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Fall 2017

Introduction to Video — FV2303.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Karthik Pandian

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Credits: 4

This production course introduces students to the fundamentals of working in video and the language of film form. Drawing on the energy, intensity and criticality of avant-garde film and contemporary video art practices, students will complete a series of projects exploring dimensions of cinematography, mise-en-scène, editing and sound design before producing a final self

Visual Arts

Italo Calvino: Narrating the Unfamiliar — ITA4611.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Barbara Alfano

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Credits: 4

The course focuses on Calvino’s novels Le citta` invisibili (1972), Il Castello dei Destini Incrociati (1973), Se una notte d’inverno un viaggiatore (1979), and the autobiographical Eremita a Parigi, a collection of his notes written between 1967 and 1984 when living and traveling abroad. These works narrate of odd and unfamiliar spaces, and of bizarre situations in which

Languages

Javanese Gamelan — MPF2201.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Nick Brooke

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Credits: 2

A practicum in playing and hearing the gamelan, the Central Javanese percussion orchestra. Students will learn about court and local traditions of Indonesia while playing classic works of karawitan (loosely translated as “weaving”), the multilayered repertoire of Central Java. Weekly rehearsals will focus on navigating the intricate levels of irama (rhythm), pathet (tonality),

Music

Jazz Ensemble — MPF4250.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Bruce Williamson

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Credits: 2

This ensemble will perform a wide range of Jazz music (a genre that is constantly evolving), with an emphasis on both ensemble playing and improvisation skills. By playing together, students will learn how blues, swing, latin, and rock elements have all fueled this music called jazz. Students will also learn how major Jazz artists such as Ellington, Monk, Mingus, Wayne Shorter,

Music

Jazz Piano — MIN4237.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Bruce Williamson

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Credits: 2

Weekly private instruction in jazz piano to be arranged with instructor. Explore and develop skills and knowledge required to effectively play non-classical piano repertoire. Styles covered: blues, reggae, salsa, bossa-nova and jazz. Create bass lines, chord voicings, stylistic rhythms, melodies and improvised solos. Auditions will take place on Tuesday, May 16 from 4:30pm - 6

Music

Kafka and Beckett — LIT2273.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Annie Dewitt

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Credits: 4

Often lauded as literary iconoclasts and Modernist visionaries, Franz Kafka and Samuel Beckett are known for "making things strange." This course will examine these writers' signal works alongside their shorter works and diaries. In approaching Kafka, we will explore several of his essays, including: "Letters to My Father," "The Blue Octavio Notebook," and

Literature

Letterpress Printing from Metal, Wood, and Photopolymer — PRI4697.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Thorsten Dennerline

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Credits: 4

In this intermediate level course, we will focus on learning letterpress printing within a framework of making visual art. This can be a precision process and it affords a huge range of possibilities for artists who wish to work with multiples and/or use text in their work. It is a rigorous course and each student will develop and design print projects that develop both their

Visual Arts

Life Drawing Lab — DRW2118.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Colin Brant

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Credits: 2

This class is designed for student artists of any level of experience who wish to hone their skills of observation and drawing. Working primarily with the human figure, students will explore shape, line, form and space, always with an emphasis on possibilities for personal expression. A variety of drawing materials will be introduced. Class time will be divided between drawing

Visual Arts

Linear Algebra — MAT2482.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Andrew McIntyre

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Credits: 4

Together with calculus, linear algebra is one of the foundations of higher level mathematics and its applications. There are several perspectives one can take on linear algebra: it is a method for handling large systems of equations, it is a theory of higher dimensional geometry, and it is a theoretical construct that appears throughout mathematics and physics, among other

Science and Mathematics

Listening: Acting as Crafting the Visual and Listening with Intention — DRA4128.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Gian-Murray Gianino

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Credits: 4

This class gives theater artists the time and space to further develop their understanding of listening as a fundamental tenet of acting and necessary tool. Through exercises and prepared studies of scenes, students will explore listening as defined as absorbing and responding to the truth, moment by moment. Stanislavski's Active Analysis and its relationship to the Viewpoints

Drama

Literary ��Ź�� — LIT2390.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Benjamin Anastas

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Credits: 2

We all know the literary generation that ��Ź�� produced in the 1980s and early 90s: Donna Tartt, Bret Easton Ellis, Jonathan Lethem, and Kiran Desai. But how seriously have we read their work? And what about the illustrious faculty who prepared the literary ground for those who came after: Bernard Malamud, Kenneth Burke, Stanley Edgar Hyman (and his wife the novelist

Literature

Logic, Proofs, Algebra, and Set Theory — MAT2410.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Andrew McIntyre

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Credits: 4

This introductory course will cover key foundations needed for more advanced mathematics; it should also be of interest to students not primarily studying mathematics. Topics will include symbolic logic and rules of inference; how to write mathematical proofs; the beginnings of abstract algebra, including Boolean algebras; extensions of high school polynomial algebra; and set

Science and Mathematics

Mallet Percussion Ensemble — MPF4106.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Michael Wimberly

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Credits: 2

Mallet Percussion Ensemble performs compositions from repertoire arranged for percussion keyboard instruments, which include the Marimba, Xylophone, Glockenspiel, Vibraphone, Balafon and Tubular Bells. The ensemble will learn classical, contemporary, Latin and African music, as well as compose original compositions. No prior experience for playing mallet keyboards is required,

Music

Mandolin — MIN2229.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: John Kirk

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Credits: 2

Beginning, intermediate and advanced group or individual lessons on the mandolin will be offered. Students will learn classical technique on the mandolin and start to develop a repertoire of classical and traditional folk pieces. Simple song sheets with chords, tablature, and standard notation, chord theory, and scale work will all be used to further skills. Students will be

Music

Markmaking and Representation — DRW2149.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Mary Lum

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Credits: 4

The fundamentals of drawing are the basic tools for this investigation into seeing and translation. Using simple methods and means, the practice of drawing is approached from both traditional and experimental directions. The focus of this inquiry is on drawing from observation, broadly defined. In class drawing sessions are complemented by independent, outside of class work and

Visual Arts

Markmaking and Representation — DRW2149.02

Fall 2017

Instructor: Mary Lum

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Credits: 4

Visual Arts

Masters of Style — LIT4362.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Doug Bauer

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Credits: 4

This course is founded on the belief that the way to a writer’s personal style and voice is through the close study, absorption, and imitation of others’. We will be reading and replicating many contemporary master stylists, from Doctorow to DeLillo to Toni Morrison to Denis Johnson to Julie Otsuka, and others. In every case, we will conduct a three-part examination of the work

Literature

Media Archaeology: Signs and Representation — APA2131.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Erika Mijlin

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Credits: 4

An introduction to the study of media technologies and their social impact. We will move somewhat chronologically from the emergence of writing systems through the printing press, photography, and the development of moving images – these mechanical technologies of documentation and communication each initiated a subsequent ripple of social and cultural changes in their time.

CAPA

Metal Shop — SCU2107.02

Fall 2017

Instructor: John Umphlett

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Credits: 2

This seven week intensive metal shop course will involve basic safety instruction for all stationary power tools and hand tools. Demonstrations will be observed and understood before practicing on your own. The following processes will be covered in this course: introduction to the material, oxygen and acetylene cutting and welding, plasma cutting, arc welding (stick), and

Visual Arts

Miles Davis (1926-1991): Jazz Pioneer — MHI2226.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Bruce Williamson

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Credits: 4

This course will study the 40‐year career of legendary jazz trumpeter and innovative band leader Miles Davis. We will examine his beginnings in the Be‐Bop movement as a sideman with Charlie Parker, his two famous quintets (one with John Coltrane and Cannonball Adderley, the other with Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock), his collaborations with arranger Gil Evans, and his

Music

Miles Runs the Voodoo Down: Rock Drumming through a Jazz Lens — MIN2260.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Brian Chase

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Credits: 4

Using the classic Miles Davis track as a reference point, this performance based course will focus on the jazz tradition as establishing the foundation for contemporary drumming styles, particularly that of rock, as well as rhythm-and-blues and modern jazz. Class time will be organized into two main emphases, that of drumming technique and method, and that of drumming

Music

Modern Guitar — MIN4224.01

Fall 2017

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. Corequisites: Attendance at Music Workshop (Tuesday, 6:30 – 8:00 pm). Auditions will take place on Wednesday

Music

Morning Plainchant — MPF2202.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Kitty Brazelton

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Credits: 2

We sing together in the early morning. Every week. Public plainchant from the mass and private chants from the monastic Hours. Latin chants that celebrate Christian feasts, chants that echo songs from ancient Rome, chants that explode from the late medieval Cult of Mary, and its companion phenomenon, courtly love. As we sing we sense the breath and thought of thousands of

Music

Movement Practice: Advanced Dance Technique — DAN4344.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Stuart Shugg, MFA Teaching Fellow

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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. These principles will then become the foundation for traveling sequences and longer movement phrases. We will hone in on the importance of

Dance

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

Fall 2017

Instructor: Yanan Yu, MFA Teaching Fellow

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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 newfound tools to use in executing large moving phrases that will simplify and clarify as well

Dance