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Rediscovering Early American Vocal Music — MPF2203.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Stephen Higa
Credits: 2
In this workshop, we will form a performance group to explore ancient Americana:  17th-century psalmody, shape-note music, Shaker chants, revival and gospel tunes, Victorian hymns, spirituals, music of California and the Southwest, etc.  Some of this music will come directly from forgotten, crumbling 19th-century songbooks, so we must resurrect this music quickly
Music

Reflections of Homeplace: Black Studies Senior Seminar — BLS4002.01

Spring 2027
Instructor: Audrey Devost
Days & Time: WE 4:10pm-6:00pm
Credits: 2

This course is writing-intensive course intended for seniors across methodologies who are in the final stages of their senior work. With Black studies serving as the overarching body of knowledge, this course provides its students with a deep and expansive exploration of the Black experience within the context of U.S. education. In doing so, this class aims to be a

Black Studies Society Culture and Thought

Reflections on the Refugee Experience: What Can I Do? — MOD2168.03

Spring 2018
Instructor: Vahidin Omanovic
Credits: 1
In this Module, students will gain an understanding of the United Nations conventions pertaining to refugees, and the different forms of forced migration. Vahidin will then share his own direct experience of his time as a refugee, specifically how people live in refugee camps and how they are structured and managed. Students will be asked to examine their own responses to this
CAPA

Reflective Practice — EDU5117.01

Spring 2027
Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
Days & Time: WE 7:00pm-8:50pm
Credits: 4

This seminar, taken in conjunction with students' term-long teaching apprenticeship, which means working in a school for seven hours a day, helps to establish both an ideological and a practical foundation for self-recognition, classroom problem-solving, and smart colleagueship. Through reading, class discussions and various projects related to our individual and collective

Education

Regardez — FRE4496.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly
Credits: 4
In this course, students will examine specific visual representations within the context of French culture. Through the reading of a wide variety of French images, including Chartres cathedral’s stained glasses, La Tour’s chiaroscuro paintings, cartoon hero Tintin, Cocteau’s drawings and films, and contemporary installations, students will hone their linguistic skills and
Languages

Regardez — FRE4496.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly
Credits: 4
In this course, students will examine specific visual representations within the context of French culture. Through the reading of a wide variety of French images, including Chartres cathedral’s stained glasses, La Tour’s chiaroscuro paintings, cartoon hero Tintin, surrealist drawings and films, and contemporary installations, students will hone their linguistic skills and
Languages

Regardez — FRE4496.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly
Credits: 4
In this course, students will examine specific visual representations within the context of French culture. Through the reading of a wide variety of French images, including among other works Chartres cathedral’s stained glass, La Tour’s chiaroscuro paintings, Haitian art, as well as virtual reality experiments, students will hone their linguistic skills and enrich their
Cultural Studies and Languages

Regions and Cuisine: Traveling Japan with Matsuo Basho — JPN4603.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
In this sixth-term Japanese course, students will follow the footsteps of a prominent Japanese poet in the seventeen-century, Matsuo Basho, and learn about different regions and cuisines of Japan.  As students "imaginary" travel to various regions of Japan, they will learn about historical and scenic places that are depicted in Basho’ poems and various local cuisines in
Cultural Studies and Languages

Reimagining Memory in Biology and Beyond — BIO2140.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: David Edelman
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
How are memories formed, stored, and accessed? This question has been central to psychology and neuroscience since their founding. In this class, we will first review psychological and neurobiological views of memory. We will then explore how memory as a dynamic process might be extended to biological—and even non-biological—systems outside the brain. We will survey cultural,
Science Mathematics and Computing

Reimagining Representation — PHO2113.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
Photography was used for scientific purposes and a tool of imperial colonialization during the early years of its invention. These two things have helped shaped its history of representation of the body. Marginal groups of individuals when they were represented in photography were often presented in a stereotypical manner. This course will offer students an opportunity to
Visual Arts

Reimagining Representation — PHO2113.01

Fall 2026
Instructor: Terry Boddie
Days & Time: TH 1:40pm-5:20pm
Credits: 4

Photography was used scientific purposes and a tool of imperial during the early years of its invention. These two things have helped shaped its historical representation of the body as well as its descriptive language. Marginal groups of individuals when they were represented in photography were often presented in a

Black Studies Photography

Reimagining Representation — PHO2113.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
Photography was used for scientific purposes and a tool of imperial colonialization during the early years of its invention. These two things have helped shaped its history of representation of the body. Marginal groups of individuals when they were represented in photography were often presented in a stereotypical manner. This course will offer students an opportunity to
Visual Arts

Reimagining Representation — PHO2113.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Terry Boddie
Credits: 4
Photography was used for scientific purposes and a tool of imperial colonization during the early years of its invention. These two things have helped shape its history of representation of the human figure. Marginal groups of individuals when they were represented in photography were often presented in a visually limiting and often stereotypical manner. The contemporary
Visual Arts

Reimagining Representation — PHO4370.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
Photography was used for scientific purposes and a tool of imperial colonialization during the early years of its invention. These two things have helped shaped its history of representation of the human figure. Marginal groups of individuals when they were represented in photography were often presented in a visually limiting and often stereotypical manner.
Visual Arts

Reinventing and Branding Japan — JPN4710.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
Credits: 4
After the World War II, Japan tried rigorously to improve their national reputation in the World. As Japan’s economy improved, Japan’s image shifted from a brutal and heartless military nation to a powerful economic nation, and then to a nation of “soft power.” In the last 10 years, the Japanese government came up with a PR strategy called “Cool Japan” and has been promoting
Cultural Studies and Languages

Reinventing Radio — APA2159.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Thom Loubet
Credits: 4
With the development of the podcast and online radio, audio documentary has made a major resurgence in popular culture. This course will explore the basic skills and techniques required to tell stories through sound. Along with the technical tools required, the focus will be on learning how audio production can enhance communication with an audience and inform their local
CAPA

Reinventing Radio — APA2159.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Thom Loubet
Credits: 2
With the development of the podcast and online radio, audio documentary has made a major resurgence in popular culture. This course will explore the basic skills and techniques required to tell stories through sound. Along with the technical tools required, the focus will be on learning how audio production can enhance communication with an audience and inform their local
CAPA

Reinventing Radio — MSR2118.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Thom Loubet
Credits: 2
With the development of the podcast and online radio, audio documentary has made a major resurgence in popular culture.  This course will explore the basic skills and techniques required to tell stories through sound.  Along with the technical tools required, the focus will be learning how audio production can enhance communication with an audience.  Topics
Music

Reinventing Radio — MSR2118.01

Spring 2017
Instructor:
Credits: 2
With the development of the podcast and online radio, audio documentary has made a major resurgence in popular culture. This course will explore the basic skills and techniques required to tell stories through sound. Along with the technical tools required, the focus will be on learning how audio production can enhance communication with an audience. Through reading and
Music

Reinventing the Frost House — LIT2324.02

Fall 2017
Instructor: Megan Mayhew-Bergman
Credits: 2
What and who are writers’ houses for? In this course, we will ask this question in relation to the Robert Frost Stone House Museum in Shaftsbury, looking at Frost’s legacy as a poet, work done while in residence there, and archives, interiors, and grounds. With guest speakers and individual research, we’ll confront the challenges and goals of house museums and make
Literature

Relation, Reflection, Refraction: Contemporary South American Fiction — LIT2424.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Marguerite Feitlowitz
Credits: 4
Contemporary South American fiction is rife with urgency, politics, and history, as well as narrative mischief, layering, and literary gamesmanship. It is a highly self-conscious stream of writing, with novelists in conversation--and conflict--with earlier writers, with their contemporaries, and with novelists of their own creation. Highly divergent stylists have perforce
Literature

Relational Psychoanalysis and it's Discontents — PSY4227.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: David Anderegg
Credits: 4
This advanced seminar will feature developments in contemporary psychoanalytic theory. The 1980s saw a period of ferment in psychoanalytic theory during which several challenges to classical Freudian analysis were articulated. This course will begin with a brief review of these challenges, including object relations theory and self psychology. But the “winner,” so to speak, has
Society Culture and Thought

Relief Printing Without a Press — PRI2123.02

Spring 2021
Instructor: Thorsten Dennerline
Credits: 2
Using a choice of linoleum or wood blocks and non-toxic water-soluble ink, we will examine different approaches to mark-making: from graphic and angular to painterly and gestural.  Students will learn image preparation and transfer methods, sharpening and care of tools, wood and linoleum carving methods, ink and paper preparation, hand-inking and rolling techniques and
Visual Arts