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Digitizing Photographs — APA2360.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
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Credits: 1
This course will introduce students to digitizing negative photographs, slides, and help them understand that digitizing negatives and slide photographs preserves them from physical decay and deterioration that can occur over time, and enhance accessibility to their photographs. Students will be asked to bring their negative photographs or slides for digitizing, editing, and
CAPA

Directed Projects in Photography — PHO4248.01

Spring 2025
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 2025
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

Disasters, Poverty, and Inequality — PEC4220.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 2
A disaster is considered 'an occurrence that causes great harm,' but how is this 'harm' distributed among people? This research seminar explores this question by studying how the effects of disasters are unequally distributed within a population based on conditions of poverty and inequality, and how disasters, in turn, exacerbate these disparities. This seminar focuses on
Society Culture and Thought

Drawing As A Verb: Exploring Uncertainty — DRW2120.01

Spring 2025
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 the
Visual Arts

Drum Set Fundamentals — MIN2261.01) (cancelled 5/8/2024

Spring 2025
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
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Credits: 2
This course is for students who have moderate experience in playing drum set, but also for novice. Students who have some background in playing drum set will have an opportunity to fine-tune their fundamentals by working on rudimentary stick control and overall drum set technique, which includes grooves (beats) and drum fills. Students who are new to the drum set will begin

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

Spring 2025
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
Black Studies Music

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

Spring 2025
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
Black Studies Music

Dynamic Spiraling: Grasping Nature’s Patterns to Generate Vital, Fluid Movement — DAN2414.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 2
We can find incredibly fluid movement by exploring nature’s phenomena - structuring through spiraling and shaping the environment. In this course we will explore spiraling, sinking in and growing out of the floor. This is a rigorous movement class that focuses on traveling through space, using the spirals embedded in the body and exploring how these will help us to separate
Dance

Eat, Drink and Be Merry: Designing Pots for Utility and Serving — CER4316.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Aysha Peltz
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Credits: 4
Previously titled Set the Table: Tableware Design; Eat, Drink and Be Merry: Designing Pots for Utility and Serving is a new course. In this class, we will explore similar pottery forms while broadening our understanding of where these pots function beyond the Western cultural idea of the “table.” Throughout history, pots for utility and serving have expressed a specific time
Visual Arts

Edible Matters: Cartography and the Cultural Biography of Food — APA4149.01) (cancelled 10/7/2024

Spring 2025
Instructor: Yoko Inoue
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Credits: 4
Food, place and politics. This course investigates food in the globalized world considering political economy, history of colonialism and cultural identity. Focusing on various geographical locales, we examine the economic factors, socio-political structures and cultural implications behind what determines a crop’s value based on power relationships and global trade strategies.

Embedded Arts: Exploring Social Practice Work — APA2361.04

Spring 2025
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Days & Time: MO,TH 1:40pm-3:30pm
Credits: 1

This course examines diverse methodologies used in the creation and presentation of socially engaged public artwork. Utilizing interdisciplinary research and community collaboration, students will investigate local issues and explore real-world interventions that unlock the civic imagination. How can artistic approaches to social interaction develop conversations, raise

CAPA

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

Spring 2025
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

Entry to Mathematics — MAT2100.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Andrew McIntyre
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Credits: 4
This is a basic course, covering most of high school mathematics, and will be accessible to all interested and willing students. It is appropriate for students who do not feel confident in their high school mathematics background. Students may proceed from this course to other 2000 level mathematics courses. Mathematics is inherent across all disciplines and undertakings. It is
Science and Mathematics

Environmental Action Post Fellowship Class — APA4161.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Judith Enck
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Credits: 1
After successfully completing the environmental action fellowship during Field Work term, students will review the fellowship experience and what they learned.  Class time will be spent helping each student prepare for a high level presention on their individual fellowship.  There will be continued focus on sharpening advocacy skills and learning about and discussing
CAPA Environment

Ethnography of Latin America and the Caribbean — ANT4241.01) (cancelled 10/15/2024

Spring 2025
Instructor: Cecilia Salvi
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Credits: 4
This course explores contemporary processes of social, economic, and cultural change in Latin America and the Caribbean from an anthropological perspective. Through ethnographies of the region, we examine legacies of the colonial encounter, nation-building, migration, political conflict and urbanization, as well as the impact of transregional social movements. We pay special

Expanded Performance — MPF4279.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
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Credits: 4
Expanded and invented instruments utilizing electronics, object preparations, field recordings, and non-traditional performance techniques will be used to develop unique sonic vocabularies. Working with the premise that any sound can be an instrument we will work collaboratively to share our sounds, our scores and various approaches to music making. This seminar will serve as a
Music

Experiential Anatomy/Somatic Practices — DAN2149.01

Spring 2025
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 Drama

Experimental Narrative in Moving Image — FV4330.01) (cancelled 10/17/2024

Spring 2025
Instructor: Beatriz Santiago Mu?oz
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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

Exploring Taiwanese Culture Through Mahjong: Rules and Strategies — CSL2004.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Ginger Lin
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Credits: 2
Mahjong 麻将／麻雀 (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
Cultural Studies and Languages

Faculty Performance Production: Everything That Never Happened by Sarah Mantell — DRA4152.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Jean Randich
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Credits: 4
"Jessica and Lorenzo are in love, but in order to be together they must plan an escape from her father’s house, the Venetian ghetto, and her entire culture. Taking place in the gaps between "The Merchant of Venice" and the realities of Jewish history, "Everything That Never Happened" is a play about a father, a daughter, disguise, assimilation, pomegranates, and everything
Dance Drama Music

Fake Revolution: Media Culture and Hollywood's Insurrection Fantasy — FV4331.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Jen Liu
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Credits: 2
In this course, we will explore Hollywood's fixation with fictional revolutions as depicted in big budget sci fi and fantasy TV and films throughout the 20th and 21st century, often unified by themes such as the triumph of the underdog, traumatic but narratively low-stakes sacrifices, and totalitarian overlords who bear superficial resemblance to real world geopolitical powers,
Visual Arts Society Culture and Thought

Feminist Freedom — PHI2254.01

Spring 2025
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? What does ubiquitous pornography mean for sexual freedom? How does politics
Society Culture and Thought

Fiddle — MIN4327.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: John Kirk
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Credits: 2
For the experienced (3+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

Fine Art Digital Printing — PHO4220.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Eddy Aldana
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Credits: 2
This class explores how to make fine art black and white and color inkjet prints from digital files. Students will learn how to edit digital media with Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom by using non-destructive workflows to preserve the integrity of their files. The course will emphasize developing technical proficiency along with making meaningful decisions on when, why, and how
Visual Arts