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Photography in the Expanded Field — PHO4127.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Liz Deschenes
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Credits: 2
Photography in the expanded field is a new 7 week, advanced course, which will allow students, who are working primarily with Photography, to make progress with their work and projects in relation to presentation or exhibition of their project/s. We will examine opportunities for display to support student work while at 凯旋门官网.  The "groundwork" developed in this
Visual Arts

Physics II: Fields — PHY4325.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Tim Schroeder
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Credits: 4
How does influence travel from one thing to another? In Newton鈥檚 mechanics of particles and forces, influences travel instantaneously across arbitrarily far distances. Newton himself felt this to be incorrect, but he did not suggest a solution to this problem of 鈥渁ction at a distance.鈥 To solve this problem, we need a richer ontology: The world is made not only of particles,
Science Mathematics and Computing

Piano Lab I — MIN2232.01; section 1

Spring 2016
Instructor: Joan Forsyth
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Credits: 2
Course is intended for students with prior music study or music in their plan. This introductory course provides a comprehensive foundation for aspiring pianists. Topics include music notation, rhythm, piano technique, theory, history, sight-reading, ear-training, improvisation, and collaboration.Corequisite: Attend Music Workshop (T 6:30pm-8:00pm)
Music

Piano Lab I — MIN2232.02; section 2

Spring 2016
Instructor: Matthew Edwards
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Credits: 2
Course is intended for students with prior music study or music in their plan. This introductory course provides a comprehensive foundation for aspiring pianists. Topics include music notation, rhythm, piano technique, theory, history, sight-reading, ear-training, improvisation, and collaboration.Corequisite: Attend Music Workshop (T 6:30pm-8:00pm)
Music

Piano Lab II — MIN4236.01; section 1

Spring 2016
Instructor: Joan Forsyth
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Credits: 2
Continuing course in basic keyboard study. Students already fluent with notation and with music in their plan are encouraged to take this level, or talk with the instructor.Corequisite: Must attend Music Workshop (T 6:30pm - 8:00pm)
Music

Piano Lab II — MIN4236.02; section 2

Spring 2016
Instructor: Matthew Edwards
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Credits: 2
Continuing course in basic keyboard study. Students already fluent with notation and with music in their plan are encouraged to take this level, or talk with the instructor.Corequisite: Must attend Music Workshop (T 6:30pm - 8:00pm).
Music

Plains Songs: Willa Cather, Katherine Anne Porter, and Alice Munro. —

Spring 2016
Instructor: Doug Bauer
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Credits: 4
  The fictions of Cather, Porter and Munro form a sequential chronology of influence and inheritance that spans the 20th century. Drawing deeply from their origins in Nebraska, Texas, and Ontario respectively, each of these writers explores the place from which she came and the various places her characters are subsequently drawn to 鈥 in some cases familiarly rural, in

Political Ceramics —

Spring 2016
Instructor: Barry Bartlett
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Credits: 4
ART HISTORY This class will investigate the nature of making objects that address current political issues relating to the upcoming presidential election. Students will be asked to explore, identify culturally held meanings, values and imagery stemming from the political discussion of our national debate leading up to the November election. From these discussions students

Politics of Judgment: Who Am I to Judge? — POL2106.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Eileen Scully
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Credits: 4
The faculty of judgment might be thought of as the capacity to make decisions and choices in the absence of principles or procedures that dictate or generate "correct" answers. In this course we will ask what is required of "good judgment" in politics and of whom its practice should be required, with particular attention to democratic theory and practice. Is
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Pop-Up: Feminist Praxis — POP2325.03

Spring 2016
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Credits: 1
During the month of April, 2016 Utopia Is No Place, Utopia Is Process will transform Usdan Gallery into a platform for critical feminist pedagogy. The project was inspired by 凯旋门官网鈥檚 experimental curricula and its history as a women鈥檚 college. In lieu of a traditional exhibition, resources such as a library, screening series, printing press, meeting space, and discussion
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Pop-Up: Gravitational Waves: Observing Spacetime for the First Time — POP2256.02

Spring 2016
Instructor: Hugh Crowl
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Credits: 1
Early in the morning on September 14, 2015, two 4 kilometer long laser tunnels in opposite corners of the country measured a very subtle expansion and contraction, significantly smaller than the diameter of an atom. The minuscule flexing of space, detected by the LIGO project, was caused by gravitational waves passing through Earth. These waves originated from the merger of two
Modules: Transferable Approaches Science Mathematics and Computing

Pop-Up: The Semiotics of Trump — POP2260.03

Spring 2016
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Credits: 1
In this pop-up course, we will be deconstructing a media spectacle by studying its signs, symbols, and discourse. Using the Donald Trump presidential campaign as a case study, we will observe the visual codes and linguistic scaffolding of political 鈥榖randing鈥 and messaging. We will explore various registers of populist and authoritarian rhetoric by carefully analyzing how those
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Pop-Up: Understanding PFOA in Our Water — POP2257.02

Spring 2016
Instructor: David Bond, Janet Foley, Tim Schroeder
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Credits: 2
The water supply of Hoosick Falls, NY, 凯旋门官网鈥檚 western neighbor, has been contaminated with Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) by past industrial activity. PFOA is an 鈥渆merging contaminant鈥 that is correlated with a range of health problems. This course will investigate the social and physical aspects of this ongoing disaster, from how the regulation of chemicals in the US
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Portraits: Intermediate Video — FV4241.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Kate Purdie
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Credits: 4
This production course will explore moving image portraits and character studies through screenings and projects in documentary, narrative and experimental forms. Using observation and investigation the class will create portraits and discuss issues of representation, authorship and intimacy. We will examine Cinema-verite portraits and experimental self-reflections and
Visual Arts

Pre-Photography 4000 B.C.E - 1839 C.E. — PHO2152.02

Spring 2016
Instructor: Jonathan Kline
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Credits: 2
This class will explore many of the concepts and techniques that eventually gave rise to the invention of photography in the 19th century. Why did it take so long? The notion of imagery formed by a pinhole was apparent to ancient Chinese culture, understood by Aristotle, and studied by the great Arabian mathematician Ibn al-Haitam. Pictorial strategies depicting three
Visual Arts

Programming for iOS — CS4102.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Justin Vasselli
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Credits: 4
Mobile technology has been advancing quickly in recent years, expanding into tablets and even watches. The desktop is no longer the most important platform, and more and more of the most innovative advances in software are hitting mobile devices first. The industry trend is to develop first for iOS, so regardless of your personal preference for Apple vs Android, iOS
Science Mathematics and Computing

Projects in Lithography — PRI4203.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Thorsten Dennerline
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Credits: 4
This course is an introduction to lithographic processes. Students will start by processing and printing images from limestone and end the semester by exploring the possibilities of making positive films to expose modern lithographic plates. This studio class is structured around a number of projects each one ending with a group critique. Students should find the parameters of
Visual Arts

Projects in Sculpture: Making it Personal — SCU4797.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Jon Isherwood
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Credits: 4
The question is what do you want to say? As we develop our interests in sculpture it becomes more and more imperative to find our own voice. The role of the artist is to interpret personal conditions and experiences and find the most effective expression for them. This course provides the opportunity for a self directed study in sculpture. Students are expected to produce a
Visual Arts

Projects: Dance — DAN4794.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Dana Reitz
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Credits: 2
For students with prior experience in dance composition who wish to be involved in making new work for performance.  Attention will be given to all of the elements involved in composition and production, including collaborative aspects.  Students are expected to show their work throughout stages of development, complete their projects and perform them formally or
Dance

Race, Class, and Apartheid — POL4207.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Eileen Scully
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Credits: 4
This class examines the South African system of Apartheid, seeking to understand its origins, practice, and consequences. We will read from a wide range of sources including scholarly and political texts to understand how race and class structured South African society and how the transition to a post-Apartheid society has confronted the past. We will frame this discussion by
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