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Art of Resistance: The Ź College Poster Project (part 1) — VA2118.02

Fall 2018
Instructor: Ann Pibal
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Credits: 2
This course will provide a collaborative site for the production of distributable protest and resistance imagery, as well as a shared investigation into the rich international history of political posters and related ephemera. Students will be provided structure both in which to work together on research, and on the design, production, and distribution of imagery. Discussion
Visual Arts

Art of the Islamic World — AH2123.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Razan Francis
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Credits: 4
This course is an introduction to the art of the Islamic world from the late seventh century to the present, covering a geography that extends from Central and South Asia to North Africa and Spain. Focusing on objects of different materials (e.g., mosaics, textiles, metalwork, painting, sculpture, wood, ivory carvings, illuminated manuscripts, and glassware), we will pay
Visual Arts

Artist's Portfolio — DAN4366.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Dana Reitz
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Credits: 2
Explaining artwork often goes against the grain, yet artists are regularly called upon to articulate their processes, tools, and dynamics of collaboration. To help secure any of the myriad forms of institutional support including funding, venues, and engagements, artists must develop–creatively and flexibly–essential skills. Finding a public language for what is the private
Dance Drama Music Visual Arts

Audiovisual Performance — MPF4229.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Senem Pirler
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Credits: 2
In this course, we will explore various forms of emerging practices in audiovisual media such as visual music, VJing, video/audio mashups, live Foley for video and movement. The readings and discussions will give an introduction the audiovisual performance practice as well as the history of early audiovisual tools, theories on audiovisual perception, and aesthetics of collage.
Music

Banjo — MIN2215.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: John Kirk
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Credits: 2
Beginning, intermediate, or advanced group lessons on the 5-string banjo in the claw-hammer/frailing style. Student will learn to play using simple song sheets with chords, tablature, and standard notation. Using chord theory and scale work, personal music-making skills will be enhanced. Awareness of traditional styles of playing the instrument will be furthered through a
Music

Bass Intensive — MIN4026.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Michael Bisio
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Credits: 2
Advanced studies in theory relating to performance. This class is only for advanced students and by permission of instructor. Co-requisite: students must be enrolled in MIN4417 simultaneously, no exceptions.
Music

Beginning Cello — MIN2354.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Nathaniel Parke
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Credits: 2
The basics of cello. In a small group, students will learn how to play the instrument of their choice, with an emphasis on a group performance at the term's conclusion. Corequisites: Must attend and participate in Music Workshop (Tuesday, 6:30 - 8pm).
Music

Beginning Composing — MCO4120.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Allen Shawn
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Credits: 4
This class explores and reviews notation and the rudiments of music through the act of composing small pieces for a variety of instruments. It is intended for students who have taken instrumental lessons for a few years or more and who can read music in at least one clef. It is meant for those who have never imagined composing music as well as for those who have already begun
Music

Beginning Guitar — MIN2247.02, section 2

Fall 2018
Instructor: Hui Cox
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Credits: 2
Introduces the fundamentals of acoustic guitar playing, including hand positions, tuning, reading music, major and pentatonic scales, major, minor, and seventh chords, chord progressions, blues progressions, and simple arrangements of songs. Corequisite: Must participate in Music Workshop (Tuesday, 6:30 – 8pm).
Music

Beginning Guitar — MIN2247.03, section 3

Fall 2018
Instructor: Hui Cox
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Credits: 2
Introduces the fundamentals of acoustic guitar playing, including hand positions, tuning, reading music, major and pentatonic scales, major, minor, and seventh chords, chord progressions, blues progressions, and simple arrangements of songs. Corequisite: Must participate in Music Workshop (Tuesday, 6:30 – 8pm).
Music

Beginning Guitar — MIN2247.01, section 1

Fall 2018
Instructor: Hui Cox
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Credits: 2
Introduces the fundamentals of acoustic guitar playing, including hand positions, tuning, reading music, major and pentatonic scales, major, minor, and seventh chords, chord progressions, blues progressions, and simple arrangements of songs.
Music

Beginning Violin/Viola — MIN2241.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Kaori Washiyama
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Credits: 2
Basic techniques will include the reading of music in either treble/or alto clefs in the easy keys. Basic hand positions and appropriate fingerings will be shown, and a rudimentary facility with bow will be developed in order that all students may participate in simple ensemble performance by the end of term. Student must arrange for the use of a college instrument, if needed
Music

Ź Biodiversity Project — BIO4303.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Kerry Woods
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Credits: 2
An All-Taxa Biodiversity Inventory (ATBI) is an effort to compile the full list of species of all taxa present in some area on the planet. No ATBI has ever been (or ever will be?) completed, but this class is an ongoing effort towards a working ATBI for the Ź College campus (which is unusually diverse for its area). Past terms have addressed fungi, various invertebrate
Science and Mathematics

Ź County Choral Society - Bach and Haydn — MPF2164.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Kerry Ryer-Parke
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Credits: 1
The Ź County Choral Society is a community chorus conducted by Cailin Marcel Manson. The Choral Society promotes choral singing by presenting several concerts per year, and eagerly invites student participation. Auditions are not required, and singers of all levels and abilities are welcomed. To receive credit, students must attend all rehearsals and performances.
Music

Bernstein Seminar — MTH4129.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Allen Shawn
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Credits: 2
In this seven-week seminar we will make a study of selected musical works by Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990), including his Violin Sonata, West Side Story, Symphony No. 2 (“Age of Anxiety”), Chichester Psalms, and the opera “A Quiet Place”. Class time will be divided between music analysis and an attempt to contextualize these works within Bernstein’s musical times and in terms
Music

Biogeography, Paleoecology, and Human Origins — BIO4317.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Kerry Woods
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Credits: 4
We explore ecological and evolutionary patterns in broadest spatial and temporal perspective — “big picture” biology. Our general questions are: What shapes patterns in the ranges and distributions of organisms and in overall biodiversity? How do ecological systems respond to long-term and large-scale changes in environment (glaciation, global climate change, plate tectonics,
Science and Mathematics Environment

Black Queer Writing and Theoretical Approaches — LIT2327.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Phillip B. Williams
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Credits: 4
This class serves an introduction to Black queer writing and the theories that feed into and are inspired from said writing. We will read poetry, fiction, and essays by writers who revolutionized and made possible Black queer expression in the United States. What is the necessary vocabulary for Black writers left out of white academic and creative circles? When white gender and
Literature

Calculus A — MAT4133.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Andrew McIntyre
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Credits: 4
This course covers the breadth of university calculus: differentiation, integration, infinite series, and ordinary differential equations. It focuses on concepts and interconnections. The sequel course, Calculus B, focuses on techniques and applications, putting the concepts from Calculus A into practice. This is an advanced course; Calculus AP or IB are not sufficient
Science and Mathematics

Cello — MIN4355.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Nathaniel Parke
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Credits: 2
Studio instruction in cello. There will be an emphasis on creating and working towards an end-of-term project for each student. Students must have had at least three years of cello study. Corequisites: Music Workshop attendance 7 times per term. Auditions will take place Monday, May 14 from 9:45am - 11:15am in Jennings 214.
Music

Chemistry 1: Chemical Principles (with Lab) — CHE2211.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Amber Hancock
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Credits: 4
This course is the first of a four-course chemistry sequence covering general, organic and biochemistry. Students do not need to take the entire sequence. We will focus on introductory chemical principles, including atomic theory, classical and quantum bonding concepts, molecular structure, organic functional groups, and the relationship between structure and properties. The
Science and Mathematics Environment

Chemistry 3: Organic Reactions and Mechanisms (with lab) — CHE4213.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Janet Foley
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Credits: 4
Chemistry 3 focuses on how reactions happen: what the steps are, how we discover them, and how we use this to look at some practical systems: the synthesis of a drug, the kinetics of substitution. Emphasis will be on mastering general principles of chemistry such as nucleophiles and electrophiles, molecular orbital concepts, thermodynamics and kinetics in order to guide an
Science and Mathematics

Chinese Zen (Chan) — CHI4323.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Ginger Lin
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Credits: 4
Although it was born in India, Buddhism has had a deep and profound influence on Chinese and East Asian culture, but this philosophy remains relevant to modern life in both the East and West. Students will be introduced to the spirit of Buddhism through modern Mandarin interpretations of classic Chinese Buddhist poems and stories. Students will explore Chinese Buddhist concepts
Languages

Chocolat — FRE4493.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly
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Credits: 4
Introduced in France after a complex trajectory from the “New World”, chocolate constituted, when it arrived in Paris, a medical, social, and cultural catalyst on French seventeenth-century aristocracy and haute-bourgeoisie. In this course, students will explore the economic, historical, social, political, artistic and cultural legacy of chocolate production and consumption in
Languages

Choice and Consequence: Alternative History — DRA2277.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Sherry Kramer
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Credits: 4
The theater is the place where we learn how to be. At its best, it is a rehearsal for the great moments of our life, including our happinesses. Love, death, we see it on stage and it prepares us for our life.” —John Guare A play is a metaphoric and empathic art form that seduces us into imaginatively making choices and suffering consequences along with the characters on stage.
Drama Literature