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Introduction to Video — FV2101.02

Fall 2013
Instructor: Kate Purdie
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course teaches techniques fundamental to the craft of moving image creation, including cinematography, lighting, sound recording, and editing. It also provides a conceptual framework for video as an art medium. Students will build individual technical skills while developing an aesthetic vocabulary based on medium-specific audiovisual qualities. Throughout the term we will
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Introduction to Video — FV2101.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Warren Cockerham
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course teaches techniques fundamental to the craft of moving image creation, including cinematography, lighting, sound recording, and editing. It also provides a conceptual framework for video as an art medium. Students will build individual technical skills while developing an aesthetic vocabulary based on medium-specific audiovisual qualities. Throughout the term we will
Visual Arts

Italo Calvino: Narrating the Unfamiliar — ITA4213.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Barbara Alfano
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
The course focuses on Calvino's novels, Le citta` invisibili (1972); Il Castello dei Destini Incrociati (1973); Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore (1979); and the autobiographical Eremita a Parigi, a collection of his notes written between 1967 and 1984 when living and traveling abroad. These works narrate of odd and unfamiliar spaces, and of bizarre situations in which
Languages

Japanese Aesthetics: Jomon Pottery to Superflat — JPN4216.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
In this intermediate course, students will learn various art in Japan from potteries in the Jomon Period (¿­ÐýÃŹÙÍø 14,000 BC - 300 BC) to Takashi Murakamis so-called superflat, a postmodern art movement, in Heisei Period (1989 -). As they learn Japanese art, they will analyze elements of Japanese aesthetics that were shared in various art forms during each period. Students will
Languages

Jazz Piano Lab — MIN4335.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Bruce Williamson
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
This course will utilize ¿­ÐýÃŹÙÍø’s Piano Lab to explore and develop the skills and knowledge required to effectively play non-classical piano repertoire. Styles covered are: blues, reggae, salsa, bossa-nova and jazz. Students will take turns learning and playing bass lines, chord voicings, stylistic rhythms, melodies and improvised solos.
Music

Kipling — LIT2192.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Brooke Allen
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was the most popular poet and fiction writer of the late Victorian era. He is nowadays, in many circles, the most reviled, perceived as embodying the very spirit of British imperialism. In this class we will explore Kipling's poetry, short stories, and a couple of longer books (probably 'Kim') in some depth, attempting to draw our own conclusions
Literature

Kulintang Gong Ensemble — MPF2027.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Susie Ibarra
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
Kulintang gong music is practiced in many styles from several groups in the Philippines, northern Indonesia. Its Philippine origins were in the 14th century where it was created as royal court music in Mindanao, the Southern island of the Philippines. Many different Indigenous tribes play kulintang music in Mindanao. This ensemble will introduce the history and culture of
Music

Landforms and Surface Processes — ES2106.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: David De Simone
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Rivers, wind, glaciers, and time act on sediment and rock to develop the landforms we see around us. An understanding of the surface processes that produce our regional landforms will enable you to appreciate the soils we farm, the ground water we drink, and how we manage environmental issues that impact the landscape. Our investigations will primarily be field based
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Late Twentieth Century British Fiction — LIT2195.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Annabel Davis-Goff
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
1960 to 2000. We will read English and Irish novels which reflect the literature and culture of final forty years of the Twentieth Century. Reading will include Anita Brookner, John Banville, Penelope Fitzgerald, Kazuo Ishiguro. Students will write two essays.
Literature

Local Land-use History and Landscape Ecology — BIO4113.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Kerry Woods
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Landscape ecology works across multiple scales in space and time to understand the drivers of ecosystem function and pattern in broad context. Can diversity and productivity of particular pieces of the landscape be better predicted given knowledge of spatial and historical context? How do parts of the landscape interact as sources and sinks in population dynamics of plants and
Science Mathematics and Computing

Low Fire Clay and Glazes, History Application — CER4328.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Barry Bartlett
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This class will explore the use of low temperature clay and glazes. A large part of ceramic history is based in these materials. All early civilizations moving into the 14-century and many contemporary styles depend on low temperature material in terms of both technical and artistic style. Students will be asked to do research into different styles and types of low fire clay
Visual Arts

Mandolin — MIN2229.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: John Kirk
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
Beginning, intermediate, or advanced group lessons on the mandolin will be offered. Student will learn classical technique on the mandolin and start to develop a repertoire of classical and traditional folk pieces. Simple song sheets with chords, tablature, and standard notation, chord theory, and scale work will all be used to further skills. Student will be expected to
Music

Maps, Diagrams and Projections — ARC2113.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Donald Sherefkin
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
This is an introductory drawing workshop for students interested in architecture. There are at least four categories of drawing that will be developed. The first will concentrate on direct observation - form, light, shadow, texture, color. The second will explore analytical diagramming.  We will investigate methods of organizing and mapping visual
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Markmaking and Representation — DRW2149.02

Fall 2013
Instructor: Colin Brant
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
The fundamentals of drawing are the basic tools for this investigation into seeing and translation. Using simple methods and means, the practice of drawing is approached from both traditional and experimental directions. The focus of this inquiry is on drawing from observation, broadly defined. In class drawing sessions are complemented by independent, outside of class work and
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Markmaking and Representation — DRW2149.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Mary Lum
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
The fundamentals of drawing are the basic tools for this investigation into seeing and translation. Using simple methods and means, the practice of drawing is approached from both traditional and experimental directions. The focus of this inquiry is on drawing from observation, broadly defined. In class drawing sessions are complemented by independent, outside of class work and
Visual Arts

Masters of Style — LIT4362.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Doug Bauer
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course is founded on the belief that the way to a writer’s personal style and voice is through the close study, absorption, and imitation of others’. We will be reading and replicating many contemporary master stylists, from Doctorow to DeLillo to Toni Morrison to Denis Johnson to Amy Hempel, and others. In every case, we will conduct a three-part examination of the work
Literature

Media Technology and Social Change — APA2203.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Erika Mijlin
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
From the print revolution to the birth of photography, from moving images to social networking, we find that new media technologies are continually adapting to us, as we simultaneously, and more subtly, adapt to them. Every wave of technological innovation leaves human existence more closely intertwined with media of documentation and communication. A central question forms
Advancement of Public Action

Mediation and Negotiation — MOD2110.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Daniel Michaelson
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1
This module includes a twelve-hour training in Mediation and Negotiation skills. Mediation is a facilitated process where a third neutral party helps disputants with conflicting interests negotiate an agreement. The process of Mediation can be used in a range of conflicts such as family, roommate, sports, business, environmental, and international. Capacities such as active
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Mediation and Negotiation — MOD2110.02

Fall 2013
Instructor: Daniel Michaelson
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1
This module includes a twelve-hour training in Mediation and Negotiation skills. Mediation is a facilitated process where a third neutral party helps disputants with conflicting interests negotiate an agreement. The process of Mediation can be used in a range of conflicts such as family, roommate, sports, business, environmental, and international. Capacities such as active
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Metal Workshop — SCU2206.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: John Umphlett
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
This course is recommended for all students considering working in sculpture. It is open to other students with a curiosity about materials and building processes. There are fundamental introductions to gas and electric welding, forging, fabrication techniques, and general shop safety. This course will be offered the first seven weeks of term.
Visual Arts

Metal Workshop Part II — SCU4110.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: John Umphlett
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
For the second seven weeks we will develop skills in working with equipment that lends itself to non- ferrous metals, other exotic alloys, and stainless steel. We will gain knowledge of GTAW welding in the areas of direct current electrode negative (DCEN), direct current electrode positive (DCEP), and also AC welding. With new technologies we are able to adjust the output
Visual Arts

Microeconomics — PEC2250.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Robin Kemkes
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Economics is the study of how individuals and societies allocate scarce resources – labor, natural resources, capital – toward competing ends to sustain life and enhance its quality. This course develops the basic tools of microeconomic analysis and advances critical thinking around the dominant neoclassical approach to economic problem solving. We begin with a comparison of
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Modern Guitar — MIN4224.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Hui Cox
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
Individual training is available in jazz, modern, and classical guitar technique and repertoire, song accompaniment (finger style), improvisation, and arranging and composing for the guitar. Course material is tailored to the interests and level of the individual student. Corequisites: Must also participate in Music Workshop (Tuesdays, 6:30 - 8pm).
Music

Modernist Monuments: Yeats, Pound and Eliot — LIT4218.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Monica Youn
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course will provide an in-depth exploration of poetry and critical work of three founding figures of English-language modernist literature: William Butler Yeats, Ezra Pound, and T.S. Eliot. We will also, time permitting, consider works by other major authors of the modernist movement, including Thomas Hardy, W.H. Auden and Gertrude Stein. At its inception, the modernist
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Movement Practice: Advanced Dance Technique — DAN4344.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
This advanced movement class will develop from simple skeletal mobility sequences to expansive movement forms. The warm-up will examine the joints and how their range of motion relates to alignment, readiness to move, and articulation. These principles will then become the foundation for traveling sequences and longer movement phrases. Distinguishing between tempo, rhythm, and
Dance