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Five Approaches to Acting — DRA4170.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Kirk Jackson
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Taking as our premise that when we study acting we study the art of human relationships (actor to actor as well as actor to audience), this course is an overview of the theories behind the practice of various ways actors work from a script to create characters to tell a story. Analysis of film performances, written responses, and extended work on one scene will be the focus of
Drama

Five Obstructions — MCO4125.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
A song feedback collective, focused on how musical restrictions can spur us to growth. Over the course of the term, students will write 5 songs (or revise a single song in radical ways) based on the critique and decisions of the group. We’ll discuss how to form supportive but insightful critique while challenging each other to go new places. What does it take to create a song
Music

Five Obstructions — MCO4125.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
Days & Time: MO,TH 3:40pm-5:30pm
Credits: 4

A song feedback collective, focused on how musical restrictions can spur us to growth. Over the course of the term, students will write five songs (or revise a single song in radical ways) based on the critique and decisions of the group. We’ll discuss how to form supportive but insightful critique while challenging each other to go new places. What does it take to create a

Composition

FLEABAG: A Workshop about Structure — DRA2224.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Sherry Kramer
Days & Time:
Credits: 1
Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s transcendent ode to longing creates some of the most inescapable structural gravities in recent memory.  Spend three Saturday afternoons talking about the precision and elegance of the way structure works in this remarkable piece of time bound art. We’re going to talk about direct address, structural reasons why season 2 is better than season 1,
Drama

Floor to Standing: How We Get Up, How We Go — DAN2370.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
This course will introduce students to physical fundamentals often utilized in Western contemporary dance techniques. This class will attend to the physical structure of the body—including its commonalities and idiosyncrasies—to build the strength and range required to move horizontally and vertically, with gravity and against it, with momentum and in stillness. We will work
Dance

Flourishing: Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics — PHI2136.02

Fall 2024
Instructor: Catherine McKeen
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
Virtue is a habit. To be ethical is to choose the mean between extremes. Happiness is not a goal, but a state. In popular culture, Aristotle's ethical views are often represented in slogan form. In this seven-week course, we will interrogate and unpack the meanings of and ideas behind these slogans. We will carefully investigate the theory embodied in Aristotle's central
Society Culture and Thought

Flourishing: Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics — PHI2136.02

Spring 2027
Instructor: Catherine McKeen
Days & Time: MO,TH 1:40pm-3:30pm
Credits: 2

Virtue is a habit. To be ethical is to choose the mean between extremes. Happiness is not a goal, but a state. In popular culture, Aristotle's ethical views are often represented in slogan form. In this seven-week course, we will interrogate and unpack the meanings of and ideas behind these slogans. We will carefully investigate the theory embodied in

Philosophy

FOCUS FLOW: Developing a Generative Playwriting Practice — DRA2318.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Dina Janis
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
There has been a war on our attention spans, and yet it is this attention span that must be cultivated and strengthened in order to create meaningful work. How can we become the artists and thinkers we wish to be if we can’t find clear, lucid focus within ourselves on a regular basis—and learn how to safeguard it? This course is offered in the spirit of rebuilding our attention
Drama

FOCUS FLOW: Developing a Generative Playwriting Practice — DRA2318.02, section 2

Spring 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
There has been a war on our attention spans, and yet it is this attention span that must be cultivated and strengthened in order to create meaningful work. How can we become the artists and thinkers we wish to be if we can’t find clear, lucid focus within ourselves on a regular basis—and learn how to safeguard it? This course is
Drama

Food and Politics: A Food Citizens Methodology Workshop — APA4160.02

Spring 2020
Instructor: Yoko Inoue
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
This class will put focus on investigating various approaches to food studies while examining academic institutions’ curriculums and non-institutional models developed by civic and creative practitioners. This intensive Methodology Workshop provides opportunities to explore food as a pedagogical tool to “do food justice” and to practice trans-disciplinary research methods,
CAPA

Food for Thought in Modern Japanese Literature — JPN4507.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Katsuya Izumi
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
"Food" in the course title is used literally, yet quite broadly. In this course we will focus on how food, eating, drinking, and cooking are used in modern Japanese literary works. Observing Japanese people's relationships with food and these related actions in various genres of literature, we will examine the reflections of nationalism, cannibalism, globalism, ecocentrism, and
Languages

Food in Italy — ITA2114.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Barbara Alfano
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
In many ways, Italy is a country made of its food in and outside of its national borders. If, after more than one hundred and fifty years from the birth of the nation, Italians are still debating whether or not they can relate to one specific national identity, they have no doubt about this when it comes to the dining table. In this course, you will learn about Italian food
Languages

Food in Italy — ITA2114.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Barbara Alfano
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
In many ways, Italy is a country made of its food in and outside of its national borders. If, after more than one hundred and fifty years from the birth of the nation, Italians are still debating whether or not they can relate to one specific national identity, they have no doubt about this when it comes to the dining table. In this course, you will learn about Italian food,
Languages

Food in Italy — ITA2114.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Barbara Alfano
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
In many ways, Italy is a country made of its food in and outside of its national borders. If, after more than one hundred and fifty years from the birth of the nation, Italians are still debating whether or not they can relate to one specific national identity, they have no doubt about this when it comes to the dining table. In this course, you will learn about Italian food
Languages

Food in Italy — ITA2114.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: barbara alfano
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
In many ways, Italy is a country made of its food in and outside of its national borders. If, after more than one hundred and fifty years from the birth of the nation, Italians are still debating whether or not they can relate to one specific national identity, they have no doubt about this when it comes to the dining table. In this course, you will learn about Italian food,
Languages

Food in Italy — ITA2114.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Barbara Alfano
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
In many ways, Italy is a country made of its food in and outside of its national borders. If, after more than one hundred and fifty years from the birth of the nation, Italians are still debating whether or not they can relate to one specific national identity, they have no doubt about this when it comes to the dining table. In this course, you will learn about Italian food
Languages

Forests: An Introduction to Ecology and Evolution — BIO2109.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Kerry Woods
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
New England is one of the most heavily forested regions in the United States. 14,000 years ago it was covered by ice. When humans arrived about 11,000 years ago, they found forests already established -- and began reshaping the landscape through hunting and fire and, beginning about 2000 years ago, farming. European colonists caused further ecological change by expanding
Science Mathematics and Computing

Forests: An Introduction to Ecology and Evolution (with lab) — BIO2109.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Kerry Woods
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
New England is one of the most heavily forested regions in the United States. 14,000 years ago it was covered by ice. When humans arrived about 11,000 years ago, they found forests already established — and began reshaping the landscape through hunting and fire and, beginning about 2000 years ago, farming. European colonists caused further ecological change by expanding
Science and Mathematics Environment

Forests: An Introduction to Ecology and Evolution (with lab) — BIO2109.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Kerry Woods
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
New England is one of the most heavily forested regions in the United States. 14,000 years ago it was covered by ice. When humans arrived about 11,000 years ago, they found extensive, well-established forests — and began reshaping the landscape through hunting and fire and, beginning about 2000 years ago, farming. European colonists caused further ecological change by expanding
Science and Mathematics Environment

Forests: An Introduction to Ecology and Evolution (with lab) — BIO2109.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Kerry Woods
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
New England is one of the most heavily forested regions in the United States. 14,000 years ago it was covered by ice. When humans arrived about 11,000 years ago, they found forests already established — and began reshaping the landscape through hunting and fire and, beginning about 2000 years ago, farming. European colonists caused further ecological change by expanding
Science and Mathematics Environment

Forests: An Introduction to Ecology and Evolution (with lab) — BIO2109.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Kerry Woods
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
New England is one of the most heavily forested regions in the United States. 14,000 years ago it was covered by ice. When humans arrived about 11,000 years ago, they found forests already established — and began reshaping the landscape through hunting and fire and, beginning about 2000 years ago, farming. European colonists caused further ecological change by expanding
Science and Mathematics Environment

Form and Process — PAI2107.02

Fall 2021
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This course introduces a variety of materials, techniques and approaches to painting with oils. Emphasis is placed on developing and understanding of color, form and space as well as individual research and conceptual concerns. The daily experience of seeing, along with the history of art, provides a base from which investigations are made. Formal, poetic, and social
Visual Arts