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Transnational Feminist Geography — SCT2138.01

Fall 2018

Instructor: Emily Mitchell-Eaton

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Credits: 4

What is the global? What is the transnational? Are these spaces of connection, of division, of possibility, or dislocation? What does solidarity mean, how is it practiced (or critiqued), and whom does it benefit? This course aims to grapple with the complexities and contradictions of such questions in the context of transnational feminist theory and praxis. In particular, we

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Transnational Feminist Geography — SCT2138.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Emily Mitchell-Eaton

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

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Transpacific Worlds — canceled

Spring 2019

Instructor: Emily Mitchell-Eaton

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Credits: 4

In recent years, the concept of the “transpacific” has attained new significance, in geography and beyond, as a way of naming the two-way “traffic in peoples, cultures, capital, and ideas between ‘America’ and ‘Asia’, as well as across the troubled ocean that lends its name to this model” (Hoskins and Nguyen, 2014: 2). This interdisciplinary field of inquiry has approached the

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Trashy — FV2323.02

Fall 2024

Instructor: Jen Liu

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Credits: 2

This is a 7-week screening and discussion-based seminar on the concept and look of “trashiness” in modern and contemporary media and art practices. We will look at a broad range of art practices as well as film and online media, primarily from the latter half of the 20th century and the 21st. Of particular interest will be works produced in an independent/alternative

Visual Arts

Trashy — FV2323.02

Spring 2023

Instructor: Jen Liu

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Credits: 2

This is a 7-week screening and discussion-based seminar on the concept and look of “trashiness” in modern and contemporary media and art practices. We will look at a broad range of art practices and short films/media, primarily from the latter half of the 20th century into the 21st, with work produced in an independent/alternative context, though in conversation with

Visual Arts

Traveling in Italian Film — ITA4401.01

Spring 2017

Instructor: Barbara Alfano

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Credits: 4

In Italian culture, as it happens for every culture, the idea of travel is deeply connected to the countryʹs social and historical contexts, and to the questioning of personal identity. In this respect, travel becomes a mirror for the traveler. In the case of Italian narratives, is the mirror sending back surprising images, disclosing secrets, or repeating stereotypes? Focusing

Languages

Traveling in Italian Film — ITA4401.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Barbara Alfano

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Credits: 4

In Italian culture, as it happens for every culture, the idea of travel is deeply connected to the country’s social and historical contexts, and to the questioning of personal identity. In this respect, travel becomes a mirror for the traveler. In the case of Italian cinematic narratives, is the mirror sending back surprising images, disclosing secrets, or repeating stereotypes

Visual Arts Cultural Studies and Languages

Traveling in Italian Film — ITA4401.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Barbara Alfano

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

In Italian culture, as it happens for every culture, the idea of travel is deeply connected to the country's social and historical contexts, and to the questioning of personal identity. In this respect, travel becomes a mirror for the traveler. In the case of Italian narratives, is the mirror sending back surprising images, disclosing secrets, or repeating stereotypes? Focusing

Languages

Traveling with Matsuo Basho — JPN4701.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida

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Credits: 4

In this course, students will follow the footsteps of a prominent Japanese poet in the seventeen-century, Matsuo Basho, and learn about different regions of Japan and the Japanese great passion for food. As student “imaginary” travel various regions of Japan, they will learn about historical and scenic places that are depicted in Basho’ poems and various local cuisines in

Languages

Trends in Adolescent Mental Health — PSY4381.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: Emily Waterman

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Credits: 2

Adolescent mental health has become a topic of public discourse, due to research showing increases in depressed mood and anxiety among teens. This course is for students interested in a rigorous reading of the recent (past five years) literature on adolescent mental health. We will discuss methodologies to research adolescent mental health, as well as statistical techniques.

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Trends in Adolescent Mental Health — PSY4381.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Emily Waterman

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Credits: 2

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Trends in Adolescent Mental Health — PSY4381.01

Fall 2024

Instructor: Emily Waterman

Days & Time:

Credits: 2

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Tribes, Traditions Modern Practices of African Dance — DAN2135.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Souleymane Badolo

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Credits: 2

In this course, we will focus on the specific dance in many areas of Africa including: Zimbabwe, South Africa, Ghana, Benin, Niger, Burkina Faso, Senegal, Cote d’Ivoire. We will study the movement history and meaning behind these different cultural styles and work to understand the many different stories that inform them. Students will be expected to research the use of costume

Dance

Tristram Shandy and the Pointless Novel — LIT4766.02

Fall 2020

Instructor: Michael Dumanis

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Credits: 4

“Nothing odd will do long. Tristram Shandy did not last,” Samuel Johnson wrote in 1776, a decade after Laurence Sterne’s novel was published. Tristram Shandy is indeed an odd book: an autobiographical novel which takes hundreds of pages to get to the moment of its own narrator’s birth; a story which is forever interrupting itself with digressions and typographical oddities, and

Literature

Trusting the Body: Form, Balance and Letting Go — DAN4371.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Dana Reitz

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Credits: 2

In this class we pose the questions: How do we create or utilize movement that is meaningful and essential to our dance making? and how does our movement evolve and how do we work with it and direct its potential? We will consider the relevance and importance of how depth and continuity of practice in our various forms can be the basic framework for our evolution as movement

Dance

Truth and Consequences: The Uses (and Misuses) of Literary Persona — LIT2514.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Paul La Farge

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Credits: 4

This will be a class about writers who have invented literary personae which complicate (and in some cases frustrate) the reading of their work. Questions about the uses of persona, the historical contexts in which persona become valuable, and the boundaries of the “literary” – the places where works of literature create anxiety by impinging on ideas about authority,

Literature

Truth, Beauty, and Goodness: The Philosophy of Iris Murdoch — PHI4108.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Douglas Kremm

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Credits: 4

Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) was a provocative and profoundly original thinker whose significance for contemporary philosophy is still being processed and absorbed today. Her work engages a wide range of topics, including art and religion, morals and politics, metaphysics and mysticism, the nature of the imagination, and the nature of the self. In this course, we will engage with

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Tuesday Soup-er Club Intensive: Bennington Foodscape — APA2168.02

Spring 2020

Instructor: Yoko Inoue

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Credits: 2

This is a trans-disciplinary course that investigates local food sovereignty. Incorporating activities such as collective soup making to intersect with academic research and theoretical reading, this course aims to enhance our overall understandings about the modern day food chain (i.e. industrial food production and systems of distribution). The Soup-er Club will create

CAPA

Tuesday Soup-er Club: Cooking is Power — APA2168.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Yoko Inoue

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Credits: 2

This is a transdisciplinary course that investigates local and global food sovereignty. Incorporating activities such as collective soup making to intersect with academic research and theoretical reading, this course aims to enhance our overall understandings about the modern day food chain (i.e. industrial food production and systems of distribution). Through collaborative

CAPA

Tune-smithing: Creating Melody — MCO4003.02

Fall 2025

Instructor: Rachel Clemente

Days & Time: MO,TH 1:40pm-3:30pm

Credits: 2

In this course we will be looking at the harmonic and melodic structures of traditional Gaelic (Highlands and Islands of Scotland) melodies as well as the contemporary music of the Scottish folk music revival to draw on and create new compositions. Students will compose four melodies (or one larger work) in a variety of traditional styles utilizing the different tune forms

Composition

Tuning Scores for the Present Moment — DAN4334.02

Fall 2020

Instructor: Dana Reitz

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Credits: 2

This composition class is based on the work of dance artist Lisa Nelson. Students will learn techniques to bring awareness to the body’s senses, space, and one another through a series of ‘warm-ups’, ‘scores’ and group compositions, collectively known as Tuning Scores. Warm-ups are designed to bring sensorial awareness to the animal body that extends into space and surrounding

Dance

Turbulent Transitions — PEC4122.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Robin Kemkes

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Credits: 4

This course will explore some of the major economic transitions throughout history with a particular focus on the pre-conditions underlying the changes and the resulting socio-economic developments. The course will span a broad time period across several regions of the world. First, we will study the transition from feudalism to capitalism in Europe. Next, we will pursue the

Social Science

Turgenev and Flaubert — LIT4204.01

Spring 2014

Instructor: Dan Hofstadter

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Credits: 4

Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818-1883), the great Russian novelist, left his homeland in 1854 and spent most of the rest of his life in Paris, where he died. Though he wrote in Russian, he was also a writer of pan-European cultural connections, his closest friends being Pauline (García) Viardot, a distinguished Spanish-born opera singer and composer, and Gustave Flaubert (1821

Literature

Turkish Music Ensemble — MHI2236.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Joseph Alpar

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Credits: 4

This course will be a hands-on instruction to performing the musics of Turkey. Students will become acquainted with the performance practices of Turkish music genres including Ottoman court music, the ritual music of Sufi Islam, the Alevi cem ceremony, music of Turkey's religious minorities including Jews, Greeks, and Armenians, Kurdish music, the folk musics of Turkey's seven

Music

TV Comedy Pilot I — DRA4393.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Shawtane Bowen

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Credits: 4

In this course, I will be working with a small group of students to explore the process of writing a comedy pilot for television. We’ll be reading and watching pilots from some of the best comedies of the last decade or so (Detroiters, Community, What We Do In The Shadows, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, etc.) to learn how they function and what makes a great pilot. Each week students will

Drama