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Graduate Research in Dance — DAN5305.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: dana reitz
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 6
This class is designed for MFA students to show works-in-progress, try out ideas with their colleagues, and discuss issues involved in the development of new work. The weekly format is determined with the students. Outside of class, students develop their own independent creative projects that will be presented to the public, either formally or informally, by the end of the
Dance

Groundwork: What You Need to Know to Make Music — MFN2110.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: kitty brazelton
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
You may or may not play an instrument. It doesn't matter. What matters is how you think, how you hear, how you communicate, and your willingness to adapt that knowledge to the musical field. We will learn to listen to music, talk about music, improvise music, write music, write about music, read music, and read about music, but most of all we will learn to collaborate to make
Music

Harmonic Spheres — MTH4130.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: nicholas brooke
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Composers and improvisers periodically reinvent the wheel, creating systems of scales and tunings, instruments, and even philosophies of harmony and rhythm. In this course, we'll also explore how to invent your own systems. Beginning with tuning, students will build an acoustic or virtual instrument based on their own temperament. We will then explore harmonic systems that
Music

History of Theater I — DRA2153.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: kathleen dimmick
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course examines the history and aesthetics of the theater, including the development of staging, production, and acting methods and styles. In the fall of 2014 we will read representative plays from Ancient Greece through seventeenth-century Restoration England. Along with the plays, we'll look at critical and theoretical essays that elucidate the historical context and
Drama

Honors Seminar: Map to a Masterpiece — LIT4273.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: doug bauer
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
We'll be reading some of the principal works that Henry James, as a young aspiring novelist, absorbed and analyzed in the process of actively forming his own aesthetic, culminating in his first great novel, The Portrait of a Lady. It's a highly various and idiosyncratic tracing and the reading list will reflect it, drawn from among Turgenev's A Sportsman's Sketches, Eliot's
Literature

How the "Boom" Went Bust — SPA4706.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: jonathan pitcher
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
In 1961, Jorge Luis Borges shared the Formentor prize with Samuel Beckett, thus internationalizing Latin American culture and supposedly initiating the Boom. Whether the swagger of the ensuing decades marked the apex of the continent's artistic production, or was simply the result of a single Spanish publishing house's hype, feeding a neo-imperialist world's expectations of
Languages

How to Read a Story — LIT2179.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: doug bauer
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
The challenge in this class will be to read and then to write critically about great literature with an appreciation of its aims and ambitions, and with earned opinions regarding the writers' intentions. (In this effort you'll be reading criticism of the works that will inform but not dictate your own carefully considered views.) All that while also retaining the immediate
Literature

Improvisation Ensemble for Dancers Musicians — DAN4357.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: susan sgorbati; michael wimberly
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This advanced course focuses on work in the performance of improvisation. For dancers, special attention is given to the development of individual movement vocabularies and the exploration of emergent forms and structures within an ensemble. For musicians, special attention is given to creating rhythms and sonorities which can then be manipulated and developed while
Dance

Improvisation Ensemble for Musicians Dancers — MPF4233.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: michael wimberly, susan sgorbati
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This advanced course focuses on the performance of improvisation. For musicians, special attention is given to creating rhythms and sonorities which can then be manipulated and developed while interacting with dancers in the moment. Musicians should have basic skills on their instrument and be able to create and convey a sense of form to other musicians in an efficient way.
Music

Incarceration in America — APA2108.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: annabel davis-goff
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
7 million Americans are under correctional supervision. The United States of America has the highest documented rate of incarceration in the world. Too many people are in prison, and in many cases the current system doesn't work. It is inefficient, inhumane, and does not accomplish rehabilitation. It also costs too much - financially as well as in terms of human suffering - the
CAPA

Insider Perspectives on the French-Speaking World — FRE2103.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: stephen shapiro
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Viewed from the outside, the French-speaking world offers enticing images of beauty, pleasure, and freedom. From the inside, however, it is a complicated, often contradictory world where implicit codes and values shape the most basic aspects of daily life. This course will give you an insider’s perspective on a cultural and communicative system whose ideas, customs, and belief
Languages

Intensive Introduction to Computer Science — CS2137.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: andrew cencini
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
In this class, students will be exposed to the main areas and questions related to computer science, while beginning their journey towards becoming skilled practitioners in the field. A large part of this process will include learning basic programming skills (C, C++, or Python), computational thinking and algorithm design. In addition, students will also formulate and explore
Science Mathematics and Computing

Intermediate Painting: Facture — PAI4207.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: joshua blackwell
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Behind the impulse to put paint on canvas is a search for meaning. As an artwork comes into being, so too does its meaning evolve concurrently. This course will focus on the relationship between facture and meaning in painting. Sharpening practical and critical skills, assignments will investigate the processes and methods of painting from practical and theoretical perspectives
Visual Arts

Intermediate Playwriting: The Scene and Structure — DRA4140.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: john walch
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
The scene is to the playwright as the chapter is to the novelist; it is the primary building block of the play. Working playwrights craft their plays by putting one scene in front of (or behind, or on top of) another. This course invites intermediate and advanced playwrights to enter their plays through scene work and will challenge writers to write in a number of different
Drama

Intermediate Violin/ Viola — MIN4232.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: kaori washiyama
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
A group tutorial for students with 2+ terms experience in violin and viola. Emphasis will be on intermediate techniques in bowing, finger positions, and ensemble playing. Students will work towards an end-of-term project.
Music

Intermediate Voice — Section 1 - MVO4301.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: kerry ryer-parke
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
For students with previous experience in voice. Physiology and healthy vocal production will be discussed. Group warm-ups and vocalizations will develop breath control, resonance, projection, range, color, and agility. Fundamental concepts of singing, including personalization of text and emotional expression, will be explored in the preparation of specific song assignments to
Music

Intermediate Voice — Section 2 - MVO4301.02

Fall 2014
Instructor: yoon sun choi
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
For students with previous experience in voice. Physiology and healthy vocal production will be discussed. Group warm-ups and vocalizations will develop breath control, resonance, projection, range, color, and agility. Fundamental concepts of singing, including personalization of text and emotional expression, will be explored in the preparation of specific song assignments to
Music

Intermediate Voice — Section 3 - MVO4301.03

Fall 2014
Instructor: yoon sun choi
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
For students with previous experience in voice. Physiology and healthy vocal production will be discussed. Group warm-ups and vocalizations will develop breath control, resonance, projection, range, color, and agility. Fundamental concepts of singing, including personalization of text and emotional expression, will be explored in the preparation of specific song assignments to
Music

Introduction to Applied Mathematics — MAT2111.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: kathryn montovan
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
In this course we will develop mathematical modeling skills that will help us better understand the complex systems that arise in different scientific fields. Applications will include population growth, predator-prey systems, planetary motion, reaction and diffusion, heat and fluid flow, and evolutionary trees. To model these systems, we will use difference equations,
Science Mathematics and Computing

Introduction to Cell Biology — BIO2111.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: amie mcclellan
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Cells are the fundamental units that organize life. In this class we will investigate cell structure and function, learn about DNA replication and transcription, find out how proteins are made and transported, and come to understand how interfering with cell biological processes can result in disease. In the lab, students will gain experience with both prokaryotic and
Science Mathematics and Computing

Introduction to Jazz Harmony — MTH2276.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: jacob sacks
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course will approach the subject of harmony from a jazz perspective. Participants will learn about chord structures and inversions, scales and modes used in improvisation, plus common (and uncommon) chord progressions. Participants will also learn how to identify chord symbols used in lead sheets and how to make practical use of one’s knowledge of key signatures when
Music

Introduction to Mold Making and Slip Casting — CER2208.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: yoko inoue
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This is an introductory course to basic mold making and slip casting techniques for producing multiple components to create sculptural ceramic objects or a series of functional ware. This course focuses on the development of design concept through exploration of various casting methods, applying alteration techniques and experimenting with prototype making. Basic preparation of
Visual Arts

Introduction to Pure Mathematics — MAT2115.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: andrew mcintyre
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course is intended to serve as a foundation, and it will be a prerequisite for most other advanced mathematics courses. "Pure" mathematics generally refers to mathematics studied for its own sake rather than for any particular application. There is a particular focus on logic and proof. However, this distinction is a bit artificial, since most of the advanced applications
Science Mathematics and Computing