Here are some courses to consider for Spring 2026.

World Language & Teaching Methods: EDYS 232/SPAN232 MWF 1:35-2:35pm Sylvia Lopez. This course is an introduction to the teaching of world languages, with Spanish as the language of focus.

Ballet II or III (2A): PART 215/315 TR 12-1:45pm Adanya Gilmore. An elaboration and extension of the principles addressed in Ballet I.

Drafting (2A): PART 241 MW 8:45-9:45am (0.5 units) Alicia Bailey. This course introduces the principles of drafting skills for theatre and the entertainment industry.

Costume Design (2A): PART 263 TR 10-11:45am, taught by our new costume designer – Kambrea Lagrosa. This course introduces students to the role of a costume designer, the collaborative process, and how to successfully use research and the elements of design to create successful costume designs.

Acting Comedy: PART 206 TR 2-3:50pm, Amy Sarno. A continuation of the acting skills studied in Fundamentals of Acting with a focus on precision and timing. By focusing on comedy, students develop a sense of rhythm and timing that can be repeated while creating a character that is truthful and fits into the world of the play.

Sustainable Cities: (W, Q, C, E) ENVS/POLS 210 TR 12:00-1:45 Pablo Toral. This course will become the intro course of creating a new major in urban planning and design. Students interested in careers in city planning, local government, or related will find it particularly useful. They might be the first cohort. The current prereq will be waived for those who do not meet it.

Sociology of Race & Ethnicity: SOCI 216 TR 12:25-1:45pm Allan Farrell. This course examines the social processes that shape the construction of racial and ethnic hierarchies, dominant ideas, and relations in the U.S.

Religion and Reality: RLST 101 (5T, C), MWF 11:15–12:15pm Natalie Gummer. Why is it that the ways of thinking and living that people call “religious” are often judged by outsiders to be potentially harmful forms of delusion, while those who adhere to those lifeways understand them instead as providing access to what scholar Robert Orsi calls “the really real”? This course explores that story and counter-narratives to it in order to assess the consequences both for the lives of people who identify as “religious” and for the ongoing power struggle over who gets to define reality and what forms of knowledge are granted legitimacy.

Maladies of Empire: (C) CRIS 255, TR 12:00–1:45pm Sonya Maria Johnson. This course examines case studies at the intersection of conventional medicine with colonialism, diaspora, coerced labor, and systems and practices of inequity.

Chromatography: Chem 225 B1 (0.5 units), T 8:45-11:45am Kristin Labby. This course introduces students to the principles of chromatography, with an emphasis on gas chromatography (GC) and applications in analysis of cultural heritage objects.

Protein Purification: CHEM 225 C1 (0.5 units), T 8:45-11:45am Christine Hustmyer. This course introduces students to the principles of protein purification using column chromatography through a research-based project exploring how bacteria can be engineered to produce sustainable fuels.

Scientific Glassblowing: CHEM 370 (0.5 units), R 2-3:15pm George Lisensky. Scientific glassblowing uses a fuel oxygen torch for heat to constrict or fuse glass, and breath to expand or inflate glass. This course does not aim to make students accomplished professional glassblowers. Students limit themselves to items that can be made manually from borosilicate tubing and rod with basic equipment and a minimum of annealing. By hands-on practice students learn to make the joints needed for useful applications and repairs.

Earth: Exploring a Dynamic Planet: GEOL 100 (4U, Q), MWF 1:45-3:35pm James Rougvie. Exploration of geologic processes that shape our dynamic planet and how they interact as a system. The class emphasizes both global systems and the geology of southern Wisconsin.

Mineralogy: GEOL 200 (4U), MWF 8-9:45am James Rougvie. The study of minerals, including their composition, properties, occurrence, and classification.