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100 Drawings — ARC4118.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Donald Sherefkin
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Credits: 4
Using a fixed format of 9鈥 x 9鈥 paper, we will do a drawing each day of the term in a process which will parallel Georges Perec鈥檚 Life: A User鈥檚 Manual. Each drawing will have a set of constraints from which the student must extrapolate an image. A narrative will gradually be built through the accumulation of evidence. A variety of media, techniques and strategies will be
Visual Arts

A Material World — SCU2113.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: John Umphlett
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Credits: 2
This course is directed at the student who is interested in furthering a visual vocabulary and conceptual enhancement through material introductions and demonstrations.  The class will be based primarily on mastering methods of working with both thermo forming and thermo setting plastics. Often I have students come to me and ask how they can find some solution to the way a
Visual Arts

Acting in Tragi-Comedies — DRA4108.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Mercedes Herrero
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Credits: 4
"I will make it a mixture. Since there are kings and slaves in it, I will make it a tragicomedia." Plautus on "Amphitryon" People cry at weddings and laugh at funerals. Beckett spoke of "wild laughter amidst severest woe." The pathos of the human condition, its complex and often contradictory nature, has been a fertile subject for many dramatists. In this class, we will explore
Drama

Actor's Instrument — DRA2139.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Mercedes Herrero
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Credits: 4
"An actor is a vessel to be filled so that she can then be poured into the audience's ear." Cicely Berry (Vocal Coach) As actors, our bodies and our imagination are our tools. We use voice, body, and spirit to breathe life into a story before an audience in order to transform them. For an audience to experience the full range and music of the text, we must be fine-tuned. In
Drama

Advanced Ceramics Studio — CER4227.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Aysha Peltz
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Credits: 4
This course is designed for the intermediate or advanced ceramic student who is ready to focus intensely on a project.  Projects will be conceptually based, requiring investigation on an individual level. Issues to be raised in this class will include functional and sculptural forms relating to the history of ceramic objects. Readings and research will supplement studio
Visual Arts

Advanced Mediation — APA4206.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: David Bond
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Credits: 1
This course is an advanced level of training in mediation. Advanced mediator skills are featured, including effective neutral intervention, constructive communication, reframing, problem framing, interest鈥恇ased negotiation, and agreement writing. Students will participate in daily role鈥恜lay exercises, read and present articles, and write a reflection essay or short project.
CAPA

Advanced Projects in Dance — DAN4795.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Dana Reitz
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Credits: 2
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. Corequisite: 
Dance

Advanced Projects in Film and Video — FV4304.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Karthik Pandian
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Credits: 4
This is a workshop for advanced students pursuing self-directed projects in film and video. Class time will be spent on group critiques to be supplemented by screenings, readings, discussion, student presentations and individual meetings with the instructor.   Please download and complete this proposal form, and then submit to Karthik Pandian via email at
Visual Arts

Advanced Voice — MVO4401.02; section 2

Spring 2017
Instructor: Tom Bogdan
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Credits: 2
This class is organized as an individual voice lesson and deals with the advanced vocal study of technique and interpretation of vocal repertoire. This class is for students who have taken intermediate voice at least two times and have a good deal of singing experience. It is also designed to assist the graduating seniors with preparation for their senior recitals. Students are
Music

Advanced Voice — MVO4401.01; section 1

Spring 2017
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 Workshop for Painting and Drawing — PAI4302.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Ann Pibal
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Credits: 4
This course is for experienced student artists with a firm commitment to serious work in the studio. Students will work primarily on self-directed projects in an effort to refine individual concerns and subject matter. Students will present work regularly for critique in class as well as for individual studio meetings with the instructor. Development of a strong work ethic will
Visual Arts

Advanced Workshop in CAPA — APA4109.01

Spring 2017
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Credits: 4
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 鈥 in particular
CAPA

Adventures in Max — MCO2122.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
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Credits: 2
This course will look at the peculiarly versatile program of Max/MSP/Jitter, a high-level programming platform for sound and visuals. Our focus will be on the sonic capabilities of the program, though we will dip occasional into visuals, video, and sensing technologies. Students will develop independent research, and projects based on their interests and abilities, and must
Music Visual Arts

Aesthetics — PHI2253.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Karen Gover
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Credits: 4
Why do we care about art? Why and how do artworks move us? What, if anything, do artworks mean, and how do we know? This course takes up these and other questions relating to the philosophy of art and artworks. This course will look at the philosophical tradition of aesthetics, including Plato, Aristotle, Kant, and Hegel, up to the present day. We will also look at the role of
Society Culture and Thought Visual Arts

Air Pollution Measurement and Monitoring — ES4103.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Andrew McIntyre
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Credits: 4
Air pollution is a global problem, affecting the quality and longevity of life for millions world-wide. This is true even for certain areas in the U.S. where, despite regulatory efforts, air pollutant concentrations exceed safe limits on a regular basis. In an effort to forecast and prevent detrimental air pollution events, atmospheric measurements of various pollutants are
Science and Mathematics Environment

Alexander Technique — DAN2151.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Dana Reitz
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Credits: 2
The Alexander Technique begins with the premise that the human organism is perfectly designed for an expansive range of activities. It is our own misuse that gets in the way of this potential. The Alexander Technique maps a neuromuscular process by which we use our thinking to undo habitual layers of use, and make conscious choices that create more freedom and range, resulting
Dance Drama

American Theater Now — DRA2151.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Jenny Rohn
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Credits: 4
This non-performance based course will focus on a detailed, coast-to-coast examination of the state of the American Theater in 2016-2017. Who are the playwrights, directors, designers, actors, and producers that are shaping the landscape? Who is making theater? How and why are they making it? We will explore the history of theater in America, specifically the regional theater
Drama

Amplified Realities / Maxwell Render for Rhino — VA2111.02

Spring 2017
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Credits: 2
Amplified Realities is a foundation course in Maxwell Render for Rhino, with some coverage of Adobe Photoshop. Maxwell Render is a professional software platform used by artists, designers, architects, and animators for the creation of images, films and animations from 3D models. Students in this class will learn how to specifically tailor 3D-models for rendering, set-up
Visual Arts

An Environmental History of Food and Farming — BIO2204.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Kerry Woods
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Credits: 4
Modern humans have been around for well over 100,000 years. Our ancestors came up with agricultural technology (active ecosystem management for enhanced food production) only about 10,000 years ago, and began changing their world irreversibly.  The long鈥恡erm feedbacks triggered by adoption of food production on human population dynamics, socio-cultural systems, and
Science and Mathematics Environment

An Introduction to Dance Phrasing — DAN2321.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Dana Reitz
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Credits: 4
This is designed for those who are interested in developing a sense of phrasing by making and exploring movement material. Full attention is paid to the 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,
Dance

Animation Projects — MA4202.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Sue Rees
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Credits: 4
The course will be for sustained work on an animation or set design. Students will be expected to create a complete animation, or project. The expectation is that students will be fully engaged in their project, and with critiques. Locations will be explored for showing of work including investigating digital projections on different surfaces and forms. Animation students
Visual Arts

Architecture I - Transformations — ARC4101.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Donald Sherefkin
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Credits: 4
This course will focus on the process of drawing and modeling as vehicles for discovering alternative worlds. The drawings and models become the 'program' which define the limits and possibilities of architectonic invention. Each studio project is intended to provide a catalyst for the next. They will use a variety of strategies and source materials for inspiration, including
Visual Arts

Art of the Sonnet: Conventions and Inventions — LIT4113.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Michael Dumanis
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Credits: 4
The sonnet, from the Italian sonnetto, or little song, has a long and rich history as a poetic form, described by contemporary poet Laynie Browne as 屎a controlled measure of sound and space within which one can do anything. An invitation.屎 This course, a literature seminar with a significant creative component, will invite you to study the sonnet in鈥 depth, both as a
Literature

Artificial Intelligence — Canceled

Spring 2017
Instructor: Justin Vasselli
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Credits: 4
In this class, students will learn the basics of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.  We鈥檒l talk about algorithms that allow computers to play simple games like Mancala or Pac-Man, including search algorithms, decision trees, and pathfinding. We鈥檒l talk about how software can 鈥渓earn鈥 from a dataset, and apply that 鈥渒nowledge鈥 to improve its future effectiveness.
Science and Mathematics