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Anthropological linguistics and biocultural knowledge — LIN2109.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Leah Pappas
Credits: 4
This course provides an overview of the relationship between linguistics and anthropology and the methodologies for studying the key areas of inquiry for both disciplines. We will cover topics relating to the processes by which language can both reflect and create identity, cultural practices, power, and cognition. We’ll focus in particular on the biocultural—the relationship
Society Culture and Thought

Anthropological Research and Writing — ANT4130.01

Spring 2027
Instructor: Marios Falaris
Days & Time: TH 10:00am-11:50am
Credits: 2

This class is anchored by students' independent research projects in the field of anthropology. The seminar may be taken either as a one-off or in conjunction with the Fall seminar, "Ethnography Lab." In this class, students will develop their research and writing in anthropology, working through description, contextualization, analysis

Anthropology

Anthropological Research Methodologies — ANT4110.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Noah Coburn
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
This course is an exploration of the basic tools that anthropologists use when conducting participant-observation field research. Students will learn how to use a variety of interview techniques, focus group discussions and surveys. Workshops will provide the opportunity for students to use these techniques on topics of their own interest. Methodological and theoretical
Social Science

Anthropology and the Body — ANT2140.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Cecilia Salvi
Credits: 4
The body has been crucial (but sometimes overlooked) in anthropological theory since the early days of the discipline. This course begins with an introduction to recent anthropological analysis and methods of studying the body as both social and individual, biological and cultural, object and subject. We then explore its conceptualization in relation to topics such as the self,
Society Culture and Thought

Anthropology and the Body — ANT4240.01) (cancelled 10/8/2024

Spring 2025
Instructor: Cecilia Salvi
Credits: 4
The body has been crucial (but sometimes overlooked) in anthropological theory since the early days of the discipline. This course begins with an introduction to recent anthropological analysis and methods of studying the body as both social and individual, biological and cultural, object and subject. We then explore its conceptualization in relation to topics such as the self,

Anthropology of Art — ANT4212.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Miroslava Prazak
Credits: 4
This course is an exploration of art as defined and practiced in different cultures. We will look at how peoples of diverse world cultures create, use, manipulate, conceptualize, exchange, and evaluate objects of material culture. We will look at how material items are considered to be artistic or aesthetic in some fashion, and think of how and if we can translate those values
Society Culture and Thought

Anthropology of Art — ANT4212.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Miroslava Prazak
Credits: 4
This course is an exploration of art as defined and practiced in different cultures. We will look at how peoples of diverse world cultures create, use, manipulate, conceptualize, exchange, and evaluate objects of material culture. We will look at how material items are considered to be artistic or aesthetic in some fashion, and think of how and if we can translate those values
Society Culture and Thought

Anthropology of Science and Technology — APA2352.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: David Bond
Credits: 4
This course introduces students to the anthropology of science and technology, with fieldtrips taken into adjacent fields of inquiry like STS and the history of science. This course approaches science and technology as a history of the present; that is, as an unfolding set of epistemic deployments that is actively shaping the texture and significance of social life in the
CAPA Society Culture and Thought

Anti-Perspective — DES4101.01

Spring 2027
Instructor: Farhad Mirza
Days & Time: WE 10:00am-11:50am & WE 2:10pm-4:00pm
Credits: 4

“One could even compare the function of Renaissance perspective with that of critical philosophy… The result was a translation of psychophysiological space into mathematical space; in other words, an objectification of the subjective.” — Erwin Panofsky, Perspective as Symbolic Form This course is about how an image might represent a codified or systematic way of thinking. We

Design

Anti-Perspective — DRW4402.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Farhad Mirza
Credits: 4
This course is about how an image might represent a codified or systematic way of thinking. We will study the differences between one-point perspective, parallel projection, non-perspectival representation, and the problem of depth in these representational modes. Weekly drawing exercises will be paired with readings to elaborate on various 'rules' for creating space in a
Visual Arts

Anti-Perspective — DRW4402.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
In this course, we will read texts that examine images as forms of thought. In particular, we will study the differences between one-point perspective, parallel projection, non-perspectival representation, and the problem of depth in these representational modes. Readings will be paired with short drawing exercises that experiment with different rules about creating space in a
Visual Arts

Anti-Perspective — DES4101.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Farhad Mirza
Credits: 4
“One could even compare the function of Renaissance perspective with that of critical philosophy… The result was a translation of psychophysiological space into mathematical space; in other words, an objectification of the subjective.” — Erwin Panofsky, Perspective as Symbolic Form This course is about how an image might represent a codified or systematic way of thinking. We
Visual Arts

Anti-Perspective — DRW4402.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Farhad Mirza
Credits: 4
"One could even compare the function of Renaissance perspective with that of critical philosophy... The result was a translation of psychophysiological space into mathematical space; in other words, an objectification of the subjective." -- Erwin Panofsky, Perspective as Symbolic Form This course is about how an image might represent a codified or systematic way of thinking. We
Visual Arts

Antiperspective: Readings — VA2245.01

Fall 2026
Instructor: Farhad Mirza
Days & Time: TU 10:30am-12:20pm
Credits: 2

“One could even compare the function of Renaissance perspective with that of critical philosophy… The result was a translation of psychophysiological space into mathematical space; in other words, an objectification of the subjective.”

— Erwin Panofsky,

Visual Arts Architecture Design

APA Workshop: Focus: Cities — APA4150.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Elizabeth Coleman; Susie Ibarra
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This workshop is designed to enable students to pursue a variety of issues relating to the advancing of public action. Cities serves both as a shared focus and a place to integrate a wide and rich variety of perspectives. Students will also be presenting their work to the workshop as it unfolds. Some portion of the workshop will also be dedicated to exploring concepts and
Advancement of Public Action

Applied Computing: Foundations of Python Programming — CS2119.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Amber Hancock
Credits: 4
In this introduction to computer science, you will learn to design, implement, test, and analyze algorithms and programs using Python, currently one of the most widely used programming languages in the world. Within the context of programming, you will learn to formulate problems, think creatively about solutions, and express those solutions clearly and accurately. Problems
Science and Mathematics

Applied Physics/Engineering Physics: Deformation of Solids — PHY4215.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Tim Schroeder
Credits: 4
This course applies mechanical physics concepts to practical engineering and environmental problems. In order to ensure peoples’ safety, any structure, be it a building, a nuclear reactor, a dam, an embankment, or a natural hillside, must be able to withstand the stresses that are placed on it by its environment. You will learn how forces cause stress within solid
Science Mathematics and Computing Environment

Applied/Engineering Physics — PHY4217.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Tim Schroeder
Credits: 4
This course applies the concepts of mechanical physics to practical engineering and environmental problems. Any structure, be it a building, a nuclear reactor, a dam, an embankment, or a natural hillside, must be able to withstand the stresses that are placed on it by its environment without failing in order to ensure people’s safety. You will learn how forces cause stress
Science and Mathematics

Applied/Engineering Physics — PHY4217.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Tim Schroeder
Credits: 4
This course applies the concepts of mechanical physics to practical engineering and environmental problems. Any structure, be it a building, a nuclear reactor, a dam, an embankment, or a natural hillside, must be able to withstand the stresses that are placed on it by its environment without failing in order to ensure people's safety. You will learn how forces cause stress
Science and Mathematics

Applying Anthropological Research Methodologies — ANT4111.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Noah Coburn
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
This course is an advanced seminar that will apply skills learned in Anthropological Research Methodologies. The class will work collectively to do a local ethnographic study. Depending upon the skills and interests of each student, the class will design a research proposal and then carry out key research techniques. Finally students will be asked to present this work in a
Social Science

Approaches to Afghanistan — SCT2144.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
Too much of how the international media portrays Afghanistan is based on stereotypes and cliches that ignores some of the deep, rich scholarship of the country over recent years. What are the different ways that scholars attempt to make sense of Afghanistan? What can we learn from studying these approaches? What does it teach us about Afghanistan and the world more broadly?
Society Culture and Thought

Approaches to Political Geography: Understanding Space, Territory, and Power — ENV2119.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
Political geography is the study of the spatial nature of political power. Political geographers explore both how power struggles shape space and how space shapes power. This includes examining uneven economic development, spatial segregation, urban politics, social movements, geopolitics, and environmental injustice—to name a just a few. In tracing how power is spatialized
Environment

Approved Student Project Presentation Lab — DRA4349.01

Spring 2027
Instructor: Dina Janis
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4

In this course- students with approved projects and/or acting/design/directing collaborators for projects that have been approved for presentation in Spring 27- will meet regularly with Faculty Sponsor as they rehearse, design and present these student projects.  Students may be assigned credits based upon their involvement in the project.

Drama