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Global Change — BIO2113.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Kerry Woods
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Credits: 4
More than at any other time in the history of human civilization, we can't project where we are heading by looking at where we have been. Why is our time unique? We are experiencing accelerating climate change due to human activities, and this will continue through the coming century, taking us into climates not previously experienced by modern humans. Our lifestyles are
Science Mathematics and Computing Environment

Graduate Research in Dance — DAN5305.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Terry Creach
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Credits: 6
This class is designed for MFA students to show works-in-progress, try out ideas with their colleagues, and discuss issues involved in the development of new work. The weekly format is determined with the students. Outside of class, students develop their own independent creative projects that will be presented to the public, either formally or informally, by the end of the
Dance

Hip-Hop Dance in Context — Section 2 - DAN2308.02

Spring 2015
Instructor: Moncell Durden
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Credits: 1
Hip-Hop Dance in Context is a dynamic multi-dimensional mind body training experience that actively explores the genealogy of African American social dance formations from authentic Jazz to Hip-Hop. Students will gain a contextual/historical knowledge of American social dance formations; investigate personal voice; explore embodied pluralisms and tonal fluidity; and engage in
Dance

Hip-Hop Dance in Context — Section 1 - DAN2308.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Moncell Durden
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Credits: 1
Hip-Hop Dance in Context is a dynamic multi-dimensional mind body training experience that actively explores the genealogy of African American social dance formations from authentic Jazz to Hip-Hop. Students will gain a contextual/historical knowledge of American social dance formations; investigate personal voice; explore embodied pluralisms and tonal fluidity; and engage in
Dance

History and Practice of Analog Color Photography — PHO4117.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Liz Deschenes
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Credits: 4
This course will present color photography in a different light. Discovering one's color aesthetic will be the basis of the class. Students will work mainly with color negatives. Through assignments, presentations, and critiques students will learn to observe the color of light. Students will develop a better understanding of their own color vocabulary and how to achieve it
Visual Arts

Home and Other Figments: Immigration, Exile, and Uprootedness — PSY2238.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Sean Akerman
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Credits: 4
The unique experience of uprootedness provides an opportunity to ask questions about home, identity, and the transmission of the past. In this course, we will look closely at the experience of exile as one that we can all relate to, in addition to the many meanings that the word "home" carries. We will also examine several populations around the world that have been displaced
Social Science

Honors Seminar: Recent African American Poetry — LIT4118.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Michael Dumanis
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Credits: 4
This Honors Seminar will intensively explore the work of established and emerging African American poets of the past forty years. We will begin with a brief overview of African American poetry from the eighteenth century to the Black Arts Movement of the 1970s, then proceed to discuss a different poet each week. Along the way we will consider whether a distinctive "Black
Literature

Horror Fiction — LIT4325.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Paul La Farge
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Credits: 4
Pleasure is one part of the aesthetic experience of fiction; another part is terror. This course will be a survey of major works of horror fiction from the 19th century through the present. We’ll pay particular attention to the techniques of writing horror, and the uses to which fiction writers have put them, from psychological examination through social critique and beyond.
Literature

How Do Animals Work? — BIO2102.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Elizabeth Sherman
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Credits: 4
How do animals work? Why do different animals work in different ways? The blue whale in the Pacific, the tapeworm lodged in the gut of a fox, and the flour beetle in your cupboard all must eat and grow and reproduce yet they differ enormously in size, longevity, and environment. The particular ways in which each of these animals has solved these problems are different yet there
Science Mathematics and Computing Environment

Impressionism —

Spring 2015
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
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Credits: 2
This seminar will look at works by Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel, as well as by Erik Satie, Les Six, Fauré, and diverse U.S. composers at the turn of the 20th century. We will start by looking at Debussy’s Preludes as a microcosm of his harmonic style, and then analyze major orchestral works including Jeux, L’Après Midi d’un Faune, and La Mer. Ravel’s Tombeau de Couperin,
Music

Incarceration in America — APA2108.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Annabel Davis-Goff
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Credits: 2
7 million Americans are under correctional supervision. The United States of America has the highest documented rate of incarceration in the world. Too many people are in prison, and in many cases the current system doesn’t work. It is inefficient, inhumane, and does not accomplish rehabilitation. It also costs too much – financially as well as in terms of human suffering – the
CAPA

Inquiry in the Visual Arts — VA4160.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Liz Deschenes
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Credits: 4
This class welcomes students from all of the Visual Arts disciplines who are interested in working and discussing work in an interdisciplinary environment. The course will have two main components that will interspersed throughout the course. Students will learn about how to research for the visual artist. Simultaneously, we will look at how to embark upon inquiry through a
Visual Arts

Insider Perspectives on the Francophone World II — FRE2104.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly
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Credits: 4
Viewed from the outside, the French-speaking world offers enticing images of beauty, pleasure, and freedom. From the inside, however, it is a complicated, often contradictory world where implicit codes and values shape the most basic aspects of daily life. This course will give you an insider's perspective on a cultural and communicative system whose ideas, customs, and belief
Languages

Interdisciplinary Improvisation Ensemble — APA2135.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Susie Ibarra; Susan Sgorbati
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Credits: 4
When you see a flock of birds migrating south, how does self-organization form the patterns that result in their flight? When you observe dancers moving along a path without a choreographer and musicians creating music without each note written down, how do they follow and listen to each other? How do collaborative structures support dialogue or destroy communication?
CAPA Dance Music

Intermediate Video Production: Reversing the Eye and Ear — FV4308.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Jonathan Schwartz
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Credits: 2
This intermediate moving image course begins with aural experiments before it moves into a film/video space. We will be attentive to sound as a force that conjures inner images and provokes cinematic/experiential feelings without the use of images. For the first couple of weeks we will make imageless films (or sound only projects) constructed with cinematic experiences in mind.
Visual Arts

Intermediate Violin/ Viola — MIN4232.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Kaori Washiyama
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Credits: 2
A group tutorial for students with 2+ terms experience in violin and viola. Emphasis will be on intermediate techniques in bowing, finger positions, and ensemble playing. Students will work towards an end-of-term project. Corequisite: Must participate in Music Workshop (Tuesday, 6:30-8pm).
Music

Intermediate Voice — Section 1 - MVO4301.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Kerry Ryer-Parke
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Credits: 2
For students of varying levels of singing ability. Vocal production and physiology will be discussed. Group warm-ups and vocalizations will incorporate exercises to develop breath control, resonance, projection, range, color, and agility. The fundamental concepts of singing will be explored in the preparation of specific song assignments. Personalization of text and emotional
Music

Intermediate Voice — Section 3 - MVO4301.03

Spring 2015
Instructor: Thomas Bogdan
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Credits: 2
***Time Change*** For students of varying levels of singing ability. Vocal production and physiology will be discussed. Group warm-ups and vocalizations will incorporate exercises to develop breath control, resonance, projection, range, color, and agility. The fundamental concepts of singing will be explored in the preparation of specific song assignments. Personalization of
Music

Intermediate Voice — Section 2 - MVO4301.02

Spring 2015
Instructor: Tom Bogdan
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Credits: 2
***Time Change*** For students of varying levels of singing ability. Vocal production and physiology will be discussed. Group warm-ups and vocalizations will incorporate exercises to develop breath control, resonance, projection, range, color, and agility. The fundamental concepts of singing will be explored in the preparation of specific song assignments. Personalization of
Music

Intermediate Voice — Section 4 - MVO4301.04

Spring 2015
Instructor: Thomas Bogdan
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Credits: 2
For students of varying levels of singing ability. Vocal production and physiology will be discussed. Group warm-ups and vocalizations will incorporate exercises to develop breath control, resonance, projection, range, color, and agility. The fundamental concepts of singing will be explored in the preparation of specific song assignments. Personalization of text and emotional
Music

Introduction to Intaglio: The Alchemist's Print — PRI2111.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Thorsten Dennerline
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Credits: 4
This course is an introduction to copper plate Intaglio. We will explore various techniques to prepare our plates including hand working and acid etching with materials such as rosin resists and sugar lifts. By the end of term, we will be printing in color. Ultimately, the overall goal of our endeavors will be to begin a dialog about artistic production in a contemporary
Visual Arts

Introduction to Jazz Theory and Improvisation — MTH2272.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Bruce Williamson
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Credits: 4
This course will review both diatonic and modal harmony as it applies to chord structures, chord progressions and scales used in jazz improvisation. Students will learn how to translate the chord symbols found in lead sheets (music with only chord symbols and melody), how to interpret chord alterations, and how to identify key centers. This course will help students learn the
Music

Introduction to the Moving Image — FV2175.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Warren Cockerham
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Credits: 4
This course teaches techniques fundamental to the craft of moving image creation, including cinematography, lighting, sound recording, and editing. It also provides a conceptual framework for video as an art medium. Students will build individual technical skills while developing an aesthetic vocabulary based on medium-specific audiovisual qualities. Throughout the term we will
Visual Arts

Japanese Communication Styles through the Lens of Popular Film — JPN4214.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Satomi LaFave
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Credits: 4
What are considered virtues in Japan are quite different from what are considered virtues in the US; moreover, traits that are virtues in Japan are sometimes considered faults or even immoral qualities in the U.S. From an American point of view, it can thus be difficult to imagine how exactly Japanese people’s minds work. In this intermediate Japanese course, we will study
Languages