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Performance Pedagogies of Dance — DAN4816B.01, section 1

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 3
BFA students only PODs offer students the opportunity to make connections through multiple access points, especially in areas of performance. PODs are designed to help students recognize the tools and methodologies used in their own creative work both as performers and as choreographers. Structurally each POD is identified by a unique topic. PODs have required rehearsal times
Dance (BFA)

Performative Methodologies — DAN5404B.02, section 2

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 2
This interdisciplinary class looks at the relationship between the visual arts, performance and dance. In particular, we will focus on the influence of collage across disciplines by finding common methods and themes, such as juxtaposition, chance and appropriation. We will trace the history of collage in the visual arts and then investigate its impact on other fields, including
Dance (MFA)

Performative Methodologies — DAN5404B.01, section 1

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
This interdisciplinary class looks at the relationship between the visual arts, performance and dance. In particular, we will focus on the influence of collage across disciplines by finding common methods and themes, such as juxtaposition, chance and appropriation. We will trace the history of collage in the visual arts and then investigate its impact on other fields, including
Dance (MFA)

Phenomenology of the Strange — FV4243.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 4
This seminar is a textual and cinematic study of specific categories of ineffable experiences. We will study altered states of consciousness, unexplainable phenomena, and unfathomable human experience, and analyze their representation in cinema. Grounded in film analysis and psychological, philosophical, and historical readings, we will address screenwriting, genre, lighting,
Visual Arts

Philosophical Reasoning — PHI2109.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Catherine McKeen
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Credits: 4
What is the difference between belief and knowledge? What is it to have a mind? Is theism rational? 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

Photography and Migration — PHO2462.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Luiza Folegatti
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Credits: 4
This course will introduce students to the components of storytelling in photographic series by examining migration as a theme and using photography as a research tool. Students will develop a robust sense of artistic ethics by studying representations of migration by photographers in diasporic communities and engaging methods for creating visual narratives around topics
Visual Arts

Physics I: Forces and Motion (with Lab) — PHY2235.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Hugh Crowl
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Credits: 4
Physics is the study of what Newton called 鈥渢he System of the World.鈥 To know the System of the World is to know what forces are out there and how those forces operate on things. These forces explain the dynamics of the world around us: from the path of a falling apple to the motion of a car down the highway to the flight of a rocket from the Earth. Careful analysis of the
Science and Mathematics

Piano — MIN4333.01, section 1

Fall 2024
Instructor: Yoshiko Sato
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Credits: 2
Individual private piano lessons for more advanced students. Audition required. A weekly hour-long lesson time is arranged with the instructor.
Music

Piano — MIN4333.02, section 2

Fall 2024
Instructor: Christopher Lewis
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Credits: 2
Individual private lessons with focus on the classical repertoire. Students are accepted by audition. Students will meet with the instructor weekly on scheduled class days, at times to be arranged with the instructor. A minimum of 20 minutes practice per day is expected. Two excused absences permitted, with every effort made for make-up lessons. Participation in Tuesday evening
Music

Piano Composition Studies — MCO4171.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Allen Shawn
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Credits: 2
This is a two credit composition workshop for students who want to practice their notated composing, and who have previously taken "Composing for Instruments" or another course requiring notational skills. The idea of the class is to gain fluency in the composing/notating process and confront some theory concepts along the way, by notating short pieces for piano following
Music

Piano Lab I : Beginning Piano — MIN2249.01, section 1

Fall 2024
Instructor: Yoshiko Sato
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Credits: 2
Have you been thinking about learning to play the piano? Perhaps you have a little experience from childhood and want to get back into it? Do you want to learn to read sheet music and understand the basics of music theory? Maybe you are completely new to playing an instrument, and want to give it a try? If you answered yes, then Piano Lab I might be right for you. Lessons are
Music

Piano Lab I: Beginning Piano — MIN2249.03, section 3) (day/time updated 7/11/2024

Fall 2024
Instructor: Nat Parke
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Credits: 2
Have you been thinking about learning to play the piano? Perhaps you have a little experience from childhood and want to get back into it? Are you a singer, songwriter, producer, or composer who wants to accompany themselves, learn to read sheet music and chord symbols, and/or understand the basics of music theory? Maybe you are completely new to playing an instrument, and want
Music

Piano Lab I: Beginning Piano — MIN2249.02, section 2

Fall 2024
Instructor: Chris Rose
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Credits: 2
Have you been thinking about learning to play the piano? Are you completely new to playing an instrument and want to give it a try? Do you have a little experience from childhood and want to get back into it? Are you a singer, songwriter, producer, or composer who wants to know how to accompany themselves, learn to read sheet music and chord symbols, and understand the basics
Music

Piano Lab II : Intermediate Piano — MIN4236.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Yoshiko Sato
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Credits: 2
This course is intended for students with some playing and reading experience, who have passed Piano Lab I or its equivalent. The goals of this course are to gain ease and dexterity at the keyboard, further developing a con铿乨ent piano technique, musical expression, and the skill of reading musical notation. Students will expand upon a repertoire of scales and chords. They will
Music

Political Ideologies in Action: American Conservatism — POL2209.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: John Hultgren
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Credits: 4
Contemporary American conservatism has evolved considerably from its historical roots in the ideologies of classical conservatism and classical liberalism. How did we get from Edmund Burke to Steve Bannon? From the Federalists to the Freedom Caucus? To gain insight into these questions, this course will explore how the aforementioned ideologies have intersected with four
Society Culture and Thought

Pop Culture in Taiwan — CHI4123.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Ginger Lin
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Credits: 4
In this course, a selection of audio, video, and print media on pop music, food, fashion, and social media, among other aspects of popular culture In Taiwan, will serve as a source of authentic input for the study. Students will explore the role of pop culture in shaping modern Taiwanese and Chinese societies through in-class discussions while developing their competencies in
Cultural Studies and Languages

Portfolio 1 — DAN5406B.02, section 2

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 6
During this course, students will begin to reflect, gather, articulate, and compose their extensive body of professional work in the field of dance by organizing their work into a text which will be bound. The portfolio is developed to include a thoughtful and critically developed artist statement, current CV, written narrative of their work, press public reviews, and a list
Dance (MFA)

Portfolio 1 — DAN5406B.01, section 1

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Days & Time:
Credits: 6
During this course, students will begin to reflect, gather, articulate, and compose their extensive body of professional work in the field of dance by organizing their work into a text which will be bound. The portfolio is developed to include a thoughtful and critically developed artist statement, current CV, written narrative of their work, press public reviews, and a list
Dance (MFA)

Post-Production Intensive — FV4310.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 2
This semester-length, two-credit course will take students through the process of revising and refining a single project through multiple iterations, based on peer critique and instructor feedback. We will dig deep into the logics, techniques, and ever-evolving tools of editing, and also make space for experiments with animated elements, multi-channel audio/video configurations
Visual Arts

Practice Lab — DAN5401B.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits:
Students are given opportunities to deepen their understanding of and relationship to movement practices.  The LABS take the form of a series of classes and/or workshops and can include both lecture/discussion and studio classroom formats. The LABS create an opportunity for students to be in direct dialogue with a variety of practioners, points of view and approaches to
Dance (MFA)

Presentation of Statistics — MAT2246.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Andrew McIntyre
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Credits: 4
Data can come to us in many forms: tables, charts, graphs, observations, experimental results, and other less formal avenues. To best understand the world around us, we must be able to take that data, answer questions, and then convey those answers to others in a clear, concise manner. This course will show different methods for presenting statistical data to others as well as
Science and Mathematics

Prints into Books — PRI4216.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Thorsten Dennerline
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Credits: 4
This advanced level course combines printmaking and bookmaking. We will explore techniques such as relief printing, pressure printing, monotype, and collograph, integrating our prints into a variety of book structures. For the first 7 weeks, we will work in the Word Image lab using Vandercook proofing presses, and also in the printmaking studio located in VAPA. Students
Visual Arts

Production and Design Projects — DRA4486.01, section 1

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 2
This project-based class is for designers doing intermediate or advanced level work in lighting design, scenic design and/or stage management, those developing and implementing theatrical designs, as well as stage managers of faculty or student directed projects being produced on campus. In a studio atmosphere, students will share work in process each week, from inception
Dance Drama

Production and Design Projects — DRA4486.02, section 2

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 4
This project-based class is for designers doing intermediate or advanced level work in lighting design, scenic design and/or stage management, those developing and implementing theatrical designs, as well as stage managers of faculty or student directed projects being produced on campus. In a studio atmosphere, students will share work in process each week, from inception
Dance Drama

Production, Employment, Prices — PEC2263.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Lopamudra Banerjee
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Credits: 4
In this course on macroeconomic principles, we'll explore the vital indicators鈥攁ggregate production, employment, and prices鈥攖hat are commonly used to assess the health and overall behavior of an economy. We will evaluate how government policies and various economic institutions influence and shape these variables, along with the economic forces that drive growth and
Society Culture and Thought