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Spring 2015

Salts of Silver, Salts of Iron — PHO4123.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Jonathan Kline

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Credits: 4

This class will be centered on making light sensitive emulsions on paper and glass, re-creating some of the earliest photographic processes from the 19th century. We will also be researching the scientific journals and notebooks of William Henry Fox Talbot, Sir John Herschel, Gustave LeGray, in addition to reading Geoffrey Batchen's recent book, "Burning With Desire/The

Visual Arts

Saxophone — MIN4237.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Bruce Williamson

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Credits: 2

Study of saxophone technique and standard repertoire (jazz or classical), with an emphasis on tone production, dexterity, reading skills, and improvisation. This course is for intermediate-advanced students only. Corequisite: Must participate in Music Workshop (Tuesdays, 6:30-8pm)

Music

Scene Study/ Modern Classics: Abaire, Letts, Rebeck — DRA4134.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Dina Janis

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Credits: 4

This is an advanced scene study class which will explore the canon of work by David Lindsay Abaire, Tracey Letts and Theresa Rebeck. Students will be assigned scenes from this canon, and the class as a whole will read all of the plays being worked on during the term. Rehearsal techniques, character development and sensory exploration of these plays will be a large part of the

Drama

Schools and Movements in American Poetry — LIT2315.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Michael Dumanis

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Credits: 4

This course will survey the evolution of, and revolutions in, the American poetry from 1950 to the present by exploring the work of various aesthetically and culturally linked groups of American poets that came to prominence in the decades following the Second World War: the Beats, the Confessional Poets, the Black Mountain School, the San Francisco Renaissance, the New York

Literature

Science as a History of the Present — APA2137.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: David Bond

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Credits: 4

This course builds on the premise that scientific practice is a meaningful form of public action. This premise challenges popular understandings of science as a cloistered or abstracted world, turning attention instead to the lively interface between scientific practices and pressing problems. We will approach science as a history of the present; that is, as a cultivated way of

CAPA Social Science

Science, Drama, The Power of the Inquisitive Mind — DRA2259.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Dina Janis

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Credits: 4

"Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so" Galileo "To be or not to be, that is the question" Shakespeare How do the worlds of science and theater connect and what do they share? What is the role of the revolutionary thinker in society? We will study a variety of dramatic texts that look at these questions, exploring the nature of the inquisitive mind and

Drama

Seminar in Clinical/ Developmental Psychology — PSY4106.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: David Anderegg

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Credits: 4

This course serves as a platform for senior work in clinical or developmental psychology. Students will work together as a group and also independently under supervision of the instructor. The final product will be a research paper or other project which demonstrates critical thinking and research in psychology at an advanced level. Projects may be one-term projects or the

Social Science

Seminar in Political Leadership — POL4213.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Rotimi Suberu

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Credits: 2

Political leadership is one of the most under-researched and under-theorized subjects in contemporary political science, despite an abundance of political biographies and a rich literature on organizational and managerial leadership. This 7-week seminar is devoted to exploring and analyzing leadership from a political perspective. We will examine different prescriptive and

Social Science

Senior Projects — MPF4104.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Kitty Brazelton

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Credits: 2

Salon-style, seniors will meet to discuss advanced work, whether composition and performance related to senior concerts or other culminating work. Critical exchange and support between salon members is required, along with practical help in planning productions.

Music

SHHH! The Social Construction of Silence — PSY4205.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Ronald Cohen

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Credits: 4

***Time Change*** Silence is a central element of social life, but it has rarely been the focus of explicit research and theory. This may reflect a conception of silence as "absence," or mere ground for figures of speaking, utterance, and noise. This course reverses these conceptions: Silence is a presence, and a figure emerging from grounds of speech, utterance, and noise. It

Social Science

Silkscreen/ Serigraphy Workshop — Section 1 - PRI2112.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Sarah Pike

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Credits: 2

This course will focus on the basic technical processes of screen printing including, screen preparation, image development, registration, paper handling, and printing multi run prints. Through demonstrations and hands on experiences students will complete a series of projects using block out methods and photo emulsion by creating hand-drawn and digital films. Particular

Visual Arts

Silkscreen/ Serigraphy Workshop — Section 2 - PRI2112.02

Spring 2015

Instructor: Sarah Pike

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Credits: 2

Visual Arts

Sociolinguistic Voices: Identities in Text Talk — Canceled

Spring 2015

Instructor: Peter Jones

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Credits: 4

Identity has become an inevitable concept in social theory. Theorizing identity and examining how identity becomes relevant in communication contributes to understanding power, culture and agency. This course looks into identity from a sociolinguistic perspective, where identities are seen as coming into being through semiotic practices entailing gender, ethnicity and class, as

Education

Solo Performance - Telling My Story — DRA4322.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Kirk Jackson

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Credits: 4

Students develop original and/or primary source material and explore its shape, arc, and thematic whole in a performance medium that can involve text, movement, characterization, and personal examination and observation. We will view solo performance artists. Students write, edit, rewrite multiple drafts and perform original memorized material. Class work will be tailored

Drama

Song for Ireland and Celtic Connections — MHI2251.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: John Kirk

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Credits: 2

Celtic music from Ireland, Scotland, Bretagne, Galacia, and Cape Breton will be experienced, studied, and performed using instruments and voices. We'll find and cross the musical bridges between regions--from the ballads of Ireland, Scotland and Wales to the Alalas of Spain and dance tunes of Brittany. An end-of-term presentation will be prepared drawing on inspiration from

Music

Sound in Site: Performance and Installation —

Spring 2015

Instructor: Andrea Parkins

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Credits: 4

This course is for students who want to create site-based performances and installations with an electronic or performative sound component. Throughout the semester, students will investigate relationships between sound and site, informed by their exploration of sonic materials, listening, site-visits and readings that address contemporary critical and conceptual issues related

Sound Installation — Canceled

Spring 2015

Instructor: TBA

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Credits: 2

In this course we'll examine and create sound pieces that differ from traditional musical performances in that they are longer, larger, and/or (more directly) interactive. Topics will include: process music and algorithmic composition; mechanized and computerized sound making; strategies for remote power, processing, and amplification; and sensors. Students will critique

Music

Sound Manifestos —

Spring 2015

Instructor: Nicholas Brooke

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Credits: 2

This course will examine the peculiar literary and musical interactions that happen when sound artists trumpet their innovations in short prose form. Starting with Russolo’s Futurist Manifesto, we will listen to the manifestos of sound-related movements, from Dada to Fluxus to minimalism, using a broad, multidisciplinary approach. Readings will include Marinetti, Cage, Satie,

Music

Soundtracks for Media and Live Performance — MSR4261.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: David Baron

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Credits: 2

A course on sound design for fixed media and live performance which looks at how we technically construct the “real”. We will begin by looking at soundtracking for film, and the often subtle line between sound design and music, by spotting, finding tempo and moods in film/video sources. We then look at various live sound design projects, culled from diverse dance and drama

Music

Special Relativity — PHY4210.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Hugh Crowl

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Credits: 2

Classical physics describes the motions of large things moving at slow speeds. That description of the universe, which physicists used to describe the motion of objects from apples to planets for hundreds of years, does not hold for objects moving very fast. In this class, we will look at how traveling close to the speed of light affects the physical properties of objects.

Science Mathematics and Computing

Stage Management — DRA2241.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Michael Giannitti

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Credits: 4

***Time Change*** Students explore the key role of the stage manager in the production process in this class. Readings, discussions, and projects on topics including scheduling, play breakdowns, prompt book preparation, blocking notation, ground plan and theatre layout, and the running of rehearsals and performances are included. The relationship of the stage manager to others

Drama

Statistics and Their Presentation — MAT2114.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Kathryn Montovan

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Credits: 4

Statistics is the art of finding meaning in mathematical abstracts. It is looking at patterns and trying to reason what those patterns mean for the future. Statistics have pervaded modern society--politics, business, economics, and all walks of science depend on statistics and the models contained within to estimate and confirm patterns within their data. This course will focus

Science Mathematics and Computing

String Chamber Ensemble — MPF4235.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Kaori Washiyama

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Credits: 2

Music for string ensemble to be selected according to number and level of participants. Students must have significant previous instrumental training and previous experience. Corequisite: Must participate in Music Workshop (Tuesday, 6:30-8pm).

Music

Studying Place by Metes and Bounds — ENV4232.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Valerie Imbruce; Miroslava Prazak

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Credits: 4

***New Course Description*** In New England, parcels of land were traditionally described in reference to specific existing landscape features—a system called “metes and bounds.” This course, grounded in the ecology, history and culture of the ��Ź�� region over its 250-plus year history, explores human interactions with the biophysical environment to produce livelihoods

Social Science Environment

Style and Tone in Nonfiction Writing — LIT2104.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Wayne Hoffmann-Ogier

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Credits: 4

This introductory course focuses on the weekly writing of extended essays, including nonfiction narrative, personal essay, literary criticism, research writing, and the analytical essay. It gives particular attention to developing individual voice and command of the elements of style. The class incorporates group editing in a workshop setting with an emphasis on re-writing. It

Literature