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Looking closer; making work — SCU4122.01

Instructor: John Umphlett
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This course asks each student to work in a self-directed way among a community of critical thinkers. Finding one’s voice, as a maker, requires researching sources of influence and inspiration. Students are expected to undertake a significant amount of work outside of regular class meetings. At this point in your Visual Arts Education you must be able to represent serious

Looking, Perceiving, and Attending — PSY2384.01

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Cognitive neuroscience applies scientists' ongoing discoveries about the brain to explain people's everyday experiences. In this course, we will learn about the physical structures and functional networks that enable human vision and visual attention. Identifying what you see as a juice glass or a coffee cup depends on a complex interplay of brain functions, and attention

Lost and Found in the Nineteenth Century — HIS2142.01

Instructor: Eileen Scully
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This is an immersion in "portraiture," a unique methodology that "seeks to unveil the universal truths and resonant stories that lie in the specifics and complexity of everyday life." Using online materials, including historical newspapers, censuses and vital records, we will draw up a list of people to "look for," such as runaway slaves, absconding debtors, eloping spouses,

Lost and Found in the Nineteenth Century — HIS2142.01

Instructor: Eileen Scully
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Revolutions in transportation across the nineteenth century wrapped a “girdle of steam around the world,” giving people a sense of wider horizons in a shrinking universe. Indeed, Frederick Douglass' newspaper spoke in the 1850s of "walls…giving way before the physical, mental and moral pressure of a world, whose business by land and water, is shot over its surface by steam, and

Lost and Found in the Nineteenth Century — HIS2142.01

Instructor: Eileen Scully
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Revolutions in transportation across the nineteenth century wrapped a “girdle of steam around the world,” giving people a sense of wider horizons in a shrinking universe. Indeed, Frederick Douglass’ newspaper spoke in the 1850s of “walls…giving way before the physical, mental and moral pressure of a world, whose business by land and water, is shot over its surface by steam, and

Lost and Found in the Nineteenth Century — HIS2142.02

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This is an immersion in “portraiture,” a unique methodology that “seeks to unveil the universal truths and resonant stories that lie in the specifics and complexity of everyday life.” Using online materials, including historical newspapers, censuses and vital records, we will draw up a list of people to “look for,” such as runaway slaves, absconding debtors, eloping spouses,

Lost and Found in the Nineteenth Century — HIS2142.01

Instructor: Eileen Scully
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This is an immersion in “portraiture,” a unique methodology that “seeks to unveil the universal truths and resonant stories that lie in the specifics and complexity of everyday life.” Using online materials, including historical newspapers, censuses and vital records, we will draw up a list of people to “look for,” such as runaway slaves, absconding debtors, eloping spouses,

Love Happiness — PHI2160.02

Instructor: Catherine McKeen
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
The legendary Al Green sang it best. Love and happiness seem to be inextricably intertwined. Popular narratives stress that we can’t have one without the other – but, if we do find love, we’ll live “happily ever after.” These popular ideas invite many questions: To what extent is happiness under my control? Can circumstances make my life less happy? How is feeling happy related

Love Happiness — PHI2160.01

Instructor: Catherine McKeen
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
The legendary Al Green sang it best. Love and happiness seem to be inextricably intertwined. Popular narratives stress that we can’t have one without the other. But if we do find love, they say, we’ll live “happily ever after.” These popular ideas invite many questions: To what extent is happiness under my control? Can circumstances make my life less happy? How is feeling happy

Love and Other Italian Disasters — ITA4607.01

Instructor: Barbara Alfano
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Credits: 4
In his film “Ricomincio da tre” (I’m Starting Back at Three), the Italian director and protagonist Massimo Troisi responds to his girlfriend, who reminds him that “When you have love, you have everything,”: ”No, you’re wrong, That is health.” This course focuses on representations of love, partnership, and their (im)possibilities in contemporary Italian literature and film, as

Love in the Time of War — ANT4157.01

Instructor: Marios Falaris
Days & Time: TU 2:10pm-5:50pm
Credits: 4

How does love emerge under conditions of war? This seminar explores what it means to sustain intimate relations in the face of overwhelming violence. Through the Anthropology of Kinship, as well as through methods developed across the fields of Queer Studies, Black Studies, and Postcolonial Studies, this course considers how intimacy and love 

Low Fire Clay and Glazes, History Application — CER4328.01

Instructor: Barry Bartlett
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This class will explore the use of low temperature clay and glazes. A large part of ceramic history is based in these materials. All early civilizations moving into the 14-century and many contemporary styles depend on low temperature material in terms of both technical and artistic style. Students will be asked to do research into different styles and types of low fire clay

Low Tech Relief Printmaking — PRI2118.01

Instructor: Sarah Amos
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Credits: 4
This class will explore the many varied techniques within the Relief family. We will be working with the following materials: linoleum, soft cut rubber, Mat board for Collagraphs and plastic plates for Carborundum Relief prints. We will also be looking at Monoprinting and Stencils to be used in collaboration with one or two of the other techniques. All of these techniques in

Lowell, Plath, and After — LIT2575.01

Instructor: Michael Dumanis
Days & Time: MO,TH 10:00am-11:50am
Credits: 4

This seminar will study the mid-20th century revolution in poetic style and content known as "confessional poetry," a school of poetry that gave voice to the private and personal, highlighting extreme autobiographical experience, as well as subjects that were previously seen as improper or taboo, including mental health, sexuality, suicidal ideation, trauma, menstruation,

Lyric Theory — LIT4616.01

Instructor: Franny Choi
Days & Time: TU 10:30am-12:20pm
Credits: 2

What is the lyric? How did lyric poetry emerge as a genre, and how have reading practices evolved alongside it? This is a 2-credit survey class exploring theoretical engagements with the modern idea of the lyric, including readings in genre theory, new criticism, structuralism,  post-structuralism, and beyond. Drawing primarily from <

L’Afrance: un livre/un film — FRE4607.02

Instructor: Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Vive l’Afrance! This film title (Gomis, 2001) summarizes the goal of this course: an exploration of the rich variety of shared and conflicting francophone identities. Constructed within or outside of France, the identities studied in this course will encompass West African, French, and/or Caribbean spaces. The discussion of notions such as « créolisation » and «

L’Amica Geniale — ITA4609.01

Instructor: Barbara Alfano
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Credits: 4
This course focuses on Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan quartet--L'amica geniale (2011), Storia del nuovo cognome (2012), Storia di chi fugge e di chi resta (2013), and Storia della bambina perduta (2014). The study of the four novels will also be an opportunity to focus on the history of Italy from the end of WW II to nowadays, on Italian and Neapolitan women writers, and on Naples

Machine Learning — CS4256.01

Instructor: Justin Vasselli
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
In the course of our daily lives we interact with many systems that have been trained to perform their jobs not based on meticulously designed domain-specific algorithms, but instead based on large amounts of data.  This is the foundation of Machine Learning. Today, everything from auto-complete to spam-filtering is done using machine learning techniques.  This course

Mad Props: Theatrical Property Design and Construction — DRA2312.01

Instructor: Seancolin Hankins
Days & Time: FR 2:10pm-4:00pm
Credits: 2

An exercise in planning, communication, creativity and resourcefulness, property design applies to film, television, and theatrical production. This course will look at theatrical props and set dressing from a property designer’s perspective. Starting with a script, we will uncover the questions you didn’t know needed answering in order to comprehensively produce or curate

Mad Props: Theatrical Property Design and Production — DRA2312.01

Instructor: Michael Giannitti
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
An exercise in planning, communication, creativity and resourcefulness, property design applies to film, television, and theatrical production. This course will look at theatrical props and set dressing from a property designer’s perspective. Starting with a script, we will uncover the questions you didn’t know needed answering in order to comprehensively produce or curate

Mad Props: Theatrical Property Design and Production — DRA2312.01

Instructor: Seancolin Hankins
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
An exercise in planning, communication, creativity and resourcefulness, property design applies to film, television, and theatrical production. This course will look at theatrical props and set dressing from a property designer’s perspective. Starting with a script, we will uncover the questions you didn’t know needed answering in order to comprehensively produce or curate

Mad Props: Theatrical Property Design and Production — DRA2312.01

Instructor: Seancolin Hankins
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
An exercise in planning, communication, creativity and resourcefulness, property design applies to film, television, and theatrical production. This course will look at theatrical props and set dressing from a property designer’s perspective. Starting with a script, we will uncover the questions you didn’t know needed answering in order to comprehensively produce or curate