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Spring 2016

Introduction to the Biology of Cancer — BIO2104.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Amie McClellan

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Credits: 4

The cells in our bodies need to grow and divide in order to make new tissue, and to repair or replace damaged tissue. The processes that govern cell growth and division are tightly regulated. When the cells that comprise the tissues of our bodies lose the ability to properly regulate their growth and proliferation, cancer is the result. This introductory level course will

Science Mathematics and Computing

Introduction to Video — FV2303.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Sara Magenheimer

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Credits: 4

This production course introduces students to the fundamentals of working in video and the language of film form. Drawing on the energy, intensity and criticality of avant-garde film and contemporary video art practices, students will complete a series of projects exploring dimensions of cinematography, mise-en-scène, editing and sound design before producing a final self

Visual Arts

Introduction to Video Art — FV2306.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Fern Silva

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Credits: 4

This course introduces video as a medium for artistic expression and social inquiry. Students gain an understanding of the video image-making process and develop proficiency with video equipment, including portable and studio production and editing systems. Strategies for the use of video as an art-making tool are explored and works by video artists are viewed and discussed. We

Visual Arts

Investigating Culture — ANT2207.02; section 2

Spring 2016

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Credits: 4

This course introduces the field of sociocultural anthropology through investigations into the concepts and theories—particularly the idea of “culture”—employed by anthropologists to understand the unity and diversity of human thought and action. With the aim of investigating both how societies are organized and how they adapt to change, we will explore a range

Society Culture and Thought

Investigating Culture — ANT2207.01; section 1

Spring 2016

Instructor: Eileen Scully

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Credits: 4

Society Culture and Thought

Italy Through Regional Contexts — ITA4102.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Barbara Alfano

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Credits: 2

There are as many Italies as the regions that make up the country. There are, in fact, more, since dialects, cuisine, and social behavior may vary significantly in any one region. This course takes a path beyond the obvious and apparent to lead you into an exploration of the differences, peculiarities, and singularities of Italian regional cultures and of how the puzzle stays

Languages

Javascript and the User Interface — DA2109.02

Spring 2016

Instructor: Jackson Moore

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Credits: 2

In this course we will create a series of user interfaces using javascript, the powerful programming language supported in every web browser and an increasing number of other environments. In the process we will get to know the tools and vocabulary of programming, and practice the kinds of problem solving that it entails. In addition to basic javascript syntax, we

Visual Arts

Jazz Vocal Workshop — MPF4273.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Bruce Williamson; Kerry Ryer-Parke

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Credits: 4

This will be a repertoire/performance class where vocalists will have the opportunity to work with both a vocal coach and jazz pianist. Bass and drums will be added towards the end of the term. Songs will be selected from the standard jazz repertoire, which will then be interpreted in a number of different jazz styles (swing, latin, ballad, blues, etc.). Emphasis will be on

Music

L'Afrance: Identité(s) francophone(s) en question(s) — FRE4225.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly

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Credits: 4

Vive « l’Afrance »! This film title (Gomis, 2001) summarizes the goal of this course: an exploration of the rich variety of shared and conflicting francophone identities. Constructed within or outside of France, the identities studied in this course will encompass West African, Maghrebi, Caribbean and French spaces. The discussion of notions such as «

Languages

Language Through Film — SPA4118.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Sarah Harris

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Credits: 4

Students in this course will continue to learn the Spanish language through an examination of films. While there will be some necessary discussion about cinematographic components, the focus of discussion will be on historical and political moments present in the films. A consideration, for instance, of national and regional identity, political violence, border crossing,

Languages

Language, Politics and Identity — EDU2252.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Bryce Smedley

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Credits: 4

This course will explore language in its social context and examine the role of language in constructing, preserving and influencing political and national identities. Topics will include linguistic rights, language conflict, language variation, language shift, language policy, language discrimination, standard language and the construction of identity through language. The

Education

Leadership impact accelerator — MOD4205.02

Spring 2016

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Credits: 1

The problems we face today are too great for any one person to solve alone. But what does it practically take to lead meaningful change and advance public action? What leadership capacities are needed now to move ourselves and others forward strategically and adaptively in a changing world? This three-session leadership retreat will support student leaders and change agents who

CAPA Modules: Transferable Approaches

Learning By Doing: Progressive Education in a Public High School Classroom — APA2127.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Susan Sgorbati

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Credits: 4

In a collaborative effort between ��Ź�� College and two Mount Anthony Union High School programs (the Quantum Leap Exhibit Program and the Bridges Summer Transitional Program), the Sababa Project ( a joint classroom for ��Ź�� College and MAUHS students) attempts to demystify the college experience while providing high school students with hands-on, real-world,

CAPA Education

Life and Death: Buddhism in Modern Japanese films — JPN4118.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida

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Credits: 4

In this course, students will examine how Buddhism influenced Japanese thought on the after-life and analyze how Japanese views on the relationship between life and death are depicted in recent Japanese films. In the first seven weeks of the course, students will examine and discuss the history, beliefs, and deities of Buddhism and their influences on society. In

Languages

Life Drawing Lab — DRW2118.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Colin Brant

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Credits: 2

Drawing Lab provides an opportunity for student artists of all experience levels to further develop their skills with observational-based drawing. Working primarily with the human figure, students build increased understanding of the poetic, dynamic, and inherently abstract nature of drawing, while paying close attention to the potential of formal elements such as shape, line,

Visual Arts

Literature of Barcelona and Madrid — SPA4218.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Sarah Harris

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Credits: 4

Only two cities in Spain have over one million inhabitants, and these same two cities often seem at odds with each other. One city is geographically and politically central, the seat of the royal family, while the other is on the periphery. Architecturally, one is largely neoclassical and monumental, while the other can seem dreamlike and surreal. One speaks what Antonio

Languages

Literature of the Spanish Civil War — LIT2396.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Sarah Harris

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Credits: 4

"Hitherto, the rights and wrongs had seemed so beautifully simple." (George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia) Technically a Civil War, the Spanish Civil War (1936 to 1939) was also an intensely international conflict in a number of ways: though no other nations officially entered the war, German forces used it to rehearse the blitzkrieg tactics they would employ in World War II;

Society Culture and Thought Literature

Literature of Travel and Discovery — FRE4222.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Stephen Shapiro

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Credits: 4

In this course, we will explore the representation of travel and discovery in a variety of genres (essay, theatre, novel, poetry, film, bande dessinée). By examining both fictive and real travel narratives, we will look at how reality is transformed into a text and how fictions help us to imagine and discover new ways of thinking and living. Central themes will include exile

Languages

Love and Other Italian Disasters — ITA4607.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Barbara Alfano

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Credits: 4

In his film “Ricomincio da tre” (I’m Starting Back at Three), the Italian director and protagonist Massimo Troisi responds to his girlfriend, who reminds him that “When you have love, you have everything,”: ”No, you’re wrong, That is health.” This course focuses on representations of love, partnership, and their (im)possibilities in contemporary Italian literature and film, as

Languages

Madame Bovary — LIT4270.02

Spring 2016

Instructor: Ben Anastas

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Credits: 2

Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert, is universally regarded as one of the two or three greatest French novels. It was the object of an obscenity trial in 1859, though the prosecution failed to establish anything indecent in its content. The book is also regarded, by novelists and critics alike, as almost perfect in construction - musical in the unfolding of the story, vivid,

Literature

Making and Breaking International Law — HIS2130.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Eileen Scully

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Credits: 4

International law is no longer merely "out there" somewhere, relevant only to travelers, merchants and diplomats. Quite the contrary. International law is being globalized, and 'glocalized,' so that it now covers complex contested areas such as civil unions, health insurance, sexual orientation, migration. This is an introduction to the fundamentals of twenty

CAPA Society Culture and Thought

Mandolin — MIN2229.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: John Kirk

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Credits: 2

Beginning, intermediate and advanced group or individual lessons on the mandolin will be offered. Student will learn classical technique on the mandolin and start to develop a repertoire of classical and traditional folk pieces. Simple song sheets with chords, tablature, and standard notation, chord theory, and scale work will all be used to further skills. Students will

Music

Markmaking and Representation — DRW2149.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Colin Brant

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Credits: 4

The fundamentals of drawing are the basic tools for this investigation into seeing and translation. Using simple methods and means, the practice of drawing is approached from both traditional and experimental directions. The focus of this inquiry is on drawing from observation, broadly defined. In class drawing sessions are complemented by independent, outside of class work and

Visual Arts

Marx, Keynes, and Hayek — PEC4127.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Eileen Scully

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Credits: 4

In this course we study the economic system we live in through theoretical perspectives provided by three major economists, Karl Marx, John Maynard Keynes, and Friedrich Hayek. We will start with an introduction to Marxian critical analysis of capitalism, emphasizing the concept of capital as a social relationship, the theory of the production of surplus-value and its

Society Culture and Thought

Masks — DRA4135.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Janis Young

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Credits: 4

Masks is dedicated to the opening of individual and group physical and vocal expression. To further that goal, this performance class works with several groups of masks. Beginning with Jacques Lecoq's neutral mask exercises involving physical economy of effort, Mexican mask improvisations and group exercises, the work extends to vocal development and verse expression. Using

Drama