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Rethinking Agriculture — POP2278.02

Spring 2020
Instructor: Brian Campion
Days & Time:
Credits: 1
It is essential that we feed one another but how we do it can be harmful to the water we drink, the land we use, our climate and to human health itself. This course offers a broad look at a range of issues and policy ideas in America’s agricultural system today with the goal of developing a curriculum of the most innovative agricultural practices. Students will hear from
CAPA

Rethinking Capitalism: Climate, Poverty, Jobs and Public Action — APA2454.02

Fall 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Days & Time:
Credits: 1
This intensive weekend module begins with the premise that prevailing economic systems — and the theories and policies that support them — produce an enormous range of goods and services yet are failing to meet even the most basic needs of at least 45% of the people on earth while destroying the planet’s capacity to provide the resources and process the wastes on which life
CAPA

Reveries — ARC4124.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Donald Sherefkin
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Students will develop solitary retreats for a writer/reader/dreamer. We will explore the links between poetics and architecture through the close study of texts and images. The structures will be inspired by poetry and conducive to reverie. There are aspects of poetry that share qualities with architecture: structure, rhythm, repetition, shape, etc. Particular to architecture
Visual Arts

Reveries — ARC4124.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Don Sherefkin and Farhad Mirza
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Students will develop solitary retreats for a writer/reader/dreamer. We will explore the links between poetics and architecture through the close study of texts and images. The structures will be inspired by poetry and conducive to reverie. There are aspects of poetry that share qualities with architecture: structure, rhythm, repetition, shape, etc. Particular to architecture
Visual Arts

ReVisions Rebellions, Revolution: Latin American Women Writers — LIT2516.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Marguerite Feitlowitz
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Since the 17th century women writers have been a steadily rebellious, even revolutionizing force in Latin American letters. A number of the writers we’ll read together are also visual and/or performance artists, and intensely political, dealing in formally challenging ways with the residues of 20th-century state terror; as well as the legacies of colonialism; themes of
Literature Cultural Studies and Languages

Revolution and Politics in Iran — APA2144.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Mansour Farhang
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
The Iranian revolution of 1979 replaced a secular autocratic monarchy with a populist, nationalist and theocratic political order.  Since then, the Islamic Republic of Iran has become a major player in the Middle East region and a salient country to global affairs.  This course examines the nature of the Iranian revolution and the intricate 
CAPA

Revolutionary Foundations: Order and Dissent in American Political Thought — POL2207.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Crina Archer
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
In this course, we will explore a selection of key texts from the colonial period to the 21st century that have helped to shape and to contest the contemporary ideals and ideas of American political thought. In the early weeks of the semester, we will cull intellectual themes from debates of the colonial and founding period, with a particular focus on moments in which
Social Science

Rhetoric: The Art and Craft of Persuasion — PHI2144.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Karen Gover
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
The ability to speak and write persuasively is an essential skill for everyone.  Whether you are writing a plan essay, applying for a job, or running for public office, you need to be persuasive and compelling.  This course is a practical workshop in rhetoric.  Students will write, deliver, and critique short speeches in class.  We will learn classic
Society Culture and Thought

Rhetoric: The Art and Craft of Persuasion — PHI2144.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Karen Gover
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
The ability to speak and write persuasively is an essential skill for everyone. Whether you are writing a plan essay, applying for a job, or running for public office, you need to be persuasive and compelling. This course is a practical workshop in rhetoric. Students will write, deliver, and critique short speeches in class. We will learn classic rhetorical terms and techniques
Society Culture and Thought

Rhythmic Fundamentals — MFN2117.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
This course serves as an introduction to learning note values, rhythm notation and analysis, dictation, transcription, and ear training. Students will learn how to identify musical meters and rhythmic phrasing across several styles of music, including classical, jazz, folk, pop, electronic, and rock. It is preferable that each student has a beginner’s knowledge of the
Music

Rhythmic Fundamentals — MFN2117.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Susie Ibarra
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
This course is an introduction to rhythmic analysis, dictation, transcription and theory. Students will study these rhythmic concepts across several styles of music such as classical, jazz, pop, world music, electronic music and rock. It is preferable that each student has a beginner's knowledge of the fundamentals of music, but it is not required. Vocalists and
Music

Richard Wright and James Baldwin — LIT2193.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Benjamin Anastas
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
“As writers we were about as unlike as any two writers could possible be,” James Baldwin wrote of his early mentor and later rival Richard Wright. “We were linked together, really, because both of us were black.” Now that the two writers have been found new relevance--and controversy--in a post-Black Lives Matter world, we can read their major works together, side by side, and
Black Studies Literature

Richard Wright and James Baldwin — LIT2193.01

Spring 2027
Instructor: Benjamin Anastas
Days & Time: TU 2:10pm-5:50pm
Credits: 4

Everybody’s Protest Novel

“As writers we were about as unlike as any two writers could possible be,” James Baldwin wrote of his early mentor and later rival Richard Wright. “We were linked together, really, because both of us were black.” But while

Literature

Richard Wright and James Baldwin — LIT2193.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: benjamin anastas
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
"As writers we were about as unlike as any two writers could possible be," James Baldwin wrote of his early mentor and sometimes rival Richard Wright. "We were linked together, really, because both of us were black." Now that both writers have been canonized, we can read their major works together, side by side, and identify the resonances and irreconcilable differences that
Literature

Richard Wright and James Baldwin — LIT2193.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Benjamin Anastas
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
“As writers we were about as unlike as any two writers could possibly be,” James Baldwin wrote of his early mentor and sometimes rival Richard Wright. “We were linked together, really, because both of us were black.” Now that both writers have been canonized, we can read their major works together, side by side, and identify the resonances and irreconcilable differences that
Literature

Riffing with Shakespeare and his Doubles — DRA2380.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Jean Randich
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
Shakespeare not only inspires radical staging approaches, but has also provoked contemporary playwrights to reimagine, refashion, and retell his stories to include, as Sarah Mantell puts it, "Everything that Never Happened." In this course we will dive into some of Shakespeare's classics and read them alongside contemporary adaptations that plunge us into worlds that are both
Drama

Riso Printing: Photographs — PHO2209.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Veronica Melendez
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
A Risograph is a digital duplicator designed for high volume print jobs. Using technology that plays off of screen printing and color copiers, Riso prints retain a unique handmade aesthetic while having the convenience of digital editing and reproduction. In this class students will learn how to print photographs using a Risograph Duplicator. The first 7 weeks of this course
Visual Arts

Robert Frost and the Rural Authentic — LIT2353.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Stephen Metcalf
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
Robert Frost was born in 1873, the year Thomas Hardy published Far From The Madding Crowd, and he died in 1963, the year Bob Dylan brought out Freewheelin’. In a life that spanned the better part of the 20th century, Frost experienced the emergence of modern America. His poetry–with its focus on the small New England village and the family farm, and its exquisitely preserved
Literature

Roberto Bolaño — SPA4804.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This is a paradoxical course. Roberto Bolaño explicitly shunned magical realism, the Boom years, the subsequent imitations, supposedly liberating Latin American literature from its hobnobbing with the establishment, and yet maintained filial ties to Dadaism, surrealism, modernism, Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar’s Rayuela, perhaps the first Boom novel. Despite the breadth
Languages

Robot Dreams: Artificial and Human Identities in Literature and Popular Culture — LIT2402.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Benjamin Anastas
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
In this course we will trace artificial intelligence (AI) in literature and film from the industrial revolution to the ‘hive mind’ of rave music and the age of the Internet. What is the proper response to the prospect of ‘dehumanization’, and to the absorption of individual identity into mass culture? In attempting to answer this question, writers and filmmakers often find
Literature

Robotics and STEM Education: A Workshop — EDU2107.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Hugh Crowl
Days & Time: FR 10:30am-12:20pm
Credits: 1

In this course, students will gain experience with using simple programmable robots and how they can be utilized in STEM education. The focus of this class will be on learning and designing lessons for K-12 students utilizing these robots. This class is accessible for students at all levels of computer programming experience (including none). 

Education Physics Computer Science

Rock and Metal Technique for Band Vocalists — MVO4252.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Virginia Kelsey
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
This class focuses on contemporary singing styles such as rock, heavy metal, and pop, specifically pertaining to students' work with bands on campus. We will explore the fundamental concepts of singing through the preparation of repertoire for the students’ bands. Students may occasionally be assigned other repertoire relevant to specific technical goals. Group warm-ups and
Music

Room Tone — MCO4106.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
Days & Time:
Credits: 1
As part of the Room Tone Festival (mid-April), students will work on projects that explore the juncture of sound and space, listening and location. In this workshop, students will develop a location-specific toolkit with sound artist Michelle Nagai '97. As a group, we will examine daily practices of observation, recording, and research. The end goal can be an
Music

Rubens + Rauschenberg: Racing and Revisioning Genealogies of Modern Art — AH4126.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Vanessa Lyon
Days & Time: WE 2:10pm-5:50pm
Credits: 2

The seventeenth-century Flemish painter-diplomat Peter Paul Rubens is at the heart of a course that proposes the intrinsic baroqueness of diverse strains of high modernism. Our transdisciplinary project crosses entrenched nationalistic and chronological borders between modern and early modern art and artists including Bacon, Guston, Manet, Newman, Picasso, Bearden, and

Art History