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Glaze Chemistry — CANCELLED

Fall 2015
Instructor: David Katz
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
This course will focus on the exploration of fired ceramic surfaces and the fundamentals of formulating glazes for use in ceramic art. An emphasis will be placed on understanding the chemistry behind glazes and how the molecular breakdown of glaze recipes translates into unique fired surfaces. Through hands on and theoretical approaches students will gain experience developing
Visual Arts

Graduate Assistantship in Dance — DAN5301.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Terry Creach
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Graduate students in Dance are integrated into the dance program as teaching assistants, production assistants or dance archival assistants. In consultation with their academic advisor and the dance faculty, MFA candidates develop an assistantship schedule of approximately ten hours weekly.
Dance

Graduate Research in Dance — DAN5305.01

Fall 2015
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 2015
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

Groundwork: What You Need to Know to Make Music Lab — MFN2110L.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Kitty Brazelton
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 0
This lab is the corequisite two-hour meeting for students enrolled in MFN2110 Groundwork: What You Need to Know to Make Music.  Students meet with instructor and composer intern in smaller groups to focus on individual issues and to collaborate with coaching.  
Music

Hearing Horace: The Music of Horace Silver — MPF4107.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Bruce Williamson
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
This will be a performance-oriented ensemble that will focus on the songs of jazz composer and pianist Horace Silver (1928-2014). As a young musician, Silver played with Charlie Parker, Miles Davis and Art Blakey. He formed his own hard-bop group in the 1950s and from then on he was a mentor to talented up-and-coming jazz artists such as trumpeters Donald Byrd, Woody Shaw &
Music

Higher Education in the United States: Exploring Purpose and Practice — APA2209.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Lydia Brassard
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course invites students to consider university and college life in the contemporary United States, focusing on where and how theory and practice align, overlap, and diverge. In an effort to actively confront and map the so-called “Ź Bubble,” Ź College will serve as an anchoring case study through which to consider the course’s themes.
CAPA

Historical Grievances and Retrospective Redress — APA2124.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Eileen Scully
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1
Using readings and role plays focused around a case study involving Turkey, Armenia, and Azerbaijan, we will explore and develop successful mediation strategies for working with parties in conflict over contested memories and historical grievances. Students will become familiar with mediation fundamentals, and test out ideas and approaches in the emerging field of historical
CAPA Modules: Transferable Approaches

History of Animation — MA2137.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Sue Rees
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
We will study past and present styles of animation, and examine animations from the 1800′s through the present. Early devices used to create moving images, through to contemporary artists and production companies such as The Brothers Quay, William Kentridge, Aardman Productions, and Pixar, will be investigated. The class will consist of film screenings, primarily focusing on
Visual Arts

History of Theater II: Modern Drama — DRA2154.01

Fall 2015
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 2015 we will read representative plays from the modern canon, beginning with the experiments in Naturalism in the nineteenth century through twentieth century modernism to the contemporary drama of today. Along with the
Drama Literature

Honors Seminar "The Invention of the Nineteenth Century": Readings in Balzac — LIT4329.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Marguerite Feitlowitz
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Oscar Wilde liked to say that Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) invented the 19th century. The Human Comedy (La Comédie Humaine) comprises approximately 3,000 characters in a total of 92 novels, sketches, stories, and philosophical tales. For the first time in the history of the novel, characters recur—a star of one book may reappear as a minor figure in the intricate social
Literature

Honors Seminar: Theory and Practice of Dramaturgy — CANCELLED

Fall 2015
Instructor: Kathleen Dimmick
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
In this course weʹll look at the history and practice of dramaturgy and introduce some tools and methods of that practice, including text analysis, editing, and adaptation. Along with assignments on individual texts, students will observe rehearsals in DRA4376 Directing II and prepare rehearsal notes. The studentʹs major work for the term will be the preparation of a Protocol,
Drama Literature

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

Fall 2015
Instructor: Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly
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

InSights: Digitally Fabricated Site-Specific Installations — VA4217.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Karolina Kawiaka
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Site-specific sculpture and installations transform a place according to the sculptor's vision. Sculptors such as Robert Smithson, Christo Jeanne-Claude, Andy Goldsworthy and James Turrell use the inspiration from a specific site to make an intervention. A new generation of this type of work is emerging using digital tools. In this course students will collaborate in teams to
Visual Arts

Instrument Building — MUS4014.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Nick Brooke
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
A course on modern instrument building, focusing on experimental instruments and unheard-of sounds. A survey will introduce students to the innovations of Harry Partch, new gamelans, circuit bending, and interfaced instruments. Students are required to design, construct, and perform on at least two different instruments during the term. Students will be asked to be critical
Music

Intermediate Violin/Viola — MIN4232.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Kaori Washiyama
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
Basic techniques will be include  the reading of music in various keys. Hand positions with the basic left hand-sifting will be shown, and a rudimentary facility with the bow will be developed in order that all students may participate in simple ensemble performances by end of the term.  
Music

Intermediate Voice — MVO4301.02; section 2

Fall 2015
Instructor: Kerry Ryer-Parke
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
For students of varying levels of singing ability. Vocal production and physiology will be discussed. Group warm-ups and vocalizations will incorporate exercises to develop breath control, resonance, projection, range, color, and agility. The fundamental concepts of singing will be explored in the preparation of specific song assignments. Personalization of text and emotional
Music

Intermediate Voice — MVO4301.03; section 3

Fall 2015
Instructor: Thomas Bogdan
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
For students of varying levels of singing ability. Vocal production and physiology will be discussed. Group warm-ups and vocalizations will incorporate exercises to develop breath control, resonance, projection, range, color, and agility. The fundamental concepts of singing will be explored in the preparation of specific song assignments. Personalization of text and emotional
Music

Intermediate Voice — MVO4301.04; section 4

Fall 2015
Instructor: Thomas Bogdan
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
For students of varying levels of singing ability. Vocal production and physiology will be discussed. Group warm-ups and vocalizations will incorporate exercises to develop breath control, resonance, projection, range, color, and agility. The fundamental concepts of singing will be explored in the preparation of specific song assignments. Personalization of text and emotional
Music

Intermediate Voice — MVO4301.01; section 1

Fall 2015
Instructor: Kerry Ryer-Parke
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
For students of varying levels of singing ability. Vocal production and physiology will be discussed. Group warm-ups and vocalizations will incorporate exercises to develop breath control, resonance, projection, range, color, and agility. The fundamental concepts of singing will be explored in the preparation of specific song assignments. Personalization of text and emotional
Music

International Human Rights —

Fall 2015
Instructor: Andrea Galindo and Susan Sgorbati
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1
Human rights are universal legal guarantees that protect individuals and groups against actions that interfere with fundamental freedoms and human dignity. Under international human rights law, States have the responsibility to respect, protect and fulfill human rights for all. If this obligations are not met, international legal action can be taken. Based on the international

Introduction to Game Programming — CS2121.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Justin Vasselli
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Once thought to be the pastime of pimple-faced boys and testosterone-pumped young men, today video games are enjoyed by people of all ages, regardless of gender. The rising popularity of smartphones and ubiquity of the internet have greatly broadened the reach of the medium, and have simultaneously made it easier for smaller and smaller teams to publish their games.
Science Mathematics and Computing

Introduction to Harmony — MTH2128.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Nick Brooke
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
A nuts‐and‐bolts overview of tonal harmony, from scales and chords to voice leading. At first we’ll focus on the harmonic practices of Classical and Baroque music, later broadening our focus to a variety of pop, jazz, and contemporary music. Emphasis will be placed on creative work, and students will be asked to compose and perform pieces in a variety of harmonic styles. Ear
Music

Introduction to Mathematical Structures and Logical Reasoning — MAT2101.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Andrew McIntyre
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This introductory course is intended to serve as a foundation, and will be a prerequisite for many other advanced mathematics courses. The focus will be on mathematics for its own sake, rather than for applications. There will be an overview of the history of mathematics, an introduction to modern mathematical logical structures and concepts, and work on strategies for problem
Science Mathematics and Computing

Introduction to Microeconomics — PEC2217.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Mohammad Moeini Feizabadi
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
An introduction to economics as a social science for students with essentially no background in economics, this course provides an overview of the tools that Neoclassical economists use to investigate the behavior of individual consumers and business firms in markets. The course starts with examining consumer choice, production decisions, and income distribution. We then turn
Society Culture and Thought