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Fall 2016

Minds and Machines — PHI2138.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Kimberly Van Orman

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Credits: 4

This course will introduce some key ideas from the philosophy of mind and focus on how they can help us understand the nature of minds and conscious experience. Topics will include: animal minds, persons, artificial intelligence, free will, perception and conscious experience. Questions we will focus on include: What is the relationship between our mind and body, and what

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Modern Guitar — MIN4224.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Hui Cox

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Credits: 2

Individual training is available in jazz, modern and classical guitar technique and repertoire, song accompaniment (finger style), improvisation, and arranging and composing for the guitar. Course material is tailored to the interests and level of the individual student.

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Movement Practice: Advanced Dance Technique — DAN4344.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Dana Reitz

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Credits: 2

This advanced movement class will develop from simple skeletal mobility sequences to expansive movement forms. The warm-up will examine the joints and how their range of motion relates to alignment, readiness to move, and articulation. We will explore release and abandon to gravity as a means to move, throwing and catching our bodies in space. Working towards ease and

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Movement Practice: Advanced-Intermediate Dance Technique — DAN4351.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Dana Reitz

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Credits: 2

This advanced intermediate course is designed for students who have already taken intermediate level technique and are ready to tackle more complex forms. The class will begin with a warm up that is based on grounding, locating, and mobilizing all of our parts. We will then put these new found tools to use in executing large moving phrases that will simplify and clarify as well

Dance

Movement Practice: Beginning Dance Technique — DAN2121.01; section 1

Fall 2016

Instructor: Elena Demyanenko

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Credits: 2

For those looking for a Basic movement class. We begin with a slow warm-up focused on anatomical landmarks, muscular systems and basic alignment principles, but then progress to vigorous, rhythmic movement patterns and group forms. We work to strengthen and articulate the body through longer movement phrases focused on weight shifting, changes of direction, and dynamic changes

Dance

Movement Practice: Beginning Dance Technique — DAN2121.02; section 2

Fall 2016

Instructor: Dana Reitz

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Credits: 2

This beginning dance technique class requires no previous dance training. We will investigate and explore our bodies as tools for making work. The warm up will consist of movement exercises that focus on the joints, bones, muscles, and energetic pathways. This initial work will develop into larger phrase material that emphasizes rhythm, moves through space and modulates

Dance

Movement Practice: Beginning-Intermediate Technique — DAN2119.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Dana Reitz

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Credits: 2

For those looking for a basic intermediate movement class. We will begin with a slow warm-up focusing on our body's relationship to gravity and basic alignment principles, progressing to larger more vigorous movement patterns and forms. We will work towards developing our articulation through movement phrases focused on shifts of weight, changes of direction, and dynamic

Dance

Music Composition Intensive — MCO4801.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Allen Shawn

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Credits: 2

Open to students who have good notational skills, have taken other composition classes, and are ready to compose in longer forms and with more varied instrumentation than previously attempted.

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Music Maps — MTH4115.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Bruce Williamson

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Credits: 2

Time is precious. Memories are fleeting. Music is sound-in-time, so how can we most efficiently remember and teach others our musical ideas? In this course, the basics of chart writing and music notation will be explored by looking at examples of various simple maps that indicate form, melody, harmony (chord symbols) and essential rhythmic figures, then by creating our own lead

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Musique et Résistance — FRE4801.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly

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Credits: 4

Coming from the United States, Hip Hop culture arrived in France in the early 1980s. Since then, France has become one of the world’s most dynamic sites of production and consumption of Hip Hop cultures. With a focus on rap music, the course will delve into how social, political-economic, and historical issues of contemporary France have continuously

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Night of the Johnstown Flood — HIS2405.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Eileen Scully

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Credits: 4

On the afternoon of May 31, 1889 the people of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, heard "a roar like thunder," as the South Fork Dam broke high above them, unleashing 20 million tons of water in walls up to 60 feet high and speeds of 40 miles per hour. Initial casualties were 2,200 people, making it one of the worst national disasters in 19th-century America. Though the

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Normality and Abnormality: Defining the Limits — PSY2206.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: David Anderegg

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Credits: 4

This course is an examination of the idea of normality as a central organizing principle in psychology. We begin with an effort to define normality and/or psychological health, and then move on to examine the limits or borders of normality. The course examines the value-laden, historically determined, and political nature of psychological normality. Topics discussed include:

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Not Quite Passing: Understanding Racial Identity in America — LIT2254.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Michael Dumanis

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Credits: 4

In this class, students will confront the idea of “passing,” which is what happens when someone tries to get something tangible to improve their daily quality of life by occupying a space meant for someone else. Passing can happen in any context (you can pass for another gender, social class, or sexual orientation), but most often occurs in the context of race. This course

Literature

Noticing, Choosing and Writing to Describe — MOD2107.03

Fall 2016

Instructor: Dana Reitz

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Credits: 1

When looking at an object, watching something moving, experiencing the sound of an occurrence, witnessing an interaction between people, or noticing the surrounding circumstance of any object or event – how do we choose what we see? What are we not choosing? And how do we attempt to speak or write about it? Focusing on any events or objects, not intentionally art, we will

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Noticing, Choosing and Writing to Describe — MOD2107.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Dana Reitz

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Credits: 1

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Observational Astronomy — PHY2109.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Hugh Crowl

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Credits: 4

All information that astronomers are able to gather about the universe comes in the form of light. In this class, we will study how astronomers extract information about the universe from the light that reaches Earth, with a particular focus on the size, structure, and evolution of stars. Students will be expected to become familiar with the nighttime sky, the

Science and Mathematics

Painting the Extended Field — PAI4303.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Melissa Thorne

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Credits: 4

This course takes its name from a pivotal painting exhibition held in Sweden in 1997. In this show, the curators attempted to question the parameters of Painting, and to track “Painterly” qualities in other media. Since at least the mid-20th Century, artists have experimented with an elastic definition of painting -- as a form that can be sculptural,

Visual Arts

Pathways: An Introduction to Writing Essays — LIT2393.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Wayne Hoffmann-Ogier

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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

Personal Narrative, The Photograph and Psychoanalysis — PHO4254.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Rachelle Mozman

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Credits: 4

The course will explore making and using photographs, created or found, that develop our personal stories as a platform to address social, political or public dialogues. The unconscious mind is revealed through narrative and symbols. We will be thinking about our unconscious as housing memories that structure our stories and this relationship to imagery, collective memory and

Visual Arts

Philosophical Reasoning — PHI2109.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Paul Voice

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Credits: 4

What is the difference between belief and knowledge? What is truth? What is the mind? 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 philosophy - knowledge,

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Philosophy and Biography: Wittgenstein — PHI4105.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Paul Voice

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Credits: 4

Ludwig Wittgenstein is one of the most influential and important of twentieth century philosophers and one of its most enigmatic characters. In this course you will read two of Wittgenstein's central works, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and Philosophical Investigations. We will arrive at a detailed understanding of Wittgenstein's philosophy, its themes, arguments

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Philosophy of Science — PHI2130.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Kimberly Van Orman

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Credits: 4

Science provides a particular way of knowing about our world. In this course we will examine the benefits, pitfalls and limits of this knowledge. Topics will include the nature of scientific explanation, causation, and how those ideas can help us distinguish science from pseudoscience. We will discuss questions such as whether science is objective and whether it’s

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Photography, Visual Culture and the Internet — PHO4253.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Oliver Wasow

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Credits: 4

This class will explore the increasingly important relationship between visual culture and the Internet. with an emphasis on understanding the profound effect the shift from analog to digital technology has had on how we make, look at, talk about and distribute images in contemporary culture. Focusing on the myriad ways in which individuals and social organizations engage

Visual Arts

Physics I: Forces and Motion (with lab) — PHY2235.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Hugh Crowl

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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 and Mathematics

Piano — MIN4333.04; section 4

Fall 2016

Instructor: Matthew Edwards

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Credits: 2

One-on-one lessons, scheduled individually, available to students with previous study. Corequisites: Must participate in Music Workshop (Tuesday, 6:30 - 8pm).

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