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Spring 2018

Tile: Expanding the Parameters — CER2126.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Aysha Peltz

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Credits: 4

This course will explore the ceramic medium through the format of tile. Given this, as a parameter, we are presented with an exciting opportunity to explore clay in two dimensions and in low relief. Students will be introduced to historical and contemporary tiles as examples of both architectural elements and art objects. Tiles will be made using various building methods

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Traditional Music Ensemble — MPF4221.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: John Kirk

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Credits: 2

We will study and perform from the string band traditions of rural America. Nova Scotia, Quebecois, Irish, New England, Scandinavian, African American dance and ballad traditions will also be experienced with listening, practice (weekly group rehearsals outside of class), and performing components. Emphasis on ensemble intuition, playing by ear, and lifetime personal music

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Turkish Music Ensemble — MHI2236.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Joseph Alpar

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Credits: 4

This course will be a hands-on instruction to performing the musics of Turkey. Students will become acquainted with the performance practices of Turkish music genres including Ottoman court music, the ritual music of Sufi Islam, the Alevi cem ceremony, music of Turkey's religious minorities including Jews, Greeks, and Armenians, Kurdish music, the folk musics of Turkey's seven

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Ukulele Comprehensive — MIN2230.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: John Kirk

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Credits: 2

A comprehensive course on learning skills on the ukulele. We will learn the history of the uke and both traditional and contemporary styles. Music theory and playing techniques will be covered and students will be expected to perform as a group or individually at Music Workshop. Students must have their own soprano or tenor ukulele.

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Understanding PFOA: Science and Policy — ENV2173.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: David Bond and Janet Foley

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Credits: 2

The water supply of Hoosick Falls, NY, ��Ź��’s western neighbor, has been contaminated with Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) by past industrial activity. PFOA is an “emerging contaminant” that is correlated with a range of health problems. This course will investigate the capdavidjanetsocial and physical aspects of this ongoing disaster, from how the regulation of chemicals

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Unemployment — PEC2254.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Lopamudra Banerjee

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Credits: 4

Employment not only provides access to livelihood, but also ensures other material conditions of people’s well-being. Yet, unemployment remains a ubiquitous problem of modern life. This seminar will explore microeconomic and macroeconomic theories of unemployment, and present empirical analysis of unemployment data to examine the causes and nature of the problem. The course

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Unlocking Italian Culture II: Reporting Italy — ITA4214.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Barbara Alfano

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Credits: 4

Entering the worlds of Italy is an integral part of learning the language. We will continue exploring Italian culture through the lens of journalism: you will be journalists exploring Italy and reporting about it. In this, you will be supported by specific web tools, role-play, videos, and on line newspaper and magazines. The class will create its own magazine. You will also

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Varied Vessels: from Useful to Fanciful — CER4154.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Aysha Peltz

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Credits: 4

In this course, students will continue to develop their ceramic skills with a focus on the vessel. Readings, discussions, and research will support student’s individual search for personal expression through the making of vessel forms. The Usdan Gallery will be hosting a ceramic vessel exhibition during the second half of the term. This show will provide students with the

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Violin/Viola — MIN4345.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Kaori Washiyama

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Credits: 2

Advanced private instruction. Studies in all left-hand position and shifting and an exploration of various bow techniques. Students can select from the concerto, sonata repertoire, short pieces and études for a study designed to develop technique, advance musicianship and prepare for performance. Corequisites: Must participate and perform at least twice in Music Workshop.

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Visionary Architecture — ARC4123.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Donald Sherefkin

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Credits: 4

All architectural propositions begin as images that postulate new worlds. Some projects begin from a point of view that is expressly experimental. This studio will explore the history of visionary architecture as expressed through texts and images, ranging from Piranesi and Raymond Roussel, to Lebbeus Woods and Italo Calvino. Students will develop a series of projects that will

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Visual Arts Lecture Series — VA2999.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Visual Arts Faculty

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Credits: 1

Each term, ��Ź�� offers a program of five lectures by visiting arts professionals: artists, curators, historians and critics, selected to showcase the diversity of contemporary art practices. Designed to enhance classroom activities of various disciplines in the Visual Arts and to stimulate campus dialogue around topical issues of contemporary art, these thematically

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Visual Arts Lecture Series Seminar — VA4218.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Vanessa Lyon

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Credits: 2

This discussion-animated seminar provides art historical, cultural, and critical contexts for the Visual Arts Lecture Series (VALS): Ways of Seeing: Movements, Migrations, Diasporas. The course also provides opportunities for engagement with visiting artists, curators, critics, and historians. Consistent participation, independent research, writing assignments, and

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Westworld/Our World — AH4115.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Vanessa Lyon

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Credits: 2

Westworld, HBO's "science fiction western thriller" television series, drives a broadly-conceived visual culture/cultural studies course in which we identify and analyze various aesthetics and genres, histories and visions, typologies and allegories on screen and off; both inside and outside the show's narrative. Possibilities include: feminism, sexploitation, and the

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What Was Critique and What Comes Next? — APA4207.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: David Bond

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Credits: 4

If progressive scholarship holds anything sacred, perhaps it is critique. Over the past century, critique has become not only the guiding commitment of radical scholarship but also the unflappable identity of the public intellectual. Yet a number of unfortunate assumptions have been built into this manner of engaging the world. Among them, that intellectuals have privileged

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Whose Opera? — MCO4361.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Kitty Brazelton

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Credits: 4

Looking for six able composers, six able writers and six able singer/actors. Or those who combine these abilities. Example of bi-weekly assignment: short operatic sketch by six teams of writer-composers for singer-actors. Writer starts – delivering libretto to composer who sets words to music, and team delivers sketch to class one week later. After sketch is critiqued in class,

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Women and Enlightenment — HIS4123.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Carol Pal

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Credits: 4

The Enlightenment might be considered one of the most enduring revolutions in Europe. The invention of empirical science, new philosophies, and secular discourse of the various Enlightenments (French, Scottish, English, and German) created the intellectual platform on which we are still standing today. It was also a movement in which women were visible and prominent –

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Women and Photography (past and present) — PHO4204.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Liz Deschenes

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Credits: 4

This course will have two components: a historic and contemporary examination of how women have shaped the discipline of photography. We will initially look at, and study, how women have played an integral role in the practice of photography from its inception, and we will research how women’s achievements within the medium have been historicized. We will read first hand

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Women Improvisers in Music — MUS2153.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Susie Ibarra

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Credits: 2

This course explores women musicians whose works utilize improvisation. The class will listen, watch film and read historical books and scores of women improvisers in music. These women improvisers work also utilize composition, performance, installation and multi-disciplinary collaborations. The class will learn about artists and observe their music works across genres of Jazz

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Women’s Voices on Stage — DRA2266.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Dina Janis

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Credits: 4

In this class, students will read a large canon of plays by current female playwrights working in the American Theatre today. These will include but are not limited to: Sibyl Kempson, Annie Baker, Annie Washburne, Frances Cowhig, Lisa Damour, Kia Cothron, Shiela Callaghan, and Lynn Nottage, Theresa Rebeck, Laura Eason, Anna Ziegler, Sherry Kramer, Cusi Cram, Paola Lazaro,

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Zappa Meets P-Funk — MHI2107.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Michael Wimberly

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Credits: 2

Frank Zappa, (1940-1993) was one of the most innovative musicians of the 20th century. He led the sixties California psychedelic music scene and then went on to compose mind bending jazz and classical compositions. He was a prolific composer and also a hero of free speech by speaking out against proposed censorship laws in the ’80’s. George Clinton, (1941 - ), was the principal

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