Spring 2027

The MLAS Spring 2027 term will run from January 19 through April 26.

MLAS 6200: Seminar in Fine and Creative Arts - Music, the Arts, and Ideas
Prof. Stan B. Link , Blair School of Music
Course Description: Music, the Arts, and Ideas: An interdisciplinary exploration of how a broad spectrum of cultural sites such as music, painting, photography, sculpture, and film intersect with each other. The course will examine four main topics; mind, body, gender, race, as occasions for art and music of all kinds that make various aspects of human experience visible and audible. Our basic premise will be that making art is a primary, rather than secondary human activity, and that even in its most seemingly entertaining, inert, or even trivialized forms it retains a deeper power not only in expressing or reflecting human identity, but in constructing it as well. 
(Fine and Creative Arts, Social Science)

MLAS 6500: Seminar in Natural Science - The Science of French Cuisine and Wine
Prof. Susan Verberne-Sutton , Department of Chemistry, College of Arts and Science
Course Description: From sauce emulsions to wine aromas, discover the science behind those unique products that make French culture famous. In the land where the first European humans were founded, we begin with the art and diet of the cave-painting and foraging Cro-Magnon man and transition through the Roman influence of cultivating wine grapes and pottery art, ending with modern greats like Louis Pasteur, Claude Monet, and Alain Passard. The grandeur of French heritage will prompt this journey of cultural evolution through the lens of science. 
(History, Social Science)

MLAS 7340: Interdisciplinary Capstone Workshop 
Faculty Instructor: Prof. Robert Barsky