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Spring 2015

Turbulent Transitions — PEC4122.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Robin Kemkes

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Credits: 4

This course will explore some of the major economic transitions throughout history with a particular focus on the pre-conditions underlying the changes and the resulting socio-economic developments. The course will span a broad time period across several regions of the world. First, we will study the transition from feudalism to capitalism in Europe. Next, we will pursue the

Social Science

Ukulele Comprehensive — MIN2230.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: John Kirk

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Credits: 2

A comprehensive course on learning skills on the ukulele. We will learn the history of the uke and both traditional and contemporary styles. Music theory and playing techniques will be covered and students will be expected to perform as a group or individually at Music Workshop. Students must have their own soprano or tenor ukulele.

Music

Unique Prints: 3-D Prints and Modular Works — PRI4272.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Thorsten Dennerline

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Credits: 4

This course is an introduction to unique prints, or prints that are not necessarily printed as an edition. We will emphasize the making of mixed media prints using a broad range of methods from monotypes to digital prints. The class is structured around a series of projects where rigorous experimentation is encouraged. Students will learn various non-typical printmaking

Visual Arts

Viewpoints - Exploring a Play and its Characters — DRA4226.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Jenny Rohn

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Credits: 4

Viewpoints is an improvisational movement technique used to train actors and create movement for the stage. In this class students will work as an ensemble, training together in order to create a common physical language. The first third of the term will be dedicated to building the ensemble. Each class will include a warm up, detailed exploration of the individual Viewpoints

Drama

Violin/ Viola — MIN4345.01

Spring 2015

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. Corequisite: Must participate in Music Workshop (Tuesday, 6:30-8pm).

Music

Virgil, Ovid, Horace: Latin Poets in Translation — LIT4185.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Dan Hofstadter

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Credits: 4

These Latin poets lived in the age of Caesar Augustus. Ovid's Metamorphoses, a book-length poem (he called it a "perpetual song") is our central interest. In this work Ovid recasts Greek mythology in an account of the loves of the gods and men, working in ancient Roman enthusiasms with distinctly New Age overtones, such as vegetarianism and the migration of souls. Mythology is

Literature

Visible Language: Word And/As Image — DRW4401.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Mary Lum

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Credits: 4

The observed world is covered with words, both visible and invisible. This advanced drawing course aims to underline the tensions and comforts of the relationship between words and images in visual art. Through assigned drawing problems that call upon students to complete and present visual work regularly, topics will include, sign and structure, juxtaposition, concrete poetry,

Visual Arts

Visual Arts Lecture Series — VA2999.01

Spring 2015

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

Voice and Speech Workshop — DRA2114.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Kirk Jackson

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Credits: 4

***Time Change*** The human voice simultaneously communicates thought and emotion whether we will it or not. Through exercises focusing on alignment and release, breath expansion and endurance, vibration and tone, and articulation and flexibility, students will work to free, develop and strengthen their natural voice. Particular attention will be paid to diction to align

Drama

Waste, Disgust, and the Body: Thinking in Social Science — PSY2110.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Ronald Cohen; Karen Gover

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Credits: 4

We all do it multiple times a day without giving it a second thought. Everyone has to go. But while easy access to a private, safe toilet is simply taken for granted in our part of the world, two-thirds of the world's population do not have adequate sanitation. 2.6 billion people living today do not have access to a toilet. As a result, millions of people die every year because

Social Science

What Comes After the State? — ANT2114.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Noah Coburn

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Credits: 4

Particularly since the treaty of Westphalia the state has been the dominant feature of the international system. In almost every case its sovereignty is assumed. Yet from unauthorized US drone strikes in Pakistan to the European Union, there are examples of ways in which the power of the state as an organizing concept is beginning to erode. This course will look at

Social Science CAPA

What Was Critique and What Comes Next? — APA4207.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: David Bond

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Credits: 4

If progressive scholarship holds anything sacred, perhaps it is critique. Over the past century, critique has become not only the guiding commitment of radical scholarship but also the unflappable identity of the public intellectual. Yet a number of unfortunate assumptions have been built into this manner of engaging the world. Among them, that intellectuals have privileged

CAPA Social Science

Who is Gloria Steinem? — MOD2149.04

Spring 2015

Instructor: Karen Gover

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Credits: 1

In preparation for her visit to campus, this module will be an introduction to the thought and work of Gloria Steinem, journalist, activist, co-founder of Ms. Magazine, and feminist organizer. We will situate her work within the "second wave" of feminism and within its larger political context in US history. This course will be offered Thursday, May 14 - Monday, June 1.

Modules: Transferable Approaches

Whose Opera? — MCO4361.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Kitty Brazelton

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Credits: 4

Looking for six able composers, six able writers and six able singer/actors. Or those who combine these abilities. Example of bi-weekly assignment: short operatic sketch by six teams of writer-composers for singer-actors. Writer starts - delivering libretto to composer who sets words to music, and team delivers sketch to class one week later. After sketch is critiqued in class,

Music

Woodwind Chamber Ensemble — Canceled

Spring 2015

Instructor: Bruce Williamson

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Credits: 2

An intensive, performance oriented exploration of the chamber music literature. Students must have significant previous instrumental training and experience. Corequisite: Must participate in Music Workshop (Tuesday, 6:30-8pm).

Music

World Percussion Ensemble — MPF2253.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Susie Ibarra

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Credits: 2

***Time Change*** In this class we will examine composition and improvisation through melodic, harmonic, rhythmic structures as well as important cultural and folkloric content in examples of music from traditional practices in various parts of the world. The ensemble will learn and perform music from Eastern Europe, Africa, Southeast Asia, Central Asia. Individually each

Music

World Vocal Ensemble — MPF4126.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Kerry Ryer-Parke

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Credits: 2

***Time Change*** This class is for confident, adventurous singers wishing to study and perform full-throated music from regions where singing is part of the rhythm of everyday life. Meeting concurrently with the World Percussion Ensemble, we will collaborate on music from Eastern Europe, Africa, Southeast and Central Asia. We will learn about the distinctive sounds and

Music

Wounded Literature: Trauma, Memory, and Representation — LIT2262.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Sarah Harris

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Credits: 4

This course will be a study of the paradoxes of trauma literature. Stories that compel their telling, yet are unassimilated and unspeakable, this writing grows out of disaster and crisis on an individual and/or collective scale. To better understand Anne Whitehead’s assertion that “Novelists have frequently found that the impact of trauma can only adequately be represented by

Literature

Writing Essays ��Ź�� Literature — LIT2102.01

Spring 2015

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