Kinetic Architecture Design Seminar (UO ARCH 407/507)

Four credits - Graded or Pass/No Pass.In this seminar, you will explore the world of architecture-in-motion. Apart from windows, doors and vertical conveyances, most buildings have few moving parts and are conceived of and built as static artifacts. Driven by issues of sustainability and the desire for adaptive control of building environments, kinetic architecture has emerged as an exciting sub-discipline in design and construction communities. Course work will include in-class presentations, site visits and field trips, and case studies.

Language and Society – B1

Este curso propone un aprendizaje integral del idioma español (Nivel B1) mediante una inmersión lingüística fundamentada en el análisis crítico de corpus literarios, fuentes históricas y testimonios audiovisuales. El objetivo central es que el estudiante logre articular una imagen cercana de la realidad mexicana a través del estudio de su lengua; es decir, comprender la cultura como un fenómeno intrínseco al habla.

Law & Order UK

This course explores a wide variety of British murder mystery novels and TV crime dramas from feminist and critical race perspectives. The selected novels and TV shows are set across an array of historical times and places in England, further affording us opportunity to explore British history and culture, the changing roles of gender, race, and class in the UK throughout the years, and British social institutions and issues such as the legal and penal system, violence, gender and racial equality, employment, and education.

Law, Society and Politics in Comparative Perspective

This course is ideal if you have an interest in social sciences—in particular, history, sociology or political science—or in law. It is designed as an undergraduate class, but the variety of students taking this course typically ranges from first-year students to post-graduate students. This experiential diversity provides unique opportunities for you to learn from your classmates.

London Performing

Instructional Goals. This course will:

  • Introduce students to a variety of current practices in London performance training.
  • Challenge students to critically engage personal learning processes via different training approaches to performance.
  • Inform workshop experience from professional performances in current productions.

Student Outcomes. Students who successfully complete this course will: