Course Listing | ��Ź�� College

Spring 2017

Life Drawing Lab — DRW2118.01

Spring 2017

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

Light & Lighting — PHO4252.01

Spring 2017

Instructor: Jonathan Kline

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Credits: 2

This intermediate course will explore the way in which light conveys emotional, narrative, and psychological meaning. The goal is to increase students' experience in recognizing and shaping these effects. Lectures will draw from the history or photography, as well as cinema and contemporary art. Workshops will involve small collaborative teams in a variety of studio and on

Visual Arts

Living to Learn, Learning to Live: Readings in Contemporary South American Fiction — LIT2255.01

Spring 2017

Instructor: Marguerite Feitlowitz

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Credits: 4

Contemporary South American fiction is rife with urgency, politics, and history, as well as narrative mischief, layering and literary gamesmanship. In this course we will read a selection of novels and stories from Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru and El Salvador from such authors as Cesar Aira, Roberto Bolano, Alicia Borinsky, Sergio Chefec, Claudia Hernandez,

Literature Languages

Makers Making/ Performance in the 21st Century — DAN2131.01

Spring 2017

Instructor: Elena Demyanenko

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Credits: 2

"Isn't every artist essentially starting from nothing, no matter what they might have presented to theater directors or financiers? Isn't the meaning of a work always discovered, to some extent, by its creator during the process of making it?" (Roslyn Sulcas). These are just some of the questions about the making, style, process, logistics, methods, and systems makers

Dance

Managing Ethnic Conflicts — POL4101.01

Spring 2017

Instructor: Rotimi Suberu

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Credits: 4

How should states and the international community respond to situations of protracted, often lethal, conflicts involving ethnic, linguistic, religious and other identity groups? This is one of the central challenges of politics and governance in places as diverse as Afghanistan, Bosnia‐Herzegovina, Fiji, Iraq, Northern Ireland, Nigeria, Rwanda/Burundi, Sri Lanka, Sudan and

Society Culture and Thought

Mandolin — MIN2229.01

Spring 2017

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 be

Music

Markmaking and Representation — DRW2149.01

Spring 2017

Instructor: Mary Lum

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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

Media Archaeology: Signal and Data — APA4156.01

Spring 2017

Instructor: Erika Mijlin

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Credits: 4

A course exploring the 20th and 21st century media technologies, and various understandings of their social significance. Beginning with the development of radio and television, through the emergence of the computer and network technologies such as the internet and social media - this course takes up the questions of the transition from mechanical technologies to signal-based

CAPA

Meisner Technique — DRA4268.01

Spring 2017

Instructor: Jenny Rohn

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Credits: 4

“If you are really doing it, you don’t have time to watch yourself doing it.” Sanford Meisner was an actor and founding member of the Group Theater. He went on to become a master teacher of acting who sought to give students an organized approach to the creation of truthful behavior on stage within the imaginary circumstances of a play. This class focuses on developing an actor

Drama

Minimalism — MTH4210.01

Spring 2017

Instructor: Nicholas Brooke

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Credits: 2

An advanced seminar in analyzing the diverse streams of musical minimalism. We’ll look at minimalism’s conceptual roots in the 1960s, and trace influences from the visual arts, as well as early works of Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Fluxus, Cage, and the Scratch Orchestra. The seminar will combine on‐the‐score and aural analysis and contrast open score, aurally taught, and

Music

Mixed Media in Ceramics — CER4270.01

Spring 2017

Instructor: Barry Bartlett

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Credits: 4

This class will investigate the nature of combing non-ceramic materials with the medium. Student's will be appropriating objects from a diverse array of sources such as antique and hobby stores, outdoor sculpture and garden centers, souvenir shops, etc. and either translating them into ceramic forms or integrating them with fabricated forms. Using this combined arrangement

Visual Arts

Modern Guitar — MIN4224.01

Spring 2017

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. Corequisite: Must participate in Music Workshop (Tuesday, 6:30 – 8pm).

Music

Moral Hazards: Economic Growth and “Development” in Latin America — SPA4602.01

Spring 2017

Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher

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Credits: 4

At the beginning of this history of promise and postponement, as such courses are wont to ratify, it would behoove anyone to reach a general and at least somewhat contextualized understanding of the relevance of such terms and realities as colonization, dependency, liberalism, industrialization, the role of the state, import substitution, populism, debt crises, privatization,

Languages

Movement Practice: Advanced Dance Technique — DAN4344.01

Spring 2017

Instructor: Elena Demyanenko

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Credits: 2

We will be inventing the new body every day by expanding the receptivity to detail, connections, logic and its potential; working from the place of ease and space, especially when applying vigor and attack; and working from the intelligence of the bones, the guts, and the skin. This advanced movement class will develop from simple skeletal mobility sequences to expansive

Dance

Movement Practice: Advanced-Intermediate Dance Technique — DAN4351.01

Spring 2017

Instructor: Dana Reitz

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Credits: 2

This advanced intermediate course is designed for students who have already taken intermediate level technique and are ready to tackle more complex forms. The class will begin with a warm up that involves discovering movement within our joints and mobilizing our physical structures. Using simple partnering exercises, we will explore shifts of weight, alignment and

Dance

Movement Practice: Beginning Dance Technique — DAN2121.01

Spring 2017

Instructor: Dana Reitz

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Credits: 2

This beginning dance technique requires no previous dance training. We will investigate and explore how the structure of our bodies can move, in order to discover more possibilities of how we can dance. The warm up will consist of movement exercises, for practice alone and with partners, which will focus on the joints, bones, muscles, and sequential flow. This initial

Dance

Movement Practice: Beginning-Intermediate Dance Technique — DAN2119.01; section 1

Spring 2017

Instructor: Dana Reitz

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Credits: 2

For those looking for a basic intermediate movement class. We will begin with a slow warm-up focusing on our body’s relationship to gravity and basic alignment principles, progressing to larger and more vigorous movement patterns and forms. We will work towards developing our articulation through movement phrases focused on shifts of weight, changes of direction, and dynamic

Dance

Movement Practice: Beginning-Intermediate Dance Technique — DAN2119.02; section 2

Spring 2017

Instructor: Dana Reitz

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Credits: 2

For those looking for a basic intermediate movement class. We will begin with a slow warm-up focusing on our body’s relationship to gravity and basic alignment principles, progressing to larger and more vigorous movement patterns and forms. We will pay special attention to coordination, drawing on systems such as Ideokinesis, Chi Kung (Qi Gong), yoga, and Alexander

Dance

Mozart's Idomeneo — MVO4265.01

Spring 2017

Instructor: Kerry Ryer-Parke

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Credits: 2

Gods, kings, princesses, sea serpents...at ��Ź��! This seven week class invites students to participate in a concert performance of Mozart's "choral opera" Idomeneo performed by the ��Ź�� Choral Society with professional singers and orchestra. Students will learn the extensive choral sections and be considered for minor roles. The chorus will play different roles

Drama Music

Multivariable Calculus and Differential Geometry — MAT4147.01

Spring 2017

Instructor: Andrew McIntyre

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Credits: 4

This class will cover multivariable calculus at an advanced level: vector spaces, div, grad and curl, differential forms, and Stokes’ theorems. The coverage will be at the level of Loomis and Sternberg’s Advanced Calculus. The course will also provide an introduction to the rudiments of differential geometry: connections, curvature, and the Gauss-Bonnet theorem. Applications

Science and Mathematics

Music and Dance Collaborations — DAN4133.01

Spring 2017

Instructor: Nicholas Brooke

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Credits: 4

Music and dance can influence each other from the beginning of the creative process. Over the course of a collaboration, the two disciplines can fall in and out of alignment, at different times acting mutually supportive or independent. In this course, students will explore and play with the relationship between sound and movement, through a series of exercises, projects, and

Music Dance

Music Composition for Dance — MHI2105.01

Spring 2017

Instructor: Michael Wimberly

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Credits: 2

Music composition for dance takes a retrospective look at seminal twentieth-century compositions composed for dance. Composers such as Debussy, Ravel, Stravinsky, Ellington, Cage, and Copland revolutionized musical form, tonality, and rhythm, creating landmark compositions for iconic dance companies and choreographers, such as the Ballets Russes, Martha Graham, Katherine

Music Dance

Music Composition Project: Acoustic/Electronic — MCO4501.01

Spring 2017

Instructor: Allen Shawn

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Credits: 4

In this course students will compose a substantial work for one solo instrument with electroacoustic accompaniment. Class will meet twice a week and will be team taught. In Tuesday's session we will review the history of compositions involving acoustic instruments with electronics and there will be technical instruction in the electronic music studio. On Thursdays, we will have

Music

Musicianship — MFN2112.01; section 1

Spring 2017

Instructor: Evan Williams, Kitty Brazelton

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Credits: 2

This course will introduce those with little or no musical training to the basics of music, through training in notation, aural skills, keyboard skills, sight singing, and harmony. Corequisite: Students must participate in Music Workshop, T 6:30 - 8:00pm.

Music

Musicianship — MFN2112.02; section 2

Spring 2017

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Credits: 2

Music