Course Listing | 51��

Fall 2021

Coffee Clowns — DAN4183.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

Days & Time:

Credits: 2

This is not a red-nose clown class, but rather one geared toward breaking open the definition of what clowning is and can be. We will use physical theater techniques, objects, and different locations to evoke characters that are of the human form and beyond. We will experiment with both solo and group practice. Warmups will include somatic training,

Dance

Commonplace Treasure — PAI4406.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: J Blackwell

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

A course built around finding or recognizing the value, beauty, poetry, and remarkable power in mundane everyday occurrences, objects, and ephemera. Students will be encouraged to slow down and notice resources that they ordinarily rush by. Class exercises will include list making, photography, journaling, sketching, collecting and editing materials for paintings. The goal of

Visual Arts

Composing for Instruments — MCO4151.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: Allen Shawn

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

This class gives composers hands-on practice notating their music and hearing it played by performers playing a variety of instruments. It is meant for fledgling composers, for those who may have composed a lot of music already but have trouble writing their music down, or for those who have never even imagined composing music but would like to try. There are specific

Music

Composing for the Choir — MCO4130.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: Kitty Brazelton

Days & Time:

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

Computational Craft — DA2114.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: Dakota Pace

Days & Time:

Credits: 2

Computational Craft is an intro course in industry standard 3D modeling software Rhinoceros. This course will cover a wide breadth of techniques that range from basic 2D drawing to complex 3D construction. While this course is aimed at teaching technical skills, it will also have a rigorous focus on aesthetics and design concepts. Its ultimate goal is being a feedback loop

Visual Arts

Conceptualizing the Environment — LIT4535.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: Paul La Farge

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

Is there still such a thing as the natural world in 2021, and, if so, how do we conceptualize it? By way of answering this question, we’ll read work by philosophers, anthropologists, biologists, and literary critics, all of whom in one way or another pose the question of how to think about nature in the midst of the Anthropocene. Can we, as humans, de-center the human? Can we

Literature

Conflict Resolution: The Ideas and Practice — MED2112.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: Michael Cohen

Days & Time:

Credits: 3

This course will present an interdisciplinary approach to the theory of conflict resolution. Theories of conflict resolution, not mediation skills, will be introduced and then explored through a number of different prisms. These will include the macro issues of the nature of peace, the environment, the media, NGOs, as well as the role of religion and the Bible. The relationship

CAPA

Conservation Biology (with Lab) — BIO4133.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

This course introduces the unifying concepts of the diverse and interdisciplinary field of conservation biology, as well as highlighting the history of conservation in practice and current issues and methods. We will discuss conservation issues that span and integrate across disciplines and levels of organization, including: biodiversity and ecological functions,

Science and Mathematics

Contact Improvisation: Tools for Life — DAN2356.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: Dana Reitz

Days & Time:

Credits: 2

In this course we will enliven both our individual and our partnering dance work, while learning the vocabulary that helps make Contact Improvisation an engaging non-verbal conversation. The ongoing learning process of Contact Improvisation involves developing skills related to weight sharing, jumping and rolling, sliding and gliding, finding a solo inside a duet, using the

Dance

Conversations — FRE4494.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

Montaigne considered conversations as the “most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds.” From 17th-century French salons to the diverse forms and voices of online media, conversations reflect and shape our lives. This natural penchant for causeries not only continues to permeate the whole society, it also impregnates other forms of representation. Magritte’s “Art of

Cultural Studies and Languages

Créatrices — FRE4721.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

Their films, their books, their work, their lives have marked and shaped other lives, and still do. This course will focus on selected works of French women creators – authors, choreographers, stand-up comedians, scholars, etc. We will explore a variety of genres and forms of expressions. Readings include excerpts from Histoire de ma vie (George Sand, 1855), Le deuxième sexe

Cultural Studies and Languages

Cuisine, Culture, and Identity — FRE4226.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: Stephen Shapiro

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

“Tell me what you eat and I will tell you who you are” –Brillat-Savarin While food sustains life, it also gives it meaning. This course will focus on how the culture of food and eating has played an important role in the construction of the religious, national, ethnic, and individual identities of the French-speaking world. How have migration and the realities of the post

Cultural Studies and Languages

Culture, Environment and Sustainable Living — ANT2117.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: Miroslava Prazak

Days & Time:

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

Dalcroze Eurhythmics: A Pedagogy for Noticing — MFN2147.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

Days & Time:

Credits: 2

What do you know that your sentient, feeling body did not first experience? The Swiss musician Emile Jaques-Dalcroze (1865-1950) developed a whole pedagogy of music and movement to explore this question. Self-awareness, self-expression, and musical knowing are all seated in the body, the fundamental constant of all experience. But how do we honor that truth in our learning? We

Music

Dance Intensive: Embodiment through Improvisation and Performance — DAN2354.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: Elena Demyanenko

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

This course is for students who have a serious interest in dance or desire to explore embodied cognition, whether or not you have previous dance experience. We will consider many aspects of dance making, embodiment, and performance. We will work towards constantly evolving ways to be one’s own teacher—recognizing patterns, heightening awareness of observation, and selecting

Dance

Dance on Film to TikTok Culture: Framing the Rendered Body — DAN2353.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: Elena Demyanenko

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

This hands-on course co-taught by dance faculty Elena Demyanenko and guest video-artist Tori Lawrence will utilize camera/iPhone exercises, selected film screenings (to understand a range of perspectives), and improvisational games to give students an opportunity to expand and refine their own visual sensibilities with the goal of creating collaborative dance and camera

Dance Visual Arts

Dance Teleportation: Beyond Space and Time — DAN2355.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: Mina Nishimura

Days & Time:

Credits: 2

How can we be together and create something together, when we are physically not in the same space and time? In light of the above question, this course will be fully remote, facilitated through a combination of synchronous remote sessions and individual outside-class projects. Throughout the course, with body-centered minds, we will interview each other, and exchange

Dance

Decolonize Everything! Anthropology and Empire in the Global South and Global North — SCT4152.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: David Bond

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

These days it seems there is a call to decolonize at every turn. What does this mean in the present? How does this call to decolonize everything connect to the armed struggles of the 20th century that dismantled European empires and secured the independence of nations across the Global South? After the postcolonial moment, where and how does the presence of empire remain?

Society Culture and Thought

Delights of Ephemera — VA4313.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: Anne Thompson

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

Delights of Ephemera considers the significance of mass-produced materials in the context of art exhibitions and events. Readings, lectures, assignments and other activities cover topics including traditional and experimental forms of ephemera; ephemera collections; and the function of ephemera as historical document and work of art. The goal is for students to develop a

Visual Arts

Dining Culture in Taiwan — CHI2131.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: Ginger Lin

Days & Time:

Credits: 5

“Have you eaten yet?” This common Chinese greeting is just one of many common phrases that shows the centrality of food to Taiwanese and Chinese culture. In this course, we will focus on the theme of Taiwanese and Chinese food and dining culture as an “entrée” to the study of Chinese language and culture. As Chinese grammar is very simple with no verb conjugation, no plural, no

Cultural Studies and Languages

Directing II — DRA4376.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: Kirk Jackson

Days & Time:

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 directorial 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 a

Drama

Drawing As Record — DRW2121.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: Colin Brant

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

The fundamentals of drawing are the basic tools for this investigation into seeing and translation. Using simple methods and means, the practice of drawing is approached from both traditional and experimental directions. The focus of this inquiry is on drawing from observation, broadly defined. In class drawing sessions and discussions are complemented by independent, outside

Visual Arts

Drawing In Pieces: Collage, Décollage, Assemblage — DRW4111.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: Mary Lum

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

Since the beginning of the 20th century, collage has existed as a vehicle for the most diverse ideas and political concerns of the times. Collage is not simply a method of assembly, a way to bring unrelated fragments into new contexts, but a way of thinking that reflects revolution of all kinds. From Victorian women’s photo albums, to Picasso, to Hannah Hoch and more recently

Visual Arts

Drumming: An Extension of Language — MIN2120.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: Michael Wimberly

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

This course serves as an introduction to rhythms and musical practices from Africa, Brazil, and the Caribbean. Using indigenous percussion instruments from these territories, students will learn to play traditional and hybrid rhythms. There will be discussions and scheduled response papers on readings, podcast, and films pertaining to global issues from these territories, as

CAPA Music

Educating For A Democracy —

Fall 2021

Instructor: Brian Campion

Days & Time:

Credits:

Democracy in the United States continues to be under threat and countless Americans do not understand enough of our country’s history or political systems to comprehend the threat. This has led to inaction by the American people, media outlets that share disinformation and individuals who care more about power than participating in democratic governance. To reach this point, it