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This course invites students to explore a range of writings on the photograph from the 19th, 20th, and current century. Readings will be shared by literary and cultural critics, artists, scholars including Lady Eastlake, Charles Baudelaire, Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes, Susan Sontag, John Berger, Martha Rosler, Allan Sekula, bell hooks, T.J. Demos, and Mark Sealy. Students

This course invites students to explore the myriad ways that the photograph has been considered over past 175 years. From the early observations of Charles Baudelaire, Lady Eastlake, and Fox Talbot through the 20th century insights of Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes, and John Berger, we will investigate the aesthetic, social, and political aspects of the medium. More recent

For generations, the passage west and the idea of wilderness have provided resonant subject matter for American writers. In the words of Wallace Stegner, "the wilderness idea is something that has helped form our character and certainly shaped our history as a people." The course will explore how our understanding of wilderness has evolved from perceived notions of untouched

For generations, the passage west and notions of wilderness have provided resonant subject matter for American writers. In the words of Wallace Stegner, “the wilderness idea is something that has helped form our character and certainly shaped our history as a people.” But if that idea is rooted in perceived notions of untouched earth, today it has more to do with managed

Our overriding aim is simple: to read, discuss, write about, and generally immerse ourselves in Geoffrey Chaucer's masterworks, The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde. In that process, we'll aim to get sufficiently comfortable with Middle English to read, delight in, and even imitate that rich language. We'll also consider something of Chaucer's life and times as

This seminar course investigates the cultural, philosophical, and aesthetic dimensions of sound through critical readings, listening exercises, and discussions. Drawing from fields such as sound studies, media theory, musicology, literature, and art, Readings in

This seminar course investigates the cultural, philosophical, and aesthetic dimensions of sound through critical readings, listening exercises, and discussions. Drawing from fields such as sound studies, media theory, musicology, literature, and art, Readings in

Differential and integral calculus - nowadays referred to together as simply "calculus" - were developed in the late 1600s and early 1700s to allow infinitely small numbers and formulas with infinitely many terms. These techniques turned out to be immensely powerful, and it is impossible to imagine modern physics, engineering or mathematics without them. However, for almost two

In this course we will develop a rigorous understanding of the real number system and the foundations of calculus with an emphasis on proof writing and mathematical communication. Topics covered will include: the structure of the real number line, convergence, continuity, limits, and differentiation. Additional topics such as power series, countability, integration, and metric

The Austrian writer Robert Musil (1880-1942) never lived to complete his multi-volume Modernist masterpiece The Man Without Qualities. Written obsessively over more than twenty years and conceived of as an ironic epitaph to the culture of Mitteleuropa that had slid blindly into the catastrophe of the First World War, the novel–and its author–became embroiled in the dark

Using films, documentaries, podcasts, historical newspapers, and other tools, we will explore America’s most notorious unsolved cases from the mid-nineteenth century to about 1950. Focusing on specific cases will illuminate larger contexts, including changing understandings of “criminality,” modern policing methods, incarceration policies, the development of forensic science,

Using films, documentaries, podcasts, historical newspapers, and mixed reality (VR/AR) resources, we will craft narratives of individuals caught up in America’s most notorious unsolved cases, from the mid-nineteenth century to about 1950. For our historically grounded storytelling, we will explore “portraiture,” a unique methodology that “seeks to unveil the universal truths

Using films, documentaries, podcasts, historical newspapers, and mixed reality (VR/AR) resources, we will craft narratives of individuals caught up in America’s most notorious unsolved cases, from the mid-nineteenth century to about 1950. For our historically grounded storytelling, we will explore “portraiture,” a unique methodology that “seeks to unveil the universal truths

Rebetiko was an urban underground music genre that flourished in Greece in the early 20th century. A kind of outlaw blues, rebetiko emerged from the poorest quarters of Athens in the 19th century, its songs typically dealing with themes of exile, wandering the streets after dark, taking drugs and drinking to excess, loving the wrong person, imprisonment, death, and the harsh

Rebuilding Cities with the Arts with a Focus Study on Sister City Project: Tagum City, Mindanao, Philippines and Bennington, Vermont. Rebuilding Cities with the Arts examines case studies of Cities that have rebuilt themselves after natural disasters, dealing with governance and economic inequity, innovative growth, political change, and response to environmental

In this class we will look at novels and stories that have been published by Indian and Pakistani writers over the last twenty years, in the context of the history of the post-Partition subcontinent. We will read works by an array of authors, possibly including Aravind Adiga, Rohinton Mistry, Mohsin Hamid, Mohammed Hanif, Mirza Waheed, Amit Chaudhuri, H.M. Naqvi, and Amitav

I'm not a scientist, but I'm going to full-throatedly argue, scientifically and unimpeachably, that every living creature harbors a desire, whether conscious or instinctive, often more than one desire at a time. A bevy of tree nuts. A good place to take a winter's-long nap. A cup of coffee. A better job. An easier time of it all. Life is rife with desire. And what's more,

In this course, when making and performing new movement material, we will be thoroughly investigating, modifying, rearranging, and reconsidering our understanding and use of time.  By focusing on time, we will find more about its intricate relationship to space and motion. We will challenge personal timing habits and patterns, explore them more deeply to find a wealth of

In this course, when making and performing new movement material, we will be thoroughly investigating, modifying, rearranging, and reconsidering our understanding and use of time. By focusing on time, we will find more about its intricate relationship to space and motion. We will challenge personal timing habits and patterns, explore them more deeply to find a wealth of

An introduction to the basic art of audio recording, editing, and mixing, through lectures and hands-on experiences with guided and individual studio projects. Pro Tools, microphone technique, audio processing, and basic mixing will be covered, alongside analysis of commercial recordings with in-studio recreation of their techniques. Want people to listen to your music?

An introductory course to recording and mixing.  We will learn the basics of recording, editing, and mixing in the Jennings Recording studio. Microphone types and placement for acoustic instruments.  Pro Tools operation. Outboard microphone preamps. Audio editing. Monitoring correctly and efficiently. Basic mixing of multitrack material. This is a hands-on course

An introduction to the basic art of audio recording, editing, and mixing, through lectures and hands-on experiences with guided and individual studio projects. Pro Tools, microphone technique, audio processing, and basic mixing will be covered, alongside analysis of commercial recordings with in-studio recreation of their techniques. Want people to listen to your music?

An introduction to the basic art of audio recording, editing, and mixing, through lectures and hands-on experience with guided and individual studio projects. Pro Tools, microphone technique, audio processing, and basic mixing will be covered, alongside analysis of commercial recordings with in-studio recreation of their techniques. Want people to listen to your music? Stop

Segues from MSR 2116.01 as the next step in in sound recording and mixing. We’ll working on advanced microphone technique, dynamic processing, producing, mixing, and mastering, starting start with hands-on A/B comparisons of microphone techniques, and capturing audio in diverse spaces around campus. The course will consider the merits of various formats, analog vs digital,