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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

The Journey II: The World Between the Great Wars — HIS2208.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Eileen Scully
Credits: 4
Students in this course are a select group of people who sign on to travel the world in the inter-war era (1919-1939). Robust participation is required of all, and students must master information about each place we visit in order to move on to the next destination. The journey starts out in Paris, as preparations are underway for the conference that will produce the Treaty of
Society Culture and Thought

The Key to Songs — MTH4419.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
Credits: 4
A seminar on advanced harmony, based on in-class analyses of a broad range of classical, pop, and jazz songs. Students will learn about chromaticism, pivot chords, modulation, and extended triadic harmonies, while composing songs in a variety of styles. Songwriters studied will include Mozart, Schubert, Mahler, Strauss, Weill, The Beatles, Radiohead, Gershwin, Monk, and other
Music

The Key to Songs — MTH4419.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Nick Brooke
Credits: 4
A seminar on advanced harmony, based on in-class analyses of a broad range of classical, pop, and jazz songs. Students will learn about chromaticism, pivot chords, modulation, and extended triadic harmonies, while composing songs in a variety of styles. Students must have a good knowledge of notation and harmony, be willing to tackle in-depth harmonic analyses and aural
Music

The Key to Songs — MTH4419.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
Credits: 4
An intermediate review of theory based on a broad range of pop, classical, and jazz songs from the last centuries and from across the world. We'll start with a primer on scales, intervals, and basic chordal moves such as the rhythm changes, then progress to chromaticism, modulation, and extended triadic harmonies. Students will compose songs in a variety of styles, but also be
Music

The Key To Songs — MTH4419.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
Credits: 4
A seminar on advanced harmony, based on in-class analyses of a broad range of classical, pop, and jazz songs. Students will learn about chromaticism, pivot chords, modulation, and extended triadic harmonies, while composing songs in a variety of styles. Students must have a good knowledge of notation and harmony, be willing to tackle in-depth harmonic analyses and aural
Music

The Kiln as a Tool — CER2136.02

Spring 2015
Instructor: David Katz
Credits: 2
This course will look into the use of the kiln as an integral tool and part of the creative process in ceramic art. We will explore various different kilns and firing techniques, learning the roles of fire and atmosphere in transforming glaze components into desired surfaces. We will also discuss the history of kiln technology and how this has effected the development of wares,
Visual Arts

The Kimono Project: A design process — DRA2321.02

Fall 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
This is a class for students interested in costume design and theatrical design in general. In this course, students will take an emotional response from their own personal history through a complete design process including the construction of a final garment(s) - a kimono. We will look at how artists from different mediums have interpreted their own source material. Each
Drama

The Language of Drawing: Investigating Abstraction — DRW4246.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Mary Lum
Credits: 4
Drawing is inherently a process of abstracting the world. How do we make use of myriad concepts, forms, and materials to make meaningful drawn images? How does a practitioner “use” drawing to express ideas? What does it mean to work “through” an idea? In this course we look carefully at systems and structures, as well as modes of thinking about drawing in the real world.
Visual Arts

The Language of Material and Process — CER4250.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Barry Bartlett
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course will investigate the unique, material nature of clay as a sculptural medium. Students will explore the material aspects of clay such as dryness, wetness, mass and scale using a variety of mechanical processes that include extrusion, slab rolling, mold casting and experimental digital ceramic printing. In doing so, the pieces created will be used to convey ideas of
Visual Arts

The Language of Material and Process in Ceramics — CER2134.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Barry Bartlett
Credits: 4
This course will investigate the unique, material nature of clay as a sculptural medium. We will learn to observe, interpret, and make art objects through a series of projects in drawing/collage and ceramic techniques. Students will explore the material aspects of clay such as dryness, wetness, mass and scale using a variety of mechanical processes that include extrusion,
Visual Arts

The Language of Material and Process through Analog/ Digital Investigation — CER4250.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Barry Bartlett; Guy Snover
Credits: 4
This course will investigate the unique material nature of clay by integrating digital tools and concepts. A paradigm shift occurs when a robot replaces the hand and a 3D digital model replaces the sketch.  A Cartesian robot moves in three-dimensional space, but giving this movement purpose is still the job of an artist. We will look at applying computer-controlled robots
Visual Arts

The Language of Persuasion — SPA2103.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Sarah Harris
Credits: 4
Students with little or no background in Spanish will learn the language through an immersion in the study of political propaganda, tourist campaigns, and advertising from the Spanish-speaking world. An examination of Spanish and Latin American print, radio, film, and television advertisements, as well as political cartoons and speeches, will allow students to consider
Languages

The Language of Persuasion — SPA2103.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Sarah Harris
Credits: 5
Students with little or no background in Spanish will learn the language through an immersion in the study of advertising and propaganda from the Spanish-speaking world. An examination of Spanish and Latin American print, radio, film, and television advertisements, as well as political cartoons and propaganda, will allow students to consider critically the truths, half-truths,
Cultural Studies and Languages

The Latin American Short Story — SPA4006.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: jonathan pitcher
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Along with intermittent textual analysis and some socio-historical context, the intention is to obsess over the ideology of that most lauded of genres, the Latin American short story, from modernismo to its contemporary forms. Students will develop their oral and written skills, progressing from paragraph-level exposition to imitation to an initial defense of ideas. The course
Languages

The Latin American Short Story — SPA4006.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
Credits: 4
Along with intermittent textual analysis and some socio-historical context, the intention is to obsess over the ideology of that most lauded of genres, the Latin American short story, from modernismo to its contemporary forms. Students will develop their oral and written skills, progressing from paragraph-level exposition to imitation to an initial defense of ideas. The course
Cultural Studies and Languages

The Latin American Short Story — SPA4006.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
Credits: 4
Along with intermittent textual analysis and some socio-historical context, the intention is to obsess over the ideology of that most lauded of genres, the Latin American short story, from modernismo to its contemporary forms. Students will develop their oral and written skills, progressing from paragraph-level exposition to imitation to an initial defense of ideas. The course
Cultural Studies and Languages

The Life and Death of Proteins — BIO4311.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Amie McClellan
Credits: 2
This is an advanced literature-based course aimed at understanding the events that follow the transcription of a DNA sequence into a messenger RNA and the subsequent translation of that message into an amino acid sequence, or protein. The primary emphasis will be on experimental design and interpretation in the context of critical reading, discussion, and writing informed
Science and Mathematics

The Life of Plaster — SCU2308.02) (cancelled 9/15/2023

Spring 2024
Instructor: John Umphlett
Credits: 2
This seven week intensive class will be focused on understanding some basic methods for working with plaster. We will look at a variety of gypsum products and identify their similarities and differences. Plaster can have an amazing way of mimicking life both in the mixing and setting process as well as the ability to copy through casting. In this class, we will investigate and
Visual Arts

The Line of Clothing: Rendering for Costume Design — DRA2267.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Charles Schoonmaker
Credits: 4
The rendering of one's design ideas is a basic tool of the designer. This class will explore various methods of communicating oneʹs design ideas to directors, performers, producers, and other members of a creative team. We will primarily use traditional materials such as paper, pencil, and paint. We will also work in new media, such as ʹBrushesʹ on tablets, or Photoshop. It is
Drama

The Line of Clothing: Rendering for Costume Design — DRA2311.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Charles Schoonmaker
Credits: 2
Rendering is one of the fundamental techniques designers use to visualize their ideas. This class will explore various methods used to communicate visual ideas to directors, performers, producers, and other members of a creative team. While we will primarily work using traditional materials such as paper, pencil, and paint, we may also have occasion to work in digital media.
Dance Drama

The Line of Clothing: Rendering for Costume Design — DRA2267.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Charles Schoonmaker
Credits: 4
The rendering of one’s design ideas is a basic tool of the designer. This class will explore various methods of communicating oneʹs design ideas to directors, performers, producers, and other members of a creative team. We will primarily use traditional materials such as paper, pencil, and paint. We may also work in digital media, such as ʹBrushesʹ on tablets, or Photoshop. It
Dance Drama

The Literature of Artistic Obsession — LIT2250.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Marguerite Feitlowitz
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Creativity itself--elixir and torment, liberation and bondage, enchantment, exhilaration and irresistible adventure--has from time immemorial inspired great works of literature. Our readings will embrace a spectrum: protagonists caught in the throes of creative fixation; the artist who tries madly to impose himself, according to his own "impossible" terms, on society; the
Literature