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Mandolin — MIN2229.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: John Kirk
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Credits: 2
Beginning, intermediate and advanced group lessons on the mandolin will be offered. Students will learn classical technique on the mandolin and start to develop a repertoire of classical and traditional folk pieces. Simple song sheets with chords, tablature, and standard notation, chord theory, and scale work will all be used to further skills. History of the Italian origins of
Music

Metal Casting: Iron and Aluminum — SCU2211.01) (cancelled 5/11/2023

Fall 2023
Instructor: John Umphlett
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Credits: 2
This course is designed to introduce students to the processes involved in casting iron and aluminum. Students will work with foundry wax and learn how to produce a sculpted object either by hand or that of some other method covered in class. These additional methods could include machining parts, 3d printing objects, or casting from the body. After a form has been produced,
Visual Arts

Metal Workshop — SCU2107.02) (cancelled 5/11/2023

Fall 2023
Instructor: John Umphlett
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Credits: 2
This course is recommended for all students considering working in sculpture and interested in mild steel design methods. It is open to all students with a curiosity about materials and building processes. There are fundamental introductions to gas and electric welding (electrode/stick,GMAW), forging (cold and hot), fabrication techniques, and general shop safety. Please note
Visual Arts

Minimalism — MTH4210.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
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Credits: 2
An advanced seminar in analyzing the diverse streams of musical minimalism. We鈥檒l look at minimalism鈥檚 conceptual roots in the 1960s, and trace influences from the visual arts and dance, as well as early works of Reich, Glass, Fluxus, Eastman, and the Scratch Orchestra. The seminar will combine on鈥恡he鈥恠core and aural analysis and contrast open score, aurally taught, and
Music

Modeling and Thinking in Rhino 7 — DA2176.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Derek Parker
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Credits: 2
Modeling and Thinking in Rhino 7 is an introductory course to Computer Aided Design (CAD) Modeling and how those models can be used in real-world applications. This course will explore the use of Rhino to create interactive models that represent imagined designs for; manufacturing, architecture, and spatial sketching. Particular attention will be paid to how computer models
Visual Arts

Modern Guitar — MIN4224.01) (new faculty 9/4/2023

Fall 2023
Instructor: Hui Cox
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Credits: 2
Individual training is available in jazz, modern and classical guitar technique and repertoire, song accompaniment (finger style), improvisation, and arranging and composing for the guitar. Course material is tailored to the interests and level of the individual student.
Music

Modern Music and Jazz Theory — MTH4121.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Jen Allen
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Credits: 4
This course will review both diatonic and modal harmony as it applies to chord structures, chord progressions, scales used in jazz improvisation, how to interpret chord alterations, and how to identify key centers. We will learn how to translate the chord symbols found in 鈥渓ead sheets鈥 (music with only chord symbols and melody) and develop the necessary skills to create
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Mouvements — FRE4404.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Stephen Shapiro
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Credits: 4
This course will examine movement--travel, migration, and transition--in the French-speaking world. We'll examine the travel tale as philosophical form (Candide), the sonnet, Orientalism, the graphic novels of Marjane Satrapi, queer movement in the work of Abdellah Ta茂a, the North Atlantic Triangle (Maboula Soumahoro), and the gender transition of Oc茅an. Students will write a
Cultural Studies and Languages

Movement Practice: Dreamtime into Daytime — DAN2020.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Erin Ellen Kelly, MFA Teaching Fellow
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Credits: 2
Wake up your body and mind through a series of moving meditations and exercises using QiGong, the breath, visualizations, and touch that will stimulate the body鈥檚 meridian system and activate a relaxed focus for the day. We will soften pathways in the body with circles, spirals, figure eights and undulating waveforms.  Using QiGong as the foundation, we will also explore
Dance

Music Theory I 鈥 Applied Fundamentals — MTH2274.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: John Kirk
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Credits: 4
An introduction to music theory course. Music theory fundamentals will be taught utilizing voice (singing) and an instrument in hand. Knowledge of the piano keyboard will be learned and utilized. Curriculum will span the harmonic series, circle of 5ths, scales and chords to ear training, harmonic and rhythmic dictation, and beginning composition. Score reading, listening, and
Music

Music, Gender, and Sexuality in the Middle East — MET2137.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Joseph Alpar
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Credits: 4
This course will examine the construction and experience of gender and sexuality in the Middle East through a musical lens. Drawing on research in ethnomusicology, queer studies, gender studies, Middle Eastern Studies, and other interdisciplinary fields, we will study music-making and other modes of performance as processes of representation, assertion, and sometimes
Music Society Culture and Thought

Musical Forms — MHI2240.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Allen Shawn
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Credits: 2
This class focuses on musical architecture, by examining important and beautiful works from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, and discussing the traditional forms they exemplify. We will listen to works by Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, Brahms, Mahler, Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Berg, and Rzewski (among others), analyzing their structures in detail. Forms to be studied will
Music

Myths and Legends from the Spanish-Speaking World — SPA2113.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Lena Retamoso Urbano
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Credits: 5
Students with little or no background in Spanish will learn the language through an immersion in the study of wide array of rural, urban, modern, and ancient folk tales from the Spanish-speaking world. An examination of Spanish and Latin American foundational narratives, as well as popular texts and cultural artifacts, will allow students to consider
Cultural Studies and Languages

Narrative Filmmaking — FV2119.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 4
Make your first short film - from idea to realization! This course is designed specifically for students with basic filmmaking skills or a background in media. The Narrative Filmmaking course provides an intensive introduction to the world of visual storytelling. Tailored to nurture creative talent, this course teaches the fundamentals of screenwriting (developing an idea into
Visual Arts

Navigating Media in Institutional History — MS4109.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 4
In this 4000-level course, students will develop an understanding of the ways in which visual media functions on the practices of archives that document the history of institutions including asylums, hospitals and schools. We will engage with archival sources through interdisciplinary approaches to media studies, drawing on visual culture studies, art history, and material
Society Culture and Thought

Network Science — MAT4222.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Katie Montovan
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Credits: 4
A network is a set of nodes (which might be computers, people, websites, proteins, neurons...), some of which are connected by edges (which might be communications lines, friendships, links, transcription regulations, synapses...). This simple concept has amazingly diverse applications and involves surprisingly deep ideas. We will use a combination of proof-based approaches for
Science and Mathematics

Neuroscience — BIO4437.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Blake Jones
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Credits: 4
This rigorous course provides a comprehensive introduction of the nervous system, including its structure, function, and development. Students will explore the principles of the cellular and molecular mechanisms that allow neurons and other specialized nervous cells to detect, encode, and transmit information; including signaling, synaptic transmission, and neuroplasticity.
Science and Mathematics

Papermaking with Plants — SCU2304.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 2
Papermaking is an ancient, traditional craft with a history that reflects our fundamental humanity. It is a process that simultaneously relies on and reveals the nature of plants and place. Papermaking With Plants engages with the materiality of both paper and plants through observation, hands-on making, inquiry, research, and design. Through this exploration, we will acquire
Visual Arts

Paris on Screen: Tradition and Modernity — FRE4498.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Stephen Shapiro
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Credits: 4
In this intermediate-low level course, we will study the representation of the city of Paris on film in order to examine modernity使s challenges to tradition. In particular, we will focus on the question of how urban communities and city dwellers react to increasing disconnectedness, anonymity, and solitude. We will also examine contemporary urban planning and the repercussions
Cultural Studies and Languages

Perceptions of Reality in 20th Century Latin American Literature — SPA4722.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Lena Retamoso Urbano
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Credits: 4
This advanced Spanish course is a study of the different mechanisms that are representative of what Latin American authors of the 20th century use to create a particular way of perceiving reality. By altering perceptions of space and time, rethinking the limits of language, and exploring the inner world of the subject and the unconscious, these authors attempt to produce a new
Cultural Studies and Languages

Performance Project: BRUJX — DAN4362.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: luciana achugar, MFA Teaching Fellow
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Credits: 2
In this course we will make a dance, directed by achugar, and perform it at the end of the semester. It is for students with a deep awareness of their bodies in movement and with prior experience performing onstage and being part of a creative dance process, that are interested in being challenged as performers with a rigorous rehearsal process. This work will further explore
Dance

Performance Project: Liminality Portal; Dancing Within and Beyond the Frame — DAN4421.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Erin Ellen Kelly, MFA Teaching Fellow
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Credits: 2
In this creative process lab, we will be developing dance and site responsive movement scores to be performed live and in relation to video. During the first seven weeks, we will be cultivating/creating these scores based on rigorous somatic investigation and dance practice, both within the studio and within specific predetermined locations. Throughout this process, students
Dance Visual Arts

Performance Project: Pressing Face Against That Window — DAN2017.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Mina Nishimura
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Credits: 2
This performance project course is open to anyone who is interested in a text-based experimental performance, which may not fit in a frame of dance or theater in the traditional sense. Mina Nishimura will facilitate the creative process of making a new text-based performance, Pressing Face Against That Window [working title], written and directed by co-facilitator Kota
Dance Drama

Philosophical Reasoning — PHI2109.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Catherine McKeen
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Credits: 4
What is the difference between belief and knowledge? What is it to have a mind? What is really real? Are our actions free? These are some of the questions this first course in philosophy asks. Our investigation will center on the 17th-19th c., a watershed period in Western Europe marked by major political, scientific, religious, and intellectual revolutions. This course has two
Society Culture and Thought