar offers students the opportunity to conduct advanced work in social science in the form of an independent research project. For some students, this will be the first half of a year-long thesis that involves field work and/or the collection of data. For others, this will be a one-semester long project. For all students, however, the process in
Society Culture and Thought

Senior Seminar in Society, Culture, and Thought II — SCT4751.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carol Pal
Credits: 4
This advanced research seminar offers students the opportunity to continue their culminating work in SCT in the form of an independent research project. For some students, this will be the second half of a year-long thesis; for others, this will be a one-semester project. Writing will take place throughout term. Students will receive feedback from the instructor, a second
Society Culture and Thought

Senior Seminar in Society, Culture, and Thought II — SCT4751.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Rotimi Suberu
Credits: 4
This advanced research seminar offers students the opportunity to continue their culminating work in SCT in the form of an independent research project. For some students, this will be the second half of a year-long thesis; for others, this will be a one-semester project. Writing will take place throughout term. Students will receive feedback from the instructor, a second
Society Culture and Thought

Senior Thesis Workshop — DAN4803B.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
BFA students only This course is designed to be the culmination of the BFA program for all dance majors. Each student will propose a thesis project, develop goals and objectives for the semester, and present their work. Modes of practicing, situating and expressing thesis project research will be mobilized and extended through ongoing critical dialogue. We will attend to, in
Dance (BFA)

Senior Thesis Workshop — DAN4803B.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Tania Perez
Credits: 4
This course is designed to be the culmination of the BFA program for all dance majors. Each student will propose a thesis project, develop goals and objectives for the semester, and present their work. Modes of practicing, situating and expressing thesis project research will be mobilized and extended through ongoing critical dialogue. We will attend to, in practice, the urgent

Senior Projects — MPF4226.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Senem Pirler
Credits: 2
This course will serve as a workshop and forum for seniors who are planning to present their senior projects in Spring 2020. In this course, we will meet and discuss students' projects which may be produced through any creative practice including (but not limited to) performance, installation, musical show, etc. Students will be expected to complete most of their compositions
Music

Sensation and Movement in the Ocean — Canceled

Fall 2014
Instructor: david edelman
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
How do marine animals negotiate the challenges of a complex, ever changing, and often dangerous, environment? How can we make sense of the rich repertoires of sensory and motor adaptations that are found among the diverse multicellular creatures that have evolved in the oceans over more than half a billion years? Finally, what kinds of nervous system innovations coincided with
Science Mathematics and Computing

Sensation and Movement in the Ocean — Canceled

Fall 2013
Instructor: David Edelman
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
How do marine animals negotiate the challenges of a complex, ever changing, and often dangerous environment? How can we make sense of the rich repertoires of sensory and motor adaptations that are found among the diverse multi-cellular creatures that have evolved in the oceans over more than half a billion years? Finally, what kinds of nervous system innovations coincided with
Science Mathematics and Computing

Sensor Workshop — CS2125.02

Spring 2018
Instructor: Andrew Cencini
Credits: 2
This seven-week course will bridge the physical and virtual world in computer science, and involve building the hardware and software needed to develop a simple temperature and humidity sensing unit using a Raspberry Pi single-board computer and simple low-cost electronic components. Students will learn basics of Python programming and data collection, combined with general
Science and Mathematics Environment

Sensory Exploration/Scene Study — DRA4255.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Dina Janis
Credits: 4
How do you create imaginary rain or cold or heat? Where are you coming from when you enter a stage from the wings? How do you personalize and endow the set and props your character thinks of as real? What is substitution and how can it help bring the relationships of a play to life? In this class, we will work with the basic canon of sensory exercises designed to give the
Drama

Sensory Technique — DRA4161.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Dina Janis
Credits: 4
How do you create imaginary rain or cold or heat? Where are you coming from when you enter a stage from the wings? How do you personalize and endow the set and props your character thinks of as real? What is substitution and how can it help bring the relationships of a play to life? In this class, we will work with the basic canon of sensory exercises designed to give the
Drama

Sensory Work: Creating the World of the Play — DRA4368.02

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

This class is fundamentally an advanced rehearsal techniques class for actors and directors with a focus on physical sensory work. The questions investigated include: What is substitution and how can it help bring the relationships of a play to life? How do you create the physical, sensory world of the play? Where are you coming from when you enter a stage from the wings?

Drama

Serialism — MTH4423.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
Credits: 2
A course on the watershed musical techniques that dominated classical musical composition in the 20th century. We’ll trace serial thought from its roots in late 19th century through Schoenberg’s discovery of the dodecaphonic technique.  We’ll analyze the works of the Second Viennese School and explore the aesthetic domination of so-called post-Webernian serialism, as well
Music

Set the Table- Tableware and Cups — CER4208.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Aysha Peltz
Credits: 4
Throughout history, tableware has been an expression of a specific time and place. In this way, utilitarian objects embody the ideas that define culture. For this class, intermediate and advanced ceramic students will produce prototypes that are a thoughtful response to this problem. The emphasis will be on designing compelling pots rather than producing many matching sets.
Visual Arts

Set the Table: Tableware Design — CER4208.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Aysha Peltz
Credits: 4
Throughout history, tableware has been an expression of a specific time and place. In this way utilitarian objects embody the ideas that define culture. For this class intermediate and advanced ceramic students will produce prototypes that are a thoughtful response to this problem. The emphasis will be on designing compelling pots rather than producing many matching sets.
Visual Arts

Sets and Structures — MAT2121.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Andrew McIntyre
Days & Time: MO,TH 1:40pm-3:30pm
Credits: 4

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, mathematics underwent a vast expansion, into new, exciting, and increasingly counter-intuitive realms. The subject risked mystification and mutual incomprehensibility between experts in different sub-fields. In the first part of the twentieth century, a group of French mathematicians, under the pseudonym Bourbaki, undertook an

Mathematics Computer Science Philosophy

Sets, Measure and Topology — MAT4106.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Andrew McIntyre
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course provides a brief introduction to three foundational areas of modern mathematics: set theory, measure theory, and topology. In set theory, we will see how to count well past infinity (ordinal and cardinal arithmetic), and we will also see how set theory forms a logical foundation for the whole of modern mathematics. In topology, we will see how continuous deformation
Science Mathematics and Computing

Setting the Stage — DRA2128.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: michael giannitti
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
A set design communicates lots of information to an audience, and provides the physical world in which a performance takes place. Students in this course will work through the process of designing a stage set. Basic design principles and conceptualization, play analysis, theatrical style, research, drafting and model making will all be covered. Students will be expected to read
Drama

Seven Composers — MHI2001.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Allen Shawn
Credits: 4
In this course we will study the lives and music of seven fascinating composers whose work can be looked at from a variety of angles--historical, social and musical. They are: Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Florence Price, Vivian Fine, Nina Simone, Galina Ustvolskaya and Sofia Gubaidulina. Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel was the sister of one of the most celebrated
Music