Course Listing | ��Ź�� College

Fall 2016

Fiddle — MIN2227.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: John Kirk

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Credits: 2

For the experienced (2+ years of playing) violinist. Lessons in traditional styles of fiddling: Quebecois, New England, Southern Appalachian, Cajun, Irish, and Scottish. This tutorial is designed to heighten awareness of the variety of ways the violin is played regionally and socially in North America (and indeed around the world these days) and to give practical music skills

Music

First-Year Dance Intensive — DAN2107.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Terry Creach

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Credits: 4

Primarily for first-years, but for any student who has a serious interest in dance, whether or not they have previous dance experience. We will consider many aspects of dance making, including an investigation of the physical sensations and impulses that inform our moving; the development of one’s own physical awareness and movement skills; improvisational structures that test

Dance

Food in Italy — ITA2114.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Barbara Alfano

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Credits: 4

In many ways, Italy is a country made of its food in and outside of its national borders. If, after more than one hundred and fifty years from the birth of the nation, Italians are still debating whether or not they can relate to one specific national identity, they have no doubt about this when it comes to the dining table. In this course, you will learn about Italian food

Languages

Forests: An Introduction to Ecology and Evolution (with lab) — BIO2109.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Kerry Woods

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Credits: 4

New England is one of the most heavily forested regions in the United States. 14,000 years ago it was covered by ice. When humans arrived about 11,000 years ago, they found forests already established — and began reshaping the landscape through hunting and fire and, beginning about 2000 years ago, farming. European colonists caused further ecological change by expanding

Science and Mathematics Environment

Form and Process: Investigations in Painting — PAI2107.02; section 2

Fall 2016

Instructor: J Blackwell

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Credits: 4

This course introduces a variety of materials, techniques and approaches to painting. Emphasis is placed on developing and understanding of color, form and space as well as individual research and conceptual concerns. The daily experience of seeing, along with the history of art, provides a base from which investigations are made. Formal, poetic, and social implications within

Visual Arts

Form and Process: Investigations in Painting — PAI2107.01; section 1

Fall 2016

Instructor: Ann Pibal

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Credits: 4

Visual Arts

Foundations of Photography: Digital Practice — PHO2153.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Liz White

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Credits: 4

This course offers an overview of foundational tools and techniques in digital photographic practice. Students will learn to shoot with digital SLR cameras, process raw files in Lightroom, make local adjustments, retouch, and composite images in Photoshop, properly scan negatives, and produce digital portfolios and high quality inkjet prints. In addition to technical

Visual Arts

France Contemporaine: Race, Classe et Religion — FRE4502.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly

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Credits: 4

This course will explore socio-political issues of contemporary France. Themes will include the end of World War II and the disintegration of the French colonial empire. The period also produced migration waves originating from newly independent, post-colonial territories. The presence of these migrants and their offspring has profoundly transformed French

Languages

From Mary Wollstonecraft to Rachel Zucker: Toward a Postmodern Matriarchy — LIT2508.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Elisa Albert

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Credits: 4

As the 21st century awakens to the human rights issues within childbearing and rearing, Wollstonecraft and Zucker can serve as illuminating bookends. From the Vindication of The Rights of Women to Home/Birth: A Poemic, poetry and prose will help guide our understanding of an essential movement toward a politically and spiritually evolved biological feminism.

Literature

GANAS — APA4154.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher

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Credits: 4

Combining a study of language, immigration and public action, GANAS remains a community-driven, cross-cultural association that provides students with volunteer opportunities to engage with the predominantly undocumented Latino migrant worker population. These opportunities are facilitated through partnerships with organizations such as the Vermont Migrant Education

CAPA

Gender, Race, and Fashion in Western Portraiture: 1500-1950 — AH4106.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Vanessa Lyon

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Credits: 4

For elite early modern sitters, portraits were a valued means of constructing a public image, securing a spouse, memorializing the dead, and emphasizing political and dynastic relationships. Taking as our point of departure period notions of likeness, otherness, and verisimilitude, we will investigate the problems of portrayal through various thematic subgenres as they

Visual Arts

Genome Jumpstart: An Introduction to Bioinformatic Analysis — BIO2117.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Amie McClellan

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Credits: 4

This course offers an immersive experience into the world of DNA, genes, and genomes in eukaryotic organisms. In addition to getting a grasp of the foundational biology, we will become familiar with the computational algorithms and methodologies used to analyze and mine the ever-increasing data generated from whole-genome sequencing, high-throughput proteomic analyses,

Science and Mathematics

Geology of the ��Ź�� Region — ES2101.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Tim Schroeder

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Credits: 4

The stunning landscapes seen from ��Ź��’s campus were sculpted by geologic processes over millions of years. ��Ź�� College lies near an ancient boundary, along which the Proto-North American continent’s coast collided with other continental fragments over 400 million years ago to build the continent as we see today. The ��Ź�� region is an excellent natural

Science and Mathematics Environment

Global Challenges: How ��Ź�� Confronts the World — APA2138.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Noah Coburn

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Credits: 2

��Ź�� College can seem far removed from many of the pressing global concerns of our time, and yet we also have faculty members and students whose research, art, and activism link ��Ź�� to the outside world. Through fieldwork term, study abroad, and other experiences, we all interact with the political, economic, and social concerns of our time--by analyzing

CAPA

GLocalization 101: Governing Globalized Localities — APA2129.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Eileen Scully

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Credits: 4

"GLocalization" is an ongoing phenomenon. It has been described as a re-scaling of state power in the midst of geopolitical fragmentation and reconfiguration. Moving upward, we see nation-states delegating responsibility and sovereignty to international bodies. Moving downward, we see central governments devolving power and functions to state and "megapolitan" regional

CAPA Environment Society Culture and Thought

Graduate Assistantship in Dance — DAN5301.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Terry Creach

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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 2016

Instructor: Dana Reitz

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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 2016

Instructor: Kitty Brazelton

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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

History of Animation — MA2137.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Sue Rees

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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 Medicine: From Hippocrates to Harvey — HIS2183.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Carol Pal

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Credits: 4

How did pre-modern culture understand the human body? How did it work? Where did it fit in the Great Chain of Being, and what differentiated men from women? Medicine has always been a hybrid of thinking, seeing, knowing, and doing. But what defined medicine in the past? Was it a science, an art, or a random assortment of practices? Between the age of Hippocrates and the

Society Culture and Thought

History of Theater I — DRA2156.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Jean Randich

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Credits: 4

This course offers an introduction to the history and development of world theater and drama. We will experience the dynamic pageant of theater history through an exploration of its conventions and aesthetics, as well as its social and cultural functions. In the fall of 2016, we will study theater history from antiquity through the nineteenth century, reading representative

Drama

Honors Seminar: The Man Without Qualities — LIT4283.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Ben Anastas

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Credits: 4

The Austrian writer Robert Musil (1880-1942) never lived to complete his multi-volume Modernist masterpiece The Man Without Qualities. Conceived of as an ironic epitaph to the culture of Mitteleuropa that slid blindly into the catastrophe of the First World War, the novel--and its author--became embroiled in the dark upheavals that would lead to another suicidal conflict

Literature

House for the 21st Century: Advanced Studio — ARC4158.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Anthony Titus

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Credits: 4

Architectural Design studio builds upon the lessons of subsequent design studio skills and the processes of critical inquiry, specifically as it relates to architectural investigations. These processes will be seen as interrelated and always informed by the societal, technological, and historical contexts within which architects work. The technological aspects

Visual Arts

How Do Animals Work? (with lab) — BIO2102.01

Fall 2016

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Credits: 4

The blue whale in the Pacific, the tapeworm lodged in the gut of a fox, and the flour beetle in your cupboard all must eat and grow and reproduce yet they differ enormously in size, longevity, and environment. The particular ways in which each of these animals has solved these problems are different yet there are also underlying similarities in their solutions. Evolutionary

Science and Mathematics

Human Neuroscience and Psychophysiology Projects — PSY4225.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Harlan Fichtenholtz

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Credits: 2

Students will investigate the relationship between psychological constructs and physiological responses through term long research projects. Equipment is available for students to collect data from multiple modalities including, cardiovascular function (electrocardiogram, ECG), muscle responses (electromyogram, EMG), neural responses (electroencephalogram, EEG ERP), eye

Society Culture and Thought