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Basic Anatomy — DAN2132.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
To understand the working of our own bodies, we will examine bones, deep muscles, organs, and nerves using images, visualization and touch, working to facilitate the ability to access the innate intelligence of each participants own unique mechanism. We will study the relationship and coordination between anatomical landmarks for a more thoughtful exploration of possibility and
Dance

Bass with Bisio — MIN4417.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Michael Bisio
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
Beginning to advanced lessons in bass technique and appropriate theory. Corequisites: Must also participate in Music Workshop (Tuesday, 6:30 - 8:00 pm).
Music

Basso Continuo and You — MTH2110.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Kitty Brazelton
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
*** Time Change *** The practice of putting chords over a bass line and a melody on top - sound familiar? - exploded in the Early Baroque and we haven't been the same since. Listening changed. Ensembles changed. And a new era of functional harmony began. Learn about figured bass, chordal voicing and interpretation, the Spanish rhythmic ostinati which fueled popular dances from
Music

Beat by Beat — DRA4122.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Dina Janis
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Students in this class will read a selection of plays and be required to analyze and explore these plays beat by beat in class discussion and weekly critical writing exercises.  This is a script interpretation class in which theme, dramatic structure and arc, character development, tone, style and extensive study of the given playwrights and their influences will be
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Beginning Cello — MIN4354.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Nathaniel Parke
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
The basics of cello. In a small group, students will learn how to play the cello, with an emphasis on a group performance at the terms conclusion.
Music

Beginning Composing — MCO4120.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Allen Shawn
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
**Course Code Change** This class explores and reviews notation and the rudiments of music through the act of composing small pieces for a variety of instruments. It is intended for students who have taken instrumental lessons for a few years or more and who can read music in at least one clef. It is meant for those who have never imagined composing music as well as for those
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Beginning Guitar — MIN2247.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Hui Cox
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
Introduces the fundamentals of acoustic guitar playing, including hand positions, tuning, reading music, major and pentatonic scales, major, minor, and seventh chords, chord progressions, blues progressions, and simple arrangements of songs.
Music

Beginning Violin and Viola — MIN2241.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Kaori Washiyama
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
Basic techniques to include the reading of music in treble and/or alto clefs and in various 'easy' keys. The study of left-hand position and fingering and the simple use of the bow will lead to short ensemble performances by the end of the term.
Music

Brass Chamber Ensemble — MPF4237.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Nathan Botts
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
The Brass Ensemble, directed by Nathan Botts explores the wide breadth of music and expression available to instruments made of brass. From antiquity, where the terrifying sounds of brass instruments heralded war and communicated power, to the gaudy wobble of medieval dance music; the beautiful introspection of renaissance wind music, or the beautifully ornamented architecture
Music

Brass Instruments — MIN4218.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Nathan Botts
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
Individual instruction for brass players (including trumpet, French horn, trombone, and tuba). Strategies will be developed for each student to enhance their technique and musicianship. Course work will include the study and practice of music in a variety of styles including baroque, classical/romantic, contemporary, and jazz/improvisation, depending on the level and specific
Music

Business Incubator — MOD2145.02

Fall 2013
Instructor: Alison Dennis
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1
Do you imagine someday starting your own venture? Do you have an idea for a business, organization or social enterprise? Are you a working artist, musician or entrepreneur? Are you considering a self-employed career path? Group sessions and one-on-one coaching will help entrepreneurs develop and hone practical plans to support, strengthen and forward their business ideas.
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Business, Ethics, Society — MOD2146.03

Fall 2013
Instructor: Alison Dennis
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1
What are the relationships between economic, social and ecological prosperity? Is the creation of a just, equitable, humane and sustainable society possible given today's economic models and market dynamics? What are our obligations as individuals to contribute to setting the economic agenda for our society? What new approaches and models are redefining the relationship between
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Canta che ti passa: Social Commentary in Music — ITA4117.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Barbara Alfano
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
'Canta che ti passa,' 'Sing and you'll feel better,' says an old Italian adage. Yet, Italians do not always sing to forget their troubles. Much of the Italian musical tradition expresses social and political commentary, seriously or ironically. Songs as diverse and far apart in time as Toto Cotugno's populist 'L'italiano' (An Italian, 1983), Giorgio Gaber's intellectually
Languages

Cello — MIN4355.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Nathaniel Parke
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
Studio instruction in cello. There will be an emphasis on creating and working towards an end-of-term project for each student. Corequisites: Must also participate in Music Workshop (Tuesdays, 6:30 - 8pm).
Music

Charles Dickens: Novels and Biography — LIT2284.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Doug Bauer
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Dickens鈥 novels are works of approachable genius, transmitted through their comedy, pulsing energy and relentless life. They also reflect fictional shapings of Dickens鈥 life, obsessions in the man that regularly recur in the art. We will be reading a biography of Dickens, three of his major novels, including the two most autobiographical, David Copperfield and Great
Literature

Chemistry 1: Chemical Principles — CHE2211.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Janet Foley
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This class is the first of a four course sequence covering General and Organic Chemistry. Students do not need to take the entire sequence. This course will focus on introductory chemical principles, including atomic theory, classical and quantum bonding concepts, molecular structure, organic functional groups, and the relationship between structure and properties. The class
Science Mathematics and Computing

Chemistry 3: Organic Reactions and Mechanisms — CHE4213.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: John Bullock
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Chemistry 3 focuses on how reactions happen: what the steps are, how we discover them, and how we use this to look at some practical systems: the synthesis of a drug, the kinetics of substitution. Emphasis will be using the general principles such as nucleophiles and electrophiles, to guide an understanding of specific reactions. Lab will focus on several clusters of
Science Mathematics and Computing

Chemistry 3: Organic Reactions and Mechanisms Lab — CHE4213L.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: John Bullock
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 0
This laboratory course is a co-requisite for Chemistry 3. Lab topics will likely include organic reactions such as subsitution, elimination and addition processes, chemical kinetics, and electrochemistry. Students will also have an opportunity to perform exploratory investigations to help design an independent research project to be carried out during Spring term.
Science Mathematics and Computing

Chinese Chan (Zen) — CHI4114.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Ginger Lin
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Although commonly thought of as Japanese and known in America by its Japanese name, Zen, Chan Buddhism was truly made in China and was heavily influenced by Daoism. Chan has had a profound influence on Chinese and East Asian art and thought, but this philosophy remains relevant to modern life in both the East and West. Students will be introduced to the spirit of Chan through
Languages

Chinese Characters and Chinese Culture — CHI2120.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Ginger Lin
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
All the children of one's parents' siblings are all just called cousin in English. However in Chinese there is a different word for each particular relationship. This stems from how in traditional Chinese Confucian culture each individual's duties and obligations towards others are dictated by their relationships, with family relationships being the most important. But then in
Languages

Choice and Consequence: Alternative History — DRA2277.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Sherry Kramer
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
"The theater is the place where we learn how to be. At its best, it is a rehearsal for the great moments of our life, including our happinesses. Love, death, we see it on stage and it prepares us for our life" -John Guare A play is a metaphoric and empathic art form that seduces us into imaginatively making choices and suffering consequences along with the characters on stage.
Drama

Civil Society in Conflict Resolution — POL4248.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Rotimi Suberu
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
Civil society or the arena of autonomous associational organization and activity has been credited with promoting various virtuous outcomes, including democratization, development and social peace. This course critically surveys civil societies' roles in peacemaking and peace building. It will explore theoretical controversies on the nature and roles of civil society as well as
Social Science

Clarinet — MIN4223.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Bruce Williamson
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
Study of clarinet technique and repertoire with an emphasis on tone production, dexterity, reading skills, and improvisation. This course is for intermediate-advanced students only. Corequisites: Must also participate in Music Workshop (Tuesdays 6:30 - 8pm).
Music

Cognition Society — Canceled

Fall 2013
Instructor: Karen Danna
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Why do we stomp on cockroaches yet marvel at butterflies? Why is it ok (at least in this country) to roast a deer, but not a dog, swallow a snail, but not a slug? What guidelines do 鈥渢hought communities鈥 rely upon to decide when a person鈥檚 class or race or age or gender or sexuality is 鈥 or is not 鈥 morally or legally relevant? How are personal memories and historical
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