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Introduction to Sound Recording and Mixing — MSR2141.01) (cancelled 5/6/2024

Fall 2024
Instructor: Senem Pirler
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Credits: 4
This course introduces students to the fundamentals of sound recording/music production techniques and using the medium of sound as a creative form. Students will be introduced to recording techniques through lectures, hands-on exercises, and critical listening sessions. We will cover basic sound acoustics, spot and stereo microphone techniques, field recording techniques,
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Introduction to Video — FV2303.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Jen Liu
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Credits: 4
This production course introduces students to the fundamentals of working in video and the language of film form. Drawing on the energy, intensity and criticality of avant-garde film and contemporary video art practices, students will complete a series of projects exploring dimensions of cinematography, mise-en-scène, editing and sound design before producing a final self
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Introduction to Viola — MIN2214.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Ariel Rudiakov
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Credits: 1
This course is designed for students with no prior string instrument experience. Admission is on a first come, first served basis. Classes are individual lessons, taught on a weekly basis. Daily practice (10 to 15 minutes) is expected, so that students can become familiar and comfortable with the instrument.
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It's Gonna Be Epic — LIT4588.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Manuel Gonzales
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Credits: 4
Let's dive head-first into the Aegean Sea, swim around in the waters once swum by Achilles and Odysseus, root around in sacrifices and altars, the occasional slaughter of beloved Patroclus, the blood-thirsty murder of Hector and also a host of would-be-suitors of Penelope (I won't lie, that becomes a bloody bloody mess, that one) before swimming over to the Ionic and Tyrrhenian
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Japanese Art and Society: From Jomon Pottery to Superflat — JPN4714.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
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Credits: 4
This is the seventh term Japanese course. In this intermediate course, students will learn various art forms in Japan from pottery in the Jomon Era (about 14,000 BC – 300BC) to Takashi Murakami’s so-called “superflat,” a postmodern art movement, in the Heisei Era (1989 -2019). As they learn about Japanese art, they will analyze elements of Japanese aesthetics that were shared
Cultural Studies and Languages

Jazz and Modern Music Theory — MTH4121.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Jen Allen
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Credits: 4
This course will review both diatonic and modal harmony as it applies to chord structures, chord progressions, scales used in jazz improvisation, how to interpret chord alterations, and how to identify key centers. We will learn how to translate the chord symbols found in “lead sheets” (music with only chord symbols and melody) and develop the necessary skills to create
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Jazz Ensemble — MPF4250.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Jen Allen
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Credits: 2
This ensemble will perform a wide range of jazz music (a genre that is constantly evolving), with an emphasis on both ensemble playing and improvisation skills. By playing together, students will learn how blues, swing, Latin, and modern music elements have all fueled this music called jazz. Students will also learn how major jazz artists such as Ellington, Monk, Mingus, Wayne
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Kilns and Firing Techniques — CER4203.02

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 2
This course will look into the use of the kiln as an integral tool and part of the creative process in ceramic art. We will explore various different kilns and firing techniques, learning the roles of fire and atmosphere in transforming glaze components into desired surfaces. We will also discuss the history of kiln technology and how it has influenced the development
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Kilns and Firing Techniques — CER4203.01) (canceled 8/1/2024

Fall 2024
Instructor: Anina Major
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Credits: 2
This course will look into the use of the kiln as an integral tool and part of the creative process in ceramic art. We will explore various different kilns and firing techniques, learning the roles of fire and atmosphere in transforming glaze components into desired surfaces. We will also discuss the history of kiln technology and how it has influenced the development
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La Vie Quotidienne - Art of Everyday Life — FRE4310.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly
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Credits: 4
In this course, students will examine specific visual art representations of everyday life in French-speaking contexts as well as the realities they address, with a focus on race and gender issues. Through the reading of a variety of images – postcards, film opening sequences, statues, installations, memorials, and virtual reality experiments – students will hone their
Cultural Studies and Languages

Language and Space — LIN4113.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 4
The physical space around us may seem to be universal, but differences in how people interact with/in their environment (e.g. via settlement patterns, architecture, or agriculture) have long been topics of scholarly inquiry. This course continues this legacy by studying how humans perceive, conceptualize, and describe spatial relationships and their surrounds through the
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Language as System and Social Behavior — LIN2101.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Tom Leddy-Cecere
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Credits: 4
In this course, students will examine the building blocks which make up the interlocking systems of language and observe how those systems are enacted and granted layers of meaning through social practice. Beyond developing an understanding of the basic mechanics of sound systems, word-meaning relations, and the expression of grammatical values in languages of the world, we
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Latin American Art Since Independence — SPA2111.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
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Credits: 5
This course ranges from the republican art of nation-building in the 19th century to modernism, magical realism, and the postmodern. While there will be some discussion of standard tactics such as stylistic nuances and artists’ biographies, it is expected that we will rapidly develop sufficient ability to focus on movements, theory, and politics, thus treating the works as
Cultural Studies and Languages

Layers Upon Layers - Animated Collages — MA4326.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Sue Rees
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Credits: 4
The class will include a mixture of creating assemblages in a variety of means and materials. Objects will be cut out with scissors or the laser cutter, animated with pins or digital pins in software (After Effects), layers will be used to create depth in three dimensions, a multiplane or using the Z axis. Movement will be animated using software or an animation track and
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Life Drawing Lab — DRW2118.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Colin Brant
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Credits: 2
Life Drawing Lab provides an opportunity for student artists of all experience levels to further develop their skills with observational-based drawing. Working primarily with the human figure, students build increased understanding of the poetic, dynamic, and inherently abstract nature of drawing, while paying close attention to the potential of formal elements such as shape,
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Life Stories — FRE4604.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Stephen Shapiro
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Credits: 4
This course will focus on reading and analyzing a variety of autobiographical writing forms as well as perfecting your written French through creative autobiographical writing. Literary readings will offer both a critical perspective on a wide variety of autobiographical genres as well as models for inspiration and imitation in your own writing. We will also examine style and
Cultural Studies and Languages

Linear Algebra — MAT2482.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Andrew McIntyre
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Credits: 4
Together with calculus, linear algebra is one of the foundations of higher-level mathematics and its applications. This is NOT just the algebra you know from high school. There are several perspectives one can take on linear algebra: it is a method for handling large systems of linear equations, it is a theory of linear geometry (including in dimensions larger than three), it
Science and Mathematics

Live Sound - Load In to Load Out — MSR4368.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 2
Students will learn all the ways the audio travels through cables, into processing equipment, through amplification and out of speakers. Processors will include compression, EQ, delay, reverb, and crossovers. Students will learn about different live sound contexts, from the band gig to theater sound, and will be setting up and breaking down small sound systems. There will be
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Logic and Proof: The Art of Mathematics and the Limits of Knowledge — MAT2378.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Andrew McIntyre
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Credits: 4
How do we know something “beyond a reasonable doubt”? What is the relationship of insight to logical argument? How can we have certain knowledge about concepts which are infinite? These questions are at the core of mathematics, but also at the core of liberal arts. In mathematics, people have found rather detailed answers to how much certainty is possible, and have found
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Looking, Perceiving, and Attending — PSY2384.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 4
Cognitive neuroscience applies scientists' ongoing discoveries about the brain to explain people's everyday experiences. In this course, we will learn about the physical structures and functional networks that enable human vision and visual attention. Identifying what you see as a juice glass or a coffee cup depends on a complex interplay of brain functions, and attention
Society Culture and Thought

Mad Props: Theatrical Property Design and Production — DRA2312.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Seancolin Hankins
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Credits: 2
An exercise in planning, communication, creativity and resourcefulness, property design applies to film, television, and theatrical production. This course will look at theatrical props and set dressing from a property designer’s perspective. Starting with a script, we will uncover the questions you didn’t know needed answering in order to comprehensively produce or curate
Drama

Main Meanings — ARC4383.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 4
“…fictions focused on buildings often seem to use them as a code by which to bury their main meanings.” – Robert Harbison, Eccentric Spaces In her lecture How We Narrate Our Yesterday Determines How We Imagine The Future, Mariam Kamara describes the loss of our capacity to read architecture when we subscribe, uncritically, to totalizing histories that are disproportionately
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Mallet Percussion Ensemble — MPF4106.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
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Credits: 4
Mallet Percussion Ensemble continues to perform folkloric, classical, modern, and global genres of music while composing and developing original work. The goal for each student is to become familiar with all of the mallet keyboard instruments, which include the marimba, xylophone, glockenspiel, vibraphone, and African balafon. Our coursework will link music theory,
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Managing Ethnic Conflicts — POL4101.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Rotimi Suberu
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Credits: 4
How should states and the international community respond to protracted and violent conflicts involving ethnic, linguistic, religious or other identity groups? This is/was one of the central challenges of politics and governance in places as diverse as Afghanistan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Fiji, Iraq, India, Indonesia, Israel/Palestine, Lebanon, Northern Ireland, Nigeria, Rwanda
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Mandolin — MIN2229.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: John Kirk
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Credits: 2
Beginning, intermediate and advanced group lessons on the mandolin will be offered. Students will learn classical technique on the mandolin and start to develop a repertoire of classical and traditional folk pieces. Simple song sheets with chords, tablature, and standard notation, chord theory, and scale work will all be used to further skills. History of the Italian origins of
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