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The F-Word: Confronting Fascism in the Wake of an Insurrection — POP2280.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 1
In the United States, recent months have witnessed an upsurge in right-wing organizing and violence, culminating in an insurrection at the United States Capitol that sought to overturn the legitimate results of a democratic election. This is not a uniquely American problem. Across much of the globe, political parties organized around hyper-nationalism have gained steam, in some
CAPA

The Family Album: Reading and Writing the Short Story — LIT4188.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Stuart Nadler
Credits: 4
The poet Czesław Miłosz said once that “when a writer is born into a family, the family is finished.” This idea of the writer’s position amid the family has always mirrored the writer’s position in society, existing both within it and outside of it at the same time. In this class, we will interrogate the family narrative as a particular idea and obsession of the American short
Literature

The Faulkner Fan Club — LIT2408.01) (cancelled 1/5/2023

Spring 2023
Instructor: Manuel Gonzales
Credits: 4
You sent in your application weeks ago and now you've finally gotten your swag: your Faulkner patch, your Faulkner commemorative button, the coffee mug with Faulkner's pen and ink drawn face on it, and your special edition copy of Absalom! Absalom!, and maybe now you're wondering, Well, who else is in this club? Wonder no more. In this class, we'll be reading not Faulkner but
Literature

The Female Grotesque — LIT4391.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Camille Guthrie
Credits: 4
In this class, we will read prose that engages with the Female Grotesque, a subgenre of the Gothic and Grotesque in literature, art, and performance. Readers of the Female Grotesque may experience repulsion and fascination, as the genre reveals how women have been traditionally represented as both abject and ideal. Our focus will be on fiction: novels and short stories. (I
Literature

The Ferguson Report: A Living Document — MOD2152.04

Spring 2015
Instructor: Crina Archer; Erika Mijlin
Credits: 1
In August of 2014, a police officer shot and killed Michael Brown, an unarmed, 18-year-old black man, in Ferguson, Missouri. According to a recent study, Brown's race rendered him 21 times more likely to be killed by a police officer's bullet than had he been a young, white man. Broad public criticism of the shooting and of a grand jury's failure to indict the officer
Modules: Transferable Approaches

The Field Recorder and the Plein Air Musician — MCO4398.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
A field recorder is a novel invention that suggests a relationship towards travel, motion and the capturing of fleeting events or ideas outside of the traditional studio and in the “field”. What do we call this plein air musician, who might they be? If the Impressionist painter chased the light outdoors, what does the plein air musician chase? This class explores how we can
Music

The Film Trailer Project — FRE4119.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Noelle Rouxel-Cubberly
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
In this course, French films are used as linguistic and cultural textbooks. While honing their language skills (listening, reading, speaking and writing), students will focus on selected cultural topics (food, clothes, history, gestures, etc.). Students will create film trailers that reflect their understanding  of the French language and cultural realities. 
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The Film Trailer Project — FRE4603.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Noelle Rouxel-Cubberly
Credits: 4
In this course, French films are used as linguistic and cultural textbooks. While honing their language skills (listening, reading, speaking and writing), students will focus their critical skills on selected cultural topics (food, clothes, history, gestures, etc.). Students will create film trailers that reflect their understanding of the French linguistic and cultural
Cultural Studies and Languages

The Film Trailer Project — FRE4119.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly
Credits: 4
In this course, French films are used as linguistic and cultural textbooks. While honing their language skills (listening, reading, speaking and writing), students will focus their critical skills on selected cultural topics (food, clothes, history, gestures, etc.). Students will create film trailers that reflect their understanding  of the French language and cultural
Languages

The Film Trailer Project — FRE4603.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly
Credits: 4
In this course, French films are used as linguistic and cultural textbooks. While honing their language skills (listening, reading, speaking and writing), students will focus their critical skills on selected cultural topics (food, clothes, history, gestures, etc.). Students will create film trailers that reflect their understanding of the French language and cultural realities
Languages

The Films of Alfred Hitchcock — LIT2295.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Brooke Allen
Credits: 2
Alfred Hitchcock was the greatest director of suspense films, and one of the most original and influential film directors of all time. In this class we will watch a number of HItchcock's best movies, beginning with the silent classic The Lodger and finishing at the end of his career in the 1970s, taking in classics like The Thirty-Nine Steps, Rear Window, North By Northwest and

The Fine Art of Physical Computing — DA4261.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Robert Ransick
Credits: 4
This course aims to extend our notions of the creative fine art potential of computers by exploring uses beyond standard mouse/keyboard/screen interaction. Moving away from these restrictions the course introduces students to basic electronics and programming an Arduino (microcontroller) to read sensors placed in physical objects or the environment. Projects are designed to
Visual Arts

The Fine Art of Physical Computing — DA4261.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Robert Ransick
Credits: 4
This course aims to extend our notions of the creative fine art potential of computers by exploring uses beyond standard mouse/keyboard/screen interaction. Moving away from these restrictions the course introduces students to basic electronics and programming an Arduino (microcontroller) to read sensors placed in physical objects or the environment. Projects are designed to
Visual Arts

The First Hundred Days — APA4250.01

Spring 2017
Instructor:
Credits: 4
The bewildering saga of the presidential election has overturned much of the established political wisdom. So what happened? What happens next? And what’s at stake? This course takes a journalistic, comparative, and critical look at the elected direction of American democracy. Tracking back and forth between the unfolding events of the first hundred days of the new presidency
CAPA

The Five Obstructions — MCO4125.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
Credits: 2
A song feedback collective, focused on how musical restrictions can spur us to growth. Over the course of the term, students will write 5 songs (or revise a single song in radical ways) based on the critique and decisions of the group. We’ll discuss how to form supportive but insightful critique while challenging each other to go new places. What does it take to create a song
Music

The Flower Songs of the Hungry Coyote: Pre-Columbian Indigenous Poetry — LIT2536.01) (day/time updated as of 10/9/2023

Spring 2024
Instructor: An Duplan
Credits: 2
While much of our study of North and Central American poetry begins after the arrival of Christopher Columbus, indigenous poetic traditions begin centuries before. Nezahualcoyotl, or the “Hungry Coyote,” is considered one of the greatest poets of pre-colonial Mexico. His “flower songs” inspired an entire generation of pre-Columbian Native poets, whose work we can read as a
Literature

The Flower Songs of the Hungry Coyote: Pre-Columbian Indigenous Poetry — LIT2536.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: An Duplan
Credits: 2
While much of our study of North and Central American poetry begins after the arrival of Christopher Columbus, indigenous poetic traditions begin centuries before. Nezahualcoyotl, or the “Hungry Coyote,” is considered one of the greatest poets of pre-colonial Mexico. His “flower songs” inspired an entire generation of pre-Columbian Native poets, whose work we can read as a
Literature

The French Eye — FRE4121.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: noëlle rouxel-cubberly
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
***Time Change*** 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 stainglasses, La Tour's chiaroscuro paintings, cartoon hero Tintin, Cocteau's drawings and films, and Sophie Calle's installation, Prenez soin de vous, students will
Languages

The French New Wave — FV2109.02

Fall 2018
Instructor: Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly
Credits: 2
This course will survey the French New Wave, an innovative movement that redefined cinema around the world. Definitions of cinematographic key elements and the study of the historical context of the 1950s and 1960s will allow students to better understand how a group of young critics – among whom Truffaut, Godard, Rivette, Varda, Resnais, and Rohmer- transformed filmmaking. We
Visual Arts

The Glaze Renovation Project — CER4216.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Josh Primmer
Credits: 2
The emphasis of this course will be placed on testing and cataloging the new glaze palette developed in the spring of 2019 in “Glaze-Redesigning the Ceramic Studio's Glazes.” We will concentrate on layering the new ^04 and 10 glazes over one another as well as with the studio’s slips and washes and creating a comprehensive reference for use by all the proceeding ceramics
Visual Arts

The Global Enlightenment: 18th-20th cent. Literature — LIT2563.01) (day/time updated as of 5/10/2024

Fall 2024
Instructor: Mariam Rahmani
Credits: 4
This course takes a comparative approach to the global Enlightenment. Exploring ideas of the human and humanity developed across the world at this period, we pursue the idea that forms of difference such as race, gender, and sexuality became essential to defining “human” and “humanity.” Indeed our contemporary world grapples with this legacy. We ask: who is allowed to be fully
Literature

The Global Music Classroom — EDU4403.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
This course will introduce students to several methods for incorporating diverse global music practices into the general music classroom. Geared toward K-12 music education, our course will combine experiences in music, cultural understanding, and culturally sensitive pedagogical strategies. We will listen actively, sing, dance, play instruments, and discuss the sociocultural
Education

The Grand Vessel — CER4319.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Barry Bartlett
Credits: 4
In this class we will investigate the history of vessels made to impress, awe, and celebrate the technical as well as symbolic meaning of culture in different countries. Large and small in scale these vessel have been made for millennia to be used in tombs, in palaces, industrial expositions as well as the private home. These vessels often go to unimagined
Visual Arts