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Special Projects in Advanced Japanese — JPN4705.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: ikuko yoshida
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course is designed for students to research/complete a project in their field of study/interest. In order to take this course, students are required to write a proposal of their project and be accepted by the instructor. Advanced level. Conducted in Japanese.
Languages

Special Projects in Advanced Japanese — JPN4705.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
Credits: 4
This course is designed for students to research/complete a project in their field of study/interest. In order to take this course, students are required to write a proposal of their project and be accepted by the instructor. Corequisite: Students are required to attend Language Series.
Languages

Special Projects in Spanish — SPA4703.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
Credits: 4
In lieu of more conventional advanced Spanish classes, paralleling a series of often disparate tutorials, with tutees working in relative isolation, the proposal is to allow students free reign over an idea for a final, term-long project, while concurrently offering them an educated, exoteric audience to assist in fleshing out their work. Faculty will provide key secondary and
Cultural Studies and Languages

Special Projects in Spanish — SPA4703.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
Credits: 4
In lieu of more conventional advanced Spanish classes, paralleling a series of often disparate tutorials, with tutees working in relative isolation, the proposal is to allow students free reign over an idea for a final, term-long project, while concurrently offering them an educated, exoteric audience to assist in fleshing out their work. Faculty will provide key secondary and
Cultural Studies and Languages

Special Projects in Spanish — SPA4703.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
In lieu of more conventional advanced Spanish classes, paralleling a series of often disparate tutorials, with tutees working in relative isolation, the proposal is to allow students free reign over an idea for a final, term-long project, while concurrently offering them an educated, exoteric audience to assist in fleshing out their work. Faculty will provide key secondary and
Languages

Special Projects in Spanish — SPA4812.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
Days & Time: MO,TH 10:00am-11:50am
Credits: 4

In lieu of more conventional advanced Spanish classes, paralleling a series of often disparate tutorials, with tutees working in relative isolation, the proposal is to allow students free reign over an idea for a final, term-long project, while concurrently offering them an educated, exoteric audience to assist in fleshing out their work. Faculty will provide key

Spanish

Special Projects in Spanish — SPA4812.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
Days & Time: MO,TH 10:00am-11:50am
Credits: 4

In lieu of more conventional advanced Spanish classes, paralleling a series of often disparate tutorials, with tutees working in relative isolation, the proposal is to allow students free reign over an idea for a final, term-long project, while concurrently offering them an educated, exoteric audience to assist in fleshing out their work. Faculty will provide key secondary

Spanish

Special Projects: As It Relates to the Tool — SCU4227.02

Spring 2023
Instructor: John Umphlett
Credits: 2
This class exists as an expansion into individual projects related to information that was discovered in Idiosyncratic Tools. Each student must write a proposal due on the first day of class that includes an outline of the proposed “Tool” functionality, ideas about materials and some rough diagram describing the procedures involved in producing the device. This Tool proposal
Visual Arts

Special Projects: Writers and Their Work — JPN4803.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
Credits: 4
This advanced-level course is designed for students to learn about two prominent contemporary Japanese writers and analyze their work. Students are required to research each Japanese contemporary writer and analyze how their personal background is reflected in their work of fiction. Students will also examine how Japanese society is depicted in their work and how the writers
Cultural Studies and Languages

Special Relativity — PHY4210.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Hugh Crowl
Credits: 2
Classical physics describes the motions of large things moving at slow speeds. That description of the universe, which physicists used to describe the motion of objects from apples to planets for hundreds of years, does not hold for objects moving very fast. In this class, we will look at how traveling close to the speed of light affects the physical properties of objects.
Science and Mathematics

Special Relativity — PHY4210.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Hugh Crowl
Credits: 2
Classical physics describes the motions of large things moving at slow speeds. That description of the universe, which physicists used to describe the motion of objects from apples to planets for hundreds of years, does not hold for objects moving very fast. In this class, we will look at how traveling close to the speed of light affects the physical properties of objects.
Science Mathematics and Computing

Special Relativity — PHY4210.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Hugh Crowl
Credits: 2
Classical physics describes the motions of large things moving at slow speeds. That description of the universe, which physicists used to describe the motion of objects from apples to planets for hundreds of years, does not hold for objects moving very fast. In this class, we will look at how traveling close to the speed of light affects the physical properties of objects.
Science and Mathematics

Special Relativity — PHY4210.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Hugh Crowl
Credits: 2
Classical physics describes the motions of large things moving at slow speeds. That description of the universe, which physicists used to describe the motion of objects from apples to planets for hundreds of years, does not hold for objects moving very fast. In this class, we will look at how traveling close to the speed of light affects the physical properties of objects.
Science and Mathematics

Special Topics in Trans Lit: Spirituality — LIT2570.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Zoe Tuck
Credits: 4
“Batter my heart, transgender’d god” —Meg Day In this course, we will be reading and writing through work treating spirituality by trans and nonbinary writers. We will read writers from a variety of religious traditions and practices (including atheism), with varying degrees of orthodoxy or heterodoxy. As we do, we will let questions like, “What is the relationship of trans
Literature

Special Topics in Video Production: Indirect Memory: Experimental Documentary and Parafictional Approaches to the Moving Image — FV4219.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Chelsea Knight
Credits: 4
This course explores the boundaries between fiction and documentary in film and video, and registers shifts in contemporary art in relation to these forms. In particular, we will look at the way experimental movements in documentary and carefully constructed parafictions can engage and interact with political spaces differently than traditional documentary or fiction. Students
Visual Arts

Special Topics in Video Production: Misogyny in the Media — FV4114.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Chelsea Knight
Credits: 4
This course will trace the path that misogyny has taken in the media since the onset of third wave feminism. In the class, we will look at both mainstream and experimental films, television, videos and news media that either reproduce or resist misogynist stereotypes. Students will conduct research into the history of misogyny and build two video works that respond to its
Visual Arts

Species of Spaces — ARC2130.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Donald Sherefkin
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Working from George Perec's text, this studio will explore strategies of describing the physical world, with an emphasis on the elements of architecture.  The subjects of the work will include rooms, buildings, cities and maps, both real and imaginary. Beginning with a sheet of paper as our starting point, students will gradually work with increasingly larger scales,
Visual Arts

Species of Spaces — ARC2130.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Donald Sherefkin
Credits: 4
Working from George Perec’s essay, this studio will explore strategies of describing the physical world, with an emphasis on the elements of architecture. The subjects of the work will include rooms, buildings, cities and maps, both real and imaginary. Beginning with a sheet of paper as our starting point, students will gradually work with increasingly larger scales, following
Visual Arts

Speculative Fiction — LIT2422.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Paul La Farge
Credits: 4
For the last hundred years or so, speculative fiction has been a way for writers to imagine the future, but also, implicitly or explicitly, to think about the present. We’ll read genre, mainstream, and hard-to-classify works from the 1920s to the 2010s, with particular attention to the ways in which speculative fiction uses language to create a world, and the ways in which its
Literature

Spiraling around, Movement Practice — DAN2416.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Martin Lanz
Days & Time: MO,TH 1:40pm-3:30pm
Credits: 2

In this course we will explore spiraling in and out of the floor. This is a rigorous movement class that focuses on traveling through space, using the spirals embedded in the body and exploring how these will help us to separate from the floor and come back to it, creating movement sequences and phrases used mainly in postmodern dance

Dance

Sport in Latin America — SPA4496.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
Credits: 4
This course will analyze the symbolic and practical meaning of a range of sports and their commodification (both imported and exported), not least in the apparently perpetual definition and redefinition of national ideologies and regional identities, the continuation or disruption of collective memory, agency or lack thereof, race, class, and politics, thus contextualizing
Languages

Sports — FV4105.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Karthik Pandian
Credits: 4
This intermediate video production course will explore the relationship between moving image and athletics. Students will examine the work of pivotal figures from Leni Riefenstahl to O.J. Simpson in an effort to understand the role sports play in society, art and life. Studio projects will focus on formal issues from camera movement, stabilization, resolution, depth
Visual Arts

Stage Management — DRA2241.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Michael Giannitti
Credits: 4
The key role of the stage manager as both collaborative artist and manager in the production process is explored by students in this class. Readings, discussions, and projects on topics including scheduling, play breakdowns, prompt book preparation, blocking notation, ground plan and theatre layout, and the running of rehearsals and performances are included. The relationship
Drama

Stage Management — DRA2241.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Michael Giannitti
Credits: 4
The key role of the stage manager as both collaborative artist and manager in the production process is explored by students in this class. Readings, discussions, and projects on topics including scheduling, play breakdowns, prompt book preparation, blocking notation, ground plan and theatre layout, and the running of rehearsals and performances are included. The relationship
Drama