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The Economic Mind — PEC2207.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Lopamudra Banerjee
Credits: 4
A set of questions keeps on bugging the economic mind. They run from the smallest immediate ones, such as, do I buy this salad or that sandwich for my lunch today, to the more solemn ones, such as, do I accept this job or the other one? Other profound questions arise as well. Why does the economy not grow continually over time, but rather, economic upsurges are marred by
CAPA Environment Society Culture and Thought

The Economics of Our Time — PEC2283.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Lopamudra Banerjee
Days & Time: TU 2:10pm-4:00pm
Credits: 2

In this seminar, we will dive into the complexities of today’s global economy, engaging with the most pressing economic challenges of our time. We will explore how economic policies, geopolitical dynamics, and global trends intersect, shaping the economic landscape. Through real-time data, contemporary research, and

Political Economy

The Ecstasy of Influence: Style in Fiction — LIT4124.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Kathleen Alcott
Credits: 4
“Nothing is inherently interesting,” wrote John Gardner, discoursing on the crucial center of any fictive work: style. When it comes to writing short fiction and novels, the ideas we’ve absorbed about narrativizing from our outside lives often don’t apply. Even the most thrilling story, if written without a reverence to form, loses its audience quickly. In this seminar on
Literature

The Emerson Problem: American Transcendentalism, Then and Now — LIT2546.01) (cancelled 10/8/2024

Spring 2025
Instructor: Benjamin Anastas
Credits: 4
A comprehensive survey of American Transcendentalism through the writing of its major figures (Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller) as well as more overshadowed club members like Orestes Brown, Bronson Alcott and Ellery Channing. We will explore the debates the movement set off among thinkers of the 19th Century, especially concerning slavery, Abolitionism

The Essay Film — FV4319.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Erika Mijlin
Credits: 2
An intermediate 7-week production course. Students will enter with a concept for a project ready to begin producing, and to complete by the end of the course.  The essay film has a long tradition as a film form - often departing stylistically from the social issue concerns often associated with documentary film, the essay film is a focused meditation around a theme. It may
Visual Arts

The Ethnography of Things — ANT4108.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Noah Coburn
Credits: 4
***Title change from The Anthropology of Things Time change*** Most ethnographic studies begin by focusing on a group of people. This course asks what the implications are of reversing such an approach and beginning with a specific thing. In what ways do things create culture? By carefully analyzing a series of classic and more current ethnographies, students will look at the
Social Science

The Experimental Narrative — FV4229.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: warren cockerham
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This intermediate visual arts studio course will explore the hybrid approach of experimental film practice and moving-image story telling. The course's focus will be on cinematic language, visual storytelling, and audio-visual correspondence rather than performance and dialogue centered narrative. Students will utilize classical and non-traditional methods of pre-production
Visual Arts

The F-Word: Confronting Fascism in a World on Fire — POL4259.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: John Hultgren
Credits: 4
In the United States, recent years have witnessed an upsurge in right-wing organizing and violence, culminating in the 2021 insurrection at the United States Capitol that sought to overturn the legitimate results of a democratic election. This is not a uniquely American problem. Across much of the globe, political parties organized around hyper-nationalism have gained steam, in
Society Culture and Thought

The F-Word: Confronting Fascism in a World on Fire — POL4259.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: John Hultgren
Days & Time: MO,TH 10:00am-11:50am
Credits: 4

In the United States, recent years have witnessed an upsurge in right-wing organizing and violence, culminating in the 2021 insurrection at the United States Capitol that sought to overturn the legitimate results of a democratic election. This is not a uniquely American problem. Across much of the globe, political parties organized around hyper

Politics

The F-Word: Confronting Fascism in the Wake of an Insurrection — POP2280.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 1
In the United States, recent months have witnessed an upsurge in right-wing organizing and violence, culminating in an insurrection at the United States Capitol that sought to overturn the legitimate results of a democratic election. This is not a uniquely American problem. Across much of the globe, political parties organized around hyper-nationalism have gained steam, in some
CAPA

The Family Album: Reading and Writing the Short Story — LIT4188.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Stuart Nadler
Credits: 4
The poet Czesław Miłosz said once that “when a writer is born into a family, the family is finished.” This idea of the writer’s position amid the family has always mirrored the writer’s position in society, existing both within it and outside of it at the same time. In this class, we will interrogate the family narrative as a particular idea and obsession of the American short
Literature

The Faulkner Fan Club — LIT2408.01) (cancelled 1/5/2023

Spring 2023
Instructor: Manuel Gonzales
Credits: 4
You sent in your application weeks ago and now you've finally gotten your swag: your Faulkner patch, your Faulkner commemorative button, the coffee mug with Faulkner's pen and ink drawn face on it, and your special edition copy of Absalom! Absalom!, and maybe now you're wondering, Well, who else is in this club? Wonder no more. In this class, we'll be reading not Faulkner but
Literature

The Female Grotesque — LIT4391.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Camille Guthrie
Credits: 4
In this class, we will read prose that engages with the Female Grotesque, a subgenre of the Gothic and Grotesque in literature, art, and performance. Readers of the Female Grotesque may experience repulsion and fascination, as the genre reveals how women have been traditionally represented as both abject and ideal. Our focus will be on fiction: novels and short stories. (I
Literature

The Ferguson Report: A Living Document — MOD2152.04

Spring 2015
Instructor: Crina Archer; Erika Mijlin
Credits: 1
In August of 2014, a police officer shot and killed Michael Brown, an unarmed, 18-year-old black man, in Ferguson, Missouri. According to a recent study, Brown's race rendered him 21 times more likely to be killed by a police officer's bullet than had he been a young, white man. Broad public criticism of the shooting and of a grand jury's failure to indict the officer
Modules: Transferable Approaches

The Field Recorder and the Plein Air Musician — MCO4398.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
A field recorder is a novel invention that suggests a relationship towards travel, motion and the capturing of fleeting events or ideas outside of the traditional studio and in the “field”. What do we call this plein air musician, who might they be? If the Impressionist painter chased the light outdoors, what does the plein air musician chase? This class explores how we can
Music

The Film Trailer Project — FRE4119.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Noelle Rouxel-Cubberly
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
In this course, French films are used as linguistic and cultural textbooks. While honing their language skills (listening, reading, speaking and writing), students will focus on selected cultural topics (food, clothes, history, gestures, etc.). Students will create film trailers that reflect their understanding  of the French language and cultural realities. 
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The Film Trailer Project — FRE4119.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly
Credits: 4
In this course, French films are used as linguistic and cultural textbooks. While honing their language skills (listening, reading, speaking and writing), students will focus their critical skills on selected cultural topics (food, clothes, history, gestures, etc.). Students will create film trailers that reflect their understanding  of the French language and cultural
Languages

The Film Trailer Project — FRE4603.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly
Credits: 4
In this course, French films are used as linguistic and cultural textbooks. While honing their language skills (listening, reading, speaking and writing), students will focus their critical skills on selected cultural topics (food, clothes, history, gestures, etc.). Students will create film trailers that reflect their understanding of the French language and cultural realities
Languages

The Film Trailer Project — FRE4603.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Noelle Rouxel-Cubberly
Credits: 4
In this course, French films are used as linguistic and cultural textbooks. While honing their language skills (listening, reading, speaking and writing), students will focus their critical skills on selected cultural topics (food, clothes, history, gestures, etc.). Students will create film trailers that reflect their understanding of the French linguistic and cultural
Cultural Studies and Languages

The Films of Alfred Hitchcock — LIT2295.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Brooke Allen
Credits: 2
Alfred Hitchcock was the greatest director of suspense films, and one of the most original and influential film directors of all time. In this class we will watch a number of HItchcock's best movies, beginning with the silent classic The Lodger and finishing at the end of his career in the 1970s, taking in classics like The Thirty-Nine Steps, Rear Window, North By Northwest and

The Fine Art of Physical Computing — DA4261.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Robert Ransick
Credits: 4
This course aims to extend our notions of the creative fine art potential of computers by exploring uses beyond standard mouse/keyboard/screen interaction. Moving away from these restrictions the course introduces students to basic electronics and programming an Arduino (microcontroller) to read sensors placed in physical objects or the environment. Projects are designed to
Visual Arts

The Fine Art of Physical Computing — DA4261.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Robert Ransick
Credits: 4
This course aims to extend our notions of the creative fine art potential of computers by exploring uses beyond standard mouse/keyboard/screen interaction. Moving away from these restrictions the course introduces students to basic electronics and programming an Arduino (microcontroller) to read sensors placed in physical objects or the environment. Projects are designed to
Visual Arts