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Author: Cyd Cipolla

GERM-UA 283 Topics: Albrecht Durer & German Renaissance

Taking its cue from Thomas Piketty’s recent Capital in the Twenty-First Century and from nineteenth century discussions to examine Capitalism…
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Posted on: March 25, 2019 Last updated on: March 25, 2019 Written by: Cyd Cipolla

PERF-UT 306 Race and Performance

This semester, the course will consider various forms of performance (including performance art, visual art, sound art, literature, politics, and…
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Posted on: March 25, 2019 Last updated on: March 25, 2019 Written by: Cyd Cipolla

UPADM-GP 260: What Really Matters? Leadership with No Regrets

In study after study, people lying on their deathbeds overwhelmingly say they regret five things at their end of their…
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Posted on: March 25, 2019 Last updated on: March 25, 2019 Written by: Cyd Cipolla

UPADM-GP 251: Legal & Ethical Approaches to Islam

We will study the formation and development of Islamic law and philosophy. We will examine the evolution and development of…
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Posted on: March 25, 2019 Last updated on: March 25, 2019 Written by: Cyd Cipolla

UNDSW-US 112: Lobbying, Legislation, and Social Action

This course is designed to introduce undergraduate students to how legislation works, lobbying, and taking social action through a social…
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Posted on: March 25, 2019 Last updated on: March 25, 2019 Written by: Cyd Cipolla

UNDSW-US 89: Film, Literature and Mental Health

Artists often explore powerful issues of mental health through literature and film. “No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness…
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Posted on: March 25, 2019 Last updated on: March 25, 2019 Written by: Cyd Cipolla

UNDSW-US 87: Food Justice

Food used to be consumed to just sustain life, but now eating can have a political, cultural, and social meaning.…
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Posted on: March 25, 2019 Last updated on: March 25, 2019 Written by: Cyd Cipolla

HI-UY 2514: Introduction to New York City History

This course looks at the history and development of the City of New York, from Verazzano’s exploration to the present.…
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Posted on: March 25, 2019 Last updated on: March 25, 2019 Written by: Cyd Cipolla

STS-UY 3204W: Science and Difference

This course critically examines the various frameworks through which science operates to construct difference in living populations. It analyzes the…
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Posted on: March 25, 2019 Last updated on: March 25, 2019 Written by: Cyd Cipolla

STS-UY 2634: Psychology of the Internet

This class investigates aspects of human behavior in terms of the Internet. The Internet is a technological phenomenon that allows…
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Posted on: March 25, 2019 Last updated on: March 25, 2019 Written by: Cyd Cipolla

STS-UY 2314 It’s About Time

From looking at a watch and noting the change from day to night and counting the days, months and years,…
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Posted on: March 25, 2019 Last updated on: March 25, 2019 Written by: Cyd Cipolla

STS-UY 2244: Magic, Medicine and Science

This course looks at the metaphysical and epistemological origins of three systems of thought—the organic, the magical and the mechanical—and…
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Posted on: March 25, 2019 Last updated on: March 25, 2019 Written by: Cyd Cipolla

STS-UY 2144: Ethics and Technology

This course considers how technology shapes and patterns—and is shaped and patterned by—human activities, from a moral point of view.…
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Posted on: March 25, 2019 Last updated on: March 25, 2019 Written by: Cyd Cipolla

STS-UY 2004: Science, Technology and Society

his course introduces important issues, historical and contemporary, related to science and technology from a variety of social, political and…
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Posted on: March 25, 2019 Last updated on: March 25, 2019 Written by: Cyd Cipolla

CAMS-UA 113: The Nature of Success

What makes a person successful? What contributes to failure? What do these terms really mean anyway? This course is designed…
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Posted on: March 25, 2019 Last updated on: March 25, 2019 Written by: Cyd Cipolla

HIST-UA 293: Medicine and Disease in America

This seminar will explore the immense historical importance of infectious disease, in particular, using it as a lens to confront…
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Posted on: March 25, 2019 Last updated on: March 25, 2019 Written by: Cyd Cipolla

HIST-UA 283: The University: What Was It? What Is it? What Should it Be?

This course explores the nature & function of higher learning beginning with the Greeks & the ancient academy through the…
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Posted on: March 25, 2019 Last updated on: March 25, 2019 Written by: Cyd Cipolla

HIST-UA 264 Northern Europe in the Age of Renaissance and Reformation

This course explores the history of Northern Europe between 1400 and 1700. These three centuries were marked by massive transformations…
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Posted on: March 25, 2019 Last updated on: March 25, 2019 Written by: Cyd Cipolla

HIST-UA 182 Hist of Modern Ireland I: 1580-1800

History of Ireland I (1534–1800) is a survey of the principal events, conditions, and historical figures that shaped Irish history…
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Posted on: March 25, 2019 Last updated on: March 25, 2019 Written by: Cyd Cipolla

HIST-UA 160 Imperial Cities: Rome, Constantinople, Istanbul

A comparative study of the cities of Rome, Constantinople and Istanbul, the capitals of the most powerful empires of the…
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Posted on: March 25, 2019 Last updated on: March 25, 2019 Written by: Cyd Cipolla

HIST-UA 104: The Medieval Life Cycle. From Birth to Rebirth

This seminar will examine the human life cycle as it was experienced and interpreted by men and women of medieval…
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Posted on: March 25, 2019 Last updated on: March 25, 2019 Written by: Cyd Cipolla

COLIT-UA 852: Sounds of Italy 1910-1970

This course will acquaint students with a variety of sound artifacts and sound related texts, grouped around topics significant for…
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Posted on: March 25, 2019 Last updated on: March 25, 2019 Written by: Cyd Cipolla

COLIT-UA 866: The Unquiet Dead

Human life and artistic narrative can both be presumed to share one crucial defining feature: each always comes to an…
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Posted on: March 25, 2019 Last updated on: March 25, 2019 Written by: Cyd Cipolla

MEIS-UA 718 Introduction to Ancient Indian Literature

An introductory course designed to acquaint students with the great works of the ancient Indian literary tradition, a major part…
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Posted on: March 25, 2019 Last updated on: March 25, 2019 Written by: Cyd Cipolla

COLIT-UA 726: Chinese Literature & World Literature

What is Chinese literature, and what is world literature? Is Chinese literature world literature? Are these questions even worth asking?…
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Posted on: March 25, 2019 Last updated on: March 25, 2019 Written by: Cyd Cipolla

COLIT-UA 550: French Fashion, Taste & Style

French Fashion, Taste, and Style Course description: Clothing is a text to be read in modernity, and authors and artists…
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Posted on: March 25, 2019 Last updated on: March 25, 2019 Written by: Cyd Cipolla

ITAL-UA 400 From Polenta to Marinara: History of Italian Food

In this course we will cover the Italian varieties of food in their past and present forms. The first half…
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Posted on: March 25, 2019 Last updated on: March 25, 2019 Written by: Cyd Cipolla

MEDI-UA 271 Dante’s Divine Comedy

This course is dedicated to a one-semester guided reading of the Divine Comedy in its entirety. The text will be…
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Posted on: March 25, 2019 Last updated on: March 25, 2019 Written by: Cyd Cipolla

EAST-UA 953: Meiji Japan and the Nation-State

When did the samurai become Japanese? It’s not as absurd a question as it seems. Using Japan’s transformation from the…
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Posted on: March 25, 2019 Last updated on: March 25, 2019 Written by: Cyd Cipolla

EAST-UA 953: Transpacific Racism & Anti-Racism

The course examines trans-Pacific encounters between East Asia and the U.S., with a particular focus on the crossings of minor…
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Posted on: March 25, 2019 Last updated on: March 25, 2019 Written by: Cyd Cipolla

EAST-UA 952: Of Bandits, Saints, and Beasts

Although Confucianism and its “down to earth” approach to ethics and political rule dominated Chinese government since the middle of…
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Posted on: March 25, 2019 Last updated on: March 25, 2019 Written by: Cyd Cipolla

EAST-UA 951: Cosmopolitan Desires and Korean Imaginations

This course examines critical and aesthetic cosmopolitan discourses in contemporary cultural formations in Korea. We will take a look at…
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Posted on: March 25, 2019 Last updated on: March 25, 2019 Written by: Cyd Cipolla

EAST-UA 708 Japanese Animation & New Media

This course looks at the terms and conditions of Japanese animation (primarily, though not exclusively, anime) as, in many ways,…
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Posted on: March 25, 2019 Last updated on: March 25, 2019 Written by: Cyd Cipolla

EAST-UA 552 The Cold War in Asia: 1945-2001

This course will focus on U.S. foreign policy in Asia since 1945. The ways U.S. global interests and concerns sought…
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Posted on: March 25, 2019 Last updated on: March 25, 2019 Written by: Cyd Cipolla

CLASS-UA 150: Cities & Sanctuaries of Ancient Greece

.What impact did built urban development have on local communities across the ancient Greek world? What was the relationship between…
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Posted on: March 25, 2019 Last updated on: March 25, 2019 Written by: Cyd Cipolla

CLASS-UA 294: Staging Ancient Drama: Playing the Greeks

This course combines practical workshops with scholarly discussion to examine different aspects of how ancient Greek plays were staged. Themes…
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Posted on: March 25, 2019 Last updated on: March 25, 2019 Written by: Cyd Cipolla

CLASS-UA 293 Belief & Practice in Greek Religion

The religions of ancient Greece and Rome are often thought of as highly pragmatic: they focus on ‘practice’, on ritual…
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Posted on: March 25, 2019 Last updated on: March 25, 2019 Written by: Cyd Cipolla

CLASS-UA 293 Greek Islands: Myth, Archaeology, and Networks

From the birth of Apollo on Delos to the Byzantine monasteries of Patmos; from the from the copper mines of…
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Posted on: March 25, 2019 Last updated on: March 25, 2019 Written by: Cyd Cipolla

CLASS-UA 291: Taking Offense: Literary Transgression and Censorship in the Ancient World

This class will explore ancient literature that violates (whether deliberately or unintentionally) conventions of taste and decorum to offend, leading…
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Posted on: March 25, 2019 Last updated on: March 25, 2019 Written by: Cyd Cipolla

CLASS-UA 291:,Fate and Free Will in Ancient Greek/Roman Thought

In this seminar, we will study the various discussions of determinism, fate, and free will in ancient Greek and Roman…
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Posted on: March 25, 2019 Last updated on: March 25, 2019 Written by: Cyd Cipolla

SCA-UA 366 Constitution and People of Color

Examines how the American legal system decided constitutional challenges affecting the empowerment of African, Latino, and Asian American communities from…
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Posted on: March 25, 2019 Last updated on: March 25, 2019 Written by: Cyd Cipolla

SCA-UA 157 Hip Hop & Politics

In places ranging from the political theory of Adolph Reed to the comedy of Bill Cosby we find a critique…
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Posted on: October 15, 2018 Last updated on: March 25, 2019 Written by: Cyd Cipolla
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