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Drumming: An Extension of Language — MIN2120.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course serves as an introduction to learning rhythms, chants and songs from Africa, Brazil, Cuba, Haiti, and the African Diaspora. Using percussion instruments such as, congas, surdos, pandeiro, djembe, dununba, doumbek and chekere; students will experience basic hand and stick techniques while learning to recognize drumming patterns associated with these traditional
Music

Edo to Meiji: Isolation to Modernization — JPN4168.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
During the Edo period (1600 - 1867), Japan closed its doors to other countries for about two hundred years, and this isolation helped Japan develop its own unique culture. It, however, ended in 1867 when Japanese culture was introduced to the Western world at an International Exposition in Paris. On the contrary to the Edo period, the next era, Meiji, brought rapid
Languages

Effective Public Action: Case Studies — APA2116.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Eileen Scully
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
What kind of world are we making? What kind of world should we be making? What kind of world can we be making? We explore these questions through case studies of successful public action, ranging from local projects to global initiatives. Working together to identify the complex variables and design principles of successful models, students collaboratively develop frameworks
Advancement of Public Action

Electronic Music: Creativity and Sound — MCO2109.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Randall Neal
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
How do you compose when any sound can be used in music? This course provides a wide-ranging exploration into strategies for sound-based composition and the digital transformation of sound. Students will create original sounds and compositions in the electronic music studio. Students are expected to complete short readings, participate in discussions, present their creative work
Music

English as a Second Language — LIT2101.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Wayne Hoffmann-Ogier
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
Individually designed tutorials provide the opportunity to review grammar, punctuation, diction, and sentence structure with an emphasis on paragraph and essay construction. Additional work is offered in oral expression, aural comprehension, and analytical reading. Tutorials may also introduce the interpretation of literature and the writing of critical essays.
Literature

Experiential Anatomy/Somatic Practices — DAN4106.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
This is a studio class intended to deepen the understanding of your own moving body. We will be studying kinesthetic anatomy: 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 visualization and
Dance

Experimental Filmmaking — FV4307.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Warren Cockerham
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This intermediate studio course centers on experimentation with form in moving image making. Students will complete a series of film and video projects exploring approaches and techniques including but not limited to non-narrative, lyrical, abstract, structural, and materialist forms. The course will contextualize contemporary practice within the history of avant-garde and
Visual Arts

Exploring 20th Century American British Art Song — MHI2119.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Rachel Rosales
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
This class will delve into the commonalities and differences between the two countries: The poetic, prosaic and political influence of the time on compositional style, structure, invention and unconventionality from the “Industrial Revolution” to WWII. Some composers of note: Edward MacDowell, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Charles Ives, Amy Beach, Aaron Copland, Benjamin Britten,
Music

Exploring the White Cube: A New York Intensive — VA4125.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Elizabeth White
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
This class will meet weekly to explore contemporary art exhibitions in New York. We will visit commercial galleries and non-profit art spaces in Midtown, Chelsea, the Lower East Side, and Brooklyn, as well as major museums. Relevant readings will be assigned and short response papers will be required. Students will be responsible for their own expenses, including transportation
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Faculty Performance Production: Great Expectations — DRA4575.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Kirk Jackson
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Long before the feel-good self-help industry gave us "pay it forward", Charles Dickens gave us Great Expectations. The story of orphan Pip's social, moral and educational coming-of-age serves as critique of the wages of progress and the eternal value of friendship and gratitude. Dickens' genius for creating memorable characters is robus, from young Pip, loyal Joe, his spiteful
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Fiddle — MIN4327.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: John Kirk
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
For the experienced (2+years of playing) violinist. Lessons in traditional styles of fiddling - Quebecois, New England, Southern Appalachian, 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 these days) and to give practical music skills
Music

Field Course in Coral Reef Science — BIO4239.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Elizabeth Sherman; Janet Foley
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
The biodiversity of coral reefs has been declining rapidly in the last 20 years due in large part to human activities. In this field course students will have an opportunity to confront this problem directly and contribute to our understanding of reef biodiversity. This course will take place on the island of Grand Cayman, British West Indies (Latitude 18 23' N, Longitude 81 24
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Finding Form: Dance — DAN4319.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Days & Time: TBA
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 compositional purposes. How can we as artists find form that best supports our investigations and challenges our working processes; how do we analyze, interpret and further utilize form that is inherent in work that is
Dance

First-Year Dance Intensive — DAN2107.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Terry Creach
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Primarily for first-years, but for any student who has a serious interest in dance, whether or not they have previous dance experience. We will consider many aspects of dance making, including an investigation of the physical sensations and impulses that inform our moving; the development of one's own physical awareness and movement skills; improvisational structures that test
Dance

Forests: An Introduction to Ecology and Evolution — BIO2109.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Kerry Woods
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
New England is one of the most heavily forested regions in the United States. 14,000 years ago it was covered by ice. When humans arrived about 11,000 years ago, they found forests already established -- and began reshaping the landscape through hunting and fire and, beginning about 2000 years ago, farming. European colonists caused further ecological change by expanding
Science Mathematics and Computing

Form and Process: Investigations in Painting — PAI2107.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Ann Pibal
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course introduces a variety of materials, techniques and approaches to painting. Emphasis is placed on developing and understanding of color, form and space as well as individual research and conceptual concerns. The daily experience of seeing, along with the history of art, provides a base from which investigations are made. Formal, poetic, and social implications within
Visual Arts

Foundations in Ceramics: The Hand as a Tool — CER2105.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Barry Bartlett
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Exploring the unique, material nature of clay as a medium for personal and visual expression will be the focus of this course. All ceramic forms, whether sculptural or utilitarian require a knowledge of the basic skills and an understanding of clay. A variety of construction methods will be introduced employing hand building techniques. Emphasis will be placed on developing a
Visual Arts

Foundations of Physical Science — SCMA2104.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Janet Foley
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
A Concise Introduction to the Principles Governing The Transformations of Matter and Energy and How They Relate to Our Environment. Mastery of fire was just the beginning. After fire came kilns, then furnaces, then steam engines, then nuclear reactors. Since our humble beginnings, the story of the development of our species has featured a nearly ubiquitous and insatiable
Science Mathematics and Computing

French America — FRE4221.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Stephen Shapiro
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course will examine French representations of America in literature, political philosophy, and film. We will focus on the paradoxes inherent in the French fascination with America as well as how America has served as a figure for the expression of French anxieties about modernity and a changing world. Beginning with Montaigne, Buffon, and Tocqueville we will analyze the
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Fundamentals of Advancing Public Action — APA2101.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Elizabeth Coleman
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This country is facing challenges of unprecedented scale and urgency in the areas of health, education, inequalities in the distribution of wealth, environmental sustainability; the capacity of our governing structures to address the public interest; mounting threats to fundamental democratic processes, a dangerous predilection for the uses of force. We examine each of these
Advancement of Public Action

Fundamentals of Neuroscience: A Beginner's Guide — BIO2212.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: David Edelman
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
What are the biological bases of perceptions, action, movement and thought? Why and how do we remember (or forget) our everyday experiences? Why are playing the violin, performing dance, or simply throwing a ball or frisbee so deliberative and effortful when we are first learning these skills, yet so free of thought and automatic after years of training and experience? How did
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Genesis — HIS2220.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Carol Pal
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Genesis is the first book in a compilation known collectively as the Bible. It is a text of enormous literary value, and one of our earliest historical chronicles, providing foundational material for Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Yet how many of us know what it actually says? How did it come together, what is the narrative, and how does it relate to the ideas and events of
Social Science

Genetics - Principles and Practice — BIO4207.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Amie McClellan
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
What are genes? How do they work? How are they passed on? This course will provide an introduction to modes of inheritance as well as to genes, their structure, and their regulation. Topics discussed in this class will include, but are not limited to, the molecular structure of DNA and RNA, Mendelian inheritance, molecular properties of genes, and the regulation of gene
Science Mathematics and Computing