JOURNALISM ESSENTIALS
J Essentials-Law
Journalism Essentials/Business - 1 credit
The Business of Journalism will help you to understand the challenges and vicissitudes of this period of historic flux in the journalism industry — not just for your own career development, but because we want you to be partners and innovators in determining new ways to secure the future of journalism.
Journalism Essentials/Ethics - 1 credit
Journalism Ethics explores the ethical issues that often arise in the practice of journalism, including verification of information, the relationship between personal values and journalistic decisions, issues driven by competition, and the impact of relentless deadline pressure.
Journalism Essentials/History - 1 credit
Journalism Essentials: This 7-week module explores the historical development of the values, practices and social roles that cluster around the institution of journalism. In this class, you'll also consider how the press has itself been a significant actor (for better or worse) in politics, war, reform, social movements and other events.
Journalism Essentials/Law - 1 credit
Journalism Law is designed to acquaint you with the basic protections and restrictions of the law as they apply to the practice of journalism in this global era. You’ll also explore significant court cases and fundamental legal rules in the context of political and historical realities, and journalistic standards and practices, both in the United States and internationally.
- Department: Journalism
- F 1 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
- F 9 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
- F 1 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
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John Zucker
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Deanna M Paul
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John Zucker
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Leading in Moments of Adversity and Oppo
Leading & Managing
MIA & MPA Leadership and Management II Core.
This course develops students’ capacity to lead effectively in moments of adversity and opportunity by building systems intelligence and deepening awareness of group dynamics. Through student-led leadership cases, structured exercises, readings, and role-plays, the course fosters diagnostic skills for understanding authority, group behavior, and organizational complexity. Emphasizing experiential learning over lectures, students use the classroom as a social system to examine leadership failures, test new behaviors, and build resilience. Each session includes a Leadership Lab focused on practicing real-time leadership and feedback.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- M 10 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
- W 1:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
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Kirsti Samuels
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Theatre Historiography: (Re)Imagining Th
This course approaches the study of theatre practices and theories using historiographic methods that challenge canonical narratives about performance that have long dominated theater history curricula. It raises important questions such as: What constitutes a theatre history? Who has historically been responsible for narrating theatre’s past? What sources have been used? What biases have been present in attempts to construct a global theatre history narrative? Why is understanding histories of theatre and performance relevant today? Unlike a traditional theatre history course that follows a chronological and geographically organized structure, this course encourages students to act as historiographers, proposing unique and innovative genealogies of the past.
The course is structured following a
constellation
approach that organizes plays, performances, and theories from various places and times around a theme. The initial part of the course will serve as an introduction, exploring key, often competing concepts in theatre scholarship, such as history vs. historiography; canonical vs. decolonial, anti-racist, anti-ableist methodologies; and text-based traditions vs. embodied practices. We will then immerse ourselves in the study of constellations, including “Embodied Practice”, “Materialities: architecture, spaces and objects”, “Spectatorship”, “Colonial Past-Presents.” Constellations incorporate canonical and non-canonical dramatic texts and theories. Critical approaches, plays and performances within a constellation don't explicitly converse; instead, they exist in tension, responding to our object-formation and revealing a self-reflective dimension. Constellations focus on both the cases themselves and our epistemic procedures for examining the past.
- Department: Theatre Arts
- R 10 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Maria Jose Contreras
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INVESTIGATIVE TECHNIQUES
- Department: Journalism
- R 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
- W 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
- M 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
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Olivia J Carville
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Payton M Guion
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Caleb Melby
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INVESTIGATIVE TECHNIQUES
Investigative Techniques/DOC
- Department: Journalism
- F 1 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jennifer J Janisch
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INVESTIGATIVE TECHNIQUES
- Department: Journalism
- M 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
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Steven Eder
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Reed V Abelson
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INVESTIGATIVE TECHNIQUES
IT for PT
- Department: Journalism
- W 6 p.m.-9:15 p.m.
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Instructor:
Justin Elliott
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INVESTIGATIVE TECHNIQUES
- Department: Journalism
- W 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
- R 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
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Giannina Segnini
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Alexandra Zayas
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Early Modern Museums: Iberian Colonizati
The Early Modern origins of the “public” museum have been studied, in the last decades, under the categories of curiosity and wonder. Revising this literature, the seminar intends to introduce the students to a wealth of primary sources, in order to find novel conceptual avenues of research. We will look at the most important illustrated catalogues that were written, painted and often printed between the 16th and 17th centuries: from Ferrante Imperato’s
Dell’Historia Naturale
, published in Spanish Naples, in 1599 to the beautiful
Manoscritti Campori
, the
Museum Septalianum
(1664) and the
Galeria
(1666) of the museum opened by Mandredo Settala in Spanish Milan, from the Roman museum of Athanasius Kircher, passing through the public museums of Ulisse Aldrovandi and Ferdinando Cospi in Bologna, of Oleus Worm in Copenhagen, to the documentation about the collections of Juan de la Espina in Madrid, of Lastanosa in Huesca, the Kunstkammerns of Sweden, and that Rudolf II's in Prague, among others. While acquiring a panoramic and critical view on a major field, on its sources and studies, the seminar’s participants will be guided by the following topics: 1) the tight relationship between Iberian colonization and collecting, in the selection and circulation of the art pieces and natural species that will enter the space of the museum and its catalogues 2) the intertwining between art pieces and natural species coming from afar with those produced or generated locally; 3) the different actors implicated in the
museification
(in space and on paper) of the objects and natural species; 4) the aesthetic education implemented by the items’ public display and by their published descriptions.
- Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
- W 3 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Alessandra Russo
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French Lecture Series
Graduate students attend and lead a series of lectures open to all members of the French department, including graduate students, faculty and undergraduate majors/concentrators. These lectures are planned in conjunction with graduate seminars occurring that year, and graduate students are expected to introduce the guest speakers and lead the discussion.
The lecture series exposes graduate students to new work in the field, including new methodologies and emerging areas of research and teaching, while enriching the cultural and intellectual life of the department. Students benefit from meeting important faculty in the field and from observing the different possible formats and styles of academic talks. By helping to prepare events, write speaker introductions and moderate Q&A sessions, they also develop important professional skills.
- Department: French
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Instructor:
Thomas Dodman
CULPA: 2 Info - 1 points
INTRO TO HUMAN RIGHTS
This course provides a wide-ranging survey of conceptual foundations and issues in contemporary human rights. The course examines the philosophical origins of human rights, their explication in the evolving series of international documents, questions of enforcement, and current debates. It also explores topics such as womens rights, development and human rights, the use of torture, humanitarian intervention, and the horrors of genocide. The broad range of subjects covered in the course is intended to assist students in honing their interests and making future course selections in the human rights field.
- Department: Institute for Study of Human Rights
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
- M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Glenn Mitoma
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Daniela R Ikawa
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MEDIEVAL/RENAISSANCE PHILOLOGY
MEDIEVAL/RENAISSANCE PHILOLGY
- Department: Medieval and Renaissance Studies
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Instructor:
Susan Boynton
CULPA: 18 Info - 3 points
SPECIALIZED SOCIAL WORK PRACTICUM
SPECIALIZED SW PRACTICUM
Field education is a central component in each student's professional education, and requires 21 hours a week for all four terms of the full-time M.S. degree. Placements provide a range of experiences to integrate with theoretical learning from class work and to develop knowledge, values, and skills for social practice.
- Department: Social Work
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Stuart L Aaronson
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Teena Brooks
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Candice Brown-Saunders
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Patrick L Burden
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Clara Ceccanti
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Christine A Consiglio
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Elizabeth Creel
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Ann Graham
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Kristen Hartman
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Kate Johnson-Powers
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Anastasia Jozwik
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Michelle Liu
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Christine S Low
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Elizabeth S Nson
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Liora Schwartz
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Lori Spector
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Elizabeth Weiner
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Instructor:
Stacey M Wright
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SPECIALIZED SOCIAL WORK PRACTICUM
SPECIALIZED SW PRACTICUM
Field education is a central component in each student's professional education, and requires 21 hours a week for all four terms of the full-time M.S. degree. Placements provide a range of experiences to integrate with theoretical learning from class work and to develop knowledge, values, and skills for social practice.
- Department: Social Work
- 4.5 points
SPECIALIZED SOCIAL WORK PRACTICUM
SPECIALIZED SW PRACTICUM
Field education is a central component in each student's professional education, and requires 21 hours a week for all four terms of the full-time M.S. degree. Placements provide a range of experiences to integrate with theoretical learning from class work and to develop knowledge, values, and skills for social practice.
- Department: Social Work
- 4.5 points
SPECIALIZED SOCIAL WORK PRACTICUM
SPECIALIZED SW PRACTICUM
Field education is a central component in each student's professional education, and requires 21 hours a week for all four terms of the full-time M.S. degree. Placements provide a range of experiences to integrate with theoretical learning from class work and to develop knowledge, values, and skills for social practice.
- Department: Social Work
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Tina Atherall
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Lauren E Bachman
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Jennifer L Doutre
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Sarah K Hafetz
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Stephanie M Palau
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Alayne Rosales
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Lenisha Sisnett
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Mary-Elizabeth Vachon
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Sarah R Feeney
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Instructor:
James E Singletary
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Global East Asian Performance
What is East Asian performance? Are films like
Blade Runner
(1982) and
Ghost in the Shell
(2017) East Asian? Do platforms like TikTok automatically bring an East Asian aesthetics, if not politics, to the content presented? This class considers the global circulation of East Asian cultures in the modern era from the perspectives of theatre and performance studies. Major countries and areas under discussion include China, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, and Taiwan, with occasional references to Asian America and the Sinophone.
- Department: English and Comparative Literature
- F 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Yizhou Huang
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MEDIEVAL & RENAISSANCE PHILOLOGY
Medieval and Renaissance Philology for MA students.
- Department: Medieval and Renaissance Studies
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Instructor:
Susan Boynton
CULPA: 18 Info - 4 points
ADV SEM IN BUSINESS JOURNALISM
- Department: Journalism
- T 4 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Robert A Smith
CULPA: 13 Info - 3 points
JOURNALISM AND SOCIETY
Seminar surveying the history and the social, political, and economic impact of media from the birth of the newspaper forward.
- Department: Journalism
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Andie Tucher
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GENERALIST SOCIAL WORK PRACTICUM
GENERALIST SW PRACTICUM
- Department: Social Work
- 3 points
GENERALIST SOCIAL WORK PRACTICUM
GENERALIST SW PRACTICUM
- Department: Social Work
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Instructor:
Rebecca Knickmeier
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Instructor:
Esther C Howe
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GENERALIST SOCIAL WORK PRACTICUM
GENERALIST SW PRACTICUM
- Department: Social Work
- 3 points
GENERALIST SOCIAL WORK PRACTICUM
GENERALIST SW PRACTICUM
- Department: Social Work
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Instructor:
James E Singletary
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FUNDAMENTALS OF DIRECTING
Directing is the art of articulating and sharing vision. This course will explore how directors locate the deep “why” behind their work, both their oeuvre and their individual projects, and how that “why” translates into every element of production: design, casting, direction of the actors, and producing choices. We will study the articulation of vision through both the macro and micro lens: how directors develop the big vision behind a project and also how directors communicate vision in the moment to moment work of a rehearsal process. The first part of every class will be devoted to the macro: articulation of vision. We will study master directors and the way they translate intention into aesthetic choices and process. We will learn a process of excavating the deepest intentions of the author (be that the playwright, an auteur director, or a collective) and integrating those intentions thoughtfully into all other production choices. And we will practice articulating the vision behind a dream project. The second part of each class will be a practicum exploring the communication directors use when working with actors to craft scenes. Students will apply fundamental directing skills through a progression from silent scenes to neutral scenes and finally scenes of their own choosing.
- Department: Theatre Arts
- R 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
- M 10 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
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Lisa Rothe
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Instructor:
Katherine Wilkinson
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CONTESTING THE PAST
This course provides a panoramic survey of the ways that competing interest groups call on knowledge or narratives of the past and methods of its study in debates over controversial public issues. It is designed to examine claims about the past through the lenses of alternative knowledge frameworks and ideas about reality, in the context of specific contemporary problems: e.g., nationalist narratives; the basis for human rights for indigenous peoples; ownership or destruction of the world's patrimony; strife over disputed lands; investigations into mass human exploitation, murder and genocide; communities’ engagement with their own history; the antiquity of humanity on the planet; and interstellar communications and paranormal phenomena. The information that we will draw from balances historical sources, contemporary literature (e.g., newspapers and other periodicals), archaeology, sociocultural anthropology, oral accounts, and videos (both academic and popular).
- Department: Anthropology
- T 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Terence N D'Altroy
CULPA: 37 Info - 3 points
HLTH PROM/DISEASE PREVNT CLRKSHIP II
HPDP CLERKSHIPS II
- Department: Dental and Oral Surgery
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Instructor:
Folarin Odusola
h-index: 5 Info - 0 points
Specialized Social Work Practicum
SPECIALIZED SW PRACTICUM
- Department: Social Work
- 3 points
Specialized Social Work Practicum
SPECIALIZED SW PRACTICUM
- Department: Social Work
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Instructor:
Ana Chaer Salvador
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Instructor:
Erin Orjuela
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Specialized Social Work Practicum
SPECIALIZED SW PRACTICUM
- Department: Social Work
- 3 points
Specialized Social Work Practicum
SPECIALIZED SW PRACTICUM
- Department: Social Work
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Instructor:
Sarah R Feeney
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STATISTICAL MECHANICS
Prerequisites: PHYS W4021-W4022-W4023, or their equivalents. Fundamentals of statistical mechanics; theory of ensembles; quantum statistics; imperfect gases; cooperative phenomena.
- Department: Physics
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Hector Ochoa
Info - 4.5 points
QUANTUM MECHANICS I
Prerequisites: PHYS W4021-W4022, or their equivalents. The fundamental principles of quantum mechanics; elementary examples; angular momentum and the rotation group; spin and identical particles; isospin; time-independent and time-dependent perturbation theory.
- Department: Physics
- MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
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Instructor:
Norman H Christ
CULPA: 34 Wikipedia Info - 4.5 points
18TH CENTURY RUSSIAN LIT
A survey of eighteenth century Russian poetry, prose, and drama in the original. The reading list includes Feofan Prokopovich, Vasily Trediakovsky, Mikhailo Lomonosov, Aleksandr Sumarokov, Aleksandr Radishchev, Gavrila Derzhavin, and Nikolai Karamzin
- Department: Slavic Languages
- M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Irina Reyfman
CULPA: 5
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- 4 points
Dual SEAS Master's Project I
- Department: Journalism
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Instructor:
Dhrumil Mehta
Info - 3 points
Historical Approaches in the Social Scie
Historical Aprchs Scl Scn
This course introduces students to historical approaches in sociology and political science (and some economics). In the first part, the course surveys the major theoretical approaches and methodological traditions. Examples of the former are classic comparativist work (e.g. Skocpol’s study of revolutions), historist approaches (such as Sewell’s), or the historical institutionalist tradition (Mahoney, Thelen, Wimmer, etc.). In terms of methodological approaches, we will discuss classical Millean small-N comparisons, Qualitative Comparative Analysis, process tracing, actor-centered modeling, quantitative, large-N works, and causal inference type of research designs. In the second part, major topics in macro-comparative social sciences are examined, from world systems and empire to the origins of democracy.
- Department: Sociology
- M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Andreas Wimmer
Wikipedia h-index: 41 Info - 4 points
INVENTING THE ANCIENTS
- Department: Italian
- T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Konstantia Zanou
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CAPSTONE: Conflict Analysis Models
Conflict analysis is central to understanding the context and content of any conflict. It is also critical for the person doing the conflict analysis to have a good understanding of who they are as a conflict resolution practitioner, including the frames with which they view the conflict analysis. Our worldviews, assumptions, values, and beliefs shape how we frame and create meaning from conflicts that we choose to examine, and how we understand the dynamics of those conflicts. Therefore, to conduct an impartial analysis of any conflict, and add value for the stakeholders involved, self-awareness is crucial.
This course is the foundation for developing the necessary mindset for conflict analysis. We want you to be able to enter any situation and ask the question, “What is really going on here?” and to use that inquiry to uncover underlying needs, issues, and assumptions. In this course, in addition to increasing your self-awareness as a conflict resolution practitioner, you will explore and become familiar with diverse conflict analysis approaches and tools, beginning with creating a conflict map to identify the actors, dynamics, and structures that are creating, escalating, and perpetuating the conflict. You will work with a variety of conflict analysis tools to examine the stakeholder perspectives and will be asked to identify issues that surfaced as a result of this analysis. You will define goals for your inquiry that correspond to the conflict issues you have identified and coalesce thematically around a specific purpose of appropriate scope for your capstone study. You will utilize the Coordinated Management of Meaning and Case Study frameworks to engage in desk-based qualitative inquiry using secondary sources. You will put theory into practice by interpreting the secondary data through the lens of applicable theory. The data will be further analyzed using CMM models and conflict analysis tools as a means of surfacing several needs to be addressed in your intervention design (in the next capstone course).
This course is the first of three (3) required courses of the capstone sequence.
In 6050, students will complete conflict analysis for their capstone case study.
In 6250, students will design an intervention that addresses the needs identified in their earlier analysis. In 6350, students will consider sustainability, as well as monitoring and evaluation strategies for their proposed intervention.
- Department: Negotiation & Conflict Resolution
- SS 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Amy E Sereday
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Methods and Problems: Theoretical Philos
Methds/Probs:Theoretical
This class covers classic readings in contemporary philosophy, selections from historical authors that bear on today’s debates, and influential recent contributions in a range of subfields such as metaphysics, philosophy of mind, epistemology, logic, philosophy of language, philosophy of science, philosophy of mathematics, and philosophy of cognitive science.
- Department: Philosophy
- T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Melissa S Fusco
CULPA: 1 Info - 4 points
PARTICLE PHENOMENOLOGY
Prerequisites: PHYS G6037 or the equivalent. The elementary particles and their properties; interactions of charged particles and radiation with matter; accelerators, particle beams, detectors; conservation laws; symmetry principles; strong interactions, resonances, unitary symmetry; electromagnetic interactions; weak interactions; current topics.
- Department: Physics
- MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Georgia S Karagiorgi
CULPA: 3 Info - 3 points
RED ELECTIVE INTERNSHIP
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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Instructor:
Rebecca A Andersen Polimeda
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VALUE, OBJECTS, AND MEANING
VALUE OBJECTS AND MEANING
This course explores how anthropologists have engaged with the question of value as means of understanding and comparing human social engagement with the creation, circulation, and consumption of objects and ideas. In doing so, this course will read classical anthropological texts concerned with exchange, social meaning and action and consider a variety of topics of anthropological interest such as gifts, commodities, capitalism, inequality, and the relationships between humans and nonhumans of many kinds. The course traces how questions and arguments that emerged out of earlier debates in “economic” anthropology were taken up and altered in later conversations about the analytical importance and utility of material and semiotic approaches. In doing so, the course explores what these genealogies might say about the possibility of, and the potential usefulness or desirability of, a contemporary or future-looking anthropology of value.
- Department: Anthropology
- R 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Hannah Chazin
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Proseminar in Religion I
The Proseminar in Religion is designed to support PhD students within the department as they work on various aspects of professional development. Meeting three times per semester, the sessions will focus on both academic and non-academic career paths, coordinated by a member of the faculty and with guest speakers from both within and beyond the department. The emphasis will be on concrete outputs and skills training. The proseminar will require preparation and active participation from enrolled students, including background reading and writing assignments connected to the monthly topic. After each session focused on a piece of writing (fellowship applications; CVs and cover letters; publishing), students should come away from the proseminar with strong drafts of the relevant texts.
The proseminar is required for all ABD students in year 5 or 6 and can be taken sequentially or not. ABD students are encouraged to speak about the timing of enrollment with the DGS and their dissertation sponsor.
- Department: Religion
- W 7 p.m.-9 p.m.
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Instructor:
Matthew Engelke
CULPA: 3 Wikipedia h-index: 25 Info - 1 points
SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY: THE ORIGINS
Prerequisites: this course is intended for sociology Ph.D. and SMS students. No others without the instructors written permission. Foundational sources and issues in sociological theory: Adam Smith, Marx, Durkheim, Weber, Simmel, Mead, Mauss, others; division of labor, individualism, exchange, class and its vicissitudes, social control, ideas and interests, contending criteria of explanation and interpretation.
- Department: Sociology
- M 9:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Gil Eyal
CULPA: 15
h-index: 26
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Adaptation
This is a fast-paced writing, survey and workshop course that will empower writers to define the formal ideals of screenwriting by investigating film adaptations of novels and short stories. The course will culminate in the writing of a short pitch document. This course is at once a survey of the twentieth century American Film, a survey of the Twentieth Century American novel, and a course for writers. We will distill the craft of screenwriting by looking through the prism of adaption in order to understand which elements of the novel translate into film, and why. We will consider novels with the mercenary detachment of a screenwriter, scouring for scraps with value for a screenplay. As we compare the original text with the finished film, we will distill the essence of the screenplay form. What is plot, action, dialog, metaphor? How do we converge these goals? We will decipher, with the clinical eye of a detective, what the screenwriter took from the novel and what they left behind. And in doing this, we will reach an understanding of the formal tenets of an American film.
- Department: Film
- F 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
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Instructor:
Galt V Niederhoffer
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ADVNCD TPCS IN IMMUNOLOGY
ADVNCD TPCS IN IMMUNOLOGY I
- Department: Microbiology
- R 2 p.m.-4 p.m.
- 3 points
SPECIALIZED SOCIAL WORK PRACTICUM
SPECIALIZED SW PRACTICUM
- Department: Social Work
- 6 points
SPECIALIZED SOCIAL WORK PRACTICUM
SPECIALIZED SW PRACTICUM
- Department: Social Work
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Robert E Cortes
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Ismery Lora
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Elizabeth S Nson
CULPA: 9 Info - 6 points
MAKING ETHNOG:METHOD & WRITING
This course begins with two central and related epistemological problems in conducting ethnographic research: first, the notion that objects of scientific research are ‘made’ through adopting a particular relational stance and asking certain kinds of questions. From framing a research problem and choosing a ‘research context’ story to tell, to the kinds of methods one selects to probe such a problem, the ‘how’ and ‘what’ – or means and content – are inextricably intertwined. A second epistemological problem concerns the artifice of reality, and the nebulous distinction between truth and fiction, no less than the question of where or with whom one locates such truth.
With these issues framing the course, we will work through some key themes and debates in anthropology from the perspective of methodology, ranging from subject/object liminality to incommensurability and radical alterity to the politics of representation. Students will design an ethnographic project of their choosing and conduct research throughout the term, applying different methodological approaches popular in anthropology and the social sciences more generally, such as participant observation, semi-structured interview, diary-keeping and note-taking.
- Department: Anthropology
- R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Nicholas Glastonbury
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STUDIES IN DANTE
Prerequisites: In-depth knowledge of the Commedia. A variable-content research seminar that rotates through various areas of Dante studies. Areas covered in the past include: the history of the ideas of hell, purgatory, paradise; Dante’s relation to the classics; Dante's so-called minor works, such as Convivio, De vulgari eloquentia; Dante's lyric poetry. The Fall 2019 seminar will be devoted to Dante's prose treatises.
- Department: Italian
- R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Teodolinda Barolini
CULPA: 7
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SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING
- Department: Physics
- TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Robert D Mawhinney
CULPA: 6 h-index: 49 Info - 3 points
Personal Leadership in Public Health
PERSONAL LEADERSHIP IN P
- Department: Public Health
- 1.5 points