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Transformation: an Approach to Character — DRA4149.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Oliver Wadsworth
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Whether Meryl Streep transforms into an old male Rabbi in Angels in America or Mark Rylance becomes a whisky swilling cult leader in Jerusalem, actors transforming into characters can be inspiring. It not only challenges the actor’s instrument – vocally, physically and emotionally – it can be artistically fulfilling in a deeply personal way. Walt Whitman said, “I contain
Drama

Transformational Acting — DRA4409.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Walt Whitman said, “I contain multitudes.” The same can be said of a transformational actor. Playing against gender, age, and type, allows actors to perform the impossible; Become another person. The result is empathy for people that the actor might not otherwise know. It is also really fun! In this class, we will study techniques actors use to become characters who are
Drama

Transformational Acting — DRA4409.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Walt Whitman said, “I contain multitudes.” The same can be said of a transformational actor. Playing against gender, age, and type, allows actors to perform the impossible; Become another person. The result is empathy for people that the actor might not otherwise know. It is also really fun! In this class, we will study techniques actors use to become characters who are
Drama

Transformational Processes —

Spring 2020
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This course will focus on the development of two site specific projects. The design process will be rooted in analytical drawing and modeling. These drawings and models will inform the program which will define the limits and possibilities of the architectonic invention. A variety of strategies and source materials will be accessed, including texts, maps and found objects.

Transformations of the Self — PSY4130.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: erin johnston
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course investigates the phenomenon of self-transformation from a variety of angles and theoretical perspectives. We will examine common forms of self-change (including religious conversions, political transformations and lifestyle changes), how individuals construct stories of personal transformation, as well as popular and academic understandings of if, when and how self
Social Science

Transformative Justice — APA4167.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Alisa Del Tufo
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
What is the difference between restorative and transformative justice? How can the concepts of transformative justice be used in campaigns for social justice? Can transformative justice be used to replace or supplement the criminal legal system in the United States? These are all questions we will explore in this 4000 level course. We will explore the reasons why the
CAPA

Transformative Justice: Changing Ourselves and the World — APA2252.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Alisa Del Tufo
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Transformative justice is a set of theories and practices that offers a new approach to changing systems and institutions. These methods reflect the values of  restorative practices generally: accountability, empathy, positive communication and healing. In this era of challenging culture cultural expressions Transformative Justice offers us ways to strengthen and maintain
CAPA

Transformative Voice — MCO4117.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Sergei Tcherepnin
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
In this class, students will use their voices to create stylistically diverse sonic compositions, from sound collages to pop songs. The focus will be on learning a variety of techniques on how to transform the human voice with electronics. We will cover vocoders, ring modulators, delays, autotune, harmonizers and pitch shifters. A series of composition assignments will frame
Music

Translating from Zero — LIT2573.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Mariam Rahmani
Days & Time: TU,FR 2:10pm-4:00pm
Credits: 4

Designed to help beginner translators with no experience build their own ethical translation practices—with attention to issues of race, gender, and queerness—this course offers an introduction to translation via a hands-on approach. What pronouns do you use when translating from a language that doesn’t have gendered pronouns? Do you translate slurs? We

Black Studies Literature

Transnational Feminist Geography — SCT2138.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Emily Mitchell-Eaton
Days & Time:
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
Society Culture and Thought

Transnational Feminist Geography — SCT2138.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Emily Mitchell-Eaton
Days & Time:
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
Society Culture and Thought

Transpacific Worlds — canceled

Spring 2019
Instructor: Emily Mitchell-Eaton
Days & Time:
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
Society Culture and Thought

Trashy — FV2323.02

Spring 2023
Instructor: Jen Liu
Days & Time:
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

Trashy — FV2323.02

Fall 2024
Instructor: Jen Liu
Days & Time:
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

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 in Italian Film — ITA4401.01

Spring 2017
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 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
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 cinematic narratives, is the mirror sending back surprising images, disclosing secrets, or repeating stereotypes
Visual Arts Cultural Studies and Languages

Traveling with Matsuo Basho — JPN4701.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
Days & Time:
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
Days & Time:
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.
Society Culture and Thought

Trends in Adolescent Mental Health — PSY4381.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Emily Waterman
Days & Time:
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.
Society Culture and Thought

Trends in Adolescent Mental Health — PSY4381.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Emily Waterman
Days & Time:
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.
Society Culture and Thought

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

Spring 2019
Instructor: Souleymane Badolo
Days & Time:
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
Days & Time:
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
Days & Time:
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
Days & Time:
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