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Fall 2023

Photographs as Narratives — PHO2108.01) (cancelled 4/25/2023

Fall 2023

Instructor: Terry Boddie

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Credits: 4

How do we read photographs? What are the stories contained within their borders? How does two, three, or a sequence of images in tandem convey a narrative? In this course, students are guided through a series of assignments that explore the photograph as a narrative pictorial space using analog and digital processes. Structurally the assignments may take a traditional

Visual Arts

Photography and Migration — PHO2462.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 4

This course will introduce students to the components of storytelling in photographic series by examining migration as a theme and using photography as a research tool. Students will develop a robust sense of artistic ethics by studying representations of migration by photographers in diasporic communities and engaging methods for creating visual narratives around topics

Visual Arts

Photography Remade — PHO2155.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Liz White

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Credits: 2

This 2-credit course invites students to remake existing photographs by adding, removing, combining, rearranging, and distorting content, and to create synthetic images using artificial intelligence (AI). Students are welcome to shoot their own photographs, however this is not required, and it is not necessary to have a camera. Instead, the emphasis will be on how to work

Visual Arts

Physics I: Forces and Motion (with Lab) — PHY2235.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Tim Schroeder

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Credits: 4

Physics is the study of what Newton called “the System of the World.” To know the System of the World is to know what forces are out there and how those forces operate on things. These forces explain the dynamics of the world around us: from the path of a falling apple to the motion of a car down the highway to the flight of a rocket from the Earth. Careful analysis of the

Science and Mathematics

Piano — MIN4333.03, section 3

Fall 2023

Instructor: Chris Rose

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Credits: 2

Individual private lessons for beginning through advanced students, with focus on classical repertoire, commercial music, and improvisation. Students will meet with the instructor weekly for 30 minutes, or in a small group for 60 minutes, at times to be arranged with the instructor. 30 minutes of practice per day is expected. Two excused absences permitted, with every effort

Music

Piano — MIN4333.01, section 1

Fall 2023

Instructor: Christopher Lewis

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Credits: 2

Individual private lessons for beginning through advanced students, with focus on the classical repertoire. Students will meet with the instructor weekly on scheduled class days, at times to be arranged with the instructor. 30-45 minutes practice per day is expected. Two excused absences permitted, with every effort made for make-up lessons. Participation in Tuesday evening

Music

Piano — MIN4333.02, section 2

Fall 2023

Instructor: Allen Shawn

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Credits: 2

Individual private lessons for intermediate or advanced students. Audition required. Weekly meetings times on scheduled class days arranged with the instructor. Participation in music workshop and end-of-term recital required.

Music

Piano Lab I: Beginning Piano — MIN2249.01, section 1) (new faculty 9/4/2023

Fall 2023

Instructor: Chris Rose

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Credits: 2

Have you been thinking about learning to play the piano? Perhaps you have a little experience from childhood and want to get back into it? Are you a singer, songwriter, producer, or composer who wants to accompany themselves, learn to read sheet music and chord symbols, and/or understand the basics of music theory? Maybe you are completely new to playing an instrument, and want

Music

Piano Lab I: Beginning Piano — MIN2249.02, section 2) (new faculty and day/time 9/4/2023

Fall 2023

Instructor: Chris Rose

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Credits: 2

Music

Piano Lab I: Beginning Piano — MIN2249.03, section 3) (new faculty and day/time 9/4/2023

Fall 2023

Instructor: Chris Rose

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Credits: 2

Music

Piano Lab II — MIN4236.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Allen Shawn

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Credits: 2

This course is intended for students with some playing and reading experience, who have passed Piano Lab I or its equivalent. The goals of this course are to gain ease and dexterity at the keyboard, further developing a conﬁdent piano technique, musical expression, and the skill of reading musical notation. Students will expand upon a repertoire of scales and chords. They will

Music

Piano – Intensive — MIN4418.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Christopher Lewis

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Credits: 4

Individual private lessons for motivated intermediate and advanced students, with focus on the classical repertoire. Students will meet with the instructor twice per week on scheduled class days, at times to be arranged with the instructor. A minimum of one hour practice per day is expected. Two excused absences permitted, with every effort made for make-up lessons.

Music

Picture Pattern Paper Model — VA4322.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Farhad Mirza

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Credits: 4

In this course, we will explore the visual and spatial potential of cut paper models. The course will begin with a number of directed drawing and model-making exercises, and end with original work made with paper, knives, and glue. Students will study and do research on paper models by a variety of contemporary artists and architects–Zarina's paper houses, Siah Armajani's

Visual Arts

Poetry Performance — LIT2533.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Franny Choi

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Credits: 4

Though poetry was an oral art form before it was anything else, its contemporary relationship to performance is varied and complex. What does it mean to write a poem that comes alive in the air? What happens to poems when they become embodied? And how have questions of race, class, gender, and sexuality historically shaped (and been shaped by) the work at the intersection of

Drama Literature

Possibilities in Clay – A Material Exploration — CER4234.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 4

This course will explore the potential of clay as an expressive medium, outside of standard ceramic practices. Let’s do all the things you aren’t supposed to do with clay! Students will cultivate an experimental approach as the guiding principle during their investigations. Alternative material use and its outcomes will inform our ideas – students should expect to mix a variety

Visual Arts

Practicing Courage in Dance Making — DAN4152.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Levi Gonzalez

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Credits: 2

This intensive 7-week course focuses on the making and performing of solo dances/movement-based performances for students interested in deepening their engagement with their own creative work. We will consider dance making not as a craft that can be taught but as a collective practice of excavation of the self and personal interest. We will explore and expose our own creative

Dance

Pre-Fellowship Class For Endeavor Foundation Environmental Action Fellowship — APA4162.02) (new day/time as of 10/18/2023

Fall 2023

Instructor: Judith Enck

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Credits: 1

Pre-fellowship class that is only open to students who have been accepted to be a 2024 Endeavor Foundation Environmental Action Fellow. The class is designed to prepare each student to have a very effective fellowship experience during the January term. The class will support students as they sharpen skills and capacities for success in their future work, and

CAPA

Presentation of Statistics — MAT2246.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Andrew McIntyre

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Credits: 4

Data can come to us in many forms: tables, charts, graphs, observations, experimental results, and other less formal avenues. To best understand the world around us, we must be able to take that data, answer questions, and then convey those answers to others in a clear, concise manner. This course will show different methods for presenting statistical data to others as well as

Science and Mathematics

Pretty Lies, Ugly Truths, and Deep Fakes: An Introduction to Oil Painting — PAI2109.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: J Blackwell

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Credits: 4

Fake news, reality television, “IRL” - asserting the veracity of our perceptions is a constant preoccupation in contemporary culture. What is real? Realism is a widely used term with multiple connotations: verisimilitude, authenticity, objectivity, truth, fact. In this course we will consider how painting reflects and/or perverts “reality” by making imitations of historical

Visual Arts

Prominent Works of Japanese Authors — JPN4713.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida

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Credits: 4

How many names of Japanese authors can you list? Do you know which Japanese authors won the Nobel Prize in literature? Early works of Japanese literature demonstrate strong influences from Chinese literature, and again Japanese literature was influenced by Western literature in the late-19th Century and early-20th Century. In this seventh term Japanese course, students will

Cultural Studies and Languages

Qualitative Inquiry — PSY4111.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Özge Savaş

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Credits: 4

In this course, you will be introduced to the philosophical, conceptual, and practical foundations of qualitative methods used in psychological research. We will discuss the theoretical underpinnings and practical applications of different types of qualitative inquiry that are commonly used, such as narrative analysis, thematic analysis, conversation analysis, and discourse

Society Culture and Thought

Queer Renaissance — AH4114.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Vanessa Lyon

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Credits: 4

A developmental, periodizing, and heteronormatively-inflected approach to idiosyncratic male artist-geniuses such as Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael, and even Titian has dominated Renaissance art history. Yet given its cross-cultural, colonial origins, and paradoxical investment in both ‘pagan’ antiquity and Christian humanism, ‘pre-modern’ Renaissance visuality is anything but

Visual Arts

Radio Plays: Making Theatre for Radio and Podcast — DRA2305.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Dina Janis

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Credits: 4

A performance-based course for folks interested in this medium. It is not necessary to have elaborate skill in sound design and editing, though students with this interest are welcome to enroll. All students will perform as actors in each other’s projects. Each week the class will listen to examples of current Radio Play and Theatre Podcast content, writing up play reports and

Drama

Rakugo and Humor: The Art of Storytelling — JPN4505.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida

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Credits: 4

Rakugo is one of the traditional Japanese art and storytelling entertainment which became extremely popular during the Edo period (1603-1868). Rakugo is a rather unique storytelling performance because a storyteller sits on a seat on the stage called “kooza” and tells humorous stories without standing up from the seat. Moreover, the storytellers narrate and plays various

Cultural Studies and Languages

Reading Writing: Spectacular Failure — LIT4383.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Manuel Gonzales

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Credits: 4

I often suggest to students in a writer's workshop that they should, when submitting work for class, aim for spectacular failure, figure out the breaking point of their own abilities and charge headlong past them, because there is no better place to test one's limits than in a workshop full of peers working at the same goal. In this generative writing workshop, I'm putting my

Literature