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Spring 2021

Senior Projects — MPF4226.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Senem Pirler

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Credits: 2

This course will serve as a workshop and forum for seniors who are planning to present their senior projects in Spring 2020. In this course, we will meet and discuss students' projects which may be produced through any creative practice including (but not limited to) performance, installation, musical show, etc. Students will be expected to complete most of their compositions

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Sewing Fundamentals — DRA2130.03

Spring 2021

Instructor: Richard MacPike

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Credits: 1

Students will learn the basics of sewing. Included will be various hand stitches used in garment construction and repair as well as learning how to use a sewing machine. Module dates: April 6, 13, 16, 20, 23 27

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Sewing Fundamentals — DRA2130.02

Spring 2021

Instructor: Richard MacPike

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Credits: 1

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Shakespeare: The Comedies — LIT2287.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Manuel Gonzales

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Credits: 4

The class will dive deep into reading and discussions of six Shakespeare comedies, The Tempest, Taming of the Shrew, Twelfth Night, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, and As You Like It, focusing on the structure, plot, character, and language, as well as influences and original source material for these plays. Why do Shakespeare's comedies endure, what can we

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Slit-scan Photography — PHO2112.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Dakota Pace

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Credits: 2

Slit-scan photography is a process that captures an image through consecutive slices of time to create a smooth gradient of time that moves across the image. This technique has most commonly been used to document photo finishes in racing due to the accuracy with which it can document time. While its common use is more utilitarian, this technique has great potential for artistic

Visual Arts

Solo Performance: Telling My Story — DRA4322.01

Spring 2021

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

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Song for Ireland and Celtic Connections — MHI2251.01

Spring 2021

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

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Spaceships — APA2341.02

Spring 2021

Instructor: Susan Sgorbati

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Credits: 2

Exploring the intersections of spatial and experience design. Explorers will get the opportunity to discover locations/spaces on campus [or off campus] that could be reimagined for new purpose and function. Spaceships is a 7 week journey where we all will immerse ourselves into rapid prototyping labs as individuals and groups to create “spaceships”. The culminating project will

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Spaceships — APA2341.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Susan Sgorbati

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Credits: 2

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Spatial Justice: Incorporating Social Theory into Artistic Practice — APA2183.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 2

Spatial Justice is concerned with how space produces and is a product of power. All social movements deal with some aspect of spatial injustice which makes it a useful way for movements to find possibilities for solidarity. There is also a growing constituency of artists—from socially engaged artists, to sculptors, scenographers, musicians, etc.—who are incorporating ideas from

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Special Projects in Spanish — SPA4703.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher

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Credits: 4

In lieu of more conventional advanced Spanish classes, paralleling a series of often disparate tutorials, with tutees working in relative isolation, the proposal is to allow students free reign over an idea for a final, term-long project, while concurrently offering them an educated, exoteric audience to assist in fleshing out their work. Faculty will provide key secondary and

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Stage Management Process — DRA2251.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Michael Giannitti

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Credits: 2

The centrality of the stage manager as collaborative artist and manager in the production process is explored by students in this class. Readings, discussions, and projects on topics including scheduling, play breakdowns, prompt book preparation, blocking notation, ground plan and theatre layout, and the running of rehearsals and performances are included. The relationship of

Drama

Starring the Translator! — LIT2406.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Marguerite Feitlowitz

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Credits: 2

The figure of the literary translator has a checkered history—ambassador and traitor, solitary bookworm and cultural heroine, detective and spy, poet par-excellence and self-effacing scribe. Rich, provocative, and rarified, the history and practice of literary translation have given rise to a host of literary works in multiple genres. The star? It’s the literary translator,

Literature

Statistics for Social Science — SOC4103.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Emily Waterman

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Credits: 4

In this course students will learn to use social science statistics to test their own research questions, while becoming more educated consumers of statistical analyses presented in research and news sources. Students will employ various inferential statistics techniques commonly used in social science, such as confidence intervals, t-tests, chi-square testing, correlation,

Society Culture and Thought

Sun Ra: Space is the Place — MPF2146.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Michael Wimberly

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Credits: 2

SUN RA…SPACE IS THE PLACE takes a look at the life of Herman Poole Blount, (May 22, 1914 - May 30, 1993) founder and creator of the Sun Ra Arkestra. Considered a prolific composer of jazz and a pioneer of electronic music, Herman Blount aka Le Sony’r Ra better known as Sun Ra, was quite controversial for his electronic music and unorthodox lifestyle. He claimed he was of the

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Taking the Car (that drives your Music) Apart — MCO4378.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Kitty Brazelton

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Credits: 2

My interest as a composer is in helping you to study yourself. Switching from the car analogy to one of fabric, tiny choices, tiny filaments of decision, are what accumulate to form your music. And the cognitive pattern of musical identity, your colors and plaids, emerge from those details. A portion of this study is what we call "theory". Some of it is what we call "style"—but

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The Art of Auditioning Virtually — DRA2310.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Jenny Rohn

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Credits: 4

Auditions are an opportunity to develop your artistic voice and your confidence in that voice. In this class, we will work to demystify the process of auditioning and understand how to prepare and present work under challenging circumstances. The current move to self-tape and virtual video formats presents unique challenges. This course will cover cold readings, monologues, and

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The Art of Listening — MHI2239.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Joseph Alpar

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Credits: 2

Composer Pauline Oliveros once said, "Listen to everything all the time and remind yourself when you are not listening." In this course, we will listen to a wide variety of music styles from all over the world and from different time periods. However, rather than organizing the course according to genre, each week we will focus on a particular theme—the natural world,

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The Art of Literary Criticism — LIT4586.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Ben Anastas

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Credits: 4

“We live in a golden age of criticism,” W.J.T. Mitchell famously declared in 1987, and by that he meant that the dominant literary forms of the late 20th Century—poetry, fiction, drama and film—had lost the supremacy they’d long held to the emergent high-minded fields of literary criticism and literary theory. The Critic and the Artist have always been at odds, though recent

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The Beautiful City: Plato’s Republic — PHI4402.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Catherine McKeen

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Credits: 4

In Plato’s masterwork, Republic, Socrates sets out to construct a political community that is maximally just. This is the kallipolis, the “beautiful city.” Central elements of this city are problematic. The kallipolis is decidedly undemocratic, artistic expression is strictly limited, and jobs are assigned, not freely chosen. On the other hand, the Republic radically reimagines

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The Bible as a Key to Environmental Thought — MED2120.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Michael Cohen

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Credits: 1

This survey course will analyze the environmental dimensions and lessons of the book of Genesis and other books of the Bible, and at times from other traditions as well. Through the use of mostly contemporary commentators the text of the Bible will also be read as an environmental text. The course will also examine the scores of references to nature and the environment with an

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The Curatorial: Multiple Variations — VA4208.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Anne Thompson

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Credits: 4

This class will curate an experimental exhibition of prints, photographs, artist books and other editions from 51�� collections. In taking the multiple—or reproducible object—as a starting point, we open up a field that connects Crossett Library with campus art holdings and allows for strategizing about expanded exhibition structures. After an initial survey of

Visual Arts

The F-Word: Confronting Fascism in the Wake of an Insurrection — POP2280.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 1

In the United States, recent months have witnessed an upsurge in right-wing organizing and violence, culminating in an insurrection at the United States Capitol that sought to overturn the legitimate results of a democratic election. This is not a uniquely American problem. Across much of the globe, political parties organized around hyper-nationalism have gained steam, in some

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The Hollow Form: Introduction to Ceramics — CER2221.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Barry Bartlett

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Credits: 4

This objective of this class is to help students learn a set of handbuilding techniques in the ceramic arts that have given rise to a vast history of ideas using the hollow form. Unlike traditional sculptural techniques used in wood, stone and metal, ceramic forms have depended on the interior space, the void, to define both symbolic meaning and formal structure.

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The Jewish Annotated Gospels — MED2121.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Michael Cohen

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Credits: 4

Jesus, Paul, Peter, James, Jesus' mother Mary and Mary Magdalene were all Jews even though they appear prominently in the Christian Bible, also known as the New Testament. Their lives were imbued with Jewish history, beliefs, and practices. Often those nuances and meanings are lost when those texts are read without that understanding. In this class we will read some of the

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