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The Haunted South — LIT2376.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Annie DeWitt

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Credits: 4

The American South, with its complex and difficulty history, has long given rise to voices both lyrical and confessional, empathic and dangerous, realistic and strange. Rooted in this landscape's shifting racial, domestic and socio-economic identity, we will explore the grand and problematic tradition of U.S. Southern Literature from the Civil War to the Present. Writers to be

Literature

The Herbarium: Research, Art & Botany — BIO4441.01

Spring 2026

Instructor: Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie

Days & Time: TU,FR 2:10pm-4:00pm

Credits: 4

An herbarium is a museum of pressed plants, a record of flora following a system that dates back to the 16th century. Large herbaria at institutions like D.C.’s Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Chicago’s Field Museum, Cambridge’s Harvard University, and London’s Kew Gardens contain millions of specimens, collected from

Education Environment Biology

The History of Argentina — SPA4217.01

Fall 2015

Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 4

This course will chart the last two centuries of Argentine history, chronologically, from textbooks to slogans, philosophy to politics, with a particular focus on nationalist discourse. Perhaps the only consistent ideology of the period, and doubtless one of the more persuasive, does Argentine nationalism represent an autochthonous spirit, the legitimate identity of

Languages

The History of Directing — DRA2169.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: Jean Randich

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Credits: 4

How did the director emerge as a driving, creative force in the theater? We will work semi-chronologically from the late 19th to the early 21st century, examining how culture and theater interact and change each other. We will consider traditional theater, the rise of the modern director, theatricality, epic theater, auteur directors, ensemble theater, theater for social change

Drama

The History of English Prosody — LIT2276.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Phillip Williams

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Credits: 4

This class explores the history and development of poetry in the English language. We will investigate the evolution of poetic techniques, forms, and tropes across history. We will begin with meter, syllabics, received forms such as the sonnet and villanelle, the ode, lyrical versus narrative poetry, accentual verse, structure versus form, prose poetry, and free verse. We will

Literature

The History of Medicine: From Hippocrates to Harvey — HIS2312.01

Fall 2022

Instructor: Carol Pal

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Credits: 4

Society Culture and Thought

The History of Medicine: From Hippocrates to Harvey — HIS2312.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Carol Pal

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

How did premodern culture understand the human body? How did it work? Where did it fit in the Great Chain of Being, and what differentiated men from women? Medicine has always been a hybrid of thinking, seeing, knowing, and doing. But what defined medicine in the past? Was it a science, an art, or a random assortment of practices? Between the age of Hippocrates and the age of

Society Culture and Thought

The History of Science: From Hippocrates to Newton — HIS4111.01

Fall 2014

Instructor: carol pal

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 4

History tells us that humans have always wondered about the natural world. For thousands of years, our ancestors gazed in wonder at the heavens, experimented with plants and medicines, and tried to comprehend their own mortality. But when did ""science"" actually begin to be its own field, separate from philosophy, astrology, or faith? Beginning with human origins and

Social Science

The History of the Book — HIS4109.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Carol Pal

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Credits: 4

What is a book? For centuries, our ideas have been shaped by the rhythms and hierarchies inherent in the nature of the printed book. But what constitutes a ""book"" has actually changed enormously over time - from ancient Egyptian papyri to Mayan glyphs to the first products of Gutenberg's fifteenth-century printing revolution. Moreover, as these technologies have changed, so

Social Science

The Hollow Form — CER2221.01

Spring 2014

Instructor: Barry Bartlett

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Credits: 4

This objective of this class is to help students learn the breadth of handbuilding techniques in the ceramic arts that have given rise to a vast history of ideas observed using hollow forms. Unlike traditional sculptural techniques used in wood, stone and metal, ceramic forms have depended on the interior space, the void, to define both symbolic meaning and formal structure.

Visual Arts

The Hollow Form — CER2221.01

Fall 2018

Instructor: Barry Bartlett

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

The objective of this class is to help students learn the breadth of handbuilding techniques in the ceramic arts that have given rise to a vast history of ideas observed using hollow forms. Unlike traditional sculptural techniques used in wood, stone and metal, ceramic forms have depended on the interior space, the void, to define both symbolic meaning and formal structure.

Visual Arts

The Hollow Form — CER2221.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Barry Bartlett

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Credits: 4

Visual Arts

The Hollow Form: Introduction to Ceramics — CER2145.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Barry Bartlett

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Credits: 4

The objective of this class is to help students learn the breadth of hand building techniques in the ceramic arts that have given rise to a vast history of ideas using hollow forms. Unlike traditional sculptural techniques used in wood, stone and metal, ceramic forms have depended on the interior space, the void, to define both symbolic meaning and formal structure. This class

Visual Arts

The Hollow Form: Introduction to Ceramics — CER2221.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Barry Bartlett

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Credits: 4

This objective of this class is to help students learn a set of handbuilding techniques in the ceramic arts that have given rise to a vast history of ideas using the hollow form. Unlike traditional sculptural techniques used in wood, stone and metal, ceramic forms have depended on the interior space, the void, to define both symbolic meaning and formal structure.

Visual Arts

The Human Animal — BIO2118.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Elena Demyanenko

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Credits: 4

Humans are animals and share many traits with other animals. In this class a biologist and dancer will engage students in an exploration of structures and functions that permit all animals to process information, move, and react to their environments. How have these structures and functions evolved? Can these insights inform how humans think, respond, move, and create?

Science Mathematics and Computing Dance

The Human Condition: Hannah Arendt — PHI4101.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: Paul Voice

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Credits: 4

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) was a major political theorist whose work has become increasingly influential in recent years. A student of Martin Heidegger and Karl Jaspers, her extensive writings cover such topics as the nature of power, the meaning of the political, and the problem of totalitariansim. This course is a critical exploration of some of her major works, including The

Society Culture and Thought

The Human Condition: Hannah Arendt — PHI4101.01

Fall 2013

Instructor: Paul Voice

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 2

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) was a major political theorist whose work has become increasingly influential in recent years. A student of Martin Heidegger and Karl Jaspers, her extensive writings cover such topics as the nature of power, the meaning of the political and the problem of totalitariansim. This seven-week course is a critical exploration of some of her major works,

Social Science

The Image in Islamic Cultures — AH2128.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 4

Despite the widespread but erroneous assumption that Islam prohibits images, figurative representations have been abundantly produced in Islamic societies since the early years of Islam. With a particular focus on painting and the art of the book, this course will examine the central place of images in Islamic cultures from the early modern period to the present. While images

Visual Arts

The Immigrant Novel — LIT2540.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 4

The immigrant novel often bears the burden of “building bridges” between cultures, portraying “the good immigrant” or “the tragic immigrant” as a helpless individual on a journey to assimilation in a new country. But, for over a century, alongside the stereotypical immigrant novels, there have been numerous irreverent immigrant novels that push back against oversimplification,

Literature

The Improvising and Composing Vocalist — MVO2302.02) (new course code as of 11/1/2021

Spring 2022

Instructor: Michael Wimberly

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Credits: 1

Voice is an instrument with an incredible range of expression, and there is much to explore in the realm of vocal improvisation and composition. Through a series of exercises developed for the vocal improviser, with an emphasis on strengthening the foundation of theory and ear training, students will be encouraged to think holistically about the possibilities of voice. Students

Music

The Inexorable(Middle)March of Time — LIT4384.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Manuel Gonzales

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Credits: 4

Diving deep into George Eliot's brilliant, funny, heartbreaking novel, Middlemarch, a novel whose story spans only the years 1829 to 1832, we will examine the use and passage of time by one of the 19th century's most insightful and incisive authors. Eliot at once slows down and then speeds us through time, rounding back, leaping forward, using to great effect the omniscient

Literature

The Infinite — Canceled

Spring 2015

Instructor: Andrew McIntyre

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Credits: 1

The infinite is a theme that recurs in human thought, in places as disparate as philosophy, architecture, literature and mathematics. We will look at how mathematics has been influenced by the infinite, and the ways in which it has come to terms with it. We will mostly look at what mathematicians call the theory of sets: can one infinite collection be called bigger than another

Science Mathematics and Computing Modules: Transferable Approaches

The Invention of the 19th Century: A seminar on Honoré de Balzac — LIT4329.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: Marguerite Feitlowitz

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Credits: 4

Oscar Wilde liked to say that Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) invented the 19th century. The Human Comedy (La Comédie Humaine) comprises approximately 3,000 characters in a total of 92 novels, sketches, stories, and philosophical tales. For the first time in the history of the novel, characters recur—a star of one book may reappear as a minor figure in the intricate social

Literature

The Japanese Language and its Reflection of Values and Morals in Folktales — JPN2110.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Satomi LaFave

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Credits: 4

Folktales are very interesting sources through which to gain an increased understanding of the cultural values and morals passed on from generation to generation. Gaining insight through these tales can improve comprehension of modern Japanese and the common cultural foundations upon which it is built. In this beginning Japanese course, students will be introduced to some

Languages

The Jazz Age Revisited — LIT2304.01

Fall 2025

Instructor: Benjamin Anastas

Days & Time: M/W 8:00AM-9:50AM

Credits: 4

“It was an age of miracles, it was an age of art, it was an age of excess, and it was an age of satire,” F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in his epitaph to the Jazz Age in 1931. It was something else too: a social and literary revolution fueled by new communications technology, mass popular entertainment, Jazz and the Blues, and a bold “collaborative energy” (Ann Douglas) between

Literature