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City and Hinterland — Canceled

Fall 2014
Instructor: valerie imbruce
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Cities have always been intimately connected to their rural hinterlands. The waterways and farmland surrounding cities gave rise to urban commerce and population density. In turn, urban growth resulted in the pollution and destruction of the natural environment. Now, as rural to urban migration continues at rapid rates, cities face the new challenge of housing over half of the
CAPA Environment

Clay Formulation — CER2118.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: david katz
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
***Time Change*** In this course students will gain a fundamental understanding of the basic ceramic materials and their uses in the formulation of clay recipes and slip surfaces. Through a combination of lecture and hands-on experimentation students will investigate the raw materials that serve as components of clay and the role each plays in the formulation of this plastic
Visual Arts

Comparative Animal Physiology — BIO4201.01

Fall 2014
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 Environment

Composing for the Choir — MCO4130.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: kitty brazelton
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Composers who sing (or would like to), singers who compose (or would like to), songwriters who would like to stop singing alone, writers who would like to hear their writings sung (and maybe sing some too) and anyone who's always wanted to learn how to shape music for a vocal group---this class is for you. We will compose, rehearse and then perform our own repertoire in several
Music

Coordination, Conflict, and Competition — PEC4126.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: robin kemkes
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
What accounts for the divergence of wealth and poverty of nations and people across the world? Aspects of commodity exchange that are non-contractual and involve externalities influence individual and collective behavior and generate problems of allocation and distribution. This course is for students who want to gain an in-depth understanding of how microeconomic interactions
CAPA Social Science

Costume Design for Multimedia — DRA2246.02

Fall 2014
Instructor: charles schoonmaker
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
Costume is a consideration that must be addressed for virtually every human-based character in any medium. This class will focus on how to approach costume design in the context of a project you are working on, such as a film, video, or animation. We will explore design options based on character, period, style, and storyline. Class presentations may be drawn, illustrated, or
Drama

Creating the Sensory World of a Play — DRA2136.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: dina janis
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
How do you create imaginary rain or cold or heat? Where are you coming from when you enter a stage from the wings? How do you personalize and endow the set and props your character thinks of as real? What is substitution and how can it help bring the relationships of a play to life? In this class, we will work with the basic canon of sensory exercises designed to give the
Drama

Critical Response in Painting — PAI4309.01

Fall 2014
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
Visual Arts

Cultural Localities 1: Researching Culture — ANT4117.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: miroslava prazak
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

Cultural Studies: Amanda Knox in Translation — MOD2138.02

Fall 2014
Instructor: barbara alfano
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1
This is the second of a two-module series that discusses the importance of approaching a different culture from its own perspective. The series, which includes "Cultural Studies: Learning Cultural Perspectives Through Ikebana," will help students experience the process of cross-cultural understanding. One of the interesting and controversial aspects of Knox's trial in Italy is
CAPA Languages Modules: Transferable Approaches

Cultural Studies: Learning Culture Through Ikebana — MOD2148.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: ikuko yoshida
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1
This is the first of a two-module series that discusses the importance of approaching a different culture from its own perspective. The series, which includes Cultural Studies: Amanda Knox in Translation (MOD2138), will help students experience the process of cross-cultural understanding. The capacity to sense, let alone experience, another's point of view seems critical in
CAPA Visual Arts Modules: Transferable Approaches

Dance on Film — DAN2277.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: terry creach
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
For students of all disciplines, this course will include weekly screenings of dance on film. We will be looking at a wide variety of dance, from The Ballets Russes to early Modern Dance at Bennington to Postmodern Dance, nationally and internationally. We will also utilize the library collection of dance films from cultures around the world, to examine the diverse styles and
Dance

Democracy in America: Tocqueville's Past, Our Present — POL2242.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: crina archer
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Does a strong commitment to social equality undermine individual freedom? What kind of institutions and cultural practices are needed for flourishing of a healthy democracy? Are modern democratic states at risk of producing novel forms of tyranny and despotism? These are just a few of the questions raised by Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America, the first empirically
Social Science

Designing a Light Plot — DRA2235.02

Fall 2014
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

Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" and Public Action — MOD2136.04

Fall 2014
Instructor: brooke allen; alison dennis
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1
Since its publication in 1843, Charles Dickens' allegorical tale about a miserly businessman has never gone out of print. While the novella's holiday-themed story is widely known, a close reading of the original text reveals sharp criticism of industrial capitalism and its devastating impact on social welfare. In this module we will read A Christmas Carol aloud together and
CAPA Literature Modules: Transferable Approaches

Digital Analogues — MCO4107.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: warren cockerham; nicholas brooke
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Technology and human innovation have linked sound and moving image throughout the last century, from the earliest phonograph and film synchronizations in the 1890s, to optical and magnetic soundtracks married to 16mm and 35mm film in the 1930s, to multi-track digital sound and multi-track digital video installations, hacker DIY innovations and live events. This course will go
Music Visual Arts

Digital Darkroom Essentials — PHO4235.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: elizabeth white
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
Designed for students who have experience working with manual cameras, this seven-week course provides instruction in the processing of raw files with Lightroom and Photoshop, and the production of digital portfolios and high quality inkjet prints. Class time will include technical demonstrations and group critiques, as well as slide presentations and discussions. Self-directed
Visual Arts

Directing II — DRA4376.01

Fall 2014
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

Displaying Culture — ANT4211.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: noah coburn
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course is a hands-on exploration of how culture is exhibited. How do we move from cultural material to display and what are the consequences of this transition? How do we create ethnography when it is not a text or a film? The course will look at the politics, economics and social impact of exhibiting culture in a variety of ways. It will look at some of the practical and
Social Science

Early American Literature — LIT2197.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: benjamin anastas
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
From the Puritans' first unpromising glimpse aboard the Mayflower of this "hideous & desolate wilderness, full of wild beats and wild men," America has inspired, even required, bold new feats of language and the imagination to capture it in literature. This course will survey the beginnings of the American literary tradition, from the poetry of Anne Bradstreet and the
Literature

Edo to Meiji: Isolation to Modernization — JPN4168.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: ikuko yoshida
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
During the Edo period (1600-1867), Japan closed its doors to other countries for about two hundred fifty years, and this isolation helped Japan develop its own unique culture. It, however, ended in 1867 when Japanese culture was introduced to the Western world at an International Exposition in Paris. On the contrary to the Edo period, the next era, Meiji, brought rapid
Languages

Electronic Music: Creativity and Sound — MCO2109.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: michael leczinsky
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
How do you compose when any sound can be used in music? This course provides an exploration into strategies for sound-based composition and the digital transformation of sound. Students will create original sounds and compositions in the electronic music studio. Students are expected to complete short readings, participate in discussions, present their creative work on a
Music

Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama — DRA4361.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: kathleen dimmick
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course investigates the great flourishing of drama in late 16th and early 17th century England, a period of little more than fifty years that produced the most robust theater in the English-speaking world. We read plays by several of the major writers of the period, with the exception of Shakespeare: Kyd, Marlowe, Green, Jonson, Dekker, Heywood, Webster, Middleton, and
Drama Literature

Embracing Difference — ANT2107.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: miroslava prazak
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Why are cultures and societies so different, and simultaneously, so similar? This introductory course examines some of the theoretical and methodological approaches of anthropology in exploring human culture and society. We explore various ethnographic examples to develop an anthropological perspective on economy and politics, social organization, kinship and family life,
Social Science