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Spring 2016

Drums, Gongs and Bamboo — MPF2252.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Susie Ibarra

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Credits: 2

Drums, Gongs and Bamboo is an introduction to Southeast and South Asian Percussion. The ensemble will offer an overview and opportunity to listen to, learn and play percussion music from several countries in these regions. This ensemble will listen to and learn and adapt traditional music from countries such as Korea, Japan, Philippines, Indonesia, Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan, India,

Music

Editing for Moving Image — FV2305.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Katie Soule

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Credits: 1

This course is a 1-credit, seven-week course focused on providing video and animation students with the skills to edit in Premiere Pro CC 2015. The first third of the course will provide the essential training of capturing, editing, audio mixing, and performing special effects, as well as review methods of best practice when organizing footage and exporting finished

Visual Arts

Embodying Text: Shakespeare and Beyond — DRA2264.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Kirk Jackson

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Credits: 4

We will engage in deep investigation of text analysis for performance of Shakespeare: scansion, rhythm, sense stress, image work, phonetic phraseology, etc. Additionally, we will explore techniques for enlivening that analysis with a performing body. We will study the structure of the verse and the elements of rhetoric as the primary source for an actor's investigation of a

Drama

Emotion and the Brain — PSY2117.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Harlan Fichtenholtz

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Credits: 4

How do people understand end express emotions? How do emotions change brain function? Does emotional information make us more or less able to focus and engage with the world? The goal of this course is to understand the intricate ways in which the brain processes and expresses emotions. We will take a neuroscientific approach to understanding the interrelationship between

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Endangered Psychotherapies — PSY2170.01

Spring 2016

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Credits: 4

Health insurance companies and Federal regulators are moving the American health care system--including psychotherapy--toward "evidence-based treatment." For psychotherapy, that means a movement in the direction of short-term behaviorally-focused treatments, which can be manualized and evaluated quickly and cleanly. This movement thus imperils a rich tradition of

Society Culture and Thought

English as a Second Language — LIT2101.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Wayne Hoffmann-Ogier

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Credits: 2

This class will guide international students through the stages of the writing process with weekly papers which explore several rhetorical modes, including description, nonfiction narration, and with particular emphasis on constructing academic essays. We will also have the opportunity to review grammar, punctuation, diction, and sentence structure. Additional work is offered

Literature

Entangled Worlds — APA4152.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: David Bond

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Credits: 4

Human works alter the composition of natural worlds and the works of nature impinge upon social worlds. Yet so many of our inherited modes of thinking and acting are premised on a hard and fast distinction between Culture and Nature, the human and non-human, the subject and the object. In this seminar, we will explore a growing body of scholarship that privileges moments of

CAPA Environment

Evolution — BIO4104.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Kerry Woods

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Credits: 4

Evolutionary theory provides conceptual unity for biology; Darwin’s concept and its derivatives inform every area of life science, from paleontology to molecular biology to physiology to plant and animal behavior to human nature. This course will establish deep grounding in basic selective theory (including some exploration of population genetics) and explore selected current

Science Mathematics and Computing

Explorations in Public History — HIS4106.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Eileen Scully

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Credits: 4

This class introduces students to the fundamentals of Public History, meaning history that is generated for wide audiences through collaborations with communities, stakeholders, and professional academics. Working closely with the independent Village School in North ��Ź��, and various guest specialists, students will develop a working knowledge of Public History, and gain

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Faculty Performance Production: Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" — DRA4308.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Jean Randich

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Credits: 4

“The course of true love never did run smooth.” Shakespeare weaves the rebellious lovers, rude mechanicals, and fairies into the woods and everyone is transformed. This production will cast a dada/surrealist light on this popular comedy of gender friction, identity confusion, and the push and pull of rationality and dream logic. In this multi-media production we will re

Drama Music

Fashion and Modernism — DRW4109.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: J Blackwell

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Credits: 4

“Let There Be Fashion, Down With Art” –Max Ernst The rise of capitalism and the Industrial Revolution led to radical shifts in politics and art in the late 19th century. Fashion acts as a powerful analogue to and forecaster of Modernism. Artists such as Henri Matisse, Leon Bakst, Sonia Delaunay and Salvador Dali took note of fashion's nascent agency and created clothing as a

Visual Arts

Fiddle — MIN4327.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: John Kirk

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Credits: 2

For the experienced (2+years of playing) violinist. Lessons in traditional styles of fiddling – Quebecois, New England, Southern Appalachian, Cajun, Irish, and Scottish. This tutorial is designed to heighten awareness of the variety of ways the violin is played regionally and socially in North America (and indeed around the world these days) and to give practical music skills

Music

Field Course in Coral Reef Science — BIO4108.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Betsy Sherman and Janet Foley

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Credits: 2

The biodiversity of coral reefs has been declining rapidly in the last 20 years due in large part to human activities. In this field course students will have an opportunity to confront this problem directly and contribute to our understanding of reef biodiversity. This course will take place on the island of Grand Cayman, British West Indies for one week following the Spring

Science Mathematics and Computing

Form and Process: Investigations in Painting — PAI2107.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Ann Pibal

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Credits: 4

This course introduces a variety of materials, techniques and approaches to painting. Emphasis is placed on developing and understanding of color, form and space as well as individual research and conceptual concerns. The daily experience of seeing, along with the history of art, provides a base from which investigations are made. Formal, poetic, and social implications within

Visual Arts

Form to Function/Spatial Skin — SCU2110.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Jon Isherwood

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Credits: 4

Sections, tessellations, folding, contouring and forming are all considerations when imagining the mantle that divides or establishes a “skin”. We will investigate the qualities that surfaces need to possess to develop new spatial paradigms, leading to sculptural responses to these conditions. Through a series of discrete exercises coupling digital fabrication and design

Visual Arts

Foundations in Ceramics: Roots of Form —

Spring 2016

Instructor: Barry Bartlett

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Credits: 4

Exploring the unique, material nature of clay as a medium for personal and visual expression will be the focus of this course. All ceramic forms, whether sculptural or utilitarian, require a basic knowledge of the ceramic medium. A variety of construction methods will be introduced, employing both hand building and wheel techniques to achieve this goal. Emphasis will be placed

Visual Arts

Foundations in Ceramics: The Hand as a Tool — CER2105.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Barry Bartlett

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Credits: 4

Exploring the unique, material nature of clay as a medium for personal and visual expression will be the focus of this course. All ceramic forms, whether sculptural or utilitarian require a knowledge of the basic skills and an understanding of clay. A variety of construction methods will be introduced employing handbuilding techniques. Emphasis will be placed on developing a

Visual Arts

Foundations of Photography: Darkroom to Digital — PHO2138.01

Spring 2016

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Credits: 4

The objective of this course is to provide basic skills in both film and digital photography. Students will gain experience shooting with both 35mm and DSLR cameras, learn to develop and print black and white film in the darkroom, perform basic edits in Lightroom, and make quality inkjet prints. Hybrid analog and digital processes will also be introduced. Class time will be

Visual Arts

FUNK . . . as Rhythmic Counterpoint — MPF4111.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Michael Wimberly

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Credits: 2

This course explores approaches to interlocking patterns within a rhythm section by looking at funk based genres such as Afro-pop performed by artists Fela Kuti, Amadou Mariam, Youssou N'Dour, Oumou Sangare etc, some Brazilian funk + American artists such as James Brown, Sly Stone, P-Funk and Prince, etc. Composing, notating and arranging rhythmic grooves for the rhythm

Music

Gadhon Tutorial — MPF4698.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Nicholas Brooke

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Credits: 2

An individual tutorial in the soft-style elaborating instruments of the gamelan, for students who have already studied gambang, suling, pesindhen, or gender. We will work on 2-3 works in each major pathet (tonality), as well as learn the tone-setting preludes known as pathetan. Playing together in a small gadhon ensemble will be part of the

Music

Gifts and Gift Exchange — PSY4131.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Ronald Cohen

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Credits: 4

Whether between two people, or among several in a gathering or a small group, people usually manage to coordinate their activity with others. The rules that underlie, create, and maintain orderliness and permit people to carry on their activities are usually out of immediate, conscious awareness, and their existence is recognized only when they are violated. We will examine

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Glaze and Kiln Technology — CER2137.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Jack Yu; see Barry Bartlett for registration

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Credits: 2

This course will focus on fundamental technical requirements needed by intermediate and advanced level students pursuing advanced level projects in ceramics. Students will gain specific skills through focused training, learn about clay and glaze components in depth and the mechanics of kilns. An emphasis will be placed on understanding the chemistry behind glazes and how the

Visual Arts

Global Capitalism — ANT4135.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Miroslava Prazak

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Credits: 4

We are all familiar with a culture and society dedicated to the idea of consumption as the ultimate source of well-being. Its technology, wealth, and power are monuments to its success. But its spread around the globe has been accompanied by growing social and economic inequality, environmental destruction, mass starvation, and social unrest. Though most members of this society

Society Culture and Thought

Global Ethics/Global Justice — PHI2110.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Paul Voice

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Credits: 4

What do we owe to distant others? What responsibilities do we have to address the misfortunes of citizens of other countries? What, if anything, do we owe future generations? Does the idea of global justice make sense? These and other questions are addressed through a careful reading and analysis of a variety of philosophical arguments. You will be expected to write two papers

Society Culture and Thought

Graduate Assistantship in Dance — DAN5301.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Dana Reitz

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Credits: 6

Graduate students in Dance are integrated into the dance program as teaching assistants, production assistants or dance archival assistants. In consultation with their academic advisor and the dance faculty, MFA candidates develop an assistantship schedule of approximately ten hours weekly.

Dance