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Tom Stoppard — LIT4376.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Maya Cantu
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Exemplified by works like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Travesties, and Arcadia, the plays of Tom Stoppard perform dazzling high-wire acts of language and theatricality. Jumping between literary erudition and vaudevillian hijinks, Stoppard’s plays use meticulous technical precision to chart the enigmas of the brain and the chaos of the heart. As the playwright
Drama Literature

Toni Morrison and Afro-Diasporic (Re)Mything — LIT4538.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Phillip B. Williams
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Toni Morrison is one of America’s most cherished, studied, and criticized writers. Using antebellum and contemporary American history as her thematic and temporal foundation, Morrison has written about race, gender, class, and sexuality with a keen eye on mythology and fable. In this class, we will read through many of her novels, including but not limited to Sula, Song of
Literature

Toni Morrison and Afro-Diasporic (Re)Mything — LIT2256.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Michael Dumanis
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Toni Morrison is one of America’s most cherished, studied, and criticized writers. Using antebellum and contemporary American history as her thematic and temporal foundation, Morrison has written about race, gender, class, and sexuality with a keen eye on mythology and fable. In this class, we will read through many of her novels, including but not limited to Sula, Song of
Literature

Tools for the Advancement of Public Action: The Destruction and Rebuilding of a Democratic Future-An Intergenerational Conversation — APA2031.02

Spring 2025
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Days & Time:
Credits: 1
Staggering change and suffering have occurred around the world in the last month. These changes are leaving many scared and uncertain for their futures and for the future of a free and civil society. This series aims to understand the gravity of the problems before us and how to address them. Students and guests will contrast the former workings of American politics to the
CAPA

Topics in Applied Philosophy: Privacy — PHI2126.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Paul Voice
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
Privacy has long been regarded as important and yet claims to privacy have been frequently challenged and often overridden by political, economic, and technological considerations. Do we have a right to privacy? If so, what is its philosophical justification and what essential human goods and capacities does it protect? In what circumstances and for what reasons can we be asked
Society Culture and Thought

Topics in Applied Philosophy: Privacy — PHI2126.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Paul Voice
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
Privacy has long been regarded as important and yet claims to privacy have been frequently challenged and often overridden by political, economic, and technological considerations. Do we have a right to privacy? If so, what is its philosophical justification and what essential human goods and capacities does it protect? In what circumstances and for what reasons can we be asked
Social Science

Topics in Applied Philosophy: Privacy — PHI2126.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
Privacy has long been regarded as important and yet claims to privacy have been frequently challenged and often overridden by political, economic, and technological considerations. Do we have a right to privacy? If so, what is its philosophical justification and what essential human goods and capacities does it protect? In what circumstances and for what reasons can we be asked
Society Culture and Thought

Topics in Applied Philosophy: Privacy — PHI2126.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Paul Voice
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
Privacy has long been regarded as important and yet claims to privacy have been frequently challenged and often overridden by political, economic, and technological considerations. Do we have a right to privacy? If so, what is its philosophical justification and what essential human goods and capacities does it protect? In what circumstances and for what reasons can we be asked
Society Culture and Thought

Topics in Applied Philosophy: War — PHI2140.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: paul voice
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
This course examines philosophical debates concerning war. In particular, we will look at the distinction between just and unjust war, as well as moral issues concerning the use of military technologies such as drones, and arguments for humanitarian military interventions. This course will be offered the first seven weeks of term.
Social Science

Topics in Ceramic History: Global Perspectives — CER2148.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Anina Major
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
The study of ceramics is the study of human history in all of its cultural diversity, from artisanal pottery to highly sophisticated modern product design or contemporary sculpture. This course will explore ancient, indigenous and historical ceramics with lectures and discussions around clay materials, technology, art, and culinary traditions.
Visual Arts

Topics in Video Game Programming — CS4113.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Justin Vasselli
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Video Game development draws on many different sub-disciplines of computer science.  The game engine that the game is built on is a combination of graphics and physics programming; non-player characters, both friend and foe, are driven by Artificial Intelligence;  network programming connects players from across the room to across the globe.  This course will
Science and Mathematics

Topics In Video: Experimental Documentary — FV4236.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Kate Purdie
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This course explores documentary possibilities through screenings and video projects. The class will look at and consider non-fiction techniques from early cinema verite films to recent attempts to address point of view and outsider status in documentary and experimental video work. In collaborative and individual projects, the class will take a hands-on approach to documentary
Visual Arts

Topology — MAT4220.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Andrew McIntyre
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
On the surface of a doughnut, there are fundamentally two different ways to wrap a closed path on the surface (through the whole or around the ring); every possible way is a combination of these two. This doesn’t depend on the exact dimensions of the doughnut. For another example, a loop of string tied into a trefoil knot can’t be deformed into a square knot. Topology can be
Science and Mathematics

Topping it Off — DRA2138.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Richard MacPike
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
Nothing can inform, conceal or embellish like a hat. Students in the course will learn about a variety of millinery techniques and materials by making a series of hats.
Drama

Topping It Off — DRA4115.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Richard MacPike
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
Nothing can inform, conceal or embellish like a hat. Students in this course will learn a variety of millinery techniques through the making of buckram, wire framed, and felt hats.
Drama

Topping It Off — DRA2138.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Richard MacPike
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
Nothing can inform, conceal, or embellish like a hat. Students in this course will learn about a variety of millinery techniques and materials by making a series of hats.
Dance Drama

Total Theory — HIS4215.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Whether we love “theory” or hate it, rejecting it on the basis of a lack of understanding of its esoteric hermeneutics or jargon isn’t really a viable position, and certainly not an excuse. It’d be nice to know why, thus debating it on its own terms and perceiving its implications in all manner of contexts beyond them. The plan is to give at least an introduction to historicism
Society Culture and Thought

Total Theory — HIS4215.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Whether we love theory or hate it, rejecting it on the basis of a lack of understanding of its esoteric hermeneutics or jargon isn’t really a viable position, and certainly not an excuse. It’d be nice to know why, thus debating it on its own terms and perceiving its implications in all manner of contexts beyond them. The plan is to give at least an introduction to historicism,
Social Science Literature

Total Theory — SCT4111.01) (new course code as of 11/2/2021

Spring 2022
Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Whether we love “theory” or hate it, rejecting it on the basis of a lack of understanding of its esoteric hermeneutics or jargon isn’t really a viable position, and certainly not an excuse. It’d be nice to know why, thus debating it on its own terms and perceiving its implications in all manner of contexts beyond them. The plan is to give at least an introduction to historicism
Society Culture and Thought

Toward a Just Transition — ENV2121.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: John Hultgren
Days & Time: TU,FR 10:30am-12:20pm
Credits: 4

How do we transition to a low-carbon economy in a manner that doesn’t reinscribe the social and environmental injustices that have plagued our fossil-fueled economy? On one hand, the continued burning of fossil fuels is producing environmental crises that threaten to destabilize the very foundations of collective life, with poor and historically

CAPA Environment Society Culture and Thought

Toward a Rigorous Art History — AH2109.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Vanessa Lyon
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
A “rigorous study of art” became the goal of Philosopher and Cultural Critic Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) when his growing distaste for the outlook and methods of his art history professor—the famous and foundational Heinrich Wölfflin—caused him to consider publishing an account of “the most disastrous activity I have ever encountered at a German university.” Striking a balance
Visual Arts

Toward a Rigorous Art History — AH2109.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Vanessa Lyon
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
A “rigorous study of art” became the goal of Philosopher and Cultural Critic Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) when his growing distaste for the outlook and methods of his art history professor—the famous and foundational Heinrich Wölfflin—caused him to consider publishing an account of “the most disastrous activity I have ever encountered at a German university.” Striking a balance
Visual Arts