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(In)Justice and (In)Equality — PSY4208.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Ronald Cohen
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Distinctions between justice and injustice, and between equality and inequality, underlie some of the most fundamental dimensions of social life. This course will address several questions about the relation between inequality and injustice Among them will be the following: 1. What conditions do people consider (un)just, and what factors contribute to     
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100 Drawings — ARC4118.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Donald Sherefkin
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
**Time Change** Using a fixed format of 9" x 9" paper, we will do a drawing each day of the term in a process which will parallel Georges Perec's Life: A User's Manual. Each drawing will have a set of constraints from which the student must extrapolate an image. A narrative will gradually be built through the accumulation of evidence. A variety of media, techniques and
Visual Arts

A Play Takes Place in the Audience — DRA4133.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Sherry Kramer
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
A play is a unique, self organizing process which generates new states of order spontaneously out of nothing. It uses this order to create a perception shift in the audience. We will read 10 plays together to investigate the way that plays generate meaning. There will be a series of short writing exercises, and students will write a 30-60 minute play as their final project.
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Advanced Portfolio Projects in Costume Design — DRA4157.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Charles Schoonmaker
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
This class is intended for students who have previous experience in costume design, garment construction, or other demonstrated background in similar areas. The format will be an intense immersion for 1/2 of the semester in projects and scripts with the goal of producing work which is portfolio worthy. This course will be offered the first seven weeks of term.
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Advanced Printmaking Research and Group Exhibition — PRI4402.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Thorsten Dennerline
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course is an advanced printmaking research class. Within a basic structure of critiques and discussions, students will independently pursue their own research interests in a workshop environment. Demonstrations of techniques will be given according to the needs of the class. For the past numerous years, this class has culminated in a group exhibition in a local art space.
Visual Arts

Advanced Projects in Dance — DAN4795.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
This is an essential course for students involved in making work for performance this term. Attention is given to all of the elements involved in composition and production, including collaborative aspects. Students are expected to show their work throughout stages of development, complete their projects, and perform them to the public by the end of the term. Corequisites:
Dance

Advanced Projects in E-Music — MCO4139.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Randall Neal
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
This course will focus on composition in the electro-acoustic medium. Students may choose to develop their technical skills in any of the following areas: sound synthesis, digital signal processing, digital audio recording and surround sound 5.1 spatialization. Students are expected to complete an electro-acoustic composition in surround sound to be presented in concert at
Music

Advanced Projects in Video — FV4304.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Kate Purdie
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This is a workshop for advanced students pursuing self-directed projects in video. Class time will be spent on group critiques to be supplemented by screenings, readings, discussion, student presentations and individual meetings with the instructor.
Visual Arts

Advanced Slip Casting Project — CER4103.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Yoko Inoue
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This is an intermediate/advanced course for developing casting methods for making functional or sculptural ceramic components for mixed media projects. The focus will be on designing prototypes in various materials and investigating how specific aesthetics or functions can be achieved through the material transformation of ceramics. We will explore creating complex forms by
Visual Arts

Advanced Voice — MVO4401.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Rachel Rosales
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
Advanced study of vocal technique and the interpretation of the vocal repertoire, designed for advanced students who have music as a plan concentration and to assist graduating seniors with preparation for senior recitals. Students are required to study and to perform a varied spectrum of vocal repertory for performance and as preparation for further study or graduate school. A
Music

Advanced Voice — MVO4401.02

Fall 2013
Instructor: Kerry Ryer-Parke
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
Advanced study of vocal technique and the interpretation of the vocal repertoire, designed for advanced students who have music as a plan concentration and to assist graduating seniors with preparation for senior recitals. Students are required to study and to perform a varied spectrum of vocal repertory for performance and as preparation for further study or graduate school. A
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Advanced Workshop in CAPA — APA4124.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati; Erika Mijlin
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
This workshop is designed to enable students to pursue work they have already begun that is focused on public action regardless of the particular issue/s they are addressing and to integrate Field Work Term into that work. Students will be presenting their own work to the workshop as it unfolds. Some portion of the workshop will be dedicated to common experience in particular
Advancement of Public Action

Agroecology — BIO4101.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Valerie Imbruce
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This is an advanced course for students interested in the ecology of agricultural systems. Students will gain an in-depth understanding of inputs and outputs in agricultural systems and their relation to primary productivity, nutrient cycling, soil formation, pest control and biodiversity on farm. We will address questions like, how can animals contribute to soil fertility on
Science Mathematics and Computing

America in the World: Past, Present, Future — HIS4204.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Eileen Scully
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Even while responding to recent global and national events that seem unprecedented, the United States continues to confront the dilemmas running throughout its diplomatic history-national security versus individual liberties, unilateralism versus multi-lateralism, competing domestic constituencies, and conflicting visions of America's role in the world. Newly declassified
Social Science

America's History Through Her Music: 1500-1900 — MHI2103.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Kitty Brazelton
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Start with the tributaries: European, African, then Caribbean. Trace these forward in great whorls, mingling currents in a hard-rushing river. For instance, chamber music from Germany in the Pennsylvania countryside was venerated by the High Anglican merchants in Philadelphia and the gentlemen farmers further south. And while those noble white gentlemen listened in parlors to
Music

An Actor's Technique - Nuts and Bolts — DRA4127.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Jenny Rohn
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
How do actors bridge the gap between themselves and the role they are playing? How do actors rehearse with other actors in order to explore the world of the play? This non-performance based class is designed to help individual actors discover their own organic, thorough rehearsal process. Step by step we will clarify the actor's process: character research, character
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Ancient Philosophy — PHI2135.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Theresa Morris
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course is an introduction to Ancient Philosophy.  We will study the ideas and works of the Presocratics, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoic philosopher, Epictetus. Using the course texts, in-class writing practices, class discussion, and group work students will gain familiarity with philosophical ideas from ancient Greek philosophy, some of which are complex
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Animation Projects — MA4201.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Sue Rees
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
The course is for advanced animation students who have clearly defined a specific project. The project could include an animation to be completed in the semester, or preparatory work for an animation to be completed in the Spring 2014 semester; preparatory work could include drawings, model building, puppet construction. The students are expected to have undertaken research
Visual Arts

Anthropological Research Methodologies — ANT4110.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Noah Coburn
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
This course is an exploration of the basic tools that anthropologists use when conducting participant-observation field research. Students will learn how to use a variety of interview techniques, focus group discussions and surveys. Workshops will provide the opportunity for students to use these techniques on topics of their own interest. Methodological and theoretical
Social Science

APA Workshop: Focus: Cities — APA4150.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Elizabeth Coleman; Susie Ibarra
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This workshop is designed to enable students to pursue a variety of issues relating to the advancing of public action. Cities serves both as a shared focus and a place to integrate a wide and rich variety of perspectives. Students will also be presenting their work to the workshop as it unfolds. Some portion of the workshop will also be dedicated to exploring concepts and
Advancement of Public Action

Applying Anthropological Research Methodologies — ANT4111.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Noah Coburn
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
This course is an advanced seminar that will apply skills learned in Anthropological Research Methodologies. The class will work collectively to do a local ethnographic study. Depending upon the skills and interests of each student, the class will design a research proposal and then carry out key research techniques. Finally students will be asked to present this work in a
Social Science

Art in America Since WWII — AH2286.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Andrew Spence
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
After WWII, artists in U. S. cities played a major role in the transformation of contemporary art from Modernism to Post Modernism and the present.  As a survey, this course looks at several of these artists' works and their connections to important movements such as Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, and the proliferation of later movements including Photo Realism,
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Artist's Portfolio — DAN4366.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
Explaining art work often goes against the grain, yet artists are regularly called upon to articulate their processes, tools, and dynamics of collaboration. To help secure any of the myriad forms of institutional support including funding, venues, and engagements, artists must develop, creatively and flexibly, essential skills. Finding a public language for what is the private
Dance

Banjo — MIN2215.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: John Kirk
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
Beginning, intermediate, or advanced group lessons on the 5-string banjo in the claw-hammer/frailing style. Student will learn to play using simple song sheets with chords, tablature, and standard notation. Using chord theory and scale work, personal music-making skills will be enhanced. Awareness of traditional styles of playing the instrument will be furthered through a
Music