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This is Not a Novel: Experimental American Fiction — LIT2211.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Michael Dumanis
Credits: 4
In this course, we will examine the attempts of various American writers to come up with alternatives to the conventions of realist narrative fiction that have dominated American literary history. We will read writers from the last half-century that have employed with modernist and postmodern techniques as metafiction, resistance of closure, authorial intrusion, collage,
Literature

THIS, THAT and the OTHER: An Introduction to Linguistic Referring — LIN2105.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
How do we, as users of language, guide others to successfully follow our attention and intention in referring to elements of shared physical, social and discursive worlds? How do we, as consumers of language, integrate linguistic signals with available context to successfully interpret these acts of reference? In this class, we will draw on data from a wide range of
Cultural Studies and Languages Society Culture and Thought

Thought, Action, and Passion: Fundamentals of CAPA — APA2118.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: elizabeth coleman; susan sgorbati
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
For a long time we have disconnected the activity of thinking from that of doing. In addition to the impoverishment of both thought and action that results from this separation, we have lost touch with the emotional and intellectual intensities that the integration of thought and action generate. This course reconnects thought, action and passion by focusing on exploring the
CAPA

Thresholds of Identity — SPA4501.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Sarah Harris
Credits: 4
In Thresholds of Identity, we will consider the literature of Spanish migration, domestic and international, through contextualized readings of contemporary texts. Our primary literary examples will correspond to each of three recent major waves in migrations for Spain: 1) movement from rural to urban areas in the early twentieth century 2) emigration from Spain to other
Languages

Thresholds of Identity: Films and Novels of Migration — SPA4807.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Sarah Harris
Credits: 4
Thresholds of Identity offers the study of novels and films of Spanish migration, domestic and international, through contextualized engagement with selected contemporary texts. Our primary literature and films correspond to each of three recent Spanish migratory trends: 1) mass movement from rural to urban areas in the early twentieth century 2) emigration from Spain during
Cultural Studies and Languages

Through Syntax to Style: A Grammar of Writing — LIT2169.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: John Gould
Credits: 2
"Syntax" is the aspect of grammar concerned with the relationships of words in a language, with how they fit together to create meaning.  By exploring various English syntactical structures, we will discover a variety of ways to combine the same words to say slightly different things.  The course will rely heavily on the linguistic work of Noam Chomsky.  We will
Literature

Through Syntax to Style: A Grammar of Writing — LIT2169.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: John Gould
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
“Syntax” is the aspect of grammar concerned with the relationships of words in a language, with how they fit together to create meaning. By exploring various English syntactical structures, we will discover a variety of ways to combine the same words to say slightly different things. The course will rely heavily on the linguistic work of Noam Chomsky. We will write a number of
Literature

Through Syntax to Style: A Grammar of Writing — LIT2169.02

Spring 2016
Instructor: John Gould
Credits: 2
“Syntax” is the aspect of grammar concerned with the relationships of words in a language, with how they fit together to create meaning. By exploring various English syntactical structures, we will discover a variety of ways to combine the same words to say slightly different things. The course will rely heavily on the linguistic work of Noam Chomsky. We will write a number of
Literature

Through Syntax to Style: A Grammar of Writing — LIT2169.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: John Gould
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
"Syntax" is the aspect of grammar concerned with the relationships of words in a language, with how they fit together to create meaning.  By exploring various English syntactical structures, we will discover a variety of ways to combine the same words to say slightly different things.  The course will rely heavily on the linguistic work of Noam Chomsky.  We will
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Through Syntax to Style: A Grammar of Writing — LIT2169.02

Spring 2015
Instructor: John Gould
Credits: 2
"Syntax" is the aspect of grammar concerned with the relationships of words in a language, with how they fit together to create meaning. By exploring various English syntactical structures, we will discover a variety of ways to combine the same words to say slightly different things. The course will rely heavily on the linguistic work of Noam Chomsky. We will write a number of
Literature

Tickling the Clock — MSR4375.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
Days & Time: TU 4:10pm-6:00pm
Credits: 2

An advanced course in sonic contraptions, for students who have already completed significant work in sound, visual design, or project management.  Starting with Collins’ Hardware Hacking, we’ll review soldering, circuit bending (i.e. “tickling the clock”), and associated topics, such as no-input mixing and basic circuit tinkering. We will look at

Sound Design and Recording

Tile: Expanding the Parameters — CER2126.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Aysha Peltz
Credits: 4
This course will explore the ceramic medium through the format of tile. Given this as a parameter, we are presented with an exciting opportunity to explore clay in two dimensions and low relief. Students will be introduced to historic and contemporary tiles as examples of both architectural elements and art objects. This general survey of ceramic tiles will include many
Visual Arts

Tile: Expanding the Parameters — CER2126.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Aysha Peltz
Credits: 4
This course will explore the ceramic medium through the format of tile. Given this, as a parameter, we are presented with an exciting opportunity to explore clay in two dimensions and in low relief. Students will be introduced to historical and contemporary tiles as examples of both architectural elements and art objects. Tiles will be made using various building methods
Visual Arts

Tile: Expanding the Parameters — CER2126.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Aysha Peltz
Credits: 4
This course will explore the ceramic medium through the format of tile. Given this as a parameter, we are presented with an exciting opportunity to explore clay in two dimensions and low relief. Students will be introduced to historic and contemporary tiles as examples of both architectural elements and art objects. This general survey of ceramic tiles will include many
Visual Arts

Time Capsule 2016 — MOD2159.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Erika Mijlin
Credits: 1
If we were to prepare a time capsule to leave behind for a future generation to open, how would we go about it? What would we include? What kinds of questions would we have to ask in order to decide on a list of items? First, we might have to define ‘ourselves’, and what we know and think about our time and place in history. Then, how do we express this understanding through a
Modules: Transferable Approaches Visual Arts

Time, History, and Memory — Canceled

Fall 2013
Instructor: Karen Danna
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course offers a critical appraisal of the concepts of time, history, and memory in the social and cognitive sciences. We will start by defining our field of research at the intersection of sociology, psychology, history, anthropology, and cognitive neuroscience. We will examine the emergence of memory as an object of study within these disciplines, and focus on the
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Time, Memory, and Meaning Making — DRA4309.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Sherry Kramer
Credits: 4
May memory restore again and again The smallest color of the smallest day: Time is the school in which we learn, Time is the fire in which we burn. -Delmore Schwartz The true territory that we create for the audience of a play or film is not the story we tell, or the characters we create, but the memories that the audience makes and processes about those stories and characters
Drama

Time, Memory, and Meaning Making — DRA4309.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Sherry Kramer
Credits: 4
May memory restore again and again The smallest color of the smallest day: Time is the school in which we learn, Time is the fire in which we burn.    -Delmore Schwartz They say that time is the main character of every story.  In time bound art forms, there are two times running in parallel--the story's, and the audience's. This class will investigate 
Drama

Time-Travel 101: Toni Morrison and Octavia Butler — LIT2548.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: An Duplan
Credits: 4
Both Toni Morrison's and Octavia Butler’s novels push us to consider time differently. Rather than as static artifacts, both women’s characters treat time, memory, and history as malleable materials. Take Morrison’s idea of "re-memory" in her novel Beloved, for example, a vivid reliving of the past that seems more than memory itself, something closer to being transported
Literature

TMD: Practice + Process — DAN4831B.01, section 1

Spring 2026
Instructor: Katie Swords Thurman
Days & Time: MO,TH 3:40pm-5:30pm
Credits: 2

Each Practice + Process course is designed around the research/pedagogic interests of the faculty member leading the class. The overall curricular structure positions studio practice, creative process and critical reading, thinking and languaging as integrated elements within one course, enabling students to move between modes of learning, reflection and making.

Dance (BFA)

TMD: Practice + Process — DAN4831B.02, section 2

Spring 2026
Instructor: Erick Montes
Days & Time: TU,FR 4:10pm-6:00pm
Credits: 2

Each Practice + Process course is designed around the research/pedagogic interests of the faculty member leading the class. The overall curricular structure positions studio practice, creative process and critical reading, thinking and languaging as integrated elements within one course, enabling students to move between modes of learning, reflection and making.

Dance (BFA)

TMD: Practice + Process — DAN4831B.03, section 3

Spring 2026
Instructor: Mark Haim
Days & Time: MO,TH 3:40pm-5:30pm
Credits: 2

Each Practice + Process course is designed around the research/pedagogic interests of the faculty member leading the class. The overall curricular structure positions studio practice, creative process and critical reading, thinking and languaging as integrated elements within one course, enabling students to move between modes of learning, reflection and making.

Dance (BFA)

TMD: Practice + Process — DAN4831B.04, section 4

Spring 2026
Instructor: Montay Alejandro Romero
Days & Time: TU,FR 4:10pm-6:00pm
Credits: 2

Each Practice + Process course is designed around the research/pedagogic interests of the faculty member leading the class. The overall curricular structure positions studio practice, creative process and critical reading, thinking and languaging as integrated elements within one course, enabling students to move between modes of learning, reflection and making.

Dance (BFA)

TMD: Practice + Process — DAN4831B.01, section 1

Fall 2025
Instructor: Kingsley Ibeneche
Days & Time: MO,TH 3:40pm-5:30pm
Credits: 2

Each Practice + Process course is designed around the research/pedagogic interests of the faculty member leading the class. The overall curricular structure positions studio practice, creative process and critical reading, thinking and languaging as integrated elements within one course, enabling students to move between modes of learning, reflection and making.

Dance (BFA)

TMD: Practice + Process — DAN4831B.02, section 2

Fall 2025
Instructor: Katie Swords Thurman
Days & Time: TU,FR 4:10pm-6:00pm
Credits: 2

Each Practice + Process course is designed around the research/pedagogic interests of the faculty member leading the class. The overall curricular structure positions studio practice, creative process and critical reading, thinking and languaging as integrated elements within one course, enabling students to move between modes of learning, reflection and making.

Dance (BFA)