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Fall 2021

Education in Society: Purpose, Power and Possibility — SOC2111.02

Fall 2021

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 2

“Education in Society: Purpose, Power and Possibility” comprises a series of interactive lectures, recorded for those unable to attend synchronously, and written assignments including an asynchronous discussion board to share your reactions to the lecture and reading materials. Additional information about this course will be forthcoming soon. This class meets once a week for

Society Culture and Thought

education policy —

Fall 2021

Instructor: Brian Campion

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Improving literacy, reforming school discipline, civic education, universal school meals. These are all issues that the Vermont legislature worked to advance in the 2021 biennium. This class will assess each of the major pieces of legislation. What did each initiative try to achieve, how it will impact education and what policies are still need to improve education in Vermont.

CAPA

Embodying Structure: Construction of the Corset — DRA2213.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: Richard MacPike

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Credits: 2

In order to construct a historical costume accurately one often needs to start with the foundation garments of that period. This course will examine how corsets and their construction play a role in re-creating period silhouettes. Students will learn how to reproduce period corset patterns as well as construct the corsets with all their structural elements. Particular attention

Dance Drama

Emerging Research in Integrative Physiology — BIO4128.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: Blake Jones

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Credits: 2

This course will focus on reading, synthesizing, and critiquing primary scientific literature at the frontiers of modern organismal research. We will focus on current, cutting edge research that integrates across disciplines to 1) explore fundamental questions about physiological systems, and 2) understand how such systems can help elucidate the ultimate and proximate

Science and Mathematics

Environmental Geology — ES2102.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: Tim Schroeder

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Credits: 4

Earthʹs life‐supporting environmental systems are controlled by a complex interplay between geologic and biological processes acting both on the surface and deep within the planetary interior. This course will explore how earth materials and physical processes contribute to a healthy environment, and how humans impact geologic processes. Topics covered will include: earth

Science and Mathematics Environment

Evolution and Artificial Selection — BIO2138.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 4

This course explores the role of artificial selection throughout human history, including in agriculture, the breeding of companion animals, and as a model for understanding evolution by natural and sexual selection. Topics include Mendelian genetics, how genotype leads to phenotype, mutations, domestication, landmark experiments in fox domestication, experimental evolution in

Science and Mathematics

Examining Equality and Equity through the Analysis of Japanese Society in the Edo Period and Meiji Period — JPN4302.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida

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Credits: 4

In this low-intermediate course students will learn and examine Japan’s drastic social changes during the Edo period and the Meiji period to investigate what equality and equity meant to Japanese people. During the Edo Period (1603-1868), Japan closed its doors to other countries for about two hundred fifty years, and this isolation helped Japan develop its own unique culture.

Cultural Studies and Languages

Experimental Sound Practices — MSR2123.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: Senem Pirler

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Credits: 4

In this introductory course, students will expand their understanding of music by delving into experimental sound practices. During this course, students will create sound compositions, electroacoustic pieces, and performances/installations. The topics will include soundscape composition, binaural sound recording, introduction to modular synthesis, electromagnetic field

Music

Extragalactic Astronomy Cosmology — PHY4103.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: Hugh Crowl

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Credits: 4

Galaxies are massive collections of stars, gas, dust, and dark matter. They are both the birthplace of stars and planets and the signposts of the universe. By studying what happens inside galaxies, we are able to understand the conditions under which stars form. By studying the galaxies themselves, we can understand how the environment shapes their structure and makeup. By

Science and Mathematics

Faculty Performance Production: Gloria by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins — DRA4308.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: Shawtane Bowen

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Credits: 4

This funny, trenchant, and powerful play follows an ambitious group of editorial assistants at a notorious Manhattan magazine, each of whom hopes for a starry life of letters and a book deal before they turn thirty. But when an ordinary humdrum workday becomes anything but, the stakes for who will get to tell their own story become higher than ever. "These are people you can

Drama

Fascinating Rhythm: Costume Design for Musicals — DRA2283.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: Charles Schoonmaker

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Credits: 4

This class will focus on designing the costumes for a series of increasingly complex stage musicals. We will listen to recordings, read and discuss scripts and investigate character. Possible projects might include a non- scripted work such as ‘Songs for a New World’ by Jason Robert Brown, a documentary based musical such as ‘Grey Gardens’ by Doug Wright, Scott Frankel and

Dance Drama Music

Form and Process — PAI2107.02

Fall 2021

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 4

This course introduces a variety of materials, techniques and approaches to painting with oils. Emphasis is placed on developing and understanding of color, form and space as well as individual research and conceptual concerns. The daily experience of seeing, along with the history of art, provides a base from which investigations are made. Formal, poetic, and social

Visual Arts

Form and Process: Investigations in Painting — PAI2107.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: J Blackwell

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Credits: 4

Visual Arts

Form Finding Fiction — ARC2131.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: Sophie Nichols (new faculty as of 8/26/2021)

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Credits: 4

This studio will serve as an introduction to the discipline of architectural exploration through drawing, model making and form-finding. We will begin with a series of abstract exercises which will explore the ways in which we see and express tactility of objects and the material world. We will endeavour to uncover ways in which meaning is embedded, form is developed, and

Visual Arts

Foundations of Global Politics — POL2103.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: Rotimi Suberu

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Credits: 4

In this wide-ranging introduction to the study of international politics, we will be exploring how states and non-state actors negotiate their interactions in an increasingly interconnected, interdependent and globalized world. Core themes will include: contending theoretical approaches to international relations (realism, liberalism/idealism, constructivism, structuralism,

Society Culture and Thought

Foundations of Photography: Digital Practice — PHO2153.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: Liz White

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Credits: 4

This course offers an overview of foundational tools and techniques in digital photographic practice and aims to help students find new sources of inspiration, deepen their creative work, and enhance their ability to present it. Students will learn to shoot with digital SLR cameras using manual settings, manage, process, and manipulate digital image files, properly scan

Visual Arts

Fourier Analysis and Partial Differential Equations — MAT4212.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: Andrew McIntyre

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Credits: 4

Fourier analysis may be seen as decomposing an arbitrary function, or wave form, into sine and cosine functions. In this sense, it is clearly of interest in analyzing audio signals. However, it goes much further than this. In computer science, it extends to processing of images and data compression. In physics, it is central to quantum mechanics. More broadly, it is the main

Science and Mathematics

From Concept to Reality: Participatory Action Research and Restorative Practice —

Fall 2021

Instructor: Alisa Del Tufo

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In this seven week class we analyze the ways that Participatory Action Research (PAR) and Restorative Practice can work together to create and sustain programs that are truly transformative.How can we better align restorative theory and practice in our work? The concepts and values embodied in restorative justice should be consistent with the practices and structures through

Fugue — MTH4249.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: Nicholas Brooke

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Credits: 2

An advanced course in counterpoint, focusing on the virtuosic practice of creating fugues. We’ll focus on the watershed fugues of Bach and later touch on contemporary versions by Amy Beach, Bela Bartok, and Astor Piazzolla. Students will be expected to write fugues for two, three, and four voices. Students will work out challenges in writing for particular performers, who will

Music

Fundamentals of Creative Writing — LIT2394.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: Jenny Boully

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Credits: 4

In this class, we will begin by investigating sound, music, image, and form in poetry and how these poetic elements are presented in fiction. From fiction, we will study narrative, character, plot, and setting. Finally, we will progress towards personal nonfiction, fusing the elements of our poetry and fiction investigations. We will read classical and contemporary texts from

Literature

Gender, Inequality and Social Change — ANT4121.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: Miroslava Prazak

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Credits: 4

This course explores the social construction of gender categories both historically and in the present as socially, historically, and culturally contingent concepts. We will examine how major societal institutions, including the family, education, religion, medicine, economy, polity, and the global system are structured to eliminate, maintain or reproduce gendered inequalities

Society Culture and Thought

Genesis — HIS2220.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: Carol Pal

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Credits: 4

Genesis is the first book in a compilation known collectively as the Bible. It is a text of enormous literary value, and one of our earliest historical chronicles, providing foundational material for Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Yet how many of us know what it actually says? How did it come together, what is the narrative, and how does it relate to the ideas and events of

Society Culture and Thought Literature

Genome Jumpstart: An Introduction to Bioinformatic Analysis — BIO2117.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: Amie McClellan

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Credits: 4

This course offers an immersive experience into the world of DNA, genes, and genomes in eukaryotic organisms. In addition to gaining a grasp of the foundational biology, students will engage with various online databases and resources, becoming familiar with the computational algorithms and methodologies used to mine and analyze the ever-increasing data generated from whole

Science and Mathematics

Ghostly Body- The Art of Absence — DAN2349.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: Mina Nishimura

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Credits: 2

This course requires no previous dance experience, and is open to anyone who is interested in the art of absence or art that deals with the presence of things we cannot see -- the invisibles, empty space and silence – found across different art forms and practices. We will investigate the potentiality of “in-between space” and “subject-less body,” while introducing some

Dance

Global Political Economy — PEC2256.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 4

This course provides a foundation for the study of global political economy by exploring how the spread of capitalism shaped, and continues to shape, our modern world. Relatedly, we will examine the global impacts of slavery, abolition, colonialism, and movements for self-determination. Drawing from classical and contemporary texts, we will look at debates over free trade and

Society Culture and Thought