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de Alwis, Lisa

Teaching Assistant Professor

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  • Censorship, music, culture, Vienna, eighteenth-century, nineteenth-century, theater Mozart, Schubert, Beethoven, Kant, Wittgenstein, Enlightenment, Sublime, opera

Teaching

courses taught

  • COEN 1830 - Special Topics
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2023 / Fall 2024
    Explores topics of interest in engineering. Content varies by instructor and semester. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours.
  • ENES 1010 - Humanity in a Technological Age
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2021 / Fall 2021 / Spring 2022 / Fall 2022 / Spring 2023 / Fall 2023 / Spring 2024 / Fall 2024
    This seminar considers what it means to be human in an increasingly technological age. Designed for engineering students, it also looks at the role of technology designers and creators in shaping the human environment. Students focus on sharpening their written and oral communication skills through a series of iterative assignments and projects. Fulfills College of Engineering writing requirement for first-year students only.
  • ENES 3100 - Ethical Awareness for Engineers
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2024
    This seminar introduces engineering students to a variety of essential texts and works drawn from literature, history, philosophy, and the arts. Through class discussions and a variety of writing assignments, students reflect on their personal values, goals, commitments, and responsibilities, and how these align with the ethical challenges of engineering. Fulfills the College of Engineering and Applied Science writing requirement.
  • ENES 3720 - Voices of Vienna: Freud, Wittgenstien, Mozart
    Primary Instructor - Summer 2022 / Summer 2024
    Study and visit Vienna, a city famous for Mozart's music, Freud's psychology and Wittgenstein's philosophy. As the seat of the Habsburg Empire, Vienna was a rich cultural and political center; it was a crossroads for international trade and exciting new ideas. As the lively capital of present-day Austria, it remains in the forefront of social change. Formerly HUEN 3720.
  • HUEN 1010 - Engineering, Ethics and Society
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2018 / Fall 2018 / Spring 2019 / Fall 2019 / Spring 2020
  • HUEN 3720 - Voices of Vienna: Freud, Wittgenstien, Mozart
    Primary Instructor - Summer 2018 / Summer 2019
    Study and visit Vienna, a city famous for Mozart's music, Freud's psychology and Wittgenstein's philosophy. As the seat of the Habsburg Empire, Vienna was a rich cultural and political center; it was a crossroads for international trade and exciting new ideas. As the lively capital of present-day Austria, it remains in the forefront of social change. Formerly HUEN 3720.
  • MUSC 5708 - Introduction to Music Bibliography and Research
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2019 / Spring 2020 / Fall 2020 / Fall 2021
    Explores basic informational sources about music and musicians; a study of citation formats, research methodologies and writing techniques employed in music research papers, theses and dissertations. Intended to increase students' information fluency. Required in all master's degree programs.

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