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Materials and Methods: Painting Practicum — PAI4110.01

Instructor: Ann Pibal
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Credits: 2
*****Prerequisites Updated as of 2/11/2022***** This seven-week intensive course is designed for students who may not have had the opportunity to enroll in fully studio-based introductory level painting courses in recent terms due Covid and the temporary shift to online teaching. Topics covered will be techniques and protocols for the use of VAPA and remote studios, including

Mathematics of Fundamental Laws — MAT4120.01

Instructor: Andrew McIntyre
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Credits: 4
This is a course in advanced calculus, including vector calculus (div, grad, curl), ordinary differential equations, and partial differential equations. The goal is to learn enough mathematics to understand the formulation of the fundamental physical laws, and their most important solutions: Newtons laws and planetary motion; Maxwells laws and electromagnetic waves; Einstein's

Matter, Energy, and the Environment — ENV2326.01

Instructor: John Bullock
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Credits: 4
Environmental issues are inherently cross-disciplinary. To effectively grapple with them, their economic, social, and political dimensions must be considered. But to truly understand such problems, their underlying scientific aspects cannot be ignored. Basic principles of energy, including thermodynamics and the nature of light and heat, as well the principles that describe

Measles and the (sometimes unnatural) history of outbreaks — MOD2153.04

Instructor: Zeke Bernstein
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Credits: 1
We will use the recent measles outbreak in the United States as a lens into the history and also (murky) future of infectious disease outbreaks in our human race. We'll cover outbreaks and outbreak dynamics, along with foundational topics in microbiology, immunology, and infectious disease. We’ll also situate the current measles outbreak in the context of the ongoing

Media and Democracy — APA2132.01

Instructor: Erika Mijlin
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
In the midst of the heat and noise of an election season, we will pursue an inquiry into the deeply entangled, complicit, and often conflicted role of media in a democratic society.  Topics may include:  historical precedence for media influence before and beyond American democracy, the role and responsibilities of a free press, the implications of corporate media

Media and Democracy Workshop — APA2207.01

Instructor: erika mijlin
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
A laboratory for learning and working through the complexities of media's role in a democratic society. We will zero in on some of the pressing issues of this year's midterm elections, and use them as a lens onto topics such as : campaign finance, media ownership, information visualization (or distortion) by media, and some new strategies for media as a platform for ideas and a

Media Archaeology: Signal and Data — APA4156.01

Instructor: Erika Mijlin
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Credits: 4
A course exploring the 20th and 21st century media technologies, and various understandings of their social significance. Beginning with the development of radio and television, through the emergence of the computer and network technologies such as the internet and social media - this course takes up the questions of the transition from mechanical technologies to signal-based

Media Archaeology: Signs and Representation — APA2131.01

Instructor: Erika Mijlin
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Credits: 4
An introduction to the study of media technologies and their social impact. We will move somewhat chronologically from the emergence of writing systems through the printing press, photography, and the development of moving images - these mechanical technologies of documentation and communication each initiated a subsequent ripple of social and cultural changes in their time.

Media Archaeology: Signs and Representation — APA2131.01

Instructor: Erika Mijlin
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
An introduction to the study of media technologies and their social impact. We will move somewhat chronologically from the emergence of writing systems through the printing press, photography, and the development of moving images – these mechanical technologies of documentation and communication each initiated a subsequent ripple of social and cultural changes in their time.

Media Convergence and Culture — APA4102.01

Instructor: Erika Mijlin
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
A seminar on the changing nature of the relationship between consumption and production of media, and how these newly intersect. With a perspective rooted in the cultural history of forms such as quotation, parody, and collage, in this course we will explore the many transitions in the present media paradigm — the changing aesthetics of digital media content and context, the

Media Convergence and Culture — APA4102.01

Instructor: Erika Mijlin
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
A seminar on the changing nature of the relationship between consumption and production of media, and how these newly intersect. With a perspective rooted in the cultural history of forms such as quotation, parody, and collage, in this course we will explore the many transitions in the present media paradigm -- the changing aesthetics of digital media content and context, the

Media Convergence and Culture — APA4102.01

Instructor: Erika Mijlin
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
A seminar on the changing nature of the relationship between consumption and production of media, and how these newly intersect. With a perspective rooted in the cultural history of forms such as quotation, parody, and collage, in this course we will explore the many transitions in the present media paradigm — the changing aesthetics of digital media content and context, the

Media Technology and Social Change — APA2203.01

Instructor: Erika Mijlin
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
From the print revolution to the birth of photography, from moving images to social networking, we find that new media technologies are continually adapting to us, as we simultaneously, and more subtly, adapt to them. Every wave of technological innovation leaves human existence more closely intertwined with media of documentation and communication. A central question forms

Media Technology and Social Change — APA2203.01

Instructor: erika mijlin
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
From the print revolution to the birth of photography, from moving images to social networking, we find that new media technologies are continually adapting to us, as we simultaneously, and more subtly, adapt to them. Every wave of technological innovation leaves human existence more closely intertwined with media of documentation and communication. A central question forms

Media, Technology and Social Change — APA2203.01

Instructor: Erika Mijlin
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
From the print revolution to the birth of photography, from moving images to social networking, we find that new media technologies are continually adapting to us, as we simultaneously, and more subtly, adapt to them. Every wave of technological innovation leaves human existence more closely intertwined with media of documentation and communication. A central question forms

Mediated Movement: Camera and the Body in Hybrid Performance — FV4239.01

Instructor: Kate Purdie and Elena Demyanenko
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This hands-on course will explore and analyze the creative choices available and practical tools needed when we instigate a relationship between camera and movement, filmmaker and performer. We will develop common language, scores, and systems in an environment where perspectives of both performer and filmmaker are in conversation. Throughout, we will share and

Mediation and Negotiation — MOD2110.02

Instructor: Daniel Michaelson
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1
This module includes a twelve-hour training in Mediation and Negotiation skills. Mediation is a facilitated process where a third neutral party helps disputants with conflicting interests negotiate an agreement. The process of Mediation can be used in a range of conflicts such as family, roommate, sports, business, environmental, and international. Capacities such as active

Mediation and Negotiation — MOD2110.01

Instructor: Daniel Michaelson
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1
This module includes a twelve-hour training in Mediation and Negotiation skills. Mediation is a facilitated process where a third neutral party helps disputants with conflicting interests negotiate an agreement. The process of Mediation can be used in a range of conflicts such as family, roommate, sports, business, environmental, and international. Capacities such as active

Mediation, Negotiation and Complex Systems Analysis — APA2455.01

Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Days & Time: TU,FR 10:30am-12:20pm
Credits: 4

This class will examine contemporary cconflicts through the lens of complex systems. The class will include a 16 hour training in Mediation and Negotiation skills. Through readings, discussion, exercises and role-plays, the class will examine and deconstruct the complexities of current democratic and environmental issues related to local, national and global governance, We

Medicinal Chemistry — CHE4130.01

Instructor: Janet Foley
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
The action of drugs and their mechanisms are of immense importance to people interested in health care. In this class we will examine basic mechanisms of drugs, side effects, clinical trials, and evaluation of efficacy. Students will direct the study by choosing drugs to investigate and by presenting information identifying what they need to know to understand how the drug

Medicinal Chemistry — CHE4130.01

Instructor: janet foley
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
The action of drugs and their mechanisms are of immense importance to people interested in health care. In this tutorial we will examine basic mechanisms of drugs, side effects, clinical trials, and evaluation of efficacy. Students will direct the study by choosing drugs to investigate and by presenting information identifying what they need to know to understand how the drug

Medieval and Early Modern Female Visionary Writers — LIT2569.01

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 4
In this seminar, we’ll read an assortment of Medieval and Early Modern female visionary writers alongside contemporary writers that they inspired. Primary readings will include Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648-1695), writer, nun, and polymath in colonial Mexico and poet Eileen Myles (1949- ), who wrote a play inspired by her life; Margery Kempe (1373-1438) and Margery Kempe

Medieval Britain and Shakespeare's History Plays — LIT2317.01

Instructor: Annabel Davis-Goff; Carol Pal
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Credits: 4
Shakespeare wrote his history plays for an audience living in a newly nationalistic England. It was a realm constructing the idea of Britain as the natural inheritor of Roman glory. But what, precisely, was this new "British" identity? In this course, we will follow the construction of British identity in history and literature. We will study the history of Britain from the