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Spring 2021

3D Modeling for Painting, Drawing, and Printmaking — DA2379.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Farhad Mirza

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Credits: 4

This course is about folding digital fabrication into an ongoing art-making practice. We will learn how to use basic 3D fabrication equipment to assist our work in the studio, and as a means to realize our ideas. Basic techniques involving 3D Modeling, laser-cutting, CNC milling, and 3D printing will be covered. The first half of the course will comprise of a series of

Visual Arts

A Community Health Approach to Social Emergencies, American Racism, and Firearm Injury Prevention — APA2325.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Susan Sgorbati

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Credits: 2

This course introduces students to the confluence of factors related to firearm injury - a leading cause of premature death in the United States. Sessions will explore multi-level health strategies that may be developed to prevent and treat firearm injury in American society. Students will gain exposure and experience in program design by creating, operationalizing, and

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Action Research Lab for Food Sovereignty — APA4239.01

Spring 2021

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 affinity groups, each working on different food sovereignty related

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Actors Instrument — DRA2139.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Kirk Jackson

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Credits: 4

An actor honors and bears witness to humanity by embodying and giving voice to the human element in the landscape of theatrical collaboration. Investigating the impulses and intuitions that make us unique as individuals can also identify that which constitutes our shared humanity. Through exploration of the fundamentals of performance, students address the actor’s body, voice,

Drama

Advanced Chamber Music — MPF4230.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Nat Parke

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Credits: 2

An intensive, performance oriented exploration of chamber music literature.

Music

Advanced Jazz Piano — MIN4240.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Bruce Williamson

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Credits: 2

Weekly private instruction (online) in jazz piano to be arranged with instructor. Explore and develop skills and knowledge required to effectively play non-classical piano repertoire. Styles covered: blues, reggae, salsa, bossa-nova and jazz. Create bass lines, chord voicings, stylistic rhythms, melodies and improvised solos.

Music

Advanced Linear Algebra — MAT4175.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Andrew McIntyre

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Credits: 4

This is a second course on linear algebra. The primary focus will be on matrix decompositions (especially spectral, singular value, and QR decompositions), related concepts (e.g. Moore-Penrose psuedoinverse), and their applications. Applications will include least squares, principal component analysis, google search, data compression, and discrete and fast fourier transforms.

Science and Mathematics

Advanced Mixing Techniques — MSR4365.01

Spring 2021

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 Modular Soft Synths — MCO4203.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Sergei Tcherepnin

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Credits: 2

This electronic music composition class will focus on advanced patch design in VCV Rack, Aalto and Reaktor. In order to be qualified for this class, students must have knowledge of how to build a patch in VCV Rack. The semester will be framed by four composition assignments which will be presented to the class in weekly critiques. Particular emphasis will be placed on the

Music

Advanced Piano — MIN4336.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Christopher Lewis

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Credits: 2

Individual private lessons for advanced students, with focus on the classical repertoire. Students are accepted by audition. Students will meet with the instructor weekly on scheduled class days, at times to be arranged with the instructor. Two excused absences permitted, with every effort made for make-up lessons. Participation in Tuesday evening music workshop and performance

Music

Advanced Piano - Intensive — MIN4418.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Christopher Lewis

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Credits: 4

Individual private lessons for advanced students, with focus on the classical repertoire. Students are accepted by audition. Students will meet with the instructor twice weekly on scheduled class days, at times to be arranged with the instructor. A minimum practice time of 1-2 hours per day is expected. Two excused absences permitted, with every effort made for make-up lessons.

Music

Advanced Projects in Film and Video — FV4304.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Jen Liu

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Credits: 4

Students will work towards completing one piece or body or work of their own devising during the course of the semester. In general, this course is intended for seventh- and eighth-term students with a Plan concentration in Film/Video who have already taken Advanced Projects in the prior fall, but exceptions may be made by permission of the instructor. Students will

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Advanced Screenwriting — LIT4533.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Manuel Gonzales

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Credits: 2

Focused on feature film screenplays and designed for students with prior experience writing a screenplay, the Advanced Screenwriting course will look deeper into how scene composition and story structure are used to create vivid and compelling narratives for a feature length film, and the further development of well-rendered characters and other tools to improve a writer's

Literature

Advanced Voice — MVO4401.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Kerry Ryer-Parke

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Credits: 2

Advanced study of vocal technique and the interpretation of 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 — MVO4401.02

Spring 2021

Instructor: Tom 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 Workshop for Painting and Drawing: The Contemporary Idiom — PAI4216.01

Spring 2021

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

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Advanced/Senior Projects in Dance — DAN4712.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Elena Demyanenko

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Credits: 2

For students with prior experience in dance composition who wish to be involved in making new work for performance or senior work. Taking into account specific circumstances related to the pandemic, we will consider an expanded notion of how work can be shared with the public. Attention will be given to all of the elements involved in composition and production,

Dance

Algorithms and Data Structures — CS4378.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Jim Mahoney

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Credits: 4

A survey of the most common patterns of storing digital information and the recipes to search, process, and access that information. Topics include data structures such as arrays, linked lists, stacks, queues, hash tables, and trees and algorithms such as brute force, divide and conquer, and recursion. Students will learn to compare the efficiency of

Science and Mathematics

American Food 2021 — APA2343.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Susan Sgorbati

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Credits: 4

In this class we will examine the way food is used as social tool to produce power, exploitation, and waste. We will review the use of food in political movements such as the Catholic Worker House and Black Panthers Free Food Program, as well as hunger strikes as an individual tool of political freedom and not eating animals as a form of political resistance. We will also

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American Theater NEXT — DRA4422.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Jenny Rohn

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Credits: 4

American theaters and theater-makers are at an extraordinary crossroads - struggling to respond to the pandemic which has shut their doors, and to the 29-page list of demands written after George Floyd's murder entitled We See You White American Theater. Broadway theaters aren't planning on opening until the summer of 2021, and theater companies across the country are seeking

Drama

An Actors Technique: Nuts and Bolts — DRA4127.01

Spring 2021

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 technique class is designed to help individual actors discover their own organic, thorough rehearsal process. Step by step we will clarify the actor’s process: character research, character exploration, text

Drama

An Environmental History of Food and Farming — ENV2204.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Kerry Woods

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Credits: 4

Modern Homo sapiens have been around for about 200,000 years and for about 95% of that time, our ancestors lived as hunter-gatherers. Around 10,000 years ago, several distinct sets of our ancestors came up with agricultural technology (active ecosystem management for enhanced food production), and immediately began changing their world irreversibly. Long‐term feedbacks

Science and Mathematics Environment

Animation Projects — MA4202.01

Spring 2021

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

Applied/Engineering Physics — PHY4217.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Tim Schroeder

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Credits: 4

This course applies the concepts of mechanical physics to practical engineering and environmental problems. Any structure, be it a building, a nuclear reactor, a dam, an embankment, or a natural hillside, must be able to withstand the stresses that are placed on it by its environment without failing in order to ensure people's safety. You will learn how forces cause stress

Science and Mathematics

Art Deco Style — DRA4320.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Charles Schoonmaker

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Credits: 4

This advanced design class focuses primarily on costume design while also exploring elements of scenery, architecture, and the decorative arts. The class is project-based and involves designing for both scripted and unscripted forms (such as plays and dance) within the context of the Art Deco style. Students should possess an interest in period clothing and fashion, strong

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