Arts
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ARTS 617
Note: Special Schedule
09:00 AM - 05:00 PM
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Music and Downtown New York, 1950-70
Charry,Eric S.
Special Schedule: Saturday & Sunday, October 3-4; Saturday,October 17; class trip to NY on Sunday, October 18; Saturday, October 24 Since the early 20th century, downtown New York
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ARTS 624
Monday
06:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Fully Enrolled
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A Photograph: Between Fiction and Fact
Rudensky,Sasha
From its earliest days, photography was mistakenly perceived as a fundamentally objective, scientific medium concerned with truth and fact. Quite the opposite, by its very definition, the photographic image—a flat,
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ARTS 640
Thursday
06:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Fully Enrolled
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Sumi-e Painting
Shinohara,Keiji
Sumi-e is a style of black-and-white calligraphic ink painting that originated in China and was introduced into Japan by Zen monks around 1333. Concentrating on the four basic compositions of
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ARTS 643
Tuesday
07:00 PM - 09:30 PM
Fully Enrolled
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The Changing Character of the Documentary Film
Molomot,Lisa
Since the very first films, of workers walking out of factories, the documentary film has continually changed in response to the time. What began as an experiment with technology has
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ARTS 645
To be announced
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Cancelled
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The Feedback Salon
Waite,Peter
Art is often a lonely enterprise and sometimes one needs feedback. This advanced, tutorial-like course is a weekly critique session designed for serious students or artists of all disciplines in
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ARTS 692
Note: Special Schedule
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Graduate Tutorial
Waite,Peter
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Humanities
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HUMS 609
Note: Special Schedule
09:00 AM - 05:00 PM
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Children's Literature
Karamcheti,Indira
Special Schedule: Saturday & Sunday, September 26-27; Saturday-Monday, October 10-12 Stories told to children have an ancient history, dating back to orally transmitted folktales, myths, and legends. They
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HUMS 620
Wednesday
06:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Fully Enrolled
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The Prophet and the Freak: A Creative Nonfiction Writing Workshop
Basch,Rachel N.
"The writer has to judge himself with a stranger's eye and a stranger's severity. The prophet in him has to see the freak. No art is sunk in the self,
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HUMS 627
Monday
07:00 PM - 09:30 PM
Fully Enrolled
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Story and Structure
Greene,Anne F.
This is a course for those who want to write with greater facility and with increased attention to the design of each piece. Students may choose to focus on narrative
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HUMS 635
Thursday
06:30 PM - 09:00 PM
Fully Enrolled
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American Literature and Culture in the 1930s
McCann,Sean
This course will look at the literature and culture of the United States during the Great Depression. The emphasis will be on literature and film placed in the broader context
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HUMS 639
To be announced
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Cancelled
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Constructing Identity in Literature, From Sophocles to Stoppard
Meyer,Priscilla
We are what we read; the critical reader has the ability to form his/her identity consciously, while literary characters are destroyed by failing to recognize the forces and assumptions shaping
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HUMS 644
Tuesday
06:00 PM - 08:30 PM
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Chivalry, Courtliness, and Courtly Love in the Middle Ages
Rider,Jeff
The roots of most modern Western ideas about courtesy, politeness, love, and good behavior are to be found in the Middle Ages and more specifically in French-speaking northern Europe in
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HUMS 692
Note: Special Schedule
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Fully Enrolled
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Graduate Tutorial
Teter,Magda; Katz,Dalit
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Mathematics
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MTHS 659
Thursday
06:00 PM - 08:30 PM
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Mathematical Modeling: Exploring and Predicting Phenomena with Mathematics
Taylor,Edward
Mathematics can be viewed as a language for describing the world around us. Indeed, this is largely how mathematics developed. For instance, Calculus was invented by Newton in order to
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Sciences
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SCIE 630
To be announced
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Cancelled
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Landscape Ecology
Poulos,Helen Mills
Scientists have been interested in understanding the mechanisms that underscore species distribution patterns across landscapes since the days of Darwin and Wallace. Landscape ecology examines the relationship between spatial pattern
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SCIE 634
Tuesday
06:00 PM - 08:30 PM
Fully Enrolled
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The New Solar System
Herbst,William; Gilmore,Martha S.
Our knowledge of the solar system—the planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and meteoroids that orbit the Sun—has vastly increased during the space age. NASA planetary probes as well as ground-based and
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SCIE 641
To be announced
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Where Earth's Plates Meet: Role of Seismicity & Volcanism in the Development of Early Civilizations
Zeilinga de Boer,Jelle
This course will meet during a condensed 6-week schedule, November 2-December 10, including afternoon field trips on November 7, 14, and 21. See description for full course schedule.
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Social Sciences
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SOCS 638
Note: Special Schedule
09:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Fully Enrolled
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Religion in Film
Gottschalk,Peter S.
Special Schedule: Saturday-Monday, September 5-7; Saturday & Sunday, September 19-20 This course examines how films, like religious texts and practices, carry and shape political ideologies and forge and
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SOCS 643
To be announced
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Cancelled
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The Anthropology of the Afghan War: Power, Authority, and Charisma Along the Afghan Frontier
Keiser,R. Lincoln
This course examines how anthropology helps in understanding the war along the Afghan/Pakistan border. It begins by surveying the recent history of the war. Next, the course identifies the basic
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SOCS 645
Monday
06:00 PM - 08:30 PM
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Leading Issues in Bioethics, Public Policy, and the Law
Schaller,Barry
Developments in biotechnology and the life sciences have called into question existing legal and policy approaches with respect to reproduction, health care, informed consent, privacy, medical futility and end-of-life decisions,
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