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Documentary Production: Personal and Political — FV4313.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Kate Purdie
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Credits: 2
This course explores the full range of non-fiction possibilities including ethnographic films, personal cinema, cinema verite and even mockumentaries through screenings and video projects. Beginning with a group project and advancing to individual work, we will take a hands-on approach to documentary production: from interview techniques and verite shooting to character
Visual Arts

Drumming: An Extension of Language — MIN2120.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
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Credits: 4
This course serves as an introduction to rhythms, chants, and songs from Africa, Brazil, Cuba, Haiti, and the African Diaspora. Using indigenous percussion instruments such as congas, timbales, surdos, pandeiro, caixa, djembe, dunumba, cajon, balafon, and chekere, students will experience basic hand and stick drumming patterns associated with folkloric rhythms from these
Music

Earth Materials — ES4102.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Tim Schroeder
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Credits: 4
The study of minerals and rocks is fundamental to earth science as well as understanding and developing solutions for most environmental problems. All products consumed by people are either directly removed from the earth or grown in a medium consisting largely of earth materials. The nature of the earth materials in any region has great bearing on how human activities will
Science Mathematics and Computing Environment

Eastern European Literature and Cinema — LIT2171.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Alexandar Mihailovic
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Credits: 4
In this course we will examine contemporary literature and cinema from Eastern Europe from the Cold War to the present, exposing the intricacies of daily life in a region where the past is always present. The cinematic and literary texts will be drawn from the former East Bloc nations and their successor states in post-Communist Europe, including iconoclastic writers and film
Literature

Economic Reasoning: Models, Metrics, and Metaphors — PEC2260.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Robin Kemkes
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Credits: 4
This course will explore ways of knowing in economics. How do economists use mathematical models, collect and analyze data in the field and lab, and employ rhetoric to describe and address contemporary economic issues? We will begin with an introduction to the broad philosophical questions surrounding our understanding of economics as a social science. From there, we will
Social Science

Electronic Music: Creativity and Sound — MCO2109.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Michael Leczinsky
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Credits: 2
How do you compose when any sound can be used in music? This course provides an exploration into strategies for sound-based composition and the digital transformation of sound. Students will create original sounds and compositions in the electronic music studio. Students are expected to complete short readings, participate in discussions, present their creative work on a
Music

Electronic Music: Creativity and Sound II — MCO4122.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Michael Leczinsky
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Credits: 2
An intermediate to advanced level tutorial that builds on ideas in Creativity in Sound (MCO2109). Students may choose to develop skills in digital sound synthesis, signal processing, audio recording/sampling, and 5.1 surround sound. Students are expected to complete short readings, participate in class discussions and present their creative work on a regular basis in class
Music

English as a Second Language — LIT2101.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Wayne Hoffmann-Ogier
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Credits: 2
Individually designed tutorials provide the opportunity to review grammar, punctuation, diction, and sentence structure with an emphasis on paragraph and essay construction. Additional work is offered in oral expression, aural comprehension, and analytical reading. Tutorials may also introduce the interpretation of literature and the writing of critical essays.
Literature

Entry to Mathematics — MAT2100.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Josef Mundt
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Credits: 4
Mathematics is inherent across all disciplines and undertakings. It is necessary for building structures, assessing risk in everyday life, mixing paint for specific shades, creating business models of growth and decay, setting traffic lights, and can even help assess the correct time to propose. This course will show how math has evolved from counting to the combination of
Science Mathematics and Computing

Environmental Aesthetics — PHI4250.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Karen Gover
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Credits: 2
***Time Change*** Environmental Aesthetics is a relatively new sub-field in philosophical aesthetics, though it has roots in the 18th and 19th centuries. In this course we will take a broad look at the different topics that fall under the heading of Environmental Aesthetics: the aesthetics of everyday life, the picturesque, earth art, and the relation of aesthetics to
Environment Social Science

Exhibition Thematic Exposure — AH4101.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Andrew Spence
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Credits: 4
The primary goal in this class is for each student to create a theoretical thematic exhibition consisting of objects, artifacts, images or anything that has justifiable relevance. Originally born out of a visual art context, broader themes outside of visual art are possible. Students are expected to do independent research using source material from the library and the Internet
Visual Arts

Experimental Making in Ceramics — CER4214.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Barry Bartlett
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Credits: 4
This course will investigate the material nature of clay as a medium to create three-dimensional forms. Students will explore the material aspects of clay such as dryness, wetness, mass and scale using a variety of mechanical processes that include extrusion, slab rolling, slip casting and digital fabrication. In doing so, the pieces created will be used to convey ideas of
Visual Arts

Feminist Perspective and Practices in Contemporary Art — AH2107.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Carol Stakenas
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Credits: 4
This course will consider how feminist theory has evolved over the past four decades and how artists, curators and scholars of all genders and nationalities, advocate feminism in their practices. To examine its impact on the art world, Feminist Perspectives and Practices in Contemporary Art will explore the feminist movement in the US from the 1970s through its evolution to
Visual Arts

Fiddle — MIN4327.01

Spring 2015
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, and 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

Five Approaches to Acting — DRA4170.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Kirk Jackson
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Credits: 4
Taking as our premise that acting is the study of the art of human relationships (actor to actor as well as actor to audience) this course is a comprehensive overview of the theories behind the practice of various ways an actor works from a script to create a character to tell a story. Using the text book "Five Approaches to Acting" by David Kaplan as a study guide, as well as
Drama

Food for Thought in Modern Japanese Literature — JPN4507.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Katsuya Izumi
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Credits: 4
"Food" in the course title is used literally, yet quite broadly. In this course we will focus on how food, eating, drinking, and cooking are used in modern Japanese literary works. Observing Japanese people's relationships with food and these related actions in various genres of literature, we will examine the reflections of nationalism, cannibalism, globalism, ecocentrism, and
Languages

Form and Process: Investigations in Painting — PAI2107.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Joshua Blackwell
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Credits: 4
This course introduces a variety of materials, techniques and approaches to painting. Emphasis is placed on developing and understanding of color, form and space as well as individual research and conceptual concerns. The daily experience of seeing, along with the history of art, provides a base from which investigations are made. Formal, poetic, and social implications within
Visual Arts

Form to Function/ Digital Design to Analog Build — SCU2124.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Jon Isherwood
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Credits: 4
The practice of functional object making is undergoing an intense transition into digital production. Additive manufacturing has been posed as the next trillion dollar business; in your lifetime you will be able to download objects, tables, chairs, clocks and manufacture them in your own home. Designers, architects, and artists are finding digital design and fabrication
Visual Arts

French Comedy — FRE4122.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Stephen Shapiro
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Credits: 4
This course will examine the comic in French theatre, literature, politics, and film in order to answer a deceptively simple question: What makes us laugh? In theoretical readings we will consider whether laughter is a universal, cross-cultural function. Additionally, we will look at special, sub-genres of the comic, such as satire and parody, in order to question the
Languages

French Poetry — FRE4123.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Stephen Shapiro
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Credits: 4
***Time Change*** This course is an introduction to the study of French poetry and includes readings from Medieval, Renaissance, and Modern poets. We will look at the technical aspects of French verse and the cultural contexts of the works studied. Students will have the opportunity to write short poems of their own. This course will also include a systematic review of major
Languages

Future Studio: Production to Launch — DA4204.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Robert Ransick; Andrew Cencini
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Credits: 4
This two-part (fall and spring) course is conceived and structured as a small start-up. Modeled after the Bennington Plan, which is inherently entrepreneurial, Future Studio engages business as a creative space that marries collaborative inquiry-based idea development, technology and new business models to generate constructive social purpose. The course will progress over the
CAPA Science Mathematics and Computing Visual Arts

Gadhon Tutorial —

Spring 2015
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
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Credits: 2
An individual tutorial in the soft-style elaborating instruments of the gamelan, for students who have already studied gambang, suling, pesindhen, or gender. We will work on 2-3 works in each major pathet (tonality), as well as learn the tone-setting preludes known as pathetan. Playing together in a small gadhon ensemble will be part of the class, alongside occasional visits to
Music

Genesis — HIS2220.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Carol Pal
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Credits: 4
Genesis is the first book in a compilation known collectively as the Bible. It is a text of enormous literary value, and one of our earliest historical chronicles, providing foundational material for Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Yet how many of us know what it actually says? How did it come together, what is the narrative, and how does it relate to the ideas and events of
Social Science Literature

Glaze Chemistry — CER2132.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: David Katz
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Credits: 2
This course will focus on the exploration of fired ceramic surfaces and the fundamentals of formulating glazes for use in ceramic art. An emphasis will be placed on understanding the chemistry behind glazes and how the molecular breakdown of glaze recipes translates into unique fired surfaces. Through hands on and theoretical approaches students will gain experience developing
Visual Arts