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Video Design for Dance — FV4104.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: jeff larson
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This workshop is concerned with investigating the integration of digital video in dance performance. Using a program called Isadora, basic control modules can be programmed, allowing dance and video students and faculty to create, manipulate, and present video content as an meaningfully integrated element of live performance. The technology will also be explored in tandem with
Dance Visual Arts

Violin/ Viola — MIN4345.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: kaori washiyama
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
Studies in all left-hand positions and shifting, and an exploration of various bow techniques. Students can select from the concerto and sonata repertoire, short pieces and etudes for study designed to develop technique, advance musicianship and prepare for performance. Corequisite: Must participate in Music Workshop (Tuesday, 6:30 - 8pm).
Music

Visual Arts Lecture Series — VA2999.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: visual arts faculty
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1
This is a series of lectures given by visiting artists and critics invited by the Visual Arts faculty. You will attend lectures on Tuesday evenings at 7:30 pm as well as gallery exhibitions. The number of lectures and exhibitions you must attend will vary according to how many are scheduled in any term. You are required to take notes during the lectures and exhibitions and
Visual Arts

What is Sculpture? — SCU2106.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: jon isherwood
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
How do we make it? How do we talk about it? And what does it mean? How do we make objects in space? Is gravity our friend or foe? This course invites students to investigate the fundamental principles of sculpture while encouraging exploration of classical and contemporary approaches. Sessions are intensive explorations into a variety of techniques and materials including
Visual Arts

William Maxwell: Writer and Editor — LIT2281.02

Fall 2014
Instructor: annabel davis-goff
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
William Maxwell was an editor at the New Yorker for forty years; he was also one of the twentieth century's great American writers. We will read three of his novels and a selection of the stories he edited. These will include work by Mavis Gallant, Shirley Hazzard, and Frank O'Connor. This course is suitable for students of all levels. This course will be offered the second
Literature

Women and Men: The Biology of the Sexes — BIO2203.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: elizabeth sherman
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
What are the biological differences between men and women and how do they come about? Beyond the obvious reproductive differences, do other biological differences influence the behavior of women and men? For example, not only do women and men differ in various sex hormone levels, but their brains are influenced in different ways by those hormones. To what extent are the
Science Mathematics and Computing

Women's Writing, Women's Voices — ITA4605.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: barbara alfano
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Moving from a specific query into how women describe themselves to a more general investigation into what shapes their gaze, this course explores Italian women’s writing from the Renaissance to contemporary Italy. Studying the female condition in Italy and its inscription in womens' narratives, students will discover what connects a courtesan of the XVI century (Veronica Franco
Languages

Working with Light — DRA2234.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: michael giannitti
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
Lighting design has the powerful ability to shape the experience of an audience. Its practice incorporates elements of artistry and craft and should interest those working in all aspects of visual and performing arts. In addition to hands-on work with theatrical lighting equipment in and outside of class, awareness of light, play analysis and conceptualization, color, angle,
Drama

Writing Landscape — LIT2201.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: akiko busch
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
"Nature is our widest home," Edward Hoagland once wrote, and the workshop would examine why this is so. The course would consider how the cycles, rhythms, and disturbances of the natural world have always had a place in American letters. Some students would have the opportunity to use their observations from and experience in fieldwork as raw material from which to develop
Science Mathematics and Computing Literature