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"the splendor of truth": James Joyce and the Tedium of Sublimity — LIT4590.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Jenny Boully
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Credits: 4
When asked to define "claritas," our (shall we dare say?) hero Stephen Dedalus in Jame Joyce's A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man responds thus: "The connotation of the word, Stephen said, is rather vague. Aquinas uses a term which seems to be inexact. It baffled me for a long time. It would lead you to believe that he had in mind symbolism or idealism, the supreme
Literature

Abstract Algebra and Number Theory — MAT4343.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Andrew McIntyre
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Credits: 4
The goal of this class is to introduce the standard topics and theorems of a first abstract algebra course (groups, rings, modules, and fields), in a historically motivated context, primarily through number theory. Number theory asks questions about whole numbers: for example, are there infinitely many fundamentally different "Pythagorean triples", where two whole number
Science and Mathematics

Accidents, Glitches and Errors/From Content to Form — DAN2360.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
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Credits: 2
This is a practice for participants of any discipline to activate the desired body, in their chosen form or medium. Trusting the intrinsic intelligence of the body, as well as discovering the glitches that contribute to the making process, we will source multiple systems (muscular, skeletal, fluid, organ) and other ways of reading the body (energy, emotion, history, trauma).
Dance

Acting Ensemble: The Cherry Orchard — DRA4395.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Jenny Rohn
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Credits: 4
The Polish theater director Jerzy Grotowski defined his theory of "poor theatre" as the theatre that values the body of the actor and its relation with the spectator. Poor Theatre used the simplest of sets, costumes,lighting and props requiring the actors to employ all of their skills to transform a space into other imaginative worlds. In this course, we will rehearse and
Drama

Actors Instrument — DRA2170.01, section 1

Fall 2024
Instructor: Dina Janis
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Credits: 4
In our work as actors, we honor the truth... using our imagination. How? Our art is the expression of genuine reaction and the following of impulses truthfully, while serving the telling of the story. Through a progressive series of exercises, improvisations, questions and answers, some light reading, writing, and engaging scene work, students will be introduced to the
Drama

Actors Instrument — DRA2170.02, section 2

Fall 2024
Instructor: Dina Janis
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Credits: 4
In our work as actors, we honor the truth... using our imagination. How? Our art is the expression of genuine reaction and the following of impulses truthfully, while serving the telling of the story. Through a progressive series of exercises, improvisations, questions and answers, some light reading, writing, and engaging scene work, students will be introduced to the
Drama

Adaptation — DRA2249.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Sherry Kramer
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Credits: 4
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 will look at
Drama

Advanced Dramaturgy — DRA4190.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Maya Cantu
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Credits: 4
The dramaturg serves as a powerful medium in the theatre. They bridge the past and the present, the creative team and the audience, while providing critical generosity and historical and literary insight. Focusing upon the practical application of dramaturgy, this course will offer students a credited platform for dramaturgical work oriented toward production. Three groups of
Drama

Advanced Film/Video Projects I — FV4476.01

Fall 2024
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 2025, supports advanced students in planning, pre-production, and early production for more complex, larger-scale, longer-duration, self-directed video projects. It also includes a screening series where we watch and analyze the process behind feature and mid-length
Visual Arts

Advanced Guitar: Folk Styles — MIN4361.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 2
Individual or small group lessons of advanced study on guitar. Continued studies from Intermediate Guitar. Advanced study in fret-board harmony and theory, playing in different tunings, increase chord vocabulary and repertoire, emphasis on finger picking styles.
Music

Advanced Improvisation: Being in relationship with all there is — DAN4367.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Dana Reitz
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Credits: 2
In this course we will engage with various approaches and techniques that support students in the development of their improvisation and performance practices, expanding and deepening their experience of both. This will encourage a letting go of the attachment we have to engrained movement patterns and preconceived ideas of what our dance vocabulary can/should include. In turn,
Dance

Advanced Improvisation: The Game of the Scene — DRA4380.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Shawtane Bowen
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Credits: 4
Advanced Improvisation: GOTS is an in-depth study of improvised comedy scene work. The central theme of this course is finding and playing 鈥淕ame.鈥 In order to find a Game in a long form improvised scene, you typically need to be able to answer three questions: What is the situation? What is the first unusual thing? If this is true, then what else is true? We鈥檒l
Drama

Advanced Improvisation: The Harold — DRA4392.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Shawtane Bowen
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Credits: 4
In this course, we will learn how to perform 'The Harold'. The Harold is a long-form improvised form developed by Del Close. It is a collage of scenes inspired by a single suggestion which are interwoven and connected. Students, now with a solid understanding of scene work and 'Game', will come to learn the Harold structure and perform full Harolds both in class and in their
Drama

Advanced Modular Synths Projects — MSR4366.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Sergei Tcherepnin
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Credits: 4
This electronic music composition class will focus on advanced patch design in VCV Rack, as well as hardware synthesizers. The semester will be framed by three composition assignments which will be presented to the class in weekly critiques. Particular emphasis will be placed on the efficiency and synergy of patch design. Significant class time will be spent listening to
Music

Advanced Python Programming: Applications and Development — CS4386.02) (cancelled 5/10/2024

Fall 2024
Instructor: Meltem Ballan
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Credits: 2
Advanced Python Programming: Applications and Development is an intermediate-level course designed to build upon the foundational knowledge acquired in an introductory Python programming course. This course delves deeper into Python programming concepts and focuses on practical applications, including file handling, object-oriented programming (OOP), web development, and
Science and Mathematics

Advanced Restorative Justice — APA4166.02

Fall 2024
Instructor: Alisa Del Tufo
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Credits: 2
Restorative Justice is a practice and a philosophy. It combines theories, concepts and actions from multiple fields including philosophy, psychology, criminal justice and values found in many faith traditions. In this 4000 level class we will dive deeply into concepts like shame, forgiveness, trauma, revenge and healing. We will relate these powerful concepts to the ideas and
CAPA

Advanced Shakespeare Lab — DRA4396.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Dina Janis
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Credits: 2
An advanced acting class where we will go beyond scansion and take much deeper dives into the more challenging and perhaps lesser known of Shakespeare's speeches and scenes along with some of our favorites. Previous work with actor's instrument will be required as basic knowledge of character analysis and truthful expression will be essential to apply to the work of powerful
Drama

Advanced Workshop for Painting and Drawing — PAI4404.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Ann Pibal
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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. There will be an emphasis on the growth
Visual Arts

Advanced Workshop in Philosophy — PHI4403.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Catherine McKeen
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Credits: 2
This course is for students who are pursuing advanced work in philosophy, and is designed to be taken in conjunction with the SCT Senior Seminar. We will read and respond to a range of philosophical work. The course will emphasize habitual writing and fostering a sturdy philosophical reading and writing practice, along with regular sharing of one鈥檚 work, with feedback.
Society Culture and Thought

Advanced/Senior Projects in Dance — DAN4712.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
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Credits: 4
This is an essential course for students wishing to make new work for performance this term, whether one project or a series. It is designed specifically to support each person鈥檚 artistic voice and manner of working. Attention will be given to all elements involved in composition and production, including collaborative aspects. Students are expected to show their work
Dance

Alexander Technique: Optimizing how you work when moving — DAN2410.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Dana Reitz
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Credits: 4
This course will introduce and/or deepen students鈥 understanding of the Alexander Technique and Ideokinesis in relation to dance, the practice of performance, and everyday movement. It is both a movement and somatic class. The Alexander Technique opens up the possibility of finding new balance, efficiency, strength, direction, and perspective. It makes your physical capacity
Dance

All About Medium Format Film — PHO4249.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Eddy Aldana
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Credits: 2
This 2-credit course will explore the use of medium format film, its purpose, benefits and drawbacks, and the appeal of photographing with a significantly larger film than 35mm. Students will learn about the history of medium format film, the versatility of its sizes that varies from camera to camera and how to enhance their photographic practice with its use. Most of the
Visual Arts

Animation One 鈥 Animating Inanimate Objects — MA2109.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Sue Rees
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Credits: 4
The class will be concerned with animating inanimate objects by primarily stop motion. Locations will be constructed, objects to animated formed, and lighting explored in order to create the imaginary world. 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 over the first
Drama Visual Arts

Anthropology of Science and Technology — APA2352.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: David Bond
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Credits: 4
This course introduces students to the anthropology of science and technology, with fieldtrips taken into adjacent fields of inquiry like STS and the history of science. This course approaches science and technology as a history of the present; that is, as an unfolding set of epistemic deployments that is actively shaping the texture and significance of social life in the
CAPA Society Culture and Thought

Anti-Perspective — DES4101.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Farhad Mirza
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Credits: 4
鈥淥ne could even compare the function of Renaissance perspective with that of critical philosophy鈥 The result was a translation of psychophysiological space into mathematical space; in other words, an objectification of the subjective.鈥 鈥 Erwin Panofsky, Perspective as Symbolic Form This course is about how an image might represent a codified or systematic way of thinking. We
Visual Arts