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Color Investigated Through Light — VA4108.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Liz Deschenes
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course will focus on examples and strategies of the various disciplines that have used light and color as a central component to their work- we will closely look at photographers, light installation artists, and film and video artists. Students will be given short assignments in the first seven weeks and a project based on their inquiries (approved by the faculty member)
Visual Arts

Communicating Science to the Public — SCMA4106.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Hugh Crowl
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
One of the largest challenges scientists and media face is communication of complex scientific ideas to the public. This is despite the vast importance of this enterprise: if science is the advancement of human knowledge, scientists have an obligation to communicate what they learn to the public. In this class, we will learn strategies for communicating science to the public
Science Mathematics and Computing

Comparative Animal Physiology — BIO4201.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Elizabeth Sherman
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Physiological processes of vertebrates and invertebrates are studied at the cellular, organ, organ system, and whole animal levels of organization. The unifying themes of the course are the phenomenon of homeostasis (whereby an animal maintains its organization in the face of environmental perturbations) and the relationship between structure and function. The student will
Science Mathematics and Computing

Comparing Political Institutions — POL2101.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Rotimi Suberu
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Political institutions are the decision norms and organizations that govern political life. Academic and policy interest in such institutions is flourishing as many previously authoritarian states seek to craft their first democratic political institutions or constitutions. This basic course introduces students to major political institutions and the debates about their
Social Science

Computing in the Developing World — CS2108.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Andrew Cencini
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) can play a pivotal role in the developing world by helping to reduce poverty, broaden and equalize access to fundamental human rights, lessen environmental harm and alter environmentally harmful practices, and promote social and economic justice. ICT projects in the developing world, while often well-meaning, can also be
Science Mathematics and Computing

Contemporary African I/Burkina Faso — DAN2307.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Souleymane Badolo
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1
Rooted in Contemporary African dance; dancing over/under/inside and outside the tradition. This is a course in Souleymane Badolo's own movement style. We always begin class with a warm-up that involves both physical and mental preparation. We listen to internal rhythms and the beat of the music, learn about how to use the body in the space it occupies, and find ways of
Dance

Contemporary African II/Burkina Faso — DAN4307.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Souleymane Badolo
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1
Souleymane Badolo will teach his technique as well as choreographic segments from his larger works. Deeply involving ourselves in the harmonization of gesture, touch, listening and responding, we will work toward precision of movement in time and space, searching for the essence of movement. This course will be offered the first seven weeks of term.
Dance

Contemporary Chinese Culture in Music — CHI4118.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Ginger Lin
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
In this course we will explore the ways in which modern and contemporary Chinese culture is expressed in music. Using authentic materials, such as popular songs, music videos and music articles as springboards, students will communicate about current events and culture in China. Each class or every other class, students will be given a different song, video or article with a
Languages

Costume Construction Studio Basics — DRA2211.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Richard MacPike
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
The goal of this course is to teach fundamental skills used every day in the construction of garments for the stage. After acquiring a variety of sewing techniques every costume technician needs, students will learn the rudiments of flat pattern manipulation and draping, enabling them to pattern and create a mock-up garment of their own design.
Drama

Creative Music Ensemble — MPF2104.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Susie Ibarra
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
Creative Music Ensemble will explore the practice of music that is created by Composer/Improvisers. Students will study and play music through the scores, notation systems, game pieces, structured improvisations and conceptual drawings, created by contemporary composer/improvisers such as Pauline Oliveros, Wadada Leo Smith, John Zorn, Anthony Davis, Lukas Ligeti, Ikue Mori,
Music

Créatrices — FRE4721.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Noelle Rouxel-Cubberly
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Their films, their books, their work, their lives have marked and shaped other lives. This course will focus on selected works of French and francophone women creators – authors, painters, scientists, stand-up comedians, entrepreneurs. We will explore a variety of genres and forms of expressions (essays, novels, films, Skype and live interviews, stand-up acts, etc.).  
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Critical Response in Painting — PAI4309.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Andrew Spence
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
In order to make successful work, artists must know when to follow their instincts, take risks or try new approaches toward developing ideas. Self-confidence and the ability to be critical of one's own work are the tools that come with experience. This course is intended to offer students feedback on their work as it develops. Their work is addressed within the context of
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Critical Texts in Recent Art — VA4154.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: James Voorhies
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course is a reading seminar of important texts on art and culture by critics, theorists and artists from late modernism through postmodernism to the present moment. It will include close readings and discussions of essays from 1960 to 2013 to consider the changing conditions under which art is conceived, produced, distributed and experienced. A departure point for the
Art History

Cultural Localities I: Researching Culture — ANT4117.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Noah Coburn
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This advanced research seminar offers the opportunity for the student to design an anthropological research project similar to the type encountered in anthropology graduate programs. The project allows for detailed study of a society of the world, including its culture, politics, economy, world view, religion, expressive practices, and historical transformations. The initial
Social Science

Deconstructing and Reconstructing Identity — JPN2108.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
The Japanese pop culture has gained popularity in the US, and many American children watch various Japanese animations, while growing up. However, lack of Japanese cultural knowledge sometimes makes it hard for the American audience to fully understand whats going on in the Japanese characters mind. Therefore, in this introductory Japanese language and culture course, students
Languages

Designing a Light Plot — DRA2235.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Michael Giannitti
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
As a follow-up to the course Working With Light, students in this class will learn how to merge lighting design ideas with the constraints inherent in theater spaces, scenery and lighting equipment. Design drafting will be emphasized in this course. In one major project, students will synthesize and apply material covered to develop (on paper) a complete lighting design.
Drama

Directing II — DRA4376.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Kathleen Dimmick
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
We will address the process of discerning a text's dramatic potential and realizing that potential in performance by developing and implementing a directorial approach through analysis and rehearsal techniques. The term is divided between exercises and rehearsal of individual projects. The work of the course will culminate in a director's approach essay, a rehearsal log, and an
Drama

Distributed Systems — CS4125.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Andrew Cencini
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
In this class, we will, as a group, build a working distributed system from scratch, such as a web search engine, distributed file system, or peer-to-peer network. By building such a system, students will learn about key theoretical and practical fundamentals related to distributed systems, such as concurrency, replication, commit models, fault-expectancy, self-organization and
Science Mathematics and Computing

Diversity of Coral Reef Animals — BIO2339.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Elizabeth Sherman
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Coral reefs are among the most diverse, unique and beautiful of ecosystems on the planet. Alas, they are also quite vulnerable to various environmental assaults and most of the reefs on earth are in real jeopardy. Students will learn the taxonomy, identification and characteristics of the animals that live in coral reefs. We will discuss the major biological innovations that
Science Mathematics and Computing

Don Quixote: "The First and Most Completest Novel" — LIT2182.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Marguerite Feitlowitz
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
We will immerse ourselves in the first European novel, Cervantes’ 1605 tale of the wandering knight, his faithful Sancho Panza, and the cast of hundreds they meet along their way through La Mancha. We will read Edith Grossman’s new translation of Don Quixote, as well as biographical sources (such as Cervantes in Algiers, on the author’s years of captivity by the Barbary Pirates
Literature

Double Portrait: Of a Lady and Her Novel — LIT2223.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Doug Bauer
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
We will be examining Henry James’s The Portrait of a Lady from several perspectives, starting with a close reading of the novel itself. As well, we’ll be reading Michael Gorra’s recently published Portrait of a Novel, which uniquely blends criticism, biography, historical context and earned authorial speculation as a guide to James’s life during the time he was writing his book
Literature

Drawing Everywhere — DRW4239.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Mary Lum
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Interior and exterior, observed and imagined, expansive and intimate, this course revolves around drawings of all kinds of spaces. In class we examine various historical, narrative, architectural, and natural spaces through work that pushes the definition of drawing in many different directions, including drawing installation. Students complete work weekly, building a body of
Visual Arts

Drawing Intensive Rome - FWT 2014 — AH4309.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Donald Sherefkin; Dan Hofstadter
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Dan Hofstadter and Donald Sherefkin will be offering a three week drawing intensive in Rome, Italy for FWT 2014.  The focus of the studio will be the art and architecture of Rome. Mornings will be spent doing on-site sketching, and afternoon studio sessions will be organized around specific workshops. The cost of the class is still being
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