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(Re)Center: Reimagining a New Student Center — ARC4116.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Andrew Schlatter Donald Sherekfin
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Credits: 4
This course presents an opportunity to participate in re-imagining the 鈥渘ext life鈥 of the Student Center, as it transitions from its temporary function as a dining facility back to a home for student-centered programming. Students will work together collaboratively to generate program concepts and physical design ideas as a basis for envisioning a full interior renovation of
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100 Places Where You Must Visit in Japan — JPN2112.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
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Credits: 4
Where do you want to go when you visit Japan: Mount Fuji in Shizuoka, Kyoto Imperial Palace, or Ghibli Museum in Tokyo? What would you like to eat there? Do you want to eat sushi, tonkatsu, ramen, or pizza that is topped with corn, tuna, and mayonnaise? Do you want to see traditional performing arts like Noh and Kabuki? Or would you like to see current pop groups like Arashi
Languages

Activating Democracy 2018 — APA2153.02

Fall 2018
Instructor: Brian Campion
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Credits: 2
Historians may one day refer to the year 2018, as the year Americans returned to activism. Whether it was the election of Trump, his policies, schools shootings, or a built up disagreement with Congress more and more Americans are organizing and working to push the agendas important to them. This course looks at the workings of government at all levels and examines how to
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Actor's Instrument — DRA2170.01, section 1

Fall 2018
Instructor: Dina Janis
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Credits: 4
An actor honors and bears witness to humanity by embodying and giving voice to the human element in the landscape of theatrical collaboration. Investigating the impulses and intuitions that make us unique as individuals can also identify that which constitutes our shared humanity. Through exploration of the fundamentals of performance, students address the actor鈥檚 body, voice,
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Actor's Instrument — DRA2170.02, section 2

Fall 2018
Instructor: Jennifer Rohn
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Credits: 4
An actor honors and bears witness to humanity by embodying and giving voice to the human element in the landscape of theatrical collaboration. Investigating the impulses and intuitions that make us unique as individuals can also identify that which constitutes our shared humanity. Through exploration of the fundamentals of performance, students address the actor鈥檚 body, voice,
Drama

Adaptation or Extinction: Animals Climate Change — cancelled

Fall 2018
Instructor: Betsy Sherman
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Credits: 4
Global climate change has been implicated in the extinction of some animal species, changes in the geographic ranges of others, and many species appear to be increasingly vulnerable to both biotic (e.g. disease, competitors) and abiotic (e.g. temperature, acidification, pollutants, drought) stressors. Will different animal species adapt to global climate change or disappear?
Science and Mathematics Environment

Adler, Didion, and Sontag: Personal Politics — LIT2378.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Kathleen Alcott
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Credits: 4
Striking out from the male-dominated world of New Journalism in the 1960s and 70s came Renata Adler, Joan Didion, and Susan Sontag, women whose reportage, fiction, and criticism defined the zeitgeist. Borrowing from traditions in one form to influence others, each used a uniquely female lens to explore ideas about American imperialism, protest politics, Washington corruption,
Literature

Adobe After Effects and CC for the Moving Image Artist — FV4116.02

Fall 2018
Instructor: Colleen Murphy
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Credits: 2
This seven-week course is designed for students of all skill levels who want to expand their understanding of video making from a technical vantage point. The focus will be on Adobe After Effects as well as the Creative Cloud workflow between other applications like Photoshop and After Effects. Students will be asked to complete weekly assignments.
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Advanced Art History Practicum — AH4118.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: J. Vanessa Lyon
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Credits: 4
For students considering or undertaking senior work, independent research, or combined thesis projects in art history or visual/material culture. This practicum is a hybrid methods proseminar AND writing workshop designed for advanced students with prior coursework in art history beyond the introductory level. Whether you wish to revise, amplify, or refine an existing art
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Advanced Chamber Music — MPF4230.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Nathaniel Parke
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Credits: 2
An intensive, performance oriented exploration of chamber music literature. Corequisites: Must participate in Music Workshop (T 6:30pm 鈥 8:00pm).
Music

Advanced Improvisation Ensemble of Dancers and Musicians — MPF4357.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
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Credits: 4
This course focuses on work in the performance of improvisation. For dancers, special attention is given to the development of individual movement vocabularies, group ensemble structures, and the exploration of emergent forms. For musicians, attention is given to creating rhythms and sonorities which can then be manipulated and developed while interacting with dancers in the
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Advanced Improvisation Ensemble of Dancers and Musicians — DAN4673.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati Michael Wimberly
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Credits: 2
This course is for dancers and musicians to work on the performance of improvisation. This section is for dancers who will focus on developing an original movement vocabulary, understand pattern recognition and learn a solo and ensemble practice in emergent forms. Once a week, the dancers will have a class with musicians and will collaborate on improvisational structures.
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Advanced Sculpture: "Making it Personal" — SCU4114.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Jon isherwood
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Credits: 4
The question is what do you want to say? As we develop our interests in sculpture it becomes more and more imperative to find our own voice. The role of the artist is to interpret personal conditions and experiences and find the most effective expression for them. This course provides the opportunity for a self directed study in sculpture. Students are expected to produce a
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Advanced Voice — MVO4401.02, section 2

Fall 2018
Instructor: Kerry Ryer-Parke
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Credits: 2
Advanced study of vocal technique and the interpretation of the vocal repertoire, designed for advanced students who have music as a plan concentration and to assist graduating seniors with preparation for senior recitals. Students are required to study and to perform a varied spectrum of vocal repertory for performance and as preparation for further study or graduate school.
Music

Advanced Voice — MVO4401.01, section 1

Fall 2018
Instructor: Thomas Bogdan
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Credits: 2
Advanced study of vocal technique and the interpretation of the vocal repertoire, designed for advanced students who have music as a plan concentration and to assist graduating seniors with preparation for senior recitals. Students are required to study and to perform a varied spectrum of vocal repertory for performance and as preparation for further study or graduate school. A
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Advanced Workshop for Painting and Drawing: The Contemporary Idiom — PAI4216.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Josh Blackwell
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Credits: 4
This course is for experienced student artists with a firm commitment to serious work in the studio. Students will work primarily on self-directed projects in an effort to refine individual concerns and subject matter. Students will present work regularly for critique in class as well as for individual studio meetings with the instructor. Development of a strong work ethic will
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America and the Middle East — Canceled

Fall 2018
Instructor: Mansour Farhang
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Credits: 2
This course is a study of U. S. geopolitical involvement in national and regional affairs of the Middle East from World War I to the present. It is designed to enable the students to place today鈥檚 headlines into historical context and provide a range of analytic perspectives to evaluate the motives, methods of implementation and consequences of decisions intended to advance U.
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America in the World: Past, Present, Future — HIS4204.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Eileen Scully
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Credits: 4
Even while responding to recent global and national events that seem unprecedented, the United States continues to confront the dilemmas running throughout its diplomatic history-national security versus individual liberties, unilateralism versus multilateralism, competing domestic constituencies, and conflicting visions of America's role in the world. Newly declassified
Society Culture and Thought

American Environmental Politics — POL2109.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: John Hultgren
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Credits: 4
This course will explore American environmental politics, from the late 1800s to the present day, with a focus on understanding the actors, institutions and structural power dynamics that impact environmental struggles. We will proceed by engaging with a variety of historical and contemporary case studies related to toxic waste, clean air and water, fracking, national parks,
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American Food 2018 — APA2151.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Ben Hall
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Credits: 4
In this survey we will examine the way food is used as social tool to produce power, exploitation, and waste. We will review the use of food in political movements such as the Catholic Worker House and Black Panthers Free Food Program, as well as hunger strikes as an individual tool of political freedom and not eating animals as a form of political resistance. We will also
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American Theater Now — DRA2151.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Jennifer Rohn
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Credits: 4
This non-performance based course will focus on a detailed, coast-to-coast examination of the state of the American Theater in 2018-2019 with a specific emphasis on issues of equity, diversity and inclusion. Who are the playwrights, directors, designers, actors, and producers that are shaping the landscape? Who is making theater? How and why are they making it? We will explore
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An Actor's Technique-Nuts and Bolts — DRA4127.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Dina Janis
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Credits: 4
How do actors bridge the gap between themselves and the role they are playing? How do actors rehearse with other actors in order to explore the world of the play? This non-performance based class is designed to help individual actors discover their own organic, thorough rehearsal process. Step by step we will clarify the actor鈥檚 process: character research, character
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Ancient Greek Philosophy — PHI2124.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Doug Kremm
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Credits: 4
Ancient Greece produced some of the most provocative and influential thinkers in the Western philosophical tradition. In this course, we will read through some of the classic texts by these thinkers and grapple with the central questions they raise: What is justice? What is knowledge, and how does it differ from mere opinion? What makes an action, a person, or a whole society
Society Culture and Thought

Another Roadside Attraction: Travel Photography — PHO2110.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Elizabeth White
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Credits: 2
This seminar examines the intertwined histories of travel and photography, considering social, political, and artistic questions. We will ask how historical changes related to mobility, access, and representation have impacted the production and consumption of images, and in turn how images influence our relationships to places we do not call home. How do we understand terms
Visual Arts

Art Intervention Projects Class: Mapping Projects on Climate Change — APA2216.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Susie Ibarra
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Credits: 4
The students will study a creative model and methods used by Composer/Percussionist Susie Ibarra and Glaciologist/Geomorphologist Michele Koppes that sonically maps water sources, downstream communities and shifting landscapes in the Himalayas used to create an acoustic story on climate change. Each student will map an individual project of their own over the term using
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