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The Scriptorium: Multiverses, Utopias, and Dreamscapes, Oh My! — WRI2163.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Camille Guthrie
Credits: 4
The Scriptorium, a “place for writing,” is a class for writers interested in improving their critical essay-writing skills. We will read to write and write to read. Much of our time will be occupied with writing and revising—essai means “trial” or “attempt”—as we work to create new habits and productive strategies for analytical writing. As we write in various essay structures
Writing (BFA)

The Scriptorium: Multiverses, Utopias, and Dreamscapes, Oh My! — WRI2163.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Camille Guthrie
Credits: 4
The Scriptorium, a “place for writing,” is a class for writers interested in improving their critical essay-writing skills. We will read to write and write to read. Much of our time will be occupied with writing and revising—essai means “trial” or “attempt”—as we work to create new habits and productive strategies for analytical writing. As we write in various essay structures
Writing (BFA)

The Scriptorium: Studio Ghibli — WRI2169.01, section 1

Spring 2027
Instructor: Alex Creighton
Days & Time: MO,TH 10:00am-11:50am
Credits: 4

The Scriptorium, a “place for writing,” is a class for writers interested in improving their critical essay-writing skills. We will read to write and write to read. Much of our time will be occupied with writing and revising—essai<

Writing

The Scriptorium: Studio Ghibli — WRI2169.02, section 2

Spring 2027
Instructor: Alex Creighton
Days & Time: MO,TH 1:40pm-3:30pm
Credits: 4

The Scriptorium, a “place for writing,” is a class for writers interested in improving their critical essay-writing skills. We will read to write and write to read. Much of our time will be occupied with writing and revising—essai<

Writing

The Scriptorium: The Body and Society — LIT2399.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Camille Guthrie
Credits: 4
Our scriptorium, a “place for writing,” will function as a class for beginning writers and for those students who want to improve their essay skills. We will read to write and write to read, following the originator of the form, Montaigne. Much of our time will be occupied with writing probatively, as essai means “trial” or “attempt.” This class will explore anthropologist Mary
Literature

The Scriptorium: The Body and Society — WRI2153.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Camille Guthrie
Credits: 4
This scriptorium, a “place for writing,” functions as a class for writers interested in improving their essay-writing skills. We will read to write and write to read. Much of our time will be occupied with writing and revising—essai means “trial” or “attempt”—as we work to create new habits and strategies for our analytical writing. As we practice various essay structures with
Writing (BFA)

The Scriptorium: The Body and Society — LIT2399.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Camille Guthrie
Credits: 4
Our scriptorium, a “place for writing,” will function as a class for beginning writers and for those students who want to improve their essay skills. We will read to write and write to read. Much of our time will be occupied with writing probatively, as essai means “trial” or “attempt.” This class will explore anthropologist Mary Douglas’s idea: “Just as it is true that
Literature

The Scriptorium: The Short Story — WRI2161.01) (new course code as of 10/20/2023

Spring 2024
Instructor: Camille Guthrie
Credits: 4
The Scriptorium, a “place for writing,” is a class for writers interested in improving their critical essay-writing skills. We will read to write and write to read. Much of our time will be occupied with writing and revising—essai means “trial” or “attempt”—as we work to create new habits and productive strategies for analytical writing. As we write in various essay structures
Writing (BFA)

The Scriptorium: Visual Culture — Section 2 - LIT2252.02

Spring 2015
Instructor: Camille Guthrie
Credits: 4
How do we organize and understand our perceptions of the world? How do we look at objects? At paintings and photographs, advertisements and films? What do we see, and not see, when we visit a new place, or when we encounter an animal? And, importantly, how do we perceive and comprehend each other? This scriptorium, a “place for writing,” will function as a class for beginning
Literature

The Scriptorium: Visual Culture — Section 1 - LIT2252.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Camille Guthrie
Credits: 4
How do we organize and understand our perceptions of the world? How do we look at objects? At paintings and photographs, advertisements and films? What do we see, and not see, when we visit a new place, or when we encounter an animal? And, importantly, how do we perceive and comprehend each other? This scriptorium, a “place for writing,” will function as a class for beginning
Literature

The Scriptorium: Visual Culture — WRI2151.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Camille Guthrie
Credits: 4
How do we organize and understand our perceptions of the world? How do we look at objects? At paintings and photographs, advertisements and films? What do we see, and not see, when we visit a new place, or when we encounter an animal? And, importantly, how do we perceive and comprehend each other? This scriptorium, a “place for writing,” will function as a class for beginning
Writing (BFA)

The Scriptorium: Visual Culture — LIT2252.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Camille Guthrie
Credits: 4
How do we organize and understand our perceptions of the world? How do we look at objects? At paintings and photographs, advertisements and films? What do we see, and not see, when we visit a new place, or when we encounter an animal? And, importantly, how do we perceive and comprehend each other? This scriptorium, a “place for writing,” will function as a class for beginning
Literature

The Scriptorium: Visual Culture — WRI2151.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Camille Guthrie
Credits: 4
This scriptorium, a “place for writing,” serves as a class for writers interested in improving their academic essay-writing skills. We will read to write and write to read. Much of our time will be occupied with writing and revising—essai means “trial” or “attempt”—as we work to create new habits and strategies for our analytical writing. As we practice various essay structures
Writing (BFA)

The Scriptorium: What Is Culture? — WRI2168.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Alex Creighton
Days & Time: MO,TH 1:40pm-3:30pm
Credits: 4

The Scriptorium, a “place for writing,” is a class for writers interested in improving their critical essay-writing skills. We will read to write and write to read. Much of our time will be occupied with writing and revising—essai<

Writing (BFA)

The Scriptorium: Writing About Place — LIT2503.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Camille Guthrie
Credits: 4
This scriptorium, a “place for writing,” will function as a class for bilingual or multilingual writers interested in improving their essay-writing skills. We will read to write and write to read, following the originator of the form, Montaigne. Much of our time will be occupied with writing and revising—essai means “trial” or “attempt”—as we work to create new habits and
Literature

The Self, the Soul, and St. Augustine — LIT2339.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Benjamin Anastas
Credits: 2
We live in an age of rampant confession, so it can be difficult to conceive of a world without it. Augustine’s Confessions—which the Bishop of Hippo dictated to a team of scribes between 397 and 400 C.E.—is one of those rare literary works that marks a very clear before and after. In this two-credit course we’ll spend the term reading the whole of the Confessions slowly and
Literature

The Semitic Languages: Five Millenia of Identities, Structures and Relationships — LIN4118.01

Fall 2026
Instructor: Thomas Leddy-Cecere
Days & Time: WE 10:00am-11:50am & WE 2:10pm-4:00pm
Credits: 4

The Semitic language family has the longest documented legacy of any in the world, spanning nearly 5,000 years.  Its dozens of distinct but connected languages – among them Arabic, Ethiopic, Hebrew and Syriac – have animated metropolises from Babylon to Carthage to Dubai; over centuries, they have voiced revelation to billions of Jews

Linguistics Sociolinguistics

The Silk Road — HIS4116.01

Fall 2026
Instructor: Carol Pal
Days & Time: WE 2:10pm-5:50pm
Credits: 4

In this course, we examine five moments of intellectual encounter between "east" and "west" along the storied routes of the Silk Road.  These encounters spanned a millennium, from the fifth century BCE to the fourteenth century.  We will be reading travel narratives written by these adventurers – Herodotus, Xuan Zang, Al-Biruni, Marco Polo, Ibn Battuta,

History

The Silk Road — HIS4116.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Carol Pal
Credits: 4
n this course, we examine six moments of intellectual encounter between "east" and "west" along the storied routes of the Silk Road.  These encounters spanned a millennium, from the fifth century BCE to the fourteenth century.  We will be reading travel narratives written by these adventurers – Herodotus, Xuan Zang, Al-Biruni, Marco Polo, Ibn Battuta, and Sir John
Society Culture and Thought

The Sins of Nature: The Dark Side of Animal Behavior — BIO2141.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Blake Jones
Credits: 2
Nature is often violent and unforgiving, but few understand the extent to which animals engage in behaviors that, if judged by human ethical standards, would be considered malicious, immoral, or even evil. This provocative course will challenge our understanding of morality through the lens of non-human behaviors. Throughout this course, you will uncover the ecological and
Science and Mathematics

The Slow Burn — LIT4171.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Manuel Gonzales
Credits: 2
Some novels are slow, let's not beat around the bush. Some novels are languorous, moving at a narrative- and sentence-level pace that forces you to slow down how quickly you move your eyes across the page, how carefully you attest to the language, the meandering, lengthy, lingering sentences, the sonorous and lulling structure of long and digressive paragraphs. Trying to read
Literature