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Spring 2015

Jazz Ensemble — MPF4250.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Bruce Williamson

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Credits: 2

This ensemble will perform a wide range of Jazz music (a genre that is constantly evolving), with an emphasis on both ensemble playing and improvisation skills. By playing together, students will learn how blues, swing, latin, and rock elements have all fueled this music called jazz. Students will also learn how major Jazz artists such as Ellington, Monk, Mingus, Wayne Shorter,

Music

Jerzy Grotowski — DRA2304.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Jenny Rohn

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Credits: 4

"No one else in the world, to my knowledge, no one since Stanislavski, has investigated the nature of acting, its phenomenon, its meaning, the nature and science of its mental, physical, emotional process as deeply and completely as Grotowski." - Peter Brook In this class we will explore, through readings and on our feet, the teachings and training techniques that Grotowski

Drama

Landscapes of Injustice: Psychology and Social Change — PSY4238.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Sean Akerman

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Credits: 4

What role can psychology play in the aftermath of collective trauma? What are the responsibilities psychologists have to those who have suffered catastrophe? How does psychology engage with the realities of survival? In this course, we will we explore the ways in which psychology participates in social change. In particular, we will look at how psychology engages with the

Social Science

Language Through Film — SPA4118.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher

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Credits: 4

Students with burgeoning linguistic skills will learn the language through an immersion in Latin American and Spanish film in the second half of this full-year introduction to the Spanish-speaking world. While there will be some discussion of more common tactics such as stylistic nuances, script-writing, acting, dubbing, and directors biographies, it is expected that we will

Languages

Liberalism and Religion — SPA4254.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher

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Credits: 4

One of the more ubiquitous problems in formulating thought on Latin America, evident in anything from a page-long critique of a painting to governmental policy, is the premise that liberalism, for all its apparent flaws, has good intentions, and is coupled to the increasing obsolescence of religion, which only serves to divide theory and practice. The development of political,

Languages

Liberalism: For and Against — PHI4104.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Paul Voice

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Credits: 4

This course invites students to critically engage with liberalism, the dominant political theory in Anglo-American philosophy. Students will read some of the main texts in the various traditions of contemporary liberal thought, including libertarianism, Rawlsian liberalism and utilitarian liberalism, and survey some of the central critical responses to the liberal project. The

Social Science

Life into Art: A Reading and Writing Seminar — LIT4258.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Rebecca Godwin

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Credits: 4

We will read fiction and nonfiction by three writers: Eudora Welty, Virginia Woolf, and Flannery OConnor. Through this lens, students will experiment with their own forays into story and memoir, with an eye towards exploring the ways in which life may shape story. Readings include Welty's One Writer's Beginnings and The Optimist's Daughter; Woolf's A Writer's Diary and To the

Literature

Light and Lighting: Vocabulary and Tools — Canceled

Spring 2015

Instructor: Jonathan Kline

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Credits: 4

The course will investigate the way in which light conveys emotional, narrative, and psychological meaning. The goal is to increase students' experience in recognizing and shaping these effects. Lectures will draw from the history of photography, as well as cinema and contemporary art. Workshops will involve small collaborative teams in a variety of studio and on-location

Visual Arts

Linguistics of Music — MTH4258.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Kitty Brazelton

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Credits: 4

(Formerly "Towards a Theory of Rock") Students in this course will collaborate with instructor to generate a set of grammatical "rules" for various rock genres. To do this, we will review existing theories and grammars of Western classical and other musics. We will investigate existing scholarly studies of rock. After that, much of the course will be student-directed with a

Music

Literature of the Renaissance — LIT2265.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Brooke Allen

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Credits: 4

The literature of the European Renaissance did much to help shape the modern mind and the modern world. In this class we will begin in Italy with Petrarch and Boccaccio, then go on to works by Pico della Mirandola, Machiavelli, Castiglione, Erasmus, Wyatt, Sir Thomas More, Cervantes, Rabelais, Vasari, and Montaigne, discussing them in the context of their time and in terms of

Literature

Local Governance in Comparative Perspective — POL4239.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Rotimi Suberu

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Credits: 4

Around the world, there is renewed interest in empowering institutions of local governance (county, city, town/township, municipal, village, or special-purpose local government, and non-governmental local associations) in order to promote political democracy, enhance socio-economic welfare, and accommodate subnational identities, among other goals. This course will examine the

Social Science

Makers and Making/ Performance in the 21st Century — DAN2131.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Elena Demyanenko

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Credits: 2

***Time Change*** “Isn’t every artist essentially starting from nothing, no matter what they might have presented to theater directors or financiers? Isn’t the meaning of a work always discovered, to some extent, by its creator during the process of making it?” - Roslyn Sulcas These are just some of the questions about the making, style, process, logistics, methods, and

Dance

Mandolin — MIN2229.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: John Kirk

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Credits: 2

Beginning, intermediate or advanced group or individual lessons on the mandolin will be offered. Student will learn classical technique on the mandolin and start to develop a repertoire of classical and traditional folk pieces. Simple song sheets with chords, tablature, and standard notation, chord theory, and scale work will all be used to further skills. Students will be

Music

Markmaking and Representation — DRW2149.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Mary Lum

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Credits: 4

The fundamentals of drawing are the basic tools for this investigation into seeing and translation. Using simple methods and means, the practice of drawing is approached from both traditional and experimental directions. The focus of this inquiry is on drawing from observation, broadly defined. In class drawing sessions are complemented by independent, outside of class work and

Visual Arts

Measles and the (sometimes unnatural) history of outbreaks — MOD2153.04

Spring 2015

Instructor: Zeke Bernstein

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Credits: 1

We will use the recent measles outbreak in the United States as a lens into the history and also (murky) future of infectious disease outbreaks in our human race. We'll cover outbreaks and outbreak dynamics, along with foundational topics in microbiology, immunology, and infectious disease. We’ll also situate the current measles outbreak in the context of the ongoing

Modules: Transferable Approaches

Media Convergence and Culture — APA4102.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Erika Mijlin

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Credits: 4

A seminar on the changing nature of the relationship between consumption and production of media, and how these newly intersect. With a perspective rooted in the cultural history of forms such as quotation, parody, and collage, in this course we will explore the many transitions in the present media paradigm -- the changing aesthetics of digital media content and context, the

CAPA Visual Arts

Medieval Britain and Shakespeare's History Plays — LIT2317.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Annabel Davis-Goff; Carol Pal

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Credits: 4

Shakespeare wrote his history plays for an audience living in a newly nationalistic England. It was a realm constructing the idea of Britain as the natural inheritor of Roman glory. But what, precisely, was this new "British" identity? In this course, we will follow the construction of British identity in history and literature. We will study the history of Britain from the

Social Science Literature

Medieval Masculinities — HIS2158.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Stephen Higa

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Credits: 4

In an age of knights in shining armor, celibate monks, and lovesick troubadours, what did it mean to be a man? In this course, we will investigate medieval constructions of gender (the roots of our modern Western gender systems) by exploring male privilege, male virtues, male desires, male relationships, and male bodies—sacred, profane, and queer. Students will be expected to

Social Science

Modern Guitar — MIN4224.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Hui Cox

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Credits: 2

Individual training is available in classical guitar technique and repertoire, song accompaniment (finger style), improvisation, and arranging and composing for the guitar. Course material is tailored to the interests and level of the individual student. Corequisite: Must participate in Music Workshop (Tuesday, 6:30 - 8pm).

Music

Mountain Dulcimer (Lap Dulcimer) — MIN2224.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: John Kirk

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Credits: 2

A comprehensive course on learning skills on the mountain (aka lap) dulcimer. We will learn the history of the dulcimer and both traditional and contemporary styles. Music theory and playing techniques will be covered and students will be expected to perform (as a group or individually) at Music Workshop. Students will purchase a lap dulcimer kit and construct the instrument as

Music

Movement Practice: Advanced Dance Technique — DAN4344.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Elena Demyanenko

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Credits: 2

***Time Change*** This advanced movement class addresses the constantly changing body and its potential by expanding receptivity to detail, connections, and logic. The warm-up will examine the joints and how their range of motion relates to alignment, readiness to move, and articulation. We will approach movement from a place of ease and space, especially when applying vigor

Dance

Movement Practice: Advanced Intermediate Dance Technique — DAN4351.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Samuel Wentz

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Credits: 2

This advanced intermediate course is designed for students who have already taken intermediate level technique and are ready to tackle more complex forms. The class will begin with a warm up that is based on grounding, locating, and mobilizing all of our parts. We will then put these new found tools to use in executing large moving phrases that will simplify and clarify as well

Dance

Movement Practice: Basic Gymnastic Floor Exercise — DAN2167.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Terry Creach

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Credits: 1

For those seeking a basic but athletic movement practice. We will warm-up with stretching/strengthening poses from yoga and apply the alignment principles to rolls, handstands, and cartwheels in order to create movement phrases and build gymnastic dance sequences. We will work progressively to develop the strength and body awareness necessary for safe inversions and full-bodied

Dance

Movement Practice: Beginning Dance Technique — DAN2214.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Samuel Wentz (MFA Teaching Fellow, supervised by Terry Creach)

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Credits: 2

***Time Change Description Change*** This beginning dance technique class requires no previous dance training. We will investigate and explore our bodies as tools for making work. The warm up will consist of movement exercises that focus on the joints, bones, muscles, and energetic pathways. This initial work will develop into larger phrase material that emphasizes rhythm,

Dance

Movement Practice: Beginning Intermediate Technique — DAN4147.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Dai Jian

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Credits: 2

This beginning intermediate level movement practice is designed for students with some dance technique training. Each class will start using simple sequences for warm up to better understand anatomy and proper alignment. We will connect the breath, body and mind to develop a dancer’s sense of timing, rhythm and space in order to move more smoothly and easily. In addition, we

Dance