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Summer 2008 Courses by Day of the Week

Monday

SCIE 618
Monday-Friday
08:00 AM - 04:00 PM
Fully Enrolled
Biology of Amphibians and Reptiles
Hammerson,Geoffrey
Amphibians and reptiles are two different groups of vertebrates, as different from each other as birds are from mammals. Nevertheless, for historical and practical reasons they are often studied together. ... more

ARTS 624
Monday-Thursday
09:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Visualization in Black and White: Building a Photographic Portfolio
Rudensky,Sasha; Seeley,J.
In this three-week intensive course students will refine their professional black and white darkroom techniques, while developing a personal aesthetic. Students will be asked to test their technical skills and ... more

HUMS 640
Monday-Friday
09:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Cancelled
Race and Film
Pemberton,Gayle
This course examines in depth the ways in which notions of race have been created, made standard, and expanded in mainstream pre-Hollywood and Hollywood movies. Our quest will begin with ... more

HUMS 646
Monday-Friday
09:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Fully Enrolled
Death and the Limits of Representation
Kleinberg,Ethan
Using death as the subject of study, this course will explore the limits or representation, that is, the practice of communicating abstract ideas, visions, or arguments through concrete or recognizable ... more

SCIE 637
Monday-Friday
09:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Fully Enrolled
Climate Change
O'Connell,Suzanne B.
Earth's climate is not static. Even without human intervention, the climate has changed. In this course we will study the components and interactions of the climate system today. Then we ... more

SOCS 634
Monday-Friday
09:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Fully Enrolled
Rome
Nussdorfer,Laurie; Adams,Robert
The Eternal City has had many images and has been transformed many times since its legendary founding by Romulus and Remus. This course will present an overview of the history ... more

SOCS 639
Monday & Wednesday
09:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Europe In the Age Of Violence, 1914-1945
Greene,Nathanael
We will study the history of Europe during a period of unprecedented conflict and nearly uninterrupted turmoil. Two world wars, revolutions, social and national antagonisms, ideological combat, racial hatreds, and ... more

SOCS 612
Monday & Wednesday
09:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Religion, Science, and Empire
Gottschalk,Peter S.
The Age of Discovery not only coincided with the rise of European imperialism, it was abetted by it. The development of modern science —and of modernity itself —depended in part ... more

SCIE 638
Monday & Wednesday
12:00 PM - 04:30 PM
Fully Enrolled
Geology of Connecticut: Stories in Stone
Zeilinga de Boer,Jelle
Connecticut's growth from a few clustered colonies to a vibrant state in the Union was triggered and facilitated by its geologic resources. Soils in the Central Valley attracted early settlers ... more

ARTS 621
Monday & Wednesday
01:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Drawing from Middletown: The Moral Landscape
Waite,Peter
Middletown—with its riverfront setting, bridges, rail tracks, churches, cemeteries, industrial and historic buildings, campus architecture, classic main street, mini-malls, and gas stations—serves as a rich source of inspiration. Students will ... more

HUMS 618
Monday & Wednesday
05:30 PM - 08:00 PM
Fully Enrolled
Writing Memoir/Telling Tales: The Personal Voice in Essays and Fiction
Greene,Anne F.
In this course we will experiment with voice and tone, helping you find a range of ways to become a lively, engaging presence on the page. We begin by examining ... more

ARTS 643
Monday & Wednesday
06:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Fully Enrolled
Writing the Short Screenplay
Collins,Stephen Edward
The short is a way for a beginning screenwriter to examine all the issues of film storytelling on a small scale before they get lost in the narrative complexity of ... more

HUMS 620
Monday-Thursday
06:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Entering the Territory of the Poem: A Poetry Writing Workshop
Jarnot,Lisa
This workshop examines a selection of poems from the ancient to the contemporary, noticing differences in the way they work. We will explore a number of approaches and practices for ... more

Tuesday

SCIE 618
Monday-Friday
08:00 AM - 04:00 PM
Fully Enrolled
Biology of Amphibians and Reptiles
Hammerson,Geoffrey
Amphibians and reptiles are two different groups of vertebrates, as different from each other as birds are from mammals. Nevertheless, for historical and practical reasons they are often studied together. ... more

ARTS 624
Monday-Thursday
09:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Visualization in Black and White: Building a Photographic Portfolio
Rudensky,Sasha; Seeley,J.
In this three-week intensive course students will refine their professional black and white darkroom techniques, while developing a personal aesthetic. Students will be asked to test their technical skills and ... more

HUMS 640
Monday-Friday
09:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Cancelled
Race and Film
Pemberton,Gayle
This course examines in depth the ways in which notions of race have been created, made standard, and expanded in mainstream pre-Hollywood and Hollywood movies. Our quest will begin with ... more

HUMS 646
Monday-Friday
09:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Fully Enrolled
Death and the Limits of Representation
Kleinberg,Ethan
Using death as the subject of study, this course will explore the limits or representation, that is, the practice of communicating abstract ideas, visions, or arguments through concrete or recognizable ... more

SCIE 637
Monday-Friday
09:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Fully Enrolled
Climate Change
O'Connell,Suzanne B.
Earth's climate is not static. Even without human intervention, the climate has changed. In this course we will study the components and interactions of the climate system today. Then we ... more

SOCS 634
Monday-Friday
09:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Fully Enrolled
Rome
Nussdorfer,Laurie; Adams,Robert
The Eternal City has had many images and has been transformed many times since its legendary founding by Romulus and Remus. This course will present an overview of the history ... more

HUMS 639
Tuesday & Thursday
09:30 AM - 12:00 PM
The Nobel Writers
Karamcheti,Indira
Alfred Nobel (1833-1896) is the subject of an enormous irony: a fortune made in explosives funds the world's most prestigious award for peace, for "fraternity between nations." His will provides ... more

MTHS 630
Tuesday & Thursday
09:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Single Variable Calculus
Mulvey,Irene
This course will cover all the topics in Differential Calculus in all their detail: limit, continuity, derivative, differentiation rules, implicit differentiation, extreme values, Mean Value Theorem, curve-sketching, and optimization. Also, ... more

MTHS 640
Tuesday & Thursday
01:00 PM - 03:30 PM
A Mathematical Sampler
Fieldsteel,Adam
We will present a wide variety of topics from elementary mathematics, chosen for their striking beauty, but also for their bearing on issues of considerable importance. Some of the topics ... more

SOCS 627
Tuesday & Thursday
01:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Fully Enrolled
"Ten Photographs that Shook the World": Technologies of Historical Memory
Tucker,Jennifer
Matthew Brady, the American photographer who persuaded the Federal government to support a visual record of the Civil War, described photography as the "eye of history." He was invoking history ... more

ARTS 641
Tuesday & Thursday
05:30 PM - 08:00 PM
Cancelled
Transforming Text: Constructing Visual Literacy for Contemporary Performance
Oteiza,Marcela
The discipline of performance is essentially a collaborative one, where the intersection between text, actor, and visual setting creates a different world. How to bring this world to life and ... more

SOCS 641
Tuesday & Thursday
05:30 PM - 08:30 PM
Jews under Christian and Muslim Rule
Teter,Magda
This course will focus on mutual attitudes and interaction between Jews, Christians, and Muslims in the premodern period. We will examine how each religious tradition constructed "the Other," trying to ... more

HUMS 620
Monday-Thursday
06:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Entering the Territory of the Poem: A Poetry Writing Workshop
Jarnot,Lisa
This workshop examines a selection of poems from the ancient to the contemporary, noticing differences in the way they work. We will explore a number of approaches and practices for ... more

HUMS 651
Tuesday & Thursday
06:00 PM - 08:30 PM
Tales of Resistance: Modernity and the Latin American Short Story
Conn,Robert T.
Latin American writers from the early twentieth century forward have regarded the short story as a vehicle through which to make their mark and engage the great cultural issues of ... more

SCIE 612
Tuesday & Thursday
06:00 PM - 08:30 PM
Fully Enrolled
Topics in Neuroscience and Behavior
Naegele,Janice R; Lombroso,Paul
Neuroscience is a discipline that seeks to understand how the brain and nervous system works to control behavior and emotions. It is a highly interdisciplinary field that draws from psychology, ... more

Wednesday

SCIE 618
Monday-Friday
08:00 AM - 04:00 PM
Fully Enrolled
Biology of Amphibians and Reptiles
Hammerson,Geoffrey
Amphibians and reptiles are two different groups of vertebrates, as different from each other as birds are from mammals. Nevertheless, for historical and practical reasons they are often studied together. ... more

ARTS 624
Monday-Thursday
09:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Visualization in Black and White: Building a Photographic Portfolio
Rudensky,Sasha; Seeley,J.
In this three-week intensive course students will refine their professional black and white darkroom techniques, while developing a personal aesthetic. Students will be asked to test their technical skills and ... more

HUMS 640
Monday-Friday
09:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Cancelled
Race and Film
Pemberton,Gayle
This course examines in depth the ways in which notions of race have been created, made standard, and expanded in mainstream pre-Hollywood and Hollywood movies. Our quest will begin with ... more

HUMS 646
Monday-Friday
09:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Fully Enrolled
Death and the Limits of Representation
Kleinberg,Ethan
Using death as the subject of study, this course will explore the limits or representation, that is, the practice of communicating abstract ideas, visions, or arguments through concrete or recognizable ... more

SCIE 637
Monday-Friday
09:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Fully Enrolled
Climate Change
O'Connell,Suzanne B.
Earth's climate is not static. Even without human intervention, the climate has changed. In this course we will study the components and interactions of the climate system today. Then we ... more

SOCS 634
Monday-Friday
09:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Fully Enrolled
Rome
Nussdorfer,Laurie; Adams,Robert
The Eternal City has had many images and has been transformed many times since its legendary founding by Romulus and Remus. This course will present an overview of the history ... more

SOCS 639
Monday & Wednesday
09:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Europe In the Age Of Violence, 1914-1945
Greene,Nathanael
We will study the history of Europe during a period of unprecedented conflict and nearly uninterrupted turmoil. Two world wars, revolutions, social and national antagonisms, ideological combat, racial hatreds, and ... more

SOCS 612
Monday & Wednesday
09:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Religion, Science, and Empire
Gottschalk,Peter S.
The Age of Discovery not only coincided with the rise of European imperialism, it was abetted by it. The development of modern science —and of modernity itself —depended in part ... more

SCIE 638
Monday & Wednesday
12:00 PM - 04:30 PM
Fully Enrolled
Geology of Connecticut: Stories in Stone
Zeilinga de Boer,Jelle
Connecticut's growth from a few clustered colonies to a vibrant state in the Union was triggered and facilitated by its geologic resources. Soils in the Central Valley attracted early settlers ... more

ARTS 621
Monday & Wednesday
01:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Drawing from Middletown: The Moral Landscape
Waite,Peter
Middletown—with its riverfront setting, bridges, rail tracks, churches, cemeteries, industrial and historic buildings, campus architecture, classic main street, mini-malls, and gas stations—serves as a rich source of inspiration. Students will ... more

HUMS 618
Monday & Wednesday
05:30 PM - 08:00 PM
Fully Enrolled
Writing Memoir/Telling Tales: The Personal Voice in Essays and Fiction
Greene,Anne F.
In this course we will experiment with voice and tone, helping you find a range of ways to become a lively, engaging presence on the page. We begin by examining ... more

ARTS 643
Monday & Wednesday
06:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Fully Enrolled
Writing the Short Screenplay
Collins,Stephen Edward
The short is a way for a beginning screenwriter to examine all the issues of film storytelling on a small scale before they get lost in the narrative complexity of ... more

HUMS 620
Monday-Thursday
06:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Entering the Territory of the Poem: A Poetry Writing Workshop
Jarnot,Lisa
This workshop examines a selection of poems from the ancient to the contemporary, noticing differences in the way they work. We will explore a number of approaches and practices for ... more

Thursday

SCIE 618
Monday-Friday
08:00 AM - 04:00 PM
Fully Enrolled
Biology of Amphibians and Reptiles
Hammerson,Geoffrey
Amphibians and reptiles are two different groups of vertebrates, as different from each other as birds are from mammals. Nevertheless, for historical and practical reasons they are often studied together. ... more

ARTS 624
Monday-Thursday
09:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Visualization in Black and White: Building a Photographic Portfolio
Rudensky,Sasha; Seeley,J.
In this three-week intensive course students will refine their professional black and white darkroom techniques, while developing a personal aesthetic. Students will be asked to test their technical skills and ... more

HUMS 640
Monday-Friday
09:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Cancelled
Race and Film
Pemberton,Gayle
This course examines in depth the ways in which notions of race have been created, made standard, and expanded in mainstream pre-Hollywood and Hollywood movies. Our quest will begin with ... more

HUMS 646
Monday-Friday
09:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Fully Enrolled
Death and the Limits of Representation
Kleinberg,Ethan
Using death as the subject of study, this course will explore the limits or representation, that is, the practice of communicating abstract ideas, visions, or arguments through concrete or recognizable ... more

SCIE 637
Monday-Friday
09:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Fully Enrolled
Climate Change
O'Connell,Suzanne B.
Earth's climate is not static. Even without human intervention, the climate has changed. In this course we will study the components and interactions of the climate system today. Then we ... more

SOCS 634
Monday-Friday
09:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Fully Enrolled
Rome
Nussdorfer,Laurie; Adams,Robert
The Eternal City has had many images and has been transformed many times since its legendary founding by Romulus and Remus. This course will present an overview of the history ... more

HUMS 639
Tuesday & Thursday
09:30 AM - 12:00 PM
The Nobel Writers
Karamcheti,Indira
Alfred Nobel (1833-1896) is the subject of an enormous irony: a fortune made in explosives funds the world's most prestigious award for peace, for "fraternity between nations." His will provides ... more

MTHS 630
Tuesday & Thursday
09:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Single Variable Calculus
Mulvey,Irene
This course will cover all the topics in Differential Calculus in all their detail: limit, continuity, derivative, differentiation rules, implicit differentiation, extreme values, Mean Value Theorem, curve-sketching, and optimization. Also, ... more

MTHS 640
Tuesday & Thursday
01:00 PM - 03:30 PM
A Mathematical Sampler
Fieldsteel,Adam
We will present a wide variety of topics from elementary mathematics, chosen for their striking beauty, but also for their bearing on issues of considerable importance. Some of the topics ... more

SOCS 627
Tuesday & Thursday
01:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Fully Enrolled
"Ten Photographs that Shook the World": Technologies of Historical Memory
Tucker,Jennifer
Matthew Brady, the American photographer who persuaded the Federal government to support a visual record of the Civil War, described photography as the "eye of history." He was invoking history ... more

ARTS 641
Tuesday & Thursday
05:30 PM - 08:00 PM
Cancelled
Transforming Text: Constructing Visual Literacy for Contemporary Performance
Oteiza,Marcela
The discipline of performance is essentially a collaborative one, where the intersection between text, actor, and visual setting creates a different world. How to bring this world to life and ... more

SOCS 641
Tuesday & Thursday
05:30 PM - 08:30 PM
Jews under Christian and Muslim Rule
Teter,Magda
This course will focus on mutual attitudes and interaction between Jews, Christians, and Muslims in the premodern period. We will examine how each religious tradition constructed "the Other," trying to ... more

HUMS 620
Monday-Thursday
06:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Entering the Territory of the Poem: A Poetry Writing Workshop
Jarnot,Lisa
This workshop examines a selection of poems from the ancient to the contemporary, noticing differences in the way they work. We will explore a number of approaches and practices for ... more

HUMS 651
Tuesday & Thursday
06:00 PM - 08:30 PM
Tales of Resistance: Modernity and the Latin American Short Story
Conn,Robert T.
Latin American writers from the early twentieth century forward have regarded the short story as a vehicle through which to make their mark and engage the great cultural issues of ... more

SCIE 612
Tuesday & Thursday
06:00 PM - 08:30 PM
Fully Enrolled
Topics in Neuroscience and Behavior
Naegele,Janice R; Lombroso,Paul
Neuroscience is a discipline that seeks to understand how the brain and nervous system works to control behavior and emotions. It is a highly interdisciplinary field that draws from psychology, ... more

Friday

SCIE 618
Monday-Friday
08:00 AM - 04:00 PM
Fully Enrolled
Biology of Amphibians and Reptiles
Hammerson,Geoffrey
Amphibians and reptiles are two different groups of vertebrates, as different from each other as birds are from mammals. Nevertheless, for historical and practical reasons they are often studied together. ... more

HUMS 640
Monday-Friday
09:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Cancelled
Race and Film
Pemberton,Gayle
This course examines in depth the ways in which notions of race have been created, made standard, and expanded in mainstream pre-Hollywood and Hollywood movies. Our quest will begin with ... more

HUMS 646
Monday-Friday
09:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Fully Enrolled
Death and the Limits of Representation
Kleinberg,Ethan
Using death as the subject of study, this course will explore the limits or representation, that is, the practice of communicating abstract ideas, visions, or arguments through concrete or recognizable ... more

SCIE 637
Monday-Friday
09:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Fully Enrolled
Climate Change
O'Connell,Suzanne B.
Earth's climate is not static. Even without human intervention, the climate has changed. In this course we will study the components and interactions of the climate system today. Then we ... more

SOCS 634
Monday-Friday
09:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Fully Enrolled
Rome
Nussdorfer,Laurie; Adams,Robert
The Eternal City has had many images and has been transformed many times since its legendary founding by Romulus and Remus. This course will present an overview of the history ... more

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