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Future Studio — VA4207.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Robert Ransick Charles Crowell
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Credits: 4
Future Studio is a creative incubator designed for the development and articulation of new enterprises that value workers, local communities, sustainability, and the environment equally with profit. The course is designed to lay the foundation for building new enterprise of all types through the unique integration of creativity, arts culture, and sophisticated business
CAPA Visual Arts

Genetics: Principles and Practice (with lab) — BIO4207.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Amie McClellan
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Credits: 4
What are genes? How do they work? How are they passed on? This course will provide an introduction to modes of inheritance as well as to genes, their structure, and their regulation. Topics discussed in this class will include, but are not limited to, the molecular structure of DNA and RNA, Mendelian inheritance, molecular properties of genes, and the regulation of gene
Science and Mathematics

Glaze-Redesigning the Ceramic Studio鈥檚 Glazes — CER4105.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Barry Bartlett
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Credits: 2
This class is designed to help the intermediate and advance ceramic student build a deeper understanding of glaze applications. We will test and redesign the ceramic studio鈥檚 glaze palette. Both high fire and low fire glazes will be investigated throughout the term. The class will also be developing testing systems to track new colors and surfaces with existing glazes and also
Visual Arts

Graduate Assistantship in Dance — DAN5301.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
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Credits: 4
Graduate students in Dance are integrated into the dance program as teaching assistants, production assistants or dance archival assistants. In consultation with their academic advisors and the dance faculty, MFA candidates develop an assistantship schedule of approximately ten hours weekly.
Dance

Graduate Research in Dance — DAN5305.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Terry Creach
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Credits: 6
This class is designed for MFA students to show works-in-progress, try out ideas with their colleagues, and discuss issues involved in the development of new work. The weekly format is determined with the students. Outside of class, students develop their own independent creative projects that will be presented to the public, either formally or informally, by the end of the
Dance

Graduate Research in Public Action — APA5102.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Robert Ransick
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Credits: 6
This class is designed for MFA students to research and develop new work, show work-in-progress, be in critical dialogue with their colleagues, and discuss issues involved in the development of new work. The weekly format is determined with the students. Outside of class, students develop their own independent creative projects that will be presented to the public, either
CAPA

Graduate Seminar on Pedagogy and Public Action — APA5103.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Robert Ransick Susan Sgorbati
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Credits: 4
This course is centered on conducting research and mapping the field of socially and civically engaged pedagogy within a global context. What capacities and skills do students who create artworks in collaboration with the public need to acquire and what is the history of teaching these practices?
CAPA

Happiness — PHI2143.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Douglas Kremm
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Credits: 4
This course will examine a range of questions about the nature of happiness. What is happiness, and why does it matter? Is it the main thing we should pursue in life, or are there other things that are more important? Is it a kind of pleasant feeling, or is it something more "objective" than that? What assumptions about happiness are implicit in the ways that psychologists,
Society Culture and Thought

Harmonic Spheres — MTH4130.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
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Credits: 4
Composers and improvisers periodically reinvent the wheel, creating systems of scales and tunings, instruments, and even philosophies of harmony and rhythm. In this course, we鈥檒l also explore how to invent your own systems. Beginning with tuning, students will build an acoustic or virtual instrument based on their own temperament. The class will then explore harmonic systems
Music

Historical Dress: The Great Couturiers — DRA2176.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Charles Schoonmaker
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Credits: 4
This class will examine the fashions and designers in the era of the Couture, ranging from Worth to Dior, and including Chanel, Schiaparelli, Vionnet, and Gres. We will examine the topic in the context of the culture: the artistic, political and technological shifts of the time. Assignments will include design / research projects. Corequisites: Dance or Drama Lab Required
Drama

Immortal Media — MS2106.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Brian Michael Murphy
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Credits: 4
In this introductory course, we will analyze media preservation projects that attempt to create immortal media鈥攁rtifacts that last beyond the end of the world. From the Depression to the digital age, preservationists have responded to the social, cultural, technological, and ecological crises of their moment by projecting fears about their own mortality onto media artifacts,
CAPA Society Culture and Thought

Improvisation: Methods and Practice — APA2160.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Susie Ibarra
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Credits: 4
This course examines improvisation as a transcultural practice. Improvisation is an important tool in human agency as well as fundamental to many creative practices. The class will study how human beings respond, adapt and communicate in their environment with the use and practice of improvisation. Field Component: Students will assist in documenting and archiving interviews on
CAPA

Incarceration in America — APA2108.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Annabel Davis-Goff
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Credits: 2
7 million Americans are under correctional supervision. The United States of America has the highest documented rate of incarceration in the world. Too many people are in prison, and in many cases the current system doesn鈥檛 work. It is inefficient, inhumane, and does not accomplish rehabilitation. It also costs too much 鈥 financially as well as in terms of human suffering 鈥 the
CAPA

Inner Travel — SPA4604.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
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Credits: 4
Beyond Columbus鈥 errant journey into the abyss and the ensuing quest for El Dorado, or Darwin鈥檚 Voyage of the Beagle, Latin America鈥檚 interior has often enticed its own learned population. Their travels, in space, time and thought, do not merely present a physical confrontation with alterity, with the continent鈥檚 supposed heart of darkness, but an intellectual clearing, an
Languages

Insider Perspectives on the Francophone World II — FRE4224.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Stephen Shapiro
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Credits: 4
Viewed from the outside, the French鈥恠peaking world offers enticing images of beauty, pleasure, and freedom. From the inside, however, it is a complicated, often contradictory world where implicit codes and values shape the most basic aspects of daily life. This course will give you an insider使s perspective on a cultural and communicative system whose ideas, customs, and belief
Languages

Instrument Building — MUS2229.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
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Credits: 2
A course on modern instrument building, focusing on experimental acoustic instruments. Students are required to design, critique, and eventually construct instruments collaboratively and individually. We will also work with the Schonbeck instruments at MoCA, and new prototypes for Commons. Students will be expected to work on projects early and progressively, creating proof-of
Music

Intermedia Performance — MPF4225.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Senem Pirler
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Credits: 4
In this course, we will focus on hybrid practices and explore various forms of intermedia art such as video/audio mashups, audiovisual performance and installation, movement for the camera, and sound and video for movement. The readings and discussions will give an introduction to the intermedia art practice as well as the history of early audiovisual tools, theories on
Dance Music Visual Arts

Intermediate Musicianship — MTH2277.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Andrew Greenwald
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Credits: 2
This course will focus on improving our ability to hear, replicate, and document music. We will concentrate on honing melodic and rhythmic transcription, while also developing ways of identifying and notating modern instrumental and electronic techniques. The students will help guide the direction of the course by choosing particular musical examples and topics for
Music

Intermediate Painting: Scale, Process, and Presence — PAI4301.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Josh Blackwell
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Credits: 4
This studio-seminar course will investigate painting through its history and practice at 51成人猎奇. Using paintings in the permanent collection of the College as a starting point, we will think through the strategies deployed by artists such as Helen Frankenthaler, Paul Feeley, Jules Olitski, Ann Truitt, Ralph Humphrey, and Larry Poons among others. Additionally, we
Visual Arts

Intermediate Video: Contemporary Approaches — FV4117.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Jen Liu
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Credits: 4
Intermediate Video will build on technical skills introduced in Intro to Video. Students will be expected to produce in-class technical exercises, two short projects assigned by the instructor, and one final project of their own design. This semester of Intermediate Video will give a broad overview of contemporary approaches to pre-production, production, and editing, with an
Visual Arts

Intermediate Violin/Viola — MIN4232.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Kaori Washiyama
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Credits: 2
Basic techniques will include the reading music in treble and /or alto cleft in basic keys. Hand position including left hand sifting and fingering will be shown, and a rudimentary facility with the bow will be developed in order for students to participate in simple ensemble performances by the end of term. Corequisites: Corequisites: must participate and perform at least
Music

Intermediate Voice — MVO4301.01, section 1|MVO4301.01, section 1

Spring 2019
Instructor: Kerry Ryer-parke|Kerry Ryer-parke
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For students of varying levels of singing ability. Vocal production and physiology will be discussed. Group warm-ups and vocalizations will incorporate exercises to develop breath control, resonance, projection, range, color, and agility. The fundamental concepts of singing will be explored in the preparation of specific song assignments. Personalization of text and emotional
Music