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100 Experiments — PHO4131.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Jonathan Kline
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Credits: 4
This course is a hands-on exploration of the many photographic materials spanning the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. Over the term, students will study ten specific processes and be asked to create ten 8x10 inch experiments utilizing each one. Processes include camera lucida drawings, pinhole images, cyanotypes, analog color negatives, Polaroid images, scanograms, digital
Visual Arts

A Dual Narrative Approach to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict — APA2246.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Michael Cohen
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Credits: 2
Sari Nusseibeh, a Palestinian philosopher and past President of Al-Quds University, and Yossi Klein Halevi, an Israeli journalist, have each authored books from their perspectives, analysis, and insights into the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Nusseibeh鈥檚 book is called, 鈥淥nce Upon a Country: A Palestinian Life,鈥 while Halevi鈥檚 book is called, 鈥淟etters to My Palestinian Neighbor
CAPA

A Material World — SCU2113.01

Spring 2020
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

A Voice from a Wound: Trauma and Memory in Hispanophone Literature — SPA4802.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Sarah Harris
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Credits: 4
This advanced Spanish course is a study of the paradox of trauma literature. Stories that compel their telling, yet are unassimilated and unspeakable, trauma narratives grow out of disaster and crisis on an individual and/or collective scale. To better understand Anne Whitehead鈥檚 assertion that 鈥淣ovelists have frequently found that the impact of trauma can only adequately be
Cultural Studies and Languages

Abstract Algebra — MAT4144.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Carly Briggs
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Credits: 4
This course will be organized around two main themes. One will be the analysis of symmetries, in particular the symmetries of tiling patterns and crystals. The other will be classical polynomial algebra, in particular the analysis of the extent to which polynomial equations may be solved explicitly (and what that means). The relevant mathematical topics are what are known as
Science and Mathematics

Action Research Lab for Food Sovereignty — APA4239.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Tatiana Abatemarco
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Credits: 4
Action research is a methodology for learning while doing and food sovereignty is the practice of self-determination in food systems. Food sovereignty projects solve food insecurity by empowering communities and individuals to produce their own culturally appropriate food and medicine. The class will split into 4 groups, each working on a different food sovereignty related
CAPA Environment

Advanced Butoh Practice-Body as Landscape — DAN4139.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Dana Reitz
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Credits: 2
This course is designed for students with prior experience in dance technique or movement practice. By using a series of somatic, improvisational and compositional practices inspired by butoh, we will develop ways of embodying unorthodox and complex ideas dealing with the ever-becoming, inconsumable, and vaporizing body. Students will be encouraged to closely observe and keep
Dance

Advanced Ceramics Projects - Self Clay — CER4315.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Anina Major
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Credits: 4
Sculpture and vessels are realized through an exchange between the medium and the self. The class will begin with the question: What is Sculpture? What is a Vessel? Projects will push forward conceptual topics specific to sculpture and vessels including form and presence, the body, light and illusion upon form, the transformation of materials through techniques and the
Visual Arts

Advanced Digital Modeling and Animation — MA2107.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Sue Rees
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Credits: 2
This course introduces students to the basic language of 3D animation and modeling. Students will be expected to become familiar with the basic principles of the MAYA program. A series of modeled objects placed in locations will be created. The emphasis will be on becoming proficient with modeling forms, texturing using Arnold Renderer, adding lights and cameras.
Visual Arts

Advanced Jazz Piano — MIN4240.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Bruce Williamson
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Credits: 2
Weekly private instruction in jazz piano offered to experienced pianists interested in developing the knowledge and skills necessary to play various non-classical styles. Areas covered: chord-voicings, chord-scales, reharmonization of chord progressions and stylistic approaches to improvisation (both melodically and rhythmically).
Music

Advanced Mixing Techniques — MSR4365.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Senem Pirler
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Credits: 2
This course will offer an advanced study in studio practices. We will explore various mixing objectives and techniques through critical listening sessions, analysis, and hands-on projects. We will focus on the fundamentals as well as advanced practices of mixing, shaping the sounds through dynamic range processors and modulation tools, and various other techniques. Students
Music

Advanced Projects in Dance — DAN4795.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
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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. Dance Workshop is
Dance

Advanced Projects in Video II — FV4242.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Jen Liu
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Credits: 4
Students will work towards completing one significant/thesis work or body of work of their own devising during the course of the semester. Emphasis will be on depth of content, refining aesthetic, conceptual, and technical approach, and in-depth peer critiques of works in progress.  This is the "second half" of Advanced Projects.  The first half (fall 2019)
Visual Arts

Advanced Voice — MVO4401.02, section 2

Spring 2020
Instructor: Thomas Bogdan
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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 school. A
Music

Advanced Voice — MVO4401.01, section 1

Spring 2020
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 school. A
Music

Advanced Workshop for Painting and Drawing — PAI4302.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: J Blackwell
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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 2020
Instructor: David Bond
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Credits: 4
This course is designed for seniors or second term juniors who are doing advanced work. Advanced work in CAPA is expected to build on proven strengths in other discipline areas with previous coursework relevant to their area of interest. This spring seminar provides a unique venue for students to better define and pursue the public implications of their education. Students are
CAPA

After-School Education Module — APA2238.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
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Credits: 1
This course will examine the readings of John Dewey and Paolo Friere as well as scholarly articles on After-School Education. Each student will develop a proposal for an After- School Education Workshop for Molly Stark Elementary School with the possibility of implementing this workshop in their After-School program later in the semester. (February 19, 26, March 4)
CAPA

An Actors Technique: Nuts and Bolts — DRA4127.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Dina Janis
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Credits: 4
How do actors bridge the gap between themselves and the role they are playing? How do actors rehearse with other actors in order to explore the world of the play? This non-performance based class is designed to help individual actors discover their own organic, thorough rehearsal process. Step by step we will clarify the actor鈥檚 process: character research, character
Drama

An Introduction to Dance Phrasemaking and Performing — DAN2136.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Dana Reitz
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Credits: 2
This is designed for those who are interested in making movement phrase material and 鈥渢aking it for a ride.鈥 We will be creating new phrases constantly and paying full attention to detail, nuance and finesse when performing them. We will be thoroughly investigating, modifying, rearranging, exploding, and ultimately reconsidering our understanding of the phrases made. By
Dance

Analyzing the Social Issues in Japan Through Online News — JPN4601.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
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Credits: 4
The course is designed for students to deepen their understanding of Japanese language and culture through analysis of Japanese online newspapers and examination of Japanese news articles from various contexts. Students will practice various reading strategies, which will help them become independent learners. Mass media is the reflection of a society and the mirror of a
Cultural Studies and Languages

Animal Social Behavior — BIO4307.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Betsy Sherman
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Credits: 4
E. O. Wilson has said that "the organism is simply DNA's way of making more DNA". Are the elaborate, bizarre, (at times flamboyant), energy requiring social systems of animals simply adaptations which permit those animals to reproduce? Why is there so much diversity among animal social systems? Why are most mammals polygynous and most birds monogamous? Can we make predictions
Science and Mathematics

Animation Projects — MA4202.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Sue Rees
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Credits: 4
The course will be for sustained work on an animation or design project. Students will be expected to create a complete animation, or project. The expectation is that students will be fully engaged in all aspects of the class from critiques, to experimenting with ideas, undertaking research and being present. Locations may be explored for showing of work including investigating
Visual Arts

Architecture 1 - Elements —

Spring 2020
Instructor: Donald Sherefkin
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Credits: 4
Introduction to the discipline of architectural exploration. This studio focuses on the formation of architectural concepts through spatial and formal investigations. The work of the studio will include observational drawing, speculative sketching, analytical diagramming and orthographic projection, combined with physical and digital modeling. Students will learn to work in