Schedule of Classes Undergraduate / Spring 2026 / Creativity, the Arts, and Social Transformation

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(100-199) For Both Undergraduate and Graduate Students

Course # Course Title Time Enrl / Lim / Wait Instructor(s)
CAST 110B 1 Dance and Migration
[ ca deis-us djw hwl2 nw ]

T 2:20 PM–5:10 PM Waitlist
30 / 0 / 19
Toni Shapiro-Phim
CAST 140A 1 Theory and Praxis of Community Engagement
[ ca ]

Th 2:20 PM–5:10 PM Waitlist
7 / 0 / 0
Toni Shapiro-Phim
CAST 160A 1 Provocative Art: Outside the Comfort Zone
[ ca ]

F 2:20 PM–5:10 PM Open
7 / 16 / 0
William Chalmus
 

CAST Core Course

Course # Course Title Time Enrl / Lim / Wait Instructor(s)
CAST 140A 1 Theory and Praxis of Community Engagement
[ ca ]

Th 2:20 PM–5:10 PM Waitlist
7 / 0 / 0
Toni Shapiro-Phim
 

CAST Core Elective

Course # Course Title Time Enrl / Lim / Wait Instructor(s)
CAST 110B 1 Dance and Migration
[ ca deis-us djw hwl2 nw ]

T 2:20 PM–5:10 PM Waitlist
30 / 0 / 19
Toni Shapiro-Phim
CAST 160A 1 Provocative Art: Outside the Comfort Zone
[ ca ]

F 2:20 PM–5:10 PM Open
7 / 16 / 0
William Chalmus
SOC 55B 2
Syllabus
Protest, Politics, and Change: Social Movements
[ deis-us ss ]

M,W,Th 10:10 AM–11:00 AM Open
27 / 999 / 0
Gowri Vijayakumar
THA 126A 1 Playing for Change - Community Building and Social Change on Stage
[ ca djw ]

Attendance required on first day of class.


T,F 12:45 PM–2:05 PM Open
Consent Req.

13 / 20 / 0
Jennifer Cleary
 

CAST Electives in Creative Arts

Course # Course Title Time Enrl / Lim / Wait Instructor(s)
CAST 110B 1 Dance and Migration
[ ca deis-us djw hwl2 nw ]

T 2:20 PM–5:10 PM Waitlist
30 / 0 / 19
Toni Shapiro-Phim
CAST 140A 1 Theory and Praxis of Community Engagement
[ ca ]

Th 2:20 PM–5:10 PM Waitlist
7 / 0 / 0
Toni Shapiro-Phim
CAST 160A 1 Provocative Art: Outside the Comfort Zone
[ ca ]

F 2:20 PM–5:10 PM Open
7 / 16 / 0
William Chalmus
FA 4A 1 Sculpture Foundation: 3-D Design I
[ ca ]

Students interested in enrolling should place themselves on the waitlist for this course. Studio Art classes are direct to waitlist with an enrollment limit of zero so that Studio Art majors and minors can be given enrollment priority. Students planning to major or minor in Studio Art should place themselves on the waitlist and then write to finearts@brandeis.edu about their intention to declare. This class is also great for newer students interested in taking a studio art course, so we will also set aside spaces for first and second year students. Non-Studio Arts students will be enrolled off the waitlist based on availability. Enrollment in this class will begin on November 19 , so waitlisted students should check their email regularly.  (Do not contact the instructor about enrollment in this course; only write to finearts@brandeis.edu.)


M,W 1:20 PM–3:10 PM Waitlist
13 / 0 / 9
Christopher Frost
FA 4A 2 Sculpture Foundation: 3-D Design I
[ ca ]

Students interested in enrolling should place themselves on the waitlist for this course. Studio Art classes are direct to waitlist with an enrollment limit of zero so that Studio Art majors and minors can be given enrollment priority. Students planning to major or minor in Studio Art should place themselves on the waitlist and then write to finearts@brandeis.edu about their intention to declare. This class is also great for newer students interested in taking a studio art course, so we will also set aside spaces for first and second year students. Non-Studio Arts students will be enrolled off the waitlist based on availability. Enrollment in this class will begin on November 19 , so waitlisted students should check their email regularly.  (Do not contact the instructor about enrollment in this course; only write to finearts@brandeis.edu.)


M,W 3:25 PM–5:15 PM Waitlist
15 / 0 / 1
Christopher Frost
FA 4A 3
Syllabus
Sculpture Foundation: 3-D Design I
[ ca ]

Students interested in enrolling should place themselves on the waitlist for this course. Studio Art classes are direct to waitlist with an enrollment limit of zero so that Studio Art majors and minors can be given enrollment priority. Students planning to major or minor in Studio Art should place themselves on the waitlist and then write to finearts@brandeis.edu about their intention to declare. This class is also great for newer students interested in taking a studio art course, so we will also set aside spaces for first and second year students. Non-Studio Arts students will be enrolled off the waitlist based on availability. Enrollment in this class will begin on November 19 , so waitlisted students should check their email regularly.  (Do not contact the instructor about enrollment in this course; only write to finearts@brandeis.edu.)


T,F 9:35 AM–11:25 AM Waitlist
11 / 0 / 3
Tory Fair
FA 86B 1 Museum Studies
[ ca dl wi ]

Museum excursions will extend beyond class time up to three Fridays, students should plan accordingly.


T,F 12:45 PM–2:05 PM Waitlist
15 / 15 / 4
Camila Maroja
FA 164A 1 The Re-Invention of Art
[ ca djw ]

M,W 4:05 PM–5:25 PM Open
23 / 35 / 0
Peter Kalb
FA 187A 1 Approaches to Architecture and the City
[ ca ]

M,W 2:30 PM–3:50 PM Open
17 / 20 / 0
Muna Güvenç
MUS 86B 1 Improv Collective

M 7:15 PM–10:05 PM Open
6 / 12 / 0
Thomas Hall
MUS 86B 2XC Improv Collective

M 7:15 PM–10:05 PM Open
3 / 12 / 0
Thomas Hall
MUS 87B 1 Music and Dance from Ghana

M,W 5:40 PM–7:00 PM Open
6 / 25 / 0
Benjamin Paulding
MUS 87B 2XC Music and Dance from Ghana

M,W 5:40 PM–7:00 PM Open
1 / 25 / 0
Benjamin Paulding
THA 109A 1 Improvisation for Theatre: Acting Unscripted
[ ca ]

T 2:20 PM–5:10 PM Open
16 / 20 / 0
Dmitry Troyanovsky
THA 126A 1 Playing for Change - Community Building and Social Change on Stage
[ ca djw ]

Attendance required on first day of class.


T,F 12:45 PM–2:05 PM Open
Consent Req.

13 / 20 / 0
Jennifer Cleary
THA 142B 1 Women Playwrights: Writing for the Stage by and about Women
[ ca deis-us wi ]

T,Th 3:55 PM–5:15 PM Open
14 / 15 / 6
Andie Berry
THA 146A 1 Theater and the Holocaust
[ ca djw ]

T,F 11:10 AM–12:30 PM Waitlist
26 / 24 / 0
Dmitry Troyanovsky
 

CAST Electives in Humanities

Course # Course Title Time Enrl / Lim / Wait Instructor(s)
ENG 28A 1 Environmental Literature in an Age of Extinction
[ deis-us dl hum ]

T,Th 2:20 PM–3:40 PM Open
24 / 28 / 2
Jerome Tharaud
ENG 128A 1 Race and US Cinema
[ deis-us hum ]

M,W,Th 10:10 AM–11:00 AM Waitlist
20 / 20 / 3
Paul Morrison
ENG 142A 1 Blackness and Horror
[ deis-us djw hum ]

M,W,Th 12:20 PM–1:10 PM Waitlist
32 / 35 / 4
Brandon Callender
ENG 170A 1 Nigerian Movies in the World
[ hum nw ]

M,W,Th 11:15 AM–12:05 PM Open
10 / 35 / 0
Emilie Diouf
HBRW 170A 1 Take I: Israeli Cinema and American Culture
[ deis-us djw fl hum wi ]

M,W 2:30 PM–3:50 PM Open
17 / 20 / 0
Sara Hascal
 

CAST Electives in Social Sciences

Course # Course Title Time Enrl / Lim / Wait Instructor(s)
AAAS 65A 1
Syllabus
The Caribbean's Global Intimacies
[ djw hum ss ]

T,Th 3:55 PM–5:15 PM Open
19 / 25 / 0
Faith Smith
AAAS/IGS 112A 1 The United Nations and Global Peace and Security
[ djw oc ss ]

T,F 11:10 AM–12:30 PM Open
31 / 999 / 0
Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso
AAAS/WGS 136A 1 Black Feminist Thought
[ deis-us oc ss ]

M,W 4:05 PM–5:25 PM Open
17 / 30 / 0
Shoniqua Roach
AAAS/WGS 148B 2 Black Dance: The Politics of Black Movement
[ ca ss ]

M,W 2:30 PM–3:50 PM Waitlist
16 / 15 / 1
Shoniqua Roach
ANTH 81A 1 Conducting Ethnographic Fieldwork: Methods and Practice of Anthropological Research
[ oc ss wi ]

T,Th 3:55 PM–5:15 PM Open
14 / 20 / 0
Patricia Alvarez Astacio
SOC 55B 2
Syllabus
Protest, Politics, and Change: Social Movements
[ deis-us ss ]

M,W,Th 10:10 AM–11:00 AM Open
27 / 999 / 0
Gowri Vijayakumar