THE WRITTEN WORD
Should Not Be Forgotten
Journalism is changing rapidly, but the written word remains as important to journalists today as it was a century ago. It’s still a storytelling medium in and of itself, of course. But even if you don’t plan to work in print, you need to know how to write clearly and accurately in order to supplement or explain video and photos, to put together engaging audio and video scripts, and to pitch ideas to editors.
- Department: Journalism
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Instructor:
Alexis B Clark
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THE WRITTEN WORD
Politics & Elections
Journalism is changing rapidly, but the written word remains as important to journalists today as it was a century ago. It’s still a storytelling medium in and of itself, of course. But even if you don’t plan to work in print, you need to know how to write clearly and accurately in order to supplement or explain video and photos, to put together engaging audio and video scripts, and to pitch ideas to editors.
- Department: Journalism
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Instructor:
Juan M Benitez-Fernel
Info - 3 points
THE WRITTEN WORD
Writing Social Justice w Style
Journalism is changing rapidly, but the written word remains as important to journalists today as it was a century ago. It’s still a storytelling medium in and of itself, of course. But even if you don’t plan to work in print, you need to know how to write clearly and accurately in order to supplement or explain video and photos, to put together engaging audio and video scripts, and to pitch ideas to editors.
- Department: Journalism
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Instructor:
Helen Benedict
Wikipedia Info - 3 points
THE WRITTEN WORD
Sci/Environment Writ
Journalism is changing rapidly, but the written word remains as important to journalists today as it was a century ago. It’s still a storytelling medium in and of itself, of course. But even if you don’t plan to work in print, you need to know how to write clearly and accurately in order to supplement or explain video and photos, to put together engaging audio and video scripts, and to pitch ideas to editors.
- Department: Journalism
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Instructor:
Marguerite Y Holloway
Info - 3 points
THE WRITTEN WORD
WRITING WITH DATA
Journalism is changing rapidly, but the written word remains as important to journalists today as it was a century ago. It’s still a storytelling medium in and of itself, of course. But even if you don’t plan to work in print, you need to know how to write clearly and accurately in order to supplement or explain video and photos, to put together engaging audio and video scripts, and to pitch ideas to editors.
- Department: Journalism
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Instructor:
Jessica T Blaeser
Info - 3 points
GENERALIST SOCIAL WORK PRACTICUM
GENERALIST 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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Instructor:
Sarah R Feeney
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Faculty
h-index: 37 Info - 4.5 points
HISTORY & THEORY OF THEATRE
- Department: Theatre Arts
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Instructor:
Margaret K Araneo
Info - 3 points
CROSS-GENRE SEMINAR
THE WRITER AS TEACHER
CROSS-GENRE SEMINAR
- Department: Writing
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Instructor:
Keri E Bertino
Info - 3 points
CROSS-GENRE SEMINAR
POETRY FOR PROSE WRITERS
CROSS-GENRE SEMINAR
- Department: Writing
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Instructor:
Monica Ferrell
Info - 3 points
CROSS-GENRE SEMINAR
THE COMMA SUTRA: GRAMMAR
CROSS-GENRE SEMINAR
- Department: Writing
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Instructor:
Barbara K Fischer
Info - 3 points
CROSS-GENRE SEMINAR
Editing and the Writer
CROSS-GENRE SEMINAR
- Department: Writing
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Instructor:
Brigid Hughes
Wikipedia Info - 3 points
CROSS-GENRE SEMINAR
CLASSROOM OF IMAGINATION
CROSS-GENRE SEMINAR
- Department: Writing
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Instructor:
Dorothea S Lasky
Wikipedia Info - 3 points
CROSS-GENRE SEMINAR
SHORT PROSE FORMS
CROSS-GENRE SEMINAR
- Department: Writing
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Instructor:
Alan Ziegler
CULPA: 5
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EFFECTIVE PARTNERSHIP STRATEGIES FOR HUM
PARTNERSHIP FOR HCM SOLUT
- Department: Human Capital Management
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Instructor:
Melanie Rosenwasser
Info - 3 points
ASTROPHYSICS I
Prerequisites: a strong undergraduate background in E-M and classical mechanics. Qualified undergraduates may be admitted with the instructors permission. The basic physics of high energy astrophysical phenomena. Protostars, equations of stellar structure; radiative transfer theory; stellar nucleosynthesis; radiative emission processes; equations of state and cooling theory for neutron stars and white dwarfs, Oppenheimer-Volkoff equation; Chandrasekhar limit; shocks and fluids; accretion theory for both disks and hard surfaces; black hole orbits and light bending.
- Department: Physics
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Instructor:
Charles J Hailey
CULPA: 42 Wikipedia Info - 3 points
Strategic Management of Nonprofit Organi
Strategic Mgmt-Nonprofit
MIA & MPA Leadership and Management II Core.
This course explores how core functional areas, such as governance, finance, talent strategy, communications, and accountability, interconnect to support a nonprofit organization’s mission and strategic goals. Students will examine key management practices in nonprofit settings, emphasizing mission alignment, ethical fundraising, board effectiveness, and impact measurement. Through applied learning, the course equips students with the skills to assess organizational performance, design inclusive cultures, and develop strategic approaches to growth and sustainability.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
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Instructor:
Gary Bagley
Info - 1.5 points
Strategic Management of Nonprofit Organi
Strategic Mgmt-Nonprofit
MIA & MPA Leadership and Management II Core.
This course explores how core functional areas, such as governance, finance, talent strategy, communications, and accountability, interconnect to support a nonprofit organization’s mission and strategic goals. Students will examine key management practices in nonprofit settings, emphasizing mission alignment, ethical fundraising, board effectiveness, and impact measurement. Through applied learning, the course equips students with the skills to assess organizational performance, design inclusive cultures, and develop strategic approaches to growth and sustainability.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- 0 points
One-Year Residency Seminar
ONE-YEAR RESIDENCY SEMINA
Focusing on the body of knowledge, skills, and values that underpin and parallel course work, this seminar addresses the particular needs of the Reduced Residency student by integrating course concepts with field experience, emphasizing the socialization of the student toward the profession, and increasing their understanding of the societal and organizational contexts of the work. The format encourages learning flexibility, maximum student participation, and student support system development.
- Department: Social Work
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Instructor:
Allison B Berger
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Instructor:
Allison R Ross
Info - 1.5 points
Cosmology, Black Holes, and Gravity
The course will include a brief introduction to General Relativity and black holes; the majority of the time will be spent on Cosmology. It will include an overview of gravitational waves.
- Department: Astronomy
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Instructor:
Maximiliano Isi Banales
Info - 3 points
OLD RUSSIAN LITERATURE
- Department: Slavic Languages
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Instructor:
Valentina Izmirlieva
CULPA: 14 Info - 4 points
Strategic and Entrepreneurial Management
Strategic & Entrepren Mgt
MIA & MPA Leadership and Management II Core.
This course builds on core leadership concepts by focusing on startup strategy, entrepreneurial execution, and organizational leadership in uncertain environments. Through case studies and practitioner insights, students will apply Lean Startup methodologies, explore the ethical and cultural dimensions of entrepreneurial leadership, and assess the impact of generative AI on innovation. The course emphasizes practical skills in teamwork, pitching, and influencing without authority, preparing students to lead and grow ventures with agility and purpose.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
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Instructor:
Vibhav Prasad
Info - 1.5 points
Public Finance
Public Finance introduces the nuances of the US municipal financing market from the perspective of issuers, investors and intermediaries. Students will learn about traditional fixed rate bond structures, but will also look at innovative financing techniques that have been implemented in recent years. In-depth discussions of interest rate markets, especially the impacts of Federal Reserve policies and recent inflation pressures, and their impact on financing will be a key area of study. The growing pressures of public sector pensions are influencing how states and municipalities manage their budgets, and are under increased scrutiny by market participants; as such, pension accounting will be a focus area for the class as well. Financial distress and municipal bankruptcy will be examined through case studies of recent high profile issuers, such as the New York MTA, the City of Detroit and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
- Department: EXECUTIVE MPA
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Instructor:
Brian J Kennedy
Info - 3 points
IMAGE & SOUND
I&S Audio
Journalists today tell stories in many ways: with words, of course, but also with video, photos, data and sound. In this module, you’ll pick one of those mediums, learn its tools and explore its storytelling potential. All Image & Sound Modules meet once per week, but expect to put in at least one additional day — and probably more — every week working on assignments for the class. If you're having trouble choosing between modules, don’t worry — though you’ll take only one Image & Sound module during your time at the J-school, you’ll be able to to explore other mediums in other classes.
- Department: Journalism
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Instructor:
Sally W Herships
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Instructor:
Naomi Starobin
Info - 3 points
IMAGE & SOUND
I&S Data 1/Excel
Journalists today tell stories in many ways: with words, of course, but also with video, photos, data and sound. In this module, you’ll pick one of those mediums, learn its tools and explore its storytelling potential. All Image & Sound Modules meet once per week, but expect to put in at least one additional day — and probably more — every week working on assignments for the class. If you're having trouble choosing between modules, don’t worry — though you’ll take only one Image & Sound module during your time at the J-school, you’ll be able to to explore other mediums in other classes.
- Department: Journalism
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Instructor:
Giannina Segnini
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Instructor:
Mark Hansen
Wikipedia Info - 3 points
IMAGE & SOUND
I&S Photo
Journalists today tell stories in many ways: with words, of course, but also with video, photos, data and sound. In this module, you’ll pick one of those mediums, learn its tools and explore its storytelling potential. All Image & Sound Modules meet once per week, but expect to put in at least one additional day — and probably more — every week working on assignments for the class. If you're having trouble choosing between modules, don’t worry — though you’ll take only one Image & Sound module during your time at the J-school, you’ll be able to to explore other mediums in other classes.
- Department: Journalism
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Instructor:
Mel Cole
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Instructor:
Nina J Berman
Wikipedia Info - 3 points
IMAGE & SOUND
I&S: Visual Craft
Journalists today tell stories in many ways: with words, of course, but also with video, photos, data and sound. In this module, you’ll pick one of those mediums, learn its tools and explore its storytelling potential. All Image & Sound Modules meet once per week, but expect to put in at least one additional day — and probably more — every week working on assignments for the class. If you're having trouble choosing between modules, don’t worry — though you’ll take only one Image & Sound module during your time at the J-school, you’ll be able to to explore other mediums in other classes.
- Department: Journalism
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Instructor:
Duy Linh N Tu
Info - 3 points
IMAGE & SOUND
I&S: Video for Doc
Journalists today tell stories in many ways: with words, of course, but also with video, photos, data and sound. In this module, you’ll pick one of those mediums, learn its tools and explore its storytelling potential. All Image & Sound Modules meet once per week, but expect to put in at least one additional day — and probably more — every week working on assignments for the class. If you're having trouble choosing between modules, don’t worry — though you’ll take only one Image & Sound module during your time at the J-school, you’ll be able to to explore other mediums in other classes.
- Department: Journalism
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Instructor:
Jika Gonzalez
Info - 3 points
IMAGE & SOUND
I&S Video
Journalists today tell stories in many ways: with words, of course, but also with video, photos, data and sound. In this module, you’ll pick one of those mediums, learn its tools and explore its storytelling potential. All Image & Sound Modules meet once per week, but expect to put in at least one additional day — and probably more — every week working on assignments for the class. If you're having trouble choosing between modules, don’t worry — though you’ll take only one Image & Sound module during your time at the J-school, you’ll be able to to explore other mediums in other classes.
- Department: Journalism
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Instructor:
Nina Alvarez
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Instructor:
Alex L Clark
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Instructor:
Kristofer E Rios
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JOURNALISM ESSENTIALS
J Essentials-Ethics
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
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Instructor:
Anika C Navaroli
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Sara Ganim Cevallos
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Ian M MacDougall
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Daniel G Alarcon
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Anika C Navaroli
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Sara Ganim Cevallos
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Instructor:
Daniel G Alarcon
Info - 1 points
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
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Instructor:
Deanna M Paul
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Instructor:
John Zucker
Info - 1 points
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
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Instructor:
John Zucker
Info - 1 points
Across the Strait of Gibraltar
To what extent has the Strait of Gibraltar—and by extension the broader Mediterraenean— connected the communities and nations that line its shores? Alternatively, is the channel better understood as a continental frontier, one that divides Europe and Africa? How has the medieval and early modern history of conquest, migration, and expulsion in the western Mediterranean shaped our understanding of the Mediterranean refugee crises of the past few decades? What is the relationship between the representation and management of these crises and the struggles of African immigrants—both Maghrebi and sub-Saharan—to assimilate into Spain and other Europe Union nations? In a parallel way, how might the contemporary crises, as experienced and documented by refugees, journalists, novelists, and filmmakers, prompt a critical reassessment of the history and representation of previous periods of migration and displacement across the Strait of Gibraltar?
Focusing on the Strait of Gibraltar, this class is an experiment in cultural history that foregrounds the Mediterranean’s present-day political and humanitarian crises. A mixture of history, drama, fiction, and legal texts comprise the majority of our primary-source readings. In addition, we will discuss a variety of material and visual culture, including monuments, antiquities, archeological sites, photographs, and films. Historical and critical readings will include essays and book- chapters culled from the field of Mediterranean studies, as well as more specialized scholarship on captivity, migration, displacement, and the interwoven cultural and political histories of Spain and Morocco.
- Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
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Instructor:
Seth R Kimmel
CULPA: 7
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- 4 points
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
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Instructor:
Maria Jose Contreras
Info - 3 points
INVESTIGATIVE TECHNIQUES
- Department: Journalism
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Instructor:
Kenneth A Brown
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Payton M Guion
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Instructor:
Caleb Melby
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Instructor:
Jennifer J Janisch
Info - 3 points
INVESTIGATIVE TECHNIQUES
IT for PT
- Department: Journalism
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Instructor:
Steven Eder
Info - 3 points
INVESTIGATIVE TECHNIQUES
- Department: Journalism
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Instructor:
Giannina Segnini
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Alexandra Zayas
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Managing Yourself as a Leader: Skills an
MIA & MPA Leadership and Management II Core.
This experiential course focuses on the self-management and interpersonal skills essential for effective leadership in high-pressure, high-stakes situations. Through role-plays, structured exercises, video analysis, and Leadership Labs, students will develop greater self-awareness, communication agility, and emotional resilience. Emphasizing the analysis of leadership failure as a learning tool, the course uses individual student cases to explore how personal patterns and behaviors impact leadership effectiveness. Active participation and small group work are central to this hands-on, practice-based learning environment.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
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Instructor:
Kirsti Samuels
Info - 1.5 points
Managing Yourself as a Leader: Skills an
MIA & MPA Leadership and Management II Core.
This experiential course focuses on the self-management and interpersonal skills essential for effective leadership in high-pressure, high-stakes situations. Through role-plays, structured exercises, video analysis, and Leadership Labs, students will develop greater self-awareness, communication agility, and emotional resilience. Emphasizing the analysis of leadership failure as a learning tool, the course uses individual student cases to explore how personal patterns and behaviors impact leadership effectiveness. Active participation and small group work are central to this hands-on, practice-based learning environment.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- 0 points
Leadership in Times of Disruption
MIA & MPA Leadership and Management II Core.
This is a seven-week course designed to equip participants with the skills and knowledge to effectively lead and manage teams, especially during times of great change. The course concepts will be broadly applicable to all disciplines and sectors, and will showcase examples from the nonprofit/social impact sectors, as well as practices popularized by Big Tech companies and other startups as they've rapidly grown and disrupted industries in the last decades.
The first premise of the course is that successful leadership and management involve the deft application of frameworks, research, and best practices, but also deep self-awareness of one’s own strengths, weaknesses, biases, and emotional triggers. Throughout the course, we look to develop the emotional strength and open-ended mindset required for leadership while practicing the specific research-backed skills and behaviors that get the most out of teams.
The second premise of this course is to carefully deconstruct “leadership” into its many forms, including driving impact, creating transformation, and managing people and teams. Each is encompassed in “leadership,” but requires different skills and focus to succeed.
This course will be interactive and will involve the creation of a hypothetical social enterprise, nonprofit, or new program within an existing organization, which we will use to teach concepts first-hand. As a class, we will co-create several projects for this hypothetical organization, including a draft strategic plan, annual goals, and job descriptions. The goal is for students to see the transformation of “good enough” deliverables into spectacular ones, building a base of knowledge and experience to take into the next stage of their careers.
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
- 1-2 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
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Instructor:
Glenn Mitoma
Info - 3 points
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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Instructor:
Sarah R Feeney
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Faculty
h-index: 37 Info - 4.5 points
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
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Instructor:
Pallavi Gogoi
Info - 3 points
In/disciplines of the Quotidian: Spanish
In/disciplines of Quotidi
“In/disciplines of the Quotidian: Spanish Still Lives and the Politics of the Overlooked” is an interdisciplinary cultural studies course that investigates how the ordinary becomes a site of tension, meaning, and critique across Spanish artistic traditions. Taking as its point of departure two productive contradictions—the paradox of still life/
Naturaleza muerta
(simultaneously immobile and vital) and the
bodegón
as both a lively social space and an emptied, object-filled scene—the course examines how the materiality of objects and backgrounds administer absence, presence and attention, reshape cultural narratives but also structure the political.
The course is grounded in a theoretical framework that treats materiality as inherently political, asking how objects participate in the organization of social life and regimes of value. Drawing on Thomas Lemke’s notion of the “government of things,” it considers how power operates not only through subjects but through arrangements of objects, infrastructures, and environments that shape conduct and perception. At the same time, it stages a dialogue between new materialist approaches—which emphasize the agency and vitality of matter—and Marxist materialisms, with their focus on labor, commodity relations, and historical conditions. Rather than opposing these traditions, the course explores their productive dialogue, showing how attention to lively matter can coexist with a critical social and political analysis ultimately reframing the overlooked object as both an active force, tool and sediment of social relations.
We will focus on very different contexts and objects of study from a comparative diachronic perspective, starting with seventeenth and eighteenth-century Spanish still life painting (Sánchez Cotán, Zurbarán, Meléndez, Goya) where everyday objects—food, vessels, tools—appear suspended in time yet charged with latent energy. These compositions negotiate life and stillness, abundance and austerity, the quotidian and the mystical, while also reflecting class structures, domestic labor, and consumption. The
bodegón
emerges here as a conceptual hinge: a trace of human interaction or monastic solitude, but also a script of its outside, and a religious and political pedagogy.
The course then turns to avant-garde literature and film of the 1920s, where writers and film-makers fragme
- Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
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Instructor:
Alberto Medina
Info - 4 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
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Instructor:
Andie Tucher
Info - 3 points
GENERALIST SOCIAL WORK PRACTICUM
GENERALIST SW PRACTICUM
- Department: Social Work
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Instructor:
Sarah R Feeney
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Faculty
h-index: 37 Info - 3 points
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
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Instructor:
Katherine Wilkinson
Info - 3 points
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
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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
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Instructor:
Sarah R Feeney
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Faculty
h-index: 37 Info - 3 points
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
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Instructor:
Alfred H Mueller
CULPA: 2 Wikipedia 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
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Instructor:
Norman H Christ
CULPA: 34 Wikipedia Info - 4.5 points
Nuclear Physics Seminar
The course will cover two main topics: 1) Relativistic heavy ion collisions, and 2) A broad overview of nuclear physics.
The precise allocation of time between Item 1 and Item 2 will be based on student interests. The method of instruction will be via discussion rather than formal lectures, with an emphasis on developing physical intuition using simple tools and numerical estimates. Nuclear physics is an ideal venue for this, since it necessarily incorporates classical and quantum physics, hydrodynamics and various empirical approaches in order to deal with the strong interaction.
Topics in Item 1 include relativistic kinematics, the underlying high energy physics, flow signatures, the Bjorken model, and the role of the AdS/CFT correspondence from string theory. Heuristic descriptions of the quantum chromodynamics will also be provided, especially a discussion of the true meaning of asymptotic freedom in the context of nuclear collisions. Item 2 will cover traditional nuclear physics on an “as needed” basis, both to elucidate the physics in Item 1 and to respond to student interests. Potential topics include nuclear sizes and shapes, uses and abuses of the Wigner-Eckart theorem, fission and fusion, and nuclear astrophysics in the era of gravitational wave astronomy.
- Department: Physics
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Instructor:
William A Zajc
CULPA: 16 Wikipedia Info - 3 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
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Instructor:
Andreas Wimmer
Wikipedia h-index: 41 Info - 4 points
INVENTING THE ANCIENTS
This course brings together the history of collecting and archaeology with biography. By examining the fascinating, entertaining, and often improbable lives of individuals who helped shape modern archaeology and the public museum, it explores the blurred boundaries between professionalism and amateurism, as well as between the fictive and the authentic. Students will read biographies of Hans Sloane, Giovanni Belzoni, Heinrich Schliemann, Luigi and Alessandro Palma di Cesnola, Constantine Simonides, among others, and will engage with themes such as biographical writing; collecting in the age of Enlightenment and empire; the museumization of the past; the reinvention of the ancient Mediterranean; the dream of the East; forgery and the illusion of authenticity; and archaeology, race, and nationalism.
- Department: Italian
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Instructor:
Konstantia Zanou
Info - 3 points
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
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Instructor:
Amy E Sereday
Info - 3 points
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
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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
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Instructor:
Mark Ross-Lonergan
Info - 3 points
PSYCHOPHYSIOLGCL METH/ANALYSIS
- Department: Psychology
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Instructor:
Niall Bolger
CULPA: 4 h-index: 55 Info - 4 points
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
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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
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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
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Instructor:
Galt V Niederhoffer
Info - 3 points
ATOMIC PHYSICS
Recent progress in control of atoms with lasers has led to creating the coldest matter in the universe, constructing ultra precise time and frequency standards, and capability to test high energy theories with tabletop experiments. This course will cover the essentials of atomic physics including the resonance phenomenon, atoms in magnetic and electric fields, and light-matter interactions. These naturally lead to line shapes and laser spectroscopy, as well as to a variety of topics relevant to modern research such as cooling and trapping of atoms. It is recommended for anyone interested in pursuing research in the vibrant field of atomic, molecular, and optical (AMO) physics, and is open to interested students with a one year background in quantum mechanics. Both graduate students and advanced undergraduates are welcome.
- Department: Physics
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Instructor:
Zhenjie Yan
Info - 3 points
SPECIALIZED SOCIAL WORK PRACTICUM
SPECIALIZED SW PRACTICUM
- Department: Social Work
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Instructor:
Sarah R Feeney
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
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Instructor:
Nicholas Glastonbury
Info - 3 points
STUDIES IN DANTE
Inferno
A variable-content course that rotates through various texts of Dante's and various areas of Dante studies. The fall 2026 course will be an in-depth reading of
Inferno
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- Department: Italian
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Instructor:
Teodolinda Barolini
CULPA: 7
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