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Spring 2015

16mm Experimental Filmmaking — FV4238.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Warren Cockerham

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Credits: 4

This intermediate studio course centers on experimentation with form in moving image making. Students will complete a series of 16mm film projects exploring approaches and techniques including but not limited to non-narrative, lyrical, abstract, structural, and materialist forms. The course will contextualize contemporary practice within the history of avant-garde and

Visual Arts

24 Filial Piety vs. The Daoist Tales of Zhuang Zi — CHI4213.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Ginger Lin

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Credits: 4

The Twenty-four Stories of Filial Piety are well known Chinese stories that exemplify the devotion of children to their parents that is the chief virtue in Confucianism. The Daoist Tales of Zhuangzi on the other hand offer a much different set of values. These tales "translated" from classical Chinese into modern Mandarin at the student's language level will serve as a starting

Languages

A Survey of Avant-Garde Exhibitions — VA2109.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Carol Stakenas

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Credits: 4

This course will examine a selection of landmark art exhibitions in Europe and the United States from the middle of the 19th century to the early 2000s. Starting with the Salon des Refusés in 1863, we will focus on controversial exhibitions associated with individuals and movements such as Gustave Courbet, Edouard Manet, Impressionism, Fauvism, German Expressionism, Surrealism,

Visual Arts

Adaptation or Extinction: Animals and Climate Change — BIO4222.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Elizabeth Sherman

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Credits: 4

Global climate change has been implicated in the extinction of some animal species, changes in the geographic ranges of others, and many species appear to be increasingly vulnerable to both biotic (e.g. disease, competitors) and abiotic (e.g. temperature, acidification, pollutants, drought) stressors. Will different animal species adapt to global climate change or disappear?

Science Mathematics and Computing Environment

Adobe Creative Suite for Artists — Canceled

Spring 2015

Instructor: Christopher Chenier

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Credits: 2

This course introduces artists to Adobe's Creative Suite, one of the most ubiquitous tools for creative digital work available today. While we will explore key topics in creating and managing digital files, our sessions will emphasize the ways software can be used for project development, prototyping, and experimentation. Most of our time will be spent with pixels in

Visual Arts

Advanced Ceramic Studio — CER4227.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Aysha Peltz

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Credits: 4

This course is designed for the highly motivated, ceramic student who is ready to focus intently on a project or a way of working. Students will pursue their ideas through developing, making, glazing and firing processes that are integral to their artwork. Assignments (group and individual) will provide deadlines and help students to focus on specific issues in their work. The

Visual Arts

Advanced Chamber Music — MPF4230.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Music Faculty

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Credits: 2

An intensive, performance oriented exploration of the chamber music literature. Students must have significant previous instrumental training and experience. Corequisites: Must participate in Music Workshop (Tuesday, 6:30 - 8pm).

Music

Advanced Digital Modeling — MA4204.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Sue Rees

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Credits: 2

This course introduces students to the basic language of 3D animation and modeling. Students will be expected to become familiar with the basic principles of the MAYA program. A short animation , or a series of modeled objects and spaces will be created. Additionally, during the course we will print forms, utilizing 3D printers. This course will be offered the first seven

Visual Arts

Advanced Explorations in Experiential Anatomy — DAN4107.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Elena Demyanenko

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Credits: 4

***Time Change*** This is a studio class of advanced anatomy intended to deepen understanding of your own moving body. We approach the material through visual, cognitive, kinesthetic, and sensory modes. Class time is divided between discussion of anatomy and kinesthetic concepts and engagement with the material experientially through visualization and movement studies.

Dance

Advanced Improvisation and Partnering — DAN4292.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Dai Jian

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Credits: 2

This class takes improvisation as an exploration of the present moment without expectation or preconceived purpose; improvisation is seen as the exercise of listening, observing, and trusting in one’s instincts and in the principles of nature. We will explore the use of improvisation in performance, showing each other often, to develop these particular performance skills.

Dance

Advanced Interdisciplinary Projects in Emusic —

Spring 2015

Instructor: Andrea Parkins

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Credits: 2

This course focuses on the creation of interdisciplinary collaborative projects that include sound as a primary component, pairing advanced e-music students with students working in other disciplines including but not limited to the arts. Students will form collaborative teams, with each team developing a semester-long compositional, installation, performance or

Advanced Mediation Training — MED4301.02

Spring 2015

Instructor: Peter Pagnucco

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Credits: 1

This course is an advanced level of training in mediation and negotiation. Skills such as principled collaborative problem-solving, interest-based negotiation and impartiality are a part of the practice. Students will be asked to participate in role-play exercises, read a series of articles, and write a response paper and reflection essay. Based on attendance in the previous

CAPA Modules: Transferable Approaches

Advanced Multivariable Calculus and Introductory Differential Geometry — MAT4318.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Andrew McIntyre

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Credits: 4

***Time Change*** This class will cover multivariable calculus as an advanced level: vector spaces, div, grad and curl, differential forms, and stokes' theorems. The coverage will be at the level of Loomis and Sternberg's Advanced Calculus. The course will also provide an introduction to the rudiments of differential geometry: connections, curvature, and the Gauss-Bonnet

Science Mathematics and Computing

Advanced Painting Drawing: The Contemporary Idiom — PAI4209.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Joshua Blackwell

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Credits: 4

Ongoing studio projects will be discussed and evaluated with an emphasis on their relationship to contemporary issues in art, criticism, and theory. Questions to be addressed include: Where does art belong in contemporary culture? What is the role of art today? How do we reconcile arts dialogue with politics, social networks, or pop culture with art history? Critiques will

Visual Arts

Advanced Projects in Dance — DAN4795.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Terry Creach; Elena Demyanenko

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Credits: 2

***Time Change*** This is an essential course for students involved in making work for performance this term. Attention is given to all of the elements involved in composition and production, including collaborative aspects. Students are expected to show their work throughout stages of development, complete their projects, and perform them to the public by the end of the term.

Dance

Advanced Projects in Video — FV4304.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Kate Purdie

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Credits: 4

This is a workshop for advanced students pursuing self-directed projects in video. Class time will be spent on group critiques to be supplemented by screenings, readings, discussion, student presentations and individual meetings with the instructor.

Visual Arts

Advanced Voice — Section 1 - MVO4401.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Kerry Ryer-Parke

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Credits: 2

Advanced study of vocal technique and the interpretation of the vocal repertoire, designed for advanced students who have music as a plan concentration and to assist graduating seniors with preparation for senior recitals. Students are required to study and to perform a varied spectrum of vocal repertory for performance and as preparation for further study or graduate

Music

Advanced Voice — Section 2 - MVO4401.02

Spring 2015

Instructor: Thomas Bogdan

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Credits: 2

Music

Advanced Workshop in CAPA — APA4126.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Susan Sgorbati

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Credits: 2

This workshop is designed to enable students to pursue work they have already begun that is focused on public action regardless of the particular issue/s they are addressing and to integrate Field Work Term into that work. Students will be presenting their own work to the workshop as it unfolds. Some portion of the workshop will be dedicated to common experience - in particular

CAPA

Advanced Workshop in Recording — MSR4152.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: TBA

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Credits: 4

Continuing studies in modern recording and production techniques. We will incorporate detail oriented listening and analysis of a variety of commercial and noncommercial recordings to discover technical and musical processes. All students will be expected to spend time in the studio each week and to bring works-in-progress to each class for listening and discussion.

Music

Agroecology — ENV2118.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Valerie Imbruce

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Credits: 4

This course is for students interested in the ecology of agricultural systems. Students will gain an in-depth understanding of inputs and outputs in agricultural systems and their relation to primary productivity, nutrient cycling, energy flows, and species interactions on farms. We will consider agroecology as a science based in, although fundamentally different from,

Science Mathematics and Computing Environment

Agroecology Lab — ENV2118L.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Valerie Imbruce

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Credits: 0

Labs will involve case studies of local farms, group experiments on the student farm and quantification of agroecological variables.

Science Mathematics and Computing Environment

Am I Charlie? — MOD2151.04

Spring 2015

Instructor: Stephen Shapiro; Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly

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Credits: 1

This course will help students to understand the Charlie Hebdo attacks by situating them in a social, political, religious and cultural context. Guest speakers will offer a variety of perspectives. We will examine conflicting notions of the limits of satire, the role of religion in public life, and the dynamics of social exclusion.

Modules: Transferable Approaches

American Literacies in School and Out — Canceled

Spring 2015

Instructor: Peter Jones

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Credits: 4

We study the social, cultural, and political contexts of literacy. While schools are the central institutions charged with providing instruction in literacy, we also consider the practices, models and ideologies of literacy at the heart of other social contexts. Home, for instance, is the site of initiation into literacy practices that variably align with school. New digital

Education

An Introduction to Dance Phrasing — DAN2321.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Dana Reitz

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Credits: 2

***Time Change*** This is designed for those who are interested in developing a sense of personal movement phrasing by making and exploring material. Full attention is paid to detail, nuance, and finesse of any phrase material that is made. Performance of the material will directly affect the sense of phrasing and technical understanding, and in reverse, knowledge of technique

Dance