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Geographies of Food Part II: Decolonizing, and Re-indigenizing Research Intensive — APA4303.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Yoko Inoue
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Credits: 4
The course examines food in relationship to land and race in the context of the political history of colonialism. We will explore indigenous voices within the theoretical framework of food sovereignty issues and the industrialized global food system. This is a transdisciplinary research-based class that investigates less obvious factors relating to space/place, heritage,
CAPA

Ghosts and Demons in Japan — JPN4403.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 4
This course explores the supernatural world and its inhabitants as imagined in Japanese literature and visual culture from ancient times to the present day. Our survey will take in a wide variety of fantastic phenomena, including spirit possession and exorcism in Japanese literature, the 鈥渉ungry ghosts鈥 of medieval Buddhist folklore, interwar Gothic tales of the bizarre,
Cultural Studies and Languages

Graduate Assistantship in Public Action — APA5101.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 4
Graduate students in Public Action are integrated into the CAPA and related discipline areas as teaching assistants. In consultation with the faculty, MFA candidates develop an assistantship schedule of approximately 5 hours weekly.
CAPA

Graduate Research in Dance — DAN5305.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Dana Reitz
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Credits: 6
This course is designed to assist graduate students with the research and development of their new work. The weekly format is determined with the students. In class, they show works-in-progress, try out ideas with their colleagues, and discuss issues involved in their creative processes. Though the class meets only once a week, students are expected to spend considerable time
Dance

Graduate Research in Public Action — APA5102.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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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 2021
Instructor: Brian Michael Murphy
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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

Graduate Teaching Fellow Assistantship in Dance — DAN5304.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Dana Reitz
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Credits: 4
Graduate Teaching Fellows in Dance are integrated into the dance program as teaching assistants. In consultation with their academic advisors and the dance faculty, MFA candidates develop an assistantship schedule of approximately ten hours weekly; the courses they develop and teach are listed in the curriculum. Outside of listed class times, TBD, the Teaching Fellows will meet
Dance

Hand-drawn Animation — MA2217.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: John Crowe
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Credits: 2
Fundamentals of 2-D animation principles will be explored through drawing, from basic motion cycles to more imaginative movement and expression. Students will primarily work with wet/dry mediums on paper, with additional instruction in After Effects compositing workflow. Weekly exercises will explore a variety of animation techniques, from highly structured processes to
Visual Arts

Henrik Ibsen — LIT4531.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Maya Cantu
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Credits: 4
This remote and synchronous course will explore Henrik Ibsen鈥檚 influence and innovations as an architect of modern drama. The Norwegian playwright restlessly experimented with theatrical genre while relentlessly pursuing themes of personal freedom. From early works such as Brand to his final play When We Dead Awaken, Ibsen鈥檚 plays urge the individual鈥檚 imperative toward moral
Literature

How to Read a Translation — LIT2187.02

Spring 2021
Instructor: Marguerite Feitlowitz
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Credits: 2
What, exactly, is a literary translation? A faithful rendering of an original text? But then, what do we mean by 鈥渇aithful鈥? What do we mean by 鈥渙riginal鈥? Form, syntax, grammar, not to mention puns, wordplay, and allusion are all part of the action in reading, writing, and the interpretative art we call translation. Time, too, plays a role: languages are dynamic, even
Literature

How to Think Like a Data Scientist — CS4115.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Hugh Crowl
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Credits: 4
In this course, you will be introduced to the importance of gathering, cleaning, normalizing, visualizing and analyzing data to drive informed decision-making, no matter the field of study. You will learn to use a combination of tools and techniques, including spreadsheets, SQL, and Python to work on real-world datasets using a combination of procedural and basic machine
Science and Mathematics

Human Rights and Covid-19 — APA2344.03

Spring 2021
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 1
States are not responsible for COVID-19, but they are responsible for how they respond to it. The virus cannot be used as an excuse to roll back on fundamental human rights. Human rights are universal legal guarantees that protect individuals and groups against actions that interfere with fundamental freedoms and human dignity. Under international human 
CAPA

Ideas Arrangements Effects — APA2178.02

Spring 2021
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 2
How do we come to understand what we are doing when attempting to change or interfere with a messy complex social problem? How can we know if the thing we want to do to improve a social problem will work or backfire? There are many lessons from psychiatrists like RD Laing to cultural heroes like Herm猫s on this topic. Ideas Arrangements Effects will overview several lessons from
CAPA

Image Projection — MA2138.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Sue Rees
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Credits: 2
The class will be concerned with investigating the interaction of projected imagery (video, animation, still imagery) with a location, an object, a stage, a viewer. Investigation will center on how projections can be integrated into, and bring further information to a location, a set, a text. Various examples will be looked at and researched. Sites and texts will be used as a
Visual Arts

Imaginary Worlds — DRA2313.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Michael Giannitti
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Credits: 4
In this course we will consider playwrights who have created imaginary worlds as a means of escaping from, critiquing, or simply distorting the real world. In doing so, we will consider how imaginary worlds might open up new spaces and possibilities for our own world, as well as how they reflect a playwright鈥檚 unique vision and philosophy. We will consider the inherent
Drama Literature

Immortal Media — MS2106.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Brian Michael Murphy
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Credits: 2
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,
Society Culture and Thought

Improvisation Ensemble for Dancers and Musicians — MPF4357.02

Spring 2021
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
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Credits: 2
This course is for dancers and musicians interested in working on the performance of improvisation. For musicians specific attention is given to creating rhythms and sonorities which can then be manipulated and developed while interacting with dancers in the moment. Once a week dancers will have a class with musicians in collaboration on improvisational structures. Musicians
Music Dance

Improvisation Ensemble for Dancers and Musicians — DAN4357.02

Spring 2021
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
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Credits: 2
This course is for dancers and musicians to work on the performance of improvisation. This section is for advanced dancers who will focus on developing an original movement vocabulary, understand pattern recognition and learn a solo and ensemble practice in emergent forms. Once a week, the dancers will have a class with musicians and will collaborate on improvisational
Dance Music

Inequality in a Globalized World — ANT2457.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Miroslava Prazak
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Credits: 4
Globalization has transformed the way we live. The world is experiencing an unprecedented interaction of people, ideas, images, and things that continues to intensify. Communication technologies link people instantaneously across the globe. Economic activities challenge national boundaries. People are on the move within and between countries. The complexities of the global
Society Culture and Thought

Insider Perspectives on the Francophone World II — FRE4224.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: No毛lle Rouxel-Cubberly
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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
Cultural Studies and Languages

Intermediate Painting: From Practice to Discovery — PAI4405.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: J Blackwell
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Credits: 4
This course is intended for the student who is looking to build a robust studio practice. Experimenting with materials, techniques, and styles in painting will be encouraged in order to develop an artistic sensibility while instituting regular work habits. Assigned projects and independent work are intended to develop problem-solving as well as problem-finding skills. Group
Visual Arts

Intermediate Video: Reparative Aesthetics — FV4144.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Jen Liu
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Credits: 4
Intermediate Video: Reparative Aesthetics is a hybrid course building on the 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. Shorter assigned projects will have specific technical constraints. These technical aspects
Visual Arts

Intermediate Violin/Viola — MIN4232.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Kaori Washiyama
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Credits: 2
Basic techniques will include the reading music in treble and /or alto clef 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 to participate in simple ensemble performances by the end of term. Students are permitted 2 absences for appropriate reasons.
Music

Intermediate Voice — MVO4301.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Kerry Ryer-Parke
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Credits: 2
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