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Spring 2024

Music Composition Project — MCO4802.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: Allen Shawn

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Credits: 2

This is a course for music composition students. Each student produces a sizable piece for an assigned small ensemble such as a piano trio or string quartet. There are regular reading sessions of the pieces in progress, culminating in a class presentation and recording of the completed works. The class time is used in three ways: for analysis and study of works composed for our

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Musical Taste and Monetization – The Business Side of Music — MHI2244.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 2

Why do we like the music we like? How do we discover music? How do we monetize music? This course will explore the factors that influence our musical taste and how the industry monetizes our love of music. In the first half of the course, the class will examine the latest research on music, media, and science, bringing awareness to our freedom, or the lack of, in our everyday

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Nonlinear Dynamical Systems — MAT4127.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: Katie Montovan

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Credits: 4

Differential equations are a powerful and pervasive mathematical tool in the sciences and are fundamental in pure mathematics as well. Almost every system whose components interact continuously over time can be modeled by a differential equation, and differential equation models and analyses of these systems are common in the literature in many fields including physics, ecology

Science and Mathematics

Operating Systems — CS4124.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: Meltem Ballan

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Credits: 4

This course provides insight into the underlying relationship between the software and hardware. Core topics include processes, threads, resources, scheduling, concurrency, memory management, file systems, I/O, security, and distributed systems. The operating system provides an established, convenient, and efficient interface between user programs and the bare hardware of the

Science and Mathematics

Oral History for Social Change — APA4313.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: Alisa Del Tufo

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Credits: 2

In a world filled with algorithms and “big data”are the stories that express our experiences and values still important? How can we promote the use of narratives when our stories can be used in ways that are neither ethical nor supportive of our vision for change? This class will share ways that oral history and narrative can be used to promote equity and empathy that challenge

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Orders of Magnitude — MAT2251.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: Andrew McIntyre

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Credits: 1

We all have an intuitive sense of how large a number like 10 or 100 is. But is it possible to get some direct grasp on the world's population, the national debt, the distance to the nearest galaxies, or the time that has passed since the formation of the earth? Mathematicians and scientists do have good ways of understanding and estimating very large numbers, which we'll

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Ornithology (with Lab) — BIO2208.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: Blake Jones

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Credits: 4

Discover birds like you’ve never seen or heard them before. This class takes an integrative approach to ornithology, as we will explore avian species from the perspective of evolution, natural history, development, ecology, conservation, physiology, genetics, behavior, functional morphology, and even quantum mechanics. This course will explore topics essential to understanding

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Other People’s Worlds — ANT4129.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: Miroslava Prazak

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Credits: 4

In the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century a European based world-economy came into existence. Fueled by the philosophy of mercantilism, traders followed, and sometimes were, explorers seeking riches in the lands discovered in the search for trade routes. The resulting contact between cultures led to fundamental transformations of all the societies and cultures involved.

Society Culture and Thought Black Studies

Painters and Fashion — DRA2261.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 2

This is a fashion history class inspired by the exhibition “Fashioned by Sargent” at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. We will be examining the works of various artists and how they were inspired by and influenced the world of fashionable dress. Some of the questions we may explore include: How did the artist alter the original garment? How did the artist’s work influence the

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Papermaking With Plants — SCU2304.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: Lily Carone

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Credits: 4

Papermaking is an ancient, traditional craft with a history that reflects our fundamental humanity. It is a process that simultaneously relies on and reveals the nature of plants and place. Papermaking With Plants engages with the materiality of both paper and plants through observation, hands-on making, inquiry, research, and design. Through this exploration, we will acquire

Visual Arts

Peacebuilding — APA2212.03

Spring 2024

Instructor: David Bond

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Credits: 1

This Module will serve as an introduction to the work of Peacebuilding around the world, both in theory and practice. Introduction to key topics in peacebuilding, including: peacebuilding in a local community, obstacles for peace, identity, discrimination, methods of sustainable peacebuilding. Module dates: April 12, 16, 19, 23, 26, 30

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Peacebuilding 2 — APA4209.03

Spring 2024

Instructor: David Bond

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Credits: 1

This Module will be a chance for students to reflect on their identities, inner issues they are aware or not aware and the desire to be social change agents. Together we will explore key topics of non-violent communication, personal potentials for peacebuilding, community building skills and different methods to deal with our individual daily struggles to be more effective

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Philosophical Problems — PHI4239.01) (cancelled 2/14/2024

Spring 2024

Instructor: Paul Voice

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Credits: 2

This course invites students to research and write a paper on a philosophical topic of their own choosing. Students will be required to clearly state the philosophical problem they want to research, construct a detailed bibliography, and write a paper that explains the problem, engages with the philosophical literature, and advances an argument.

Society Culture and Thought

Philosophical Puzzles — PHI2105.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: Paul Voice

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Credits: 2

This class invites students to analyze and assess a number of philosophical puzzles, paradoxes, and thought experiments including experience machines, the trolley problem, zombies, and the original position. You will read and discuss the original source and some of the critical literature.

Society Culture and Thought

Philosophical Zombies and Super-Intelligent Robots — PHI2106.01) (day/time updated as of 10/6/2023

Spring 2024

Instructor: Catherine McKeen

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Credits: 2

There is a 3 lb. grayish-white, fatty organ inhabiting your skull. All of your thoughts, dreams, hopes, beliefs, and memories originate, in some way, in this organ. But how does this meat in your head think? How is your brain capable of having conscious experiences? How does your brain allow you to taste a strawberry or hear more cowbell? And, don’t look now, but the

Society Culture and Thought

Photographs as Narratives — PHO2108.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 4

How do we read photographs? What are the stories contained within their borders? How does two, three, or a sequence of images in tandem convey a narrative? In this course, students are guided through a series of assignments that explore the photograph as a narrative pictorial space using analog and digital processes. Structurally the assignments may take a traditional

Visual Arts

Photography Foundations: Analog — PHO2136.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: Jonathan Kline

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Credits: 4

This course allows students to explore the practice of photography using analog cameras and black and white film. Students will acquire basic skills in 35mm camera handling, light meters and exposure, film development, and making enlargements in the wet labs. In addition, the class will research the formal and socio-political content of contemporary practitioners working

Visual Arts

Physics II: Electricity and Magnetism (with Lab) — PHY4327.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: Hugh Crowl

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Credits: 4

How does influence travel from one thing to another? In Newton’s mechanics of particles and forces, influences travel instantaneously across arbitrarily far distances. Newton himself felt this to be incorrect, but he did not suggest a solution to this problem of “action at a distance.” To solve this problem, we need a richer ontology: The world is made not only of particles,

Science and Mathematics

Piano — MIN4333.01, section 1

Spring 2024

Instructor: Christopher Lewis

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Credits: 2

Individual private lessons for beginning through 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. 30-45 minutes practice per day is expected. Two excused absences permitted, with every effort made for make-up lessons. Participation in Tuesday evening

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Piano — MIN4333.02, section 2

Spring 2024

Instructor: Allen Shawn

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Credits: 2

Individual private lessons for intermediate or advanced students. Audition required. Weekly meetings times on scheduled class days arranged with the instructor. Participation in music workshop and end-of-term recital required.

Music

Piano Lab I: Beginning Piano — MIN2249.01, section 1) (faculty updated as of 11/27/2023

Spring 2024

Instructor: Chris Rose

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Credits: 2

Have you been thinking about learning to play the piano? Perhaps you have a little experience from childhood and want to get back into it? Are you a singer, songwriter, producer, or composer who wants to accompany themselves, learn to read sheet music and chord symbols, and/or understand the basics of music theory? Maybe you are completely new to playing an instrument, and want

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Piano Lab I: Beginning Piano — MIN2249.02, section 2) (faculty updated as of 12/1/2023

Spring 2024

Instructor: Chris Rose

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Credits: 2

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Piano Lab I: Beginning Piano — MIN2249.03, section 3) (faculty and day/time updated as of 12/1/2023

Spring 2024

Instructor: Chris Rose

Days & Time:

Credits: 2

Music

Piano Lab II — MIN4236.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: Allen Shawn

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Credits: 2

This course is intended for students with some playing and reading experience, who have passed Piano Lab I or its equivalent. The goals of this course are to gain ease and dexterity at the keyboard, further developing a conﬁdent piano technique, musical expression, and the skill of reading musical notation. Students will expand upon a repertoire of scales and chords. They will

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Piano – Intensive — MIN4418.01) (cancelled 12/6/2023

Spring 2024

Instructor: Christopher Lewis

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Credits: 4

Individual private lessons for motivated intermediate and 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.

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