Understanding
Social Media |
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Professor: Fahmid Haq |
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Course
Number: ARTS 208 |
CRN
Number: 10681 |
Class cap: 22 |
Credits:
4 |
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Schedule/Location:
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Tue Thurs 10:10 AM
- 11:30 AM New Annandale House |
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Distributional Area: |
AA Analysis of
Art |
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Crosslists: Experimental Humanities |
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Doing social media projects practically
and analyzing their role critically are two main objectives of the course.
This course will raise some critical question that evolve around social media
which will include – surveillance and privacy, labor, big data,
misinformation, cyborg and cyberfeminism. Topics will include the
socio-historical perspectives regarding technology and society, the nature
and characteristics of different social media such as Facebook, YouTube,
Instagram, snapchat and more, big data capitalism and imperialism, civic
engagement through digital platforms, mainstream media’s compelling realities
to be more ‘social’, misinformation, racism and right-wing authoritarianism
in social media, the role of social media influencers, branding and social
media marketing and an exploration for a true social media. The course will
draw from a broad range of social theory including communication and cultural
theories, political economy and media anthropology to critically evaluate the
impact of social media on human relationships, activism, branding, politics,
news production and dissemination and identity formation. Theoretical notions
such as hyperreality by Jean Baudrillard, network society by Manuel Castells
and digital labor by Christian Fuchs will be discussed in the class. As
‘prosumers’, students will create social media projects and analyze some
trendy cases evident in different platforms. |
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Technology,
Humanity & the Future |
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Professor: Krista Caballero |
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Course
Number: ARTS 240 |
CRN
Number: 10540 |
Class cap: 22 |
Credits:
4 |
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Schedule/Location:
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Tue Thurs 10:10 AM
- 11:30 AM OSUN Course |
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Distributional Area: |
AA Analysis of
Art |
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Crosslists: Experimental Humanities; Human Rights |
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In both theory and practice, this course
is designed to explore the intersections of technology, justice, and creative
practice. One of our central lines of inquiry will be: How might technology
be utilized in ethical and just ways to (re)imagine our human cultural
practices and resulting ecological impact? In approaching this question, we
will consider ways that artists and community activists are pushing
boundaries to both critically and creatively address the future of technology
and issues relating to identity and privacy, data sovereignty and governance,
e-waste and rare earth mining, deepfakes and AI. Key theoretical texts from
scholars such as Felix Guattari, Safiya Umoja Noble, Hito Steyerl, Gregory
Cajete, Shannon Mattern, Lev Manovich, and Lisa Nakamura will ground our
exploration alongside a series of guest lectures by a diverse group of
artists, scholars and activists across the OSUN network. Through readings and
discussions, this course will explore technology across historical periods
and how past forms help shape our current moment. Students will also work
intensively to develop creative projects that blur boundaries between
physical and digital media, integrate field-based research, and experiment
with interdisciplinary practices of making. This is an OSUN Online Class,
taught online and open to Bard students and students from OSUN partner
institutions. |
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Beyond Bollywood:
Mapping South Asian Cinema |
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Professor: Fahmid Haq |
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Course
Number: ARTS 314 |
CRN
Number: 10682 |
Class cap: 15 |
Credits:
4 |
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Schedule/Location:
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Tue Thurs 1:30 PM
- 2:50 PM Olin 302 |
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Distributional Area: |
AA Analysis of
Art |
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Crosslists: Experimental Humanities; Film and Electronic Arts |
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South Asian Cinema is nearly synonymous
with Indian Cinema to the international audience, though other South Asian
countries such as Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal have developed
strong film cultures too. The objective of the course is mapping the cine
profile of the South Asian countries and examining Bollywood’s hegemonic
presence in the region. This seminar course will study some cases across a
range of South Asian Cinema cultures by exploring their common as well as
different cultural backgrounds, historiography, and sociopolitical realities.
Topics will include both historical and contemporary cinematic practices in
South Asian countries such as the Partition of India in South Asian Cinema,
cinematic representation of the Liberation War of Bangladesh, Bollywood’s
cultural influence in other South Asian countries, portrayal of Kashmir in
Indian cinema, diasporic Indian cinema and ‘other Bollywood’ cinema. Films by
directors such as Raj Kapoor, Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak and Anurag Kashyap
from India, Zahir Raihan, Alamgir Kabir and Tareque Masud from Bangladesh,
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy and Shoaib Mansoor from Pakistan, and Lester James
Peries from Sri Lanka will be studied closely. |
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The Belly is a
Garden |
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Professor: Vivien Sansour |
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Course
Number: ARTS 310 |
CRN
Number: 10683 |
Class cap: 10 |
Credits:
4 |
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Schedule/Location:
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Tue 8:30 AM
- 11:30 AM Avery Film Center 338 |
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Distributional Area: |
PA Practicing
Arts |
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Crosslists: Experimental Humanities; Human Rights |
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Inspired by the Palestinian saying El
Batin Bustan (The Belly is a Garden) this course explores bio-cultural
diversity and the question of being of the earth and part of its diverse
terrains. Fundamental questions we will explore are: How can biodiversity and
human diversity be paths to wellbeing? How can humans understand themselves
as nature’s co-creators? This course is designed as an experiential journey
using multiple forms, including original texts, discussion, guided fieldwork
directed by faculty, nature walks, in class writing exercises, and group
workshops. Students will work in consultation with the professor on
individual self-directed projects throughout the semester. These projects
will be presented at the end of semester to the combined class of AQB and
Annandale. The projects will all require some form of field research such as
conducting interviews, gathering site related natural material for possible
installations, photography, oral histories, film, among others including
performance art. Students will engage in hands-on, outdoor activities such as
cooking, planting, and possibly seed or crop harvesting with discussions of
key texts grounding our interdisciplinary investigation. In an attempt to
deconstruct colonial forms of being we will be exploring ourselves as living
beings navigating a global landscape that is both in crisis and in constant
transformation. How do we relate to the soil beneath our feet? How are we
informed by other living beings in our surroundings? Between the question of
settler and Indigenous how can we better understand ourselves, and our place
in the world, while engaging in collaborative designs of new possible
futures? As an OSUN Network Course, students will have the opportunity to
participate in shared online events and conversations with students at
Al-Quds Bard College, Palestine but the majority of the semester will be
in-person on Bard’s Annandale Campus. |
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Cross-listed
Courses:
Architecture as Media:
Spatial Subjects |
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Course Number: ARCH 111 MC |
CRN
Number: 10544 |
Class cap: 12 |
Credits: 4 |
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Professor:
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Michael Cohen |
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Schedule/Location: |
Thurs
10:10 AM - 1:10 PM Achebe
Flex Space |
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Distributional Area: |
PA Practicing
Arts |
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Crosslists: |
Environmental & Urban Studies; Environmental Studies;
Experimental Humanities |
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Architecture as
Translation: At Scale |
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Course Number: ARCH 211 |
CRN
Number: 10546 |
Class cap: 12 |
Credits: 4 |
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Professor:
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Betsy Clifton |
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Schedule/Location: |
Mon 1:30 PM - 4:30
PM Garcia-Renart House |
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Wed
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM Garcia-Renart
House |
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Distributional Area: |
PA Practicing
Arts |
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Crosslists: |
Environmental & Urban Studies; Environmental Studies;
Experimental Humanities; Human Rights |
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Planetary
Studio: Radical Ruralism |
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Course Number: ARCH 221 |
CRN
Number: 10555 |
Class cap: 12 |
Credits: 4 |
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Professor:
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Stephanie Lee |
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Schedule/Location: |
Tue
1:30 PM - 4:30 PM Achebe
Flex Space |
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Thurs
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM Achebe
Flex Space |
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Distributional Area: |
PA Practicing
Arts |
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Crosslists: |
Environmental & Urban Studies; Environmental Studies;
Experimental Humanities |
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Architecture as
Research: More-than-Human Architecture |
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Course Number: ARCH 311 |
CRN
Number: 10559 |
Class cap: 12 |
Credits: 4 |
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Professor:
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Ivan Lopez Munuera |
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Schedule/Location: |
Wed
3:30 PM - 5:50 PM Achebe
Flex Space |
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Distributional Area: |
PA Practicing
Arts |
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Crosslists: |
Environmental Studies; Experimental Humanities |
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Future Tense - The
Architectural Exhibition |
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Course Number: ARCH 322 |
CRN
Number: 10573 |
Class cap: 12 |
Credits: 4 |
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Professor:
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Betsy Clifton |
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Schedule/Location: |
Tue
1:30 PM - 4:30 PM Garcia-Renart
House |
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Thurs
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM Garcia-Renart
House |
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Distributional Area: |
PA Practicing
Arts |
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Crosslists: |
Experimental Humanities |
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Open Practices
Workshop: Ghosts of Future Pasts: Architectural Futures of the Hudson Valley |
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Professor: Paula
Vilaplana de Miguel |
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Course
Number: ARCH 330 |
CRN
Number: 10574 |
Class cap: 12 |
Credits:
2 |
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Schedule/Location:
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Fri 10:10 AM
– 1:10 PM Garcia-Renart House and
Fri
2:00 PM – 5:00 PM Garcia-Renart
House |
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Distributional Area: |
PA Practicing
Arts |
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Crosslists: Experimental Humanities; Studio Art |
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Dura-Europos and
the Problems of Archaeological Archives |
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Course Number: ARTH 318 |
CRN
Number: 10098 |
Class cap: 15 |
Credits: 4 |
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Professor:
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Anne Chen |
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Schedule/Location: |
Wed
9:10 AM - 11:30 AM Fisher
Studio Arts ANNEX |
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Distributional Area: |
AA Analysis of
Art |
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Crosslists: |
Classical Studies; Experimental Humanities; Human Rights;
Middle Eastern Studies |
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Food Microbiology |
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Course Number: BIO 102 |
CRN
Number: 10003 |
Class cap: 18 |
Credits: 4 |
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Professor:
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Gabriel Perron |
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Schedule/Location: |
Fri 1:00 PM - 5:00
PM Reem Kayden Center 111/112 |
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Distributional Area: |
LS Laboratory
Science |
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Crosslists: |
Experimental Humanities |
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Object-Oriented
Programming |
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Course Number: CMSC 141 B |
CRN
Number: 10034 |
Class cap: 18 |
Credits: 4 |
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Professor:
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Bob McGrail |
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Schedule/Location: |
Tue Thurs
10:10 AM - 11:30 AM Reem
Kayden Center 107 |
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Fri 12:00 PM - 2:00
PM Reem Kayden Center 107 |
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Distributional Area: |
MC Mathematics and
Computing |
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Crosslists: |
Experimental Humanities; Mind, Brain, Behavior |
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Object-Oriented
Programming |
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Course Number: CMSC 141 A |
CRN
Number: 10035 |
Class cap: 18 |
Credits: 4 |
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Professor:
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Rose Sloan |
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Schedule/Location: |
Mon Wed
10:10 AM - 11:30 AM Reem
Kayden Center 107 |
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Fri 10:00 AM - 12:00
PM Reem Kayden Center 107 |
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Distributional Area: |
MC Mathematics and
Computing |
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Crosslists: |
Experimental Humanities; Mind, Brain, Behavior |
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Digital Animation |
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Course Number: FILM 203 |
CRN
Number: 10453 |
Class cap: 12 |
Credits: 4 |
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Professor:
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Jacqueline Goss |
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Schedule/Location: |
Mon 1:30 PM - 4:30
PM Avery Film Center 333 |
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Distributional Area: |
PA Practicing
Arts |
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Crosslists: |
Experimental Humanities |
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Re-Thinking Silicon
Valley |
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Professor: Jeannette Estruth |
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Course
Number: HIST 382 |
CRN
Number: 10316 |
Class cap: 16 |
Credits:
4 |
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Schedule/Location:
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Thurs 12:30 PM
- 2:50 PM Reem Kayden Center 200 |
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Distributional Area: |
HA Historical
Analysis D+J Difference and Justice |
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Crosslists: American & Indigenous Studies; Architecture;
Environmental & Urban Studies; Experimental Humanities; Human Rights |
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Documentary Arts:
Practices of Fact and Fiction, History and Politics |
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Course Number: HR 318 |
CRN
Number: 10301 |
Class cap: 7 |
Credits: 4 |
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Professor:
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Argyro Nicolaou |
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Schedule/Location: |
Mon 12:30 PM - 2:50
PM Olin 301 |
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Distributional Area: |
LA Literary Analysis in
English D+J Difference and Justice |
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Crosslists: |
Experimental Humanities |
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The Land of
Disasters: A Cultural History of Catastrophic 'Japan' |
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Course Number: LIT 267 |
CRN
Number: 10362 |
Class cap: 22 |
Credits: 4 |
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Professor:
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Chiara Pavone |
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Schedule/Location: |
Mon Wed
11:50 AM - 1:10 PM Olin
Languages Center 115 |
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Distributional Area: |
FL Foreign Languages
and Lit |
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Crosslists: |
Asian Studies; Experimental Humanities |
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Light Writing:
Literature and Photography in the French Tradition |
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Professor: Gabriella
Lindsay |
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Course Number: LIT
285 |
CRN Number: 10379 |
Class cap: 22 |
Credits: 4 |
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Schedule/Location: |
Tue
Thurs 5:10 PM - 6:30 PM Olin
201 |
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Distributional Area: |
FL Foreign Languages and Lit D+J
Difference and Justice |
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Crosslists:
Experimental Humanities; French Studies |
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Reading Emily
Dickinson |
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Course Number: LIT 379 |
CRN
Number: 10294 |
Class cap: 14 |
Credits: 4 |
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Professor:
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Philip Pardi |
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Schedule/Location: |
Fri 10:30 AM - 4:30
PM Olin Languages Center 115 |
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Distributional Area: |
LA Literary Analysis in
English |
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Crosslists: |
American & Indigenous Studies; Experimentlal
Humanities; Written Arts |
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Topics in Music
Software: Introduction to Max/Msp |
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Course Number: MUS 262 |
CRN
Number: 10562 |
Class cap: 15 |
Credits: 4 |
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Professor:
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Matthew Sargent |
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Schedule/Location: |
Tue Thurs
1:30 PM - 2:50 PM Blum
Music Center N119 |
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Distributional Area: |
PA Practicing
Arts |
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Crosslists: |
Computer Science; Experimental Humanities |
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Writing Poetries of
Resistance: Resisting the Information Overload |
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Course Number: WRIT 255 |
CRN
Number: 10404 |
Class cap: 12 |
Credits: 4 |
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Professor:
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Dawn Lundy Martin |
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Schedule/Location: |
Mon Wed
3:30 PM - 4:50 PM Olin
107 |
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Distributional Area: |
PA Practicing
Arts |
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Crosslists: |
Experimental Humanities |
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Imagining Nonhuman
Consciousness |
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Course Number: WRIT 345 |
CRN
Number: 10410 |
Class cap: 15 |
Credits: 4 |
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Professor:
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Benjamin Hale |
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Schedule/Location: |
Thurs
3:10 PM - 5:30 PM Olin
303 |
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Distributional Area: |
PA Practicing
Arts |
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Crosslists: |
Environmental & Urban Studies; Environmental Studies; Experimental
Humanities; Human Rights |
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