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Spring 2018

Conjecture and Proof in Discrete Mathematics — MAT4131.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Steven Morics

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Credits: 4

Using concepts from combinatorial mathematics and computer science, this course is an introduction to the nature and process of doing mathematics; playing around with patterns, making conjectures, and then stating and proving theorems. The course revolves around a large collection of open-ended problems, concerning topics from graph theory, game theory, set theory,

Science and Mathematics

Contemporary African Dance I — DAN2124.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Souleymane Badolo

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Credits: 2

Students are guided through a series of isolations, progressions, and concepts that demonstrate neo-traditional African dance styles combined with Solo Badolo’s own movement approach. Cultural, philosophical and aesthetic concepts are shared to assist in understanding and embodying the technique. With emphasis placed on grounded movement, articulation (head, torso, legs, arms)

Dance

Contemporary African Dance II — DAN4675.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Souleymane Badolo

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Credits: 2

Souleymane Badolo will teach his technique as well as choreographic segments from his larger works. Deeply involving ourselves in the harmonization of gesture, touch, listening and responding, we will work toward precision of movement in time and space, searching for the essence of movement. Registration: E-mail Dana Reitz on Nov 29 and include your experience; this will be

Dance

Contemporary Chinese Poetry — CHI4216.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Ginger Lin

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Credits: 4

While the language of classical Chinese poetry is practically inaccessible to even today’s native speakers of Chinese, the poetry of the five contemporary poets studied in this course is written in the vernacular and serves as a rich source of authentic texts for this course, which integrates language learning with poetry study. The five poets, all born after 1980, each offers

Languages

Creating New Work from Traditional African Forms — DAN4134.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Souleymane Badolo

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Credits: 4

This advanced course explores the process of re-imagining traditional dance techniques to create a contemporary aesthetic. Souleymane Badolo utilizes customary dances to generate new movement. The students will experience his creative practice of using concepts like rhythm, space and time to build vocabulary that reflects the metamorphosis of traditional forms. Students are

Dance

Creating the World of the Play- Sensory Exploration Lab — DRA4142.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Dina Janis

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Credits: 4

This class is fundamentally an advanced rehearsal techniques class for actors and directors. The questions investigated include: What is substitution and how can it help bring the relationships of a play to life? I How do you create the physical, sensory world of the play? Where are you coming from when you enter a stage from the wings? How do you personalize and endow the set

Drama

Creative Collaboration in Writing and Performance — DRA4261.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Kirk Jackson

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Credits: 4

This class is about surviving the crucible of creative collaboration to satisfy the instant gratification of a hungry audience. Students write, produce and perform serialized stories. The class will divide into storyline teams; each team writes and performs three scenes of a developing narrative every week. Each episode will necessitate meeting at least four times per week with

Drama

Curatorial Choices: Multiple Narratives in the ��Ź�� Collections — VA2227.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Anne Thompson

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Credits: 2

How does augmenting and rearranging an exhibition change the meaning it communicates? This course explores this question via the raw material of an art show in Usdan Gallery. Term starts with the opening of “Unpacking the Vault,” curated by fall term students who researched objects from the college collection and constructed narrative strains about ��Ź��’s history. Spring

Visual Arts

Dance on Film — DAN2277.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Terry Creach

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Credits: 2

For students of all disciplines, this course will include weekly screenings of dance on film. We will be looking at a wide variety of dance, from The Ballets Russes to early Modern Dance at ��Ź�� to Postmodern Dance, nationally and internationally, and try on some of this movement ourselves. We will also utilize the library collection of dance films from cultures around

Dance

Data Mining and You — PSY2131.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Anne Gilman

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Credits: 4

Have you ever seen advertisements on your personal email site directly related to some messages you sent? Social scientists employ some of the same text-mining tools that advertisers do, drawing conclusions about individuals' moods, political views, personalities, and power relationships based on Twitter feeds and Facebook posts. In this course, you will learn the basic

Society Culture and Thought

Digital Animation — MA2127.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Sue Rees

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Credits: 2

This course is a follow on from the digital modelling class with the main focus being exploring the animation capabilities of the 3d computer graphics software program MAYA. The course will include basic modelling, shading, texturing and lighting models, and will accommodate students new to the program as well as students who have some knowledge. The main concentrate will be

Visual Arts

Digital Frost — LIT2260.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Megan Mayhew-Bergman

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Credits: 2

How can we use digital tools to help share knowledge and scholarship about Robert Frost's time in the Stone House? In this course, we'll explore the relationship between technology, literature, and public history. We'll discuss ways to encourage engagement with Frost's legacy and time in Shaftsbury. Students will help design and produce a digital, self-guided tour, and assist

Literature

Digital Morphology/Rhino 3D Modeling — VA2208.01

Spring 2018

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

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

Spring 2018

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

Does Your Vote Matter? A Mathematical Look at Politics and Social Choice — MAT2241.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Steven Morics

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Credits: 4

Mathematics and the natural sciences have a long history together, but recently, mathematicians have begun using the tools of their trade on a collection of problems from the social sciences. Is it right that, as a Californian, my vote counted much less than yours did in the last presidential election? If a business fails with a million dollars in the bank, and it owes you a

Science and Mathematics

Drawing As A Verb: Exploring Uncertainty — DRW2120.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Josh 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

Drumming: An Extension of Language — MIN2120.01

Spring 2018

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 ��Ź��’s

Music

Early-Modern French Libertine Literature — FRE2107.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Stephen Shapiro

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Credits: 2

This course examines the movement of early‐modern freethinkers who championed individual autonomy and questioned the authority of religious, moral, social, and political thought. We will focus particular attention on questions of pleasure and morality, sexuality and power, authority and subversion. Writers studied will include Prévost (Manon Lescaut), Laclos (Liaisons

Languages

Electronic Music Composition — MCO4114.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Sergei Tcherepnin

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Credits: 4

This class will focus on historical methods of electronic music composition through a contemporary lens. We will study synthesis in depth, and the development of early analog synthesizers, while learning how these techniques have influenced contemporary software design. While the class will focus on composing, students will be expected to learn how to use Ableton Live, Reaktor,

Music

Eliot and Oppen — LIT4123.02

Spring 2018

Instructor: Phillip B. Williams

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Credits: 2

This 7-week course will explore two vastly different but strangely similar writers who explore different aspect of Modernist poetry: Eliot as Modernism's forefather and Oppen as part of the Objectivist group. Where Eliot was stunned into his most well-regarded work "The Waste Land" by the aftermath of the first World War, Oppen abandoned poetry in the 1930s for political

Literature

Embracing Difference — ANT2107.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Miroslava Prazak

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Credits: 4

Why are cultures and societies so different, and simultaneously, so similar? This introductory course examines some of the theoretical and methodological approaches of anthropology in exploring human culture and society. We explore various ethnographic examples to develop an anthropological perspective on economy and politics, social organization, kinship and family life,

Society Culture and Thought

Emily Dickinson: a World at Every Plunge — LIT4158.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Stefania Heim

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Credits: 2

Despite having published fewer than a dozen poems in her lifetime, Emily Dickinson has become one of the most iconic American poets. Few writers are as radical and mysterious as Dickinson. Few have been as caricatured (the recluse-spinster in a white dress) or as misunderstood: the earliest collections of her work, published shortly after her death, famously “fixed” her

Literature

English as a Learned Language Group Tutorial — WRI2150.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Wayne Hoffmann-Ogier

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Credits: 2

This tutorial 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

Writing

Enlightenment Prose — LIT2321.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Brooke Allen

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Credits: 4

This course will introduce students to the major prose writers of the Enlightenment and to the ideas that inspired them. Authors covered will include Voltaire, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Diderot, Hume, Smith, Locke, Gibbon, Jefferson, Paine, and others.

Literature

Environment Awareness: Combining Fiction and Non-Fiction Elements in Moving-Image Making — FV4107.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Fern Silva

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Credits: 4

A video production course for students interested in social and environmental issues, reportage, travelogues and other forms of non-fiction art making. Starting with the basics, students will be working in teams and individually; they will utilize the greater ��Ź�� area and beyond as their set and travel to a variety of locations to cover particular events, landscape,

Environment Visual Arts