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Distributed Systems (with Lab) — CS4280.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Andrew Cencini
Credits: 4
In this class, we will, as a group, build a working distributed system from scratch, such as a web search engine, distributed file system, blockchain/distributed ledger, or peer-to-peer network. By building such a system, students will learn about key theoretical and practical fundamentals related to distributed systems and software engineering, such as concurrency, replication
Science and Mathematics

Distributed Systems (with Lab) — CS4280.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Andrew Cencini
Credits: 4
In this class, we will, as a group, build a working distributed system from scratch, such as a web search engine, distributed file system, blockchain/distributed ledger, or peer-to-peer network. By building such a system, students will learn about key theoretical and practical fundamentals related to distributed systems and software engineering, such as concurrency, replication
Science and Mathematics

Diversity of Coral Reef Animals — BIO2339.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Elizabeth Sherman
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Coral reefs are among the most diverse, unique and beautiful of ecosystems on the planet. Alas, they are also quite vulnerable to various environmental assaults and most of the reefs on earth are in real jeopardy. Students will learn the taxonomy, identification and characteristics of the animals that live in coral reefs. We will discuss the major biological innovations that
Science Mathematics and Computing

Diversity of Coral Reef Animals — BIO2339.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Elizabeth Sherman
Credits: 4
Coral reefs are among the most diverse, unique and beautiful of ecosystems on the planet. Alas, they are also quite vulnerable to various environmental assaults and most of the reefs on earth are in real jeopardy. Students will learn the taxonomy, identification and characteristics of the animals which live in coral reefs. We will discuss the major biological innovations that
Science and Mathematics Environment

Do Coral Reefs Matter? — BIO2120.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Elizabeth Sherman
Credits: 1
In this science module, students will learn about the extraordinary diversity of coral reefs.  We will discuss the organisms that comprise reefs, why reefs are in such jeopardy and why it matters. We will read and discuss appropriate articles and view illustrative videos taken by the instructor, Betsy Sherman, who does research on coral reefs. This course can serve as
Science Mathematics and Computing

Documentary Poetics — LIT4576.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Franny Choi
Days & Time: WE 2:10pm-5:50pm
Credits: 4

Drawing from news articles, interviews, archival materials, and more, writers throughout the 20th and 21st Centuries have sought to document the world through poetry. As Phillip Metres writes, such poets often collage first-person narratives with found materials in order to “give voice to stories of people and movements that the mass media

Advancement of Public Action Literature

Documentary Practice: Ethics of the Photographer — PHO4109.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Jonathan Kline
Credits: 4
This course will investigate our understanding of the role photography has played in representing recent conflicts, disasters, and social upheaval from around the world. Readings include Martha Rosler, Susan Sontag, AD Coleman, David Levi-Strauss, and others. Films will also be scheduled to articulate particular points of view. Students are expected to complete either two
Visual Arts

Documentary Production: Personal and Political — FV4313.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Kate Purdie
Credits: 2
This course explores the full range of non-fiction possibilities including ethnographic films, personal cinema, cinema verite and even mockumentaries through screenings and video projects. Beginning with a group project and advancing to individual work, we will take a hands-on approach to documentary production: from interview techniques and verite shooting to character
Visual Arts

Documentary Video Production – Experimental, Personal and Political — FV4108.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Kate Purdie
Credits: 4
This course explores documentary possibilities through screenings and video projects. The class will look at and consider non-fiction techniques from early cinema verite films to recent attempts to address point of view and outsider status in documentary and experimental video work. In collaborative and individual projects, the class will take a hands-on approach to documentary
Visual Arts

Does Your Vote Matter? A Mathematical Look at Politics and Social Choice — MAT2241.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Steven Morics
Credits: 4
Mathematics and the natural sciences have a long history together, but recently, mathematicians have begun using the tools of their trade on a collection of problems from the social sciences. Is it right that, as a Californian, my vote counted much less than yours did in the last presidential election? If a business fails with a million dollars in the bank, and it owes you a
Science and Mathematics

Doll House, Diorama — VA2224.02

Spring 2019
Instructor: Farhad Mirza
Credits: 2
For centuries, miniature models have been used as representations of larger things or as standalone objects of wonder. In this seven week course, students will work at ‘dollhouse scale’ (1:12 or 1:24) on a personal project that would benefit from expression as a dollhouse, diorama, or maquette. Coursework will emphasize the importance of an organized and well-managed digital
Visual Arts

Doll House, Diorama – Created Worlds — MA4207.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Sue Rees
Credits: 4
For centuries, miniature models have been used as representations of larger things or as standalone objects of wonder. Working at ‘dollhouse scale’ (1:12 or 1:24) students in this course will create dollhouses or dioramas and turn them into sites, surfaces and containers for animated and projected worlds. Students will use a variety of digital modeling and animation software
Visual Arts Drama

Dollhouse, Diorama — VA4131.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Farhad Mirza
Credits: 4
The poet Susan Stewart compares the dollhouse to "the secret recesses of the heart: center within center, within within within." Paul Preciado likens a 1962 photo of Hugh Hefner beside a scale model of the first Playboy Club to similar portraits of modern architects like Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe—it suggests the “bonds of creation.” As a metaphor for interiority, or as
Visual Arts

Don Quixote: "The First and Most Completest Novel" — LIT2182.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Marguerite Feitlowitz
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
We will immerse ourselves in the first European novel, Cervantes’ 1605 tale of the wandering knight, his faithful Sancho Panza, and the cast of hundreds they meet along their way through La Mancha. We will read Edith Grossman’s new translation of Don Quixote, as well as biographical sources (such as Cervantes in Algiers, on the author’s years of captivity by the Barbary Pirates
Literature

Doorways into Solo Practice — DAN2139.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Tal Shibi, MFA Teaching Fellow
Credits: 2
How do we make a piece? What are we looking for when we are viewing dance? What is our comfort zone as performers, and are we willing to risk moving at the edge of it? This project-based course is designed for students who have prior experience with creating performative work (even a small amount!), especially in the context of using the body in motion as material whether for
Dance

Dostoevsky's Major Novels — LIT2332.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Michael Dumanis
Credits: 4
In their encounters with the fiction of Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881), readers find themselves entering into a world that is vividly three-dimensional .Dostoevsky’s novels are abundant with sharply etched inner struggles of individuals and groups who are drawn from a wide range of human experience, striking a balance between keen psychological insight and attentive social
Literature

Dostoevsky’s Major Novels — LIT2332.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Alexandar Mihailovic
Credits: 4
In their encounters with Dostoevsky’s fiction, readers enter into a world that is rich with the inner struggles of a wide range of individual identities. In this course, we will read Memoirs from the House of the Dead, Crime and Punishment, and The Brothers Karamazov, three novels that represent different stages in the evolution of Dostoevsky’s portrayal of power, social
Literature

Double Exposure: Acting for Singers, Singing for Actors — DRA4385.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Kerry Ryer-Parke
Credits: 4
Actors and singers study remarkably similar skills: efficient use of the body and breath, research and development of character and context, staying present and emotionally connected. But even the most seasoned performer feels doubly exposed when asked to sing and act at the same time. In this class, using repertoire as varied as incidental music for Shakespeare, musical
Drama Music

Double Exposure: Acting for Singers/Singing for Actors — DRA4263.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Kerry Ryer-Parke
Credits: 4
Actors and singers study remarkably similar skills: efficient use of the body and breath, development of text, character and context, staying present and emotionally connected. But even the most seasoned performer feels doubly exposed when asked to sing and act at the same time. In this class, using repertoire as varied as incidental music for Shakespeare plays, musical theatre
Drama Music

Double Exposure: Acting for Singers/Singing for Actors — DRA4263.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Kerry Ryer-Parke Jennifer Rohn
Credits: 4
Actors and singers study remarkably similar skills: efficient use of the body and breath, development of text, character and context, staying present and emotionally connected. But even the most seasoned performer feels doubly exposed when asked to sing and act at the same time. In this class, using repertoire as varied as incidental music for Shakespeare plays, musical theatre
Drama Music

Double Portrait: Of a Lady and Her Novel — LIT2223.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Doug Bauer
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
We will be examining Henry James’s The Portrait of a Lady from several perspectives, starting with a close reading of the novel itself. As well, we’ll be reading Michael Gorra’s recently published Portrait of a Novel, which uniquely blends criticism, biography, historical context and earned authorial speculation as a guide to James’s life during the time he was writing his book
Literature

Doubleness — DRA2179.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
Doubleness is one of the fundamental building blocks and one of the most elemental and profound aspects of art. It is the way a thing can be more than one thing at once that is both mysterious and precise. It is the heart and blood of metaphor: to say one thing and mean another in a way that saying it straight out could never mean. Dramatic doubleness is a form of rhyme that
Drama