(Offered as GERM 368, ARCH 368, EUST 368, and FAMS 380) This research seminar will explore conceptions of space as they have informed and influenced thought and creativity in the fields of cultural studies, literature, architecture, urban studies, performance, and the visual, electronic, and time-based arts.

(Offered as GERM 368, ARCH 368, EUST 368, and FAMS 380) This research seminar will explore conceptions of space as they have informed and influenced thought and creativity in the fields of cultural studies, literature, architecture, urban studies, performance, and the visual, electronic, and time-based arts.

(Offered as GERM 368, ARCH 368, EUST 368, and FAMS 380) This research seminar will explore conceptions of space as they have informed and influenced thought and creativity in the fields of cultural studies, literature, architecture, urban studies, performance, and the visual, electronic, and time-based arts.

Musical instruments are some of the oldest examples of technical interfaces across cultures. Music theory, notation, and recording, are some of the earliest tools for inscribing, storing, and sharing data. This seminar considers how key moments in the evolution of music technology have reflected historical, social, cultural, and political contexts. Histories of acoustics, the telephone, and radio inform the platforms and tools we use today.

This course considers the practice and aesthetics of music and sound design in film, television, video games, advertising, podcasts, and other multi-disciplinary art forms. Students will learn about synchronization techniques in linear media as well as techniques for non-linear media such as games. We will read key theoretical texts in the world of sound for film including Michel Chion and Claudia Gorbman. We will also study different techniques for sound design including foley, synthesis, and working with libraries.

(Offered as SPAN-347, FAMS-328, & SWAG-357) Emerging from the ashes of the Franco dictatorship, director Pedro Almodóvar lit up Spain's movie screens beginning in the 1980s with his unconventional takes on gender, sexuality, religion, and family. Now a globally-recognized and award-winning filmmaker, Almodóvar has matured from his raunchy and risqué beginnings in the Madrid punk scene to become a director sensitive to marginalized people and human rights.

(Offered as SPAN-347, FAMS-328, & SWAG-357) Emerging from the ashes of the Franco dictatorship, director Pedro Almodóvar lit up Spain's movie screens beginning in the 1980s with his unconventional takes on gender, sexuality, religion, and family. Now a globally-recognized and award-winning filmmaker, Almodóvar has matured from his raunchy and risqué beginnings in the Madrid punk scene to become a director sensitive to marginalized people and human rights.

(Offered as SPAN-347, FAMS-328, & SWAG-357) Emerging from the ashes of the Franco dictatorship, director Pedro Almodóvar lit up Spain's movie screens beginning in the 1980s with his unconventional takes on gender, sexuality, religion, and family. Now a globally-recognized and award-winning filmmaker, Almodóvar has matured from his raunchy and risqué beginnings in the Madrid punk scene to become a director sensitive to marginalized people and human rights.

(Offered as GERM-224 and EUST-224) This class will embark on an in-depth study of the German-Jewish writer Walter Benjamin, one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century. We will be guided by Benjamin’s notion of “the time of the now,” which the critic “blasts” out of the seemingly homogeneous continuum of history.

(Offered as ENGL- 123 and EUST-121) [Before 1800] Over a thousand years ago, a group of peoples began to form themselves into what we now call “Europe,” a geopolitical space that identifies itself as a shared culture. This course reads classic texts from the European tradition in order to study some of the most influential works of Western culture as well as to interrogate and critique the foundations of an idea of the European tradition. We will put philosophy and literature from antiquity and the Middle Ages in dialogue with selected scholarship on the formation of European culture.