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Subject and Meaning in Painting — PAI4202.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Andrew Spence
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Credits: 4
Since the 1960s, art styles and trends have become increasingly diverse. This may make it easier for more artists to find acceptable venues of expression, but as the options increase, it may be more difficult for artists who are still in their formative stage of development to find their own way of expression. This course is designed for students who are starting to develop
Visual Arts

Super Producer Primer: Archaeology of Classic Tracks — MSR4238.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: David Baron
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Credits: 2
Learn to be a better producer through the analysis and recreation of classic track elements. We鈥檒l study the history, technology, and style of recordings and their techniques, looking at watershed paradigms of sonic design: from Motown to Disco to Punk to Electronica. We will remix, and recreate old tracks, turning them into fertile ground for our own, modern hit
Music

Technique, Phrasing, and Performance — DAN4321.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Dana Reitz
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Credits: 2
***Time Change*** This is designed for those who have made dance work and are interested in further developing a sense of personal movement phrasing. Full attention is paid to detail, nuance, and finesse of any phrase material that is made. Students use phrasing as a way to explore compositional, technical and performance issues and consider how aspects of dance making,
Dance

Text Seminar: Plato's Republic — PHI4244.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Karen Gover
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Credits: 4
***Time Change New Description*** Plato's _Republic_ is not only a foundational work in the history of Western political philosophy, but also a fascinating and beautiful work of literature.  It has provocative and even radical things to say about human nature, ethics, education, family, government, and art.  We will work our way methodically through the primary text
Social Science

The Actor's Instrument — DRA2170.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Jenny Rohn
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Credits: 4
***Time Change*** The craft of acting will be the main focus of this class. Through physical and vocal warm-up exercises, sensory exploration, improvisation, scene work, and extensive reading students will be asked to develop an awareness of their own unique instrument as actors and learn to trust their inner impulses where this is concerned. Extensive out of class preparation
Drama

The Art of Literary Translation — LIT4319.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Marguerite Feitlowitz
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Credits: 4
It may be that the closest, most interpretative and creative reading of a text involves translating from one language to another. Questions of place, culture, epoch, voice, gender, and rhythm take on new urgency, helping us deepen our skills and sensibilities in new ways. The seminar has a triple focus: comparing and contrasting existing translations of a single work; reading
Literature

The Design Process: Concept - Analysis - Diagram - Presentation — ARC4212.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Karolina Kawiaka
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Credits: 4
In this class students will develop and refine their design process through a series of sketch problems and design exercises. They will become familiar with the work of important architects and architectural writing and its role in creating culture, which will give inspiration and a sense of context for their own work. Analysis, CAD, and presentation skills will be advanced
Visual Arts

The Don Juan Project — DRA4146.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Jean Randich; Thomas Bogdan
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Credits: 4
Seducer.  Atheist.  Rebel.  Scoundrel.  Hypocrite.  Don Juan, the most unrepentant libertine in all of literature, has dazzled and provoked for centuries.  This project interlaces two masterpieces: Moliere鈥檚 Don Juan, or the Feast of Stone (1682), with selections from Mozart鈥檚 opera, Don Giovanni (1787).  Don Juan鈥檚 furious drive to satisfy
Drama Music

The Ethnography of Things — ANT4108.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Noah Coburn
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Credits: 4
***Title change from The Anthropology of Things Time change*** Most ethnographic studies begin by focusing on a group of people. This course asks what the implications are of reversing such an approach and beginning with a specific thing. In what ways do things create culture? By carefully analyzing a series of classic and more current ethnographies, students will look at the
Social Science

The Ferguson Report: A Living Document — MOD2152.04

Spring 2015
Instructor: Crina Archer; Erika Mijlin
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Credits: 1
In August of 2014, a police officer shot and killed Michael Brown, an unarmed, 18-year-old black man, in Ferguson, Missouri. According to a recent study, Brown's race rendered him 21 times more likely to be killed by a police officer's bullet than had he been a young, white man. Broad public criticism of the shooting and of a grand jury's failure to indict the officer
Modules: Transferable Approaches

The History of the Book — HIS4109.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Carol Pal
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Credits: 4
What is a book? For centuries, our ideas have been shaped by the rhythms and hierarchies inherent in the nature of the printed book. But what constitutes a ""book"" has actually changed enormously over time - from ancient Egyptian papyri to Mayan glyphs to the first products of Gutenberg's fifteenth-century printing revolution. Moreover, as these technologies have changed, so
Social Science

The Hollow Form — CER2221.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Barry Bartlett
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Credits: 4
This objective of this class is to help students learn the breadth of handbuilding techniques in the ceramic arts that have given rise to a vast history of ideas observed using hollow forms. Unlike traditional sculptural techniques used in wood, stone and metal, ceramic forms have depended on the interior space, the void, to define both symbolic meaning and formal structure.
Visual Arts

The Infinite — Canceled

Spring 2015
Instructor: Andrew McIntyre
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Credits: 1
The infinite is a theme that recurs in human thought, in places as disparate as philosophy, architecture, literature and mathematics. We will look at how mathematics has been influenced by the infinite, and the ways in which it has come to terms with it. We will mostly look at what mathematicians call the theory of sets: can one infinite collection be called bigger than another
Science Mathematics and Computing Modules: Transferable Approaches

The Japanese Language and its Reflection of Values and Morals in Folktales — JPN2110.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Satomi LaFave
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Credits: 4
Folktales are very interesting sources through which to gain an increased understanding of the cultural values and morals passed on from generation to generation. Gaining insight through these tales can improve comprehension of modern Japanese and the common cultural foundations upon which it is built. In this beginning Japanese course, students will be introduced to some
Languages

The Kiln as a Tool — CER2136.02

Spring 2015
Instructor: David Katz
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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 this has effected the development of wares,
Visual Arts

The Music of J.S. Bach — MHI2177.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Allen Shawn
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Credits: 4
A group exploration of some of the high points in the glorious music of Johann Sebastian Bach, including the Mass in B minor, the Saint Matthew Passion, the Magnificat, the Brandenburg Concertos, the Well-Tempered Clavier, the Musical Offering, and the unaccompanied Suites for Cello. We will also consider Bach's continuing influence on the music of the twentieth and twenty
Music

The Scriptorium: Visual Culture — Section 2 - LIT2252.02

Spring 2015
Instructor: Camille Guthrie
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Credits: 4
How do we organize and understand our perceptions of the world? How do we look at objects? At paintings and photographs, advertisements and films? What do we see, and not see, when we visit a new place, or when we encounter an animal? And, importantly, how do we perceive and comprehend each other? This scriptorium, a 鈥減lace for writing,鈥 will function as a class for beginning
Literature

The Scriptorium: Visual Culture — Section 1 - LIT2252.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Camille Guthrie
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Credits: 4
How do we organize and understand our perceptions of the world? How do we look at objects? At paintings and photographs, advertisements and films? What do we see, and not see, when we visit a new place, or when we encounter an animal? And, importantly, how do we perceive and comprehend each other? This scriptorium, a 鈥減lace for writing,鈥 will function as a class for beginning
Literature

The Web as Artistic Platform — DA2110.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Robert Ransick
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Credits: 4
This course is an introduction to creative practices within digital technologies specifically focused on Internet based fine art projects. A broad survey of web-based digital arts is examined in tandem with an overview of tools necessary to create your own work. These include HTML, CSS, Photoshop, content management systems, and a basic introduction to JavaScript. Students
Visual Arts

Through Syntax to Style: A Grammar of Writing — LIT2169.02

Spring 2015
Instructor: John Gould
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Credits: 2
"Syntax" is the aspect of grammar concerned with the relationships of words in a language, with how they fit together to create meaning. By exploring various English syntactical structures, we will discover a variety of ways to combine the same words to say slightly different things. The course will rely heavily on the linguistic work of Noam Chomsky. We will write a number of
Literature

Topping it Off — DRA2138.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Richard MacPike
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Credits: 2
Nothing can inform, conceal or embellish like a hat. Students in the course will learn about a variety of millinery techniques and materials by making a series of hats.
Drama

Total Theory — HIS4215.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
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Credits: 4
Whether we love theory or hate it, rejecting it on the basis of a lack of understanding of its esoteric hermeneutics or jargon isn鈥檛 really a viable position, and certainly not an excuse. It鈥檇 be nice to know why, thus debating it on its own terms and perceiving its implications in all manner of contexts beyond them. The plan is to give at least an introduction to historicism,
Social Science Literature

Traces, Mistakes, and Leftovers — Canceled

Spring 2015
Instructor: Mary Lum
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Credits: 4
The role of drawing has changed over the history of art, from primitive recording to preliminary sketch, to documentation, to works that function independently. How can we expand these categories to include the remnants of the making process. Can the research done before a project, the many mistakes made in process, or the discards left after completion of an artwork be
Visual Arts

Traditional Music Ensemble — MPF4221.01

Spring 2015
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

Traditional Music of North America — MHI2135.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: John Kirk
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Credits: 2
This course explores music from early native music through contemporary singer-songwriters. Some of the traditions we draw from include African, Native American, Quebecois, Appalachian, Irish and Scottish, British Isle traditions, Cajun, Blues, Gospel, and Conjunto music. Instrumental, dance, and ballad traditions are explored. Students must bring a guitar, banjo, mandolin, or
Music