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Transformative Justice: Changing Ourselves and the World — APA2252.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Alisa Del Tufo
Credits: 4
Transformative justice is a set of theories and practices that offers a new approach to changing systems and institutions. These methods reflect the values of  restorative practices generally: accountability, empathy, positive communication and healing. In this era of challenging culture cultural expressions Transformative Justice offers us ways to strengthen and maintain
CAPA

Transformative Voice — MCO4117.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Sergei Tcherepnin
Credits: 2
In this class, students will use their voices to create stylistically diverse sonic compositions, from sound collages to pop songs. The focus will be on learning a variety of techniques on how to transform the human voice with electronics. We will cover vocoders, ring modulators, delays, autotune, harmonizers and pitch shifters. A series of composition assignments will frame
Music

Translating from Zero — LIT2573.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Mariam Rahmani
Days & Time: TU,FR 2:10pm-4:00pm
Credits: 4

Designed to help beginner translators with no experience build their own ethical translation practices—with attention to issues of race, gender, and queerness—this course offers an introduction to translation via a hands-on approach. What pronouns do you use when translating from a language that doesn’t have gendered pronouns? Do you translate slurs? We

Black Studies Literature

Transnational Feminist Geography — SCT2138.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Emily Mitchell-Eaton
Credits: 4
What is the global? What is the transnational? Are these spaces of connection, of division, of possibility, or dislocation? What does solidarity mean, how is it practiced (or critiqued), and whom does it benefit? This course aims to grapple with the complexities and contradictions of such questions in the context of transnational feminist theory and praxis. In particular, we
Society Culture and Thought

Transnational Feminist Geography — SCT2138.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Emily Mitchell-Eaton
Credits: 4
What is the global? What is the transnational? Are these spaces of connection, of division, of possibility, or dislocation? What does solidarity mean, how is it practiced (or critiqued), and whom does it benefit? This course aims to grapple with the complexities and contradictions of such questions in the context of transnational feminist theory and praxis. In particular, we
Society Culture and Thought

Transpacific Worlds — canceled

Spring 2019
Instructor: Emily Mitchell-Eaton
Credits: 4
In recent years, the concept of the “transpacific” has attained new significance, in geography and beyond, as a way of naming the two-way “traffic in peoples, cultures, capital, and ideas between ‘America’ and ‘Asia’, as well as across the troubled ocean that lends its name to this model” (Hoskins and Nguyen, 2014: 2). This interdisciplinary field of inquiry has approached the
Society Culture and Thought

Trashy — FV2323.02

Spring 2023
Instructor: Jen Liu
Credits: 2
This is a 7-week screening and discussion-based seminar on the concept and look of “trashiness” in modern and contemporary media and art practices.  We will look at a broad range of art practices and short films/media, primarily from the latter half of the 20th century into the 21st, with work produced in an independent/alternative context, though in conversation with
Visual Arts

Trashy — FV2323.02

Fall 2024
Instructor: Jen Liu
Credits: 2
This is a 7-week screening and discussion-based seminar on the concept and look of “trashiness” in modern and contemporary media and art practices.  We will look at a broad range of art practices as well as film and online media, primarily from the latter half of the 20th century and the 21st. Of particular interest will be works produced in an independent/alternative
Visual Arts

Traveling in Italian Film — ITA4401.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Barbara Alfano
Credits: 4
In Italian culture, as it happens for every culture, the idea of travel is deeply connected to the country’s social and historical contexts, and to the questioning of personal identity. In this respect, travel becomes a mirror for the traveler. In the case of Italian cinematic narratives, is the mirror sending back surprising images, disclosing secrets, or repeating stereotypes
Visual Arts Cultural Studies and Languages

Traveling in Italian Film — ITA4401.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Barbara Alfano
Credits: 4
In Italian culture, as it happens for every culture, the idea of travel is deeply connected to the countryʹs social and historical contexts, and to the questioning of personal identity. In this respect, travel becomes a mirror for the traveler. In the case of Italian narratives, is the mirror sending back surprising images, disclosing secrets, or repeating stereotypes? Focusing
Languages

Traveling in Italian Film — ITA4401.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Barbara Alfano
Credits: 4
In Italian culture, as it happens for every culture, the idea of travel is deeply connected to the country's social and historical contexts, and to the questioning of personal identity. In this respect, travel becomes a mirror for the traveler. In the case of Italian narratives, is the mirror sending back surprising images, disclosing secrets, or repeating stereotypes? Focusing
Languages

Traveling with Matsuo Basho — JPN4701.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
Credits: 4
In this course, students will follow the footsteps of a prominent Japanese poet in the seventeen-century, Matsuo Basho, and learn about different regions of Japan and the Japanese great passion for food.  As student “imaginary” travel various regions of Japan, they will learn about historical and scenic places that are depicted in Basho’ poems and various local cuisines in
Languages

Trends in Adolescent Mental Health — PSY4381.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Emily Waterman
Credits: 2
Adolescent mental health has become a topic of public discourse, due to research showing increases in depressed mood and anxiety among teens. This course is for students interested in a rigorous reading of the recent (past five years) literature on adolescent mental health. We will discuss methodologies to research adolescent mental health, as well as statistical techniques.
Society Culture and Thought

Trends in Adolescent Mental Health — PSY4381.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Emily Waterman
Credits: 2
Adolescent mental health has become a topic of public discourse, due to research showing increases in depressed mood and anxiety among teens. This course is for students interested in a rigorous reading of the recent (past five years) literature on adolescent mental health. We will discuss methodologies to research adolescent mental health, as well as statistical techniques.
Society Culture and Thought

Trends in Adolescent Mental Health — PSY4381.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Emily Waterman
Credits: 2
Adolescent mental health has become a topic of public discourse, due to research showing increases in depressed mood and anxiety among teens. This course is for students interested in a rigorous reading of the recent (past five years) literature on adolescent mental health. We will discuss methodologies to research adolescent mental health, as well as statistical techniques.
Society Culture and Thought

Tribes, Traditions Modern Practices of African Dance — DAN2135.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Souleymane Badolo
Credits: 2
In this course, we will focus on the specific dance in many areas of Africa including: Zimbabwe, South Africa, Ghana, Benin, Niger, Burkina Faso, Senegal, Cote d’Ivoire. We will study the movement history and meaning behind these different cultural styles and work to understand the many different stories that inform them. Students will be expected to research the use of costume
Dance

Tristram Shandy and the Pointless Novel — LIT4766.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Michael Dumanis
Credits: 4
“Nothing odd will do long. Tristram Shandy did not last,” Samuel Johnson wrote in 1776, a decade after Laurence Sterne’s novel was published. Tristram Shandy is indeed an odd book: an autobiographical novel which takes hundreds of pages to get to the moment of its own narrator’s birth; a story which is forever interrupting itself with digressions and typographical oddities, and
Literature

Trusting the Body: Form, Balance and Letting Go — DAN4371.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 2
In this class we pose the questions: How do we create or utilize movement that is meaningful and essential to our dance making? and how does our movement evolve and how do we work with it and direct its potential? We will consider the relevance and importance of how depth and continuity of practice in our various forms can be the basic framework for our evolution as movement
Dance

Truth and Consequences: The Uses (and Misuses) of Literary Persona — LIT2514.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Paul La Farge
Credits: 4
This will be a class about writers who have invented literary personae which complicate (and in some cases frustrate) the reading of their work. Questions about the uses of persona, the historical contexts in which persona become valuable, and the boundaries of the “literary” – the places where works of literature create anxiety by impinging on ideas about authority,
Literature

Truth, Beauty, and Goodness: The Philosophy of Iris Murdoch — PHI4108.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Douglas Kremm
Credits: 4
Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) was a provocative and profoundly original thinker whose significance for contemporary philosophy is still being processed and absorbed today. Her work engages a wide range of topics, including art and religion, morals and politics, metaphysics and mysticism, the nature of the imagination, and the nature of the self. In this course, we will engage with
Society Culture and Thought

Tuesday Soup-er Club Intensive: Bennington Foodscape — APA2168.02

Spring 2020
Instructor: Yoko Inoue
Credits: 2
This is a trans-disciplinary course that investigates local food sovereignty. Incorporating activities such as collective soup making to intersect with academic research and theoretical reading, this course aims to enhance our overall understandings about the modern day food chain (i.e. industrial food production and systems of distribution). The Soup-er Club will create
CAPA

Tuesday Soup-er Club: Cooking is Power — APA2168.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Yoko Inoue
Credits: 2
This is a transdisciplinary course that investigates local and global food sovereignty. Incorporating activities such as collective soup making to intersect with academic research and theoretical reading, this course aims to enhance our overall understandings about the modern day food chain (i.e. industrial food production and systems of distribution). Through collaborative
CAPA

Tune-smithing: Creating Melody — MCO4003.02

Fall 2025
Instructor: Rachel Clemente
Days & Time: MO,TH 1:40pm-3:30pm
Credits: 2

In this course we will be looking at the harmonic and melodic structures of traditional Gaelic (Highlands and Islands of Scotland) melodies as well as the contemporary music of the Scottish folk music revival to draw on and create new compositions. Students will compose four melodies (or one larger work) in a variety of traditional styles utilizing the different tune forms

Composition

Tuning Scores for the Present Moment — DAN4334.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 2
This composition class is based on the work of dance artist Lisa Nelson. Students will learn techniques to bring awareness to the body’s senses, space, and one another through a series of ‘warm-ups’, ‘scores’ and group compositions, collectively known as Tuning Scores. Warm-ups are designed to bring sensorial awareness to the animal body that extends into space and surrounding
Dance

Turbulent Transitions — PEC4122.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Robin Kemkes
Credits: 4
This course will explore some of the major economic transitions throughout history with a particular focus on the pre-conditions underlying the changes and the resulting socio-economic developments. The course will span a broad time period across several regions of the world. First, we will study the transition from feudalism to capitalism in Europe. Next, we will pursue the
Social Science