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Fall 2023

Dance Workshop Extension — DAN2000.01) (cancelled 7/11/2023

Fall 2023

Instructor: Elena Demyanenko

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Credits: 1

Dance Workshop has been held at ��Ź�� College since its beginning in 1932. It is a meeting place for all dance students, dance faculty, and staff. Here, students of all levels, undergraduate through graduate, show and discuss works in progress. All of the participants practice articulating and refining their own processes, and all are involved in learning how to see and

Dance

Deep Looking: An Introduction to Drawing — DRW2267.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 4

Learning to draw is as much about learning how to use your hand as it is learning how to see. Drawing from observation fundamentally alters our experience of the everyday while also teaching us about ourselves: what we notice and overlook, what we find pleasure in and what we don’t, and so much more. In this course, students will practice and develop observational drawing

Visual Arts

Delights of Ephemera — VA4313.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Anne Thompson

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Credits: 4

Delights of Ephemera explores the significance of mass-produced materials in the context of art movements and exhibitions. Contrary to its definition, ephemera can have power and permanence, giving agency to marginal and marginalized groups and providing a record of actions outside institutional structures. A poster for an exhibition can be as important—or more important—as the

Visual Arts

Dining Culture in Taiwan — CHI2131.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Ginger Lin

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Credits: 5

“Have you eaten yet?” This common Chinese greeting is just one of many common phrases that shows the centrality of food to Taiwanese and Chinese culture. In this course, we will focus on the theme of Taiwanese and Chinese food and dining culture as an “entrée” to the study of the Chinese language and culture. As Chinese grammar is very simple with no verb conjugation, no plural

Cultural Studies and Languages

Directing II — DRA4376.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Kirk Jackson

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Credits: 4

We will address the process of discerning a text’s dramatic potential and realizing that potential in performance by developing and implementing a directorial approach through analysis and rehearsal techniques. The term is divided between exercises and rehearsal of individual projects. The work of the course will culminate in a director’s approach essay, a rehearsal log, and a

Drama

Disasters and Urban Modernity — PEC2258.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Lopamudra Banerjee

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Credits: 2

Catastrophic events with atmospheric, geological, and hydrological origins (e.g., droughts, earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, landslides) are rising all around the world today; and, with a rising mass of the world’s population living in urban areas now, the nature and consequences of these extreme natural events are taking a certain specific and violent turn in today's

Environment Society Culture and Thought

Doubleness — DRA2179.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 4

Doubleness is one of the fundamental building blocks and one of the most elemental and profound aspects of art. It is the way a thing can be more than one thing at once that is both mysterious and precise. It is the heart and blood of metaphor: to say one thing and mean another in a way that saying it straight out could never mean. Dramatic doubleness is a form of rhyme that

Drama

Earth Journalism — APA4249.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 2

Living as we do in the era of the Anthropocene, in which human activities are the main force reshaping our planet, it has become increasingly important to communicate and improve public understanding of global environmental challenges. These include the transformative impacts of climate change, the loss of biodiversity, the vulnerability of food systems, the

CAPA

Economy and Work — PEC2269.01) (cancelled 8/9/2023

Fall 2023

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 4

Why do people work? How can we make sense of the relationship that workers have with their workplace? What determines the income they earn from work? And, how are the concerns of ‘nonremunerative work’ (especially care work carried in the realm of household) related to that of 'remunerative work' (carried in the realm of labor market)? This seminar is motivated by these

Society Culture and Thought

Ecopoetics: Earth, Air, Water, and Fire — LIT4381.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 4

The course will be divided into four sections corresponding to four elements of nature that have been transformed in the anthropocene. In order to strengthen our environmental literacy, we will read scientific articles as well as news articles about wildfires in California, Europe, and Australia. We will educate ourselves about disappearing islands through the rise of sea

Literature

Education for a Democracy: The Patrick J. Leahy Public Policy Forum — APA2017.02, section 2

Fall 2023

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 2

Patrick J. Leahy was United States Senator from Vermont from 1975 to 2023, a career that put him front and center in American history for almost fifty years. This course invites historians, politicians, and those who know Leahy best to discuss and analyze the key policies that impacted American democracy on the local, national, and international levels. We will examine how

CAPA

Education for a Democracy: The Patrick J. Leahy Public Policy Forum — APA2017.01, section 1

Fall 2023

Instructor: Eileen Scully

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Credits: 4

CAPA

Electroacoustic Improvisation Workshop — MPF2147.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 2

This course is a hands-on workshop for electroacoustic music, focusing on improvisation as a key tool for exploration, creation and collaboration. In this course, students will develop skills in individual and collaborative music performance with electronics, including completely electronic instruments and hybrids that combine acoustic instruments with digital/analog

Music

Electronics and the Voice — MSR2242.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 2

In this course we will examine various examples of vocal interactions with electronics, historically and in contemporary contexts of improvisation, song and composition. We will treat electronics as a broad concept, from simple manipulation of a standard vocal mic to analog/digital processing, feedback, hardware, and software interactions. The course will focus on collaboration

Music

Embodying Structure: Construction of the Corset — DRA2213.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Richard MacPike

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Credits: 2

In order to construct a historical costume accurately one often needs to start with the foundation garments of that period. This course will examine how corsets and their construction play a role in recreating period silhouettes. Students will learn how to reproduce period corset patterns as well as construct the corsets with all their structural elements. Particular attention

Dance Drama

Embodying Text — DRA4162.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Kirk Jackson

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Credits: 4

We will engage in an investigation of textual analysis for performance of Shakespeare: scansion, rhythm, sense stress, image work, phonetic phraseology, etc. We will study the structure of the verse and the elements of rhetoric as the primary source for an actor’s investigation and performance of a role. We will explore techniques for enlivening that analysis in the performer’s

Drama

Encounters: Drawing On-Site — DRW4119.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 4

In course we will engage drawing’s portability, flexibility, and expressive potential by primarily working outside of the studio art classroom. Students will be invited to engage and question what is prioritized in their representation of an experience or encounter in the world, outside the set conditions of the studio classroom. At its core this course asks: How can drawing

Visual Arts

Entry to Mathematics — MAT2100.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Andrew McIntyre

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Credits: 4

This is a basic course, covering most of high school mathematics, and will be accessible to all interested and willing students. It is appropriate for students who do not feel confident in their high school mathematics background. Students may proceed from this course to other 2000 level mathematics courses. Mathematics is inherent across all disciplines and undertakings. It is

Science and Mathematics

Environment and Public Action — APA2122.01) (maximum enrollment increased 5/23/2023

Fall 2023

Instructor: David Bond

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Credits: 4

Today it is clear that the environment matters. In activism and scholarship and public policy, the environment has become a potent (if sometimes obligatory) point of reference. Less attention, however, has focused on the emergence of the environment itself as a converging field of action for advocacy, science, and statecraft. In this seminar, we will reflect not only on what we

CAPA Environment

Environmental Geology — ES2102.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Tim Schroeder

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Credits: 4

Earthʹs life‐supporting environmental systems are controlled by a complex interplay between geologic and biological processes acting both on the surface and deep within the planetary interior. This course will explore how earth materials and physical processes contribute to a healthy environment, and how humans impact geologic processes. Topics covered will include: earth

Science and Mathematics Environment

Ethical Translation: Eye on Race, Gender, and Queerness — LIT4392.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 4

Designed to help students build their own ethical translation practices—with attention to issues of race, gender, and queerness—this course offers an introduction to translation via a hands-on approach. What pronouns do you use when translating from a language that doesn’t have gendered pronouns? Do you translate slurs? We will tackle these questions, plus the basics, thinking

Literature

Evolution, Cognition, and Behavior — BIO2130.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Blake Jones

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Credits: 4

Are nonhuman animals ‘intelligent’? How do they communicate? Do they form life-long memories? Why have different cognitive abilities evolved in different animals? This course will explore these questions and more by integrating across disciplines all aimed at understanding how animals (including humans) have evolved to behave and think. The discovery that nonhuman animals

Science and Mathematics

Examining Space — SCU2214.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 4

This introductory course will investigate basic building techniques and principles behind making Sculpture through experiential learning. A few weeks into term we will participate in an Iron Pour, understanding the practices of shaping wax and preparing sand-molds for participation. The students will also be introduced and immersed within a community of artists off campus. This

Visual Arts

Experimental Sound Practices — MSR2123.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Senem Pirler

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Credits: 4

In this introductory course, students will expand their understanding of music by delving into experimental sound practices. During this course, students will create sound compositions, electroacoustic pieces, and performances/installations. The topics will include soundscape composition, binaural sound recording, introduction to modular synthesis,

Society Culture and Thought Music

Faculty Performance Production: Airline Highway by Lisa D’Amour — DRA4381.01, section 1) (days/times updated 5/5/2023

Fall 2023

Instructor: Dina Janis

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Credits: 4

Airline Highway examines a tight knit community of “outsiders” over the course of a single, legendary day. The Hummingbird Hotel is the figurative or literal home for a group of strippers, French Quarter service workers, hustlers, and poets who are bound together by their bad luck, bad decisions, and complete lack of pretense. Presiding over them is Miss Ruby, a

Drama