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Conflict Confident — MED2109.04

Spring 2017
Instructor: David Bond
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Credits: 1
Conflict is a natural and inevitable part of life. How we deal with it can make all the difference. This course is designed to impart fundamental skills necessary for individuals to productively engage conflict: in short, to become conflict confident. Major themes will include: an effective intellectual approach to conflict, constructive communication skills and interest-based
CAPA

Conflict Resolution: Theory and Practice — APA2128.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Michael Cohen
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Credits: 2
This course will present an interdisciplinary approach to the theory of conflict resolution. Theories of conflict resolution will be introduced and then explored through a number of different prisms. These will include the macro issues of the nature of peace, the environment, the media, NGOs, as well as the role of religion and the Bible. There will also be a focus for part of
CAPA

Conspiracies: Past, Present, Always — HIS2112.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Eileen Scully
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Credits: 4
Conspiracy theories have a long and interesting history in American politics and culture. Indeed, some of today¡¯s most interesting and diabolical conspiracy theories actually took hold in the era of the American Revolution. They have persisted across generations and centuries, periodically exploding into epidemic-level mass paranoia. Through select case studies,
Society Culture and Thought

Contemporary African Movement Practices — DAN2120.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Dana Reitz
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Credits: 2
This course will engage students both physically and intellectually. The physical practice will be culled from traditional contemporary and popular dances from Burkina Faso (Louwaga, Wir¨¦, Gurmantch¨¦, and Gurunsi), west and central Africa (N¡¯dombolo), and urban Africa (such as Coup¨¦-d¨¦cal¨¦), and western contemporary dance forms, including improvisation.  Students will
Dance

Contemporary Postcolonial Women Writers and Filmmakers — LIT4121.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Alexandar Mihailovic
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Credits: 4
Contemporary women artists, memoirists and essayists are often uniquely positioned to confront the legacies of empire.  Focusing on the United Kingdom, North America, and the former British colonies, we will examine the construction of women¡¯s identity in multicultural contexts over the past quarter century. Through fiction, memoirs, plays, and film, contemporary women
Literature

Conversations — FRE4602.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: No?lle Rouxel-Cubberly
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Credits: 4
Montaigne considered conversation as the ¡°most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds.¡± Conversation became indeed a favorite exercise in French salons, most notably around Madame de Rambouillet (17th century), Madame du Deffand (18th century), and Madame de Sta?l (19th century). This natural penchant for causeries not only permeated the whole society, it also impregnated
Languages

Costume Design for Multimedia — DRA2246.02

Spring 2017
Instructor: Charles Schoonmaker
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Credits: 2
Costume is a consideration that must be addressed for virtually every human-based character in any medium. This class will focus on how to approach costume design in the context of a project you are working on, such as a film, video, or animation. We will explore design options based on character, period, style, and storyline. Class presentations may be drawn, illustrated, or
Drama Visual Arts

Creating the CAPA Forum for Full Track Diplomacy — APA2149.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Michael Cohen
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Credits: 4
The world of diplomacy is traditionally divided into three tracks consisting of Track 1 (high-level political, military leaders, and official negotiators who discuss major agreements), Track 2 (academics, religious leaders, and managers who focus on relationships and problem solving often in new ways), and Track 3 (People to People diplomacy). Underutilized 
CAPA

Dance Improvisation Ensemble — DAN4311.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Terry Creach
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Credits: 1
The goal of this class is to develop and extend both solo and ensemble improvisational practices.  Working toward the performance of improvisation, we will determine appropriate settings and situations to extend our research outside the classroom. We¡¯ll research the roots of improvisation in performance starting with the Judson Dance Theater, and look at the cultural
Dance

Dance Intensive: Imagination/Sensation/Space — DAN2150.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Terry Creach
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Credits: 4
This beginning level course is for any students interested and/or curious about the dance-making process, whether or not they have previous dance experience. We will first work to connect with physical sensations and develop physical awareness as well as physical skills and facility.  We will work to unearth movement ideas and particular images.  We will develop solo
Dance

Darwin and the Naturalists — BIO4223.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Kerry Woods
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Credits: 2
Much of modern biology is rooted in the insights of a series of 18th and 19th-century naturalist-scientist-explorers who built upon extensive and inspired observation, sometimes in the course of travels in (then) remote and challenging parts of the world.  Their writings often took the form of journals interlarded with theoretical speculation, and achieved great popularity
Science and Mathematics Environment

Democratization in Africa — POL2250.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Rotimi Suberu
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Credits: 4
Since the 1990s, a ¡°third wave of democratization¡± has swept the African continent, leading to the unraveling, opening or liberalization of previously authoritarian (one©\party, military, and/or strongman) political regimes. But democratization in Africa has produced divergent outcomes, including remarkable success stories (Benin, Ghana, and Senegal, for example), major failures
Society Culture and Thought

Design Patterns and Data Structures — CS4106.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Justin Vasselli
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Credits: 4
In this class, students will learn common patterns used to solve problems found in software, and gain a deeper knowledge about common ways that data is stored and accessed. Students will learn about the design and implementation of data structures, including arrays, linked lists, stacks, queues, and trees. Students will also study common algorithms used to populate and query
Science and Mathematics

Developmental Psychology After the Grand Theories — PSY2207.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: David Anderegg
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Credits: 4
Comprehensive theories in developmental psychology posited relatively abrupt structural changes in children¡¯s thinking in the course of childhood. These theories have been supplanted, in large part, by basic research (largely from brain imaging techniques), documenting gradual changes in children¡¯s development. In this course the grand theories (Piaget, Freud, and Vygotsky, as
Society Culture and Thought

Digital Modeling — MA2104.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Sue Rees
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Credits: 2
This course introduces students to the basic language of 3D modeling, including shading, texturing and lighting models. A series of modeled objects, using a chess set as the catalyst, and spaces, based upon a text, will be created. Additionally, during the course we will print forms, utilizing 3D printers. This class will be appropriate for students interested in animation, set
Drama Visual Arts

Digital Morphology/Rhino 3D Modeling — VA2208.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Michael Stradley
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Credits: 2
Digital Morphology is a foundation course in Rhinoceros modeling software. Rhinoceros is an industry standard 3D modelling program used by architects, designers, and artists. This course will cover a range of digital techniques from basic 2D drawing to complex NURBS surface modelling. Across several small projects that focus on exotic form, generative diagramming, and rapid
Visual Arts

Dining Culture in Modern China — CHI4215.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Ginger Lin
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Credits: 4
What Confucius said that the things that human greatly desire are comprehended in ¡°eat and drink¡± is the basic human desire accepted as natural (ÃñÒÔʳΪÌì). No other culture is as food-conscious as that of the Chinese. It is such an integral part of Chinese culture that no family gathering could be considered complete without sharing a meal together. This course is a continuation
Languages

Directing I: The Director's Vision — DRA4332.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Jean Randich
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Credits: 4
What is action? What is character? What are gesture, timing, rhythm and stakes? How do actors, playwrights, and directors collaborate to create an experience in space and time? This seminar offers theater artists the chance to examine their craft from the inside out. Throughout the course everyone participates in all exercises and assignments. Non-writers make up stories, non
Drama

Drawing As A Verb: Exploring Uncertainty — DRW2120.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: J Blackwell
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Credits: 4
Shying away from the static, resolved, or finished image, this course will explore drawing as a process of ongoing inquiry. It is intended to foster an experimental and experiential approach to making art, generally eschewing representation. Students will engage with various techniques and processes to make drawings that document experience as well as create an image. Topics to
Visual Arts

Drawing Everywhere — DRW4239.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Mary Lum
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Credits: 4
Interior and exterior, observed and imagined, expansive and intimate, this course revolves around drawings of all sorts of spaces. In class we examine historical, narrative, architectural, and natural spaces through work that pushes the definition of drawing in many different directions, including drawing installation. Students complete work weekly building a body of drawings
Visual Arts

Drumming: An Extension of Language — MIN2120.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
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Credits: 2
This course serves as an introduction to rhythms, chants and songs from Africa, Brazil, Cuba, Haiti, and the African Diaspora. Using indigenous percussion instruments, students will experience basic hand and stick drumming patterns along with techniques associated with rhythms from these regions. Performances will be presented at music workshop, as well as with ¿­ÐýÃŹÙÍø's
Music

Early American Confessions — LIT2251.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Ben Anastas
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Credits: 4
From the Puritans¡¯ first unpromising glimpse aboard the Mayflower of this ¡°hideous desolate wilderness, full of wild beasts and wild men,¡± America has inspired, even required, bold new feats of language and the imagination to capture it in literature. This course will explore the beginnings of the American literary tradition and its roots in Puritan 'confession,' from the
Literature

Eduardo — ITA4710.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Barbara Alfano
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Credits: 4
In Italy, they call him simply Eduardo. His legacy is timeless like the texture of humanity that he portrayed in his plays. A playwright, an actor, a poet, a film director, and above all a poignant interpreter of the ephemeral, the Neapolitan Eduardo De Filippo has earned worldwide admiration for his work. This course focuses on his theatrical productions in the years soon
Languages

Ekphrastic Poetry — LIT4122.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Camille Guthrie
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Credits: 4
In the earliest known example of ekphrasis, at a crucial moment in the Iliad, Homer interrupts the epic battle with a long description of the Shield of Achilles so powerfully cinematic that the listener or reader often forgets that the shield is a static and imagined object. This shield has become a paradigm in the history of ekphrasis¡ªthe genre of writing in
Literature

English as a Second Language — LIT2101.01

Spring 2017
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