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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

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

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

Tell the Truth: Reading and Writing the Modern Memoir — LIT4286.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Michael Dumanis
Credits: 4
In the past twenty years, the genre of memoir has exploded onto the literary scene. What is it about the intimate details of someone else's life that intrigues the reading public? Is there a hint of voyeurism is our enjoyment? Or do we simply fall in love with real people through the power of their words, and hope for them to overcome the obstacles that life has thrown in their
Literature

Tell the World: Graphic Design for Creative Practice — DA2112.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Nancy Nowacek
Credits: 4
The goal of this course is to provide students who are new to the principles of visual design with the practical knowledge, critical skills and confidence to effectively express their ideas graphically. This course will supply an overview of the fundamentals used to convey an idea, communicate a message and influence an experience. Topics covered in the course include:
Visual Arts

Ten Decades, Ten Exhibitions: Art Narratives of the Twentieth Century — CUR2226.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Anne Thompson
Credits: 4
This introductory course considers exhibitions that have shaped scholarly and popular conceptions of twentieth-century Western art history. Readings, films, discussions and interactive lectures address styles and ideas within the context of the art spectacle or “show.” Starting with the Armory Show of 1913, we examine art-world machinations as part of economic, political and
Visual Arts

Ten Decades, Ten Exhibitions: Popular Art Narratives of the Twentieth Century — VA2226.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Anne Thompson
Credits: 4
This introductory course considers modernism and postmodernism through a close examination of exhibitions that shaped scholarly and popular conceptions of twentieth-century art. Starting with the Last Futurist Exhibition of Painting in 1915, readings, films, discussions and interactive lectures will address styles and ideas within the context of the art spectacle or “show.”
Visual Arts

Terrible Choices: Philosophy Tragedy — PHI4226.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
The tragic protagonist is a person pushed to the breaking point- dealing with disaster, fate, suffering, unspeakable loss, and often the consequences of their own bad decisions. Greek tragedy shows human beings struggling in a world that often seems brutal, senseless, and beyond their control, where contingency is a hard fact of life. As such, tragedy raises significant
Society Culture and Thought

Terrible Choices: Philosophy & Tragedy — PHI4226.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Catherine McKeen
Days & Time: TH 1:40pm-5:20pm
Credits: 4

The tragic protagonist is a person pushed to the breaking point- dealing with disaster, fate, suffering, unspeakable loss, and often the consequences of their own bad decisions. Greek tragedy shows human beings struggling in a world that often seems brutal, senseless, and beyond their control, where contingency is a hard fact of life. As such, tragedy raises significant

Literature Philosophy

Terrible Choices: Philosophy & Tragedy — PHI4226.01

Spring 2027
Instructor: Catherine McKeen
Days & Time: TU 2:10pm-5:50pm
Credits: 4

The tragic protagonist is a person pushed to the breaking point- dealing with disaster, fate, suffering, unspeakable loss, and often the consequences of their own bad decisions. Greek tragedy shows human beings struggling in a world that often seems brutal, senseless, and beyond their control, where contingency is a hard fact of life. As such, tragedy raises significant

Philosophy

Tessellation — DES2102.01) (cancelled 5/2/2024

Fall 2024
Instructor: Farhad Mirza
Credits: 4
This course is an introduction to tessellation, also known as space filling, or packing. Through drawing exercises on various grids (which also happen to be tessellations) we will learn about edges and vertices, moving to regular, semi-regular, and edge tessellation among others, eventually proceeding from planar tiling to packing in three dimensions. Tessellation is a spatial
Visual Arts

Tessellation — DRW2265.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
This drawing and modeling course is an introduction to tessellation, also known as space filling, or packing. Through drawing exercises on various grids (which also happen to be tessellations), we will learn about edges and vertices, moving to regular and semi-regular tessellation, and edge tessellation among others, eventually proceeding from planar tiling to packing in three
Visual Arts

Tessellation — DES2105.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Farhad Mirza
Credits: 4
This course is an introduction to tessellation, also known as space filling, or packing. Through drawing exercises on various grids (which also happen to be tessellations) we will learn about edges and vertices, moving to regular, semi-regular, and edge tessellation among others, eventually proceeding from planar tiling to packing in three dimensions. Tessellation is a spatial
Visual Arts

Tessellation — DRW2265.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Farhad Mirza
Credits: 4
This drawing and modeling course is an introduction to tessellation, also known as space filling, or packing. Through drawing exercises on various grids (which also happen to be tessellations) we will learn about edges and vertices, moving to regular, semi-regular, and edge tessellation among others, eventually proceeding from planar tiling to packing in three dimensions.
Visual Arts

Text Seminar: Plato's Erotic Dialogues — PHI4128.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Karen Gover
Credits: 4
In this course we will study in close detail Plato's two great dialogues on the subject of erotic love. In the first seven weeks, we will focus on The Symposium, and in the second seven weeks we will read The Phaedrus. Our engagement with the primary texts will be supplemented with readings on the history, cultural context, and interpretations of these works. In addition to the
Social Science

Text Seminar: Plato's Republic — PHI4244.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Karen Gover
Credits: 4
***Time Change New Description*** Plato's _Republic_ is not only a foundational work in the history of Western political philosophy, but also a fascinating and beautiful work of literature.  It has provocative and even radical things to say about human nature, ethics, education, family, government, and art.  We will work our way methodically through the primary text
Social Science

Text Seminar: Plato’s Republic — PHI4244.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Karen Gover
Credits: 4
Plato's Republic is not only a foundational work in the history of Western political philosophy, but also a fascinating and beautiful work of literature. It has provocative and even radical things to say about human nature, ethics, education, family, government, and art. We will work our way methodically through the primary text while engaging with some of the best Plato
Society Culture and Thought

Texts in Transit: Translating from French to English — FRE4613.02

Fall 2026
Instructor: Stephen Shapiro
Days & Time: MO,TH 10:00am-11:50am
Credits: 2

In this course we will practice translating from French into English. We will work on developing a mindfulness about language use as well as a comparative eye focused on English and French’s stylistic and structural preferences. Grammar and lexical development will also be on offer and will highlight

French