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: Feminist Praxis
(POP2325.03)
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: Gravitational Waves: Observing Spacetime for the First Time
(POP2256.02)
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: The Semiotics of Trump
(POP2260.03)
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: Understanding PFOA in Our Water
(POP2257.02)
24 Stories of Filial Piety vs. The Daoist Tales of Zhuang Zi
(CHI4213.01)
A Dot and a Line: Literary Representations of the US-Mexico Border
(SPA4221.01)
Adaptation
(DRA2249.01)
Advanced Ceramic Projects
(CER4385.01)
Advanced Chamber Music
(MPF4230.01)
Advanced Computer Graphics
(CS4103.01)
Advanced Intermediate Improvisation: Dynamic Movement
(DAN4241.01)
Advanced Mediation
(APA4206.01)
Advanced Music Production
(MSR4106.01)
Advanced Observing Projects
(PHY4326.01)
Advanced Projects in Film and Video
(FV4304.01)
Advanced Voice
(MVO4401.02; section 2)
Advanced Voice
(MVO4401.01; section 1)
Advanced Workshop for Painting and Drawing
(VA4404.01)
Advanced Workshop in CAPA
(APA4109.01)
Advanced Workshop in Photographic Practice
(PHO4250.02)
African Conflict Resolution
(POL4254.01)
Alexander Technique
(DRA2265.01)
An Introduction to Dance Phrasing
(DAN2321.01)
Anatomy of a Philosophical Essay
(PHI2145.01)
Ancient Greek Philosophy
(PHI2146.01)
And Process for All
(MED2110.01)
Animation Projects
(MA4201.01)
Anthropology of Art
(ANT4212.01)
Applied Physics/Engineering Physics: Deformation of Solids
(PHY4215.01)
Architectural Analysis
(ARC4157.01)
Art, Visual Culture, and Empire in the Nineteenth Century
(AH4104.01)
Auden and Isherwood
(LIT2498.01)
Banjo
(MIN2215.01)
Bass Intensive
(MIN4026.01)
Bass with Bisio
(MIN4417.01)
Basso Continuo and You
(MTH2110.01)
Beginning Cello II
(MIN4354.01)
Beginning Guitar
(MIN2247.01)
Beginning Potter’s Wheel
(CER2107.01)
Beginning Violin and Viola
(MIN2241.01)
Big: Exploring Large Scale Photography
(PHO4236.01)
Biochemistry
(CHE4335.01)
Bringing Creativity to B Corporations
(MOD2253.03)
Building Materials/Woodshop
(SCU2109.01)
Calculus: Analysis of the Infinite
(MAT4145.01)
Capital Punishment
(PSY4223.01)
Cello
(MIN4355.01)
Chemistry 2 Lab
(CHE4212L.01)
Chemistry 2: Organic Structure & Bonding
(CHE4212.01)
Chemistry Independent Research Projects
(CHE4275.01)
Cities Art Forum
(APA4151.01)
Citizenship and the Nation-State
(Canceled)
Clarinet
(MIN4223.01)
Classic Film Comedies
(LIT2499.01)
Comparative Animal Physiology
(BIO4201.01)
Comparative Animal Physiology Lab
(BIO4201L.01)
Comparing Political Institutions
(POL2101.01)
Conflict Confident
(MED2109.01)
Conflict Resolution: Theory & Practice
(MED2116.01)
Conrad and Nabokov
(LIT2196.01)
Constructing Language and Cultural Learning as a Social Activity
(EDU2253.01)
Contemporary African Dance I
(DAN2124.02)
Contemporary Chinese Culture in Music
(CHI4322.01)
Contemporary Chinese Poetry
(CHI4121.01)
Creative Collaboration in Writing and Performance
(DRA4261.01)
Creative Music Ensemble
(MPF4697.01)
Crossing Cultures: American Poetry Now
(LIT2352.01)
Cultural Legacies of Argentina’s “Dirty War”
(LIT4263.01)
Developmental Psychology After the Grand Theories
(PSY2207.01)
Devising Performance and Collaborative Creation
(DRA2263.01)
Dewey, Dorner, and Greenberg: Art Theory at Bennington College
(AH4105.02)
Digital Modeling and Animation
(MA2103.01)
Digital Morphology/Rhino 3D Modeling
(VA2208.01)
Digital-Ply Woodworking within Digital Fabrication Methods
(SCU4108.02)
Directing I: The Director’s Vision
(DRA4332.01)
Do Coral Reefs Matter?
(BIO2120.01)
Dramatic Underscore & Sound Design
(MSR4102.01)
Drawing Is a Verb
(DRW2119.01)
Drumming: An Extension of Language
(MIN2120.01)
Drums, Gongs and Bamboo
(MPF2252.01)
Editing for Moving Image
(FV2305.01)
Embodying Text: Shakespeare and Beyond
(DRA2264.01)
Emotion and the Brain
(PSY2117.01)
Endangered Psychotherapies
(PSY2170.01)
English as a Second Language
(LIT2101.01)
Entangled Worlds
(APA4152.01)
Evolution
(BIO4104.01)
Explorations in Public History
(HIS4106.01)
Faculty Performance Production: Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
(DRA4308.01)
Fashion and Modernism
(DRW4109.01)
Fiddle
(MIN4327.01)
Field Course in Coral Reef Science
(BIO4108.01)
Form and Process: Investigations in Painting
(PAI2107.01)
Form to Function/Spatial Skin
(SCU2110.01)
Foundations in Ceramics: The Hand as a Tool
(CER2105.01)
Foundations of Photography: Darkroom to Digital
(PHO2138.01)
FUNK . . . as Rhythmic Counterpoint
(MPF4111.01)
Gadhon Tutorial
(MPF4698.01)
Gifts and Gift Exchange
(PSY4131.01)
Glaze and Kiln Technology
(CER2137.01)
Global Capitalism
(ANT4135.01)
Global Ethics/Global Justice
(PHI2110.01)
Graduate Assistantship in Dance
(DAN5301.01)
Graduate Research in Dance
(DAN5305.01)
Historic Preservation in the United States: An Intersectional Approach
(EDU2216.01)
How to Read a Translation
(LIT2187.01)
Human Neuroscience and Psychophysiology Lab
(PSY4133.01)
Impressionism
(MTH4116.01)
In Search of Elena Ferrante
(LIT2351.01)
Indie Record Making
(MSR2117.01)
Insider Perspectives on the Francophone World II
(FRE4224.01)
Interdisciplinary Projects in EMusic and Sound
(MPF4701.01)
Intermediate Guitar
(MIN4025.01)
Intermediate Painting: Facture
(PAI4106.01)
Intermediate Throwing
(CER4104.01)
Intermediate Violin/Viola
(MIN4232.01)
Intermediate Voice
(MVO4301.02; section 2)
Intermediate Voice
(MVO4301.03; section 3)
Intermediate Voice
(MVO4301.01; section 1)
Intermediate Voice
(MVO4301.04; section 4)
International Human Rights Law
(APA2221.02)
Introduction to Cell Biology
(BIO2111.01)
Introduction to Cell Biology Lab
(BIO2111L.01)
Introduction to Game Programming
(CS2123.01)
Introduction to Game Theory
(MAT2242.01)
Introduction to Intaglio: The Alchemist’s Print
(PRI2111.01)
Introduction to Jazz Theory and Improvisation
(MTH2272.01)
Introduction to Macroeconomics
(PEC2206.01)
Introduction to the Biology of Cancer
(BIO2104.01)
Introduction to Video
(FV2303.01)
Introduction to Video Art
(FV2306.01)
Investigating Culture
(ANT2207.01; section 1)
Investigating Culture
(ANT2207.02; section 2)
Italy Through Regional Contexts
(ITA4102.01)
Javascript and the User Interface
(DA2109.02)
Jazz Vocal Workshop
(MPF4273.01)
L’Afrance: Identité(s) francophone(s) en question(s)
(FRE4225.01)
Language Through Film
(SPA4118.01)
Language, Politics and Identity
(EDU2252.01)
Leadership impact accelerator
(MOD4205.02)
Learning By Doing: Progressive Education in a Public High School Classroom
(APA2127.01)
Life and Death: Buddhism in Modern Japanese films
(JPN4118.01)
Life Drawing Lab
(DRW2118.01)
Literature of Barcelona and Madrid
(SPA4218.01)
Literature of the Spanish Civil War
(LIT2396.01)
Literature of Travel and Discovery
(FRE4222.01)
Love and Other Italian Disasters
(ITA4607.01)
Madame Bovary
(LIT4270.02)
Making and Breaking International Law
(HIS2130.01)
Mandolin
(MIN2229.01)
Markmaking and Representation
(DRW2149.01)
Marx, Keynes, and Hayek
(PEC4127.01)
Masks
(DRA4135.01)
Matter, Energy, and the Environment
(ENV2326.01)
Media Convergence and Culture
(APA4102.01)
Mobility and Circulation
(ANT2206.01)
Modern Guitar
(MIN4224.01)
Movement Patterning & Self Perception: The Feldenkrais Method®
(DAN2145.02)
Movement Practice: Advanced Dance Technique
(DAN4344.01)
Movement Practice: Beginning Dance Technique
(DAN2121.01; section 1)
Movement Practice: Beginning Dance Technique
(DAN2121.02; section 2)
Movement Practice: Intermediate Dance Technique
(DAN4236.01)
Music Composition Project
(MUS4355.01)
Music Since 1968
(MHI2228.01)
Music Toolkit: Rhythm
(MFN2107.02)
Music Toolkit: Theory for Singers and Performing Musicians
(MFN2214.01)
Music Toolkit: Theory for Singers and Performing Musicians
(MFN2214.02)
Natural History of Plants
(BIO2107.01)
Nietzsche and His Followers
(PHI4137.01)
Number Theory
(MAT4110.01)
Orders of Magnitude
(MOD2102.02)
Outsiders Within: Pariahs, Parasites, and Other Others
(POL4208.01)
Pakistani Fiction
(LIT4269.01)
Patternmaking and Garment Construction
(DRA4119.01)
Performance Project: Adaptable Score
(DAN4679.01; section 1)
Performance Project: Adaptable Score
(DAN4679.02; section 2)
Performance Project: Living Sculpture
(DAN4237.01)
Performance Project: Sing-Gré
(DAN4243.02)
Physics II: Fields
(PHY4325.01)
Physics II: Fields Laboratory
(PHY4325L.01)
Piano
(MIN4333.01; section 1)
Piano
(MIN4333.02; section 2)
Piano
(MIN4333.03; section 3)
Piano
(MIN4333.04; section 4)
Piano Lab I
(MIN2232.01; section 1)
Piano Lab I
(MIN2232.02; section 2)
Piano Lab II
(MIN4236.01; section 1)
Piano Lab II
(MIN4236.02; section 2)
Politics of Judgment: Who Am I to Judge?
(POL2106.01)
Portraits: Intermediate Video
(FV4241.01)
Pre-Photography 4000 B.C.E – 1839 C.E.
(PHO2152.02)
Programming for iOS
(CS4102.01)
Projects in Lithography
(PRI4203.01)
Projects in Sculpture: Making it Personal
(SCU4797.01)
Projects: Dance
(DAN4794.01)
Race, Class, and Apartheid
(POL4207.01)
Reading and Writing Poetry
(LIT4313.01)
Reading and Writing the Natural World
(LIT4133.01)
Reading and Writing Travel
(LIT4265.01)
Reinventing Radio
(MSR2118.01)
Religion in Global Politics
(POL4206.01)
Renaissance and Reformation
(HIS2110.01)
Robot Dreams: Artificial and Human Identities in Literature and Popular Culture
(LIT2402.01)
Saxophone
(MIN4237.01)
Scene Study/Modern Classics: Ibsen and Strindberg (CANCELED)
(DRA4307.01)
Science, Drama, and The Power of the Inquisitive Mind
(DRA2259.01)
Seminar: Advanced Topics in Chemistry
(CHE4276.01)
Senior Projects
(MPF4104.01)
Senior Projects
(ARC4109.01)
Senior Projects in Dance
(DAN4796.01)
Senior Seminar in Society, Culture, and Thought II
(SCT4751.02; section 2)
Senior Seminar in Society, Culture, and Thought II
(SCT4751.01; section 1)
Shakespeare: The Tragedies
(LIT2217.01)
Silkscreen/Serigraphy Workshop
(PRI2112.02)
Site-Specific Improvisation
(DAN2122.01)
Social Expectations for Japanese Children
(JPN4117.01)
Social innovation and entrepreneurship: Food and water edition
(MOD2158.02)
Social Issues in Japan Through Online News
(JPN4119.01)
Song for Ireland and Celtic Connections
(MHI2251.01)
Sound in Site: Performance and Installation
(MCO4702.01)
Sound Manifestos
(MHI2106.01)
Speak Out
(MOD2117.01; section 1)
Speak Out
(MOD2117.03; section 2)
Special Projects in Advanced Japanese
(JPN4705.01)
Stage Management
(DRA2241.01)
Stars and Galaxies
(PHY2106.01)
Statistical Methods for Data Analysis
(MAT2104.01)
String Chamber Ensemble
(MPF4235.01)
Studying Place: Projects
(ENV4216.01)
Style and Tone in Essay Writing
(LIT2397.01)
Style in Motion: Costume Design for Dance
(DRA4310.01)
Talking to Children: Who, Why and How Much?
(PSY4132.01)
Technique, Phrasing, and Performance
(DAN4321.01)
The Actor’s Instrument
(DRA2170.01)
The Archive in Art
(VA2209.01)
The Art of Brevity: Linguistic Conciseness in the Spanish and Latin American Traditions
(SPA4129.01)
The Art of Mathematics
(MAT2439.01)
The Bible and Conflict Resolution
(MOD2137.02)
The Bible and the Environment
(MOD2254.03)
The Black Aesthetic
(LIT4267.01)
The Film Trailer Project
(FRE4119.01)
The Fine Art of Physical Computing
(DA4261.01)
The Harlem Renaissance
(LIT2403.01)
The Human Animal
(BIO2118.01)
The Key To Songs
(MTH4419.01)
The Language of Material and Process in Ceramics
(CER2134.01)
The Magical Object – Visual Metaphor
(DRA2116.01)
The Perfect Gesture
(DAN2148.02)
The Poetics of Love
(LIT4268.01)
The Poetics of Movement for Dance & Screen
(DAN4244.01)
The Right/Wrong/Right Dance: Breaking the Rules of Composition
(DAN2147.02)
The Scriptorium: The Body and Society
(LIT2399.01)
The Social Natures of Crude Oil
(APA4127.01)
The Web as Artistic Platform
(DA2110.01)
Theories of Psychotherapy
(Canceled)
Thinking Lab
(PSY2115.02)
Through Syntax to Style: A Grammar of Writing
(LIT2169.02)
Time, Memory, and Meaning Making
(DRA4309.01)
Topics in Applied Philosophy: War
(PHI2140.01)
Traditional Music Ensemble
(MPF4221.01)
Twelve Objects: An Introduction to Art History
(AH2108.01)
Ukulele Comprehensive
(MIN2230.01)
Understanding Attention
(PSY2116.01)
Understanding Historically Black Colleges and Universities
(EDU2215.02)
Unlocking Italian Culture II
(ITA4122.01)
Uses and Abuses of Statistics
(MAT2103.01)
Violin/Viola
(MIN4345.01)
Visual Arts Lecture Series
(VA2999.01)
Water Dialogues: Conflicts Over Our Most Valuable Resource
(APA2220.01)
Women in Science: Ancient Greece to Enlightenment
(HIS4110.01)
Women’s Voices on Stage
(DRA2266.01)
Writing Essays About Literature
(LIT2102.01)