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Environmental Ethics — PHI2103.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Paul Voice
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Credits: 4
What ethical responsibilities do individuals have towards the environment? What does environmental justice require of national and international institutions? This course examines the philosophical issues and arguments that underlie these questions. Our complex relationship to the environment, as nature, as resource, and as shared world, invites questions concerning our ethical
Environment Social Science

Environmental Geology — ES2102.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: David De Simone
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Credits: 4
This course will focus on the planets internal and surficial processes and how they both affect humans and are impacted by humans. The scope of environmental geology is broad and represents applied geology in a very practical sense. A basic understanding of minerals, rocks the modern plate tectonics paradigm is the foundation for appreciating internal processes and such
Science Mathematics and Computing Environment

Ethnography and Writing Across Cultures — ANT4213.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Noah Coburn
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Credits: 4
This course is an advanced exploration of theory and the history of anthropology by using the most basic of anthropological texts: the ethnography. By carefully analyzing a series of classic and more current ethnographies, students will look at the relationship between theoretical approaches, how ethnographic data is presented to the reader and how the shape of the text
Social Science

Evolution — BIO4104.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Kerry Woods
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Credits: 4
Evolutionary theory provides conceptual unity for biology; Darwin's concept and its derivatives inform every area of life science, from paleontology to molecular biology to physiology to plant and animal behavior to human nature. This course will establish deep grounding in basic selective theory (including some exploration of population genetics) and explore selected current
Science Mathematics and Computing Environment

Exploring the White Cube: A New York Intensive — VA4125.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Elizabeth White
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Credits: 2
This class will meet weekly to explore contemporary art exhibitions in New York. We will visit commercial galleries and non-profit art spaces in Midtown, Chelsea, the Lower East Side, and Brooklyn, as well as major museums. Relevant readings will be assigned and short response papers will be required. Students will be responsible for their own expenses, including transportation
Visual Arts

Fiddle — MIN2227.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: John Kirk
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Credits: 2
For the experienced (2+years of playing) violinist. Lessons in traditional styles of fiddling - Quebecois, New England, Southern Appalachian, Cajun, Irish & Scottish. This tutorial is designed to heighten awareness of the variety of ways the violin is played regionally and socially in North America (and indeed around the world these days) and to give practical music skills
Music

Field Course in Coral Reef Science — BIO4239.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Elizabeth Sherman; Janet Foley
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Credits: 2
The biodiversity of coral reefs has been declining rapidly in the last 20 years due in large part to human activities. In this field course students will have an opportunity to confront this problem directly and contribute to our understanding of reef biodiversity. This course will take place on the island of Grand Cayman, British West Indies (Latitude 18 23' N, Longitude 81 24
Science Mathematics and Computing

Field Research of Closed Cells - Part 1 — SCU2119.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: John Umphlett; Guy Snover
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Credits: 2
This class will push the envelope of closed membrane structure design. A membrane is more than an impermeable skin; it can selectively filter particles, chemicals, light, sound, and smell. A balloon has an expandable latex surface easily manipulated by air and water pressure. However, a rigid fabric material that has a less forgiving response to pressure forced on its walls
Visual Arts

Field Research of Closed Cells - Part 2 — SCU4119.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: John Umphlett; Guy Snover
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Credits: 2
This class will be fabricating a large inflatable structure (ultimate synthesis of the first seven weeks). The first two classes will be dedicated to critical discussions on form, membrane properties, and the final showing environment. The chosen form will be digitized and the 3D model will be used to leverage logistics of the large form and patterning. The digital model will
Visual Arts

Foundations of Photography: Darkroom to Digital — PHO2138.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Elizabeth White
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Credits: 4
The objective of this course is to provide the student with basic skills in shooting with both 35mm and DSLR cameras, and to offer experiences developing and printing black and white film in the darkroom. (Students interested in learning more about digital processing and production with Lightroom and Photoshop can co-register for the seven- week course Digital Darkroom
Visual Arts

Genocide and Mass Violence — POL4212.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Amy Grubb
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Credits: 4
With the recent debates over how the international community should respond to the use of chemical weapons in Syria, the horrific occurrence of mass murder of civilians in war is again brought to the forefront of public consciousness. The phenomenon of large-scale killings continues its plague on humanity, joining a huge list of tragic events that can be considered genocide.
Social Science

Global Activist Video Production — FV4226.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Kate Purdie; Erika Mijlin
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Credits: 4
This course will involve real-time, interactive dialogue between artists and social activists in the classroom and across the globe. Students will interact with international filmmakers and advocates in both real and virtual spaces. They will also explore the boundaries of group and individual documentary production through the examination of story structure, interview
CAPA Visual Arts

Global Ethics/Global Justice — PHI2110.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Paul Voice
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Credits: 4
What do we owe to distant others? What responsibilities do we have to address the misfortunes of citizens of other countries? What, if anything, do we owe future generations? Does the idea of global justice make sense? These and other questions are addressed through a careful readings and analysis of a variety of philosophical arguments. You will be expected to write two papers
Social Science

Global Politics — POL2206.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Amy Grubb
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Credits: 4
Why do countries decide to go to war? What is the purpose of the United Nations? Does trade reduce poverty? Can international agreements help solve environmental problems? Why does genocide occur? This course introduces you to the major theories, concepts, and issues in international politics in order to understand and begin answering vital questions about our world. The course
Social Science

Graduate Assistantship in Dance — DAN5301.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Terry Creach
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Credits: 4
Graduate students in Dance are integrated into the dance program as teaching assistants, production assistants or dance archival assistants. In consultation with their academic advisor and the dance faculty, MFA candidates develop an assistantship schedule of approximately ten hours weekly. Prerequisites: Teaching Fellowship or Assistantship in Dance.
Dance

Graduate Research in Dance — DAN5305.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Terry Creach
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Credits: 6
This class is designed for MFA students to show works-in-progress, try out ideas with their colleagues, and discuss issues involved in the development of new work. The weekly format is determined with the students. Outside of class, students develop their own independent creative projects that will be presented to the public, either formally or informally, by the end of the
Dance

Greek Historians as Literature — LIT4187.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Dan Hofstadter
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Credits: 4
Precisely where the accounts of the major Greek historians stand in relation to fact is a matter of massive, ongoing scholarly inquiry. However that may be, the works of Herodotus, Thucydides, and Plutarch have always been regarded as brilliant contributions to literary art, albeit in different ways. Herodotus is a raconteur, venturing into the realm of folktale, fantasy, and
Literature

Hans Christian Andersen — LIT2285.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Brooke Allen
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Credits: 2
Hans Christian Andersen (1805-75) is one of the most famous names in world literature, but the Hollywoodization of his most famous stories--not to mention of his own biography--have obscured, for many, the delicate, painful artistry of his incomparable tales. In this class we will read a wide selection of Andersen's stories, including classics like "The Emperor's New Clothes,"
Literature

History of Medicine: From Hippocrates to Harvey — HIS2183.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Carol Pal
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Credits: 4
How did pre-modern culture understand the human body? How did it work? Where did it fit in the Great Chain of Being, and what differentiated men from women? Medicine has always been a hybrid of thinking, seeing, knowing, and doing. But what defined medicine in the past? Was it a science, an art, or a random assortment of practices? Between the age of Hippocrates and the age of
Social Science

Hold Still, Keep Going — PHO4211.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Elizabeth White; Warren Cockerham
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Credits: 4
This advanced studio/seminar course examines the intersection between still and moving photography and provides a rigorous environment for cross-disciplinary dialogue. Students will pursue self-directed photo and/or video projects while developing a common critical vocabulary and communicative tools. Regular group discussion will challenge, complicate, clarify and deepen
Visual Arts

Honors Seminar on Twain — LIT4527.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Rebecca Godwin
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Credits: 4
According to Sam Clemens himself, 鈥淭he man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can鈥檛 read them.鈥 In this course, we鈥檒l read several 鈥済ood books鈥濃攁long with stories, essays, and letters鈥攑enned by one of the most prolific and complex of American writers. One of the funniest, too, so expect to have a good time, in the midst of a rigorous reading and
Literature

How Do Animals Learn and Remember? — BIO2108.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: David Edelman
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Credits: 4
For more than 60 years, modern experimental psychology has focused on characterizing the intimately linked processes of learning and memory. At the same time, neuroscientists have worked doggedly since the birth of their field to unravel the neural mechanisms underlying these fundamental processes. How does an animal acquire information about its world and access and recall
Science Mathematics and Computing

How to Build a Radio Telescope — PHY4203.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Hugh Crowl; Andrew Cencini
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Credits: 2
Astronomy has gained great insights from Radio Astronomy - details of star formation, the first evidence for Dark Matter, evidence for massive galactic central black holes, and star formation in the early universe are all examples of things we have learned from observations of radio light. In this course, students will build an eight-foot radio telescope to be used in this
Science Mathematics and Computing

How to Study a Disaster — ANT2136.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: David Bond
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Credits: 4
Disasters loom large in the contemporary. In films and front-page news, images of societies splintering apart proliferate. Surely one of the most remarkable things about social life in the present is the ease with which we can conjure up its spectacular destruction. The point of this seminar is to take disaster seriously. We will do this both by reviewing historical and
Social Science Environment