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A Community Health Approach to Social Emergencies, American Racism, and Firearm Injury Prevention — APA2325.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
This course introduces students to the confluence of factors related to firearm injury - a leading cause of premature death in the United States. Sessions will explore multi-level health strategies that may be developed to prevent and treat firearm injury in American society. Students will gain exposure and experience in program design by creating, operationalizing, and
CAPA

A Community Health Approach to Social Emergencies, American Racism, and Firearm Injury Prevention — APA2325.01) (cancelled

Fall 2020
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Days & Time:
Credits: 1
Poor health outcomes in modern, advanced societies are influenced largely by a series of critical social factors known collectively as social determinants of health: economic inequity, racism, community violence and food insecurity, among others. Social determinants of health contribute directly to medical and social emergencies, and as the nexus of the US healthcare safety net
CAPA

A Dot and a Line: Literary Representations of the US-Mexico Border — SPA4221.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
The border between Mexico and the U.S. is a physical space as well as a symbolic one, a place of exchange and hybridity, but also a place of violence and xenophobia. El Paso, Ciudad Juárez, Tijuana, and Mexicali are all zones where the North and the South meet, areas of conflict that contemporary literature has profusely portrayed. Writers like Rulfo, Fuentes, Poniatowska, P.
Languages

A Dual Narrative Approach to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict — APA2246.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Michael Cohen
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
Sari Nusseibeh, a Palestinian philosopher and past President of Al-Quds University, and Yossi Klein Halevi, an Israeli journalist, have each authored books from their perspectives, analysis, and insights into the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Nusseibeh’s book is called, “Once Upon a Country: A Palestinian Life,” while Halevi’s book is called, “Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor
CAPA

A History of Economic Thought — PEC2268.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This course explores how ideas about the economy – from money, to labor, to distribution – have changed over time. We will focus on modern theories of the economy, including those of the mercantilists, physiocrats, classical political economists, and neoclassical economists, placing these ideas in their global context. Our most central focus will be on thinkers working within
Society Culture and Thought

A History of Mathematics — MAT2403.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Tim Kane
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Symbolism has played a central role in the development of mathematics.  From Babylonian cuneiform tablets to today’s modern algebraic notation, the evolution of mathematical thought requires new symbols as new symbols allow for more abstract and analytical reasoning.  While exploring the general themes and historical periods of mathematics, this course will focus on
Science and Mathematics

A Material World — SCU2113.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: John Umphlett
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
This course is directed at the student who is interested in furthering a visual vocabulary and conceptual enhancement through material introductions and demonstrations. The class will be based primarily on mastering methods of working with both thermo forming and thermo setting plastics. Often I have students come to me and ask how they can find some solution to the way a
Visual Arts

A Material World — SCU2113.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: John Umphlett
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
This course is directed at the student who is interested in furthering a visual vocabulary and conceptual enhancement through material introductions and demonstrations.  The class will be based primarily on mastering methods of working with both thermo forming and thermo setting plastics. Often I have students come to me and ask how they can find some solution to the way a
Visual Arts

A Philosophy of Data — DA2132.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Mimi Onuoha
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
We live in a world where more data has been and is being collected than ever before. But what does that mean? What information can we glean from the data? How do we represent what is being collected, and more importantly, what is missed? This intro-level course examines the emergent fields of data collection, analysis, and visualization from an art perspective, asking how the
Visual Arts

A Play Takes Place in the Audience — DRA4133.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Sherry Kramer
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
A play is a unique, self organizing process which generates new states of order spontaneously out of nothing. It uses this order to create a perception shift in the audience. We will read 10 plays together to investigate the way that plays generate meaning. There will be a series of short writing exercises, and students will write a 30-90 minute play as their final project.
Drama

A Play Takes Place in the Audience — DRA4133.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Sherry Kramer
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
A play is a unique, self organizing process which generates new states of order spontaneously out of nothing. It uses this order to create a perception shift in the audience. We will read 10 plays together to investigate the way that plays generate meaning. There will be a series of short writing exercises, and students will write a 30-60 minute play as their final project.
Drama

A Survey of Avant-Garde Exhibitions — VA2109.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Carol Stakenas
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This course will examine a selection of landmark art exhibitions in Europe and the United States from the middle of the 19th century to the early 2000s. Starting with the Salon des Refusés in 1863, we will focus on controversial exhibitions associated with individuals and movements such as Gustave Courbet, Edouard Manet, Impressionism, Fauvism, German Expressionism, Surrealism,
Visual Arts

A Survey of Avant-Garde Exhibitions — VA2109.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Carol Stakenas
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
*** New faculty and updated description *** This course will examine a selection of art exhibitions in Europe and the United States from the middle of the 19th century to the early 2000s. The course will focus on controversial exhibitions associated with individuals and movements such as Gustave Courbet, Edouard Manet, Impressionism, Fauvism, the Armory Show, Alfred Stieglitz,
Visual Arts

A Voice from a Wound: Trauma and Memory in Hispanophone Literature — SPA4802.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Sarah Harris
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This advanced Spanish course is a study of the paradox of trauma literature. Stories that compel their telling, yet are unassimilated and unspeakable, trauma narratives grow out of disaster and crisis on an individual and/or collective scale. To better understand Anne Whitehead’s assertion that “Novelists have frequently found that the impact of trauma can only adequately be
Cultural Studies and Languages

about the membrane — SCU2216.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: John Umphlett
Days & Time: TH 8:30am-12:10pm
Credits: 4

This course focuses on the additive construction methods essential to contemporary sculpture. Students will embark on independent projects that hone their skills in constructing armatures and exploring innovative skinning techniques. Throughout the term, participants will learn to build and manipulate forms using primarily additive processes,

Sculpture

About Time — MCO4109.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
Days & Time: MO,TH 3:40pm-5:30pm
Credits: 4

In this course, students will work on an extended piece (10+ minutes), as well as a suite of miniatures (< 30 seconds). By playing with scale and continuity, students will be challenged to find their own way to extend their ideas while enriching their own musical language. Students can propose a piece in any style or forces, and we will work together to

Composition

About Time — MCO4109.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
In this course, students will work on a extended piece (9+ minutes), as well as a suite of miniatures ( 30 seconds). By playing with scale and continuity, students will be challenged to find their own way to extend their ideas while enriching their own musical language. Students can propose a piece in any style or forces, and we will work together to recruit instrumentalists or
Music

Absolutism and Its Discontents — FRE4803.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Stephen Shapiro
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This course will examine the relationship between cultural forms (architecture, garden design, art, music, opera, ballet, literature, etc.) and power at the court of Louis XIV. We will focus our attentions on primary texts and cultural artifacts from the period while examining modern perspectives (including film) on the Golden Age of French Classicism at Versailles. We will
Languages

Absolutism and its Discontents — FRE4715.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Stephen Shapiro
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This course will examine the relationship between cultural forms (architecture, garden design, art, music, opera, ballet, literature, etc.) and power at the court of Louis XIV.  We will focus our attentions on primary texts and cultural artifacts from the period while examining modern perspectives (including film) on the Golden Age of French Classicism at Versailles. We
Languages

Abstract Algebra — MAT4144.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Carly Briggs
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This course will be organized around two main themes. One will be the analysis of symmetries, in particular the symmetries of tiling patterns and crystals. The other will be classical polynomial algebra, in particular the analysis of the extent to which polynomial equations may be solved explicitly (and what that means). The relevant mathematical topics are what are known as
Science and Mathematics

Abstract Algebra — MAT4223.01) (cancelled 10/11/2023

Spring 2024
Instructor: Andrew McIntyre
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Abstract algebra begins with the algebra of polynomial equations. We all learn (and mostly forget) the solution of quadratic polynomial equations in school, and the "quadratic formula". A corresponding method, and a formula, was discovered in the 1500s for both cubic and quartic equations (involving x to the third or fourth power), but people searched for a method for quintic
Science and Mathematics

Abstract Algebra and Number Theory — MAT4343.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Andrew McIntyre
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
The goal of this class is to introduce the standard topics and theorems of a first abstract algebra course (groups, rings, modules, and fields), in a historically motivated context, primarily through number theory. Number theory asks questions about whole numbers: for example, are there infinitely many fundamentally different "Pythagorean triples", where two whole number
Science and Mathematics

Access is a Practice: Dance and Disability Studies — DAN4373.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Londs Reuter
Days & Time: TU,FR 2:10pm-4:00pm
Credits: 2

Accessibility describes the practice of freeing a space or an event so it might be visited by more people in more ways than one could ever presume at the outset. In this course, we will explore the litany of practices that allow more people (and in particular, disabled, mad, and chronically ill people) into all spheres of public life with a particular focus on performance

Advancement of Public Action Dance Education

Accidents, Glitches and Errors/From Content to Form — DAN2360.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
This is a practice for participants of any discipline to activate the desired body, in their chosen form or medium. Trusting the intrinsic intelligence of the body, as well as discovering the glitches that contribute to the making process, we will source multiple systems (muscular, skeletal, fluid, organ) and other ways of reading the body (energy, emotion, history, trauma).
Dance