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Artist's Portfolio — DAN4366.01) (cancelled

Fall 2021
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 2
Explaining artwork often goes against the grain, yet artists are regularly called upon to articulate their processes, tools, and dynamics of collaboration. To help secure any of the myriad forms of institutional support including funding, venues, and engagements, artists must develop essential skills, creatively and flexibly. Finding a public language for what is the private
Dance Drama Visual Arts

Artist's Portfolio: Parts I (the verbal) Part II (the visual) — DAN4150.01 (cancelled

Fall 2021
Instructor: Dana Reitz
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Credits: 4
This is for advanced students (juniors and seniors) of the performing arts and visual arts disciplines who wish to find the language, both verbally and visually, that is reflective of their true creative processes, helps clarify and further their own investigations, and is readily available to present to others. Finding a public language for what is the private process of
Dance Drama Music Visual Arts

Banjo — MIN2215.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: John Kirk
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Credits: 2
Beginning, intermediate, or advanced group lessons on the 5-string banjo in the claw-hammer/frailing style. Student will learn to play using simple song sheets with chords, tablature, and standard notation. Using chord theory and scale work, personal music-making skills will be enhanced. History of the African origins of banjo and its introduction to the western world will be
Music

Bass Intensive — MIN4026.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Michael Bisio
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Credits: 2
Advanced studies in theory relating to performance. Students must be enrolled in Bass with Bisio (MIN4417) simultaneously, no exceptions. This class is only for advanced students and by permission of instructor.
Music

Beat by Beat: Script Interpretation for Theatre Makers and Their Friends — DRA4254.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Dina Janis
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Credits: 4
Students in this class will read a selection of plays and be required to analyze and explore these plays beat by beat in class discussion and weekly critical writing exercises. This is a script interpretation class in which theme, dramatic structure and arc, character development, tone, style and extensive study of the given playwrights and their influences will be explored in
Drama

Beginning Cello — MIN2354.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Nat Parke
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Credits: 2
The basics of cello. In a small group, students will learn how to play the cello, with an emphasis on a group performance at the term’s conclusion. School cellos are available for loan. No experience necessary in cello or music in general.
Music

Beginning Guitar — MIN2247.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Hui Cox
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Credits: 2
Introduces the fundamentals of acoustic guitar playing, including hand positions, tuning, reading music, major and pentatonic scales, major, minor, and seventh chords, chord progressions, blues progressions, and simple arrangements of songs.
Music

Beginning Guitar —

Fall 2021
Instructor: Hui Cox
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Credits: 2
 (MIN2247.01) Hui Cox Introduces the fundamentals of acoustic electric guitar playing, including hand positions, tuning, reading music, major and pentatonic scales, major, minor, and seventh chords, chord progressions, blues progressions, and simple arrangements of songs. Reviewing the history of the guitar and its pioneers and innovators. Categories: All
Music

Beginning Violin/Viola — MIN2241.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Kaori Washiyama
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Credits: 2
Basic techniques will include the reading of music in either treble/alto clef in the easy keys. Basic hand positions and appropriate fingerings will be shown, and a rudimentary facility with bow will be developed in order that all students may participate in simple ensemble performance by the end of term. Student must arrange for the use of a college instrument, if needed:
Music

Beyond Plastic Pollution — APA2334.02) (cancelled

Fall 2021
Instructor: Judith Enck
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Credits: 2
Beyond Plastic Pollution is an environmental policy class with an emphasis on building your skills to take action on this growing environmental justice and climate justice problem.  The class will focus on the production, use and disposal of plastic, including one class on how the US and Europe exports its plastic waste problems to  countries in Asia and Africa. 
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Beyond Plastic Pollution — APA2334.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Judith Enck
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Credits: 1
Beyond Plastic Pollution is an environmental policy course with an emphasis on taking public action to address the problem. The class will focus on the production, use and disposal of plastics, with a focus on environmental justice. The class will examine the systemic reasons why millions of tons of plastic enter rivers and oceans each year. This cutting edge class will examine
CAPA

Black Nature Writing — LIT2278.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Phillip B. Williams
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Credits: 4
In this class you will investigate the many faces that nature bears in the poetry of writers of African-descent. You will read poems from the Antebellum period through the contemporary period, poems that defy the myth that Black poets solely write about an urban experience in predictable ways. For Black poets, nature serves as a catalyst for contemplating freedom, complicating
Literature

Brain, Behavior, and Cognition — BIO2128.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Blake Jones
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Credits: 4
How do animals communicate? What does the brain do? Where are memories stored? Why have different cognitive abilities evolved in different animals? This course will explore these questions and more by integrating across disciplines all aimed at understanding how animals (including humans) behave and think. We will focus on how individuals acquire, encode, interpret, and respond
Science and Mathematics

Building Regenerative and Resilient Communities — APA2441.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
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Credits: 2
This course will be an introduction into a new CAPA Initiative called Building Regenerative and Resilient Communities. In response to the pandemic, climate change, social justice inequity, and the problem of food insecurity, there is an opportunity to build our communities whether they are local, regional or global; to imagine the community that we want to live in. Through a
CAPA

Can Restorative Justice Work in Cases of Intimate Violence? — APA4163.02

Fall 2021
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
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Credits: 2
Restorative practices have been considered inappropriate and even dangerous for situations in which there has been sexual an intimate violence. Why is this and are there ways to bring a restorative approach to harms of this nature? In this class we will read trauma and feminist theory in order to ground ourselves in some of the background literature that has traditionally been
CAPA

Cello — MIN4355.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Nat Parke
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Credits: 2
Studio instruction in cello. There will be an emphasis on creating and working towards an end-of-term project for each student. School cellos available for loan.
Music

Ceramic History: Global Perspectives — CER2119.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Yoko Inoue
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Credits: 4
The study of ceramics is the study of human history in all of its cultural diversity, from artisanal pottery to highly sophisticated modern product design or contemporary sculpture. This course will explore ancient, indigenous and historical ceramics with lectures and discussions around clay materials, technology, art, and culinary traditions. Students will travel the world
Visual Arts

Chemistry 1: Chemical Principles (with Lab) — CHE2211.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: John Bullock
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Credits: 4
This course is the first of a four-course chemistry sequence covering general, organic and biochemistry. Students do not need to take the entire sequence. We will focus on introductory chemical principles, including atomic theory, classical and quantum bonding concepts, molecular structure, organic functional groups, and the relationship between structure and properties. The
Science and Mathematics

Child Development — PSY2212.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Emily Waterman
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Credits: 4
It is trite but true: kids grow up so fast. In this course we will discuss the incredible growth of infants, toddlers, and children in multiple domains (physical, cognitive, emotional/social). We will discover how growth in each domain affects the others. We will explore enduring topics of discourse in child development, such as nature and nurture, individual differences, and
Society Culture and Thought

Choice and Consequence - Alternative History — DRA2277.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Sherry Kramer
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Credits: 4
We are our choices. -Satre Plays and films are empathic art forms that seduce us into imaginatively making choices and suffering consequences along with their characters. Every day in the real world, we watch as people make choices whose consequences are truly ours to share—some global, some local. What if we could rewrite those choices and change what happens to our lives,
Drama

Cine-Ecologies — MS2107.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Keisha Knight
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Credits: 4
How does cinema make the world? We will explore the landscapes and political potentials of different cinematic movements such as the LA Rebellion, Cinema Novo, New Queer Cinema, Taiwanese New Wave, and New German Cinema as well as cinematic practices in colonial Bollywood and 1920s Shanghai. This course will rely heavily on weekly film screenings, supplementary readings, and
Society Culture and Thought

Civil Society in Conflict Resolution — POL4248.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Rotimi Suberu
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Credits: 2
Civil society is the arena of autonomous associational organization and activity. It has been credited with promoting various virtuous outcomes, including democratization, development, and social peace. This course critically surveys civil society’s roles in peacemaking and peace building. We will explore theoretical controversies regarding civil society’s forms, norms, promise
CAPA Society Culture and Thought

Coding Workshop — CS4379.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Jim Mahoney
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Credits: 2
An opportunity to improve your programming skills, the Coding Workshop is a place to first work on some practice problems, then embark on a group project such as Google's "Tron Robot Challenge", and end with a final project of your choice. The specific languages and topics will depend in part on the participants, but may include Python, Javascript, web development, functional
Science and Mathematics