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Sacred Harp Singing School — MPF2100.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Kitty Brazelton
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1
We meet once a week for singing school. We sit in a hollow square. Altos, north. Trebles, east. Basses, west. And the tenors, who lead from the south. Many songs in the Sacred Harp tunebook, published by two Georgians in 1844, tell of death and salvation. But there are social tunes, about Buonaparte, old mother, rambling and roving, or singing school itself. Most of our tunes
Music

Sage City Symphony — MPF4100.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Music Faculty
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1
Sage City Symphony is a community orchestra which invites student participation. The Symphony is noted for the policy of commissioning new works by major composers, in some instances student composers, as well as playing the classics. There are openings in the string sections, and occasionally by audition for solo winds and percussion. There will be two concerts each term.
Music

Saxophone — MIN4237.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Bruce Williamson
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
Study of saxophone technique and standard repertoire (jazz or classical), 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

Science and Math Fifth Term Seminar — SCMA4105.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: John Bullock; Amie McClellan
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
This two-credit seminar is required for all fall-term juniors with Plans that significantly involve mathematics or science (other students may register with permission of instructors if background is appropriate and space permits). The seminar is a forum for reading and discussion of primary and secondary literature with the goal of gaining a broad sense of the work of
Science Mathematics and Computing

Science, Drama The Power of the Inquisitive Mind — DRA2259.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Dina Janis
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
"Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so" -Galileo "To be or not to be, that is the question" -Shakespeare How do the worlds of science and theater connect and what do they share? What is the role of the revolutionary thinker in society? We will study a variety of dramatic texts that look at these questions, exploring the nature of the inquisitive mind
Drama

Second Language and Culture Acquisition — EDU2521.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Peter Jones
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Language and cultural learning are potentially transformative, yet can seem evanescent, elusive, and difficult to name and deliberately provide for. What conditions contribute to second language and cultural learning of the transformative kind? How does schooling both cooperate with, and block, opportunities for learning ? Sociocultural, interactionist, and linguistic
Languages

Senior Projects — LIT4795.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Marguerite Feitlowitz
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
For seniors working on special projects or senior theses. There will be one group meeting per week. In addition, each member of the class will have frequent individual meetings with the instructor during the course of the term. Corequisites: Students are required to attend Literature Evenings (Wednesdays, 7 – 8pm).  
Literature

Sensation and Movement in the Ocean — Canceled

Fall 2013
Instructor: David Edelman
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
How do marine animals negotiate the challenges of a complex, ever changing, and often dangerous environment? How can we make sense of the rich repertoires of sensory and motor adaptations that are found among the diverse multi-cellular creatures that have evolved in the oceans over more than half a billion years? Finally, what kinds of nervous system innovations coincided with
Science Mathematics and Computing

Sets, Measure and Topology — MAT4106.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Andrew McIntyre
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course provides a brief introduction to three foundational areas of modern mathematics: set theory, measure theory, and topology. In set theory, we will see how to count well past infinity (ordinal and cardinal arithmetic), and we will also see how set theory forms a logical foundation for the whole of modern mathematics. In topology, we will see how continuous deformation
Science Mathematics and Computing

Shakespeare: Comedies and Romances — LIT2215.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Mark Wunderlich
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
In his comedies (Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night, etc.) and in his late so-called 'romances' (Cymbeline, A Winter's Tale, Pericles, and The Tempest), Shakespeare presents us with a vision of the stage as a place of transformation and delight, of cognition and recognition. In forests, islands, glades, and gardens, the characters
Literature

Silkscreen / Serigraphy Workshop — PRI2112.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Sarah Pike
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
This course will focus on the basic technical processes of screen printing including, screen preparation, image development, registration, paper handling, and printing multi run prints. Through demonstrations and hands on experiences students will complete a series of projects using block out methods and photo emulsion by creating hand-drawn and digital films. Particular
Visual Arts

So Far from God: A Border Project — POL4238.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
Despite the trend towards supposed globalization, the geographical demarcation of national boundaries, though often artificially constructed and the sites of complex, hybrid cultures, tends to be perceived as embodying reality, with real, sometimes violent, consequences for those living through such differentiation. To name but one specific problem, even in the wake of
Advancement of Public Action

Social Innovation Entrepreneurship: Idea to Launch — MOD2144.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Alison Dennis
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1
Calling all innovators, catalysts and designers: this three-week module is for students interested in the process of developing creative solutions and ventures in response to societal needs. Participants are invited, as individuals or teams, to enter the workshop with a specific social or environmental issue or area of interest, from capus or community issues to national and
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Social Marketing — MOD2147.04

Fall 2013
Instructor: Alison Dennis
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1
The everyday choices we make as citizens and consumers directly impact human and environmental health. From the food we eat to the clothing we wear, each choice has upstream and downstream impacts. The more global our society becomes, the more challenging it is to understand the impacts of our choices and to make informed decisions. This three-week module will explore social
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Social Practices in Art — VA4104.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Robert Ransick
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Social practices in art incorporates many diverse strategies from interactive media, online networks, manifestos, street interventions, social sculpture, design, performance, activism, open systems, public discourse and more. In this course we examine the history of social practice and focus in on how media and technology are impacting and shifting current practice. Students
Visual Arts

Solving the Impossible: Intractable Conflicts — MED2106.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course is about the challenge of solving conflicts that are firmly entrenched with little hope for change. Often these conflicts repeat a pattern of violence between groups that hold fixed positions and beliefs. We will look in depth at this type of conflict, analyzing the factors that contribute to intractibility. We will then look at people like Gandhi, Martin Luther
Conflict Resolution and Systems Design

Song Production — MSR4362.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Julie Last
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
***Time Change*** How does a song idea make its way from a composer's imagination to a CD that plays on your home stereo or computer? How do choices regarding instrumentation, song structure, sonic identity, and musical performance bring a song to life? In what ways do those choices affect how a piece of music is experienced? Throughout this course we'll be thinking about
Music

Special Projects — HIS4750.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Eileen Scully
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course is an opportunity for students to pursue individual and collaborative interdisciplinary independent projects, whether in the exploratory phase or already underway. In early weeks, we workshop and finalize project ideas to produce individual contracts. These contracts include arrangements for each student to receive preliminary consultation on proposals and
Social Science

Special Projects in Advanced Japanese — JPN4705.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course is designed for students to research/ complete a project in their field of study/interest. In order to take this course, students are required to write a proposal of their project and be accepted by the instructor. Advanced level. Conducted in Japanese.  
Languages

Steal This Book: Literature of the 60s and 70s — LIT2248.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Benjamin Anastas
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
The 1960s and 70s have been so thoroughly trivialized by the culture wars that Timothy Leary’s mantra ‘Turn on, tune in and drop out’ has become the era’s defining slogan. But the counter-culture helped produce some of the most genre-breaking literature we have, and this course will dive into the alternative canon for a long, strange trip among the famous, the forgotten, and
Literature

Style and Tone in Nonfiction Writing — LIT2104.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Wayne Hoffmann-Ogier
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This introductory course focuses on the weekly writing of extended essays, including nonfiction narrative, personal essay, literary criticism, research writing, and the analytical essay. It gives particular attention to developing individual voice and command of the elements of style. The class incorporates group editing in a workshop setting with an emphasis on re-writing. It
Literature

Technique, Phrasing, and Performance — DAN4321.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
This is designed for those who have made dance work and are interested in further developing a sense of personal movement phrasing. Full attention is paid to detail, nuance, and finesse of any phrase material that is made. Students use phrasing as a way to explore compositional, technical and performance issues and consider how aspects of dance making, technique and performance
Dance

The Actor's Instrument — DRA2170.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Kirk Jackson
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
The craft of acting will be the main focus of this class. Through physical and vocal warm-up exercises, sensory exploration, improvisation, scene work, and extensive reading students will be asked to develop an awareness of their own unique instrument as actors and learn to trust their inner impulses where this is concerned. Extensive out of class preparation of specific
Drama