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Fall 2018

Meet Your Enemy: The Psychology of Generational Cohorts — PSY2237.01

Fall 2018

Instructor: David Anderegg

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Credits: 4

In American popular culture, generalizations are rampant about how people in different generations think, behave, or consume. In this course we will look at some of that literature, but also look at generational cohorts in psychology research: what are the promises and pitfalls of research which claims that historical lived experience makes a significant and robust difference

Society Culture and Thought

Meisner Technique — DRA4268.01

Fall 2018

Instructor: Jennifer Rohn

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Credits: 4

“If you are really doing it, you don’t have time to watch yourself doing it.” Sanford Meisner was an actor and founding member of the Group Theater. He went on to become a master teacher of acting who sought to give students an organized approach to the creation of truthful behavior on stage within the imaginary circumstances of a play. This class focuses on developing an actor

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Metal Sculpture Fabrication MSF — SCU4113.02

Fall 2018

Instructor: John Umphlett

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Credits: 2

This seven-week intensive studio class will focus on enhancing skills that were taught in the introduction metal-shop class and further develop these techniques based on the manipulation of mild and cold rolled steel. Many sculptural processes will be demonstrated within this seven-week intensive course that builds further on the knowledge and practice covered in prior classes

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Metal Workshop — SCU2107.01

Fall 2018

Instructor: John Umphlett

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Credits: 2

This seven week intensive class will involve basic safety instruction for all stationary power tools and hand tools. All demonstrations will be observed and understood before practicing on your own. The following processes will be covered in this course: introduction to the mild steel, oxygen and acetylene cutting and welding, plasma cutting, arc welding, MIG welding, hot and

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Modern Guitar — MIN4224.02, section 2

Fall 2018

Instructor: Thom Loubet

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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).

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Modern Guitar — MIN4224.01, section 1

Fall 2018

Instructor: Hui Cox

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Credits: 2

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Movement Practice: Advanced Dance Technique — DAN4344.01

Fall 2018

Instructor: Hilary Clark, MFA Teaching Fellow

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Credits: 2

This advanced movement practice will begin slowly through utilizing alignment exercises, scores, improvisation and set phrase material. We will investigate the interconnections of fascial tissue and energetic pathways, and explore different somatic approaches. We will practice using a healthy range of motion, shifts of weight, changes of direction, and dynamic fluctuations of

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Movement Practice: Beginning Dance Technique — DAN2121.01

Fall 2018

Instructor: Elena Demyanenko

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Credits: 2

This basic movement class will develop and explore each student’s own curiosity and ability to create a constantly evolving way of becoming one’s own teacher. The class will serve as a laboratory where we will observe forms, strengths, weaknesses, habits, and patterns; a variety of movement situations will help emphasize awareness, expand self-perception, and focus on our

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Movement Practice: Beginning-Intermediate Dance Technique — DAN2119.01

Fall 2018

Instructor: Hilary Clark, MFA Teaching Fellow

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Credits: 2

In this basic intermediate movement class, we will begin with a slow warm up focusing on our natural desire to move, basic anatomical information, imagery and embodiment practices. Using improvisation, simple exercises and choreographed phrase material, we will explore alignment principles, a healthy range of motion, shifts of weight, changes of direction, and dynamic

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Movement Practice: Intermediate-Advanced Dance Technique — DAN4148.01

Fall 2018

Instructor: Russell Stuart Lilie

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Credits: 2

In this Intermediate-Advanced movement class, we will work on establishing a day-to-day practice of evaluating and fine-tuning our dancing bodies through guided self-examination and peer-to-peer feedback. At the core of developing our practice, we will be learning to accomplish the same movement with ever changing bodies and minds. We will focus on anatomical economy by

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Movement Practice: Dance Improvisation — DAN2153.01

Fall 2018

Instructor: Terry Creach

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Credits: 2

For those seeking a rigorous and adventurous movement practice. No prior movement training necessary. We will work with the essential aspects of moving, to develop basic skills of physical articulation, strength and endurance, and to expand our physical range and potential. By actively engaging in the play of improvisation, we learn to respond

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Multivariable Calculus and Electromagnetism — MAT4132.01

Fall 2018

Instructor: Andrew McIntyre

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Credits: 4

This course covers the standard topics in multivariable calculus, including derivatives as linear transformations, Lagrange multipliers, and vector derivatives div, grad, and curl. It is organized towards applications in electromagnetism, and in particular towards developing Maxwell's equations, in both their classical vector form and their modern expression in differential

Science and Mathematics

Music Composition Project — MCO4802.01

Fall 2018

Instructor: Allen Shawn

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Credits: 4

This is a course for music composition students. Each student produces a sizable piece for an assigned small ensemble such as a piano trio or string quartet. There are regular reading sessions of the pieces in progress, culminating in a class presentation and recording of the completed works. The class time is used in three ways: for analysis and study of works composed for our

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Music Theory I - Applied Fundamentals — MTH2274.01

Fall 2018

Instructor: John Kirk

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Credits: 4

An introduction to music theory course. Music theory fundamentals will be taught utilizing voice (singing) and an instrument in hand. Knowledge of the piano keyboard will be learned and utilized. Curriculum will span the harmonic series, circle of 5ths, scales and chords to ear training, harmonic and rhythmic dictation, and beginning composition. Course will include singing,

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Nature and Artifice - A History of Architecture — ARC2112.01

Fall 2018

Instructor: Donald Sherefkin

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Credits: 2

Because architecture seeks to establish a degree of permanence in the world, it is by definition, not natural, a work of human artifice. But our structures are very much of the earth, and the history of architecture is a record of the manifold ways in which cultures have understood, and responded to, their relationship to nature. This course will explore the ways in which the

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Number Theory and Cryptology — MAT4137.01

Fall 2018

Instructor: Carly Briggs

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Credits: 4

Communicating sensitive or secretive information has been a human endeavor for centuries and so is the quest to decode such information. In this course, we will study cryptology which encompasses both cryptography, the process of encoding information and cryptanalysis, the process of independently decoding information, without the help of the people or system that encoded it.

Science and Mathematics

Oral History, Restorative Justice and Youth Impacted by the Criminal Justice System — APA2147.02

Fall 2018

Instructor: Alisa Del Tufo

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Credits: 2

��Ź�� County has the highest rate of incarceration in the State of Vermont. Why is this and how does this impact the community and those caught up in the criminal justice system? More importantly, what can be done to change the way the criminal justice system comes into contact with and treats youth? In this class we will discuss how participatory methods such as oral

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Painting Practice — PAI4214.01

Fall 2018

Instructor: Ann Pibal

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Credits: 4

This course will provide the student a broad platform from which to continue investigations in painting. Emphasis will be placed on cultivating research and conceptual concerns as well as the continued development of an understanding of materials, color, form, and space. Students will look to examples of twentieth and twenty-first century artists and their studio practices to

Visual Arts

Performance Project: Adaptable Score — DAN4679.01

Fall 2018

Instructor: Dana Reitz

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Credits: 2

With new movement material crafted around the movement tendencies of each of the participants, we will delve into multiple variations of the phrases made. Throughout the term, we will be exploring the movement qualities, inherent technical challenges, spatial use, and timing. The final score will weave the developed phrase material with light, integrating both formal

Dance

Philosophical Reasoning — PHI2109.01

Fall 2018

Instructor: Paul Voice

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Credits: 4

What is the difference between belief and knowledge? What is truth? What is the good? 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,

Society Culture and Thought

Philosophies and Formal Elements of Animation and the Moving Image — MA4104.01

Fall 2018

Instructor: Robby Gilbert

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Credits: 4

Zoetropes, phenakistascopes, pepper’s ghosts, puppets, VR, film, projection, games, music, dance, and animation are just a few examples of ways to explore the elements of movement in time-based media. In this course, we delve into the formal elements of the illusion of motion and apply these concepts to the creation of kinetic works in a variety of formats. Emphasis will be

Visual Arts

Photography Foundation — PHO2302.01

Fall 2018

Instructor: Jonathan Kline

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Credits: 4

What does it mean to study photography at ��Ź��? 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 cameras, light kits, and light meters available at the College.

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Photography Projects: Visions and Versions — PHO4127.01

Fall 2018

Instructor: Elizabeth White

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Credits: 4

This course offers students the opportunity to develop their creative vision and technical skills in photography through experimentation, revision, and refinement. Inspired by their own curiosity and concerns, students will generate work each week, and will push themselves to explore multiple approaches and techniques. Assignments will include open ended prompts as well as

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

Fall 2018

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 — MIN4333.02, section 2

Fall 2018

Instructor: Joan Forsyth

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Credits: 2

Individual private lessons for advanced students. Audition required. Weekly meetings times on scheduled class days arranged with the instructor. Corequisites: Participation in music workshop and end-of-term recital required. Auditions will take place Monday, May 14 from 6:00pm - 7:00pm in Jennings 232.

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