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Piano — Section 4 - MIN4333.04

Instructor: matthew edwards
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
One-on-one lessons, scheduled individually, available to students with previous study. Corequisite: Must participate in Music Workshop (Tuesday, 6:30 - 8pm).

Piano — Section 1 - MIN4333.01

Instructor: christopher lewis
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
One-on-one lessons, scheduled individually, available to students with previous study. Corequisite: Must participate in Music Workshop (Tuesday, 6:30 - 8pm).

Piano — Section 2 - MIN4333.02

Instructor: yoshiko sato
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
One-on-one lessons, scheduled individually, available to students with previous study. Corequisite: Must participate in Music Workshop (Tuesday, 6:30 - 8pm).

Piano — Section 3 - MIN4333.03

Instructor: joan forsyth
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
One-on-one lessons, scheduled individually, available to students with previous study. Corequisite: Must participate in Music Workshop (Tuesday, 6:30 - 8pm).

Piano Lab I — Section 1 - MIN2232.01

Instructor: joan forsyth
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
Course is intended for students with prior music study or music in their plan. This introductory course provides a comprehensive foundation for aspiring pianists. Topics include music notation, rhythm, piano technique, theory, history, sight-reading, ear-training, improvisation, and collaboration.

Piano Lab I — Section 2 - MIN2232.02

Instructor: matthew edwards
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
This introductory course provides a comprehensive foundation for aspiring pianists. Topics include music notation, rhythm, piano technique, theory, history, sight-reading, ear-training, improvisation, and collaboration.

Piano Lab II — Section 1 - MIN4236.01

Instructor: joan forsyth
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
Continuing course in basic keyboard study. Students already fluent with notation and with music in their plan are encouraged to take this level, or talk with the instructor.

Piano Lab II — Section 2 - MIN4236.02

Instructor: matthew edwards
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
Continuing course in basic keyboard study. Students already fluent with notation and with music in their plan are encouraged to take this level, or talk with the instructor.

Pieces of Time — MPF4105.01

Instructor: susie ibarra
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
In honor of the quartet recording of drums and percussion music by Milford Graves, Andrew Cyrille, Famadou Don Moye and Kenny Clarke, Pieces of Time delves into the vocabulary and structures of jazz drumming and percussion. While studying the styles of these drummers , the class will also examine drumming and percussion styles within the genre. This ensemble will reconstruct

Power and Culture in the Middle East — ANT2106.01

Instructor: noah coburn
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Since 9-11 there has been an increased focus in the media and in policy circles on the Middle East and Central Asia, and yet, for most Americans this is still a poorly understood area. Much has been written on topics such as Islam and the role of women in the Middle East, but not enough has been done to focus on politics in the region as a lived experience. How do people make

Practicum: National Undergrad Literary Anthology — LIT4360.01

Instructor: rebecca godwin
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
This two-credit course involves reading, selecting, and editing material for plain china, an on-line literary anthology highlighting the work of undergraduate students from across the country. The work will result in a monthly on-line publication of 2014 writing and art. We're looking for readers/editors in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction; interest in art selection and computer

Programming and Data Structures in C — CS4170.01

Instructor: andrew cencini
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
In this class, students will learn the C programming language, as well as the design and implementation of computer science's foundational data structures: stacks, queues, linked lists, trees, and their various and sundry variants. Since virtually every piece of software in existence relies upon several of these key data structures, the class will also look at examples of

Projects in Sculpture: Making it Personal — SCU4797.01

Instructor: rico gatson
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
The question is what do you want to say? As we develop our interests in sculpture it becomes more and more imperative to find our own voice. The role of the artist is to interpret personal conditions and experiences and find the most affecting expression for them. This course provides the opportunity for a self-directed study in sculpture. Students are expected to produce a

Propaganda and Modern Chinese Culture — CHI4495.01

Instructor: ginger lin
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Whether on banners hung in public places or in shrill voices blaring from one of millions of loudspeakers spread across the country, propaganda slogans have been a major aspect of the Chinese Communist Party's efforts to forge a modern socialist society. In this course, a selection of these slogans from the beginning of the communist era up to the present along with poster art

Proust — FRE4720.01

Instructor: noëlle rouxel-cubberly
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
In this course, students will read Proust's novel, À la recherche du temps perdu, focusing more closely on Swann's Way, The Captive, and Time Regained. An exploration of the historical, cultural and artistic context, as well as cinematic adaptations and various theoretical analyses will support a close reading of the text. Written assignments and oral presentations will help

Reading and Writing Poetry in the Age of Social Media — LIT4254.01

Instructor: alex dimitrov
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course is a writing workshop designed to investigate, challenge, and use contemporary methods of production and distribution of poetry. Working on the page and online, we will write and read poems in relationship to online culture, popular culture, social media (Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram) and platforms of communication such as texts messages, email, YouTube, etc

Reading and Writing Short Stories — LIT4219.01

Instructor: benjamin anastas
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This is a course for fiction writers on how to write a short story, a genre we'll define using the formula first proposed by Edgar Allan Poe: a work of fiction that can be read in one sitting. Students can expect to read about forty stories over the semester from a wide range of periods and traditions; write frequent exercises to begin the term; and produce two complete stories

Reading the Photograph — PHO4218.01

Instructor: jonathan kline
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course invites students to explore the myriad ways that the photograph has been considered over past 175 years. From the early observations of Charles Baudelaire, Lady Eastlake, and Fox Talbot through the 20th century insights of Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes, and John Berger, we will investigate the aesthetic, social, and political aspects of the medium. More recent

Rebuilding Cities with the Arts — APA2109.01

Instructor: susie ibarra
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
Rebuilding Cities with the Arts with a Focus Study on Sister City Project: Tagum City, Mindanao, Philippines and ¿­ÐýÃŹÙÍø, Vermont. Rebuilding Cities with the Arts examines case studies of Cities that have rebuilt themselves after natural disasters, dealing with governance and economic inequity, innovative growth, political change, and response to environmental

Recording and Mixing Music — MSR2116.01

Instructor: david baron
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
An introduction to the basic art of audio recording, editing, and mixing, through lectures and hands-on experience with guided and individual studio projects. Pro Tools, microphone technique, audio processing, and basic mixing will be covered, alongside analysis of commercial recordings with in-studio recreation of their techniques. Want people to listen to your music? Stop

Resisting the Stitch — DRA2126.01

Instructor: richard macpike
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
This class is an exploration in fabric modification through the use of dyes and various stitched resist techniques often referred to as shibori. Students will learn to work with acid, direct, cold process, union, and natural dyes. Concurrently students will learn a variety of resist techniques such as kanoko, mokume, orinui, makinui, karamatsu, boshi, arashi, itajime, adire

Richard Wright and James Baldwin — LIT2193.01

Instructor: benjamin anastas
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
"As writers we were about as unlike as any two writers could possible be," James Baldwin wrote of his early mentor and sometimes rival Richard Wright. "We were linked together, really, because both of us were black." Now that both writers have been canonized, we can read their major works together, side by side, and identify the resonances and irreconcilable differences that

Sage City Symphony — MPF4100.01

Instructor: tba
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1
Sage City Symphony is a community orchestra which invites student participation. The Symphony is noted for the policy of commissioning new works by major composers, in some instances student composers, as well as playing the classics. There are openings in the string sections, and occasionally by audition for solo winds and percussion. There will be two concerts each term.

Schoenberg and Stravinsky — MHI2179.01

Instructor: allen shawn
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
In this course we will acquaint ourselves with Igor Stravinsky's explosive early ballets, his stunning neoclassical middle period music and his final serial phase; and we will follow Arnold Schoenberg as he goes from a gorgeous late-nineteenth century idiom that grows out of Wagner and Brahms, to his freely atonal works, his invention of twelve-tone music, and additional works