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Listening and Making — APA2340.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Susan Sgorbati

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Credits: 2

This class, for makers in any discipline, explores sound as a resource for creative practice. In our sessions we will engage in specific listening protocols and respond through writing, drawing, recording, moving, and experimental forms of notation. We will gather a wide variety of sounds as source material: reading texts aloud to each other, listening to field recordings,

CAPA

Listening to psyche: an interdisciplinary method of generating choreography — DAN2259.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Levi Gonzalez

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Credits: 1

This course is for people who are developing a choreographic voice. In this course, Parijat Desai will offer processes she is using to develop choreographic material for her project How Do I Become WE as well as for her ongoing artistic practice. How Do I Become WE is a participatory performance ritual based on a Tamil folk narrative in which a woman keeps a story

Dance

Listening: Acting as Crafting the Visual and Listening with Intention — DRA4128.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Gian-Murray Gianino

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Credits: 4

This class gives theater artists the time and space to further develop their understanding of listening as a fundamental tenet of acting and necessary tool. Through exercises and prepared studies of scenes, students will explore listening as defined as absorbing and responding to the truth, moment by moment. Stanislavski's Active Analysis and its relationship to the Viewpoints

Drama

Literary Bennington — LIT2390.01

Fall 2015

Instructor: Benjamin Anastas

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 2

We all know the literary generation that Bennington produced in the 1980s and early 90s: Donna Tartt, Bret Easton Ellis, Jonathan Lethem and Kiran Desai. But how seriously have we read their work? And what about the illustrious faculty who prepared the literary ground for those who came after: Bernard Malamud, Kenneth Burke, Stanley Edgar Hyman (and his wife the novelist

Literature

Literary Bennington — LIT2390.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Benjamin Anastas

Days & Time:

Credits: 2

We all know the literary generation that Bennington produced in the 1980s and early 90s: Donna Tartt, Bret Easton Ellis, Jonathan Lethem, and Kiran Desai. But how seriously have we read their work? And what about the illustrious faculty who prepared the literary ground for those who came after: Bernard Malamud, Kenneth Burke, Stanley Edgar Hyman (and his wife the novelist

Literature

Literature and History of the Holocaust — LIT2582.01

Spring 2026

Instructor: Michael Dumanis

Days & Time: MO,TH 1:40pm-3:30pm

Credits: 4

The Holocaust is one of the most ethically challenging, traumatic, and consequential occurrences in modern history. This seminar aims to give students a granular understanding of the mass oppression, enslavement, and genocide that occurred in Europe in the 1930s and 1940s, in order to then consider how it has been represented in poetry, drama, fiction, and nonfiction both by

Literature History

Literature as Resistance: The works of Rosario Castellanos — SPA4304.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Rosario de Swanson

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Credits: 4

Although Rosario Castellanos (1925-1974) is recognized as one of Mexico’s most important writers, she did not live to see the impact of her contributions to the feminist revolution of the latter half of the twentieth century, participate in the first Conferencia Mundial de la Mujer that took place in 1975 in Mexico City, or in the recent Encuentro Internacional de Mujeres que

Cultural Studies and Languages

Literature of Barcelona and Madrid — SPA4806.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Sarah Harris

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Credits: 4

Only two cities in Spain have over one million inhabitants, and these same two cities often seem at odds with each other. One city is geographically and politically central, the seat of the royal family, while the other is on the periphery, with a government that is currently in exile. Architecturally, one is largely neoclassical and monumental, while the other can seem

Languages

Literature of Barcelona and Madrid — SPA4218.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Sarah Harris

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Credits: 4

Only two cities in Spain have over one million inhabitants, and these same two cities often seem at odds with each other. One city is geographically and politically central, the seat of the royal family, while the other is on the periphery. Architecturally, one is largely neoclassical and monumental, while the other can seem dreamlike and surreal. One speaks what Antonio

Languages

Literature of the AIDS Pandemic — LIT2513.02

Fall 2020

Instructor: Michael Dumanis

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Credits: 2

In the 1980s and early 1990s, the AIDS epidemic was regarded as a global catastrophe with no hope of remedy. For many, the disease was an uncomfortable subject, one that some at first refused to address by name and others chose to ignore entirely, an illness intertwined in the collective imagination with mainstream culture’s perceptions of, and fears of, gay culture. In this

Literature

Literature of the AIDS Pandemic — LIT2513.01

Fall 2022

Instructor: Michael Dumanis

Days & Time:

Credits: 2

Literature

Literature of the Holocaust — LIT2526.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

Philosopher Theodor Adorno famously claimed that writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric. Adorno didn’t write this statement to silence poets. Specifically referencing the poet Paul Celan, he meant that poetry after the Holocaust would need to be radically different to account for these historic atrocities. We will begin by reading Franz Kafka’s unfinished novel, The Castle,

Literature

Literature of the Renaissance — LIT2265.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Brooke Allen

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Credits: 4

The literature of the European Renaissance did much to help shape the modern mind and the modern world. In this class we will begin in Italy with Petrarch and Boccaccio, then go on to works by Pico della Mirandola, Machiavelli, Castiglione, Erasmus, Wyatt, Sir Thomas More, Cervantes, Rabelais, Vasari, and Montaigne, discussing them in the context of their time and in terms of

Literature

Literature of the Spanish Civil War — LIT2396.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Sarah Harris

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Credits: 4

"Hitherto, the rights and wrongs had seemed so beautifully simple." (George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia) Technically a Civil War, the Spanish Civil War (1936 to 1939) was also an intensely international conflict in a number of ways: though no other nations officially entered the war, German forces used it to rehearse the blitzkrieg tactics they would employ in World War II;

Society Culture and Thought Literature

Literature of Travel and Discovery — FRE4222.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Stephen Shapiro

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Credits: 4

In this course, we will explore the representation of travel and discovery in a variety of genres (essay, theatre, novel, poetry, film, bande dessinée). By examining both fictive and real travel narratives, we will look at how reality is transformed into a text and how fictions help us to imagine and discover new ways of thinking and living. Central themes will include exile

Languages

Literature of Travel and Discovery — FRE4605.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Stephen Shapiro

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Credits: 4

Languages

Literature of World War I — LIT2345.01

Fall 2015

Instructor: Brooke Allen

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 4

The First World War, 1914-18, was a cataclysm that left ten million dead and created the modern world. It was also a period of tremendous artistic innovation and activity. In this class we will read the work of writers who fought the war, on both sides: soldier-poets like Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, and Edmund Blunden; novelists like Henri Barbusse, Ernest

Literature

Live Sound - Load In to Load Out — MSR4368.01

Fall 2024

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 2

Students will learn all the ways the audio travels through cables, into processing equipment, through amplification and out of speakers. Processors will include compression, EQ, delay, reverb, and crossovers. Students will learn about different live sound contexts, from the band gig to theater sound, and will be setting up and breaking down small sound systems. There will be

Music

Live Sound Technology — MSR2124.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Curt Wells

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Credits: 2

This will be a hands-on, bare-bones, system-focused class on audio electronics. We will explore the smallest inputs to the largest outputs that are used in artistic performance. The class will focus on the technical applications of microphones, mixers, speakers and software for live productions such as plays, concerts, Dance performances and installations. Students will use

Dance Drama Music

Lives of Quiet Desperation: the Transcendentalists vs. America — LIT2420.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: Benjamin Anastas

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Credits: 4

In this course we will undertake a comprehensive survey of the Transcendentalist movement through a close examination of the major writings from this tumultuous time in America's intellectual life. We will read the major figures (Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Henry David Thoreau), as well as a host of lesser known members of the Transcendental Club (Orestes Brownson,

Literature

Lives of Quiet Desperation: the Transcendentalists vs. America — LIT2420.01

Fall 2025

Instructor: Benjamin Anastas

Days & Time: M/Tu 7:00PM-8:50PM

Credits: 4

In this course we will undertake a comprehensive survey of American Transcendentalism through a close examination of the major writings from this tumultuous period. We will read the major figures (Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Henry David Thoreau), as well as a host of lesser known members of the Transcendental Club (Orestes Brownson, Ellery Channing, poet Jones Very

Literature

Living in Translation: A Student-Run Literary and Cultural Publication — LIT2347.02

Fall 2019

Instructor: Marguerite Feitlowitz

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Credits: 2

This course, while rooted in Literature, is part of the Lexicons of Migration cluster. Taking as a point of departure Isabelle de Courtivron's touchstone Bilingual Lives: Writers and Identity, students will update, complicate, and enrich the binary orientation of this collection, originally published in 2003. We will delve into the personal, familial, communal, and political

CAPA Literature

Living to Learn, Learning to Live: Readings in Contemporary South American Fiction — LIT2255.01

Spring 2017

Instructor: Marguerite Feitlowitz

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Credits: 4

Contemporary South American fiction is rife with urgency, politics, and history, as well as narrative mischief, layering and literary gamesmanship. In this course we will read a selection of novels and stories from Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru and El Salvador from such authors as Cesar Aira, Roberto Bolano, Alicia Borinsky, Sergio Chefec, Claudia Hernandez,

Literature Languages

Local Governance in Comparative Perspective — POL4239.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Rotimi Suberu

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Credits: 4

Around the world, there is renewed interest in empowering institutions of local governance (county, city, town/township, municipal, village, or special-purpose local government, and non-governmental local associations) in order to promote political democracy, enhance socio-economic welfare, and accommodate subnational identities, among other goals. This course will examine the

Society Culture and Thought

Local Governance in Comparative Perspective — POL4239.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Rotimi Suberu

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

Social Science