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The History of Medicine: From Hippocrates to Harvey — HIS2312.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Carol Pal
Credits: 4
How did premodern culture understand the human body? How did it work? Where did it fit in the Great Chain of Being, and what differentiated men from women? Medicine has always been a hybrid of thinking, seeing, knowing, and doing. But what defined medicine in the past? Was it a science, an art, or a random assortment of practices? Between the age of Hippocrates and the age of
Society Culture and Thought

The History of Science: From Hippocrates to Newton — HIS4111.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: carol pal
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
History tells us that humans have always wondered about the natural world. For thousands of years, our ancestors gazed in wonder at the heavens, experimented with plants and medicines, and tried to comprehend their own mortality. But when did ""science"" actually begin to be its own field, separate from philosophy, astrology, or faith? Beginning with human origins and
Social Science

The History of the Book — HIS4109.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Carol Pal
Credits: 4
What is a book? For centuries, our ideas have been shaped by the rhythms and hierarchies inherent in the nature of the printed book. But what constitutes a ""book"" has actually changed enormously over time - from ancient Egyptian papyri to Mayan glyphs to the first products of Gutenberg's fifteenth-century printing revolution. Moreover, as these technologies have changed, so
Social Science

The Hollow Form — CER2221.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Barry Bartlett
Credits: 4
The objective of this class is to help students learn the breadth of handbuilding techniques in the ceramic arts that have given rise to a vast history of ideas observed using hollow forms. Unlike traditional sculptural techniques used in wood, stone and metal, ceramic forms have depended on the interior space, the void, to define both symbolic meaning and formal structure.
Visual Arts

The Hollow Form — CER2221.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Barry Bartlett
Credits: 4
This objective of this class is to help students learn the breadth of handbuilding techniques in the ceramic arts that have given rise to a vast history of ideas observed using hollow forms. Unlike traditional sculptural techniques used in wood, stone and metal, ceramic forms have depended on the interior space, the void, to define both symbolic meaning and formal structure.
Visual Arts

The Hollow Form — CER2221.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Barry Bartlett
Credits: 4
This objective of this class is to help students learn the breadth of handbuilding techniques in the ceramic arts that have given rise to a vast history of ideas observed using hollow forms. Unlike traditional sculptural techniques used in wood, stone and metal, ceramic forms have depended on the interior space, the void, to define both symbolic meaning and formal structure.
Visual Arts

The Hollow Form: Introduction to Ceramics — CER2221.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Barry Bartlett
Credits: 4
This objective of this class is to help students learn a set of handbuilding techniques in the ceramic arts that have given rise to a vast history of ideas using the hollow form. Unlike traditional sculptural techniques used in wood, stone and metal, ceramic forms have depended on the interior space, the void, to define both symbolic meaning and formal structure.
Visual Arts

The Hollow Form: Introduction to Ceramics — CER2145.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Barry Bartlett
Credits: 4
The objective of this class is to help students learn the breadth of hand building techniques in the ceramic arts that have given rise to a vast history of ideas using hollow forms. Unlike traditional sculptural techniques used in wood, stone and metal, ceramic forms have depended on the interior space, the void, to define both symbolic meaning and formal structure. This class
Visual Arts

The Human Animal — BIO2118.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
Credits: 4
Humans are animals and share many traits with other animals. In this class a biologist and dancer will engage students in an exploration of structures and functions that permit all animals to process information, move, and react to their environments. How have these structures and functions evolved?  Can these insights inform how humans think, respond, move, and create?
Science Mathematics and Computing Dance

The Human Condition: Hannah Arendt — PHI4101.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Paul Voice
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) was a major political theorist whose work has become increasingly influential in recent years. A student of Martin Heidegger and Karl Jaspers, her extensive writings cover such topics as the nature of power, the meaning of the political and the problem of totalitariansim. This seven-week course is a critical exploration of some of her major works,
Social Science

The Human Condition: Hannah Arendt — PHI4101.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Paul Voice
Credits: 4
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) was a major political theorist whose work has become increasingly influential in recent years. A student of Martin Heidegger and Karl Jaspers, her extensive writings cover such topics as the nature of power, the meaning of the political, and the problem of totalitariansim. This course is a critical exploration of some of her major works, including The
Society Culture and Thought

The Image in Islamic Cultures — AH2128.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
Despite the widespread but erroneous assumption that Islam prohibits images, figurative representations have been abundantly produced in Islamic societies since the early years of Islam. With a particular focus on painting and the art of the book, this course will examine the central place of images in Islamic cultures from the early modern period to the present. While images
Visual Arts

The Immigrant Novel — LIT2540.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
The immigrant novel often bears the burden of “building bridges” between cultures, portraying “the good immigrant” or “the tragic immigrant” as a helpless individual on a journey to assimilation in a new country. But, for over a century, alongside the stereotypical immigrant novels, there have been numerous irreverent immigrant novels that push back against oversimplification,
Literature

The Improvising and Composing Vocalist — MVO2302.02) (new course code as of 11/1/2021

Spring 2022
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Credits: 1
Voice is an instrument with an incredible range of expression, and there is much to explore in the realm of vocal improvisation and composition. Through a series of exercises developed for the vocal improviser, with an emphasis on strengthening the foundation of theory and ear training, students will be encouraged to think holistically about the possibilities of voice. Students
Music

The Inexorable(Middle)March of Time — LIT4384.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Manuel Gonzales
Credits: 4
Diving deep into George Eliot's brilliant, funny, heartbreaking novel, Middlemarch, a novel whose story spans only the years 1829 to 1832, we will examine the use and passage of time by one of the 19th century's most insightful and incisive authors. Eliot at once slows down and then speeds us through time, rounding back, leaping forward, using to great effect the omniscient
Literature

The Infinite — Canceled

Spring 2015
Instructor: Andrew McIntyre
Credits: 1
The infinite is a theme that recurs in human thought, in places as disparate as philosophy, architecture, literature and mathematics. We will look at how mathematics has been influenced by the infinite, and the ways in which it has come to terms with it. We will mostly look at what mathematicians call the theory of sets: can one infinite collection be called bigger than another
Science Mathematics and Computing Modules: Transferable Approaches

The Invention of the 19th Century: A seminar on Honoré de Balzac — LIT4329.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Marguerite Feitlowitz
Credits: 4
Oscar Wilde liked to say that Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) invented the 19th century. The Human Comedy (La Comédie Humaine) comprises approximately 3,000 characters in a total of 92 novels, sketches, stories, and philosophical tales. For the first time in the history of the novel, characters recur—a star of one book may reappear as a minor figure in the intricate social
Literature

The Japanese Language and its Reflection of Values and Morals in Folktales — JPN2110.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Satomi LaFave
Credits: 4
Folktales are very interesting sources through which to gain an increased understanding of the cultural values and morals passed on from generation to generation. Gaining insight through these tales can improve comprehension of modern Japanese and the common cultural foundations upon which it is built. In this beginning Japanese course, students will be introduced to some
Languages

The Jazz Age Revisited — LIT2304.02

Fall 2020
Instructor:
Credits: 4
"It was an age of miracles, it was an age of art, it was an age of excess, and it was an age of satire," F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in his epitaph to the Jazz Age in 1931. It was something else too: a social and literary revolution fueled by new communications technology, mass popular entertainment, Jazz and the Blues, and a bold “collaborative energy” (Ann Douglas) between the
Literature

The Jazz Age Revisited — LIT2304.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Benjamin Anastas
Days & Time: M/W 8:00AM-9:50AM
Credits: 4

“It was an age of miracles, it was an age of art, it was an age of excess, and it was an age of satire,” F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in his epitaph to the Jazz Age in 1931. It was something else too: a social and literary revolution fueled by new communications technology, mass popular entertainment, Jazz and the Blues, and a bold “collaborative energy” (Ann Douglas) between

Literature

The Jazz Age Revisited — LIT2304.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Benjamin Anastas
Credits: 4
"It was an age of miracles, it was an age of art, it was an age of excess, and it was an age of satire," F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in his epitaph to the Jazz Age. It was something else too: a social and literary revolution, fueled by new communications technology, music, popular entertainment, the end of racial segregation, and a creative renaissance in a neighborhood in Upper
Literature

The Jewish Annotated Gospels — MED2121.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Michael Cohen
Credits: 4
Jesus, Paul, Peter, James, Jesus' mother Mary and Mary Magdalene were all Jews even though they appear prominently in the Christian Bible, also known as the New Testament. Their lives were imbued with Jewish history, beliefs, and practices. Often those nuances and meanings are lost when those texts are read without that understanding. In this class we will read some of the
CAPA Literature

The Jewish Annotated New Testament — APA2180.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Michael Cohen
Credits: 2
Jesus, Paul, Peter, James, Jesus' mother Mary and Mary Magdalene were all Jews even though they appear prominently in the Christian Bible, also known as the New Testament. Their lives were imbued with Jewish history, beliefs, and practices. Often those nuances and meanings are lost when those texts are read without that understanding. In this class we will read some of the
CAPA

The Journey and the Pity: Revisiting Dante’s Inferno — LIT4597.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
T.S. Eliot famously said, “Dante and Shakespeare divide the world between them.” Agree or disagree, but the work of Dante Alighieri, the fourteenth century Florentine poet and statesman, remains vital to the study of poetry and its history—particularly as the lyric tradition intersects with long-form narrative and Christian allegory begins reconciling with pagan mythology in
Literature