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Whose Opera? — MCO4361.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Kitty Brazelton
Credits: 4
Looking for six able composers, six able writers and six able singer/actors. Or those who combine these abilities. Example of bi-weekly assignment: short operatic sketch by six teams of writer-composers for singer-actors. Writer starts - delivering libretto to composer who sets words to music, and team delivers sketch to class one week later. After sketch is critiqued in class,
Music

Whose Opera? — MCO4361.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Kitty Brazelton
Credits: 4
Looking for six able composers, six able writers and six able singer/actors. Or those who combine these abilities. Example of bi-weekly assignment: short operatic sketch by six teams of writer-composers for singer-actors. Writer starts – delivering libretto to composer who sets words to music, and team delivers sketch to class one week later. After sketch is critiqued in class,
Music

Why Bodies Matter: An Introduction to Dance Studies — DAN2348.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Levi Gonzalez
Credits: 4
Even now, or perhaps especially now, the state of our moving and breathing bodies is critical to how we operate in the world. This course is open to students of any discipline who wish to explore the impact and implications of embodiment and its relationship to art, culture, politics and power.  The course will introduce students to some of the principal concerns and
Dance

Why Bodies Matter: An Introduction to Dance Studies — DAN2348.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 4
Even now, or perhaps especially now, the state of our moving and breathing bodies is critical to how we operate in the world. Dance Studies is an emergent interdisciplinary field of academic inquiry that considers dance, corporeality and embodied experience as important and valuable forms of knowledge in the creation and distribution of cultural discourse. This course will
Dance

Why Jazz? How this music known as jazz came to be and how it influenced modern day music — MHI2002.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Jen Allen
Credits: 2
In this course we will walk through the timeline of how this music, often known as jazz, came into existence and how it proceeded to open doors for many other types of music.  We will look at how the social and political atmosphere of the early 1900s in New Orleans created the perfect environment for the creation of a new and unique music.  We will walk through the
Black Studies Music

Wicked Problems — MOD2126.02

Fall 2013
Instructor: Eileen Scully
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1
'Wicked problems' demand answers and resist remedies. They loom large, yet cannot be located or pinned down. Examples include global warming, terrorism, poverty, and human trafficking. After orienting ourselves in the topology and terminology of 'wicked problems,' we will do a brief survey of innovative approaches. Using downloadable share-ware specifically designed to tackle
Advancement of Public Action

Wicked Problems — MOD2126.04

Fall 2013
Instructor: Eileen Scully
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1
'Wicked problems' demand answers and resist remedies. They loom large, yet cannot be located or pinned down. Examples include global warming, terrorism, poverty, and human trafficking. After orienting ourselves in the topology and terminology of 'wicked problems,' we will do a brief survey of innovative approaches. Using downloadable share-ware specifically designed to tackle
Advancement of Public Action

Wicked Problems and Diabolical Dilemmas — HIS4235.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Eileen Scully
Credits: 4
“Wicked problems” demand answers and resist remedies. They loom large, yet cannot be located or pinned down. “Diabolical dilemmas” force us to make repugnant choices in favor of lesser evils. Examples of both include global warming, pandemics, terrorism, migration, healthcare, corruption, poverty, and human trafficking. After orienting ourselves in the relevant topology and
CAPA Society Culture and Thought

Wicked Problems and Diabolical Dilemmas — HIS4235.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Eileen Scully
Credits: 4
“Wicked problems” demand answers and resist remedies. They loom large yet cannot be located or pinned down. “Diabolical dilemmas” force us to make repugnant choices in favor of lesser evils. Examples of both include global warming, pandemics, terrorism, migration, healthcare, corruption, poverty, and human trafficking. After orienting ourselves in the relevant topology and
CAPA Society Culture and Thought

William Maxwell: Writer and Editor — LIT2281.02

Fall 2014
Instructor: annabel davis-goff
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
William Maxwell was an editor at the New Yorker for forty years; he was also one of the twentieth century's great American writers. We will read three of his novels and a selection of the stories he edited. These will include work by Mavis Gallant, Shirley Hazzard, and Frank O'Connor. This course is suitable for students of all levels. This course will be offered the second
Literature

Wind and Brass Chamber Ensemble — MPF4129.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Chris Rose
Credits: 2
Do you play a wind or brass instrument? Do you like making music in a group? Consider auditioning for Wind and Brass Chamber Ensemble! This spring, we’ll meet weekly to read through repertoire from the past, present and future. We’ll finish the term with an outdoor concert on the Jennings or Commons Porch! As a chamber ensemble, choices about arrangements, interpretation,
Music

Windfall — DRA4159.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Sherry Kramer Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 4
This course explores movement, improvisation and text in order to generate patterns of discovery and interstitiality. We will investigate wind—from summer breezes to 100-miles an hour derechos; trees--from redwoods to bonsai; and bounty--as it exists in the riches of the natural world and the man-made worlds of money, greed, generosity, exploitation, and exaltation. We will
Dance Drama

Witchcraft and Magic in Pre-Modern Europe — HIS4104.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Carol Pal
Credits: 4
What is a witch? Who is a witch? And in the increasingly rational culture of Europe after the Renaissance, how and why did nearly 100,000 people, predominantly women, come to be tried for the crime of witchcraft? In many ways, the investigation of these questions hangs on another question: how do we differentiate science, magic, and religion? In pre-modern Europe, there were no
Social Science

Witchcraft and Magic in Pre-Modern Europe — HIS4104.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Carol Pal
Credits: 4
What is magic? What is a witch? Who is a witch? And in the increasingly rational culture of Europe after the Renaissance, how and why did nearly 100,000 people – predominantly women – come to be tried for the crime of witchcraft? In many ways, the investigation of these questions hangs on another question: how do we differentiate science, magic, and religion? In premodern
Society Culture and Thought

Witchcraft and Magic in Pre-Modern Europe — HIS4104.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Carol Pal
Credits: 4
What is a witch?  Who is a witch?  And in the increasingly rational culture of Europe after the Renaissance, how and why did nearly 100,000 people – predominantly women – come to be tried for the crime of witchcraft?  In many ways, the investigation of these questions hangs on another question: how do we differentiate science, magic, and religion?   In
Society Culture and Thought

Witchcraft and Magic in Premodern Europe — HIS4104.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Carol Pal
Credits: 4
What is magic? What is a witch? Who is a witch? And in the increasingly rational culture of Europe after the Renaissance, how and why did nearly 100,000 people – predominantly women – come to be tried for the crime of witchcraft? In many ways, the investigation of these questions hangs on another question: how do we differentiate science, magic, and religion? In premodern
Society Culture and Thought

Witchcraft and Magic in Premodern Europe — HIS4104.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Carol Pal
Credits: 4
What is magic? What is a witch? Who is a witch? And in the increasingly rational culture of Europe after the Renaissance, how and why did nearly 100,000 people – predominantly women – come to be tried for the crime of witchcraft? In many ways, the investigation of these questions hangs on another question: how do we differentiate science, magic, and religion? In premodern
Society Culture and Thought

Witchcraft and Magic in Premodern Europe — HIS4104.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Carol Pal
Credits: 4
What is magic? What is a witch? Who is a witch? And in the increasingly rational culture of Europe after the Renaissance, how and why did nearly 100,000 people – predominantly women – come to be tried for the crime of witchcraft? In many ways, the investigation of these questions hangs on another question: how do we differentiate science, magic, and religion? In premodern
Society Culture and Thought

Women Human Mobility — APA2213.04

Spring 2025
Instructor: Andrea Galindo
Days & Time: TU,FR 2:10pm-4:00pm
Credits: 1

Human mobility has been an inherent human condition throughout history. From earliest human history, women and men have migrated in search of a better life, to populate other places on the planet, or to escape and survive human-made or natural dangers. Today migration is a fact of life for an increasing number of people around the world: there are more than 281 million

CAPA

Women and Enlightenment — HIS4123.01

Spring 2027
Instructor: Carol Pal
Days & Time: WE 2:10pm-5:50pm
Credits: 4

The Enlightenment might be considered one of the most enduring revolutions in Europe. The invention of empirical science, new philosophies, and the secular discourse of the various Enlightenments (French, Scottish, English, and German) created the intellectual platform on which we are still standing today. It was also a movement in which women were visible and

History

Women and Enlightenment — HIS4123.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Carol Pal
Credits: 4
The Enlightenment might be considered one of the most enduring revolutions in Europe. The invention of empirical science, new philosophies, and secular discourse of the various Enlightenments (French, Scottish, English, and German) created the intellectual platform on which we are still standing today. It was also a movement in which women were visible and prominent –
Society Culture and Thought

Women and Enlightenment — HIS4123.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carol Pal
Credits: 4
The Enlightenment might be considered one of the most enduring revolutions in Europe. The invention of empirical science, new philosophies, and the secular discourse of the various Enlightenments (French, Scottish, English, and German) created the intellectual platform on which we are still standing today. It was also a movement in which women were visible and prominent –
Society Culture and Thought

Women and Gender in the Modern Middle East and North Africa — HIS4114.01

Spring 2017
Instructor:
Credits: 4
Religious beliefs and norms have traditionally played a significant role in determining the status of women in the family and their participation in the life of society in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). But, considering the diverse religious landscape of MENA, what do we know about similarities and differences in women’s status across religious communities? What other
Society Culture and Thought