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Modern Observational Techniques — PHY4107.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Hugh Crowl
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
How are we able to learn about the universe around us? All information astronomers gather about the universe comes to us in the form of light. Sensing this light can be as simple as looking up at a nearby star or as complex as pointing a computerized telescope with a state-of-the-art digital detector at a distant galaxy. This class will focus on observing with a focus on using
Science and Mathematics

Modernist Monuments: Yeats, Pound and Eliot — LIT4218.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Monica Youn
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course will provide an in-depth exploration of poetry and critical work of three founding figures of English-language modernist literature: William Butler Yeats, Ezra Pound, and T.S. Eliot. We will also, time permitting, consider works by other major authors of the modernist movement, including Thomas Hardy, W.H. Auden and Gertrude Stein. At its inception, the modernist
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Modernist Poetry — LIT2367.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Camille Guthrie
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
In the first half of the twentieth century, mainly between the two world wars, Modernist poets broke from Romantic and Victorian poetic traditions. The poets during this time used deeply various aesthetic strategies, yet some similarities can be discovered—Modernists privileged difficulty over clarity, the imagination over realism, skepticism over conviction, and fragmentation
Literature

Modernizing the Nation: From the Edo Period to the Meiji Period — JPN4120.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
During the Edo Period (1603-1868, Japan closed its doors to other countries for about two hundred fifty years, and this isolation helped Japan develop its own unique culture. It, however, ended in 1867 when Japanese culture was introduced to the Western world at an International Exposition in Paris. On the contrary to the Edo period, the next era, Meiji, brought rapid
Cultural Studies and Languages

Module: Climate Change and Air Quality - Environmental Law and Policy — MOD2250.03

Fall 2015
Instructor: Elizabeth Goodman
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1
Climate change has been described as one of the most serious challenges the world faces, threatening the environment and economic prosperity.  Obtaining a balance between economic growth and development and regulation of carbon emissions and other air pollution has never been more difficult or more critical than it is today. This course will examine environmental policy
Environment Modules: Transferable Approaches

molds — SCU2215.02

Fall 2025
Instructor: John Umphlett
Days & Time: MO 1:40pm-5:20pm
Credits: 2

This course explores the art and technique of mold making and its supportive processes.Think about all the teeth molds we make when we munch through our evening supper. Our mouths often act as molds to shape the pressures related to communication and speech.  This class will investigate processes related to many different types of molds,

Sculpture

Monitoring the Paran Creek Watershed — ES2113.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Tim Schroeder
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Much discussion of environmental protection is based on the unit of a local watershed. Fully considering a watershed requires relating landscapes, land cover, and human land use to the waterways that we rely upon to live. This field-based class will work with community groups and environmental professionals to begin a long-term watershed monitoring system for Paran Creek. This
CAPA Science and Mathematics Environment

Monsters, Magic, and Madness in Western Music — MHI4136.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Joseph Alpar
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Magic bullets forged in a pact with the Devil. A blood-stained bride driven to despair and murder on her wedding night. An opium dream of a diabolical witches' Sabbath. Composers and performers have represented horror, madness, magical creatures, and supernatural elements in innumerable and thrilling ways since the Middle Ages. In this course, we will study key musical works
Society Culture and Thought Music

Moral Hazards: Economic Growth and “Development” in Latin America — SPA4602.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
At the beginning of this history of promise and postponement, as such courses are wont to ratify, it would behoove anyone to reach a general and at least somewhat contextualized understanding of the relevance of such terms and realities as colonization, dependency, liberalism, industrialization, the role of the state, import substitution, populism, debt crises, privatization,
Languages

More-than-human Dances — DAN2366.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Mina Nishimura
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Through creative embodied inquiry and somatic practice, we will disorient and deconstruct human-centric ways of being, doing and performing. We will engage the more-than-human as teacher, as agent, and collaborator, by attuning ourselves toward more-than-human timescales, spatialities, relationships, and modes of perception and embodiment. Physical investigations will be
CAPA Dance

Morning Butoh – A Practice of Renewing and Redefining Self — DAN2012.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Mina Nishimura
Days & Time:
Credits: 1
No previous experience in dance or movement practice is required. This course is open to and welcomes all students who are interested in liberating their bodies from socially pre-conditioned selves, and investigating the physical embodiment of transformation. By studying some breath, somatic and movement practices that are linked to butoh, which originated in Japan as a
Dance

Morning Butoh- A Practice of Renewing and Redefining Self — DAN2012.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Mina Nishimura
Days & Time:
Credits: 1
No previous experience in dance or movement practice is required. This course is open to and welcomes all students who are interested in liberating their bodies from socially pre-conditioned selves, and investigating the physical embodiment of transformation. By studying some breath, somatic and movement practices that are linked to butoh, which originated in Japan as a
Dance

Morning Dance: Beginning-level Dance Technique — DAN2365.01) (faculty update 12/2/2024

Spring 2025
Instructor: Mina Nishimura
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
This beginning-level dance course requires no previous dance training and welcomes absolute beginners who would like to start a day with physical practice and body attunement. Students are introduced to some basic principles of dancing by learning various movement patterns, choreographed sequences and by engaging in improvisational and compositional movement practice. As early
Dance

Morning Dance: Beginning-level Dance Technique — DAN2365.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Mina Nishimura
Days & Time: M 8:00AM-9:50AM
Credits: 1

This beginning-level dance course requires no previous dance training and welcomes absolute beginners who would like to start a day with physical practice and body attunement. Students are introduced to some basic principles of dancing by learning various movement patterns, choreographed sequences and by engaging in improvisational and

Dance

Morning Mind-Body Teleportation: An Intimate Conversation with Self and Others — DAN2362.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Mina Nishimura
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
How can we be together and create something together, when we are physically not in the same space and time? In light of the above question, this course will be fully remote, facilitated through a combination of synchronous remote sessions and individual outside-class projects. Throughout the course, with body-centered minds, we will interview each other, and exchange
Dance

Morning Mind-Body Teleportation: An Intimate Conversation with Self and Others — DAN2362.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Mina Nishimura
Days & Time: WE 8:30am-12:10pm
Credits: 2

How can we be together, interact with each other, create something together, share physical experiences….when we are physically not in the same space and time? In light of the above question, this course will be fully remote, facilitated through a combination of synchronous remote sessions and individual outside-class projects.<

Dance

Morning Plainchant — MPF2202.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Kitty Brazelton
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
We sing together in the early morning. Every week. Public plainchant from the mass and private chants from the monastic Hours. Latin chants that celebrate Christian feasts, chants that echo songs from ancient Rome, chants that explode from the late medieval Cult of Mary, and its companion phenomenon, courtly love. As we sing we sense the breath and thought of thousands of
Music

Mother Figure and Motherly Figures — ITA4603.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Barbara Alfano
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course explores the concept of motherhood and the role of the mother in Italian culture through literature, film, art, and music. Some of the questions that the course will try to answer are: What are the implications and ramifications of such a crucial institution as motherhood in Italian society, for both women and men? How does motherhood affect the modern family, and
Languages

Mother Figure and Motherly Figures in Italian Culture – Taught in English — ITA2117.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Barbara Alfano
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This course explores the concept of motherhood and the role of the mother in Italian culture primarily through literature and film, but also through art and music. Particular attention will be given to the history of Italian women’s writing and Italian feminist thought. Some of the questions that the course will ask are: What are the implications and ramifications of the
Languages

Motion Capture Workshop — MA4126.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Sue Rees; Jean Randich
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
This workshop is concerned with investigating the interaction of projected manipulated imagery with performers, motion, and space. We will explore spaces and objects through 3d mapping; the results will then be manipulated and projected back into the space. We will also explore performers movement through motion capture of gestures that will be further manipulated digitally.
Visual Arts

Motion Capture: Interactivity — DRA4208.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Joshua Higgason
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This workshop is concerned with investigating the interaction of projected manipulated imagery with performers, motion, and space and its use in performance. Using Watchout, a multi-display production software, and utilizing various other tools such as live cameras, animations, motion sensing input devices, and real-world inputs, students will investigate the integration of
Drama Visual Arts

Mountain Dulcimer — MIN2224.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: john kirk
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
A comprehensive course on learning skills on the mountain (aka lap) dulcimer. We will learn the history of the dulcimer and both traditional and contemporary styles. Music theory and playing techniques will be covered and students will be expected to perform (as a group or individually) at Music Workshop. Students will purchase a lap dulcimer kit and construct the instrument as
Music

Mountain Dulcimer (Lap Dulcimer) — MIN2224.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: John Kirk
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
A comprehensive course on learning skills on the mountain (aka lap) dulcimer. We will learn the history of the dulcimer and both traditional and contemporary styles. Music theory and playing techniques will be covered and students will be expected to perform (as a group or individually) at Music Workshop. Students will purchase a lap dulcimer kit and construct the instrument as
Music