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Fall 2019

Sing — MUS2148.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Kerry Ryer-Parke

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Credits: 1

We will gather once a week to sing rounds, chant, chorales, work songs, protest songs, sea chanteys, Sacred Harp, and folk songs from around the world. The words are less important than the joy of singing as a community. No performances- evaluation is by attendance only. We will use our ears and simple notation to learn the music- no previous singing experience is necessary.

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Social Kitchen Ceramics Lab — APA2219.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Yoko Inoue

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Credits: 2

Social Kitchen project links a community service organization (Greater ��Ź�� Interfaith Community Services or GBICS) and local residents with students, staff and faculty of ��Ź�� College through various workshops and collective activities that includes the fundraising supper, 2019 Empty Bowls ��Ź��. To achieve high volume production of ceramic bowls

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Social Kitchen: Ceramics, Food and Community — APA2269.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Yoko Inoue

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Credits: 4

Social Kitchen: Ceramics, Food and Community will provide an opportunity to learn about creative community engaged practices in contemporary art. We will explore the issues of local food insecurity in the ��Ź�� region and how artistic process can join forces with activism to expand awareness and seek imaginative solutions. Through direct dialog and face-to-face interaction

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Sociology of Home — SOC2206.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Debbie Warnock

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Credits: 4

What is home? What does it mean to have a home? What does it mean to leave home or to lose one’s home? To return home? To make a new home? How can we begin to explore these questions sociologically? In this class, we will move towards a sociology of home, as we read and grapple with many different meditations on and conceptualizations of home. Some topics we will explore

Society Culture and Thought

Songlines: One Thousand Years of Music and Poetry — MHI2229.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Joseph Alpar

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Credits: 4

Uniting text and music has been a continuous and vital expression of musical creativity for millennia. In this course we will investigate how composers and songwriters have set poetry to music for nearly one thousand years. What can we as contemporary songwriters, poets, and music listeners learn from these histories? How does a musical setting function as a composer’s reading

Music Literature

Sound Design for Moving Images — MSR4120.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Senem Pirler

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Credits: 2

This class is an introduction to the creative approaches and applications of sound design and audio production for moving images. In this course, we will explore the techniques used in the audio post-production for moving images and focus on the role of the sound designer. We will focus on designing sounds using Foley, sound effects editing, and post-processing. Students will

Music

Sounding Physics — MCO4113.02

Fall 2019

Instructor: Thessia Machado

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Credits: 2

This class focuses on using simple mechanical devices (dc motors, solenoids, or vibration) to elicit sounds from myriad physical materials. We’ll discover the innate characteristics of materials themselves and manipulate forces that activate them, such as gravity, elasticity, tension, and friction. The class will workshop approaches to creating devices through the use of

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Student to Student: A College Access Mentoring Program at Mount Anthony Union High School — APA4132.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Debbie Warnock

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Credits: 2

In this course, college student mentors will work with high school student mentees to develop college aspirations and contribute to mentees’ knowledge about the college application process. Each week college students will travel to Mount Anthony Union High School to meet with their college student mentees for an hour. We will then return to ��Ź�� College campus for the

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Tablescape: Production Lab — CER4109.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Yoko Inoue

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Credits: 2

This class is structured for students who have knowledge, experience and skills in Architecture, Sculpture, and 3D design technology and wish to explore production of ceramics functional ware by developing mold making skills and applying slip casting methods to their projects. Students who are enrolled in the advanced level of slip casting class, Tablescape: Slip Casting

Visual Arts

Tablescape: Slip Casting Project for Communal Kitchen — CER4265.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Yoko Inoue

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Credits: 4

Tablescape project considers ceramic tableware through the lens of architecture (space) and table design (place). For the occasion of the implementation of a communal kitchen, in the new Students Center, that aims to foster community building, students will design and produce a series of functional ware by utilizing slip casting method. We will focus on creating a work

Visual Arts

Technical Topics: Moving Image Equipment — FV2128.02

Fall 2019

Instructor: Colleen Murphy

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Credits: 2

This seven-week course is an opportunity to gain hands-on experience with the entire video and animation equipment inventory. In class we will use a wide variety of cameras, set up audio and lighting equipment, learn about camera stabilization, capture drone footage, and experiment with projectors. Throughout the course students will be asked to give live demonstrations and

Visual Arts

The 2020 Election — APA2174.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Brian Campion

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Credits: 2

This course looks at the Presidential candidates for 2020, their platforms, and how these platforms would impact American society. Additionally, the course will work to examine and conclude what issues are most important to Americans and how Americans view politics and the American Presidency at this time in the country's history. In addition to required readings and writing

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The 5 Threads of Participatory Organizing in the Workplace: Practical Applications and Prototypes — APA2243.02

Fall 2019

Instructor: Susan Basterfield with Robert Ransick

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Credits: 1

For more than a century, assumptions about how the workplace is best organized to optimize production or profits have not been challenged - and neither has the definition of ‘value’. It’s clear that the ‘workplace of the future’ is not the workplace of the past. Whether through automation, decentralization, or an intention to grow awareness of the workplace as a dynamic psycho

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The Actor's Instrument — DRA2170.02, section 2

Fall 2019

Instructor: Jennifer Rohn

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Credits: 4

The craft of acting will be the main focus of this class. Through physical and vocal warm-up exercises, sensory exploration, improvisation, scene work, and extensive reading students will be asked to develop an awareness of their own unique instrument as actors and learn to trust their inner impulses where this is concerned. Extensive out of class preparation of specific

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The Actor's Instrument — DRA2170.01, section 1

Fall 2019

Instructor: Kirk Jackson

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Credits: 4

An actor honors and bears witness to humanity by embodying and giving voice to the human element in the landscape of theatrical collaboration. Investigating the impulses and intuitions that make us unique as individuals can also identify that which constitutes our shared humanity. Through exploration of the fundamentals of performance, students address the actor’s body, voice,

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The Anti-Imperialist Century in Latin America: From Sandino to Chávez and Beyond — SCT2129.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Kate Paarlberg-Kvam

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Credits: 4

With the shift away from expansionism at the end of the 19th century, U.S. foreign policy assumed new forms. Marine occupations, dollar diplomacy, covert action, and economic interventions took the place of territorial annexations. How were these policies experienced on the ground? In what ways did they shape debates about Latin American identity, sovereignty, and the role

Society Culture and Thought

The Body Acoustic: Toward a Sense of Place — DAN2112.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Dana Reitz

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Credits: 2

How do we physically understand the spaces we are in? How is each of us affected by them? How do we develop a deeper sense of place? The Body Acoustic aims to heighten awareness of the reciprocal relationship between the built environment and our senses. Light and sound, distances, height, volume, surfaces, angles/curves and a/symmetries all affect one's movement

Dance

The Camp Aesthetic — DRA2167.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Maya Cantu

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Credits: 4

Sometimes seen as gaudy, perverse or excessive, camp is a sophisticated and consummately theatrical style, doubly viewing life as theater and gender as performance. Camp’s essence “is its love of the unnatural: of artifice and exaggeration,” as Susan Sontag argued in her epochal and controversial 1964 essay “Notes on Camp.” Developing historically as a language of the closet,

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The Chemistry of Drugs and Natural Remedies — CHE2201.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Janet Foley

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Credits: 4

We hear about new drugs all the time: on TV, in the news, the opioid crises, etc. There is also lots of advertising for alternative treatments for illness or well-being. People have many questions about how drugs, plants, or supplements work and how do you tell if they are effective. These and other questions are considered in this introductory course, open to all students. No

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The Family Album: Reading and Writing the Short Story — LIT4188.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Stuart Nadler

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Credits: 4

The poet Czesław Miłosz said once that “when a writer is born into a family, the family is finished.” This idea of the writer’s position amid the family has always mirrored the writer’s position in society, existing both within it and outside of it at the same time. In this class, we will interrogate the family narrative as a particular idea and obsession of the American short

Literature

The Film Trailer Project — FRE4603.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Noelle Rouxel-Cubberly

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Credits: 4

In this course, French films are used as linguistic and cultural textbooks. While honing their language skills (listening, reading, speaking and writing), students will focus their critical skills on selected cultural topics (food, clothes, history, gestures, etc.). Students will create film trailers that reflect their understanding of the French linguistic and cultural

Cultural Studies and Languages

The Glaze Renovation Project — CER4216.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Josh Primmer

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Credits: 2

The emphasis of this course will be placed on testing and cataloging the new glaze palette developed in the spring of 2019 in “Glaze-Redesigning the Ceramic Studio's Glazes.” We will concentrate on layering the new ^04 and 10 glazes over one another as well as with the studio’s slips and washes and creating a comprehensive reference for use by all the proceeding ceramics

Visual Arts

The Hollow Form: Introduction to Ceramics — CER2145.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Barry Bartlett

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Credits: 4

The objective of this class is to help students learn the breadth of hand building techniques in the ceramic arts that have given rise to a vast history of ideas using hollow forms. Unlike traditional sculptural techniques used in wood, stone and metal, ceramic forms have depended on the interior space, the void, to define both symbolic meaning and formal structure. This class

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The New Hampshire Primary — POP2266.04

Fall 2019

Instructor: Brian Campion

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Credits: 1

What is it like to be a part of a massive effort to win the office of the President of the United States? Focusing on the New Hampshire primary, this class will let you explore the process that is currently underway by candidates to win the Presidency. The class will comprise two field trips to New Hampshire (Saturday, November 16 and Saturday, December 7) where you’ll choose

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The New York School of Poetry — LIT2198.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Michael Dumanis

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Credits: 4

This course will serve as an immersion in the work of several major American poets of the 1950s and 1960s, noted for their humor, irreverence, disjunctive experimentation, charm, and wildness, and collectively known as the New York School. We will begin by focusing on the original generation of New York School poets: John Ashbery, Frank OHara, Kenneth Koch, James Schuyler, and

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