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Science and Math Fifth Term Seminar — SCMA4105.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: tim schroeder; kathryn montovan
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
This two-credit seminar is required for all fall-term juniors whose Plan significantly involves mathematics or science (other students may register with permission of instructors if background is appropriate). The seminar uses students’ ideas/plans for advanced work as a vehicle for intensive exploration of the scientific process. We will look at the research methods employed
Science Mathematics and Computing

Sculptural Equilibrium: Containers for Ikebana — CER4206.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: yoko inoue
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Understanding the form of a container is an integral part of the aesthetic reconfiguration of nature in Ikebana. The concept of activating an interior architectural space with collected cut plants and their arrangement stems from ancient Japanese animism. The container is considered a mysterious receptacle for the sustainability of life and acts as a symbolic focal point in its
Visual Arts Modules: Transferable Approaches

Second Language and Culture Acquisition — EDU2521.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: peter jones
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Language and cultural learning are potentially transformative, yet can seem evanescent, elusive, and difficult to name and deliberately provide for. What conditions contribute to second language and cultural learning? How does schooling both enable and constrain, opportunities for learning? We pay attention to the linguistic and non-linguistic conditions and outcomes of
Education

Senior Projects — LIT4795.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: michael dumanis
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
For seniors working on special projects or senior theses. Each student will devote the term to completing the draft of a unified manuscript--typically 75 pages of fiction or creative nonfiction, 50 pages of criticism, 30 pages of poetry, or a lengthy translation project. Each week, the class will critique individual manuscripts-in-progress. These peer critiques will be
Literature

Sensation and Movement in the Ocean — Canceled

Fall 2014
Instructor: david edelman
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
How do marine animals negotiate the challenges of a complex, ever changing, and often dangerous, environment? How can we make sense of the rich repertoires of sensory and motor adaptations that are found among the diverse multicellular creatures that have evolved in the oceans over more than half a billion years? Finally, what kinds of nervous system innovations coincided with
Science Mathematics and Computing

Setting the Stage — DRA2128.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: michael giannitti
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
A set design communicates lots of information to an audience, and provides the physical world in which a performance takes place. Students in this course will work through the process of designing a stage set. Basic design principles and conceptualization, play analysis, theatrical style, research, drafting and model making will all be covered. Students will be expected to read
Drama

Shakespeare: The Poetry — LIT2218.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: camille guthrie
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
"What is your substance, whereof are you made, That millions of strange shadows on you tend?" Sonnet 53 In this course we will immerse ourselves in the major works of Shakespeare's poetry: the Sonnets; his Neoclassical poems, Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece; A Lover's Complaint; and several poems from the plays. While we expand our understanding of Shakespeare's
Literature

Simple Book Multiples — PRI4238.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: thorsten dennerline
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
In this course we will begin to explore the many possibilities of the book as an artist's medium. Students will make books, but also study other artists' work in order to understand the extremely broad range of options and approaches that can be taken to making artists' books. In this rigorous course, students will make a series of book projects. This will be achieved in 7
Visual Arts

Sister City Project — APA2110.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: susie ibarra
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
In this course, ¿­ÐýÃŹÙÍø students will participate in the research, design, and development of a sister city project between Tagum City and ¿­ÐýÃŹÙÍø, Vermont. Situated in the heart of a rich agricultural island, Mindanao in the Philippines, Tagum City is known as a city that is progressive in education as well as a music capital of the Philippines. 20 minutes from central
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Skillshare: Ceramics as a Tool for Placemaking — VA4111.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: yoko inoue
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
The contemporary art world has shown a renewed interest in collective activities and collaborative initiatives that focus on activism as well as reshaping or inventing new educational formats in recent years. We will explore the concept of placemaking and consider ways to use the distinctive utilitarian aspects of ceramics in creating a place where people with various skills
Visual Arts

Social Innovation Entrepreneurship — MOD2144.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: alison dennis
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1
Calling all innovators, catalysts and designers: this three-week module is for students interested in the process of developing creative solutions and ventures in response to societal needs. Participants are invited, as individuals or teams, to enter the workshop with a specific social or environmental issue or area of interest, from campus or community issues to national and
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Social Marketing — MOD2147.03

Fall 2014
Instructor: alison dennis
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1
The everyday choices we make as citizens and consumers directly impact human and environmental health. From the food we eat to the clothing we wear, each choice has upstream and downstream impacts. The more global our society becomes, the more challenging it is to understand the impacts of our choices and to make informed decisions. This three-week module will explore social
CAPA Modules: Transferable Approaches

Social Practices in Art — DA4103.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: robert ransick
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Social practices in art incorporates many diverse strategies from tactical media, online networking, manifestos, street interventions, social sculpture, design, performance, activism, open systems, public discourse and more. In this course we examine the history of social practice and focus in on current practitioners. Students work collaboratively on projects that critically
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Song Production — MSR4362.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: tba
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
How does a song idea make its way from a composer's imagination to a CD that plays on your home stereo or computer? How do choices regarding instrumentation, song structure, sonic identity, and musical performance bring a song to life? In what ways do those choices affect how a piece of music is experienced? Throughout this course we'll be thinking about those questions as we
Music

Song Production Workshop — MSR4105.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: david baron
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
Take a song from idea to production. We'll cover concepts of recording, arrangement, performance, and production. How do you communicate with an artist or ensemble to get the best results? How do you record an ensemble with the bigger picture in mind? What is reverb and why do Brooklyn bands use so much of it? This course is for students with previous work in recording.
Music

Special Projects — HIS4750.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: eileen scully
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course is an opportunity for students to pursue individual and collaborative interdisciplinary independent projects, whether in the exploratory phase or already underway. In early weeks, we workshop and finalize project ideas to produce individual contracts. These contracts include arrangements for each student to receive preliminary consultation on proposals and
Social Science

Special Projects in Advanced Japanese — JPN4705.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: ikuko yoshida
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course is designed for students to research/complete a project in their field of study/interest. In order to take this course, students are required to write a proposal of their project and be accepted by the instructor. Advanced level. Conducted in Japanese.
Languages

String Chamber Ensemble — MPF4235.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: kaori washiyama
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
Music for string ensemble to be selected according to number and level of participants. Students must have significant previous instrumental training and previous experience. Corequisite: Must participate in Music Workshop (Tuesday, 6:30 - 8pm).
Music

Style and Tone in Nonfiction Writing — LIT2104.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: wayne hoffmann-ogier
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This introductory course focuses on the weekly writing of extended essays, including nonfiction narrative, personal essay, literary criticism, research writing, and the analytical essay. It gives particular attention to developing individual voice and command of the elements of style. The class incorporates group editing in a workshop setting with an emphasis on re-writing. It
Literature

Swift and Pope — LIT4252.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: brooke allen
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This class will concentrate on the Augustan authors Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) and Alexander Pope (1688-1744). We will read many of the two writers' major works: from Pope, Essay on Criticism, Essay on Man, The Rape of the Lock, The Dunciad, Imitations of Horace, Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot, and Moral Essays; from Swift, Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal, Journal to Stella,
Literature

Symmetry — MAT4138.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: andrew mcintyre
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Symmetry is a central theme of modern mathematics and theoretical physics. The intuitive idea of symmetry has been abstracted by mathematicians in to a more powerful, general concept - group theory - by means of which we can analyze symmetries, not only of faces and snowflakes, but also of equations or mathematical structures. Mathematicians before the nineteenth century had
Science Mathematics and Computing

The Actor's Instrument — Section 1 - DRA2170.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: jenny rohn
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
The craft of acting will be the main focus of this class. Through physical and vocal warm-up exercises, sensory exploration, improvisation, scene work, and extensive reading students will be asked to develop an awareness of their own unique instrument as actors and learn to trust their inner impulses where this is concerned. Extensive out of class preparation of specific
Drama

The Actor's Instrument — Section 2 - DRA2170.02

Fall 2014
Instructor: dina janis
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
The craft of acting will be the main focus of this class. Through physical and vocal warm-up exercises, sensory exploration, improvisation, scene work, and extensive reading students will be asked to develop an awareness of their own unique instrument as actors and learn to trust their inner impulses where this is concerned. Extensive out of class preparation of specific
Drama

The Art of Acoustic Recording — MSR4052.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: tba
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Building on the fundamentals developed in MSR2152 Beginning Workshop in Recording, this class will focus on specific techniques for creating quality recordings of a wide variety of instruments. We will develop an understanding of the sonic and musical properties that make each instrument unique as well as techniques for working with live instrumentalists and vocalists in the
Music

The Art of Mediation and Negotiation — MED2107.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: daniel michaelson
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
In this class we will explore the basic elements of conflict resolution. We will learn and observe the differences between mediation, negotiation, and court processes. We will examine which behaviors escalate conflicts, and which ones build lasting foundations of peace. Incorporated into this class is a certified twenty-hour training in basic mediation skills, including active
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