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The Art of Literary Translation — LIT4319.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Marguerite Feitlowitz
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Credits: 4
It may well be that the closest, most interpretative, and creative reading of a text involves translating it from one language to another. Questions of place, culture, epoch, voice, gender, and rhythm take on new urgency, helping us to deepen our writerly skills and sensibilities. As Joseph Brodsky put it: 鈥淵ou must memorize poems, do translation, study foreign languages. And
Literature

The Bible and Conflict Resolution — MOD2137.02

Spring 2017
Instructor: Michael Cohen
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Credits: 1
The Bible provides many examples and lessons about conflict resolution. This three-week module will focus on some of the most important texts in the Bible when it comes to conflict resolution. Those selected texts will be examined using two thousand years of commentary and analysis. Modern conflict resolution theories, which provide contemporary approaches, will be integrated
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The Bible and the Environment — MOD2254.03

Spring 2017
Instructor: Michael Cohen
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Credits: 1
This module will analyze the environmental dimensions and lessons of the Bible with a primary focus on the books of Genesis and Psalms. Through the use of ancient and contemporary commentators the environmental messages of the Biblical texts will be examined as a means to confront and explore our relationship to the environment. The course will also examine the scores of
CAPA Environment Modules: Transferable Approaches

The Body Remembers: Embodiment, Representation, and the Racial Imaginary — APA4240.02

Spring 2017
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Credits: 2
This course will engage the socio-historical processes and technologies through which the gendered and racialized black body circulates in the public realm. Toggling between the present, past and future, students will engage with specific visual and material representations of black bodies and their attendant consumption, including 鈥渞unaway slave鈥 listings; the Clarence Thomas
CAPA

The Chip Instrument — MCO2124.02

Spring 2017
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
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Credits: 1
Arduino interfaces have increased exponentially the ability to create stand-alone instruments and installations that have a visual immediacy while avoiding the use of outboard computers. We鈥檒l learn Arduino code and the possibilities of small scale physical computing, from running solenoids and relays on mechanical instruments to turning the Arduino and other small circuits
Music Visual Arts

The Essay Film — FV4319.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Erika Mijlin
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Credits: 2
An intermediate 7-week production course. Students will enter with a concept for a project ready to begin producing, and to complete by the end of the course.  The essay film has a long tradition as a film form - often departing stylistically from the social issue concerns often associated with documentary film, the essay film is a focused meditation around a theme. It may
Visual Arts

The First Hundred Days — APA4250.01

Spring 2017
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Credits: 4
The bewildering saga of the presidential election has overturned much of the established political wisdom. So what happened? What happens next? And what鈥檚 at stake? This course takes a journalistic, comparative, and critical look at the elected direction of American democracy. Tracking back and forth between the unfolding events of the first hundred days of the new presidency
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The Muslim World from the Rise of Islam to the Present — HIS2116.01

Spring 2017
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Credits: 4
How can Rumi鈥檚 belief in loving all existence stem from the same religious tradition as ISIS鈥檚 jihadist ideology calling for unrestricted violence against everything considered 鈥渦n-Islamic鈥? In this course, we examine changing interpretations of Islam across time and space. We study religious, intellectual, cultural, and socio-political developments in the societies of the
Society Culture and Thought

The New York School of Poetry — LIT2198.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Michael Dumanis
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Credits: 4
This course will serve as an immersion in the work of several major American poets of the 1950s and 1960s, noted for their humor, irreverence, disjunctive experimentation, charm, and wildness, and collectively known as the New York School. We will begin by focusing on the original generation of New York School poets: John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, Kenneth Koch, James Schuyler, and
Literature

The Personal Learning Plan: Vermont Act 77 Educational Reform — MOD2170.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: David Bond
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Credits: 1
Vermont Act 77 is a recent bill passed in the Vermont Legislature to enact educational reform. It includes implementing a Personal Learning Plan for all Middle and High School students in public education in Vermont. It is a radical new vision of public education and shares many of the same goals as a 51成人猎奇 Plan Process. This Module will introduce Bennington
CAPA Modules: Transferable Approaches

The Power of Art — APA2142.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Dana Reitz
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Credits: 1
Art has the power to help people in communities to communicate, to mobilize, to educate and to understand their living situation.  Art can help political movements find their voice, and connect people to planning visions for the future.  Beginning in 2014, protests in Burkina Faso organized against the current political dictatorship.  Life was very difficult for
CAPA

The Sababa Project at Mount Anthony Union High School — APA2250.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: David Bond
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Credits: 4
The Sababa Project is a 51成人猎奇 course taught on the campus of Mount Anthony Union High School. In a collaborative effort between 51成人猎奇 and two Mount Anthony Union High School programs (the Quantum Leap Exhibit Program and the Bridges Summer Transitional Program), the Sababa Project attempts to demystify the college experience while providing high school
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The Scriptorium: The Body and Society — LIT2399.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Camille Guthrie
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Credits: 4
Our scriptorium, a 鈥減lace for writing,鈥 will function as a class for beginning writers and for those students who want to improve their essay skills. We will read to write and write to read. Much of our time will be occupied with writing probatively, as essai means 鈥渢rial鈥 or 鈥渁ttempt.鈥 This class will explore anthropologist Mary Douglas鈥檚 idea: 鈥淛ust as it is true that
Literature

The Tudor Box — MCO2123.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
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Credits: 1
This course will examine the DIY world of homebuilt acoustic electronics, by looking at experimental instruments that can fit inside a soap dish. We will work through Nic Collins classic book on hardware hacking, while having outside workshops on building alternative guitar pedals, circuit bending, and proto-synthesizer circuits. We will also look at the history of experiments
Music Visual Arts

The Ultimate Record Album — MSR4107.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: David Baron
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Credits: 4
Soup to nuts advanced course on all the skills involved in making a great album. This is the ultimate primer on being a producer, programmer, and engineer.  What are the roles in making an album? What is the business involved?  How do you make a compelling sonic landscape?  We will create an album of works though our own in-class and individual recordings. 
Music

The World in 2050 — APA2280.01

Spring 2017
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Credits: 4
What do you think the world will look like circa 2050? Futurists predict computers that host digital uploads of our brains, water crises, recycling breakthroughs, flying cars, shapeshifting skyscrapers, regenerating body parts, mass extinctions and experimental de-extinctions. To navigate the vastness of possible futures--from utopian to dystopian--the class begins with a leap
CAPA Society Culture and Thought

Theories of Knowledge — PHI2104.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Eileen Scully
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Credits: 4
What does it mean to know something? Can we know anything? Can you know whether you know?  How do you distinguish knowledge from mere belief? What factors affect what we believe?  In this course, we鈥檙e going to look at knowledge from both a philosophical and psychological perspective. Philosophically, when is it rational to believe?  Psychologically, what forces
Society Culture and Thought

Theories of Revolution — SPA4601.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
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Credits: 4
Over the past two centuries, in an apparently perpetual movement towards democratic independence, Latin America has confronted ruptures in tradition and experimented with a variety of revolutionary discourses to project its multiple pasts into the future. This course will read the postcolonial back into the European and US epistemai, and vice-versa, exploring how Latin
Languages

Total Theory — HIS4215.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
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Credits: 4
Whether we love 鈥渢heory鈥 or hate it, rejecting it on the basis of a lack of understanding of its esoteric hermeneutics or jargon isn鈥檛 really a viable position, and certainly not an excuse. It鈥檇 be nice to know why, thus debating it on its own terms and perceiving its implications in all manner of contexts beyond them. The plan is to give at least an introduction to historicism
Society Culture and Thought

Toward a Rigorous Art History — AH2109.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: J. Vanessa Lyon
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Credits: 4
A 鈥渞igorous study of art鈥 became the goal of Philosopher and Cultural Critic Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) when his growing distaste for the outlook and methods of his art history professor鈥攖he famous and foundational Heinrich W枚lfflin鈥攃aused him to consider publishing an account of 鈥渢he most disastrous activity I have ever encountered at a German university.鈥 Striking a balance
Visual Arts

Traditional Music Ensemble — MPF4221.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: John Kirk
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Credits: 2
We will study and perform from the string band traditions of rural America. Nova Scotia, Quebecois, Irish, New England, Scandinavian, African American dance and ballad traditions will also be experienced with listening, practice (weekly group rehearsals outside of class), and performing components. Emphasis on ensemble intuition, playing by ear, and lifetime personal music
Music

Traveling in Italian Film — ITA4401.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Barbara Alfano
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Credits: 4
In Italian culture, as it happens for every culture, the idea of travel is deeply connected to the country使s social and historical contexts, and to the questioning of personal identity. In this respect, travel becomes a mirror for the traveler. In the case of Italian narratives, is the mirror sending back surprising images, disclosing secrets, or repeating stereotypes? Focusing
Languages

Ukulele Comprehensive — MIN2230.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: John Kirk
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Credits: 2
A comprehensive course on learning skills on the ukulele. We will learn the history of the uke 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 must have their own soprano or tenor ukulele.
Music

Unique Prints: 3-D Prints and Modular Works — PRI4272.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Thorsten Dennerline
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Credits: 4
This course is an introduction to unique prints, or prints that are not necessarily printed as an edition. We will emphasize the making of mixed media prints using a broad range of methods from monotypes to digital prints. The class is structured around a series of projects where rigorous experimentation is encouraged. Students will learn various non-typical printmaking
Visual Arts

Unlocking Italian Culture II — ITA4214.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Barbara Alfano
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Credits: 4
Entering the worlds of Italy is an integral part of learning the language. We will continue exploring Italian culture through the lens of journalism: you will be journalists exploring Italy and reporting about it. In this, you will be supported by specific web tools, role-play, videos, and online newspaper and magazines. The class will create its own magazine. Meanwhile, you
Languages