We’ll be discussing interesting Latin grammar (the verb “to be”), going over exercises that the students have prepared, and translating a memorable story from ancient Greek myth. The more guests, the merrier!

Musicology is the study of music made throughout time and across the world, as well as the people who made and listened to it. In this class we play, listen to, and think about music as a mirror for humanity and as an engine for social change. To become musicologists, we critique, analyze, interpret, and experience music in ways that will impact how we understand people, culture, history, religion, philosophy, and more.

An intermediate French class, taught entirely in French! We will be discussing either a graphic novel about a girl in middle school and what is revealed about French culture through her perspective or else a film by Agnes Varda on gleaning and consumerism in French society. There will be small group activities and discussions, all in French.

In this class we ask: What happens to texts, ideas, and people as they move across time and space. We will move from ancient epics and sacred narratives through medieval pilgrimages, colonial conquests, modern tourism, and contemporary ethnographies drawing on literature, history, anthropology, sociology, and religious studies. Together, we will examine not only how travelers represent the worlds they visit, but how stories, scriptures, and chronicles themselves change as they are translated, appropriated, or altered as they are carried into new hands. Our inquiry centers on four core questions:

Power & Observation: Who and what travels, who is being observed in a travel and how, how do travel narratives represent the observer and observed, and how have travel narratives justified conquest or empire?

Movement & Translation: What happens to stories, scriptures, and ideas when they cross cultural and temporal borders?

Ethics of Arrival: Can encountering another culture be an ethical exchange?
The Self as Traveler: How does our own positioning shape the way we read, question, and produce knowledge?

The class is an introduction to teaching and learning–the first class needed for teaching licensure. As a pre-reflection for this class period, students will be reading “Preparing for Culturally Responsive Teaching” and “Camaraderie” and answering the prompt “How can you be culturally responsive instead of patronizing and performative?”

This is an Introduction to Environmental Studies class. We will typically be breaking into groups for short discussions on a diversity of topics.

This is an intermediate German class, taught in German. On October 2 we will analyze a poem, students write a 10 minute reflection, and we will go over the logistics of their upcoming project day. It’s an interactive class with movement, board space use, and lots of conversation in German.

Due to limited space, we can only accommodate three visitors.

PACON is a discussion class focused on foundational debates in American politics. We have read a libertarian text prior to this session (Jason Brennan’s Why it is Okay to Want to be Rich) and on Oct 2 we will be talking about economic inequality and the history of socialism in the US.

Students will be covering bonding types via lecture and group activities.

This is the first course in beginning Japanese, designed for students with no prior experience in the language. During the class, visitors will observe us discussing and practicing the usage of particles and Katakana letters.

We’ll be discussing interesting Latin grammar (the verb “to be”), going over exercises that the students have prepared, and translating a memorable story from ancient Greek myth.

Third semester music theory and aural skills

This course examines the science of human nutrition and metabolism and their effects on health, physical activity, exercise, and human performance. Students explore the six basic nutrients – carbohydrates, fat, protein, vitamins, minerals, and water – and how they form the foundation for nutritional guidelines. Students also explore the bioenergetic principles that govern metabolic pathways during exercise and physical activity.

Introductory physics course. Visitors will observe the lecture as well as group problem solving.

This is the first course in beginning Japanese, designed for students with no prior experience in the language. During the class, visitors will observe us discussing and practicing the usage of particles and Katakana letters.

This is the first course in beginning Japanese, designed for students with no prior experience in the language. During the class, visitors will observe us discussing and practicing the usage of particles and Katakana letters.

As co-investigators in this course, we will examine theatre and performance traditions across the globe from antiquity to the present day. Rather than presenting theatre history as a solely European or Western narrative, this course explores multiple theatrical traditions including North, Central and South American, South Asian, East Asian, African, Middle Eastern, Slavic, Indigenous, European, and contemporary intercultural performance practices. Through plays, historical documents, visual materials, and scholarly criticism, we will investigate how theatre is inherently political, and how it reflects, resists and shapes social, religious, and cultural change.

First semester music theory and aural skills

Smaller class discussing competing ideas about the nature/definition/practice of “religion”, whatever it may be.

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