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