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Fashion and Modernism — VA4129.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: J Blackwell

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

“Let There Be Fashion, Down With Art” –Max Ernst The rise of capitalism and the Industrial Revolution led to radical shifts in politics and art in the late 19th century. Fashion acts as a powerful analogue to and forecaster of Modernism. Artists such as Henri Matisse, Leon Bakst, Sonia Delaunay and Salvador Dali took note of fashion's nascent agency and created clothing as a

Visual Arts

Fashion and Modernism — DRW4109.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: J Blackwell

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

Visual Arts

Federalism and Peacebuilding — POL4103.01

Fall 2024

Instructor: Rotimi Suberu

Days & Time:

Credits: 2

As a constitutional structure for combining self-rule and shared rule, federalism often crops up in negotiations designed to rebuild or reconcile societies torn or threatened by civil wars in contexts as diverse as Bosnia-Herzegovina and Ukraine in Europe, Myanmar and the Philippines in Asia, Iraq and Syria in the Middle East, and South Sudan and Somalia in Africa. But are

CAPA Society Culture and Thought

Federalism and Peacebuilding — POL4103.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Rotimi Suberu

Days & Time:

Credits: 2

As a constitutional design for combining self-rule and shared rule, federalism often crops up in negotiations designed to rebuild or reconcile societies torn or threatened by civil wars in contexts as diverse as Bosnia-Herzegovina and Ukraine in Europe, Myanmar and the Philippines in Asia, Iraq and Syria in the Middle East, and South Sudan and Somalia in Africa. But are federal

Society Culture and Thought

Female Architect / Fictive Archive — VA4130.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Anne Thompson

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Credits: 2

A readings course centered on the Usdan Gallery survey of fictional twentieth-century Czech architect Petra Andrejova-Molnár, created by artist Katarina Burin as a feminist meditation on the absence and erasure of women designers within the modernist canon. Exhibition components such as biographical texts, staged photographs, drawings, furniture, décor, and models provide the

Visual Arts

Feminist Fabulist Fiction — LIT2298.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Anna Maria Hong

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

Reading works by Ursula LeGuin, Octavia Butler, Angela Carter, Clarice Lispector, A. S. Byatt, Natsuo Kirino, James Tiptree, Jr., John Keene, Lindsey Drager, Han Kang, and others, we will investigate the realm of fabulist fiction or literary works invoking the genres of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. We will read short stories, novels, and novellas that emphasize

Literature

Feminist Freedom — PHI2254.01

Spring 2026

Instructor: Catherine McKeen

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

Credits: 4

Feminism imagines a world free of gender-based oppression and injustice. But what exactly does such freedom involve? In this course, we’ll investigate the interplay between gender, feminist theory, and philosophical views about freedom. Some prompting questions include: Is individual freedom enough? What does ubiquitous pornography mean for sexual freedom? How does politics

Philosophy

Feminist Freedom — PHI2254.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Catherine McKeen

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

Society Culture and Thought

Feminist Freedom — PHI2254.01

Spring 2022

Instructor: Catherine McKeen

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

Feminism imagines a world free of gender-based oppression and injustice. But what exactly does such freedom involve? In this course, we’ll investigate the interplay between gender, feminist theory, and philosophical views about freedom. Some prompting questions include: Is individual freedom enough? Does feminist freedom include freedom from gender? Is affirmative consent

Society Culture and Thought

Feminist Freedom — PHI2254.01) (day/time updated as of 10/6/2023

Spring 2024

Instructor: Catherine McKeen

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

Feminism imagines a world free of gender-based oppression and injustice. But what exactly does such freedom involve? In this course, we’ll investigate the interplay between gender, feminist theory, and philosophical views about freedom. Some prompting questions include: Is individual freedom enough? Does feminist freedom include freedom from gender? Is affirmative consent

Society Culture and Thought

Feminist Geographies of Dis/ability — SCT2133.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: Emily Mitchell-Eaton

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

In this course we will engage anti-racist feminist theory, crip theory, and human geography to think critically about dis/ability. We will draw on critical geographies of disability to think about the built environment and institutional design; geographic scales of the body and the body-mind; spaces of the home and institutions; and im/mobility and spatial access. We will also

Society Culture and Thought

Feminist Geographies of Dis/ability, Care, and Embodiment — SCT2133.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Emily Mitchell-Eaton

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

In this course we will engage anti-racist feminist theory, crip theory, and human geography to think critically about dis/ability. Topics include: the built environment and institutional design; geographic scales of the body, the home, and institutions; trauma, pathology, illness, and recovery; desire and pain; and im/mobility. We will consider how disability is shaped by (and

Society Culture and Thought

Feminist Perspective and Practices in Contemporary Art — AH2107.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Carol Stakenas

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

This course will consider how feminist theory has evolved over the past four decades and how artists, curators and scholars of all genders and nationalities, advocate feminism in their practices. To examine its impact on the art world, Feminist Perspectives and Practices in Contemporary Art will explore the feminist movement in the US from the 1970s through its evolution to

Visual Arts

Feminist Philosophy — PHI4130.01

Fall 2015

Instructor: Karen Gover

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 2

This course provides an introduction to the key concepts and debates that pertain to feminist philosophy, including the nature of sex, gender, and the body, essentialism, oppression, care ethics, and feminist theories of knowledge. Students will learn what it is to approach these topics from a philosophical angle, while at the same time keeping an eye on the historical,

Society Culture and Thought

Feminist Philosophy — PHI2102.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Catherine McKeen

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

Contemporary feminism is a multi-faceted social justice movement to end gender-based oppression. Feminist movements have deep and interesting intellectual roots. In this course, we will excavate and investigate these roots. Throughout the course we will explore various contested conceptual terrains, such as: agency, affinity, body, equality, difference, desire, freedom, power,

Society Culture and Thought

Feminist Philosophy — PHI2102.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Catherine McKeen

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

Contemporary feminism is a multi-faceted social justice movement to end gender-based oppression. Throughout its history, feminism has had a complicated relationship with philosophy. In this course, we will explore that relationship, as well as various contested conceptual terrains, such as: agency, affinity, equality, difference, freedom, intersectionality, power, sexuality,

Society Culture and Thought

Feminist Theory and Electronic Music — MHI2209.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Suzanne Thorpe

Days & Time:

Credits: 2

In the 1960s, a number of female-identified electronic music composers directly addressed the politics of the time through their choices in composition and technology, querying themes of embodiment, agency, power and materiality. This class will engage close listening and reading of works by Oliveros, Williams, Amacher, Radigue, Oram, Nova, and Spiegel, to discover how second

Music

Feminist Writing by Women of Color, 1970s-80s — LIT2543.01

Fall 2024

Instructor: Franny Choi

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

1970 was a watershed year for Black feminism, with the publication of several monumental books including The Black Woman: An Anthology, edited by Toni Cade Bambara. How did women writers of color contend with race, class, gender, and sexuality in the decades leading up to the coining of the term “intersectionality?” What works from this period were foundational for

Black Studies Literature

Fiction from Fact — LIT2389.02

Fall 2015

Instructor: Marguerite Feitlowitz

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 2

In this writing intensive class, students will develop fictions from documented historical, scientific, urban, and pastoral events, including mysteries, texts, and rumors. Our readings will include stories by Andrea Barrett, Ricardo Piglia, Patrick Modiano, Natalia Ginzburg, among others. Some research will be involved. This course is offered in the second seven weeks of the

Literature

Fiction in a Flash: Reading and Writing the Short Story — LIT4285.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Michael Dumanis

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

Take a quick scan on any table in a bookstore and you'll see that the short story collection is having a renaissance. These bite-sized literary gems have the ability to push boundaries, explore themes, and take abrupt twists that the long-form novel just can't navigate. The short story is the hummingbird, turning on a dime, and always surprising the reader in the direction it

Literature

Fiddle — MIN2227.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: John Kirk

Days & Time:

Credits: 2

For the experienced (2+years of playing) violinist. Lessons in traditional styles of fiddling – Quebecois, New England, Southern Appalachian, Cajun, Irish, and Scottish. This tutorial is designed to heighten awareness of the variety of ways the violin is played regionally and socially in North America (and indeed around the world these days) and to give practical music skills

Music

Fiddle — MIN4327.01

Spring 2017

Instructor: John Kirk

Days & Time:

Credits: 2

For the experienced (2+years of playing) violinist. Lessons in traditional styles of fiddling - Quebecois, New England, Southern Appalachian, Cajun, Irish, and Scottish. This tutorial is designed to heighten awareness of the variety of ways the violin is played regionally and socially in North America (and indeed around the world these days) and to give practical music skills

Music

Fiddle — MIN4327.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: John Kirk

Days & Time:

Credits: 2

For the experienced (2+years of playing) violinist. Lessons in traditional styles of fiddling - Quebecois, New England, Southern Appalachian, Scandinavian, Cajun, Irish, and Scottish. This tutorial is designed to heighten awareness of the variety of ways the violin is played regionally and socially in North America (and indeed around the world) and to give practical music

Music

Fiddle — MIN4327.01

Fall 2025

Instructor: John Kirk

Days & Time: F 1:00PM-1:50PM

Credits: 2

For the experienced (3+years of playing) violinist/violist. Lessons in traditional styles of fiddling – Quebecois, New England, Southern Appalachian, Scandinavian, Cajun, Irish, and Scottish. This course is designed to heighten awareness of the variety of ways the violin is played regionally and socially in North America (and indeed around the world) and to give practical

Ethnomusicology Instrumental Study

Fiddle — MIN4327.01

Fall 2013

Instructor: John Kirk

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 2

Music