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Fall 2019

Life Design Ecosystems: Building Community Beyond ��Ź�� — cancelled

Fall 2019

Instructor: Michael Gonzales

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Credits: 1

The dynamically changing environment of the world of work, uncertainties tied to meaningful employment, and the flexible/creative ways people have responded will be discussed in combination with the goal of taking proactive measures in expanding meaningful relationships and networks in your professional and creative endeavors. The goal for this class is to provide a platform

Life Design Narration: Representing Contextualizing Your Work — FWT4101.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Michael Gonzales

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Credits: 1

Field Work Term preparation has provided a platform for applying to opportunities with resumes and cover letters as key components of the internship application. While opportunities during FWT serve as a moment to test and explore inquiries introduced in the classroom, how do students best represent and contextualize this relationship through job application materials created

Life Drawing Lab — DRW2118.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Colin Brant

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Credits: 2

Drawing Lab provides an opportunity for student artists of all experience levels to further develop their skills with observational-based drawing. Working primarily with the human figure, students build increased understanding of the poetic, dynamic, and inherently abstract nature of drawing, while paying close attention to the potential of formal elements such as shape, line,

Visual Arts

Life Stories — FRE4604.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Stephen Shapiro

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Credits: 4

This course will focus on perfecting your written French through creative autobiographical writing. Literary readings will offer both a critical perspective on a wide variety of autobiographical genres as well as models for inspiration and imitation in your own writing. We will also examine style and register while striving to master some of the stylistic and grammatical

Cultural Studies and Languages

Light and Lighting — PHO4238.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Jonathan Kline

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Credits: 4

This photography course will explore the way light conveys emotional, narrative, and psychological meaning. The goal is to increase students’ experience in recognizing and shaping these effects. Each week books by noted photographers will be assigned for study and discussion. Workshops and demos will involve small collaborative teams in a variety of studio and on-location

Visual Arts

Literature as Resistance: The works of Rosario Castellanos — SPA4304.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Rosario de Swanson

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Credits: 4

Although Rosario Castellanos (1925-1974) is recognized as one of Mexico’s most important writers, she did not live to see the impact of her contributions to the feminist revolution of the latter half of the twentieth century, participate in the first Conferencia Mundial de la Mujer that took place in 1975 in Mexico City, or in the recent Encuentro Internacional de Mujeres que

Cultural Studies and Languages

Live Sound Technology — MSR2124.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Curt Wells

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Credits: 2

This will be a hands-on, bare-bones, system-focused class on audio electronics. We will explore the smallest inputs to the largest outputs that are used in artistic performance. The class will focus on the technical applications of microphones, mixers, speakers and software for live productions such as plays, concerts, Dance performances and installations. Students will use

Dance Drama Music

Living in Translation: A Student-Run Literary and Cultural Publication — LIT2347.02

Fall 2019

Instructor: Marguerite Feitlowitz

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Credits: 2

This course, while rooted in Literature, is part of the Lexicons of Migration cluster. Taking as a point of departure Isabelle de Courtivron's touchstone Bilingual Lives: Writers and Identity, students will update, complicate, and enrich the binary orientation of this collection, originally published in 2003. We will delve into the personal, familial, communal, and political

CAPA Literature

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

Fall 2019

Instructor: Carly Briggs

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Credits: 4

This introductory course should be of interest to students planning additional study in mathematics as well as those wanting looking for a mathematics course of more general interest. The topics and skills covered in this class will be fundamental in all advanced mathematics classes and may therefore be used as a prerequisite for Calculus A and Linear Algebra. The class should

Science and Mathematics

Madame Bovary Middlemarch: Small Worlds, Big Novels — LIT4128.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Manuel Gonzales

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Credits: 4

Virginia Woolf once famously said of Middlemarch that it was "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people" and George Eliot's novel is widely considered one of the best novels, written in English, of the 19th Century. Gustav Flaubert's Madame Bovary is considered by many as one of the best novels ever written and is perhaps the first 'modern' novel ever published.

Literature

Making and Breaking International Law — HIS4218.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Eileen Scully

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Credits: 4

International law is no longer merely "out there" somewhere, relevant only to travelers, merchants and diplomats. International law is being globalized, and glocalized, so that it now covers complex contested areas such as civil unions, health insurance, sexual orientation, migration. We will focus on the fundamentals of twenty-first century international law, delving into

CAPA Society Culture and Thought

Making Arrangements — MCO4112.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Jennifer Allen

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Credits: 4

In this course we will discover the basic principles of arranging for various ensembles playing in multiple genres (using horns, strings, background vocals, etc. along with a rhythm section). We will look at a wide range of notable artists working in many jazz subgenres and related styles. Students will be encouraged to creatively question existing forms and traditions in

Music

Mallet Percussion Ensemble — MPF4106.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Michael Wimberly

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Credits: 2

Mallet Percussion Ensemble explores a variety of musical techniques while creating compositions for the mallet keyboard instrument. Works for mallet percussion are learned or arranged from composers such as Bach, Fernando Sor, Gordon Stout, Franz Schubert, Jobim, Miles, and popular songs. No prior experience for playing mallet keyboards is required, but reading music and

Music

Mandolin — MIN2229.01

Fall 2019

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 — DRW2149.02, section 2

Fall 2019

Instructor: Ann Pibal

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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 — DRW2149.01, section 1

Fall 2019

Instructor: Colin Brant

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Credits: 4

Visual Arts

Metal casting: Iron and Aluminum — SCU2211.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: John Umphlett

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Credits: 2

This course is designed to introduce students to the processes involved in casting Iron and Aluminum. Students will work with foundry wax and learn how to produce a sculpted object either by hand or that of some other method covered in class. These additional methods could include machining parts, 3d printing objects or casting from the body. After a form has been produced the

Visual Arts

Model Shop: Studies in Scale — VA4119.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Farhad Mirza

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Credits: 2

This course is about the architectural model as a physical representation of structure. Students will work with a variety of materials, and at multiple scales to learn about both the practical uses of scale-models as well as the generative potential of scalar manipulation, and the miniature. Coursework will emphasize the importance of an organized digital and physical

Visual Arts

Modern Guitar — MIN4224.01

Fall 2019

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).

Music

Monitoring the Paran Creek Watershed — ES2113.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Tim Schroeder

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Credits: 4

Much discussion of environmental protection is based on the unit of a local watershed. Fully considering a watershed requires relating landscapes, land cover, and human land use to the waterways that we rely upon to live. This field-based class will work with community groups and environmental professionals to begin a long-term watershed monitoring system for Paran Creek. This

CAPA Science and Mathematics Environment

Movement Practice: Advanced Dance Technique — DAN4344.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Molly Lieber, MFA Teaching Fellow

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Credits: 2

In this advanced level course, we will focus on tapping into the subtle connections in the body. We will be using improvisational scores and somatic exercises to hone these connections and increase self-awareness. Gentle focus can be used to achieve high intensity movement. Tracking what we are doing as we do it--we will acknowledge the nervous system’s role in our movement

Dance

Movement Practice: Beginning Dance Technique — DAN2121.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Mina Nishimura, MFA Teaching Fellow

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Credits: 2

This beginning dance course requires no previous dance training. Students are introduced to some basic principles of dancing by learning various movement patterns. The class also introduces the use of breath and somatic practices, which reflect some principles of Zen and Japanese somatic practices such as butoh and Water Body Movement (or Noguchi Taiso). Attention will

Dance

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

Fall 2019

Instructor: Molly Lieber, MFA Teaching Fellow

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Credits: 2

In this basic intermediate course, we will work with imagery to help explore potential in the body. We will practice kinesthetic exercises that will help expand movement range, strength, and specificity. Emphasis will be placed on understanding the feeling of movement, deeply, and trusting it. From this we can understand how this feeling moves the body, and eventually how this

Dance

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

Fall 2019

Instructor: Mina Nishimura, MFA Teaching Fellow

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Credits: 2

This intermediate-advanced level movement practice is designed for students with prior experience in dance technique. In this class, we will hone in on the importance of balancing controlled and spontaneous action as well as internal and external movement through using a series of improvisational and compositional practices. We will be learning longer and complex movement

Dance

Music and Culture: An Introduction to Ethnomusicology — MHI2206.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Joseph Alpar

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Credits: 4

This course will be a hands-on introduction to ethnomusicology, the study of music in its social and cultural contexts. Ethnomusicologists think about the role music plays in everyday life. How do music and musicians build community, ignite protest and revolution, articulate racial identity, express and complicate gender and sexuality, or affirm faith? Some ethnomusicologists

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