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Environmental Geology — ES2102.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: David De Simone
Credits: 4
This course will focus on the planets internal and surficial processes and how they both affect humans and are impacted by humans. The scope of environmental geology is broad and represents applied geology in a very practical sense. A basic understanding of minerals, rocks the modern plate tectonics paradigm is the foundation for appreciating internal processes and such
Science Mathematics and Computing Environment

Environmental Geology — ES2102.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Tim Schroeder
Credits: 4
Earthʹs life‐supporting environmental systems are controlled by a complex interplay between geologic and biological processes acting both on the surface and deep within the planetary interior. This course will explore how earth materials and physical processes contribute to a healthy environment, and how humans impact geologic processes. Topics covered will include: earth
Science and Mathematics Environment

Environmental Geology — ES2102.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Timothy Schroeder
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Earthʹs life‐supporting environmental systems are controlled by a complex interplay between geologic and biological processes acting both on the surface and deep within the planetary interior. This course will explore how earth materials and physical processes contribute to a healthy environment, and how humans impact geologic processes. Topics covered will
Science Mathematics and Computing Environment

Environmental Geology — ES2102.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Tim Schroeder
Credits: 4
Earthʹs life‐supporting environmental systems are controlled by a complex interplay between geologic and biological processes acting both on the surface and deep within the planetary interior. This course will explore how earth materials and physical processes contribute to a healthy environment, and how humans impact geologic processes. Topics covered will include: earth
Science and Mathematics Environment

Environmental Hydrology — ES4105.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Tim Schroeder
Credits: 4
Fresh water is perhaps the world’s scarcest and most critical resource. Giant engineering projects are built to control water distribution, wars and legal battles are fought over who controls water, and across the world people face real concerns about the safety of their water. Problems will only become worse as populations grow and the climate changes. This course is a
Science and Mathematics Environment

Environmental Hydrology — ES4105.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Tim Schroeder
Credits: 4
Fresh water is perhaps the world’s most critical resource. Giant engineering projects are built to control water distribution, wars and legal battles are fought over who controls water, and the problems will only get worse as populations grow. This course is a broad survey of hydrology, the study of the distribution, movement, and quality of water. Students will be
Science and Mathematics Environment

Environmental Political Theory — ENV4240.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: John Hultgren
Credits: 4
What is nature? Who gets to speak for nature? What is the institutional arrangement, political economic system, and form of political community best suited to cultivating a more sustainable relationship with the more-than-human realm? These questions are most effectively grappled with by putting political theory into conversation with environmental studies. In cultivating this
Environment Society Culture and Thought

Environmental Political Theory — SCT4153.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: John Hultgren
Credits: 4
What is nature? Who gets to speak for nature? What is the institutional arrangement, political economic system, and form of political community best suited to cultivating a more sustainable relationship with the more-than-human realm? These questions are most effectively grappled with by putting political theory into conversation with environmental studies. In cultivating this
Environment Society Culture and Thought

Environmental Political Theory — POL4240.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: John Hultgren
Credits: 4
What is nature? Who gets to speak for nature? What is the institutional arrangement, political economic system, and form of political community best suited to cultivating a more sustainable relationship with the more-than-human realm?  These questions are best grappled with by putting political theory into conversation with environmental studies. In cultivating this
Environment Society Culture and Thought

Environmental Political Theory: Climate, Coronavirus, and the Commons — POL4258.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: John Hultgren
Credits: 4
What is nature? Who gets to speak for nature? What is the institutional arrangement, political economic system, and form of political community best suited to cultivating a more sustainable relationship with the more-than-human realm? These questions are most effectively grappled with by putting political theory into conversation with environmental studies. The first half of
Environment Society Culture and Thought

Environmental Studies Advanced Work Seminar — Canceled

Spring 2019
Instructor: Tim Schroeder John Hultgren
Credits: 1
This advanced work seminar offers students the opportunity to receive feedback on culminating/advanced work studying environmental problems. This course is ideal for two types of students: (1) 8th term students who are completing senior work in a particular discipline group (e.g. Science or Society, Culture, and Thought) but would benefit from having feedback from both
Environment

Envisioning Information: Mapping Complexity — MOD2139.03

Fall 2014
Instructor: susan sgorbati
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1
This Module explores how complex systems can be mapped visually. Often, non-linear structures are difficult to see and understand. They happen at different levels and at different scales. These classes will be devoted to learning the skills of visual mapping. Certain websites will be investigated, such as bubbl.org, visualcomplexity.com and informationisbeautiful.org. Books by
CAPA Modules: Transferable Approaches

Epistemic Justice — PHI2162.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Catherine McKeen
Days & Time: TU,FR 10:30am-12:20pm
Credits: 2

How does one’s social positionality affect one’s status as a knower? Who is heard? Who is believed? This seven-week course is focused on questions of justice and power in relation to knowledge. We will engage with recent work in social epistemology—philosophical theories of belief and knowledge—with an emphasis on feminist epistemologies, anti-racist epistemologies, and

Philosophy

Essays of Walter Benjamin — VA4235.02

Spring 2023
Instructor: Anne Thompson
Credits: 2
The works of German philosopher and cultural theorist Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) endure as sources of fascination, inspiration and critical reflection across disciplines. With a focus on his significance for artists and curators, this seminar looks at selections from Benjamin’s famous and lesser-known writing, from his seminal essay “The Work of Art in the Age of
Visual Arts Literature Society Culture and Thought

Ethical Community Collaborations — APA2161.02

Fall 2019
Instructor: Aaron Landsman, MFA Teaching Fellow
Credits: 2
This course uses case studies from socially-engaged art projects along with in-class work and research on how to collaborate with specific communities in an ethical, mutually beneficial way. We will explore how to use a strategic planning process, transparent communications and realistic expectations around time and money in partnerships that cross boundaries of race, class,
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Ethical Community Collaborations — APA2161.02

Fall 2018
Instructor: Aaron Landsman
Credits: 2
The course welcomes playwrights and other writers, choreographers and visual artists, and could be applicable to students in Sociology and American Studies. We’ll look at the work of artists like video maker Phil Collins, conceptual and performance artists including Paul Chan, Ernesto Pujol, Lola Arias and Ralph Lemon. We will also use the course as a way to ask questions about
CAPA

Ethical Translation: Eye on Race, Gender, and Queerness — LIT4392.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
Designed to help students 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 will tackle these questions, plus the basics, thinking
Literature

Ethnographic Playwriting — APA4120.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Aaron Landsman, MFA Teaching Fellow
Credits: 4
This course takes an ethnographic approach to making new theater works within community collaborations. This course is about engaging your most adventurous artist self in the context of delicate, politically loaded, dialogic processes. We will read, watch and discuss the work of subculture theorists, architects, theater-makers and other artists, all of whom use staged
CAPA Drama

Ethnography and Writing Across Cultures — ANT4213.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Noah Coburn
Credits: 4
This course is an advanced exploration of theory and the history of anthropology by using the most basic of anthropological texts: the ethnography. By carefully analyzing a series of classic and more current ethnographies, students will look at the relationship between theoretical approaches, how ethnographic data is presented to the reader and how the shape of the text
Social Science

Ethnography of Latin America and the Caribbean — ANT4241.01) (cancelled 10/15/2024

Spring 2025
Instructor: Cecilia Salvi
Credits: 4
This course explores contemporary processes of social, economic, and cultural change in Latin America and the Caribbean from an anthropological perspective. Through ethnographies of the region, we examine legacies of the colonial encounter, nation-building, migration, political conflict and urbanization, as well as the impact of transregional social movements. We pay special

Eugene Onegin-Singers — MVO4254.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Kerry Ryer-Parke
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2

This is a 2 credit course to support the Faculty Drama Production of Eugene Onegin. Voice and style instruction will be provided for the singers in the musical, and some research on American singing styles. 

Drama Voice

Europe and Islam: Art and Architecture of the Mediterranean — AH2114.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
This introductory course explores, through the lens of cross-cultural exchange, artistic and architectural production from the late medieval period to the nineteenth century. It considers the Mediterranean and its related regions as dynamic settings where global contacts, prompted by trade, diplomacy, war and conquest, travel, and pilgrimage, strongly shaped material and visual
Visual Arts

European Literature Between the Wars — LIT4170.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Stuart Nadler
Credits: 4
In the immediate aftermath of WWI, Europe found itself dramatically reshaped. In the place of the now-dead Dual Monarchy were six new nation states set between borders haphazardly drawn by victors of the war in order to smite the losers. An economic crisis swept the continent, leaving millions starving and rendering the German Mark nearly worthless. In the east, the Soviet
Literature

Every Day Everyday Climate Change — APA2181.02

Spring 2020
Instructor: Marina Zurkow, MFA Teaching Fellow
Credits: 2
Daily practices connect makers over a duration of time to concepts, issues, and forms we care about. These practices are constrained by a set of guiding principles or frameworks, and are iterative by design. Because of the consistency of work (every day), a daily practice can change us and open us up to new ideas, techniques, and feelings. Daily practice as a concept is used in
CAPA Visual Arts