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Taiwanese Cinema and Culture — CHI4514.01

Spring 2027
Instructor: Ginger Lin
Days & Time: MO,TH 3:40pm-5:30pm
Credits: 4

Taiwanese films are characterized by a distinctive human warmth, a grounded and realistic portrayal of everyday life, and a strong sense of place conveyed through natural landscapes and local settings. Many films focus on the perspectives of ordinary people, addressing social issues and expressing concern for real-life experiences. Themes often explore identity, gender, and

Advancement of Public Action Cultural Studies and Languages Chinese Dance Musical Performance History Art History Film and Video Media Arts

Take On, Take Off: from Inspiration to Travesty — DRA2288.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Kirk Jackson
Credits: 4
Whether motivated by adoration or outrage, playwrights re-imagine the work of others: updating, inverting, eviscerating, and sometimes even improving on original source material. This class will examine, compare, and speculate on those motivations and values as to whether a given interpretation is a “take on” or a “take off”. We will address adaptation tactics, including these
Drama

Taking the Car (that drives your Music) Apart — MCO4378.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Kitty Brazelton
Credits: 2
My interest as a composer is in helping you to study yourself. Switching from the car analogy to one of fabric, tiny choices, tiny filaments of decision, are what accumulate to form your music. And the cognitive pattern of musical identity, your colors and plaids, emerge from those details. A portion of this study is what we call "theory". Some of it is what we call "style"—but
Music

Talking to Children: Who, Why and How Much? — PSY4132.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: David Anderegg
Credits: 4
This class will examine current research and practice in encouraging early literacy by talking to, and reading to, children. The field is now dominated by research findings suggesting that social class differences in the amount of language children hear accounts for differences in early literacy, school readiness and school performance. We will examine that evidence in detail,
Society Culture and Thought

Teaching a Stone to Talk and Other Adventures in Writing Nature — LIT2587.01

Spring 2027
Instructor: Jenny Boully
Days & Time: TU,FR 2:10pm-4:00pm
Credits: 2

This a course in encounters and exhibitions that takes its cue from Annie Dillard’s essay collection Teaching a Stone to Talk. While studying the essays of Dillard, students will also be asked to walk, wander, wonder, and, of course, write. In addition to keeping a journal of silence, students will be asked to discover a place on

Environment Literature

Teaching January 6 — APA2277.02

Fall 2021
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
The January 6 Insurrection at the US Capitol stunned America and the world. What happened and why? What historical and current events culminated in the near collapse of the Great American Experiment? This class develops the tools and builds the curriculum for teachers so their students will learn the political, racial, economic and cultural roots of this violent event and
CAPA

Teaching Languages and Cultures — CSL2000.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly
Days & Time: MO,TH 10:00am-11:50am
Credits: 4

The study of foreign languages and cultures is a crucial asset. For some, it is a life-saving necessity. For others it represents a powerful tool in a toolkit for antiracism, social justice, and intercultural understanding. In this course, students will gain a basic understanding of language and culture teaching to young children and

Education Cultural Studies and Languages

Teaching Languages and Cultures K-6 — CSL2000.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly
Credits: 2
Early exploration of foreign languages and cultures is a powerful tool towards antiracism, social justice, and intercultural understanding. In this course, students will gain a basic understanding of language and culture teaching to young children. Working with local teachers, program administrators, and language acquisition experts, students will have an opportunity to (co-
Cultural Studies and Languages

Teaching Languages and Cultures K-6 — EDU2151.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly
Credits: 4
Early exploration of foreign languages and cultures is a powerful tool towards antiracism, social justice, and intercultural understanding. In this course, students will gain a basic understanding of language and culture teaching to young children. Discussions with local teachers and language acquisition experts will provide a professional perspective on the course content.
Cultural Studies and Languages Education

Teaching Languages and Cultures K-6 — CSL2000.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly
Credits: 2
Early exploration of foreign languages and cultures is a powerful tool towards social justice and intercultural understanding. This will be particularly important for a class age (6-11) that will have been significantly deprived of the practice of fundamental socialization skills because of Covid. This course is intended to help students gain a basic understanding of language
Cultural Studies and Languages Education

Teaching Languages and Cultures K-6 — FLE2107.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly, Ikuko Yoshida Sarah Harris
Credits: 2
Early exploration of foreign languages and cultures is gaining increasing attention nationwide. This seven-week course is intended to help students gain a basic understanding of language and culture teaching to young children. Students will explore theories and pedagogical techniques, develop lesson plans and units, and implement them in class. Students will create, share, and
CAPA Languages

Teaching Languages K-6 — MOD2162.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Sarah Harris, Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly, Ikuko Yoshida
Credits: 1
Early exploration of foreign languages and cultures is gaining increasing attention nationwide. This three-week module is intended to help students gain a basic understanding of foreign language teaching to young children.  Working with local language teachers and program administrators, students will have an opportunity to teach foreign languages in the
Education Languages Modules: Transferable Approaches

Teaching to Transgress: Radical Pedagogy Practicum — EDU4402.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
In Teaching to Transgress, the late bell hooks writes, “As a classroom community, our capacity to generate excitement is deeply affected by our interest in one another, in hearing one another’s voices, in recognizing one another’s presence.” For hooks, ‘excitement’ is key to learning, not merely because it generates entertaining learning spaces, but because learning itself (as
Education

Technical Theatre Collaborating with Advanced Design —

Spring 2024
Instructor: Tilly Grimes
Credits: 4
Working in conjunction with Advanced Design and Collaboration students will be invited to join a design orientated devised performance as part of the technical team building and creating the shows When theater starts with a script, visuals tend to follow the narrative. But what happens when bold visuals lead the way? Class will be used as a space to build on existing
Drama

Technical Topics: Moving Image Equipment — FV2128.02

Fall 2019
Instructor: Colleen Murphy
Credits: 2
This seven-week course is an opportunity to gain hands-on experience with the entire video and animation equipment inventory. In class we will use a wide variety of cameras, set up audio and lighting equipment, learn about camera stabilization, capture drone footage, and experiment with projectors. Throughout the course students will be asked to give live demonstrations and
Visual Arts

Technical Topics: Video and Animation Post-Production — FV2143.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Colleen Murphy
Credits: 2
This 2 credit course will be focused on developing post-production editing skills within Adobe Premiere and Adobe After Effects. The topics covered are applicable to any video based project within any discipline and include color correction, text and graphics, masking, compositing, key framing, and the visual language of editing. Students will be working independently at their
Visual Arts

Technical Topics: Virtual Reality — MA4107.02

Spring 2019
Instructor: Colleen Murphy
Credits: 2
This seven-week course is designed to demonstrate the emerging connection between film and virtual reality within the context of installation art. The focus will be split between experimentation with virtual reality equipment and advanced software workflows using Premiere and After Effects. Students are encouraged to apply their other areas of interest, such as animation, sound
Visual Arts

Technique, Phrasing, and Performance — DAN4321.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 2
This is designed for those who have made dance work and are interested in further developing a sense of personal movement phrasing. Full attention is paid to detail, nuance, and finesse of any phrase material that is made. Students use phrasing as a way to explore compositional, technical and performance issues and consider how aspects of dance making, technique and performance
Dance

Technique, Phrasing, and Performance — DAN4321.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 2
***Time Change*** This is designed for those who have made dance work and are interested in further developing a sense of personal movement phrasing. Full attention is paid to detail, nuance, and finesse of any phrase material that is made. Students use phrasing as a way to explore compositional, technical and performance issues and consider how aspects of dance making,
Dance

Technique, Phrasing, and Performance — DAN4321.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
This is designed for those who have made dance work and are interested in further developing a sense of personal movement phrasing. Full attention is paid to detail, nuance, and finesse of any phrase material that is made. Students use phrasing as a way to explore compositional, technical and performance issues and consider how aspects of dance making, technique and performance
Dance

Technologies of Heartbreak — LIT2409.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
Reading itself is a mystery -- that these small black and white symbols on a page or screen should be able to pass along information, much less evoke specific emotions in a reader is ludicrous and makes no reasonable sense (not to me, anyway) -- and this class hopes to explore and pull at the loose threads of this mystery with a focus on writing that has the potential to break
Literature

Technology and Improvisation — MUS4105.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Sam Pluta
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
In the 21st Century, computer and electronic technology has emerged as a highly expressive tool for real-time musical and visual performance. In this class we will explore improvisation and live performance through technology. We will design expressive musical software environments and build hardware circuits for performance, investigate the relationships between human
Music

Technology Entrepreneurship — CS4313.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Meltem Ballan
Credits: 4
Entrepreneurship is not just about start-ups. It is a problem-solving frame of mind that requires technical expertise, a business sense, an ability to anticipate the future, and an appreciation of social context. In this course students are required to group in the first course. The teams will have business acumen, technology acumen and marketing acumen/product acumen. First
Science and Mathematics Society Culture and Thought

Technology Pathways and Independent Study — CS4134.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Meltem Ballan
Credits: 4
Technology Pathway and Independent Study is designed to accommodate students independent projects and ideas to help them with their FWT and their senior projects. This is a course designated for study and research in an area of software engineering, data science, AI and technology product development. This course may be repeated each semester. Professional Values and
Science and Mathematics