printer friendly pageAMSTUD 51Q: Comparative Fictions of Ethnicity (COMPLIT 51Q, CSRE 51Q)
Explorations of how literature can represent in complex and compelling ways issues of difference--how they appear, are debated, or silenced. Specific attention on learning how to read critically in ways that lead one to appreciate the power of literary texts, and learning to formulate your ideas into arguments. Course is a Sophomore Seminar and satisfies Write2. By application only
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: Writing 2, WAY-A-II, GER:DB-Hum, WAY-EDP
Instructors:
Palumbo-Liu, D. (PI)
ANES 70Q: Critical Illness: Patients, Physicians, and Society
Examines the various factors involved in shaping the critical care illness experience for three groups of people: the clinicians, the patients, and patients' families. Medical issues, economic forces and cost concerns, cultural biases, and communication errors can all influence one's perception. Helps students understand the arc of critical illness, and how various factors contribute to the interactions between those various groups. Includes an immersion experience (students are expected to round with clinicians in the ICU and to attend Schwartz rounds, a debriefing meeting about difficult emotional situation) and a mentoring experience (with critical care fellows), in addition to routine class work.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
Instructors:
La, A. (PI)
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McAvoy, J. (PI)
ANES 72Q: The Art of Medical Diagnosis
The Art of Medical Diagnosis: Enhancing Observational Skills through the Study of Art is an interactive, multidisciplinary undergraduate course that explores various ways in which studying art increases critical observational skills vital for aspiring health care providers. Students will be introduced to the concept of `Visual Thinking Strategies' through classroom, art creation, and museum based activities. Students will apply these skills to both works of art and medical cases. Significant focus will be on engaging in group discussions where they will collaboratively use visual evidence to generate and defend hypothesis. Drawing and sketching from life will play a critical role in honing observational skills through weekly assignments, workshops, and a final project. The interactive nature of this course pivots students away from a typical lecture based course to a self-directed learning experience.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: WAY-CE
ARCHLGY 21Q: Eight Great Archaeological Sites in Europe (CLASSICS 21Q)
Preference to sophomores. Focus is on excavation, features and finds, arguments over interpretation, and the place of each site in understanding the archaeological history of Europe. Goal is to introduce the latest archaeological and anthropological thought, and raise key questions about ancient society. The archaeological perspective foregrounds interdisciplinary study: geophysics articulated with art history, source criticism with analytic modeling, statistics interpretation. A web site with resources about each site, including plans, photographs, video, and publications, is the basis for exploring.
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, Writing 2
Instructors:
Shanks, M. (PI)
BIOE 70Q: Medical Device Innovation
BIOE 70Q invites students to apply design thinking to the creation of healthcare technologies. Students will learn about the variety of factors that shape healthcare innovation, and through hands-on design projects, invent their own solutions to clinical needs. Guest instructors will include engineers, doctors, entrepreneurs, and others who have helped bring ideas from concept to clinical use.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: WAY-CE
Instructors:
Mandato, J. (PI)
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Pierce, R. (PI)
CEE 11Q: Sustainability Design Thinking
How can we create high-impact solutions to our planet's most pressing sustainability challenges? And can we use Design Thinking to come up with creative, feasible, and impactful ideas that will promote sustainability in peoples' lives? This seminar and design studio introduces techniques for applying the Design Thinking methodology (pioneered at Stanford's d.School) to create design ideas that are compelling, effective, and realizable. You'll have opportunities to explore and experience how the design thinking methodology can be applied to solve real-world sustainability challenges through a series of design projects where you will exercise and apply design thinking skills to design and propose solutions that promote sustainable behaviors and practices. You will apply contextual, functional and human-centered design thinking techniques to create design ideas that promote sustainability by holistically considering space, form, environment, energy, economics, human behavior, and health.
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How can we create high-impact solutions to our planet's most pressing sustainability challenges? And can we use Design Thinking to come up with creative, feasible, and impactful ideas that will promote sustainability in peoples' lives? This seminar and design studio introduces techniques for applying the Design Thinking methodology (pioneered at Stanford's d.School) to create design ideas that are compelling, effective, and realizable. You'll have opportunities to explore and experience how the design thinking methodology can be applied to solve real-world sustainability challenges through a series of design projects where you will exercise and apply design thinking skills to design and propose solutions that promote sustainable behaviors and practices. You will apply contextual, functional and human-centered design thinking techniques to create design ideas that promote sustainability by holistically considering space, form, environment, energy, economics, human behavior, and health. Working independently and in small teams, you will propose designs that meet the needs of real users and illustrate your strategies for approaching the challenges and opportunities you uncover ? developing project ideas that demonstrate how you've used the design thinking process to make a measurable impact on improving sustainable behaviors and practices.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Katz, G. (PI)
CEE 32Q: Place: Making Space Now
This seminar argues that architeccts are ultimately "placemakers," and questions what that means in the contemporary world. Part I investigates the meaning of the word "place." Additional background for understanding contemporary place making will include a critique of the history of modern place-making through an examination of modern form. Part II examines two traditional notions of place by scale: from "home" to "the city." What elements give these conceptions of space a sense of place? To answer this question, themes such as memory, mapping, and boundary, among others, will be investigated. part III presents challenges to the traditional notions of place discussed in Part II. Topics addressed include: What does it mean to be "out of place"? What sense of place does a nomad have, and how is this represented? What are the "non-places" and how can architects design for these spaces? Part IV addresses the need to re-conceptualize contemporary space. The role of digital and cyber techno
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This seminar argues that architeccts are ultimately "placemakers," and questions what that means in the contemporary world. Part I investigates the meaning of the word "place." Additional background for understanding contemporary place making will include a critique of the history of modern place-making through an examination of modern form. Part II examines two traditional notions of place by scale: from "home" to "the city." What elements give these conceptions of space a sense of place? To answer this question, themes such as memory, mapping, and boundary, among others, will be investigated. part III presents challenges to the traditional notions of place discussed in Part II. Topics addressed include: What does it mean to be "out of place"? What sense of place does a nomad have, and how is this represented? What are the "non-places" and how can architects design for these spaces? Part IV addresses the need to re-conceptualize contemporary space. The role of digital and cyber technologies, the construction of locality in a global world, and the in-between places that result from a world in flux are topics discussed in this section of the seminar. Learning goals: Specific goals include clsoe reading of texts, understanding of philosophical thinking and writing, argument under uncertainty, and developed concepts of place, space and architecture.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II
CEE 33Q: Studio 1: Architecture - Space, Light, and Movement
This introductory architectural design course in the studio core sequence leads students through a series of spatial design exercises. Students will explore the fundamental principles of architectural design through drawing, model making, analysis, craft, organizational systems, narrative, movement, light, form, and scale. Students will also explore architecture on campus, taking their personal experience as a point of departure for the design investigations. We build models exploring spatial arrangements and configurations, learn to draw plans, develop craftsmanship building models, visit buildings around campus, and design a house for a visiting scholar. Most importantly we learn to engage and foster creativity. Many of the best architects and designers maintain a child-like sense of wonder. We all have it, but sometimes this may get de-emphasized as one moves along in their journey of education. We work together to spark and engage that curiosity to design dynamic spaces that relate to the human body. The course is 5 units and requires a significant amount of time. That said it is fun and engaging experience.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Wood, E. (PI)
CLASSICS 21Q: Eight Great Archaeological Sites in Europe (ARCHLGY 21Q)
Preference to sophomores. Focus is on excavation, features and finds, arguments over interpretation, and the place of each site in understanding the archaeological history of Europe. Goal is to introduce the latest archaeological and anthropological thought, and raise key questions about ancient society. The archaeological perspective foregrounds interdisciplinary study: geophysics articulated with art history, source criticism with analytic modeling, statistics interpretation. A web site with resources about each site, including plans, photographs, video, and publications, is the basis for exploring.
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, Writing 2, WAY-A-II
Instructors:
Shanks, M. (PI)
COMPLIT 21Q: Wilde's Worlds: Oscar Wilde in the International Context
This course introduces you to Oscar Wilde's life and works in various international literary, artistic, social, and cultural contexts in the European fin de siecle, as well as to Wilde's posthumous reception as an international iconic figure of LGBTQ+ literary and cultural history. We will consider Wilde's own roots in Irish culture; his love for Ancient Greece and Rome in the context of Oxford Hellenism; the influence of French and Belgian Decadence and Symbolism on The Picture of Dorian Gray and Salome (which we will read side by side with writings by Joris-Karl Huysmans, Stephane Mallarme, and Rachilde); Wilde's interest in the visual and decorative arts; Wilde's joyful dandyism and vibrant queer literary networks in Paris and London; the impact of Wilde's 1895 trials and imprisonment for "acts of gross indecency"; Wilde's reception in countries such as Germany, Japan, Russia, and the U.S.; and the vibrant posthumous afterlife of Wilde's work and persona in dance, opera, films, musi
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This course introduces you to Oscar Wilde's life and works in various international literary, artistic, social, and cultural contexts in the European fin de siecle, as well as to Wilde's posthumous reception as an international iconic figure of LGBTQ+ literary and cultural history. We will consider Wilde's own roots in Irish culture; his love for Ancient Greece and Rome in the context of Oxford Hellenism; the influence of French and Belgian Decadence and Symbolism on The Picture of Dorian Gray and Salome (which we will read side by side with writings by Joris-Karl Huysmans, Stephane Mallarme, and Rachilde); Wilde's interest in the visual and decorative arts; Wilde's joyful dandyism and vibrant queer literary networks in Paris and London; the impact of Wilde's 1895 trials and imprisonment for "acts of gross indecency"; Wilde's reception in countries such as Germany, Japan, Russia, and the U.S.; and the vibrant posthumous afterlife of Wilde's work and persona in dance, opera, films, musicals, cartoons, and popular culture from the 1900s to today. Studying Oscar Wilde's life and works in such comparative and international contexts opens a door to the historical 1890s, while also giving us the chance to understand and appreciate Wilde's legacy as a queer artist and cultural trailblazer that still speaks to us in our own time. This course will emphasize close reading, analytical writing, and honing your presentation skills as you learn to understand and appreciate the many worlds of Oscar Wilde from the 1890s to today.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, Writing 2
Instructors:
Dierkes, P. (PI)
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