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Movement Practice: Beginning Dance Technique — DAN2214.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
For those looking for a basic movement class. We begin with a slow warm-up focused on anatomical landmarks, muscular systems and basic alignment principles, but then progress to vigorous, rhythmic movement patterns and group forms. We work to strengthen, stretch, and articulate the body through longer movement phrases focused on weight shifting, changes of direction, and
Dance

Movement Practice: Contact Improvisation — DAN2210.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Felice Wolfzahn
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1
Contact improvisation is a duet movement form. Two people move together, playing in physical dialogue, communicating through the language of touch, momentum, and weight. In these classes we will explore some simple solo and duet skills such as rolling, falling, balance, counterbalance, jumping, weight sharing, spirals, and tuning to our sensory input. We will work with an
Dance

Movement Practice: Intermediate Ballet — DAN4217.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Daniel Roberts
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
Ballet has a large presence in the field of contemporary dance, predominantly as a means of training, but also, as a point of reference for 300 years of western dance. This class will focus on classical forms and contemporary uses of ballet in dance, and will address technical function, aesthetics, placement, and virtuosity, all within the ballet vocabulary. The structure will
Dance

Movement Practice: Intermediate Contact Improvisation — DAN4118.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Felice Wolfzahn
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1
For those with prior technique and/or improvisation experience. In this duet form, we communicate through the language of touch, momentum, and weight. We will explore simple solo and duet skills such as rolling, falling, balance, counterbalance, jumping, weight sharing, spirals, and tuning to our sensory input. We work with an emphasis on breath, alignment, and releasing excess
Dance

Movement Practice: Intermediate Dance Technique — DAN4314.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Daniel Roberts
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
This class will be based in the technique developed by Merce Cunningham for the purposes of his choreographic work, and address the articulations of the spine, codified exercises, complex foot/leg combinations, and jump training. The Cunningham Technique is known for its ability to strengthen the dancer's individual awareness of space. The class aims to enhance the dancer's
Dance

Movement Practice: Yoga, Gymnastics and Dance — DAN2213.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Terry Creach
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1
For students interested in "moving-through" or flowing yoga asanas informed by attention to alignment, along with basic gymnastic floor-exercise skills that deal with momentum and more complex coordinated actions. We will warm-up with the stretching/strengthening poses and sequences from yoga and apply the alignment principles to rolls, handstands, and cartwheels in order to
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Music Composition Intensive — MCO4801.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Allen Shawn
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Students who wish to study composing intensively may be eligible for a small group tutorial or where appropriate, individual lessons. In general, students taking this course are expected to compose in longer forms and with more varied instrumentation than previously attempted. This course may be taken at the intermediate or advanced level.
Music

Music Compositions for Dance — MHI2105.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
Music Compositions for Dance views and reflects on landmark compositions created for dance companies and choreographers in the 20th 21st centuries. Students will be challenged with composition and choreography assignments using traditional and non-traditional notation, graphics, texts and alternative recording approaches.
Music

Music Maps — MTH4115.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Bruce Williamson
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
Time is precious. Memories are fleeting. Music is sound-in-time, so how can we most efficiently remember and teach others our musical ideas? In this course, the basics of chart writing and music notation will be explored by looking at examples of various simple maps that indicate form, melody, harmony (chord symbols) and essential rhythmic figures, then by creating our own lead
Music

Musical Forms — MHI2240.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Allen Shawn
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This class focuses on musical architecture, by examining beautiful works from the 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. We will listen to music by Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Fanny Hensel, Schumann, Brahms, Mahler, Ives, Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Schoenberg, Berg, Rzewski, Bernstein, Cage, Kurtag, Takemitsu and Gubaidulina (among others), analyzing their structures in detail. We will
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Nature in the Americas — ANT4215.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: David Bond
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Nature has played a key role in shaping social life in the Americas. Yet nature refuses easy definition. This course reflects on the many presences of nature and their uses across the Americas. In this course, we will learn how the agency of germs, cattle, and sugar shaped the formation of European conceit, how some of the earliest capitalistic ventures were built atop the
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Nonlinear Dynamical Systems — MAT4127.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Kathryn Montovan
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Dynamical systems are interactions that change in somewhat predictable ways. For these systems, rules can be written to describe the future state of a system from knowledge of present and past states. These rules are used to model a wide variety of phenomena in the physical, biological, social and economic sciences. This course will build on calculus skills and visual intuition
Science Mathematics and Computing

Normality and Abnormality — PSY2204.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: David Anderegg
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course is an examination of the idea of normality as a central organizing principle in psychology. We begin with an effort to define normality and/or psychological health, and then move on to examine the limits or borders of normality. The course examines the value-laden, historically determined, and political nature of psychological normality. Topics discussed include:
Social Science

Noticing, Choosing and Writing to Describe — MOD2107.03

Fall 2013
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1
When looking at an object, watching something moving, experiencing the sound of an occurrence, witnessing an interaction between people, or noticing the surrounding circumstance of any object or event - how do we choose what we see? What are we not choosing? And how do we attempt to speak or write about it? Focusing on any events or objects, not intentionally art, we will
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Noticing, Choosing, and Writing to Describe — MOD2107.04

Fall 2013
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1
When looking at an object, watching something moving, experiencing the sound of an occurrence, witnessing an interaction between people, or noticing the surrounding circumstance of any object or event - how do we choose what we see? What are we not choosing? And how do we attempt to speak or write about it? Focusing on any events or objects, not intentionally art, we will
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Object Oriented: Creating and Making with Technology — DA4208.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Robert Ransick; Jon Isherwood
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This class examines sophisticated technologies including , laser cutting, 3D printing, and CNC milling that provide new opportunities for conceiving and realizing creative ideas. We engage this new landscape of object making in relation to the fine arts and design. We will examine and respond to varying methodologies that have provoked a re-calibration of conceptual, aesthetic,
Visual Arts

Off the Page: Conceptualization and Collaboration — DRA2105.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Michael Giannitti
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
The collaborative process is central to the development of most theatrical work, yet it is often first experienced when people come together to work on a project with imminent production deadlines. Students in this course will have the opportunity to experience the initial portions of the collaborative process several times over, through a series of class projects, free of the
Drama

Our Monsters, Ourselves — SPA4715.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Sarah Harris
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
'We live in a time of monsters,' writes Jeffrey Jerome Cohen in Monster Theory. As beings who mix categories or defy categorization altogether, monsters may be apt emblems for a postmodern age, yet it would be a mistake to imply that monsters are a creation of postmodernity. The monstrous figures that dominate popular contemporary culture come from a long artistic tradition,
Languages

Packaging the Body: The History of Fashion — DRA2223.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Charles Schoonmaker
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This class will examine the history of fashion, primarily but not exclusively in the western world. The class will be oriented towards the use of historic costume by costume designers. Students will explore art works illustrative of the period styles and the interpretation of those styles by designers. Corequisites: Dance or Drama lab assignment.
Drama

Painting Studio — PAI4204.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Ann Pibal
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course will provide the student a broad platform from which to continue investigations in painting. Emphasis will be placed on cultivating individual research and conceptual concerns as well as the continued development of an understanding of color, form, and space. The daily experience of looking, along with the history of art will provide a base from which investigations
Visual Arts

Pathways: An Introduction to Writing — LIT2110.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Wayne Hoffmann-Ogier
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Beginning writers will explore the steps of the writing process as a path for discovery and communication. Weekly papers explore several modes of writing, including description, nonfiction narrative, and both analytical and argumentative essays. The course primarily emphasizes the art of essay construction by focusing on rhetorical patterns, by introducing research techniques,
Literature

Persons, Groups, and Environments — PSY2141.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Ronald Cohen
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
We spend much of our time in the presence of others, and all of our time in particular spaces. This course will examine several psychological and sociological perspectives on social interaction-- how people think, feel, and act in the presence of others--and how the particular spaces in which interaction occurs affect it. We will focus on the following issues 1. obedience,
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Petronius — FLE4325.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Stephen Shapiro
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
In this course we will read the Satyricon of Petronius, an experimental text that challenges modern notions of genre, serving up satire, philosophy, and literary criticism all within the context of a road trip through the ancient world. Weekly Latin readings will allow us to review and deepen an understanding of Latin grammatical structures and vocabulary, while readings in
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Philosophical Reasoning — PHI2109.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Paul Voice
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
What is the difference between belief and knowledge? What makes me the same person now and in the future? Is there a purpose in life? These are some of the questions this first course in philosophy asks. It has two aims: To introduce you to the methods and procedures of philosophical argument and, second, to engage you in a critical dialogue with three central problems in
Social Science

Philosophy Biography: Wittgenstein — PHI4105.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Paul Voice
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Ludwig Wittgenstein is one of the most influential and important of twentieth century philosophers and one of its most enigmatic characters. In this course you will read two of Wittgenstein's central works, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and Philosophical Investigations. We will arrive at a detailed understanding of Wittgenstein's philosophy, its themes, arguments and
Social Science