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Advanced Voice — MVO4401.04, section 4

Fall 2020
Instructor: Kerry Ryer-Parke
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Credits: 1
Advanced study of vocal technique and the interpretation of the vocal repertoire, designed for advanced students who have music as a plan concentration and to assist graduating seniors with preparation for senior recitals. Students are required to study and to perform a varied spectrum of vocal repertory for performance and as preparation for further study or graduate school. A
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Advanced Voice: Singing in Character — MVO4131.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Kerry Ryer-Parke
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Credits: 1
Apply advanced vocal technique to your existing acting skills towards the goal of healthy singing in character. Repertoire will be drawn from musical theater or opera, investigating the specialized techniques for each. Students will be expected to show work in Music Workshop and to design their own program of repertoire and practice in consultation with faculty. Advanced voice
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Advanced Workshop for Painting and Drawing — PAI4302.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Ann Pibal
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Credits: 4
This course is for experienced student artists with a firm commitment to serious work in the studio. Students will work primarily on self-directed projects in an effort to refine individual concerns and subject matter. Students will present work regularly for critique in class as well as for individual studio meetings with the instructor. Development of a strong work ethic will
Visual Arts

American Theater Now — DRA2151.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Jenny Rohn
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Credits: 4
This non-performance based course will focus on a detailed, coast-to-coast examination of the state of the American Theater in 2020-2021 with a specific emphasis on the pressing issues of equity, diversity, and inclusion and on the national theater community’s response to the pandemic. Who are the playwrights, directors, designers, actors, and producers that are shaping the
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Animation 1 — MA2105.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 2
Animation as a sequence of images will be explored from creating flipbooks, rotoscoping experiments, to silhouette animations through to creating short animated sequences in a variety of styles. Students will be instructed in using 'Dragonframe' Software, the Multiplane process, and video editing software.   This class will be in conjunction with the History of
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Anti-Perspective — DRW4402.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 4
In this course, we will read texts that examine images as forms of thought. In particular, we will study the differences between one-point perspective, parallel projection, non-perspectival representation, and the problem of depth in these representational modes. Readings will be paired with short drawing exercises that experiment with different rules about creating space in a
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Artist's Portfolio — DAN4366.01

Fall 2020
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

Bass Intensive — MIN4026.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 1
Advanced studies in theory relating to performance. Students must be enrolled in Bass with Bisio (MIN4417) simultaneously, no exceptions. This class is only for advanced students and by permission of instructor.
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Bass Intensive — MIN4026.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 1
Advanced studies in theory relating to performance. Students must be enrolled in Bass with Bisio (MIN4417) simultaneously, no exceptions. This class is only for advanced students and by permission of instructor.
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Bass with Bisio — MIN4417.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 1
Individual lessons covering fundamental thru advanced techniques related to the bass; including musicianship, theory and practice Course Expectations:
1) Although lessons are individual students must demonstrate competence in their assigned material. 
2) Be willing, interested and active in the pursuit individual musical and technical goals. Evaluating student work will be
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Bass with Bisio — MIN4417.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Michael Bisio
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Credits: 1
Individual lessons covering fundamental thru advanced techniques related to the bass; including musicianship, theory and practice Course Expectations:
1) Although lessons are individual students must demonstrate competence in their assigned material. 
2) Be willing, interested and active in the pursuit individual musical and technical goals. Evaluating student work will be
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Beginning Cello — MIN2354.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Nat Parke
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Credits: 1
The basics of cello. In a small group, students will learn how to play the cello, with an emphasis on a group performance at the term's conclusion.
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Beginning Cello — MIN4354.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Nat Parke
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Credits: 1
The basics of cello, part two. In a small group, students will learn how to play cello, with an emphasis on a group performance at the term’s conclusion.
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Beginning Guitar — MIN2247.03, section e

Fall 2020
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 1
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.
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Beginning Guitar — MIN2247.01, section 1

Fall 2020
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 1
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.
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Beginning Guitar — MIN2247.04, section 4

Fall 2020
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 1
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.
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Beginning Guitar — MIN2247.02, section 2

Fall 2020
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 1
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.
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Beginning Violin — MIN2241.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 1
Basic techniques will include the reading of music in either treble/alto clef in the easy keys. Basic hand positions and appropriate fingerings will be shown, and a rudimentary facility with the bow will be developed in order that all students may participate in simple ensemble performance by the end of the term. The student must arrange for the use of a college instrument
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Beginning Violin — MIN2241.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Days & Time:
Credits: 1
Basic techniques will include the reading of music in either treble/alto clef in the easy keys. Basic hand positions and appropriate fingerings will be shown, and a rudimentary facility with the bow will be developed in order that all students may participate in simple ensemble performance by the end of the term. The student must arrange for the use of a college instrument
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Belarus: A Critical Understanding Of Democracy — POP2279.02) (new time as of 10/16/2020

Fall 2020
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 2
This course aims to provide a critical understanding of democracy by examining what is happening in Belarus, with the space for students to respond creatively. Together we will explore different historical and current perspectives, media coverage (and what is not covered), personal accounts, and conversations with activists. This class will draw on writings by scholars, artists
CAPA

Black Lives in Context: Brazil — APA2323.01) (cancelled

Fall 2020
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 2
With the current focus on anti blackness in the USA, this course will demonstrate a much larger problem. We will show where black populations are within this hemisphere, then quickly focus on black life and struggle in Brazil. We will focus on how anti blackness is organized in Brazilian life and lifts up forms of black resistance in art, culture, and politics. Course dates:
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Black Lives Matter, Transatlantic Occurences: The Case of France and the United States — POP2353.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 2
The death of George Floyd at the hands of the police forces of Minneapolis (MN), late May of this year sparked weeks-long mobilizations unprecedented in U.S. history. Those marches, protests, and unrest were unprecedented in their geographic scope, the numbers of people involved, the age and multicultural/racial/ethnic demographics they encompassed. Almost immediately following

Brass/Trumpet — MIN2221.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 1
General performance approach to trumpet playing, technique and style using Arnold Jacob’s method of Song and Wind, the Arban method, Clarke technique, and Schlossberg. More advanced work is done using the Charlier and Snedecor etudes. Jazz, Improvisation, etc. based on student interest. Students will prepare work to show at Music Workshop (Tues. 6:30 - 8:00 pm). At least one
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Brass/Trumpet — MIN2221.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Days & Time:
Credits: 1
General performance approach to trumpet playing, technique and style using Arnold Jacob’s method of Song and Wind, the Arban method, Clarke technique, and Schlossberg. More advanced work is done using the Charlier and Snedecor etudes. Jazz, Improvisation, etc. based on student interest. Students will prepare work to show at Music Workshop (Tues. 6:30 - 8:00 pm). At least one
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Cello — MIN4355.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Nat Parke
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Credits: 1
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.
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