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Movement Practice: Beginning Dance Technique — DAN2214.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: dai jian (mfa teaching fellow, supervised by terry creach)
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
***Time Change*** For those looking for a basic movement class. We begin with a slow warm-up focused on anatomical structures, muscular systems, and basic alignment principles, but then progress to vigorous, rhythmic movement patterns and group forms. We work to strengthen, stretch, and articulate the body through longer movement phrases focused on weight shifting, changes of
Dance

Movement Practice: Contact Improvisation — DAN2210.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: felice wolfzahn
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1
Contact improvisation is a duet movement form. Two people move together, playing in physical dialogue, communicating through the language of touch, momentum, and weight. In these classes we will explore some simple solo and duet skills such as rolling, falling, balance, counterbalance, jumping, weight sharing, spirals, and tuning to our sensory input. We will work with an
Dance

Movement Practice: Intermediate Contact Improvisation — DAN4118.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: felice wolfzahn
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1
For those with prior technique and/or improvisation experience. In this duet form, we communicate through the language of touch, momentum, and weight. We will explore simple solo and duet skills such as rolling, falling, balance, counterbalance, jumping, weight sharing, spirals, and tuning to our sensory input. We work with an emphasis on breath, alignment, and releasing excess
Dance

Movement Practice: Intermediate Dance Technique — DAN4314.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: samuel wentz (mfa teaching fellow, supervised by terry creach)
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
This intermediate level movement practice is designed for students with prior dance technique training. Each class will develop from simple mobility sequences to expansive movement forms. The warm鈥恥p will examine the joints and how their range of motion relates to proper alignment, readiness to move and articulation. These principles will then become the foundation for
Dance

Movement Practice: Moving Out - Beginning Dance Technique — DAN2212.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: terry creach
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
For those looking for a basic but intense movement class. We will begin with a slow warm-up focused on anatomical structures, muscular systems and basic alignment principles, but then progress to vigorous, rhythmic movement patterns. We will work to strengthen, stretch and articulate the body through longer movement phrases, focused on weight shifting, changes of direction, and
Dance

Music and Mathematics — Canceled

Fall 2014
Instructor: andrew mcintyre; kitty brazelton
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
How may mathematics be used to analyze music? How may it be used to compose music? What connections may be found between music and mathematics on the level of metaphor? This class will be not so much a survey as an exploration. The instructors and students will work together over the duration of the term to try to frame these questions, decide what we need to learn to answer
Science Mathematics and Computing Music

Music Composition Intensive — MCO4801.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: allen shawn
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
Students who wish to study composing intensively may be eligible for a small group tutorial or where appropriate, individual lessons. In general, students taking this course are expected to compose in longer forms and with more varied instrumentation than previously attempted. This course may be taken at the intermediate or advanced level. Students must have taken previous
Music

Music Composition Intensive — MCO4801.02

Fall 2014
Instructor: allen shawn
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Students who wish to study composing intensively may be eligible for a small group tutorial or where appropriate, individual lessons. In general, students taking this course are expected to compose in longer forms and with more varied instrumentation than previously attempted. This course may be taken at the intermediate or advanced level. Students must have taken previous
Music

Mutants: Genetic Variation and Human Development — BIO2210.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: amie mcclellan
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Why do humans have precisely five fingers and toes? How does a bone know to stop growing when it reaches the appropriate length? What controls our gender? While the human genome successfully encodes the information required to produce a "normal" human being, genetic variation dictates the subtle and not so subtle differences that make us each a unique individual. "Mutant"
Science Mathematics and Computing

Nature and Artifice - A History of Architecture — ARC2112.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: donald sherefkin
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
Because architecture seeks to establish a degree of permanence in the world, it is by definition, not natural, a work of human artifice. But our structures are very much of the earth, and the history of architecture is a record of the manifold ways in which cultures have understood, and responded to, their relationship to nature. This course will explore the ways in which the
Visual Arts

Nature in the Americas — APA4128.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: david bond
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
What is Nature? And what can we do with Nature? Such questions have a lively history in the Americas. Indeed, while Nature has a near mythic form in many public debates, much of its content is culled again and again from salient American examples. This course, then, uses such thorny questions as provocations to reflect more precisely on the historical cases and empirical
CAPA Social Science Environment

Normality and Abnormality — PSY2204.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: david anderegg
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course is an examination of the idea of normality as a central organizing principle in psychology. We begin with an effort to define normality and/or psychological health, and then move on to examine the limits or borders of normality. The course examines the value-laden, historically determined, and political nature of psychological normality. Topics discussed include:
Social Science

Pathways: An Introduction to Writing — LIT2110.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: wayne hoffmann-ogier
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Beginning writers will explore the steps of the writing process as a path for discovery and communication. Weekly papers explore several modes of writing, including description, nonfiction narrative, and both analytical and argumentative essays. The course primarily emphasizes the art of essay construction by focusing on rhetorical patterns, by introducing research techniques,
Literature

Performance Art: Histories and Legacies — AH4307.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: carol stakenas
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course will explore performance art in the 1970's, emphasizing the evolution of performance within a broader drive toward artistic experimentation that cut across many spheres of cultural production. Celebrating the ways that performance art has grown organically 鈥 and in varied directions 鈥 this seminar will highlight connections between performance art and other
Visual Arts

Performance Production: Dancing at Lughnasa — DRA4214.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: jenny rohn
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course is for students cast in a faculty-directed drama production, representing the hours of study both in and out of rehearsal necessary for an actor to build a successful performance in production. Rehearsals, techs, and performances constitute the student's commitment.
Drama

Personal and Social Interaction — PSY2150.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: erin johnston
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course will provide an introduction to microsociology (also called social psychology) and various theories of interpersonal behavior. In general, the purpose of this course is to help you build an understanding of the relationship between the individual and society. Attention will focus on the dynamics of interpersonal interaction, small groups (such as couples, families
Social Science

Philosophical Reasoning — PHI2109.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: paul voice
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
What is the difference between belief and knowledge? What makes me the same person now and in the future? Is there a purpose in life? These are some of the questions this first course in philosophy asks. It has two aims: To introduce you to the methods and procedures of philosophical argument and, second, to engage you in a critical dialogue with three central problems in
Social Science

Philosophy of the Performing Arts — PHI2131.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: karen gover
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
Philosophers of art and aesthetics tend to focus on visual art at the expense of other art forms. In this course we will look at the philosophical puzzles and particularities of the performing arts: dance, music, theater, and "performance art." What is the difference between unique and repeatable artworks? What kind of object is a symphony? Are dancers artists, or just highly
Social Science

Philosophy Senior Seminar — PHI4401.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: karen gover, paul voice
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course requires students to develop and research a substantial piece of philosophical work based on a previous essay they have written. In addition, students will read a selection of important articles and texts in the analytical and continental philosophical traditions.
Social Science

Photography Foundation — Section 1 - PHO2302.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: jonathan kline
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
What does it mean to study photography at 凯旋门官网? This course explores a wide range of approaches to the medium and introduces students to the various photographic genres with an emphasis on contemporary practice. The class will be primarily devoted to black and white analog materials and processes, including medium and large format cameras, light kits, and light meters
Visual Arts

Photography Foundation — Section 2 - PHO2302.02

Fall 2014
Instructor: jonathan kline
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
What does it mean to study photography at 凯旋门官网? This course explores a wide range of approaches to the medium and introduces students to the various photographic genres with an emphasis on contemporary practice. The class will be primarily devoted to black and white analog materials and processes, including medium and large format cameras, light kits, and light meters
Visual Arts

Photography Foundation — Section 3 - PHO2302.03

Fall 2014
Instructor: jonathan kline
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
What does it mean to study photography at 凯旋门官网? This course explores a wide range of approaches to the medium and introduces students to the various photographic genres with an emphasis on contemporary practice. The class will be primarily devoted to black and white analog materials and processes, including medium and large format cameras, light kits, and light meters
Visual Arts

Photography Foundation — Section 4 - PHO2302.04

Fall 2014
Instructor: jonathan kline
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
What does it mean to study photography at 凯旋门官网? This course explores a wide range of approaches to the medium and introduces students to the various photographic genres with an emphasis on contemporary practice. The class will be primarily devoted to black and white analog materials and processes, including medium and large format cameras, light kits, and light meters
Visual Arts

Photography in the Expanded Field — PHO4111.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: elizabeth white
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This studio/seminar invites students to explore some of the various ways photography has been used by artists over the last fifty years, including intersections with video, installation, conceptual art, performance, and collaborative social practices. Assignments encourage experimentation with formal and conceptual strategies while readings provide historical and theoretical
Visual Arts

Physics I: Forces and Motion — PHY2235.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: tim schroeder
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Physics is the study of what Newton called 鈥榯he System of the World.鈥 To know the System of the World is to know what forces are out there and how those forces operate on things. These forces explain the dynamics of the world around us: from the path of a falling apple to the motion of a car down the highway to the flight of a rocket from the Earth. Careful analysis of the
Science Mathematics and Computing