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The Hand as Tool — CER2317.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Anina Major
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Clay responds directly to touch, retains memory and is forced through the dynamic process of firing to fix a point in time. This class will introduce students to a variety of hand-building techniques to construct sculptural and/or utilitarian forms. Students will develop their skills by practicing techniques demonstrated in class. Through making, students' skills will
Visual Arts

The Hand as Tool — CER2317.01, section 1

Spring 2027
Instructor: Anina Major
Days & Time: TH 8:30am-12:10pm
Credits: 4

Clay responds directly to touch, retains memory and is forced through the dynamic process of firing to fix a point in time. This class will introduce students to a variety of hand-building techniques to construct sculptural and/or utilitarian forms. Students will develop their skills by practicing techniques demonstrated in class. Through making, students’ skills will

Ceramics

The Hand as Tool — CER2317.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Anina Major
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Clay responds directly to touch, retains memory and is forced through the dynamic process of firing to fix a point in time. This class will introduce students to a variety of hand-building techniques to construct sculptural and/or utilitarian forms. Students will develop their skills by practicing techniques demonstrated in class. Through making, students skills will
Visual Arts

The Hand as Tool — CER2317.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Anina Major
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Clay responds directly to touch, retains memory and is forced through the dynamic process of firing to fix a point in time. This class will introduce students to a variety of hand-building techniques to construct sculptural and/or utilitarian forms. Students will develop their skills by practicing techniques demonstrated in class and presentations on traditional and non
Visual Arts

The Hand as Tool — CER2317.01) (day/time updated as of 10/9/2023

Spring 2024
Instructor: Anina Major
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Clay responds directly to touch, retains memory and is forced through the dynamic process of firing to fix a point in time. This class will introduce students to a variety of hand-building techniques to construct sculptural and/or utilitarian forms. Students will develop their skills by practicing techniques demonstrated in class. Through making, students skills will
Visual Arts

The Harlem Renaissance — LIT2403.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Benjamin Anastas
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
In Harlem, during the decade separating the end of World War I and the beginning of the Depression, a generation of black artists and writers born around the turn of the century emerged as a self-conscious movement, flourished, and then dispersed. They described themselves as part of a “New Negro Renaissance”; cultural historians describe them as participants in the Harlem
Literature

The Haunted South — LIT2376.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Annie DeWitt
Days & Time:
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
Days & Time:
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
Days & Time:
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

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
Days & Time:
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

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
Days & Time:
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

Spring 2014
Instructor: Barry Bartlett
Days & Time:
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: Introduction to Ceramics — CER2221.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Barry Bartlett
Days & Time:
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 Hollow Form: Introduction to Ceramics — CER2145.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Barry Bartlett
Days & Time:
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 Human Animal — BIO2118.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
Days & Time:
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
Days & Time:
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
Days & Time:
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
Days & Time:
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