Arts
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ARTS 615
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Survey of Jazz Styles
Baerman,Noah
What is the difference between "cool jazz" and "hot jazz" or "bebop" and "hard bop?" What does the bass player do in a jazz group? How has that changed over
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ARTS 624
To be announced
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Connecticut State Parks: A Collaborative Photographic Project
Belanger,Marion
Using film or digital still cameras, students will spend the semester making pictures at Connecticut State Parks. Students should come to class with a specific park or group of parks
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ARTS 625
To be announced
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Monotype Printmaking
Shinohara,Keiji
The monotype print is a free form of printmaking more akin to painting than to the traditional woodcut or etched print. It is also a process in which the artist
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ARTS 629
To be announced
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Acting Shakespeare
Resnikoff,Robert
This is an advanced scene study course for those students who are trained actors interested in honing their Shakespearian technique, and for literature students interested in gaining a deeper insight
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Humanities
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HUMS 619
To be announced
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Flash Fiction/Prose Poetry: An Immersive Reading and Writing Workshop
Bellen,Martine Rose
Definitions for types of literature tend to fall short. And extremely short they do fall when one attempts to define flash fiction (short shorts) and prose poetry. Though the two
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HUMS 625
To be announced
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Narrative Voices: Exercises for Writers of Nonfiction and Fiction
Greene,Anne F.
In both fiction and nonfiction, the sounds of voices--talking or thinking--gives dramatic life to the work. This writing course offers students the chance to experiment with story-telling and commentary in
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HUMS 633
To be announced
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Literary Classics from the Third World
Karamcheti,Indira
The last half of the 20th century has seen the establishment of a literary canon of classics from many places in the Third World: India, Africa, South America, and the
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HUMS 634
To be announced
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Medieval Legend and Myth in the British Isles
Eggers,Will
This course will explore myths and legends - such as Robin Hood and King Arthur - originating in the British Isles and closely related surrounding cultures. From the dry wit
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HUMS 653
To be announced
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From Don Juan to Dangerous Liasons: Freethinkers and Libertines in Old regime France
Curran,Andrew
While the term "libertine" is now generally associated with a lapse in sexual mores, its seventeenth-century connotation derived more specifically from the Latin word libertinus, which meant freed slave. In
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Mathematics
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MTHS 662
To be announced
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Introduction to Number Theory
Fieldsteel,Adam
The natural numbers, 1, 2, 3, ... are the starting point of mathematics. They form a deceptively simple structure whose investigation has occupied mathematicians for thousands of years. This course
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MTHS 664
To be announced
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Introduction to Topology
Mulvey,Irene
Topology, the branch of mathematics that makes posible a rigorous study of continuity and continuous distortion, is a core mathematical discipline that provides the foundation for much of advanced mathematics
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Sciences
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SCIE 608
To be announced
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Ecology of Northeastern Trees
Hammerson,Geoffrey
To a large extent, trees define many of Earth's nonmarine ecosystems. They dominate landscapes ranging from low-elevation wetlands to high mountains. The trees we see in natural areas reflect past
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SCIE 612
To be announced
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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,
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SCIE 635
To be announced
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Water Resources and the Environment
Patton,Peter C.
This course will be an overview of the hydrologic cycle and will cover the basic principles of groundwater and surface water hydrology. The course will focus on case histories that
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SCIE 655
To be announced
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Life-Span Development
Arsenio,William
In this psychology course, we will study social and cognitive development across the life span. Topics include life-span attachment issues (e.g., early parent-child relationships); developmental psychopathology; distinctions between individual difference
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Social Sciences
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SOCS 611
To be announced
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American Foreign Policy at the Crossroads: The Challenge of the Post-9/11 Era
Foyle,Douglas C.
As the United States faces an ever-widening array of international challenges in the post-9/11 world, the challenge for the nation is to construct an effective foreign policy to support American
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SOCS 618
To be announced
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The End of the World: End Times in American Religious Thought
McAlister,Elizabeth
This course examines how some religious groups in the U.S. herald the hastening of the End Times, when a Messiah will appear to cleanse the earth of all unrighteousness. We
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SOCS 634
To be announced
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Social and Political Transformation: A History of Europe Since 1900
Greene,Nathanael
This course is an interpretive survey of major political, social, economic, and cultural developments from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present. Our analysis will be chronological as
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SOCS 654
To be announced
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Christianity and Sexuality
Rubenstein,Mary-Jane Victoria
This course will explore a range of Christian teachings on, attitudes toward, and technologies of, gender and sexuality. We will read medieval and modern theologies of and about sex, as
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