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Spring 2016

Matter, Energy, and the Environment — ENV2326.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: John Bullock

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Credits: 4

Environmental issues are inherently cross-disciplinary. To effectively grapple with them, their economic, social, and political dimensions must be considered. But to truly understand such problems, their underlying scientific aspects cannot be ignored. Basic principles of energy, including thermodynamics and the nature of light and heat, as well the principles that describe

Visual Arts Science Mathematics and Computing Environment

Media Convergence and Culture — APA4102.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Erika Mijlin

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Credits: 4

A seminar on the changing nature of the relationship between consumption and production of media, and how these newly intersect. With a perspective rooted in the cultural history of forms such as quotation, parody, and collage, in this course we will explore the many transitions in the present media paradigm — the changing aesthetics of digital media content and context, the

CAPA

Mobility and Circulation — ANT2206.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Eileen Scully

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Credits: 4

Moving and circulating through local, national, and global space—whether for economic opportunity, military conquest, pilgrimage, tourism, or otherwise—has long been one of humanity’s great preoccupations. Human mobility at once represents a source of liberation for people seeking a new life, a challenge to governments looking to control and monitor their

Society Culture and Thought

Modern Guitar — MIN4224.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Hui Cox

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Credits: 2

Individual training is available in jazz, modern and classical guitar technique and repertoire, song accompaniment (finger style), improvisation, and arranging and composing for the guitar. Course material is tailored to the interests and level of the individual student.

Music

Movement Patterning Self Perception: The Feldenkrais Method® — DAN2145.02

Spring 2016

Instructor: Dana Reitz

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Credits: 1

In this course, you'll have the chance to experience the Feldenkrais Method® through a series of Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement® lessons. The Feldenkrais Method® studies the works of our nervous system and our ability to recognize and create movement patterns that are both more efficient and more pleasant. Feldenkrais lessons will be the framework for exploring how our

Dance

Movement Practice: Advanced Dance Technique — DAN4344.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Dana Reitz

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Credits: 2

This advanced movement class will develop from simple skeletal mobility sequences to expansive movement forms. The warm-up will examine the joints and how their range of motion relates to alignment, readiness to move, and articulation. These principles will then become the foundation for traveling sequences and longer movement phrases. We will hone in on the

Dance

Movement Practice: Beginning Dance Technique — DAN2121.02; section 2

Spring 2016

Instructor: Sam Wentz

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Credits: 2

For those looking for a basic dance class. We begin with a slow warm-up focused on alignment principles, anatomical structures, and muscular systems, and learn to find our own body language. We then progress to vigorous, rhythmic movement patterns and group forms. We work to strengthen, stretch, and articulate the body using longer movement phrases, playing with changes of

Dance

Movement Practice: Beginning Dance Technique — DAN2121.01; section 1

Spring 2016

Instructor: Dana Reitz

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Credits: 2

Dance

Movement Practice: Intermediate Dance Technique — DAN4236.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Elena Demyanenko

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Credits: 2

This intermediate movement class will develop from simple skeletal mobility sequences to expansive movement forms. The warm-up will examine the joints and how their range of motion relates to alignment, readiness to move, and articulation. These principles will then become the foundation for traveling sequences and longer movement phrases. Distinguishing

Dance

Music Composition Project — MUS4355.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Allen Shawn

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Credits: 4

This is a course for music composition students. Each student produces a sizable piece for a single small ensemble such as a piano trio or string quartet. There are regular reading sessions of the pieces in progress, culminating in a class presentation and recording of the completed works. The class time is used in three ways: for analysis and study of works composed for our

Music

Music Since 1968 — MHI2228.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Allen Shawn

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Credits: 4

In this course we focus our attention on a few of the most exciting and influential composers of the late twentieth-century, and discuss how their music has influenced the music of the current period. Works by such composers as Elliott Carter, Toru Takemitsu, Olivier Messiaen, Pierre Boulez, Alfred Schnittke, Luciano Berio, Charles Wuorinen, Frederick Rzewski, John Adams, John

Music

Music Toolkit: Rhythm — MFN2107.02

Spring 2016

Instructor: Bruce Williamson

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Credits: 1

This course is meant for almost‐beginners and intermediate students wanting to gain a better understanding of RHYTHM. We will review how meters function, how syncopation and polyrhythms are created and how rhythmic patterns are notated. The ability to recognize and execute various rhythms is critical to improving one’s musicianship. Rhythm adds interest and energy to all

Music

Music Toolkit: Theory for Singers and Performing Musicians — MFN2214.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Kitty Brazelton

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Credits: 1

We will meet to sing together once a week. Madrigals, plainchant, large a cappella choral works ancient and new. Develop an understanding of the theory every musician should know by heart, ear and eye—particularly the singer—in order to perform. Learn how to sight-sing by applying music theory. Ability to match pitch and sing in harmony are recommended but not required.

Music

Music Toolkit: Theory for Singers and Performing Musicians — MFN2214.02

Spring 2016

Instructor: Kitty Brazelton

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Credits: 1

This course is designed to further the understanding and identification of the symbols of music and to integrate them into practical application. Scales, intervals and rythmic notation will be reviewed and be used to sing simple pieces of music. We will deal with melody and harmony through reading single melodic lines, four part Bach Chorales and other music in most

Music

Natural History of Plants — BIO2107.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Kerry Woods

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Credits: 4

Plants define the biological environment. All other organisms depend on plantsʹ capacity for photosynthesis. Plant structure and chemistry have shaped animal (including human) evolution, and we directly depend on plant products for food, medicine, structural materials, and many other things. Yet few people can name even the dominant plants in their environment and what

Science Mathematics and Computing Environment

Nietzsche and His Followers — PHI4137.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Karen Gover

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Credits: 4

Postmodernism, for better or worse, is often traced back to the thought of Friedrich Nietzche. But what is postmodernism? Keeping this question in mind, we will ground ourselves in Nietzche’s thought, with an eye to his critique of the Western philosophical tradition. We will then turn to some of the important and influential philosophers of the 20th century as inheritors of

Society Culture and Thought

Number Theory — MAT4110.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Andrew McIntyre

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Credits: 4

Number theory concerns properties of whole numbers: can two perfect cubes (like 8 or 27) ever add up to a third perfect cube? Are there infinitely many pairs of primes who differ by 2 (like 29 and 31)? Problems in number theory are often simple to understand and state. However, the problems are often ferociously difficult to solve, and in modern times, a wide range of

Science Mathematics and Computing

Orders of Magnitude — MOD2102.02

Spring 2016

Instructor: Andrew McIntyre

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Credits: 1

We all have an intuitive sense of how large a number like 10 or 100 is. But is it possible to get some direct grasp on the world’s population, the national debt, the distance to the nearest galaxies, or the time that has passed since the formation of the earth? Mathematicians and scientists do have good ways of understanding and estimating very large numbers, which we’ll

Science Mathematics and Computing Modules: Transferable Approaches

Outsiders Within: Pariahs, Parasites, and Other Others — POL4208.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Eileen Scully

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Credits: 4

Who counts--and who does not count--as a rights-bearing member of a community? What criteria do communities rely upon to determine membership? These questions about inclusion, exclusion, and membership are familiar to students of the social sciences. In this course, we will move beyond the familiar categories of insiders and outsiders to investigate the “outsiders within,”

Society Culture and Thought

Pakistani Fiction — LIT4269.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Brooke Allen

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Credits: 4

The literature of the Indian subcontinent has a rich and ancient history. The violent partition of India in 1947 and the birth of the new nation of Pakistan saw a new national consciousness and literature emerge. In this class we will read the work of a variety of Pakistani writers. Authors considered will probably include, but might not be limited to, Jamil Ahmad, Fatima

Literature

Patternmaking and Garment Construction — DRA4119.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Richard MacPike

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Credits: 2

This course is designed to teach the student the many steps involved in creating a finished garment from a simple idea, piece of research or sketch. Students will learn the basics of draping, flat patterning, and fitting. Construction of final garment will allow them to explore and employ sewing skills beyond the fundamentals.

Drama

Performance Project: Adaptable Score — DAN4679.01; section 1

Spring 2016

Instructor: Dana Reitz

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Credits: 2

With new movement material crafted by both the instructor and the participants, we will delve into multiple variations of the phrases made, exploring the qualities, inherent technical challenges, spatial use, and timing. The final score will weave the developed phrase material with light, integrating both formal structural concerns and liquid interpretation. The new

Dance

Performance Project: Adaptable Score — DAN4679.02; section 2

Spring 2016

Instructor: Dana Reitz

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Credits: 4

Dance

Performance Project: Living Sculpture — DAN4237.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Dana Reitz

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Credits: 2

In this performance project, we will be investigating how to build content and how to look at dance as a living sculpture. Multiple locations will be chosen for multiple new sculptures. We will use the architectural elements of a space to inform the building of our content. Each “living structure” will be made in only a few weeks and made only to exist in that specific location

Dance

Performance Project: Sing-Gré — DAN4243.02

Spring 2016

Instructor: Dana Reitz

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Credits: 1

Sing-Gré (meaning Root) will be based on Souleymane “Solo” Badolo’s current work, Yimbégré, made for Brooklyn Academy of Music. He will further explore an aspect of this major piece with students and make a new work with them. In the Mooré language, yimbégré means “beginning.” For the powerful dancer and choreographer Badolo, born in Burkina Faso and currently based in

Dance