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Knowing by Sensing
Learning objectives: Students are familiar with the most important concepts and elements in the history of the senses in modern and early modern Europe (1500-now).
Students will learn to enlarge their sensory vocabulary and reflect on the sensory perception by means of a sense-log.
Bodies, Spaces, Performances
Learning objectives: Graduate learning outcomes in this course focus on learner skills in four general areas (1. Knowledge and Thinking, 2. Conceptual and Creative Activity, 3. Communication & Literacy, 4. Capacity for Autonomy & Leadership
Led by: Mark Lipton
Anthropology of Sound
Learning objectives: This course is designed to sensitize students to the often-forgotten presence of sounds in everyday life. More than just a phenomenological account of sound, the course proposes to consider all sound-related dimensions (noise, music, voice, silence, etc.) as significant elements of research and analysis.
Led by: Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier
African American History and the Five Senses
This is a month long unit that ties African-American history month with the five senses. For each week of African-American History month, the class studies one of the five senses with one area of African-American History.
Led by: Kate Johnson
The Body as a Score
Learning objectives: How to make and read different kinds of scores using your body and voice.
Led by: Yun Ingrid Lee & Karina Dukalska
Teaching Sensory Anthropology
Introduction to sensory anthropology – Have an understanding of how sensory awareness is put into practice by researchers in order to solve challenges of presentation and representation.
Led by: Paula Serafini
Staging an Ordinary Day
Learning objectives: Explore and note one’s own detailed observations of theatrical events in everyday life.
Led by: Sander Breure & Witte van Hulzen
Social Distancing
Learning objectives: Explore our codes of physical behavior: how near can we come to another body? Where are we allowed to touch? And how do we read the body language of others?
Led by: Suze Milius & Maribel Ortega
Smell Dating
Learning objectives: Explore the attraction of smells and the relationship between our brain, nose and hormonal system.
Led by: Klara Ravat & Anna D’Errico
Building Music
Learning objectives (course specific): To see how sound reverberates differently depending on the acoustics of the room, the size of the room, and the frequency of the sound.
Led by: Espen Sommer Eide, Martin Taxt & Mari Kvien Brunvoll