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Traditional Music Ensemble — MPF4221.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: John Kirk
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Credits: 2
We will study and perform from the string band traditions of rural America. Nova Scotia, Quebecois, Irish, New England, Scandinavian, African American, dance and ballad traditions will also be experienced with listening, practice (weekly group rehearsals outside of class) and performing components. Emphasis on ensemble intuition, playing by ear, and lifetime personal music
Music

Turgenev and Flaubert — LIT4204.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Dan Hofstadter
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Credits: 4
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818-1883), the great Russian novelist, left his homeland in 1854 and spent most of the rest of his life in Paris, where he died. Though he wrote in Russian, he was also a writer of pan-European cultural connections, his closest friends being Pauline (García) Viardot, a distinguished Spanish-born opera singer and composer, and Gustave Flaubert (1821
Literature

Ukulele Comprehensive — MIN2230.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: John Kirk
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Credits: 2
A comprehensive course on learning personal music making skills on the ukulele. History of Uke and many different styles will be learned both traditional and contemporary. Music theory and playing techniques will be covered and students will be expected to perform ( as a group or individually) at Music Workshop. Corequisites: Students must participate in Music Workshop.
Music

Unlocking Italian Culture II — ITA2108.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Barbara Alfano
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Credits: 4
Entering the worlds of Italy is an integral part of learning the language. Students will continue exploring Italian culture through ideas of space, supported by role-play, music, film, videos, and the Internet, along with different authentic materials. In this course, we will focus in particular on public spaces and their social activities. Meanwhile, students will also advance
Languages

Violin/Viola — MIN4345.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Kaori Washiyama
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Credits: 2
Studies in all left-hand positions and shifting, and an exploration of various bow techniques. Students can select from the concerto and sonata repertoire, short pieces and etudes for study designed to develop technique, advance musicianship and prepare for performance.
Music

Visual Arts Lecture Series — VA2999.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Visual Arts Faculty
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Credits: 1
This is a series of lectures given by visiting artists and critics invited by the Visual Arts faculty. You will attend lectures on Tuesday evenings at 7:30 pm as well as gallery exhibitions. The number of lectures and exhibitions you must attend will vary according to how many are scheduled in any term. You are required to take notes during the lectures and exhibitions and
Visual Arts

Voltaire and Rousseau — LIT4143.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Brooke Allen
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Credits: 4
Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire and Jean-Jacques Rousseau were towering figures not only of the age of Enlightenment but of all Western intellectual history. Their subjects ranged from philosophy to politics to religion to history to education; their works remain as readable and provocative as they were 250 years ago. Great radicals in their time who are still politically
Literature

Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson — LIT2199.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Mark Wunderlich
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Credits: 4
In this course we will examine the work and worlds of these two canonical American poets. We will read the poems and letters of Dickinson and the poems and prose of Whitman, paying special attention to his lifelong masterwork, Leaves of Grass. We will also dip into the biographies of these authors and attempt to place them within the context of 19th century literature and
Literature

Witchcraft and Magic in Pre-Modern Europe — HIS4104.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Carol Pal
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Credits: 4
What is a witch? Who is a witch? And in the increasingly rational culture of Europe after the Renaissance, how and why did nearly 100,000 people, predominantly women, come to be tried for the crime of witchcraft? In many ways, the investigation of these questions hangs on another question: how do we differentiate science, magic, and religion? In pre-modern Europe, there were no
Social Science

Working with Movement: Cinema Dance — DAN2116.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Elliot Caplan
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Credits: 4
A hands-on seminar conducted by Elliot Caplan to teach film/video and digital arts as collaborative tools for exploration of movement in dance, theatre, and the visual arts. It is intended for those interested in developing their aesthetic of the moving image rather than learning primarily the technical aspects of filmmaking. We work to clarify space in the frame. The dynamic
Dance Drama Visual Arts

Wounded Literature: Trauma and Representation — LIT2262.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Sarah Harris
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Credits: 4
This course will be a study of the paradox of trauma literature. Stories that compel their telling, yet are unassimilated and unspeakable, these works grow out of disasters on an individual and/or collective scale. To better understand Anne Whitehead's assertion that writers "have frequently found that the impact of trauma can only adequately be represented by mimicking its
Literature

Writing Essays about Literature — LIT2102.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Wayne Hoffmann-Ogier
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Credits: 4
Writing Essays is an introduction to writing clearly-constructed and logically-argued essays in response to reading, analyzing, and appreciating literary genre, including poetry, short stories, essays, plays, and novels. The course offers an analysis of the technical elements in literature: imagery, symbolism, metaphor, point of view, tone, structure, and prosody. The class
Literature

Your French Films — FRE2112.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Noelle Rouxel-Cubberly
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Credits: 4
Never seen a Godard film? You couldn't name a French female filmmaker? You wonder what French-speaking Arabic films look like? In this exploratory course on French cinema, each student will select, with the help of the instructor, the film they want to include in the syllabus. Critique and theoretical readings will be included in the analysis of the films. Group work and scene
Languages