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SHUM 1110
FWS: Reporting from Hell

When you're being bombed, hunted down or otherwise persecuted, can you objectively report on what's happening? Is your on-the-spot report on hell superior to testimony you give years later? Is an eyewitness ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17380 SHUM 1110   SEM 101

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SHUM 4991
Romanticism and the Fate of the Senses

What if, William Blake once asked, every bird that flies "is an immense world of delight, closed by your senses five?" Asking what real and possible worlds our habits of sensory perception exclude, Romantic ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 4019, ENGL 4491, STS 4981

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17030 SHUM 4991   SEM 101

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SHUM 4993
U.S. Pop Music and Racial Common Sense

This course brings together the fields of sound, popular music, and performance studies in order to investigate how "racial common sense" has been constituted at various moments in U.S. cultural history. ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 4990, MUSIC 4333, PMA 4964

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17020 SHUM 4993   SEM 101

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SHUM 4995
Sensory Power, Sensory Subjects

The course will focus the notions of ''sensory power'' and ''politics of sensation'' through the analysis of contemporary forms of biopolitical governmentality in western democracies.The ethical-aesthetical ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17024 SHUM 4995   SEM 101

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SHUM 4997
Pygmalion: Aesthetics of Touch

"Please Do Not Touch" is one of the signs we are most accustomed to seeing in art museums, yet the very need to make this request demonstrates how objects often invite, seek, even demand that we transgress ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARTH 4956, CLASS 4602, VISST 4956

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17026 SHUM 4997   SEM 001

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SHUM 4998
Feeling in Sound: Touch and the New Musical Body

This seminar explores musical, aesthetic, physiological, and mythical  concepts associated with 'touch' in music. Focusing on the relationship between the hand of the musician and musical sound, we will ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 4029, MUSIC 4334

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17033 SHUM 4998   SEM 101

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SHUM 6819
Urban Representations

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARCH 6307

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: Scattered Projections: Mobile Global Cinema

  •  9166 SHUM 6819   SEM 103

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