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Orchestration — MUS4013.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Nick Brooke
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
A primer in orchestration, for students who are selected to write for Sage City Symphony for their March 2016 concert. We will pore over the 19th and 20th century orchestral repertoire, getting to know instruments, ranges, and agilities. Analysis, piano reduction, and orchestration from grand staff will be used to internalize and hear orchestration
Music

Origins of the English Novel — LIT4145.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Annabel Davis-Goff
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
The first English novel appeared more than a hundred years after the publication, and translation into English, of Don Quixote. Where did the English novel come from? And how did it develop? We will read the works of Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, and excerpts from those who came before them. Students will write two essays. Corequisite: Students are required to be in
Literature

Packaging the Body: The History of Fashion — DRA2223.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Charles Schoonmaker
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This class will examine the history of fashion, primarily in the western world, from ancient to modern. The class will be oriented towards the use of historic costume by costume designers. Students will explore art works illustrative of the period styles and the interpretation of those styles by designers, often in films. We will also contextualize clothing as a part of social
Drama

Paganism — HIS4107.02

Fall 2015
Instructor: Stephen Higa
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
When the Roman Empire became Christian early in the 4th century, traditional Greco-Roman religions as well as the various local and indigenous religions of Europe and the Mediterranean were all lumped into one new category of difference and otherness:  the pagan.  In this seven-week course, we will examine the creation of "paganism" by the early medieval Christian
Society Culture and Thought

Painting Studio — PAI4204.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Ann Pibal
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course will provide the student a broad platform from which to continue investigations in painting. Emphasis will be placed on cultivating individual research and conceptual concerns as well as the continued development of an understanding of color, form, and space. The daily experience of looking, along with the history of art will provide a base from which investigations
Visual Arts

Paris on Screen : Tradition and Modernity — FRE4117.02; section 2

Fall 2015
Instructor: Stephen Shapiro
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
In this intermediate-low level course, we will study the representation of the city of Paris on film in order to examine modernityʹs challenges to tradition. In particular, we will focus on the question of how urban communities and city dwellers react to increasing disconnectedness, anonymity, and solitude. Films will include Tanguy, La Haine, Chacun cherche son
Languages

Paris on Screen : Tradition and Modernity — FRE4117.01; section 1

Fall 2015
Instructor: Stephen Shapiro
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
In this intermediate-low level course, we will study the representation of the city of Paris on film in order to examine modernityʹs challenges to tradition. In particular, we will focus on the question of how urban communities and city dwellers react to increasing disconnectedness, anonymity, and solitude. Films will include Tanguy, La Haine, Chacun cherche son chat, Paris,
Languages

Partnering Projects — DAN4242.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Terry Creach
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
For those with some prior dance training and a particular interest in the weight-oriented physicality of partnering.  We will develop based partnering skills by creating collaborative compositions that involved weight sharing, cause-and-effect interactions, momentum and timing.  We will work to develop material to be performed informally at the end of the term.
Dance

Pathways: An Introduction To Writing Essays — LIT2393.01

Fall 2015
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

Peacebuilding Seminar —

Fall 2015
Instructor: Vahidin Omanovic with Susan Sgorbati
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1
This Module will serve as an introduction to the work of Peacebuilding around the world, both in theory and practice. From looking at a case study of the Center for Peacebuilding in Sanski Most, Bosnia, the context of the conflict will be explored in depth as well as approaches to building sustainable structures in civil society that cross boundaries of ethnicity and religion.

Performance Production: Daughters of Io — DRA4306.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Kathleen Dimmick
Days & Time: TBA
Credits:
Greek Tragedy comes to ¿­ÐýÃŹÙÍø as Collegiate Comedy! In the fall of 2015 Drama will present Daughters of Io, Quincy Longʹs adaptation of Aeschylus’ The Suppliant Women. In Long’s comic version of the classic Greek play, local milkmaids beset by bestial farm boys seek sanctuary on the campus of a progressive women’s college in rural 1930’s New England. Eight women play twenty
Drama

Performance Project: Not Knowing — DAN4108.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Jian Dai (MFA Teaching Fellow, supervised by Terry Creach Dana Reitz)
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
I know I don’t know what I know or don’t know. I start with the passion to make something. I don’t know what it will be.  I like the process of learning and searching, understanding myself more as I work through it. Who am I? What do I want? What makes me interested? What can I make? Who are these people who work with me? Starting from scratch, without a particular image
Dance

Persons, Groups, and Environments — PSY2141.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Ronald Cohen
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
We spend much of our time in the presence of others, and all of our time in particular spaces. This course will examine several psychological and sociological perspectives on social interaction– how people think, feel, and act in the presence of others–and how the particular spaces in which interaction occurs affect it. We will focus on the following issues 1. obedience,
Environment Society Culture and Thought

Philosophical Reasoning — PHI2109.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Karen Gover
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
Society Culture and Thought

Photographic Portraiture: Friends and Strangers — PHO4262.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Elizabeth White
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This studio/ seminar explores historical and contemporary practices in photographic portraiture, considering how photographers negotiate their relationships with their subjects and reflect on notions of identity. Assignments invite students to explore formal and conceptual strategies while readings provide theoretical context and encourage critical thinking about questions of
Visual Arts

Photography Foundation — PHO2302.02

Fall 2015
Instructor: Jonathan Kline
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
What does it mean to study photography at ¿­ÐýÃŹÙÍø? 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 — PHO2302.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Jonathan Kline
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
What does it mean to study photography at ¿­ÐýÃŹÙÍø? 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 Zeros and Ones — PHO4126.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Elizabeth White
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Designed for students who have experience working with manual cameras and printing in the darkroom, this course offers an overview of tools and techniques basic to digital photographic practice and invites students to think critically about photography’s uses in to contemporary digital culture. Students will learn to shoot with digital SLR cameras, process raw files in
Visual Arts

Physics I: Forces and Motion — PHY2235.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Hugh Crowl
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Physics is the study of what Newton called "the System of the World." 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

Piano — MIN4333.02; section 2

Fall 2015
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 (T. 6:30-8:00pm)
Music

Piano — MIN4333.03; section 3

Fall 2015
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 (T 6:30pm–8:00pm).
Music

Piano — MIN4333.04; section 4

Fall 2015
Instructor: Matthew Edwards
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
One-on-one lessons, scheduled individually, available to students with previous study. Corequisite: Attendance at Music Workshop T 6:30pm-8:00pm
Music

Piano Lab 1 — MIN2232.01; section 1

Fall 2015
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. Corequisite: Attend Music Workshop (T 6:30pm-8:00pm)
Music