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Gospel Choir 鈥 Sharing the Joy — MUS2313.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 2
This singing ensemble is dedicated to the preservation and performance of African-American sacred music. The repertoire will consist primarily of gospel and spiritual music as understood in its historical and social context.
Music

Graduate Assistantship in Public Action — APA5101.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
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Credits: 4
Graduate students in Public Action are integrated into the CAPA and related discipline areas as teaching assistants. In consultation with the faculty, MFA candidates develop an assistantship schedule of approximately 5 hours weekly.
CAPA

Graduate Research in Dance — DAN5305.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Dana Reitz
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Credits: 6
This course is designed to assist graduate students with the research and development of their new work. The weekly format is determined with the students. In class, they show works-in-progress, try out ideas with their colleagues, and discuss issues involved in their creative processes. Though the class meets only once a week, students are expected to spend considerable time
Dance

Graduate Research in Public Action — APA5102.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
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Credits: 6
This class is designed for MFA students to research and develop new work, show work-in-progress, be in critical dialogue with their colleagues, and discuss issues involved in the development of new work. The weekly format is determined with the students. Outside of class, students develop their own independent creative projects that will be presented to the public, either
CAPA

Graduate Seminar on Pedagogy and Public Action — APA5103.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: TBA
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Credits: 4
This course is centered on conducting research and mapping the field of socially and civically engaged pedagogy within a global context. What capacities and skills do students who create artworks in collaboration with the public need to acquire and what is the history of teaching these practices?
CAPA

Graduate Teaching Fellow Assistantship in Dance — DAN5304.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Dana Reitz
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Credits: 4
Graduate Teaching Fellows in Dance are integrated into the dance program as teaching assistants. In consultation with their academic advisors and the dance faculty, MFA candidates develop an assistantship schedule of approximately ten hours weekly; the courses they develop and teach are listed in the curriculum. All Teaching Fellows bring their own professional histories and
Dance

Hand-drawn Animation — MA2217.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: John Crowe
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Credits: 2
Fundamentals of 2-D animation principles will be explored through drawing, from basic motion cycles to more imaginative movement and expression. Students will primarily work with wet/dry mediums on paper, with additional instruction in After Effects compositing workflow. Weekly exercises will explore a variety of animation techniques, from highly structured processes to
Visual Arts

Harlem the Northern Renaissance: New/Amsterg@ddam, 1450-now — AH4312.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Vanessa Lyon
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Credits: 4
In this transcultural, transhistorical upper-level course, we will study the crucial phases and practitioners of early modern Netherlandish art鈥-from Jan Van Eyck and Rogier van der Weyden to Clara Peeters plus Peter Paul Rubens, Rembrandt, Vermeer, and de Hooch. Then鈥攚e鈥檒l recalibrate and look at the ways in which modern and contemporary artists of color, particularly Black
Visual Arts

Historical Fictions/Fictional Histories — LIT4165.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Marguerite Feitlowitz
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Credits: 4
In this advanced seminar, we will consider the demands and complexities of working with history in fiction. When, where, why, and how do facts abet and/or intrude on the creation of plot, character, place, framing, rhythm, and other details of style in novels and stories? How do questions of representation, selection and emphasis, vocabulary and tone, pacing and texture, affect
Literature

History of Animation — MA2137.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Sue Rees
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Credits: 2
A brief history of animated images from the 1500s to the present day including early devices to create sequential images, through to the invention of the rotoscope, avantgarde animations, independent artists and studios. The class will be split into watching documentaries and animations along with discussions, and weekly responses. The intention of the class is
Visual Arts

History of Music at 凯旋门官网 College 1932-present — MHI2321.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Allen Shawn
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Credits: 4
Music was a central part of 凯旋门官网 College from its beginnings. Not only was 凯旋门官网鈥檚 hands-on approach to teaching innovative and unapologetically progressive, so was its hiring policy: performing musicians were to be full-time faculty and the study of an instrument was considered an academic pursuit.  In this course we will study the history of Music teaching at
Music

History of Science: From Aristotle to Newton — HIS2254.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Carol Pal
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Credits: 4
History tells us that humans have always wondered about the natural world. For thousands of years, our ancestors gazed in wonder at the heavens, experimented with plants and medicines, and tried to comprehend their own mortality. But when did 鈥渟cience鈥 actually begin to be its own field, separate from philosophy, astrology, or faith? Beginning with human origins and prehistoric
Society Culture and Thought

History of the Book — HIS4109.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Carol Pal
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Credits: 4
The aim of this course is to think about books. Not just books as objects, but books as the signifiers of a wealth of relationships 鈥 between reading and writing, between people and ideas, between people and people, between technologies and desires. For centuries, our ideas have been shaped by the rhythms and hierarchies inherent in the nature of print. But the nature of the
Society Culture and Thought

History of Theater II — Canceled

Fall 2021
Instructor: Maya Cantu
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Credits: 4
This course offers a continuing introduction to the history and development of world theater and drama. We will experience the vibrant pageant of theater history through an exploration of its conventions and aesthetics, as well as its social and cultural functions. Starting in the nineteenth century, we will read representative plays ranging from the advent of stage Realism and
Drama

Hybrids: Alternative Approaches in Photography — PHO4215.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 4
Students in this interdisciplinary course focus on combining photography with other artistic disciplines. They explore the techniques that can directly manipulate the image before, during and after recording the photograph. Experimentation and creative risk taking throughout the various assignments is encouraged. Through this process of visual exploration and
Visual Arts

In and Out of Italy: Migration Fluxes Through the Boot — ITA4402.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Barbara Alfano
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Credits: 4
For many decades, Italy鈥檚 geographical position in the center of the Mediterranean Sea has made the country a preferred port of entry into Europe for migrants coming from North Africa, joined over time by people coming from Eastern Europe, Albania, China, the Far East, South America, and, lately, from Syria. Some of Italy鈥檚 Southern regions have been in a perpetual state of
CAPA Cultural Studies and Languages

Infrastructures of Imagination — MS4103.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Keisha Knight
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Credits: 4
From clay tablets in Mesopotamia, to pirated DVDs in Lagos, to the bioscope in Mumbai, to big data, undersea cables and beyond this course explores how media moves, who/what moves it, and why. We will take a media archeological approach to the infrastructures of media circulation in order to answer the questions: 1) How does the circulation of media create or foreclose public
Society Culture and Thought

Insider Perspectives on the Francophone World I — FRE2103.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Stephen Shapiro
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Credits: 5
Viewed from the outside, the French-speaking world offers enticing images of beauty, pleasure, and freedom. From the inside, however, it is a complicated, often contradictory world where implicit codes and values shape the most basic aspects of daily life. This course will give you an insider使s perspective on a cultural and communicative system whose ideas, customs, and belief
Cultural Studies and Languages

Intermediate Guitar —

Fall 2021
Instructor: Hui Cox
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Credits: 2
 (MIN4025.01) Hui Cox Instrumental Study on Guitar. Continued studies from Beginning Guitar. Advanced study in fret-board harmony and theory.   Categories: All courses , Instrumental Study , Remotely Accessible Tags:
Music

Intermediate Video: Amnesia and the Archive — FV4321.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Jen Liu
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Credits: 4
Intermediate Video: Amnesia and the Archive is an in-person course with remote options, building on the technical skills introduced in Intro to Video.  Students will be expected to produce technical exercises, one short project assigned by the instructor, and one final project of their own design. Shorter assigned exercises will have specific technical constraints. These
Visual Arts

Intermediate Violin/Viola — MIN4232.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Kaori Washiyama
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Credits: 2
Increased basic techniques will include reading music in treble and/or alto clef in basic keys. Hand position including left hand sifting and fingering will be shown, and a rudimentary facility with the bow will be developed in order to participate in simple ensemble performances by the end of term.
Music

Intermediate Voice — MVO4301.03

Fall 2021
Instructor: Thomas Bogdan
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Credits: 2
For students of varying levels of singing ability. Vocal production and physiology will be discussed. Group warm-ups and vocalizations will incorporate exercises to develop breath control, resonance, projection, range, color, and agility. The fundamental concepts of singing will be explored in the preparation of specific song assignments. Personalization of text and emotional
Music

Intermediate Voice — MVO4301.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Kerry Ryer-Parke
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Credits: 2
For students of varying levels of singing ability. Vocal production and physiology will be discussed. Group warm-ups and vocalizations will incorporate exercises to develop breath control, resonance, projection, range, color, and agility. The fundamental concepts of singing will be explored in the preparation of specific song assignments.  Personalization of text and
Music