All Courses

Voice Performance Intensive — MVO4404.02, section 2

Fall 2024

Instructor: Virginia Kelsey

Credits: 4

For students of varying levels of singing ability. This course will teach fundamental concepts of healthy voice technique that can be applied to singing in any style. Students will work towards individual goals through regular practice of warmups, vocalizations, and awareness exercises, and progress will be assessed by preparation and performance of specific song assignments.

Music

Voice Performance Intensive — MVO4404.03, section 3) (cancelled 9/12/2024

Fall 2024

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

Credits: 2

For students of varying levels of singing ability. This course will teach fundamental concepts of healthy voice technique that can be applied to singing in any style. Students will work towards individual goals through regular practice of warmups, vocalizations and awareness exercises, and progress will be assessed by preparation and performance of specific song assignments.

Music

Voice Performance Intensive — MVO4404.01, section 1

Fall 2023

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

Credits: 4

Intense study of vocal technique and the interpretation of vocal repertoire, designed for advanced students who have music as a plan concentration and to assist graduating seniors with preparation for senior recitals. Students will increase their knowledge of vocal technique and learn a varied spectrum of vocal repertory for performance and as preparation for further study or

Music

Voice Performance Intensive — MVO4404.01, section 1

Spring 2024

Instructor: Kerry Ryer-Parke

Credits: 4

For students of varying levels of singing ability. This course will teach fundamental concepts of healthy voice technique that can be applied to singing in any style. Students will work towards individual goals through regular practice of warmups, vocalizations and awareness exercises, and progress will be assessed by preparation and performance of specific song assignments.

Music

Voice Performance Intensive — MVO4404.02, section 2

Spring 2024

Instructor: Virginia Kelsey

Credits: 4

For students of varying levels of singing ability. This course will teach fundamental concepts of healthy voice technique that can be applied to singing in any style. Students will work towards individual goals through regular practice of warmups, vocalizations and awareness exercises, and progress will be assessed by preparation and performance of specific song assignments.

Music

Voice Performance Intensive — MVO4404.03, section 3

Spring 2024

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

Credits: 2

For students of varying levels of singing ability. This course will teach fundamental concepts of healthy voice technique that can be applied to singing in any style. Students will work towards individual goals through regular practice of warmups, vocalizations and awareness exercises, and progress will be assessed by preparation and performance of specific song assignments.

Music

Voice Performance Intensive — MVO4404.02, section 2

Fall 2023

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

Credits: 4

Music

Voice Performance Intensive — MVO4404.02, section 2

Spring 2025

Instructor: Virginia Kelsey

Credits: 4

Music

Voices of Our Time — APA2198.01

Spring 2026

Instructor: Brian Campion

Days & Time: TH 1:40pm-3:30pm

Credits: 2

In this course, students will document the lived experiences of individuals during this immensely challenging period in American history. Students will receive training in the methods of oral history, interviewing techniques, historical ethics, and archival work. They will conduct interviews of classmates and community members. These narratives will then be preserved in

Advancement of Public Action

Volatile Futures/Earthly Matters — APA2275.01

Spring 2017

Instructor:

Credits: 2

Where and when does the Anthropocene come to matter? Looking at inundated low-lying islands, the melting Arctic, or the coastal wrath of super storms, many suggest such contemporary moments prophesy the future that awaits us all. Others, returning to the ecological fallout of the colonial plantation, hydrocarbon imperialism, or nuclear weapons, suggest our impending unraveling

CAPA Society Culture and Thought Environment

Voltaire and Rousseau — LIT4143.01

Spring 2014

Instructor: Brooke Allen

Credits: 4

Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire and Jean-Jacques Rousseau were towering figures not only of the age of Enlightenment but of all Western intellectual history. Their subjects ranged from philosophy to politics to religion to history to education; their works remain as readable and provocative as they were 250 years ago. Great radicals in their time who are still politically

Literature

Walking and Writing — LIT2398.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Akiko Busch

Credits: 4

The workshop will examine the literary traditions of walking and writing, focusing on how the first can assist the second. Themes will include walking as a passage; walking as escape; walking as a meditation; walking towards something; walking away from something; and those times when walking manages to be both of these things. Of his outings in Concord, Henry Thoreau said

Environment Literature

Walls — VA2236.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Farhad Mirza

Credits: 2

In this course we will study what the wall does literally and symbolically. In architecture, walls are expected to delimit space and to support the roof. The built wall is where two diverse areas meet—one might say that the wall expresses the relationship between them. Walls make the existential struggle between an exterior and an interior tangible. We will discuss work by

Visual Arts

Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson — LIT2199.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: Mark Wunderlich

Credits: 4

In this course we will examine the work and worlds of these two canonical American poets. We will read the poems and letters of Dickinson and the poems and prose of Whitman, paying special attention to his lifelong masterwork, Leaves of Grass. We will also dip into the biographies of these authors and attempt to place them within the context of 19th century literature and

Literature

Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson — LIT2199.01

Spring 2014

Instructor: Mark Wunderlich

Credits: 4

Literature

War and Peace — LIT4108.01

Fall 2013

Instructor: Annabel Davis-Goff

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 4

War and Peace, Vanity Fair, and Shirley are novels that are set during the Napoleonic Wars. Charlotte Bronte's novel is set in a Yorkshire deeply affected by the Peninsular wars, Tolstoy describes both Napoleon's Russian campaign and the domestic and social life of a huge range of characters, and Thackeray's greatest novel reaches its climax with the Battle of Waterloo.

Literature

War in the 21st Century — ANT4124.01

Fall 2018

Instructor: Noah Coburn

Credits: 4

This seminar explores the ways in which war has (or has not) changed over the past two decades. Using anthropological tools we will ask questions about: the role of drones and other new technologies, the changing nature of the American Empire, strategic approaches to warfare including counterinsurgency and nuclear deterrence, the economic impact of global economies and

Society Culture and Thought

War in the 21st Century — ANT2112.01) (cancelled 10/17/2023

Spring 2024

Instructor: Noah Coburn

Credits: 4

This course explores the ways in which war has (or has not) changed over the past two decades. Using anthropological tools we will ask questions about: the role of drones and other new technologies, the changing nature of the American Empire, strategic approaches to warfare including counterinsurgency and nuclear deterrence, the economic impact of global economies and migration

Society Culture and Thought

War/Disaster: The Ethics of the Photographer — PHO2109.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Jonathan Kline

Credits: 4

This course will explore the role photography has played in representing recent conflicts, disasters, and social upheaval from around the world. As a class, we will read and view essays and films that articulate a wide range of perspectives. Students will be expected to use their smartphones/camera phones off campus and develop a visual inquiry into our surrounding community.

Visual Arts

War/Disaster: The Ethics of the Photographer — PHO2109.01

Spring 2017

Instructor: Jonathan Kline

Credits: 4

Visual Arts

Waste, Disgust, and the Body: Thinking in Social Science — PSY2110.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Ronald Cohen; Karen Gover

Credits: 4

We all do it multiple times a day without giving it a second thought. Everyone has to go. But while easy access to a private, safe toilet is simply taken for granted in our part of the world, two-thirds of the world's population do not have adequate sanitation. 2.6 billion people living today do not have access to a toilet. As a result, millions of people die every year because

Social Science

Watchmen: Watch US now — AH2287.01

Fall 2020

Instructor: Vanessa Lyon

Credits: 2

The first and only season of Watchmen, HBO’s “alternate history” (based on the graphic novel that posited a real-life global crisis that, what?, perversely unites humanity) drives a broadly-conceived visual culture/cultural studies course in which we identify and analyze various themes, tropes, genres, histories, prophecies, and allegories on screen and off; both inside and

Visual Arts

Water Dialogues: Conflicts Over Our Most Valuable Resource — APA2220.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Susan Sgorbati

Credits: 2

Water is our most important resource in the world. Without it, human, animal and plant life cannot exist for very long. Where we live in the eastern United States, water is plentiful. We take it for granted that we can drink it freely, wash ourselves when we feel like it, and use it for industry and recreation. But in our own country (western U.S.) and other parts

CAPA Environment

Water Dialogues: Conflicts Over Our Most Valuable Resource — APA2220.01

Fall 2018

Instructor: Susan Sgorbati

Credits: 2

Water is the essence of life. Access to Clean Water for drinking, fishing, irrigation and sanitation are basic human rights. In this course, we will use two texts: "Written in Water: Messages of Hope for Earth's Most Precious Resource" edited by Irena Salin and Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization by Steven Solomon. Water as a source of conflict for

CAPA Environment

Water Dialogues: The Future of Civilization — APA2016.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Susan Sgorbati

Credits: 4

This course fundamentally will address the following questions: How do we move out of the historical period of industrial waste and big dams to Water Systems that address climate change, water scarcity, water pollution and clean up, hydropower as a renewable resource and building new infrastructure? How does water affect our personal lives through health, sanitation, and

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