printer friendly pageOSPPARIS 10B: Biology and Bio-Engineering Research Internship
Laboratory of the National Museum of Natural History. Work with international research team on project elucidating the origin of the diversity of animal form. Modern techniques in functional genomics. Applied questions on human development in an environment where embryology, paleontology and medicine converge. Two days a week commitment required.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
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Units: 6
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
OSPPARIS 12: Paris Photography Workshop
Exploration of Paris through camera and lab techniques. Both theoretical and practical aspects of creative photography. Extensive field work. Enrollment limited.
Terms: Aut
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Units: 3
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UG Reqs: WAY-CE
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Grading: Satisfactory/No Credit
Instructors:
Villegas-Paez, O. (PI)
OSPPARIS 12C: French Through Songs Workshop
French culture and language through songs. Classics of French songs as well as their composers and singers. Working in teams, learn lyrics through games, quizzes and riddles. Phonetics, vocalization and breathing exercises in preparation for final production. Enrollment limited; minimum of five for the course to be offered.
Terms: Win
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Units: 3
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Grading: Satisfactory/No Credit
OSPPARIS 12D: Public Speaking in French Workshop: Phonetics, Rhythm and Confidence
Reading texts such as poems, theater scenes and speeches aloud in French. Analysis of ideas, words, punctuation and rhythm of texts. Importance of gestures and body language while speaking.Optional public presentation at end of quarter. Enrollment limited, but minimum enrollment of five for course to be offered.
Terms: Spr
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Units: 3
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Grading: Satisfactory/No Credit
OSPPARIS 15: Hospital Internship
Observation of medical services in Paris hospitals. How hospital teams work in France; how medical decisions are made; how patients are treated by nurses and doctors.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
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Units: 3
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Repeatable for credit
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Grading: Satisfactory/No Credit
OSPPARIS 16: Independent Study: Women Writers in Paris
Expatriate women writers - American and British - who lived and wrote in Paris between the wars. Among them: Edith Wharton, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, H.D., Djuna Barnes, Margaret Anderson, Janet Flanner, Natalie Barney, Kay Boyle, Mina Loy, Romaine Brooks, Mary Butts, Radclyffe Hall, Colette, and Jean Rhys. A central theme will be Paris as a lure and inspiration for bohemian female modernists -- especially the so-called 'Sapphic modernists' (Stein, Barnes, Barney, Flanner et al) -- and the various alternative and emancipatory literary communities they created.
Terms: Win
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Units: 5
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
Instructors:
Castle, T. (PI)
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Vermeule, B. (PI)
OSPPARIS 17: Engaged Intellectual
Laboratory format to create works of art inspired by the local urban environment. Projects include: sonic scavenger hunts to record Paris? sound ecology as basis for electronic music works; solo and group performance art, and public poetry readings related to and staged throughout the city at idiosyncratic locations; temporary public visual art such as chalk art; bricolage art projects that result in sculpture and two-dimensional visual art constituted by found objects salvaged from the Parisian cityscape. No experience required.
Terms: Win
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Units: 5
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
Instructors:
Castle, T. (PI)
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Vermeule, B. (PI)
OSPPARIS 26: France: Present and Future
Students read and discuss lead articles and associated issues in a daily French newspaper, usually
Le Monde. Additional articles from past newspapers and scholarly essays to provide context.
Terms: Aut
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Units: 2
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Lougee, C. (PI)
OSPPARIS 27: Paris and Politics
Development of Paris as a capital city over the past four centuries, emphasizing how political entities and ideals and sociopolitical challenges have shaped its physical setting and urban culture. Field trips.
Terms: Aut
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Units: 5
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UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-SI
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
Instructors:
Lougee, C. (PI)
OSPPARIS 30: The Avant Garde in France through Literature, Art, and Theater
Multiple artistic trends and esthetic theories from Baudelaire to the Nouveau Roman, from the Surrealists to Oulipo, from the theater of cruelty to the theater of the absurd, from the Impressionists to Yves Klein. Interdisciplinary approach to reflect on the meaning of avant garde and modernity in general, and on the question of why revolutionary artists in France remained in search of institutional recognition, nonetheless.
Terms: Aut
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Units: 4
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UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
Instructors:
Quenault, G. (PI)
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