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Beginning Guitar — MIN2247.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Hui Cox
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Credits: 2
Introduces the fundamentals of acoustic guitar playing, including hand positions, tuning, reading music, major and pentatonic scales, major, minor, and seventh chords, chord progressions, blues progressions, and simple arrangements of songs.
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Beginning Potters Wheel — CER2107.02

Spring 2014
Instructor: Aysha Peltz
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Credits: 4
This class is an introduction to using the potters wheel as a tool for generating clay forms with an emphasis on pottery making. While focusing on the development of throwing skills, students will explore various possibilities for assembling wheel-thrown elements and will experiment with both functional and non-functional formats. Students will be introduced to the whole
Visual Arts

Beginning Potters Wheel — CER2107.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Aysha Peltz
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Credits: 4
This class is an introduction to using the potters wheel as a tool for generating clay forms with an emphasis on pottery making. While focusing on the development of throwing skills, students will explore various possibilities for assembling wheel-thrown elements and will experiment with both functional and non-functional formats. Students will be introduced to the whole
Visual Arts

Beginning Violin and Viola — MIN2241.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Kaori Washiyama
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Credits: 2
Basic techniques to include the reading of music in treble and/or alto clefs and in various "easy" keys. The study of left-hand position and fingering and the simple use of the bow will lead to short ensemble performances by the end of the term.
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Beginning Workshop in Recording — MSR2152.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Julie Last
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Credits: 4
Each class will have a discussion of a particular aspect of the music-recording process and a hands-on working session illustrating the focus of that class. Classes will include an introduction to Pro Tools computer audio recording, basic recording acoustics, microphone theory and technique, audio signal path, tonal and dynamic control, and creating spatial ambience.
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Belarusian Dream: Human Rights and Performance — DRA4182.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Jean Randich
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Credits: 4
This course will be part of an international festival of short plays commemorating Belarusian Freedom Day, 25 March, the unofficial holiday invoked to express opposition to the current regime (referred to as the last dictatorship in Europe). The eight plays, four Belarusian and four international, explore human rights issues and promote social action. We will rehearse and stage
CAPA Drama

Bennington Marching Band — MPF4217.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Bruce Williamson; Susie Ibarra
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Credits: 4
The time has come. 51³ÉÈËÁÔÆæ needs a marching band, our own breed. This ensemble will explore traditions of music-to-move-by from the rural and city landscapes of Eastern Europe, Middle East, Southeast Asia, Africa, South America, and our own American cities such as New Orleans. We will examine village, town and city bands, school bands and parade bands, plus the music
Music

Big: Exploring Large Scale Photography — PHO4236.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Jonathan Kline
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Credits: 4
Photographically derived imagery is increasingly seen in public spaces in addition to gallery and museum settings. This course offers students an opportunity to work with both digital and traditional means of attaining large scale photographs for installations in and out of doors. Through readings and presentations we will explore the issues of scale in contemporary photography
Visual Arts

Biochemistry — CHE4335.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: John Bullock
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Credits: 4
Biochemistry is an intermediate chemistry course in which students apply principles from general and organic chemistry, as well as general biology, to understand the molecular processes that characterize life. Biochemistry is a broad discipline that is growing rapidly in its scope - new developments and discoveries are being made daily. The goal of this class will be to give
Science Mathematics and Computing

Brass Chamber Ensemble — MPF4237.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Nathan Botts
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Credits: 2
The Brass Ensemble, directed by Nathan Botts explores the wide breadth of music and expression available to instruments made of brass. From antiquity, where the terrifying sounds of brass instruments heralded war and communicated power, to the gaudy wobble of medieval dance music; the beautiful introspection of renaissance wind music, or the beautifully ornamented architecture
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Brass Instruments — MIN4218.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Nathan Botts
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Credits: 2
Individual instruction for brass players with some previous experience (including trumpet, French horn, trombone, and tuba). Strategies will be developed for each student to enhance their technique and musicianship. Course work will include the study and practice of music in a variety of styles including baroque, classical/romantic, contemporary, and jazz/improvisation,
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Butoh — DAN2105.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Kota Yamazaki
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Credits: 2
Class starts with quiet and soft warm-up exercises with the intention of letting all tension go from your body and mind. A relaxed body with no expectation will allow you to be open and available to whatever comes to you. In Butoh, by accepting both what's surrounding you and what's happening inside yourself, using imagination and establishing a sense of presence, your body
Dance

Calculus: Analysis of the Infinite — MAT4145.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Andrew McIntyre
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Credits: 4
Calculus is the mathematics of quantities that are infinitely small or infinitely many in number. For example, in physics, the curved trajectory of a planet can be understood by splitting it into infinitely many, infinitely short straight line pieces. An area can be computed by splitting the shape into infinitely many, infinitely small squares or triangles. The paradox of
Science Mathematics and Computing

CAPA Workshop: Rethinking Education — APA4208.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Elizabeth Coleman
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Credits: 4
*** Time Change *** We start with as deep and thoughtful an exploration as we can manage of what education should be, then look at what it is in order to take on the challenge of what it will take to close the gap between the two. We focus initially on the United States where its historic position as a model to the world with respect to public education has radically altered.
CAPA

Cello — MIN4355.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Nathaniel Parke
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Credits: 2
Studio instruction in cello. There will be an emphasis on creating and working towards an end-of-term project for each student. Students must have had at least three years of cello study.
Music

Character and Modern Dress — DRA2279.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Charles Schoonmaker
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Credits: 4
This class will examine the utilization of fashion as a tool to tell the story of a character and a script. We will possibly have the opportunity to work with "How Water Behaves" and/ or "Bellarusian Dream" as part of the class.
Drama

Chemistry 2: Organic Structure and Bonding — CHE4212.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: John Bullock
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Credits: 4
Students will explore stoichiometric relationships in solution and gas systems which are the basis of quantifying results of chemical reactions. Understanding chemical reactivity leads directly into discussion of equilibrium and thermodynamics, two of the most important ideas in chemistry. Equilibrium, especially acid/base applications, explores the extent of reactions while
Science Mathematics and Computing

Chemistry 4 - The Nature of Materials — CHE4215.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Janet Foley
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Credits: 4
This course represents the culmination of the two-year integrated general/organic chemistry sequence and will introduce special topics that go beyond those traditionally covered in those courses. Material presented will focus on functional materials such as semiconductors and structures involved in energy transfer and storage. Topics such as electrochemistry, molecular orbital
Science Mathematics and Computing

Chemistry 4 Lab: Independent Research Projects — CHE4216.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Janet Foley
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Credits: 2
Students will apply the principles of Chemistry 1, 2, and 3 to the execution of substantive research projects of their own design. They will also be responsible for independently analyzing their data and publicly presenting their findings. Enrollment is limited to those students who have had a project proposal approved as part of Chemistry 3.
Science Mathematics and Computing

Chocolat — FRE4223.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Noelle Rouxel-Cubberly
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Credits: 4
Introduced in France after a complex trajectory from the New World, chocolate constituted, when it arrived in Paris, a medical and cultural catalyst for the French seventeenth-century aristocracy and haute-bourgeoisie. In this course, students will explore the economic, historical, social, political, artistic and cultural legacy of chocolate production and consumption in French
Languages

Chromophilia: Explorations in Color — VA4215.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Ann Pibal
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Credits: 4
Chromophilia, a term coined by contemporary aesthetic philosopher David Batchelor, refers to intense passion and love for color. What is it about color that has the power to induce reverie, and conversely to manipulate, or disgust? How de we understand and respond to color from philosophical, phenomenological, and cultural vantage points? How as artists can we become the master
Visual Arts

Cities Arts Forum — APA2117.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Susie Ibarra
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Credits: 2
Cities Art Forum will explore and discuss the current trajectories of cities through the relationships and works of artists with cities. Cities have defined many artist’s work, while artists have also defined and help build cities. Art has transformed public spaces and created economic growth. It has provided a critical eye and ear for what is not being seen
CAPA

Clarinet — MIN4223.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Bruce Williamson
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Credits: 2
Study of clarinet technique and repertoire with an emphasis on tone production, dexterity, reading skills, and improvisation. This course is for intermediate-advanced students only.
Music