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Socially Engaged Art Seminar: Critical Kitchen Pedagogy — APA4113.01

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 4
This course focuses on developing an independent, self-directed research project, anchored in cultural discourse and social-political context of food and to be pursued through various creative practices. Research topics include but are not limited to decolonization, migration, identity, community activism, mutual care and collective healing. Engaging with creative

Sociolinguistic Voices: Identities in Text Talk — Canceled

Instructor: Peter Jones
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Identity has become an inevitable concept in social theory. Theorizing identity and examining how identity becomes relevant in communication contributes to understanding power, culture and agency. This course looks into identity from a sociolinguistic perspective, where identities are seen as coming into being through semiotic practices entailing gender, ethnicity and class, as

Sociolinguistic Voices: Identities in Text and Talk — EDU2120.01

Instructor: Peter Jones
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Identity has become an inevitable concept in social theory. Theorizing identity and examining how identity becomes relevant in communication contributes to understanding power, culture and agency. This course looks into identity from a sociolinguistic perspective, where identities are seen as coming into being through semiotic practices entailing gender, ethnicity and class, as

Sociological Imagination — SOC2204.01

Instructor: Debbie Warnock
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Credits: 4
C. Wright Mills describes the sociological imagination as a “quality of mind” that enables one to view the relations between “history and biography” within society. The core work of sociology is to identify ways in which one’s own seemingly unique “personal troubles” are in fact connected to larger “public issues.” In this course students will work on developing and refining

Sociology of Education — SOC2205.01) (cancelled

Instructor: Debbie Warnock
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
What is the purpose of schooling in modern society? Does everyone have access to equal educational opportunities? How do experiences of education vary by race, class, and gender? What role does education policy play in maintaining or reducing social inequalities? In this course, we will employ sociological theories and research to explore current issues, debates, and policies

Sociology of Education — SOC2205.01

Instructor: Debbie Warnock
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
What is the purpose of schooling in modern society? Does everyone have access to equal educational opportunities? How do experiences of education vary by race, class, and gender? What role does education policy play in maintaining or reducing social inequalities? How has and how might education policy change under the leadership of Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos? In this

Sociology of Home — SOC2206.01

Instructor: Debbie Warnock
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Credits: 4
What is home? What does it mean to have a home? What does it mean to leave home or to lose one’s home? To return home? To make a new home? How can we begin to explore these questions sociologically? In this class, we will move towards a sociology of home, as we read and grapple with many different meditations on and conceptualizations of home. Some topics we will explore

Software Engineering for the Liberal and Visual Arts — CS4107.01

Instructor: Ursula Wolz
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Credits: 4
According to Wikipedia “Software Engineering is the application of engineering to the development of software in a systematic method." Students in this class will participate as a team in the development of a single cross-platform software system that supports liberal and visual arts. A pitch concept will be collaboratively developed in August

Software Product Development — CS2152.01

Instructor: Michael Corey
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Credits: 4
Why are some apps to hard to put down, while others break new ground and then go away? What are the commonalities across the digital surfaces you use everyday? What do you call that menu with three horizontal lines (a hamburger menu!). There are patterns and processes around making digital products that tie your digital life together. In this class we will examine the process

Software, Algorithms and Computability — CS4131.01

Instructor: Ursula Wolz
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Credits: 4
This course covers essential material from three traditional upper level courses in computer science: Data Structures/Software Design, Analysis of Algorithms, and Computability. The first half of the course provides an intensive immersion in these areas as either introduction or review, while students define a personal direction for study in the second half of the course to

Solo Performance — DRA4322.01

Instructor: Kirk Jackson
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Credits: 4
Students develop original and/or primary source material and explore its shape, arc and thematic whole in a performance medium that can involve text, movement, characterization and personal observation / examination. We may reference the work of solo performance artists. Students write, edit, rewrite multiple drafts and perform original memorized material. Class work will be

Solo Performance - Telling My Story — DRA4322.01

Instructor: Kirk Jackson
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Students develop original and/or primary source material and explore its shape, arc, and thematic whole in a performance medium that can involve text, movement, characterization, and personal examination and observation. We will view solo performance artists. Students write, edit, rewrite multiple drafts and perform original memorized material. Class work will be tailored

Solo Performance: Telling My Story — DRA4322.01

Instructor: Kirk Jackson
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Students develop original and/or primary source material and explore its shape, arc, and thematic whole in a performance medium that can involve text, movement, characterization, personal examination, and observation. Generating and receiving constructive feedback, with sensitivity to process, is an essential aspect of the work. Students write, edit, rewrite multiple drafts and

Solo Performance: Telling My Story — DRA4322.01

Instructor: Kirk Jackson
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Students develop original and/or primary source material and explore its shape, arc and thematic whole in a performance medium that can involve text, movement, characterization and personal observation / examination. We may reference the work of solo performance artists. Students write, edit, rewrite multiple drafts and perform original memorized material. Class work will be

Solo Performance: Telling My Story — DRA4322.01

Instructor: Kirk Jackson
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Students develop original and/or primary source material and explore its shape, arc, and thematic whole in a performance medium that can involve text, movement, characterization, and personal examination and observation. We will view solo performance artists. Students write, edit, rewrite multiple drafts and perform original memorized material. Class work will be tailored

Solo Performance: Telling My Story — DRA4322.01

Instructor: Kirk Jackson
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Students develop original and/or primary source material and explore its shape, arc, and thematic whole in a performance medium that can involve text, movement, characterization, personal examination, and observation. Generating and receiving constructive feedback, with sensitivity to process, is an essential aspect of the work. Students write, edit, rewrite multiple drafts and

Solving The Impossible: Breaking Bread — MED2118.01

Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
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Credits: 2
Why are certain conflicts so difficult to resolve? This course will examine conflicts that are long-standing and elude resolution. We will explore the factors that contribute to complex disputes and the conditions that allow groups to begin to address them. Can individuals like Martin Luther King, Jr., Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela transform historical conflict? What role

Solving the Impossible: Intractable Conflicts — MED2106.01

Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course is about the challenge of solving conflicts that are firmly entrenched with little hope for change. Often these conflicts repeat a pattern of violence between groups that hold fixed positions and beliefs. We will look in depth at this type of conflict, analyzing the factors that contribute to intractibility. We will then look at people like Gandhi, Martin Luther

Solving the Impossible: Mediation, Negotiation and Complex Systems — APA2191.01

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

This class will examine contemporary challenges through the lens of complex systems. The class will include a 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 will

Somatic Movement Studies: The Family Tree — DAN4127.01

Instructor: Rebecca Brooks, MFA Teaching Fellow
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Credits: 2
There is a large and growing field of somatic studies that acknowledges and supports mind-body unity with an emphasis on internal physical perception and experience rather than on observation of external shape and form. We will explore a range of somatic practices, from more ancient or traditional forms such as Yoga and Chi Kung, to the work of pioneers Alexander, Feldenkrais,

Something from Nothing — DRA2392.01

Instructor: Abe Koogler
Days & Time: FR 2:10pm-5:50pm
Credits: 4

A class and a provocation: you can make stunningly beautiful, wildly theatrical work…with nothing except bodies, language, and the everyday objects that surround you. Drawing from plays with minimal production elements -- Martín Zimmerman’s On the Exhale, Spalding Gray’s Swimming to Cambodia, Diana Lynn Small’s Mad and a Goat, Suzan

Song Cycle — MCO4805.01

Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
Days & Time: WE 10:00am-11:50am
Credits: 2

What makes a group of songs a “cycle”? Is it a theme, lyric, or simple proximity?  Isn’t a song cycle just a concept album? In this course we’ll play through and recompose the literature about song cycles, from Schubert to Joanna Newsom’s Ys to many others. We’ll start by radically recomposing a

Song for Ireland and Celtic Connections — MHI2251.01

Instructor: John Kirk
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
Celtic history and music from Ireland, Scotland, Bretagne, Galatia, and Cape Breton will be experienced, studied, and performed using instruments and voices. We’ll find and cross the musical bridges between regions–from the ballads of Ireland, Scotland and Wales to the Alalas of Spain and dance tunes of Brittany. An end-of-term presentation will be prepared drawing on

Song for Ireland and Celtic Connections — MHI2251.01

Instructor: John Kirk
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
Celtic history and music from Ireland, Scotland, Bretagne, Galatia, and Cape Breton will be experienced, studied, and performed using instruments and voices. We’ll find and cross the musical bridges between regions–from the ballads of Ireland, Scotland and Wales to the Alalas of Spain and dance tunes of Brittany. An end-of-term presentation will be prepared drawing on