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The Baroque Imaginary — AH4117.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Vanessa Lyon
Credits: 4
The Baroque has fascinated--and incensed--historians, cultural critics, and philosophers from Walter Benjamin and Erwin Panofsky to Gilles Deleuze and Peter Greenaway. Often aligned with an artistic ‘Golden Age’ exemplified by the complex and discomfiting works of Bernini, Rubens, Velázquez, and Vermeer, the Baroque has also been associated with ruinous decadence and excess,
Visual Arts

The Baroque Imaginary — AH4117.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Vanessa Lyon
Credits: 4
The concept of the Baroque has long fascinated—and incensed—historians, literary critics, and philosophers. Often aligned with an artistic ‘Golden Age’ exemplified by the complex and discomfiting works of Bernini, Rubens, Velázquez, and Vermeer, the Baroque has also been associated with ruinous decadence and excess, irrationality, preciosity, and effeminacy—rhetorically charged
Visual Arts

The Basic Calligraphy Strokes for Beginners — CSL2003.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Ginger Lin
Credits: 1
Mastering the eight basic calligraphy strokes requires great patience and concentration. However, once those and stroke order are mastered one will be able to copy any of the thousands of standard Chinese characters. Calligraphy has also been shown to be an effective form of meditation and art therapy. This class will provide the students with foundational theory and practice
Cultural Studies and Languages

The Beautiful City: Plato's Republic — PHI4402.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Catherine McKeen
Credits: 4
Plato’s Republic stretches its insistent intellectual tendrils into just about every corner of the Western intellectual tradition. The Republic is ostensibly about constructing a maximally just political community. This is the kallipolis, the “beautiful city.” Along the way, however, Socrates and his interlocutors wrestle with inter-tangled philosophical questions about truth,
Society Culture and Thought

The Beautiful City: Plato’s Republic — PHI4402.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Catherine McKeen
Credits: 4
In Plato’s masterwork, Republic, Socrates sets out to construct a political community that is maximally just. This is the kallipolis, the “beautiful city.” Central elements of this city are problematic. The kallipolis is decidedly undemocratic, artistic expression is strictly limited, and jobs are assigned, not freely chosen. On the other hand, the Republic radically reimagines
Society Culture and Thought

The Bible and Conflict Resolution — MOD2137.04

Fall 2014
Instructor: michael cohen
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1
The Bible provides many examples and lessons about conflict resolution. This three-week module will focus on some of the most important texts in the Bible when it comes to conflict resolution. Those selected texts will be examined using two thousand years of commentary and analysis. Modern conflict resolution theories, which provide contemporary approaches, will be integrated
CAPA Modules: Transferable Approaches

The Bible and Conflict Resolution — MOD2137.02

Spring 2016
Instructor: Michael Cohen
Credits: 1
The Bible provides many examples and lessons about conflict resolution. This three-week module will focus on some of the most important texts in the Bible when it comes to conflict resolution. Those selected texts will be examined using two thousand years of commentary and analysis. Modern conflict resolution theories, which provide contemporary approaches, will be integrated
CAPA Modules: Transferable Approaches

The Bible and Conflict Resolution — MOD2137.02

Spring 2017
Instructor: Michael Cohen
Credits: 1
The Bible provides many examples and lessons about conflict resolution. This three-week module will focus on some of the most important texts in the Bible when it comes to conflict resolution. Those selected texts will be examined using two thousand years of commentary and analysis. Modern conflict resolution theories, which provide contemporary approaches, will be integrated
CAPA Modules: Transferable Approaches

The Bible and the Environment — MOD2254.03

Spring 2017
Instructor: Michael Cohen
Credits: 1
This module will analyze the environmental dimensions and lessons of the Bible with a primary focus on the books of Genesis and Psalms. Through the use of ancient and contemporary commentators the environmental messages of the Biblical texts will be examined as a means to confront and explore our relationship to the environment. The course will also examine the scores of
CAPA Environment Modules: Transferable Approaches

The Bible and the Environment — MOD2254.03

Spring 2016
Instructor: Michael Cohen
Credits: 1
This module will analyze the environmental dimensions and lessons of the Bible with a primary focus on the books of Genesis and Psalms. Through the use of ancient and contemporary commentators the environmental messages of the Biblical texts will be examined as a means to confront and explore our relationship to the environment. The course will also examine the scores of
Environment Modules: Transferable Approaches

The Bible as a Key to Environmental Thought — MED2120.02

Fall 2021
Instructor: Michael Cohen
Credits: 1
This survey course will analyze the environmental dimensions and lessons of the book of Genesis and other books of the Bible, and at times from other traditions as well. Through the use of mostly contemporary commentators the text of the Bible will also be read as an environmental text. The course will also examine the scores of references to nature and the environment with an
CAPA

The Bible as a Key to Environmental Thought — MED2120.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Michael Cohen
Credits: 1
This survey course will analyze the environmental dimensions and lessons of the book of Genesis and other books of the Bible, and at times from other traditions as well. Through the use of mostly contemporary commentators the text of the Bible will also be read as an environmental text. The course will also examine the scores of references to nature and the environment with an
CAPA Environment Literature

The Big Picture: Stewarding Artists' Legacies (FWT Course) — VA4406.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Liz White
Credits: 1
What forces and individuals contribute to shaping an artist’s legacy? What happens to all of the objects, materials, and correspondence that artists create during their lifetime? What is a catalogue raisonné? This one-credit module will introduce students to the nascent field of artist-endowed foundations, and invite the consideration of philosophical and creative questions,
Visual Arts

The Big Picture: Stewarding Artists’ Legacies (FWT Course) — VA4406.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Liz White
Credits: 1
What forces and individuals contribute to shaping an artist’s legacy? What happens to all of the objects, materials, and correspondence that artists create during their lifetime? What is a catalogue raisonné? This one-credit remote module will introduce students to the nascent field of artist-endowed foundations, and invite the consideration of philosophical and creative
Visual Arts

The Big Picture: Stewarding Artists’ Legacies (FWT Course) — VA4406.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Liz White
Credits: 1
What forces and individuals contribute to shaping an artist’s legacy? What happens to all of the objects, materials, and correspondence that artists create during their lifetime? What is a catalogue raisonné? This one-credit remote module will introduce students to the nascent field of artist-endowed foundations, and invite the consideration of philosophical and creative
Visual Arts

The Big Picture: Stewarding Artists’ Legacies (FWT Course) — VA4406.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Liz White
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1

What forces and individuals contribute to shaping an artist’s legacy? What happens to all of the objects, materials, and correspondence that artists create during their lifetime? What is a catalogue raisonné? This one-credit remote module will introduce students to legacy work and to the nascent field of artist-endowed foundations, inviting the consideration of philosophical

Visual Arts

The Big Picture: Stewarding Artists’ Legacies (FWT Course) — VA4406.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Liz White
Credits: 1
What forces and individuals contribute to shaping an artist’s legacy? What happens to all of the objects, materials, and correspondence that artists create during their lifetime? What is a catalogue raisonné? This one-credit remote module will introduce students to the nascent field of artist-endowed foundations, and invite the consideration of philosophical and creative
Visual Arts

The Biological Sex Mosaic — BIO2241.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Amie McClellan
Credits: 4
The evolution of sexual reproduction is arguably the single most consequential event in the evolution of life on Earth. This class will explore the diversity of biological sex. We will focus on sexual differentiation in animals, including humans. Students will learn the genetic, developmental, and hormonal mechanisms that give rise to sex phenotypes, while exploring the
Science and Mathematics

The Biological Sex Mosaic — BIO2241.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
The evolution of sexual reproduction is arguably the single most consequential event in the evolution of life on Earth. This class will explore the diversity of biological sex. We will focus on sexual differentiation in animals, including humans. Students will learn the genetic, developmental, and hormonal mechanisms that give rise to sex
Science and Mathematics

The Black Aesthetic — LIT4267.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Benjamin Anastas
Credits: 4
This course will focus on the history and practice of the black aesthetic, as it has been defined by African Americans from three incarnations: slave narratives, the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920’s and 30’s and the Black Arts Movement of the 1960’s and its evolution thru the end of the 20th Century. There will be assigned readings from various literary critics,
Literature

The Blazing World — PHI4246.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Catherine McKeen
Credits: 2
Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World, published in 1666, is many things- an early experiment in science fiction; a biting satire of gender norms; a visionary feminist utopia (or unsettling authoritarian dystopia); a sample of imagination-driven travel writing; the work of a 17th c. woman making a daring claim to literary, political, and intellectual authority; and a text very
Society Culture and Thought

The Body Acoustic: Toward a Sense of Place — DAN2112.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 2
How do we physically understand the spaces we are in? How is each of us affected by them? How do we develop a deeper sense of place? The Body Acoustic aims to heighten awareness of the reciprocal relationship between the built environment and our senses. Light and sound, distances, height, volume, surfaces, angles/curves and a/symmetries all affect one’s movement through
Dance

The Body Acoustic: Toward a Sense of Place — DAN2112.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 2
How do we physically understand the spaces we are in? How is each of us affected by them? How do we develop a deeper sense of place? The Body Acoustic aims to heighten awareness of the reciprocal relationship between the built environment and our senses. Light and sound, distances, height, volume, surfaces, angles/curves and a/symmetries all affect our movement through interior
Dance

The Body Acoustic: Toward a Sense of Place — DAN2112.01

Fall 2026
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Days & Time: TU,FR 2:10pm-4:00pm
Credits: 4

How do we physically understand the spaces we are in? How is each of us affected by them? How do we develop a deeper sense of place? The Body Acoustic aims to heighten awareness of the reciprocal relationship between the environment (natural and built) and our senses. Light and sound, distances, height, volume, surfaces, angles/curves and a/symmetries all affect one’s

Dance

The Body Acoustic: Toward a Sense of Place — DAN2112.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 2
How do we physically understand the spaces we are in? How is each of us affected by them? How do we develop a deeper sense of place? The Body Acoustic aims to heighten awareness of the reciprocal relationship between the built environment and our senses. Light and sound, distances, height, volume, surfaces, angles/curves and a/symmetries all affect one’s movement through
Dance