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Spring 2019

Social Dynamics of Inclusion — SCT2134.02

Spring 2019

Instructor: Delia Saenz

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Credits: 1

This course will examine social psychological approaches to promoting inclusivity. Content will focus on contextual factors that contribute to, and maintain bias in contemporary society, and on methods that can promote collaboration across difference. Topics will include: power, intersectionality, micro-aggression, intergroup dynamics, social justice,

Society Culture and Thought

Social Expectations for Japanese Children — JPN4224.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida

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Credits: 4

This course is designed for students to learn Japanese through Japanese children’s books and animation. In this course, students will read Japanese children’s books and watch Japanese animation that is based on children’s books to examine how Japanese children are expected to behave and communicate with others. Students will also analyze cultural values in Japan, how those

Languages

Solo Performance: Telling My Story — DRA4322.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Kirk Jackson

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Credits: 4

Students develop original and/or primary source material and explore its shape, arc, and thematic whole in a performance medium that can involve text, movement, characterization, personal examination, and observation. Generating and receiving constructive feedback, with sensitivity to process, is an essential aspect of the work. Students write, edit, rewrite multiple drafts and

Drama

Song for Ireland and Celtic Connections — MHI2251.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: John Kirk

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Credits: 2

Celtic history and music from Ireland, Scotland, Bretagne, Galatia, and Cape Breton will be experienced, studied, and performed using instruments and voices. We’ll find and cross the musical bridges between regions–from the ballads of Ireland, Scotland and Wales to the Alalas of Spain and dance tunes of Brittany. An end-of-term presentation will be prepared drawing on

Music

Space, Place, and Power — SCT4107.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Emily Mitchell-Eaton

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Credits: 4

Critical political geography, at its core, is a field interested in the relationship between space, place, and power. How are power dynamics enforced, and contested, through spatial practices and discourses? How do space and place shape intersections of power and resistance? This course will explore these questions in a variety of places, contexts, and scales, using a range of

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Special Projects in Advanced Japanese — JPN4801.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida

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Credits: 4

This course is designed for students to research/ complete a project in their field of study/interest. In order to take this course, students are required to write a proposal of their project and be accepted by the instructor. Corequisites: Language Series

Languages

Special Relativity — PHY4210.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Hugh Crowl

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Credits: 2

Classical physics describes the motions of large things moving at slow speeds. That description of the universe, which physicists used to describe the motion of objects from apples to planets for hundreds of years, does not hold for objects moving very fast. In this class, we will look at how traveling close to the speed of light affects the physical properties of objects.

Science and Mathematics

Special Topics in Video Production: Misogyny in the Media — FV4114.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Chelsea Knight

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Credits: 4

This course will trace the path that misogyny has taken in the media since the onset of third wave feminism. In the class, we will look at both mainstream and experimental films, television, videos and news media that either reproduce or resist misogynist stereotypes. Students will conduct research into the history of misogyny and build two video works that respond to its

Visual Arts

Statistics for the Social Sciences — SCT4105.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Debbie Warnock

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Credits: 4

In this course students will learn to harness social statistics as a powerful tool for answering social science research questions, while becoming more educated consumers of statistical analyses presented in research and news sources. Using nationally representative data sets we will employ various inferential statistics techniques, such as confidence intervals, t-tests, chi

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Student to Student: A College Access Mentoring Program at Mount Anthony Union High School — APA4132.02

Spring 2019

Instructor: Debbie Warnock

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Credits: 2

In this course college student mentors will work with high school student mentees to develop college aspirations and contribute to mentees’ knowledge about the college application process. Each week college students will meet with the instructor for the first two hour block on the 51�� campus in which we will discuss literature about mentoring and college access,

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Sustainable Chemistry in the Modern World — CHE2116.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Amber Hancock

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Credits: 4

Chemistry is everywhere. It is necessary for processes and products that sustain our existence. Because energy and production demands are always increasing to support our expanding population, the way in which we carry out these essential chemical processes is more important than ever. This course will establish the societal importance of green chemical practices and provide

Science and Mathematics Environment

Technical Topics: Virtual Reality — MA4107.02

Spring 2019

Instructor: Colleen Murphy

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Credits: 2

This seven-week course is designed to demonstrate the emerging connection between film and virtual reality within the context of installation art. The focus will be split between experimentation with virtual reality equipment and advanced software workflows using Premiere and After Effects. Students are encouraged to apply their other areas of interest, such as animation, sound

Visual Arts

The Actor’s Instrument — DRA2170.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Shawtane Bowen

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Credits: 4

Acting, when done well, is the pure expression of human emotion and spirit through text. To do so effectively, one must have adequate training. The actor's voice, body, mind, and spirit are the tools of the trade and in this course, we will work to hone each one. This course provides a safe environment for the actor to explore and play in the pursuit of bringing texts to life.

Drama

The Archive in Art — VA4216.02

Spring 2019

Instructor: Liz Deschenes

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Credits: 2

This seven-week course is an introduction to the archive and how it has been central to artistic production of the 20th and 21st centuries. We will read Walter Benjamin’s Archive, Archive Fever: Uses of The Document in Contemporary Art, and conclude with The Big Archive. There will be lectures on how the archive exists in specific artists works. Students will be given short

Visual Arts

The Art of Stage Design — DRA2250.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Michael Giannitti

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Credits: 4

A scenic design communicates lots of information to an audience, and provides the physical world in which a performance takes place. In his book The Dramatic Imagination, the great set designer Robert Edmond Jones wrote: “…we may fairly speak of the art of stage designing as poetic, in that it seeks to give expression to the essential quality of a play rather than to its

Drama

The Green New Deal — POP2264.02

Spring 2019

Instructor: John Hultgren, Tim Schroeder Kerry Woods

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Credits: 1

In recent weeks, calls for a Green New Deal have stoked enthusiasm from the Left, criticism from the Right, and confusion for many unfamiliar with the term. This Environmental Studies Pop-Up will introduce students to the Green New Deal, using insights from social and natural science to examine the history and evolution of the concept. We will also engage with the Fourth

The History of Medicine: From Hippocrates to Harvey — HIS2312.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Carol Pal

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Credits: 4

How did premodern culture understand the human body? How did it work? Where did it fit in the Great Chain of Being, and what differentiated men from women? Medicine has always been a hybrid of thinking, seeing, knowing, and doing. But what defined medicine in the past? Was it a science, an art, or a random assortment of practices? Between the age of Hippocrates and the age of

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The Journey II: The World Between the Great Wars — HIS2208.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Eileen Scully

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Credits: 4

Students in this course are a select group of people who sign on to travel the world in the inter-war era (1919-1939). Robust participation is required of all, and students must master information about each place we visit in order to move on to the next destination. The journey starts out in Paris, as preparations are underway for the conference that will produce the Treaty of

Society Culture and Thought

The Literature of Matriarchy — LIT2346.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Elisa Albert

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Credits: 4

As 21st century feminism awakens to human rights issues within childbearing and child-rearing, Mary Wollstonecraft’s early feminist writing can serve as an illuminating jumping-off point. From the dawn of the 19th century to the middle of the 20th, this seminar will help guide us toward an understanding of the essential historical movement toward a politically, spiritually, and

Literature

The Personal Learning Plan and After-School Workshop: Vermont Act 77 Educational Reform — APA2169.02

Spring 2019

Instructor: Susan Sgorbati

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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 the 51�� Plan Process. This Module will introduce Bennington

CAPA

The Politics of Bodies in Motion — DAN2128.02

Spring 2019

Instructor: Nicole Daunic

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Credits: 2

Scholars within dance studies, such as Randy Martin, André Lepecki, and Susan Manning, have proposed that dance serves as a unique practical and theoretical site through which to think, observe, and sense the political--what philosopher Jacques Rancière defines as dissensual modes of intervention in the seeable and the sayable, or the insertion of one world in another. Through

Dance

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

Spring 2019

Instructor: Susan Sgorbati

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Credits: 2

The Sababa Project is a 51�� course taught on the campus of Mount Anthony Union High School. In a collaborative effort between 51�� 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

CAPA

The Scriptorium: Borders and Boundaries — WRI2152.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Camille Guthrie

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Credits: 4

This scriptorium, a “place for writing,” functions as a class for writers interested in improving their essay-writing skills. We will read to write and write to read. Much of our time will be occupied with writing and revising—essai means “trial” or “attempt”—as we work to create new habits and strategies for our analytical writing. As we practice various essay structures with

Writing

The Scriptorium: The Body and Society — WRI2153.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Camille Guthrie

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Credits: 4

Writing

The Theory and Practice of Hardware Hacking — CS4121.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Andrew Cencini Hugh Crowl

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Credits: 4

This class will focus on the fundamentals of electronics and how we can use our understanding of electronics to build internet-connected systems that measure and/or interact with the environment around us. Students will learn the fundamentals of electronics and circuits and hardware/software programming, and then apply that knowledge to group and individual projects, such as

Science and Mathematics