In this course, students will engage in the deep exploration of a scene. The rehearsal process is one of the key components of the theater-making endeavor and will be a primary mode of learning. We shall work in small groups, and each student will have the opportunity to experience the process from the point of view of an actor as well as a director. Students will be exposed to a myriad of texts and styles.

This survey of radical geographic thought highlights liberatory geographic imaginaries from across the globe from the past two centuries. Radical geographers have developed powerful critiques of capitalism, empire, and modernization. They have also reimagined places capable of supporting deeply democratic social formations. This course will examine the political, economic, and cultural geographical concerns embedded in these critiques and counter-proposals.

This course critically examines the past, present, and future of thinking about the city from an ecological point of view. For a century, urban ecologists have thought about the city as an ecosystem: it follows the laws of all natural systems. While illuminating, this naturalistic idea has obscured certain historical, social, and political economic forces of urbanization.

Microscopes are important tools used by technicians, medical professionals, and scientists to investigate interesting scientific questions and solve real-world problems. This course covers important microscopy basics including scale, the relationship between reality and the image, and the kind of information that can be captured with different types of microscopes. This course combines lecture and hands-on laboratory activities allowing students the opportunity to explore the basic principles of visible light, fluorescence, and electron microscopy.

This course will focus on workers and work in African history. It will consider key concepts and theoretical debates, and highlight different types of free and unfree labor in Africa. By analyzing the politics and economics of labor, this course will examine the relationship between workplace and home, and the space between the two. Through class discussion, this course will shift focus from the "masculine" jobs undertaken by men in public spheres, and consider the varied experiences of women and children in African labor history.

This course examines nationalism and decolonization in Africa. It will explore internal and external factors that accelerated decolonization in Africa. It will focus on key developments such as the impacts of world wars, pan-African movements, and the civil rights movement in the United States. In addition to analyzing the political thoughts and ideologies of African leaders, the course will showcase the peasants, wage workers, and women as performers of African nationalism with specific grievances, distinct from those elites who emerged as the faces of liberation.

Sit-ins, marches, strikes, Supreme Court decisions, and the passing of landmark legislative acts filled the news headlines across the country during the 1950s and 1960s. This introductory-level survey course will examine the diverse strategies and philosophies of political, social and cultural figures that led to and fueled the modern civil rights movement in America.

This course is designed as a follow-up to MUSIC-117, Foundations of Voice I, with a primary focus on in-class study, singing, and accompanying of Western Art songs and International Folk songs (Mexican, French, Arabic, Czech, German, American). Course study will include an overall examination of composers, performance practice, musical styles, poetry, structural form, and nationalistic characteristics. All students will participate in regular in-class performances of music by well-known as well as historically marginalized composers. Music by Purcell, Mozart, Fanny Mendelssohn, Schubert, L.

This seminar-style course will explore the art of conducting through the study and observation of professional conductors throughout history and the present. Topics covered and discussed will include the role of the modern conductor in amateur, academic, and professional ensembles, conducting styles, musical philosophy, rehearsal techniques, the evolution of conducting and conductors, the function of a conductor as interpreter and the realization of a composer's work.

This innovative arts and technology course will explore emerging creative/technical practices that transcend any single medium or discipline. While sound will be a primary focus of the course, students will design, realize, and collaborate on projects that may also include still or moving images, text, graphics, installation, computation, interactivity, performance, etc. Class meetings will combine seminar-style discussions with listening, viewing and hands-on lab sessions, brainstorming, project development and feedback.