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Traditional Music of North America — MHI2135.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: John Kirk
Credits: 2
This course explores music from early native music through contemporary singer-songwriters. Some of the traditions we draw from include African, Native American, Quebecois, Appalachian, Irish and Scottish, British Isle traditions, Cajun, Blues, Gospel, and Conjunto music. Instrumental, dance, and ballad traditions are explored. Students must bring a guitar, banjo, mandolin, or
Music

Transcendentalism and its Discontents — LIT2208.01

Fall 2017
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 contentious debate the movement set off among thinkers of the time and come to a keen understanding of
Literature

Transformation — ARC4310.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Don Sherefkin
Credits: 4
This studio will will focus on the development two projects; the first emphasizing the contextual approach of architectural design, developing and transforming spatial patterns found in a given environment through documentation and analysis. The second project will be concerned with transformational processes in the design of buildings based on given functional elements.
Visual Arts

Transformation: an Approach to Character — DRA4149.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Oliver Wadsworth
Credits: 4
Whether Meryl Streep transforms into an old male Rabbi in Angels in America or Mark Rylance becomes a whisky swilling cult leader in Jerusalem, actors transforming into characters can be inspiring. It not only challenges the actor’s instrument – vocally, physically and emotionally – it can be artistically fulfilling in a deeply personal way. Walt Whitman said, “I contain
Drama

Transformational Acting — DRA4409.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
Walt Whitman said, “I contain multitudes.” The same can be said of a transformational actor. Playing against gender, age, and type, allows actors to perform the impossible; Become another person. The result is empathy for people that the actor might not otherwise know. It is also really fun! In this class, we will study techniques actors use to become characters who are
Drama

Transformational Acting — DRA4409.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
Walt Whitman said, “I contain multitudes.” The same can be said of a transformational actor. Playing against gender, age, and type, allows actors to perform the impossible; Become another person. The result is empathy for people that the actor might not otherwise know. It is also really fun! In this class, we will study techniques actors use to become characters who are
Drama

Transformational Processes —

Spring 2020
Credits: 4
This course will focus on the development of two site specific projects. The design process will be rooted in analytical drawing and modeling. These drawings and models will inform the program which will define the limits and possibilities of the architectonic invention. A variety of strategies and source materials will be accessed, including texts, maps and found objects.

Transformations of the Self — PSY4130.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: erin johnston
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course investigates the phenomenon of self-transformation from a variety of angles and theoretical perspectives. We will examine common forms of self-change (including religious conversions, political transformations and lifestyle changes), how individuals construct stories of personal transformation, as well as popular and academic understandings of if, when and how self
Social Science

Transformative Justice — APA4167.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Alisa Del Tufo
Credits: 2
What is the difference between restorative and transformative justice? How can the concepts of transformative justice be used in campaigns for social justice? Can transformative justice be used to replace or supplement the criminal legal system in the United States? These are all questions we will explore in this 4000 level course. We will explore the reasons why the
CAPA

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 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 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 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 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

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

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