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"Beastly and Beautiful": Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita — LIT2520.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Jenny Boully
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Credits: 4
(Important Notice: This course focuses on the novel Lolita, which can be disturbing to some readers. Our class discussions will not be able to circumvent the narrative of an older man exploiting a child. Please be aware of this difficult material before registering for the course.) In Vladimir Nabokov鈥檚 Lolita (1955), Humbert Humbert writes, 鈥淚 am trying to describe these
Literature

100 Drawings — ARC4118.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Donald Sherefkin
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Credits: 4
Using a fixed format of a 9鈥 x 9鈥 sheet, we will do a drawing each day of the term in a process which will parallel Georges Perec鈥檚 Life: A User鈥檚 Manual. Each drawing will have a set of constraints from which the student must extrapolate an image. A narrative will gradually be built through the accumulation of evidence. A variety of media, techniques and strategies will be
Visual Arts

24 Hours, 4 Seasons, 77.8 Years — ARC4404.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Donald Sherefkin
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Credits: 4
This studio course will develop plans for three distinct dwellings. Each project will focus on a specific time scale. The individual designs may choose to use the time constraints as the determinant of the life span of the structure, or simply as an ordering device.
Visual Arts

About Time — MCO4109.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
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Credits: 4
In this course, students will work on a extended piece (9+ minutes), as well as a suite of miniatures ( 30 seconds). By playing with scale and continuity, students will be challenged to find their own way to extend their ideas while enriching their own musical language. Students can propose a piece in any style or forces, and we will work together to recruit instrumentalists or
Music

Acoustic/Electronic — MCO4128.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Allen Shawn Senem Pirler
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Credits: 2
In this course students will compose a substantial work for either solo, duo, or trio configurations, integrating acoustic and electronic elements together to create an electroacoustic piece.  This class will be co-taught by Allen Shawn and Senem Pirler. Students will learn and analyze electroacoustic pieces in the history of composition, and how to integrate electronics
Music

Actor's Instrument — DRA2139.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Dina Janis
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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鈥檚 body, voice,
Drama

Adult Psychopathology — PSY2379.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 4
Currently, 1 in 5 adults in the United States experience a mental health disorder. This course will explore the types and causes of adult psychopathology, as well as the assessment, treatment, developmental course, and related research in psychotherapy for adult disorders. The professional, ethical, and cultural issues related to psychopathology and its treatment will
Society Culture and Thought

Advanced Ceramics Projects - Self Clay — CER4315.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Aysha Peltz
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Credits: 4
Sculpture is realized through an exchange between the medium and the self. The class will begin with the question: What is Sculpture? Projects will push forward conceptual topics specific to sculpture including form and presence, the body, light and illusion upon form, the transformation of materials through techniques and the generation of ideas through drawing, writing
Visual Arts

Advanced Improvisation: The Game of the Scene — DRA4380.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Shawtane Bowen
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Credits: 4
Advanced Improvisation is an in-depth study of improvised comedy scene work. The central theme of this course is finding and playing "Game." In order to find a Game in a long form improvised scene, you typically need to be able to answer three questions: What is the situation? What is the first unusual thing? If this is true, then what else is true. We'll be
Drama

Advanced Mixing Techniques — MSR4365.01

Spring 2022
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 Piano — MIN4336.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Christopher Lewis
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Credits: 2
Individual private lessons for advanced students, with focus on the classical repertoire. Students will meet with the instructor weekly on scheduled class days, at times to be arranged with the instructor. A minimum of 30 minutes practice per day is expected. Two excused absences permitted, with every effort made for make-up lessons. Participation in Tuesday evening music
Music

Advanced Piano - Intensive — MIN4418.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Christopher Lewis
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Credits: 4
Individual private lessons for advanced students, with focus on the classical repertoire. Students will meet with the instructor twice per week on scheduled class days, at times to be arranged with the instructor. A minimum of one hour practice per day is expected. Two excused absences permitted, with every effort made for make-up lessons. Participation in Tuesday evening music
Music

Advanced Projects in Film and Video — FV4304.01

Spring 2022
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
Visual Arts

Advanced Projects in Sound Practices — MSR4155.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Senem Pirler
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Credits: 2
In this course, students will work towards completing either one piece or the body of their work in sound practices. These projects can vary, including but are not limited to: sound compositions, music productions (mixes, recordings, and arrangement), e-music pieces, sound design for moving images or theater or video games VR, online performance ideas and setups, and radio and
Music

Advanced Screenwriting — LIT4533.01

Spring 2022
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鈥檚
Literature

Advanced Voice — MVO4401.01

Spring 2022
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 Workshop for Painting and Drawing — PAI4404.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Ann Pibal
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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. There will be an emphasis on the
Visual Arts

Advanced/Senior Projects in Dance — DAN4712.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Levi Gonzalez
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Credits: 2
For students with prior experience in dance making who wish to create new work for performance or senior work. We will share our work regularly, explore different feedback modalities, and reflect on our own individual artistic approaches and concerns. Attention will be given to the elements involved in composition, production, collaboration and presentation. Students are
Dance

Algorithms and Data Structures — CS4378.01

Spring 2022
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 these recipes and storage
Science and Mathematics

All About Love: Advanced - Endurance Movement Practice — DAN4238.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
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Credits: 4
鈥淭he search for love continues even in the face of great odds.鈥 What is love? When we talk about love are we perceived as weak and irrational? We are living in the times where learning to love gets shadowed by a culture of narcissism.  In this class we will analyze bell hooks鈥檚 鈥渁ll about love鈥, then embody written material through rigorous movement practice, breath work
Dance

American Food 2022 — APA4308.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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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 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 review the way contemporary
CAPA

Animated_Assemblage — MA2139.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Sue Rees
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Credits: 2
The class will include a mixture of creating assemblages in a variety of means and materials. Objects will be cut out with scissors or the laser cutter, animated with pins or digital pins in software (After Effects), layers will be used to create depth in three dimensions, a multi-plane or using the Z axis. Movement will be animated using software or an animation track and
Visual Arts

Animation Projects — MA4202.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Sue Rees
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Credits: 4
The course will be for sustained work on an animation or design project, and should be a space for both experimentation, ambition and a consistent endeavor. Students will be expected to create a complete animation, a series of experiments or interactive project. The expectation is that students will be fully engaged in all aspects of the class from critiques, to experimenting
Visual Arts

Approaches to Afghanistan — SCT2144.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 4
Too much of how the international media portrays Afghanistan is based on stereotypes and cliches that ignores some of the deep, rich scholarship of the country over recent years. What are the different ways that scholars attempt to make sense of Afghanistan? What can we learn from studying these approaches? What does it teach us about Afghanistan and the world more broadly?
Society Culture and Thought