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Spring 2024

Directed Projects in Photography — PHO4248.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: Terry Boddie

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Credits: 4

Students in this advanced level course will engage in research through both texts and images. Reflective writing and constructive peer critiques will expand their critical thinking and expand their photographic practice. Individual feedback by the instructor will be geared towards the progressive development of the student’s semester long project. By the end of the semester,

Visual Arts

Directing I: The Director's Vision — DRA4332.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: Jean Randich

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Credits: 4

What is action? What is character? What is an “event”? What are gestures, timing, rhythm and stakes? How do actors, playwrights, and directors collaborate to create an experience/event in space and time? How do illusion and anti-illusion collude and compete to make the representation “real?” This workshop/seminar offers theater artists the chance to examine their craft from the

Drama

Doll House, Diorama – Created Worlds — MA4207.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: Sue Rees

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Credits: 4

For centuries, miniature models have been used as representations of larger things or as standalone objects of wonder. Working at ‘dollhouse scale’ (1:12 or 1:24) students in this course will create dollhouses or dioramas and turn them into sites, surfaces and containers for animated and projected worlds. Students will use a variety of digital modeling and animation software

Visual Arts Drama

Double Exposure: Acting for Singers, Singing for Actors — DRA4385.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: Kerry Ryer-Parke

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Credits: 4

Actors and singers study remarkably similar skills: efficient use of the body and breath, research and development of character and context, staying present and emotionally connected. But even the most seasoned performer feels doubly exposed when asked to sing and act at the same time. In this class, using repertoire as varied as incidental music for Shakespeare, musical

Drama Music

Drawing As A Verb: Exploring Uncertainty — DRW2120.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: J Blackwell

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Credits: 4

Conceptual artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach. Rational judgements repeat rational judgements. Irrational judgements lead to new experience. Formal art is essentially rational. Irrational thoughts should be followed absolutely and logically. -Sol LeWitt, “Sentences on Conceptual Art” 1969 Shying away from

Visual Arts

Drumming: An Extension of Language — MIN2120.01, section 1

Spring 2024

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 learn and play traditional folkloric rhythms and melodies. Additional conversations reveal history, culture, language, and

Music

Drumming: An Extension of Language — MIN2120.02, section 2

Spring 2024

Instructor: Michael Wimberly

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Credits: 2

Music

Écocritique : Écologie et Littérature — FRE4609.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 4

What can literature do for the ecological crisis? What does ecological thought do to literature? This course introduces students to ecocriticism: the study of literature through an environmental lens. We will delve into critical themes of environmental thought such as the Anthropocene, decolonialism, and the divisions of life (human/animal/natural/the Other). Materials studied

Cultural Studies and Languages

Embodied Love: An exploration in psychology and movement — DAN4422.02

Spring 2024

Instructor: Elena Demyanenko Özge Savaş

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Credits: 2

Join us in experimentation, research, data analysis, self-reflexivity, and play! This is a laboratory for participants of any discipline who are interested in exploring the fluidity of mind, body, consciousness, and action. A dreamlike space where you will learn to think, feel, and practice radical self-love despite uncertainty. “The search for love continues even in the face

Dance Society Culture and Thought

Encountering the Abenaki Nation — ANT2212.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: Miroslava Prazak

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Credits: 2

51�� is located on the ancestral lands of the Abenaki, the People of the Dawnland. How do we come to know about their lives, their culture, society and their history? This course offers an exploration of sources and knowledge, of discovery and of ways of seeing. Using films, stories, archaeological evidence and scholarly texts we will begin to explore and

Society Culture and Thought

Endeavor Environmental Action Post-Fellowship Class — APA4161.01) (new day/time as of 12/6/2023

Spring 2024

Instructor: Judith Enck

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Credits: 1

This class is only open to students who completed the Endeavor Environmental Action Fellowship during January and February 2024. It builds on the class taught in the Fall 2023 semester and the fellowship experience during field work term, with a cohort of students enrolled in the fellowship.

CAPA

Enhancing Cultural Understanding and Embracing Cultural Differences Through Japanese Children’s Books — JPN4218.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida

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Credits: 5

In this second-term Japanese course, students will examine Japanese cultural values and create digital books which will teach Japanese children how to embrace cultural differences. Students will read Japanese children’s books and watch children’s TV shows to explore and analyze how social and cultural values are represented and taught. Based on their analyses and understanding

Cultural Studies and Languages

Environmental Hydrology — ES4105.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: Tim Schroeder

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Credits: 4

Fresh water is perhaps the world’s most critical resource. Giant engineering projects are built to control water distribution, wars and legal battles are fought over who controls water, and the problems will only get worse as populations grow. This course is a broad survey of hydrology, the study of the distribution, movement, and quality of water. Students will be

Science and Mathematics Environment

Experiential Anatomy/Somatic Practices — DAN2149.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: Elena Demyanenko

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Credits: 4

This is a studio class for any discipline intended to deepen the understanding of your own moving body. We will be studying kinesthetic anatomy by approaching the material through visual, cognitive, kinesthetic, and sensory modes. Class time will be divided between discussion of anatomy and kinesthetic concepts, and engagement with the material experientially through movement

Dance

Experimental Fiction by Women — LIT4394.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 2

Women writers are notoriously overlooked by the canon, often falling into obscurity in favor of male writers’ contributions, or only recognized under the “woman writer” category. In this 2-credit class, we will trace the lineage of women’s literary invention, including their contributions to stream of consciousness writing, the Nouveau Roman, Oulipo, and contemporary

Literature

Experimental Narrative in Moving Image — VA4323.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: Beatriz Santiago Muñoz

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Credits: 4

Self-reflexive narratives, improvisation, non-linearity, slow cinema, alternative representations of time and space, experimental film grammars, poetic scripts, collective direction, Brechtian techniques. All of these processes and more will be explored in this hands-on production based course. Working collaboratively and on your peers’ work in various roles is required

Visual Arts

Exploring Contemporary Society through Films and Media — CHI4607.01) (course title change as of 10/9/2023

Spring 2024

Instructor: Ginger Lin

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Credits: 4

While movies such as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon have helped Chinese cinema broaden its appeal and consolidate its position as a significant force in international cinema, such historical fantasies may not do much to help us understand modern Chinese/Taiwanese society and culture. Fortunately, there is much more to contemporary Chinese/Taiwanese cinema, and many fine Chinese

Cultural Studies and Languages

Exploring Taiwanese Culture Through Mahjong: Rules and Strategies — CSL2004.01) (course title change as of 10/9/2023

Spring 2024

Instructor: Ginger Lin

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Credits: 1

Mahjong (pinyin: majiang) is a very fun game that originated in China and it is common to see groups of Chinese people playing Mahjong in parks, tea shops, bars, or just by the side of the street. Mahjong utilizes white tiles with Chinese characters and symbols. It is similar to the western card game of Rummy and is a game of strategy, calculation, and chance. It is a game of

Cultural Studies and Languages

Extragalactic Astronomy and Cosmology — PHY4103.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: Hugh Crowl

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Credits: 4

Galaxies are massive collections of stars, gas, dust, and dark matter. They are both the birthplace of stars and planets and the signposts of the universe. By studying what happens inside galaxies, we are able to understand the conditions under which stars form. By studying the galaxies themselves, we can understand how the environment shapes their structure and makeup. By

Science and Mathematics

Faculty Performance Production: Sweat by Lynn Nottage — DRA4383.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: Shawtane Bowen

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Credits: 4

Filled with warm humor and tremendous heart, Sweat tells the story of a group of friends who have spent their lives sharing drinks, secrets, and laughs while working together on the factory floor. But the post Y2K economy is changing, NAFTA is a new reality and rumors fly about layoffs. Promotions and pride inevitably collide, forming cracks in decades-old friendships that

Black Studies Drama

Feminist Freedom — PHI2254.01) (day/time updated as of 10/6/2023

Spring 2024

Instructor: Catherine McKeen

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Credits: 4

Feminism imagines a world free of gender-based oppression and injustice. But what exactly does such freedom involve? In this course, we’ll investigate the interplay between gender, feminist theory, and philosophical views about freedom. Some prompting questions include: Is individual freedom enough? Does feminist freedom include freedom from gender? Is affirmative consent

Society Culture and Thought

Fiddle — MIN4327.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: John Kirk

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Credits: 2

For the experienced (2+years of playing) violinist. Lessons in traditional styles of fiddling - Quebecois, New England, Southern Appalachian, Scandinavian, Cajun, Irish, and Scottish. This tutorial 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) and to give practical music

Music

Field Methods — LIN4112.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 4

This course is designed to equip students with the basic methodologies necessary to carry out linguistic fieldwork on un(der)documented languages. Students will be trained in the skills and tools of language documentation and description by working with a speaker of a language previously unknown to them. Students will learn techniques of data collection, elicitation, management

Society Culture and Thought

Field Tuning: art, agriculture and attuning to the land — APA2023.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 4

Exploring land based practice through the senses. This course will focus on connecting students with the local landscape and engage with the Robert Frost House terrain. Using experimental methods to heighten our senses for deep observation of the seen and unseen rhythms around us, we can generate curiosities from the poetic to ecological shifts in the landscape. Looking at land

CAPA

Finding Form: Dance — DAN4319.01

Spring 2024

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 do we

Dance