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Fall 2007
Arts
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ARTS 613
Tuesday
06:00 PM - 08:30 PM
Fully Enrolled
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Studies in Photographic Portraiture/Self-Portraiture
Belanger,Marion
Photography is a medium perfectly suited to the portrayal of one another and of one's self. We will investigate the many approaches to the photographic portrait/self-portrait ranging from the traditional
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ARTS 615
Thursday
06:30 PM - 09:00 PM
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Jazz in the Sixties
Baerman,Noah
The 1960s were a turbulent but stimulating time for the world of jazz. The R&B-based soul jazz movement was at its peak and often at odds with the still-developing avant-garde
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ARTS 618
Thursday
06:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Fully Enrolled
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Japanese Woodblock Printmaking
Shinohara,Keiji
Japanese woodblock printmaking is a traditional art form, more than 1,000 years old, which relies on hand-pressing techniques, watercolors, and rice paste. Quite distinct from Western printmaking traditions, it uses
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ARTS 634
Wednesday
06:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Fully Enrolled
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Postwar/Postmodern: American Design from Retro to Neo-Retro
McCombie,Mary Eleanor
This course explores industrial and household design in post-war America from a variety of perspectives to frame postwar culture and examine its icons--from Tupperware to tiki bars and bachelor pads,
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ARTS 644
Tuesday
07:00 PM - 09:30 PM
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Documentary Filmmaking
Molomot,Lisa
This course is designed to provide a fundamental understanding of how documentary films are made, through technical training and practical experience in shooting and editing digital video. Through a series
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ARTS 645
Wednesday
06:30 PM - 09:00 PM
Fully Enrolled
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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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Humanities
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HUMS 602
Wednesday
06:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Fully Enrolled
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Postwar/Postmodern: American Design from Retro to Neo-Retro
McCombie,Mary Eleanor
This course explores industrial and household design in post-war America from a variety of perspectives to frame postwar culture and examine its icons--from Tupperware to tiki bars and bachelor pads,
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HUMS 618
Tuesday
06:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Fully Enrolled
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The Big Truth in Short Fiction: A Writing Workshop
Basch,Rachel N.
Picasso stated that "art is a lie that makes us realize truth." During the course of the semester, we will explore this idea as both writers and readers of fiction.
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HUMS 624
Monday
07:00 PM - 09:30 PM
Fully Enrolled
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Place and Character: A Writing Course
Greene,Anne F.
We begin this writing course with practical questions: how can you bring your characters to life on the page, in fiction or nonfiction, and draw the world they live in?
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HUMS 630
Thursday
06:00 PM - 08:30 PM
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Ancient Warfare and Society
Caldwell III,Robert C.
This course examines the nature of Greek and Roman warfare and its impact on ancient societies from the Homeric age to Late Antiquity. In addition to studying the lives and
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HUMS 638
Wednesday
06:30 PM - 09:00 PM
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Romantic Poetry
Weiner,Stephanie Kuduk
This course is an introduction to major poets and themes of the Romantic period in English poetry: nature; memory, imagination, and creativity; the poetic "I"; form and prosody; responses to
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HUMS 639
Thursday
06:30 PM - 09:00 PM
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American Realism
McCann,Sean
A seminar on some of the major developments in American literature from 1865-1910, this course will focus on the movement for a new realist novel that transformed American fiction in
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HUMS 644
Tuesday
06:30 PM - 09:00 PM
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Days and Knights of the Round Table: The Arthurian Legend in the Middle Ages
Rider,Jeff
This course will study the evolution of the Arthurian legend from its origins in 6th-century Britain to its fullest development in the 13th-century French Lancelot-Grail cycle. We will look at
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Mathematics
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MTHS 641
Monday
06:00 PM - 08:30 PM
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Thinking and Proving: Topics in Discrete Mathematics
Fieldsteel,Adam
This is a course that uses topics from discrete mathematics to illustrate general methods of approaching and solving mathematical problems. We will develop various core ideas of discrete mathematics from
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Sciences
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SCIE 634
Wednesday
05:30 PM - 08:00 PM
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Health and Aging
Barry,Lisa C.
This course is designed as a multidisciplinary course that introduces students to the major concepts and principles of gerontology, particularly those applicable to health and older persons. Students will learn
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SCIE 681
Tuesday
06:00 PM - 08:30 PM
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Recent Advances in Biotechnology
McAlear,Michael A.
Progress in the molecular biosciences continues to accelerate at an ever-increasing pace at the same time that it touches more and more aspects of everyday life. In this course we
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SCIE 688
Monday
06:30 PM - 09:00 PM
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Science and Art
Beveridge,David L.; Klaneski,Mariah Elizabeth
This is an interdisciplinary course dealing critically with intersections of the fields of science and the visual arts including intellectual, cultural, and aesthetic perspectives. Part I will be focused on
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Social Sciences
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SOCS 604
Wednesday
06:00 PM - 08:30 PM
Cancelled
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Zen in Japan: Dōgen and the History of Zen Buddhism
Johnston,William D.
Dōgen (1200-1253), the founder of the Japanese Sōtō sect of Zen Buddhism, has been recognized not only as a key figure in Japanese Zen, but as one of the greatest
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SOCS 611
Thursday
06:00 PM - 08:30 PM
Fully Enrolled
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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 633
Monday
06:00 PM - 08:30 PM
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Solving the World's Problems: Diplomacy and Decision-making in International Politics
Gallarotti,Giulio
This course represents a hands-on approach to decision-making and diplomacy. It is designed to allow students to take part in diplomatic and decision-making exercises in the context of international political
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SOCS 636
Tuesday
06:00 PM - 08:30 PM
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Religion and Politics in the United States
Eisner,Marc A.
The United States is, by all measures, a highly religious nation. Since 1944, the Gallup organization has asked: "Do you believe in God?" For more than sixty years, the percentage
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SOCS 641
Monday
06:30 PM - 09:00 PM
Cancelled
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The Enlightenment and the Birth of the Modern World
Printy,Michael O.
The Enlightenment is said to have given birth to democracy, human rights, feminism, emancipation, and secularism--in short, to the characteristic strivings of Western modernity. Yet it has also at times
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SOCS 648
Thursday
06:00 PM - 08:30 PM
Cancelled
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Territory and Politics of Eurasia
Medvedev,Sergei
The course deals with its history, structure and topology, current transformation and the future of Eurasian space. It problematizes the idea of space as a key to understanding politics and
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Summer 2007
Arts
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ARTS 610
Monday & Wednesday
07:00 PM - 09:30 PM
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Contemporary Playwrights: Text and Performance
Jaffe,David B.
Through text analysis, monologue work, and scene study, this course will examine the works of contemporary American playwrights. Scenes drawn from the works of David Mamet, Tony Kushner, Paula Vogel,
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ARTS 615
Monday & Wednesday
06:30 PM - 09:00 PM
Cancelled
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Jazz Cross-Pollination: The Impact of Jazz on other Styles of Music and
Vice Versa
Baerman,Noah
Throughout its history, jazz has evolved, not just through the work of innovative artists but also through the influence of other styles of music. Western classical music, R&B, blues, rock,
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ARTS 623
Monday & Wednesday
06:00 PM - 09:00 PM
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Green Architecture
Pestel,Michael
This course explores the development of green architecture at the intersection of three areas of study: the social reforms and utopian schemes of 20th-century modernist architecture, the eco-design solutions of
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ARTS 624
Monday-Thursday
09:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Black and White Photography: Art and Technique
Rudensky,Sasha; Seeley,J.
This three-week intensive course teaches photography from the inside out, beginning with professional black and white darkroom techniques, in order to develop the vision and artistry to build a portfolio
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ARTS 625
Note: Special Schedule
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Monotype Printmaking
Shinohara,Keiji
M-W, 6-9 PM and Saturday, 10 AM-1 PM The monotype print is a free form of printmaking more akin to painting than to the traditional woodcut or etched
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ARTS 652
Saturday
10:00 AM - 05:00 PM
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Digital Media
Jokl,Todd
Digital technologies offer artists new tools for artistic expression and provide new spaces in which to experience them. This introductory course will first offer students hands-on experience with tools that
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Humanities
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HUMS 614
Tuesday & Thursday
09:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Fully Enrolled
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Personalizing History
Karamcheti,Indira
How much are we shaped by our historical times and places? How much power do we have to make our historical conditions respond to our needs and desires? These are
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HUMS 629
Monday & Wednesday
05:30 PM - 08:00 PM
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Voice and Style: Exercises for Writers
Greene,Anne F.
This course offers discussion of a range of prose styles, from fiction and nonfiction works, and invites students to try short or long pieces that suit their own interests. No
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HUMS 634
Tuesday & Thursday
06:00 PM - 08:30 PM
Cancelled
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Contemporary Israeli Fiction: Writing the Nation
Katz,Adam
Israeli fiction can be taken as a test case for the possibility of a national narrative in which the actions of individuals enact and allegorize the people as an actor
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HUMS 643
Tuesday & Thursday
07:00 PM - 09:30 PM
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Art After Auschwitz? Literature, Painting, and Film in Postwar Germany
Gates,Lisa M.
In 1947, the German philosopher Theodor Adorno wrote that after Auschwitz, writing poetry was an act of barbarism. But in the decades since the defeat of the Nazis, German artists
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HUMS 644
Monday-Friday
09:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Fully Enrolled
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Exoticism: Imaginary Geographies in 18th- and 19th-Century French Literature
Curran,Andrew
This travel course held in Paris is designed for students who are interested in French literature, ideas, culture, and perhaps even French travel writing, but who were not necessarily French
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HUMS 651
Monday-Thursday
06:00 PM - 09:00 PM
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Classic Spanish Plays
Armstrong Roche,Michael
From 1580 to about 1700 Spanish-language playwrights created one of the great dramatic repertories of world literature, comparable for inventiveness, variety, and influence to the Classical Greek and Elizabethan English
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Mathematics
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MTHS 620
Tuesday & Thursday
01:30 PM - 04:00 PM
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Mathematical Problem Solving
Fieldsteel,Adam
This will be a course on problem solving in Mathematics. The notion of "problem solving" as a subject in and of itself is not new. It has attracted attention from
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MTHS 658
Tuesday & Thursday
09:30 AM - 12:00 PM
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The Algebra and Geometry of Complex Numbers
Mulvey,Irene
Not every polynomial has a root in the real numbers; for example, the equation (x^2+1=0) has no solution in the real numbers. But, every polynomial has a root in the
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Sciences
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SCIE 613
Note: Special Schedule
07:00 AM - 03:00 PM
Fully Enrolled
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Biology of Birds
Hammerson,Geoffrey
Why study birds? Part of the appeal of birds lies in their color and beauty, interesting behavior, and impressive flight abilities. Bird study can provide an excellent education in many
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SCIE 622
Monday & Wednesday
06:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Cancelled
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Psychology and the Law
Carney,Sarah Kristin
As we enter the 21st century, topics that fall under the heading of "forensic psychology" have attracted a great deal of popular attention. Issues such as eye witness testimony, false
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SCIE 624
Monday-Thursday
01:30 PM - 04:30 PM
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Emotions, Motivation, and Positive Psychology
Arsenio,William
The past decade has seen an explosive growth of interest in what has been called positive psychology: the study of emotions, traits, and institutions that promote adaptive and healthy psychological
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SCIE 639
Tuesday & Thursday
07:00 PM - 09:30 PM
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Evolutionary Perspectives on the Human Diet
West,Jolee
Diet and nutrition are favorite subjects of the news media and popular literature. Both new "dietary lifestyles" such as Atkins, Pritkin, South Beach, and well-established lifestyles such as vegetarianism and
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SCIE 641
Monday & Wednesday
01:30 PM - 04:30 PM
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Earth Resources
Zeilinga de Boer,Jelle
We will study the occurrences, origins, and usages of Earth's principal mineral and energy resources to understand the political and socio-economic consequences of resource discovery, resource depletion, and the environmental
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SCIE 680
Note: Special Schedule
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Molecular Biology Laboratory
McAlear,Michael A.
Molecular biology is a fast moving, experimentally driven discipline that continues to shed light on the underlying mechanisms that drive biological processes. Over the past few decades, technological advances in
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Social Sciences
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SOCS 612
Monday-Thursday
09:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Religions Resist Modernity
Gottschalk,Peter S.
Why did the Taliban forbid television? Why do Creationists reject evolution? Why did Gandhi insist that Indian nationalists spin their own thread? Throughout the last century, resistance has been rising
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SOCS 617
Monday-Friday
09:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Fully Enrolled
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War and Society
Rutland,Peter
Social existence involves both cooperation and conflict, and social conflict often spills over into physical violence. While most societies condemn physical violence between individuals, they condone and encourage collectively organized
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SOCS 618
Tuesday & Thursday
06:00 PM - 08:30 PM
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Everyday Forms of Resistance
Price,Melanye
Much of the attention in contemporary American politics is given to mainstream forms of political behavior like voting or to elite institutions such as the legislature. The goal of this
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SOCS 638
Monday & Wednesday
09:00 AM - 11:30 AM
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Europe from the French Revolution to the Great War, 1789-1914
Greene,Nathanael
This study of European history from the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789 to the eve of World War I, is divided into two segments. The first of these,
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SOCS 644
Monday-Thursday
01:30 PM - 04:30 PM
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Toward an Archeology of the U.S. Prison System
Eudell,Demetrius L.
Although the breach of social norms, to which we give the name crime, exists in all societies, the responses to committing crimes are always generated from each society's particular understanding
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Spring 2007
Arts
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ARTS 610
Monday
07:00 PM - 10:00 PM
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Acting the Realists: Text and Performance
Jaffe,David B.
Through text analysis, monologue work, and scene study, this course will examine the major works of modern and contemporary realistic playwrights. Scenes drawn from Ibsen, Chekhov, O'Neill, Williams, and Miller
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ARTS 617
Tuesday
06:30 PM - 09:00 PM
Fully Enrolled
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History of Rock and R&B
Charry,Eric S.
In this course we will study the history and culture of rock and r&b (rhythm & blues)—broadly defined as a conglomeration of loosely related American popular musical styles—from their origins
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ARTS 620
Thursday
06:00 PM - 09:00 PM
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Learning Architectural Language through Free Hand Drawing
Ackerman,Marilyn J.
Students will learn in the field the basics of both architecture and drawing by exploring various early Connecticut structures including architecture on the Wesleyan campus. Some of the most beautiful
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ARTS 631
Wednesday
06:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Fully Enrolled
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Strictly Abstract Drawing
Waite,Peter
We will explore various notions of non-representational—or abstract—imagery through the inventive use of both traditional and non-traditional drawing media. Through abstraction, one can experience a withdrawal from worldly objects, the
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ARTS 640
Monday
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
Wednesday
06:00 PM - 10:00 PM
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Japanese Cinema from the Silent Era to the Present Day
De Seife,Ethan R.
In terms of influence and creativity, Japanese cinema is generally regarded as second only to American, though it may in fact be the other way around. The Japanese film industry
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Humanities
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HUMS 619
Saturday
09:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Fully Enrolled
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Short Fiction Workshop
Callan,Jamie
This course is designed for students interested in creating strong fiction with well-structured narratives and dynamic characters. It stresses the fundamentals of a well-crafted story, including use of voice, viewpoint,
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HUMS 623
Monday
07:00 PM - 09:30 PM
Fully Enrolled
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Distinguished Writers/New Voices: Models for Writing Fiction and Nonfiction
Greene,Anne F.
Offered in conjunction with the spring 2008 Distinguished Writers series, this writing course will study--for technique and inspiration--the work of contemporary writers whom the program brings to speak on campus.
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HUMS 633
Monday
06:00 PM - 08:30 PM
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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 636
Thursday
06:00 PM - 08:30 PM
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The Invention of Mark Twain: Reading the Major Works
Baraw,Charles
This course will explore the ways in which Samuel Clemens invented and constructed "Mark Twain," his authorial persona, as both a literary master and a popular celebrity. We will examine
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HUMS 639
Monday-Friday
09:00 AM - 05:00 PM
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A Terrible Beauty:How Irish Writers Transformed Modern Literature & Changed the Way We See the World
Burt,Daniel S.
This immersion course will attempt to demonstrate how modern literature has been profoundly shaped by Irish writers. William Butler Yeats, according to T.S. Eliot and many others, is as the
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HUMS 650
Wednesday
06:30 PM - 09:00 PM
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Faulkner and the Thirties
McCann,Sean
Faulkner is often described as a great modernist novelist and sometimes as the prototypical southern writer. In this course, we'll take a slightly different approach, considering Faulkner's major works and
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HUMS 656
Monday-Friday
09:00 AM - 05:00 PM
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Don Quixote
Armstrong Roche,Michael
Cervantes is known chiefly for Don Quixote, often described as the first modern novel and fountainhead of one of the great modern myths of individualism. In fact, besides the chivalric
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Mathematics
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MTHS 635
Monday
06:00 PM - 08:30 PM
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Elements Of Probability
Fieldsteel,Adam
In this introduction to the basic ideas of probability theory, our objective is to learn how to convert informal descriptions about probabilities into mathematical statements. We then learn to use
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MTHS 637
Tuesday
06:00 PM - 08:30 PM
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Topics in Algebra
Reid,James D.
We will begin with a review of such properties of the integers (the whole numbers, positive, negative and zero) as the division algorithm, Euclid's theory of greatest common divisors, unique
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Sciences
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SCIE 634
Wednesday
06:30 PM - 09:00 PM
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The New Solar System
Herbst,William
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 644
Thursday
06:30 PM - 09:00 PM
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Oceanography: The Ocean System
O'Connell,Suzanne B.
We will explore the world ocean system by studying its geology, ecosystem, and circulation patterns; by investigating how plate tectonics shape the ocean basin and where the saline water that
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SCIE 680
Tuesday
06:00 PM - 08:30 PM
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The Molecular Biology of Emerging Infectious Diseases
McAlear,Michael A.
Whereas only a few decades ago it seemed that modern medicine was well on its way to dealing with many of the bacterial and vial diseases that afflicted mankind, recently
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Social Sciences
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SOCS 630
Thursday
06:30 PM - 09:00 PM
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Critical Issues in Sociology
Rosenthal,Rob
Sociologists speak of looking at the world with a "sociological imagination"; what does this mean, and how might it change the way we look at our world, from the mundane
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SOCS 632
Tuesday
06:00 PM - 08:30 PM
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The Conservative Revolution in American Politics and Policy
Eisner,Marc A.
The past decades have witnessed a conservative revolution in American politics. Republicans have gained control of the presidency for most of this period and, in the past decade, have controlled
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SOCS 633
Monday
06:00 PM - 08:30 PM
Fully Enrolled
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Peace versus Power: International Relations in the Modern Age
Gallarotti,Giulio
While globalization and international organizations have currently integrated the world into networks of peace, ethnic and regional wars have driven nations and groups further apart. This coexistence of conflict and
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SOCS 636
Wednesday
06:00 PM - 08:30 PM
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The Black Sixties: From Civil Rights to Black Power
Rushdy,Ashraf H.A.
In this course, we will explore the development of African American political activism and political theory from 1960 to 1972, with particular focus on student movements in these years. We
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SOCS 638
Monday-Friday
09:00 AM - 05:00 PM
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Religion in Film
Gottschalk,Peter S.
This course examines how films, like religious texts and practices, carry and shape political ideologies and forge and express cultural mythologies. It investigates how films, like religion itself, construct, perpetuate,
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SOCS 649
Tuesday
06:00 PM - 08:30 PM
Fully Enrolled
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American Material Culture and the Aesthetics of Everyday Life
Wajda,Shirley Teresa
Material culture is defined as "the study through artifacts of the beliefs—values, ideas, attitudes, and assumptions—of a particular community or society at a given time." In this course we will
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SOCS 658
Thursday
06:30 PM - 09:00 PM
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Nature and Spirituality
Ritchey,Sara Margaret
In the Middle Ages, the Book of Nature was understood to be a text authored by God as a supplement to the scriptures, and it's purpose was to make the
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Fall 2006
Arts
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ARTS 616
Monday
06:00 PM - 09:00 PM
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Film Comedy
De Seife,Ethan R.
This course will focus on the historical and aesthetic development of comedy across multiple national cinema traditions. We start by acquiring a grounding in comedy theory and then embark on
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ARTS 622
Tuesday
06:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Fully Enrolled
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Mixed Media and the Unique Artists' Book
Nowak,Rhea M.
Working with mixed media and predominantly, though not exclusively, on paper, we will create unique artist's books in which a series of visual and tactile expressions unfold. The book format
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ARTS 626
Wednesday
06:00 PM - 08:30 PM
Fully Enrolled
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Landscape Photography/Cultural Geography
Belanger,Marion
We will explore the definition of landscape photography as it relates to the realities of the 21st century where wildness is contained within boundaries or otherwise controlled, developed, or contaminated.
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ARTS 627
Tuesday
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Cancelled
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The Songs of Charles Ives and American Culture
Bruce,Neely; Harger,Gary
Charles Ives (1874-1954) is perhaps the finest composer of concert music yet produced in the United States. He received an excellent education in the fundamentals of music beginning in his
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ARTS 639
Wednesday
06:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Fully Enrolled
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Monster Drawings: Large Scale Rendering
Waite,Peter
In this course, we will make drawings on a large scale, typically in the four by six foot range, with these objectives: To consider what happens to one's field of
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ARTS 647
Monday
07:00 PM - 10:00 PM
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Acting: The Stanislavski Method
Jaffe,David B.
PLEASE NOTE: Instructor teaching this course is now different than originally posted in GLSP catalog Through exercises, games, monologues, and scene work, we will investigate the basic
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Humanities
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HUMS 621
Wednesday
06:00 PM - 08:30 PM
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Melville's Major Works: Fact, Fiction, and Metafiction
Baraw,Charles
From his first book, Typee, a travelogue based on his own captivity by Polynesian cannibals, to his major works, Moby-Dick and Benito Cereno, Herman Melville drew inspiration for his fictions
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HUMS 622
Monday
06:00 PM - 08:30 PM
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The Third Woman
Karamcheti,Indira
How are "Third World" women, both in the First World and in the Third, represented and understood by others? How do they represent and understand themselves? Analyzing images such as
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HUMS 623
Monday
07:00 PM - 09:30 PM
Fully Enrolled
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Braiding Past and Present, a Writing Course
Greene,Anne F.
This course explores ways of representing on the page our experiences of past and present, and particularly the ways that different time periods are braided together in our thinking. Readings
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HUMS 624
Tuesday
06:00 PM - 09:00 PM
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Literary Journalism
Hofstadter,Dan
The difference between hard journalism and literary journalism is largely a matter of texture. Straight reporters work against deadlines, offering information of public importance that must appear in concise form
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HUMS 633
Tuesday
06:00 PM - 08:30 PM
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Shakespeare: The Major Plays
Friedberg,Harris A.
Shakespeare wrote during a troubled age in which many inherited beliefs-in the divinity of the monarch, in the purpose of marriage, in the nature of heaven and hell, and in
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HUMS 638
Thursday
06:30 PM - 09:00 PM
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The Great American Novel
McCann,Sean
In this survey of classic works of American fiction, we will focus on texts celebrated not just for their literary achievement but also for their aspiration to define the nature
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HUMS 656
Wednesday
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Cancelled
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Chivalric Romances and Renaissance Readership: Amadis of Gaul and Orlando furioso
Fiumara,Francesco
We will read and discuss Amadis of Gaul and Orlando furioso in relation to the growing and changing influence of the chivalric tradition on both the Spanish and Italian literatures
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Mathematics
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MTHS 645
Wednesday
06:00 PM - 08:30 PM
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Groups and Their Actions
Fieldsteel,Adam
The concept of a group and its actions is fundamental in mathematics, and examples are found throughout the subject. Consider these examples: rearrange the vertices of a cube so that
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Sciences
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SCIE 614
Wednesday
07:00 PM - 10:00 PM
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Classic Studies in Animal Behavior
Powzyk,Joyce Ann
The MB&B Conference Room is located in Hall-Atwater, Room 230 Our focus is on the major contributors to the field of animal behavior. We will discuss the selection
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SCIE 637
Note: Special Schedule
09:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Fully Enrolled
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The Natural History of Autumn
Hammerson,Geoffrey
UPDATE: THIS COURSE IS NOW BEING OFFERED AS A ONE-WEEK IMMERSION COURSE, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13-TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17 This field course focuses on ecological interactions and life history
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SCIE 641
Tuesday
07:00 PM - 09:30 PM
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Volcanoes and Earthquakes in Human History
Zeilinga de Boer,Jelle
Volcanic eruptions and seismic disturbances often have far reaching and long lasting consequences. Major volcanic eruptions have changed weather patterns globally resulting in famine, epidemics, social unrest, and diaspora (e.g.
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SCIE 681
Tuesday
06:00 PM - 08:30 PM
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The Genetic Basis of Inherited Disorders
McAlear,Michael A.
Over the last two decades, advances in modern molecular genetics have provided insights into the underlying genetic basis for many of humankind's inherited disorders. The information associated with the sequencing
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Social Sciences
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SOCS 630
Wednesday
06:00 PM - 08:30 PM
Fully Enrolled
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The Evolution of Government: The Rise of the Modern Nation-State
Gallarotti,Giulio
This course analyzes the principal movements and processes that have led to the rise of the modern nation-state. The theoretical focus will be oriented around the main factors that account
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SOCS 636
Monday
06:00 PM - 08:30 PM
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The Study of Black Folks: African American Studies Then and Now
Rushdy,Ashraf H.A.
In this course, we will look at a series of texts that help us define the origins of and the most recent developments in African American Studies. In the first
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SOCS 637
Thursday
06:30 PM - 09:00 PM
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Music in Social Movements
Rosenthal,Rob
It has long been noted that social movements typically create movement cultures, but the actual use of music, as one cultural form, is only beginning to receive attention. Is it
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SOCS 641
Monday
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Biculturalism, Border-Crossing, and Non-Conformism in the Age of Conquest
Armstrong Roche,Michael
This course examines the diversity within Spanish (European, Christian) as well as Amerindian cultures at the time of the Conquest of America. Many Old and New World texts of the
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SOCS 653
Thursday
06:30 PM - 09:00 PM
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The Problem of Love in the Twelfth Century
Ritchey,Sara Margaret
In medieval European historiography, the twelfth century has been isolated as a historical problem because it appears to mark a number of "discoveries" of concepts we currently identify as modern.
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Summer 2006
Arts
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ARTS 615
Monday-Thursday
09:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Cinema of Passion and Laughter: Film from 1895 to 1928
Ross,Sara A.; Higgins,Scott
The period before 1928 was an incredibly rich time of cinematic development. This course explores the exciting array of film made before the conversion to synchronous sound. We will consider
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ARTS 617
Tuesday & Thursday
06:00 PM - 09:00 PM
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Music and Downtown New York, 1950-70
Charry,Eric S.
Since the early 20th century, downtown New York has been one of the most artistically vital and creative geographic areas in America, known for its avant-garde, counter, and alternative cultural
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ARTS 624
Monday-Thursday
09:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Black and White Photography: Art and Technique
Rudensky,Sasha; Seeley,J.
This three-week intensive course teaches photography from the inside out, beginning with professional black and white darkroom techniques, in order to develop the vision and artistry to build a portfolio
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ARTS 625
Note: Special Schedule
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Fully Enrolled
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Monotype Printmaking
Shinohara,Keiji
M-W, 6-9 PM and Saturday, 10 AM-1 PM The monotype print is a free form of printmaking more akin to painting than to the traditional woodcut or etched
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ARTS 631
Monday & Wednesday
06:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Fully Enrolled
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Strictly Abstract Drawing
Waite,Peter
We will explore various notions of non-representational—or abstract—imagery through the inventive use of both traditional and non-traditional drawing media. Through abstraction, one can experience a withdrawal from worldly objects, the
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ARTS 636
Tuesday & Thursday
01:30 PM - 04:30 PM
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Art and Culture in America's Gilded Age
Noble,Nancy J.
We will explore American painting, sculpture, and material culture within the complex historical and cultural context of the Gilded Age. Late 19th century America was a period of unfettered capitalism,
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ARTS 643
Monday-Friday
09:00 AM - 05:00 PM
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The Cinema of Pedro Almodóvar
Ballesteros,Isolina
Pedro Almodovar is the enfant terrible of Spanish cinema and one of the most original and daring European film-makers working today. Almodovar's cinema mixes the traditional and the transgressive, depicting
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Humanities
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HUMS 620
Monday-Thursday
09:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Non-fiction Narratives: Research, Field Work, and Writing
Jarnot,Lisa
A course for teachers and writers, this course focuses on variations of research projects from the genre of true crime novels to case studies to memoirs to documentary projects to
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HUMS 626
Monday & Wednesday
05:30 PM - 08:00 PM
Fully Enrolled
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Voice in Fiction and Nonfiction: A Writing Course
Greene,Anne F.
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 a
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HUMS 630
Tuesday & Thursday
09:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Fully Enrolled
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The Tragic Moment: Democracy and Myth in Fifth-Century Athens
Szegedy-Maszak,Andrew
The great French scholar Jean-Pierre Vernant has written about what he terms "the tragic moment." By this he means the convergence in fifth-century Athens of full democracy and traditional myth,
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HUMS 638
Monday-Friday
09:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Fully Enrolled
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Modern Drama
Burt,Daniel S.
It can be argued that the exact moment that modern drama was born was on December 4, 1879 when Nora Helmer in Ibsen's A Doll's House was first heard slamming
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HUMS 647
Monday-Thursday
01:30 PM - 04:30 PM
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"Crane Music:" Chinese Culture, Poetry, and Cross-Cultural Understanding
Schwarcz,Vera
This seminar is for poets and writers, as well as non-poets who seek a creative path to understanding other cultures. The focus will be on the buried treasures of classical
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HUMS 651
Monday-Thursday
06:30 PM - 09:30 PM
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Irish Plays and Politics
Smith,Gay
The tumultuous relations between the Irish and the British, through colonialism to the establishment of an independent Irish Republic, are reflected in Irish plays and politics of the last three
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Mathematics
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MTHS 638
Monday & Wednesday
01:30 PM - 04:00 PM
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Euclidean and Non-Euclidean Geometries
Fieldsteel,Adam
In the 19th century, it was discovered that the classical geometry of Euclid does not preclude other geometries of very different character. In the 20th century, it was realized that
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MTHS 664
Monday & Wednesday
09:30 AM - 12:00 PM
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Introduction to Topology
Mulvey,Irene
This is a course in the calculus for functions of several variables; but the material will be taught by combining linear algebra with multivariable calculus to emphasize the interconnectedness of
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Sciences
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SCIE 634
Tuesday & Thursday
09:30 AM - 12:00 PM
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Biology of Nutrition
Wolfe,Jason S.
This course studies how food substances affect the biological function, health, and well-being of human organisms. We will consider "average" nutrition, malnutrition, excessive or mal-adaptive nutrition, and supplemental nutrition for
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SCIE 640
Note: Special Schedule
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Coastal Environments of Vieques, Puerto Rico
O'Connell,Suzanne B.
In this class, we will learn about the tectonic history and examine the ecology of the coastal habitats of the island of Vieques, Puerto Rico. We will also learn about
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SCIE 655
Monday-Thursday
06:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Fully Enrolled
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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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SCIE 670
Tuesday & Thursday
06:30 PM - 09:00 PM
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Forensic Anthropology: Human Remains and the Law
West,Jolee
Forensic anthropology is the medicolegal application of biological anthropological methods, generally pertaining to the identification of human remains. When badly decomposed, burned, and skeletonized remains are discovered, a forensic anthropologist
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Social Sciences
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SOCS 612
Monday-Thursday
06:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Fully Enrolled
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Islam and the West
Gottschalk,Peter S.
Is there a "clash of civilizations" between Islam and the West? What distinguishes the two and why the conflict? This course, which assumes no familiarity with Islam, explores these questions
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SOCS 628
Monday-Thursday
01:30 PM - 04:30 PM
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Women Writing Culture
Ulysse,Gina Athena
This course considers the persistent impact of the interpretive turn in anthropology, which began with Clifford Geertz's claim, in The Interpretation of Culture, that culture is but a "web of
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SOCS 634
Monday & Wednesday
09:00 AM - 11:30 AM
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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 635
Tuesday & Thursday
09:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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New England and Empire: The Roots of U.S. Imperialism
Karamcheti,Indira
In our study of New England, we will study works of history and literature to focus on the role this region played in the transformation of the United States from
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SOCS 637
Monday-Friday
09:00 AM - 05:00 PM
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Race and Modernity
Eudell,Demetrius L.
This one-week immersion course examines the idea of "Race" as a belief system specific to the epistemological field of Western culture. It begins with the emergence of the concept in
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SOCS 639
Tuesday & Thursday
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Cancelled
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American Indian Sovereignty Issues
Kauanui,J. Kehaulani
This course will survey selected historical moments, geographical and institutional sites, cases, and periods in order to explore the complexities of American Indian sovereignty politics. We will examine legal issues
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SOCS 644
Tuesday & Thursday
06:00 PM - 08:30 PM
Fully Enrolled
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Law and Society
Finn,John E.
This course explores the judicial process in the United States. It focuses upon the nature of legal reasoning--or what I shall typically call "legal logic"--and the structure of the legal
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Spring 2006
Arts
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ARTS 613
Tuesday
06:00 PM - 08:30 PM
Fully Enrolled
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Studies in Photographic Portraiture/Self-Portraiture
Belanger,Marion
Photography is a medium perfectly suited to the portrayal of one another and of one's self. We will investigate the many approaches to the photographic portrait/self-portrait ranging from the traditional
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ARTS 615
Thursday
07:00 PM - 09:30 PM
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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 and how has that changed
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ARTS 623
Wednesday
06:00 PM - 08:30 PM
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Earthworks, Environmental Sculpture, and Eco-Art, 1965-Present
Pestel,Michael
This course studies environmental art since 1965, from the early large-scale land art projects in the American West to the current proliferation of ecologically motivated art works throughout the world.
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ARTS 640
Wednesday
06:30 PM - 09:30 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 648
Monday
07:00 PM - 10:00 PM
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Inside-out to Outside-in: Approaches to Acting
Cantor,Daniel A.
Through the performance of exercises, scenes, and monologues, and through various readings, this course will examine a variety of approaches to acting, and will consider what each says about our
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ARTS 669
Wednesday
06:00 PM - 09:00 PM
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Writing on Dance
Buckwalter,Melinda
Martha Graham said, "The body never lies." In this class, we will focus on writing as a tool to examine how we see dance. What catches our attention as a
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Humanities
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HUMS 614
Thursday
06:15 PM - 08:45 PM
Fully Enrolled
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Personalizing History
Karamcheti,Indira
How much are we shaped by our historical times and places? How much power do we have to make our historical conditions respond to our needs and desires? These are
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HUMS 623
Monday
07:00 PM - 09:30 PM
Fully Enrolled
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Distinguished Writers/New Voices: Models for Writing Fiction and Nonfiction
Greene,Anne F.
Offered in conjunction with the spring 2008 Distinguished Writers series, this writing course will study--for technique and inspiration--the work of contemporary writers whom the program brings to speak on campus.
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HUMS 634
Tuesday
06:00 PM - 08:30 PM
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The Literature of Tudor England: Drama and Poetry
Friedberg,Harris A.
This course attempts to put Shakespeare back into his own, Elizabethan age, by studying his plays and poems alongside those of his contemporaries. Shakespeare's literary career spans an increasingly troubled
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HUMS 639
Monday
06:30 PM - 09:00 PM
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Rome through the Ages
Nussdorfer,Laurie
Using literature and monuments we survey the history of Rome, Europe's oldest capital city and most significant urban symbol, from antiquity to the age of the Baroque (17th century). We
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HUMS 644
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