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Fall 2017

Movement Practice: Beginning Dance Technique — DAN2121.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Rebecca Brooks, MFA Teaching Fellow

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Credits: 2

This beginning dance technique course requires no previous dance training. We will begin with a warm-up focusing on our body’s relationship to gravity and basic alignment principles, and we will progress to more spacious movement pathways, patterns and scores. We will pay special attention to coordination, drawing on systems such as Ideokinesis, Chi Kung (Qi Gong), yoga, and

Dance

Movement Practice: Beginning-Intermediate Dance Technique — DAN2119.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Elena Demyanenko

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Credits: 2

This beginning-intermediate movement class will develop from simple skeletal mobility sequences to expansive movement forms. The warm-up will examine the joints and how their range of motion relates to alignment, readiness to move, and articulation. These principles will then become the foundation for traveling sequences and longer movement phrases. Distinguishing between tempo

Dance

Movement Practice: Moving from the Spine — DAN2152.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Yanan Yu, MFA Teaching Fellow

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Credits: 2

Using principles from Chinese movement practice, we will focus on the 3-dimensional spiraling form of the body in the space. The class will emphasize the breath and its connections to the mechanics of the spine, which is the main source of the fluid movements that extend throughout the body. We will work on weight shifting and cycling dynamic movement, integrating the principle

Dance

Movement Practice: Partnering — DAN2179.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Stuart Shugg, MFA Teaching Fellow

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Credits: 2

Throughout this course, we will work with simple partnering exercises that focus on the sense of touch, the sharing of weight, and the play of counterbalancing. Within each class, after an initial warm-up, we will progress to larger more complex forms and lifts. It is easier to move someone already in motion. By taking our partners off center, we are destabilizing and then

Dance

Multi-Party and Full Track Diplomacy — MED4203.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Michael Cohen

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Credits: 2

The world of diplomacy is traditionally divided into three tracks consisting of Track 1 (high-level political, military leaders, and official negotiators who discuss major agreements), Track 2 (academics, religious leaders, and managers who focus on relationships and problem solving often in new ways), and Track 3 (People to People diplomacy). Underutilized is a fourth track

CAPA

Music Composition Intensive — MCO4801.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Allen Shawn

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Credits: 2

Open to students who have good notational skills, have taken other composition classes, and are ready to compose in longer forms and with more varied instrumentation than previously attempted.

Music

Musical Forms — MHI2240.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Allen Shawn

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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

Music

Narrative Cinema: Century One — FV2113.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Erika Mijlin

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Credits: 4

A broad view of narrative cinema history : from the very origins of film genres, through the definitions of style in the ‘classical’ film era, to the institution of ‘master’ narratives provided by the studio system. The course will take on both the legacy of a century of formal innovations as well as outright challenges to the medium, including: New Wave cinema, the Dogma

Visual Arts

Negatives on Glass — PHO4106.02

Fall 2017

Instructor: Jonathan Kline

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Credits: 2

This seven week course explores the process of creating photographic negatives using the 19th century process of collodion on glass, commonly referred to as "wet plate" by its early practitioners. In addition to making negatives on glass using a large format camera, students will also explore the careers of noted photographers employing the collodion process such as

Visual Arts

Negatives on Paper — PHO4107.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Jonathan Kline

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Credits: 2

This 7 week course explores the various methods that 19th century photographers used to create negatives using paper. We will be focusing on replicating British and French processes that were used by the first generation of photographic practitioners, from roughly 1840-1860, including William Henry Fox Talbot, Gustave Le Gray, and Amelie Jacques-Michel Guilot

Visual Arts

Neurons, Networks, and Behavior — BIO4202.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Betsy Sherman

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Credits: 4

How does light energy falling on the back of our eye get interpreted as a particular image of our friend or a painting or a leaf? How does a cockroach escape imminent predation by a toad? How does a slug remember that a recent poke wasn’t dangerous? How do we remember? A rigorous consideration of general principles of neural integration at the cellular, sensory, central, and

Science and Mathematics

Orchestration — MUS4013.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Nick Brooke

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Credits: 2

A primer in orchestration, for students who are selected to write for Sage City Symphony for their March 2018 concert. We will pore over the 19th and 20th century orchestral repertoire, getting to know instruments, ranges, and agilities. Analysis, piano reduction, and orchestration from grand staff will be used to internalize and hear

Music

Other People’s Worlds — ANT4129.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Miroslava Prazak

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Credits: 4

In the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century a European based world-economy came into existence. Fueled by the philosophy of mercantilism, traders followed, and sometimes were, explorers seeking riches in the lands "discovered" in the search for trade routes. The resulting contact between cultures led to fundamental transformations of all the societies and cultures

Society Culture and Thought

Our Curated World: Seeing a Trend through the Lens of Tradition — VA2243.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Anne Thompson

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Credits: 4

From art biennials to restaurant menus, a widening swath of contemporary culture seems to involve, even require, the hand of a curator. So what exactly does it mean to BE a curator? How and why did this activity develop into a profession and from a profession into a trend? Where did the role of curator originate and how has it evolved over time? To answer these questions, this

Visual Arts

Our Monsters, Ourselves — SPA4715.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Sarah Harris

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Credits: 4

"We live in a time of monsters," writes Jeffrey Jerome Cohen in Monster Theory. By mixing categories or defying 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

Paris on Screen: Tradition and Modernity — FRE4498.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Stephen Shapiro

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Credits: 4

In this intermediate-low level course, we will study the representation of the city of Paris on film in order to examine modernityʹs challenges to tradition. In particular, we will focus on the question of how urban communities and city dwellers react to increasing disconnectedness, anonymity, and solitude. Films may include Tanguy, La Haine, Chacun cherche son chat, Paris

Languages

Performance Project: Natural State of Error — DAN2125.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Elena Demyanenko

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Credits: 2

In this performance project, we will build on the body knowledge of each participant. We will explore the nuance and precision of impulses and will inhibit them when necessary. Keenly aware of our relationship to space and each other, we can intuit others’ actions just as inanimate bodies might repel and attract in a magnetic field. Attunement at the level of reflex, habit, and

Dance

Performance Project: Why Dance Now? — DAN4141.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Rebecca Brooks, MFA Teaching Fellow

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Credits: 2

Throughout this creative process we will cultivate mindful embodiment as a radical political act. Rebecca Brooks will create a new performance work built on the premise that deep somatic engagement vastly affects us both individually and collectively. How can dancing prepare us to propagate change, to stay in action no matter what, to sharpen our awareness to our environment

Dance

Philosophical Reasoning — PHI2109.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Karen Gover

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Credits: 4

What is the difference between belief and knowledge? What is truth? What is the mind? 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 philosophy – knowledge,

Society Culture and Thought

Photo Documentation for Artists — PHO2203.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Jon Barber

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Credits: 1

his course is intended for upper level VA students who work primarily in non-photographic media. No previous experience with photographic technique is required. The course will demonstrate and provide practice in techniques used in effective documentation of art pieces using digital still photography. Students will have access to camera equipment and our lighting studio,

Visual Arts

Photographic Portraiture: Rethinking Representation — PHO4112.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Elizabeth White

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Credits: 4

This studio/ seminar contemplates historical and contemporary practices in photographic portraiture, considering how photographers negotiate their relationships with their subjects and reflect on notions of identity. Assignment prompts invite students to explore formal and conceptual strategies while readings provide theoretical context and encourage critical thinking

Visual Arts

Physics I: Forces and Motion (with lab) — PHY2235.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Tim Schroeder

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Credits: 4

Physics is the study of what Newton called “the System of the World.” To know the System of the World is to know what forces are out there and how those forces operate on things. These forces explain the dynamics of the world around us: from the path of a falling apple to the motion of a car down the highway to the flight of a rocket from the Earth. Careful analysis of the

Science and Mathematics

Piano — MIN4333.02; section 2

Fall 2017

Instructor: Matthew Edwards

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Credits: 2

One-on-one lessons, scheduled individually, available to students with previous study. Corequisite: Must participate in Music Workshop (Tuesday, 6:30 – 8:00 pm).

Music

Piano — MIN4333.01; section 1

Fall 2017

Instructor: Joan Forsyth

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Credits: 2

One-on-one lessons, scheduled individually, available to students with previous study. Corequisite: Must participate in Music Workshop (Tuesday, 6:30 – 8:00 pm).

Music

Piano Lab I — MIN2232.02; section 2

Fall 2017

Instructor: Matthew Edwards

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Credits: 2

Introductory course in basic keyboard skills. Topics include reading notation, rhythm, technique, and general musicianship. Corequisite: Must participate in Music Workshop (Tuesday, 6:30 – 8:00 pm).

Music