Spring 2022

Embodying Text — DRA4162.01

Spring 2022

Instructor: Kirk Jackson

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Credits: 4

We will engage in an investigation of textual analysis for performance of Shakespeare: scansion, rhythm, sense stress, image work, phonetic phraseology, etc. We will study the structure of the verse and the elements of rhetoric as the primary source for an actor’s investigation and performance of a role. We will explore techniques for enlivening that analysis in the performer’s

Drama

Endeavor Environmental Action Post Fellowship Class — APA4161.01

Spring 2022

Instructor: Judith Enck

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Credits: 1

Students who spent their field work term as Environmental Action fellows will meet as a cohort to report on their experiences to other students about their host organizations, what worked and what didn't work, and what they learned. There will be focus on skills building that will support the students in their work to advance environmental justice and social justice

CAPA

English(es) Past, Present and Future — LIN4107.01

Spring 2022

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 4

The intent of this course is to equip students which the knowledge and skills necessary to critically evaluate oft-encountered depictions of English as a “global” or “modern” language, and to contextualize their personal interactions with English by integrating knowledge of how it has existed at earlier points in time, the diversity of ways in which it exists presently, and the

Cultural Studies and Languages Society Culture and Thought

Enhancing Cultural Understanding and Embracing Cultural Differences: Digital Book Project (Introductory) — JPN4225.01

Spring 2022

Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida

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Credits: 5

In this second-term Japanese course, students will examine Japanese cultural values and create digital books which will teach Japanese children how to embrace cultural differences. Students will read Japanese children’s books and watch children’s TV shows to explore and analyze how social and cultural values are represented and taught. Based on their analyses and

Cultural Studies and Languages

Entry to Mathematics — MAT2100.01

Spring 2022

Instructor: Andrew McIntyre

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Credits: 4

This is a basic course, covering most of high school mathematics, and will be accessible to all interested and willing students. It is appropriate for students who do not feel confident in their high school mathematics background. Students may proceed from this course to other 2000 level mathematics courses. Mathematics is inherent across all disciplines and undertakings. It is

Science and Mathematics

Everything Class — DAN2003.02

Spring 2022

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 1

What if a water bottle were a teacher waiting for you in a classroom? What kind of class would the water bottle be offering----Sonic Meditation, Daily Beverage Curatorial Practice, Aquatic Ecology Research, Subconsciousness Activation, Invisible Color Therapy, Liquid Song Writing, Performance Score Composition for a Water Body, Taste-initiated Somatic Practice, Method of

Dance

Experiential Anatomy/Somatic Practices — DAN2149.01

Spring 2022

Instructor: Elena Demyanenko

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Credits: 4

This is a studio class for students of any discipline intended to deepen the understanding of your own moving body. We will study kinesthetic anatomy by approaching material through visual, cognitive, kinesthetic, and sensory modes. Class time will be divided between discussion of anatomy and kinesthetic concepts, and engagement with the material experientially through movement

Dance

Faculty Performance Production: “H G, a great and terrible story,” by Anna Maria Hong, Jean Randich, Sue Rees, and Allen Shawn — DRA4407.01

Spring 2022

Instructor: Jean Randich

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Credits: 4

This is a faculty performance production of a new multimedia music theater piece freely inspired by Anna Maria Hong’s novella, “H G,” a cubistic re-envisioning of the Grimm’s tale of Hansel and Gretel as a surreal, feminist hero’s journey. Here abandonment, enchantment, and the fear of being consumed challenge the protagonists to imagine the unimaginable: how do you give birth

CAPA Drama Music

Feminist Freedom — PHI2254.01

Spring 2022

Instructor: Catherine McKeen

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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

Field Research in Unconventional Space — SCU2128.01

Spring 2022

Instructor: John Umphlett

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Credits: 2

This class will push the envelope of closed membrane structure design. A membrane is more than an impermeable skin; it can selectively filter particles, chemicals, light, sound, and smell. A balloon has an expandable latex surface easily manipulated by air and water pressure. However, a rigid fabric material that has a less forgiving response to pressure forced on its walls

Visual Arts

Finding Form: Dance — DAN4319.01

Spring 2022

Instructor: Dana Reitz

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Credits: 4

Looking at forms found in nature, architecture, music, drama, literature, etc., we search for examples to help formulate ideas and structures for movement-based creation. When making new artwork, we are constantly balancing and integrating the need for exploratory freedom and the desire for structural integrity. How do we use spontaneous impulse to help find form, and how do we

Dance Drama Visual Arts

Form and Process: Introduction to Painting — PAI2107.01

Spring 2022

Instructor: Ann Pibal

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Credits: 4

This course introduces a variety of materials, techniques and approaches to working with oil paint. 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 examples from art history, provide a base from which investigations are made. Formal, poetic, and social

Visual Arts

Foundations of Photography: Introduction to Digital Practice — PHO2368.01

Spring 2022

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 4

This course is designed to help students with fundamental tools and techniques of the basics of photography to develop and incubate their knowledge and technical skills such as usage of digital camera, lighting, composition, sense of moment, theme, use of color, storytelling and preparing for basic printing. In addition, this course intends to foster a creative and critical

Visual Arts

French Comedy — FRE4122.01

Spring 2022

Instructor: Stephen Shapiro

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Credits: 4

This course will examine the comic in French theatre, literature, politics, and film in order to answer a deceptively simple question: What makes us laugh? In theoretical readings we will consider whether laughter is a universal, cross-cultural function. Additionally, we will look at special, sub-genres of the comic, such as satire and parody, in order to question the

Cultural Studies and Languages

French Through Films — FRE4154.01

Spring 2022

Instructor: Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly

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Credits: 4

In this course, French films are used as linguistic and cultural textbooks. While honing their language skills (listening, reading, speaking and writing), students will focus their critical skills on selected cultural topics (food, clothes, history, gestures, etc.). Students will create film trailers that reflect their understanding of the French linguistic and cultural

Visual Arts Cultural Studies and Languages

From an Indigenous Point of View — ANT4205.01

Spring 2022

Instructor: Miroslava Prazak

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Credits: 4

Using the novel as ethnography, this course examines world cultures through literary works of authors from various parts of the world. We explore the construction of community in precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial times; independence movements; issues of individual and social identity; and the themes of change, adaptation and conflict. Student work includes an analytical

Society Culture and Thought

From April Fifth to June Fourth: Craze, Hunger, and Everydayness in China's Reform Era — CHI4604.01

Spring 2022

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 4

This course invites students to examine the Reform Era in the history of PRC, that is, the Eighties (1978-1989). With the opening up of China in the 1980s, students, college professors, and artists ushered in an unprecedented wave of creativity. Due to temporary political freedom and the society’s “hunger” for knowledge, this decade featured a profound vigor that gave rise to

Cultural Studies and Languages

From Ashes to Fascists: The Roots and Rise of our Anti-Environmental Age — ENV4257.01

Spring 2022

Instructor: John Hultgren

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Credits: 4

Responding to climate change and other contemporary environmental crises (biodiversity loss, looming water shortages, toxic pollution, etc.) necessitates swift and serious action that continues to be undercut by a rearguard anti-environmental movement. What are the ideological roots, the political economic forces, and the organizational forms through which anti-environmentalism

CAPA Environment Society Culture and Thought

From Concept to Reality: Restorative Practice and Participatory Action Research — APA2188.01

Spring 2022

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 2

In this seven week class we analyze the ways that Participatory Action Research (PAR) and Restorative Practice can work together to create and sustain programs that are truly transformative. How can we better align restorative theory and practice in our work? The concepts and values embodied in restorative justice should be consistent with the practices and structures through

CAPA

From Digital Models to Technical Drawings — DA4250.01

Spring 2022

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 4

The historian Robin Evans thought of technical drawings as an “intervening medium” between object and thought. By protracting the distance between thoughts and the objects they produce, what alterations can be made in the process? What previously invisible things do we see? Do we also lose some control? This course is about understanding the technical drawing not only as an

Visual Arts

From “Modern Woman” to “Iron Girl” to “Left-over Woman” — CHI4404.01

Spring 2022

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 4

This course invites students to explore how the Chinese female has been represented differently from the early 20th century to the present in various literature, films, and visual arts. Students will also investigate the changing historical, social, and cultural contexts that have caused the different representations and misrepresentations of individual and/or collective

Cultural Studies and Languages

Gadgets: an Electronics Microcontroller Lab — CS2151.01

Spring 2022

Instructor: Jim Mahoney

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Credits: 2

A hands-on exploration of interactive electronics with a programmable microcontroller and various sensors, motors, lights and switches in order to see the basics of circuits, coding, and the techniques behind the DIY (Do It Yourself) "Maker" culture. We'll first use the recipes in the Sparkfun Inventor's kit as a starting point to learn about "for" loops, "if" statements, volts

Science and Mathematics

GANAS — APA4154.01

Spring 2022

Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher

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Credits: 2

In terms of public action, GANAS has survived the pandemic, as have its members, mercifully, and remains a community-driven, cross-cultural association that provides students with volunteer opportunities to engage with the predominantly undocumented Latino migrant worker population. These opportunities are increasingly facilitated by the group itself, in addition to

CAPA

Gender in Early Modern Europe — HIS2102.01

Spring 2022

Instructor: Carol Pal

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Credits: 4

The aim of this course is to interrogate historical perceptions of women and gender in the early modern era, and to develop a critical approach to primary source documents. We attempt to complicate constructions of ideal feminine behavior by examining the evidence that shows what women actually were up to. In addition to the ways in which major writers and thinkers saw women,

Society Culture and Thought

Global Change Biology — BIO4100.01

Spring 2022

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 2

Human activity is altering the environment at such an unprecedented rate that many scientists consider this to be the genesis of a new geological age, the Anthropocene. In this class we will examine human impacts at the level of the ecosystem, population, and organism by exploring and discussing current primary literature. Areas of discussion will be shaped by student interest,

Science and Mathematics