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Fall 2019

100 Places Where You Must Visit in Japan — JPN2112.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida

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Credits: 4

Where do you want to go when you visit Japan: Mount Fuji in Shizuoka, Imperial Palace in Kyoto, 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

Cultural Studies and Languages

2D-3D-2D – Animation in a Created World — MA4203.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Sue Rees

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Credits: 4

The class will be concerned with manipulating two dimensional imagery, creating three dimensional forms and models by utilizing the laser cutter, and finally animating forms, drawings, objects combined with the three dimensional world using tracking cameras and a green screen. We will be moving backwards and forwards between creating worlds and manipulating these worlds,

Visual Arts

Adaptation — DRA2249.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Sherry Kramer

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Credits: 4

Adaptation: A writer is a reader moved to imitation. Appropriation, repurpose, pastiche, hybrid, sampling, remix, in conversation, mash up. Everyone knows that when you steal, steal from the best. When we write we may borrow the structure of a sonata, the plot from a story, the tang and tone of a novel, and characters from our own lives. Is everything we write adaptation? We

Drama

Adaptation or Extinction: Animals Climate Change — BIO4222.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Elizabeth 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

Adobe Creative Suite for Artists — DA2102.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Anna Kroll

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Credits: 2

This course introduces artists to Adobe Creative Suite via Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. Together we will explore the individual capabilities of each program and how to bridge between them. We will also learn best practices in creating and managing digital files. Students will apply skills learned to their own creative projects and ideas. They will also have the

Visual Arts

Advanced Chamber Music — MPF4230.01

Fall 2019

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 – 8:00pm).

Music

Advanced Class in Reducing Plastic Pollution Through Community Action — APA4159.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Judith Enck

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Credits: 4

This is an advanced plastic pollution course, housed in the Center for the Advancement of Public Action and built on the foundation of public action. Plastic pollution is a growing problem which affects oceans, fish and wildlife, human health and contributes to climate change. The students should have a comprehensive understanding of the issue

CAPA Science and Mathematics

Advanced Computer Graphics — CS4103.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Justin Vasselli

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Credits: 4

In this class, we’ll be going under the hood to understand how 3D graphics work by implementing our own 3D renderer. We'll talk about how to represent and manipulate shapes mathematically, simulating the ways light interacts with these virtual objects to generate realistic images. We will start with the basics and add on each week, taking care that the

Science and Mathematics

Advanced Printmaking: Refinement and New Methods — PRI4209.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Thorsten Dennerline

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Credits: 4

In this advanced level printmaking course, we will explore the use of the laser cutter as a tool for developing our artistic content and technique in the print studio. Through a series of required assignments using the laser cutter, we will refine general print techniques such as registration, color, consistency, and paper handling. We will also learn about advanced methods of

Visual Arts

Advanced Projects in Dance — DAN4795.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Dana Reitz

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Credits: 2

This is an essential course for students involved in making work for performance this term. Attention is given to all of the elements involved in composition and production, including collaborative aspects. Students are expected to show their work throughout stages of development, complete their projects, and perform them to the public by the end of the term. Corequisites:

Dance

Advanced Projects in Film and Video — FV4304.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Mariam Ghani

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Credits: 4

This course, intended for students who will continue to the Advanced Projects in Film/Video II course in spring 2020, will support advanced students in planning, pre-production, and early production for more complex, larger-scale, longer-duration, self-directed video projects. In general, this course is intended and used by seventh-term students with a Plan concentration in

Visual Arts

Advanced Scene Study — DRA4150.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Jennifer Rohn

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Credits: 4

The goal of this course is to develop an in-depth understanding and practice of the actor’s craft. Specific emphasis will be placed on text analysis, choice making, character development--vocal and physical--and full emotional preparation. We will use cold readings, contemporary and classical scene work and monologues. Students will address any weaknesses in preparation and

Drama

Advanced Sculpture: Is that Sculpture: What's up with that? — SCU4115.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Baseera Khan

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Credits: 4

What do you like, what have you experienced? Remember there is beauty in the everyday, the banal - remember there is beauty in the extreme and the unique. No matter where you fall inline on this spectrum harness the “you.” What do you think you are made of regardless of your connections to race, class, and gender? Story telling is everything and you are building a self

Visual Arts

Advanced Voice — MVO4401.01, section 1

Fall 2019

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. A

Music

Advanced Voice — MVO4401.02, section 2

Fall 2019

Instructor: Thomas Bogdan

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Credits: 2

Music

Advanced Workshop for Painting and Drawing: The Contemporary Idiom — PAI4216.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: J 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

Visual Arts

After Utopia — SPA4504.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher

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Credits: 4

This is a course on the postcolonial philosophical projects of Latin America, though that may be a misnomer. Even the most cursory glance at studies on the continent’s appropriation of the Western philosophical tradition would show that the appropriation is so distinctive that apparently it is still possible to question its existence as philosophy. The course will include some

Cultural Studies and Languages

Aluminum and Stainless Steel Fabrication — SCU4103.02

Fall 2019

Instructor: John Umphlett

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Credits: 2

In this course we will focus on cutting and welding non-ferrous metals. CNC assisted plasma cutting will pair with the more traditional methods of shaping the material The fabrication processes will begin through brazing methods (acetylene and oxygen) for connecting non-similar metals then we will advance to learning the skills involved in using the GTAW welders for non-ferrous

Visual Arts

An Actors Technique: Nuts and Bolts — DRA4127.01

Fall 2019

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’s process: character research, character

Drama

Analog/Digital Process in Ceramics — CER4107.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Barry Bartlett with Farhad Mirza

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Credits: 4

This course investigates the material nature of clay as a medium to create three-dimensional forms. Students will explore the material aspects of clay using a variety of mechanical/digital processes and the intersection of traditional hand building methods, including extrusions, slab rolling, slip casting and digital fabrication. Drawing will be used throughout the term to

Visual Arts

Analysis — MAT4214.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Andrew McIntyre

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Credits: 4

For the first one hundred and fifty years after its introduction, calculus saw an explosive development in its applications to mathematical and physical problems, defeating old problems thought of as insoluble, and solving new problems no-one had even thought to consider before. At the same time, it was under a cloud of suspicion: it rested on vague arguments about quantities

Science and Mathematics

Animation 1 — MA2105.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Sue Rees

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Credits: 4

The class will be concerned with animating inanimate objects by stop motion, drawings, and cut out collages. A variety of filmmakers and techniques will be looked at during the course of the semester. Students will be expected to produce a variety of short projects followed by a longer more sustained project based on current events and environmental issues. Students will be

Visual Arts

Animation Projects – Pre-Production Class — MA4026.02

Fall 2019

Instructor: Sue Rees

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Credits: 2

This class is a pre-production for a future project whether for a projection, an animation or installation. Research will be undertaken, with this research presented. A catalogue of images, materials objects, and storyboarding along with creating a short tests for a longer project will be completed by the end of the term. Various situations, and presentation formats and

Drama Visual Arts

Anthropology of Art — ANT4212.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Miroslava Prazak

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Credits: 4

This course is an exploration of art as defined and practiced in different cultures. We will look at how peoples of diverse world cultures create, use, manipulate, conceptualize, exchange, and evaluate objects of material culture. We will look at how material items are considered to be artistic or aesthetic in some fashion, and think of how and if we can translate those values

Society Culture and Thought

Applied Computing: Foundations of Python Programming — CS2119.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Amber Hancock

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Credits: 4

In this introduction to computer science, you will learn to design, implement, test, and analyze algorithms and programs using Python, currently one of the most widely used programming languages in the world. Within the context of programming, you will learn to formulate problems, think creatively about solutions, and express those solutions clearly and accurately. Problems

Science and Mathematics