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Spring 2020

Drumming: An Extension of Language — MIN2120.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: Michael Wimberly

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Credits: 2

This course serves as an introduction to rhythms, chants, and musical practices from Africa, Brazil, Cuba, Haiti, and the African Diaspora. Using indigenous percussion instruments from these territories’ students will use their hands, mallets, and sticks to play traditional folkloric rhythms and melodies. Additional topics cover history, culture, language, and dance. This class

Music

Early-Modern French Libertine Literature — FRE2107.02

Spring 2020

Instructor: Stephen Shapiro

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Credits: 2

This course examines the movement of early‐modern freethinkers who championed individual autonomy and questioned the authority of religious, moral, social, and political thought. We will focus particular attention on questions of pleasure and morality, sexuality and power, authority and subversion. Writers studied will include Prévost (Manon Lescaut), Laclos (Liaisons

Cultural Studies and Languages

Eastern European Literature and Cinema: From the Cold War to the Present — LIT2171.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: Michael Dumanis

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Credits: 4

In this course, we will examine contemporary literature and cinema in the “other” Europe, exposing the intricacies of daily life in a region where the past is always present. The cinematic and literary texts will be drawn from the former Yugoslavia and the successor states of East Bloc nations in post-Communist Europe. We will consider the work of iconoclastic writers and film

Literature

Education and Politics: What the Presidential Candidates Are Advocating and What that Means for Our Future — Cancelled

Spring 2020

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Credits: 1

Each of the current candidates for the Office of President of the United States across the political spectrum has detailed positions on education: early childhood opportunities, public vs charter schools, free college and student debt loads, among other issues. This pop up course will look at the current candidates’ positions in the context of the broader policy debates

Electroacoustic Band Workshop — MPF4122.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: Senem Pirler

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Credits: 2

This course is an open forum for research and development of live performance methodologies through collaborations involving electronic, electroacoustic, and acoustic sources. In this workshop, we will explore text scores, improvisation techniques using both acoustic and electronic sources. The research and practice areas include but are not limited to electroacoustic and

Music

English Restoration and 18th Century Drama — LIT4240.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: Maya Cantu

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Credits: 4

This class will explore English drama of the Restoration and 18th century, with a focus on the structure and conventions of the comedy of manners. During the Restoration, the cavaliers of Charles II’s court promoted an ethos of sophisticated debauchery, fueled by the Hobbesian social currency of wit and power. Within this world of masks, mirrors, and modes, playwrights

Drama Literature

Entry to Mathematics — MAT2100.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: Carly Briggs

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Credits: 4

This is a basic course, covering most of high school mathematics, and will be accessible to all interested and willing students. It is appropriate for students who do not feel confident in their high school mathematics background. Students may proceed from this course to other 2000 level mathematics courses. Mathematics is inherent across all disciplines and undertakings. It is

Science and Mathematics

Ethnographic Playwriting — APA4120.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: Aaron Landsman, MFA Teaching Fellow

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Credits: 4

This course takes an ethnographic approach to making new theater works within community collaborations. This course is about engaging your most adventurous artist self in the context of delicate, politically loaded, dialogic processes. We will read, watch and discuss the work of subculture theorists, architects, theater-makers and other artists, all of whom use staged

CAPA Drama

Every Day Everyday Climate Change — APA2181.02

Spring 2020

Instructor: Marina Zurkow, MFA Teaching Fellow

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Credits: 2

Daily practices connect makers over a duration of time to concepts, issues, and forms we care about. These practices are constrained by a set of guiding principles or frameworks, and are iterative by design. Because of the consistency of work (every day), a daily practice can change us and open us up to new ideas, techniques, and feelings. Daily practice as a concept is used in

CAPA Visual Arts

Experimental Radioplay — MSR2139.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: Senem Pirler

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Credits: 2

In this course, we will explore the possibilities of radio and sonic narration through experimental sound practices. How can we portray political and social events through sonic practices without relying on verbal communication? What are the ways of creating speculative worlds through radio broadcasting? Along with readings and discussions, we will examine previous experimental

CAPA Music

Failure — CS4129.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: Andrew Cencini

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Credits: 4

Why do systems fail? How do we determine what went wrong? How do we learn from failure to build better systems and prevent similar problems from occurring in the future? In this course we will examine a variety of ways that software and hardware systems can fail, their causes, impacts and (where applicable) remediation. We will learn about tools and techniques that can be used

Science and Mathematics

Families: Love and Power in the Domestic Sphere — ANT2120.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: Miroslava Prazak

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Credits: 4

Interpersonal relations constitute the cement of society. What does it mean to be a sibling, a friend, a spouse or a lover? We will examine relatedness as a fundamental aspect of society and social organization by looking at some of the classic and most recent anthropological findings on the topic of family, kinship, friendship, networking, and community. We will analyze how

Society Culture and Thought

Fashion and Modernism — VA4129.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: J Blackwell

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Credits: 4

“Let There Be Fashion, Down With Art” –Max Ernst The rise of capitalism and the Industrial Revolution led to radical shifts in politics and art in the late 19th century. Fashion acts as a powerful analogue to and forecaster of Modernism. Artists such as Henri Matisse, Leon Bakst, Sonia Delaunay and Salvador Dali took note of fashion's nascent agency and created clothing as a

Visual Arts

Feminist Geographies of Dis/ability — SCT2133.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: Emily Mitchell-Eaton

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Credits: 4

In this course we will engage anti-racist feminist theory, crip theory, and human geography to think critically about dis/ability. We will draw on critical geographies of disability to think about the built environment and institutional design; geographic scales of the body and the body-mind; spaces of the home and institutions; and im/mobility and spatial access. We will also

Society Culture and Thought

Fiddle — MIN4327.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: John Kirk

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Credits: 2

For the experienced (3+years of playing) violinist. Lessons in traditional styles of fiddling – Quebecois, New England, Southern Appalachian, Cajun, Irish, and Scottish. This course is designed to heighten awareness of the variety of ways the violin is played regionally and socially in North America (and indeed around the world these days) and to give practical music skills for

Music

Field Course in Coral Reef Biology — BIO4239.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: Betsy Sherman

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Credits: 2

Coral reefs are among the most diverse, unique and beautiful of ecosystems on the planet. Alas, they are also quite vulnerable to various environmental assaults and most of the reefs on earth are in real jeopardy. In order to gain a more robust understanding of reefs, we will study reefs on site in the Caribbean. Students will learn the taxonomy, identification and

Science and Mathematics

Film Adaptations of French Literature — FRE4492.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly

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Credits: 4

Since the very beginnings of cinema, French literature and film have reciprocally inspired one another. From the Surrealists to the New French Extremity movement, many directors have brought French literary works onto the screen. This course will offer students the opportunity to analyze literature and their film adaptations in terms of intermediality and intertextuality.

Cultural Studies and Languages Visual Arts

Financing Social Value Oriented Enterprise — cancelled

Spring 2020

Instructor: Charles Crowell

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Credits: 2

The aim of this 7-week course is to provide students with the knowledge and skillsets necessary for acquiring financing for start-ups and existing entrepreneurial firms. Beginning with Title III of the JOBS Act (2012), the environment for financing organizations, including arts and culture and socially-responsible initiatives, was broadly liberalized. In the context of that new

CAPA

Finding Form: Dance — DAN4319.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: Dana Reitz

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Credits: 4

Looking at forms found in nature, architecture, music, drama, literature, etc., we search for examples to help formulate ideas and structures for movement-based creation. When making new artwork, we are constantly balancing and integrating the need for exploratory freedom and the desire for structural integrity. How do we use spontaneous impulse to help find form, and how

Dance

FLEABAG: A Workshop about Structure — DRA2224.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: Sherry Kramer

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Credits: 1

Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s transcendent ode to longing creates some of the most inescapable structural gravities in recent memory. Spend three Saturday afternoons talking about the precision and elegance of the way structure works in this remarkable piece of time bound art. We’re going to talk about direct address, structural reasons why season 2 is better than season 1,

Drama

Food and Politics: A Food Citizens Methodology Workshop — APA4160.02

Spring 2020

Instructor: Yoko Inoue

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Credits: 2

This class will put focus on investigating various approaches to food studies while examining academic institutions’ curriculums and non-institutional models developed by civic and creative practitioners. This intensive Methodology Workshop provides opportunities to explore food as a pedagogical tool to “do food justice” and to practice trans-disciplinary research methods,

CAPA

Form and Process: Investigations in Painting — PAI2107.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: Ann Pibal

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Credits: 4

This course introduces a variety of materials, techniques and approaches to painting with oils. Emphasis is placed on developing and understanding of color, form and space as well as individual research and conceptual concerns. The daily experience of seeing, along with the history of art, provides a base from which investigations are made. Formal, poetic, and social

Visual Arts

Fundamentals of Creative Writing — LIT2394.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: Stuart Nadler

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Credits: 4

This class will serve as a comprehensive introduction both to the craft of creative writing and also to the workshop method. Throughout the term, we will explore poetry, literary fiction, and creative non-fiction in order to build a working knowledge of the craft and to help students begin to find their way into their own narratives and poems. Every week class will feature

Literature

Future Studio — VA4207.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: Robert Ransick

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Credits: 4

Future Studio is a creative incubator for the development and articulation of new non-profit or for-profit enterprises which can be launched with powerful economic potential and socially responsible missions. The studio emphasizes creativity, innovation, place-centered economies, worker-centered ownership, environmental sustainability, social justice and financial viability.

CAPA Visual Arts

Geometry — MAT2106.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: Andrew McIntyre

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Credits: 4

In the nineteenth and twentieth (and twenty-first!) centuries, mathematicians have been stretching the idea of "geometry" far beyond the geometry of Euclid most people are familiar with: into the fourth (or higher) dimension, curved spaces, and more. This new geometry (the part I am referring to is called "differential geometry and topology") is philosophically and

Science and Mathematics