Courses - Spring 2010

The following is a list of courses for the Spring 2010 semester categorized by School of Thought.

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Cognitive Science (CS)

 * Coding Images: An Introduction to Programming in C through Image Manipulation and Creation ~ CS-0110
 * Philosophy and the Emotions ~ CS-0118
 * Language Acquisition ~ CS-0125
 * Psychology of Perception ~ CS-0147
 * Computer Animation I ~ CS-0174
 * Aliens: Close Encounter of the Multidisciplinary Kind ~ CS-0177
 * Consuming Childhood ~ CS-0185
 * Philosophy of Mind ~ CS-0202
 * Linguistic Data Collection: Field Methods ~ CS-0209
 * Art Programming: Creating Art Using the Medium of Computers ~ CS-0210
 * Improving TheHub ~ CS-0214
 * Research Experience in Psychology: Understanding Autobiographical Memory ~ CS-0217
 * The Behavior and Evolution of Dogs ~ CS-0225
 * The Structure of Words: Evidence from Hebrew, Arabic and English ~ CS-0228
 * Child Psychology: How Did I Get Like This? ~ CS-0232
 * Teaching Science in Urban Schools ~ CS-0253
 * Genetic Programming ~ CS-0254
 * Political Culture ~ CS-0257
 * Cognitive Psychology ~ CS-0265
 * Bringing Astronomy Down to Earth: The art of communicating science using electronic media ~ CS-0267
 * Advanced Web Design: Building Complex Web Pages and Sites ~ CS-0272
 * Bioacoustics ~ CS-0274
 * Sex on the Brain: Gender, Sex and Biology ~ CS-0278
 * Looking at Classrooms: Educational Research, Program Evaluation, and Improvement ~ CS-0283
 * Journalism and Modernism ~ CS-0288
 * Brain and Cognition II: Electrophysiology of Mind ~ CS-0313
 * Advanced Field Methods in Animal Behavior ~ CS-0326
 * Stress Across Cultures Seminar ~ CS-0384

Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies (HACU)

 * Chorus ~ HACU-0101
 * Introduction to Writing ~ HACU-0103
 * Introduction to Drawing ~ HACU-0106
 * Introduction to Media Production: Too Big for Words ~ HACU-0109
 * Investigating Women's Art ~ HACU-0112
 * The Anatomy of Pictures: Visual Cultures ~ HACU-0120
 * Reading Generically: Modern Short Prose ~ HACU-0137
 * Architecture Backwards & Forwards: Transforming Old Buildings for Contemporary Culture ~ HACU-0148
 * Introduction to "Asia" Through Music and Performing Arts ~ HACU-0149
 * Making Dances ~ HACU-0151
 * Subjectivity and/or Diversity: First-Person Narrative in Film ~ HACU-0153
 * Introduction to Philosophy ~ HACU-0154
 * Introduction to Film Studies: The History of American Cinema 1895-1960 ~ HACU-0155
 * Moby-Dick and Its Afterlife ~ HACU-0159
 * The English Bible ~ HACU-0161
 * Myth, Belief, and Reality in World Literature ~ HACU-0172
 * The Politics of Popular Culture ~ HACU-0183
 * Literature of Crime and Detection ~ HACU-0185
 * The Rise of Jewish Secular Culture ~ HACU-0190
 * Ancient Ireland ~ HACU-0193
 * Topics in Comparative Religion ~ HACU-0197
 * Artists' Books ~ HACU-0201
 * Contemporary/Modern Dance Techiques II: Advanced Beginning ~ HACU-0202
 * Group Improvisation: Introduction to Creative Dance ~ HACU-0203
 * Artists' Books ~ HACU-0204
 * American Strings: Old Time and Bluegrass ~ HACU-0205
 * Writing the Civil War ~ HACU-0206
 * Introduction to Painting ~ HACU-0208
 * Video I ~ HACU-0209
 * Film Workshop I ~ HACU-0210
 * Still Photography Workshop I: Analogue ~ HACU-0211
 * Contemporary/Modern Dance IV: High Intermediate Modern Dance Techniques ~ HACU-0216
 * Colonization in Eye-Witness Accounts (ca. 1500-1800) ~ HACU-0218
 * Samba Ensemble ~ HACU-0219
 * Photography and the East ~ HACU-0224
 * American Literature at the Turn of the 20th Century ~ HACU-0225
 * To Be Queer, Black, & Beautiful: The Transgressive Black Body in Black Diasporic Literature ~ HACU-0237
 * Audio Culture: Theories and Practices in Music Now ~ HACU-0238
 * Jazz Improvisational Orchestra ~ HACU-0239
 * The Personal Essay ~ HACU-0240
 * J-pop and Beyond: Japanese Popular Culture in the Transnational Context ~ HACU-0246
 * Introduction to Modern Buddhism: Orientalism, Buddhist Psychotherapy, Brain Activities of Tibetan Monks ~ HACU-0250
 * Digital Photography II ~ HACU-0253
 * Still Photography Workshop II ~ HACU-0254
 * Media Production II: Documentary Practice ~ HACU-0255
 * The Task of the Translator ~ HACU-0259
 * Americans Abroad: U.S. Exceptionalism, Foreign Policy and the Literary Imagination ~ HACU-0263
 * Tonal Music Theory II ~ HACU-0265
 * Jazz Tap Dancing America: History and Practice ~ HACU-0266
 * The Idea of Europe: Readings in the 20th Century Novel ~ HACU-0275
 * Brecht and Beckett, and Benjamin and Adorno ~ HACU-0276
 * Fanon and After ~ HACU-0277
 * The (Post)Racial State: Ideology, Politics, and the Media ~ HACU-0280
 * Theory Practice--Immediate Site--Video/Sound Installation + Performance ~ HACU-0282
 * The Nineteenth-Century Novel and the British Empire ~ HACU-0283
 * Figure Painting and Drawing Workshop: The Figure and Contemporary Art ~ HACU-0284
 * Laban Movement Analysis ~ HACU-0285
 * Paris and the Banlieues: Cityscape and Diaspora in French and Francophone Cinema ~ HACU-0287
 * The Bioapparatus ~ HACU-0291
 * Literature, Violence, and the State ~ HACU-0293
 * Embodied Imagination ~ HACU-0294
 * Yoga: Philosophy, Religion, Literature ~ HACU-0297
 * Division II Independent Projects in Film, Photography, Video and Installation ~ HACU-0299
 * Advanced Studio Projects:Reconsidering the Every Day ~ HACU-0305
 * Think. See. Do--Concentrations in Studio Architecture ~ HACU-0307
 * Marking Place: Case Studies in Modern and Contemporary Art, Architecture, Performance, and Design ~ HACU-0319
 * Computer Music 2 ~ HACU-0331
 * Film/Photography/Video Studies Seminar ~ HACU-0399

Interdisciplinary Arts (IA)

 * Elementary Spanish ~ IA-0101
 * Elementary Spanish II ~ IA-0102
 * Introduction to Writing ~ IA-0103
 * Elementary Chinese II ~ IA-0112
 * Elementary Yiddish ~ IA-0118
 * Sculpture Foundation ~ IA-0120
 * American Sign Language Level II ~ IA-0124
 * Playwriting ~ IA-0131
 * Sequential Imagery I ~ IA-0159
 * Drawing Foundation ~ IA-0160
 * Living For Tomorrow I: cultural contestations, gender politics and the AIDS epidemic ~ IA-0161
 * Out of Character: Writing and Performing the Monologue ~ IA-0170
 * Design Fundamentals ~ IA-0180
 * Social Entrepreneurship Part II ~ IA-0193
 * Intermediate Spanish I ~ IA-0201
 * Intermediate Spanish II ~ IA-0202
 * Teaching Art in The Elementary School ~ IA-0211
 * Formative narratives in times of a pandemic: human conundrum and HIV realities ~ IA-0212
 * A Century of British and Irish Drama ~ IA-0213
 * ACTivism: Theatre As Social Change ~ IA-0214
 * Hip Hop Theatre - UMASS ~ IA-0215
 * Practices of Dramaturgy ~ IA-0225
 * Storytelling As Performance: Voice, Body, Narrative ~ IA-0228
 * Object and Environment ~ IA-0229
 * Setting the Stage: Three Planks and a Passion ~ IA-0230
 * The Practice of Literary Journalism ~ IA-0236
 * Appropriate Technology in the World ~ IA-0237
 * Digital Art: Multimedia, Malleability and Interactivity ~ IA-0241
 * East African Popular Culture ~ IA-0249
 * Intermediate Drawing ~ IA-0257
 * Electronics and Assistive Technology ~ IA-0259
 * The Past Remembered: Photographs, Facts and Fictions 1935-1943 ~ IA-0264
 * Short Story Fiction Workshop ~ IA-0280
 * Poetry Workshop ~ IA-0286
 * Poetry and Childhood ~ IA-0289
 * Writing the Fantastic: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror ~ IA-0295
 * Mysterious Fictions: writing about secrets ~ IA-0298
 * Third Year Chinese II ~ IA-0312
 * Advanced Swahili for Development Policy Studies ~ IA-0329
 * Advanced Sculpture: Emphasis on the Figure ~ IA-0330
 * Advanced Seminar in Writing ~ IA-399A

Lemelson Program (LM)

 * Women's Fabrication Skills ~ LM-0143
 * Design Fundamentals ~ LM-0180
 * Social Entrepreneurship Part II ~ LM-0193
 * Appropriate Technology in the World ~ LM-0237
 * Electronics and Assistive Technology ~ LM-0259

Natural Science (NS)

 * Chemicals in Your Food: The Good, the Bad, and the Indifferent ~ NS-0114
 * Understanding Cultural and Linguistic Competence as a Central Strategy to Address Health Disparities ~ NS-0128
 * Bodies, Guts and Bones: A Biocultural Approach to Diet and Nutrition ~ NS-0134
 * Health in America pre- and post-contact ~ NS-0138
 * Tree Rings and Climate Change ~ NS-0151
 * Sustainable Water Resources ~ NS-0157
 * Structure of Randomness ~ NS-0167
 * Aliens: Close Encounters of the Multidisciplinary Kind ~ NS-0177
 * Ever Since Darwin ~ NS-0198
 * Chemistry II ~ NS-0203
 * Ecology ~ NS-0207
 * Climate Change: Exploring the Science and Solutions ~ NS-0211
 * The Politics, Geography and Management of New England Natural Areas ~ NS-0215
 * Field techniques in fisheries ecology, conservation, and management ~ NS-0216
 * Comparative Animal Physiology with Lab ~ NS-0221
 * Astrophysics I: Stars and Galaxies ~ NS-0228
 * Sex, Gender, and Evolutionary Biology ~ NS-0240
 * Epidemiology ~ NS-0248
 * Teaching Science in Urban Schools ~ NS-0253
 * Calculus II ~ NS-0261
 * Statistics ~ NS-0265
 * Bringing Astronomy Down to Earth: The art of communicating science using electronic media ~ NS-0267
 * Elements of Sustainability ~ NS-0276
 * Sex on the Brain: Gender, Sex and Biology ~ NS-0278
 * Food Microbiology ~ NS-0290
 * Molecular Ecology ~ NS-0293
 * Complex Function Theory ~ NS-0318
 * Math Book Seminar: Advanced Calculus ~ NS-0325
 * Bodies, Guts and Bones: A Biocultural Approach to Diet and Nutrition ~ NS-0334
 * Hybridization and Hybrid Zones ~ NS-0346
 * Tree Rings and Climate Change ~ NS-0351
 * Sustainable Water Resources ~ NS-0357
 * Environmental Resources Seminar ~ NS-0365
 * Environmental Chemistry ~ NS-0366
 * Stress Across Cultures Seminar ~ NS-0384
 * New Ways of Knowing Integrative Seminar ~ NS-386I
 * Zymurgy ~ NS-0396
 * Ever Since Darwin ~ NS-0398

Outdoor Programs and Recreational Activities (OPRA)

 * Beginning Shotokan Karate ~ OPRA-0101
 * Intermediate Shotokan Karate ~ OPRA-0102
 * Gentle Rejuvenative Yoga ~ OPRA-0106
 * Intermediate/Advanced Yoga ~ OPRA-0107
 * Aikido ~ OPRA-0113
 * Beginning Kyudo ~ OPRA-0115
 * Intermediate Kyudo ~ OPRA-0116
 * Iaido: The Art of the Japanese Sword ~ OPRA-0117
 * R.A.D.: Basic Self-Defense for Women ~ OPRA-0118
 * T'ai Chi ~ OPRA-0120
 * Beginning Whitewater Kayaking ~ OPRA-0123
 * Beginning Whitewater Kayaking ~ OPRA-0124
 * Beyond Beginning Whitewater Kayaking ~ OPRA-0126
 * Backcountry Navigation ~ OPRA-0130
 * Outdoor Adventure Sampler ~ OPRA-0132
 * Beginning Swimming ~ OPRA-0141
 * Lifeguard Training ~ OPRA-0145
 * Trail Running ~ OPRA-0147
 * Open Water SCUBA Certification ~ OPRA-0149
 * Top Rope Climbing ~ OPRA-0151
 * Top Rope Climbing ~ OPRA-0152
 * Lead Rock Climbing ~ OPRA-0156
 * Mountain Biking ~ OPRA-0157
 * Ice Climbing ~ OPRA-0158
 * Bicycle Maintenance ~ OPRA-0161
 * Winter Camping and Travel ~ OPRA-0163
 * Beginning Spinning ~ OPRA-0164
 * Intermediate Spinning ~ OPRA-0165
 * Basic Fitness and Training ~ OPRA-0174
 * Strength Training ~ OPRA-0176
 * Fundamentals of Basketball ~ OPRA-0181
 * Fundamentals of Tennis ~ OPRA-0185
 * Outdoor Leadership ~ OPRA-0218

Social Science (SS)

 * Religion and Violence in South Asia ~ SS-0111
 * Queer Cases ~ SS-0116
 * To Make our World Anew: Introduction to African American Studies ~ SS-0120
 * Gendered Bodies: Race, Sex, and the Cultures of Biology ~ SS-0129
 * The Culture(s) of United States' Foreign Policy ~ SS-0135
 * Writing the Urban Experience ~ SS-0139
 * Culture, Religion and Environmentalism ~ SS-0151
 * Nuns, Saints, and Mystics in Mediveval and Early Modern Europe ~ SS-0157
 * Citizenship, Freedom, and the Good Life ~ SS-0159
 * Gender and Economic Development ~ SS-0166
 * Creating Families ~ SS-0174
 * History of the Global Economy ~ SS-0181
 * Consuming Childhood ~ SS-0185
 * The Rise of Jewish Secular Culture ~ SS-0190
 * Artivism & the Social Imagination ~ SS-0203
 * Writing the Civil War ~ SS-0206
 * Critical Bioethics ~ SS-0208
 * Anthropology of Religion ~ SS-0209
 * Introductory Economics ~ SS-0210
 * United States Labor History ~ SS-0214
 * Chinese Diasporic Communities in the World: Race, Empire, and Transnationalism ~ SS-0216
 * Colonization in Eye-Witness Accounts (ca. 1500-1800) ~ SS-0218
 * African Americans and the Politics of Reparations ~ SS-0228
 * The American School: Education in a Multicultural Society ~ SS-0231
 * Child Psychology: How Did I Get Like This? ~ SS-0232
 * Coffeehouses, Catastrophe, and Culture: East Central Europe in a Century of Upheaval ~ SS-0234
 * Excess, Ephemera, and the "Unlivable" ~ SS-0241
 * Border Matters: Mexico and the United States ~ SS-0248
 * East African Popular Culture ~ SS-0249
 * Critical Ethnography ~ SS-0250
 * Oral History: The Craft of a Historian ~ SS-0251
 * Critical Issues in Asian American History ~ SS-0252
 * Framing Climate Change: Race, Gender, Inequality and the Future of the Environment ~ SS-0256
 * Islamism ~ SS-0257
 * The Contested American Countryside ~ SS-0271
 * Making Social Change ~ SS-0276
 * Socially Engaged Buddhism ~ SS-0277
 * Sex on the Brain: Gender, Sex and Biology ~ SS-0278
 * The Diminished Superpower: American Foreign Policy in the Obama Era ~ SS-0282
 * Critical Psychology ~ SS-0286
 * Meeting Lacan ~ SS-0287
 * Race: The Adventures of a Concept ~ SS-0288
 * Poetry and Childhood ~ SS-0289
 * State and Politics in Africa ~ SS-0291
 * Advanced Readings in Work, Gender and Development ~ SS-0294
 * Music of the Trans-Latin@ Atlantic ~ SS-0295
 * Writing Psychoanalysis ~ SS-0306
 * Social Science Division III Seminar ~ SS-0316
 * Writing about the Social: Theory in Practice ~ SS-0397

Writing Program (WP)

 * Writing Project Workshop ~ WP-0201