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Fall 2016

Climate and Environment in the Anthropocene — ES2112.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Hugh Crowl

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Credits: 4

Since the Industrial Revolution of the early 19th century, remarkable advances in technology have allowed for the human race to thrive and prosper. However, these advancements have come at a cost to our environment in a number of ways. For instance, our use of fossil fuels for efficient, cheap energy has directly resulted in global climate change. Land use

Science and Mathematics Environment

Close Encounters: Artists Affecting Change — SCU4109.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Jon Isherwood

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Credits: 4

Can Artists contribute in some significant way to effect change at a social or political level? We will look at a range of artists from the 18 th to 21st Centuries who have attempted to make significant contributions to depict human atrocities. We will examine how the issues, methods of working, narratives, media, and approaches have been effective. This includes but is not

Visual Arts

Collaboration in Light, Movement & Clothes — DAN4286.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Dana Reitz

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Credits: 4

Visual elements are a significant component of performance, whether it be theater, performance art, music or dance. With many performance projects, there is little time to contemplate, rethink or adjust designs in the actual performance space; there is rarely an opportunity to watch a collaborative art develop. In this class, equipped space is available to give the time to

Dance Drama

Composing for the Choir — MCO4130.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Kitty Brazelton

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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

Conducting Social Research — ANT4221.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Laura Nussbaum-Barberena

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Credits: 4

Research is a creative endeavor for social scientists and others who use their methods. How do social scientists design projects that answer the questions they wish to pose? How do they gather information about people and culture? What are the concerns of researchers vis-à-vis the methods they use? In this workshop course, we will first consider elements such as research design

Society Culture and Thought

Contemporary African Dance I — DAN2124.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Souleymane Badolo

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Credits: 1

Students are guided through a series of isolations, progressions, and concepts that demonstrate neo-traditional African dance styles combined with Solo Badolo’s own movement approach. Cultural, philosophical and aesthetic concepts are shared to assist in understanding and embodying the technique. With emphasis placed on grounded movement, articulation (head, torso, legs, arms)

Dance

Contemporary African Dance II — DAN4675.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Souleymane Badolo

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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

Critical Conversations in Society, Culture, and Thought: Truth and Lies — SCT2106.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Carol Pal

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Credits: 4

This course introduces students to some of the key questions, perspectives, and debates that enliven scholarly work within Society, Culture, and Thought (SCT). This course also explores how fluency in the social sciences can inform critical and creative engagements with contemporary problems. Four faculty members will take students through four different approaches to a

CAPA Society Culture and Thought

Culture, Environment and Sustainable Living — ANT2117.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Miroslava Prazak

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Credits: 4

In this seminar, we examine how Western and non-Western cultures, both past and present, perceive and shape key environmental and social issues. Through readings, discussions and films we will evaluate the potential of environmental and cultural studies to address some of the most urgent contemporary problems. To work toward an understanding of what is today called

Society Culture and Thought Environment

Dante's "Inferno" — LIT4271.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Ben Anastas

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Credits: 4

"The Inferno" will be read in a large variety of highly creative English translations. Dante will be considered as a poet, a religious thinker, and an exiled public servant enraged at the bad governance of his native Florence. Students will be encouraged to debate Dante's poetic inventions, lyrical, rhetorical, and metaphysical, as well as his principal social

Literature

Democracy on Film — FV2307.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Kate Purdie and Erika Mijlin

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Credits: 2

How do various forms of nonfiction media represent or challenge the notions of democratic ideals as we currently understand them? From filmed explanations of civic process, to behind-the-scenes footage of presidential campaigns, to election advertising itself - what does the idea of democracy look like on film? This 7-week course will consist of screenings and discussion of

Visual Arts

Digital Morphology/Rhino 3D Modeling — VA2208.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Michael Stradley

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Credits: 2

Digital Morphology is a foundation course in Rhinoceros modeling software. Rhinoceros is an industry standard 3D modelling program used by architects, designers, and artists. This course will cover a range of digital techniques from basic 2D drawing to complex NURBS surface modelling. Across several small projects that focus on exotic form, generative diagramming, and rapid

Visual Arts

Directing II — DRA4376.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Kirk Jackson

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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 director’s 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

Double Exposure: Acting for Singers/Singing for Actors — DRA4263.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Kerry Ryer-Parke

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Credits: 4

Actors and singers study remarkably similar skills: efficient use of the body and breath, development of text, character and context, staying present and emotionally connected. But even the most seasoned performer feels doubly exposed when asked to sing and act at the same time. In this class, using repertoire as varied as incidental music for Shakespeare plays, musical theatre

Drama Music

Drumming: An Extension of Language — MIN2120.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Michael Wimberly

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Credits: 2

This course serves as an introduction to learning rhythms, chants and songs from Africa, Brazil, Cuba, Haiti, and the African Diaspora. Using percussion instruments from these regions; students will experience basic hand and stick techniques while learning to recognize drumming patterns associated with these traditional rhythms. The rhythms of Lamban, KuKu, Zaouli, Samba,

Music

Echoes of Africa: Subjectivities, Dreams and Impressions — HIS4112.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly

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Credits: 4

What is Africa? This is a significant intellectual question that this course will seek to explore. Can the continent be confined to its physical and geographical materiality? Is the African continent a discourse, a project, a memory, or a desire? Each developed, envisioned or expressed by its inhabitants as well as the members of its diaspora? Surveying both

Society Culture and Thought

Editing for Moving Image — FV2305.02

Fall 2016

Instructor: Katie Soule

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Credits: 1

This course is a 1-credit, seven-week course focused on providing video and animation students with the skills to edit in Premiere Pro CC 2015. The first third of the course will provide the essential training of capturing, editing, audio mixing, and performing special effects, as well as review methods of best practice when organizing footage and exporting finished

Visual Arts

Electronic Music Production — MSR2120.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: David Baron

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Credits: 2

Electronic music is arguably the most important form of popular music production. Learn to create, produce and mix electronic pop music. What makes the music of Kraftwerk, Nine Inch Nails, EDM, even candy-electro-pop music tick? Why has electronic music taken over the airwaves? Learn to use vocoders, drum machines, synthesizers, and extreme signal processing to create dynamic

Music

English As A Second Language — LIT2101.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Wayne Hoffmann-Ogier

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Credits: 2

This class will guide international students through the stages of the writing process with weekly papers which explore several rhetorical modes, including description, nonfiction narration, and with particular emphasis on constructing academic essays. We will also have the opportunity to review grammar, punctuation, diction, and sentence structure. Additional work is offered

Literature

Entry to Mathematics — MAT2100.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Hugh Crowl

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Credits: 4

Mathematics is inherent across all disciplines and undertakings. It is necessary for building structures, assessing risk in everyday life, mixing paint for specific shades, creating business models of growth and decay, setting traffic lights, and can even help assess the correct time to propose. This course will show how math has evolved from counting to the combination of

Science and Mathematics

Environmental Hydrology — ES4105.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Tim Schroeder

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Credits: 4

Fresh water is perhaps the world’s scarcest and most critical resource. Giant engineering projects are built to control water distribution, wars and legal battles are fought over who controls water, and across the world people face real concerns about the safety of their water. Problems will only become worse as populations grow and the climate changes. This course is a

Science and Mathematics Environment

Experiential Anatomy/Somatic Practices — DAN2149.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Elena Demyanenko

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Credits: 4

This is a studio class for any discipline intended to deepen the understanding of your own moving body. We will be studying kinesthetic anatomy: approaching the material through visual, cognitive, kinesthetic, and sensory modes. Class time will be divided between discussion of anatomy and kinesthetic concepts, and engagement with the material experientially through movement

Dance

Experimental Documentary — FV4314.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Kate Purdie

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Credits: 4

This intermediate moving image course will explore experimentation in form and content in non-fiction moving image. From the earliest experiments in actualities by the Lumiere brothers to the recent homage project “Labour in a Single Shot” including autobiography, memoir, and even recreations, experimental documentaries acknowledge the fact that the very process

Visual Arts

Faculty Performance Production: August: Osage County — DRA4264.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Kirk Jackson

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Credits: 4

Chronicling the dissolution of three generations of an American family, August: Osage County (2008 winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Tony and Drama Desk Awards for Best Play) has been called “a fusion of epic tragedy and black comedy”. Actor/playwright Tracy Letts sourced the darkly comedic and viciously nihilistic drama from his own family and tailored the characters for a

Drama

Fiction in a Flash: Reading and Writing the Short Story — LIT4285.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Michael Dumanis

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Credits: 4

Take a quick scan on any table in a bookstore and you'll see that the short story collection is having a renaissance. These bite-sized literary gems have the ability to push boundaries, explore themes, and take abrupt twists that the long-form novel just can't navigate. The short story is the hummingbird, turning on a dime, and always surprising the reader in the direction it

Literature