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Human Mobility and Human Rights — MOD2167.03

Spring 2018
Instructor: Andrea Galindo
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Credits: 1
Human mobility has been an inherent human condition throughout history. From earliest human history, people have migrated in search of a better life, to populate other places on the planet, or to escape and survive human-made or natural dangers. However, it was the creation of the concept of modern State that established geographic boundaries, and enabled States to exercise
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Idiosyncratic Tools — SCU4216.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: John Umphlett
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Credits: 2
Use a hammer to hit a nail into a chunk of wood. Anyone may smash a cube office , carve a toy car or with strong encouragement, allow the hammer to sign its initials on your thumb - VBS (violet burning sunset.) Idiosyncratic devices enhance one's own senses. Once we completely understand the specific functions for which a tool is designed, we begin to tune senses back to the
Visual Arts

If Only There Were a Mediator Between Us: The Book of Job and Conflict Resolution — MED2119.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Michael Cohen
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Credits: 2
The Book of Job is one of the great philosophical books of the Bible which addresses many relevant issues including, but not limited to, justice, friendship, responding to life's trials. Written as a series of dialogues between Job and his friends its pages address conflict through many forms and issues. We will read and discuss its pages as we explore the process of resolving
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Image Objects — PHO4103.02

Spring 2018
Instructor: Elizabeth White
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Credits: 2
This course meets the second seven weeks of the term, and through group critiques, assignments, artist slideshows, and readings, explores the broad range of physical forms that photographic works can take. As recent exhibitions and publications such as What is a Photograph? (The International Center of Photography, 2014), A Matter of Memory: The Photograph as Object in the
Visual Arts

Improvisation, Play and Persistence — SCMA4107.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Betsy Sherman and Katie Montovan
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Credits: 2
When we first come into this world, we are endlessly curious about everything, without the self-consciousness we acquire later in life. When we get to school, many of us are told that there is a single right way to answer questions, whether about a poem or the material world. We are discouraged from trying different approaches and all too often we learn that “failing” to get
Science and Mathematics

Improvisation: Survival, Adaptation, Invention — DAN2175.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
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Credits: 2
In this semester-long laboratory on improvisation, we will place ourselves attentively into particular environments and situations in order to access and develop the skills of individual and ensemble physical problem solving. Pattern recognition will be one lens through which we will view the role of perception in real time decision-making. Ultimately, our choices will activate
Dance

In and Out of Italy: Migration Fluxes Through the Boot — ITA4402.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Barbara Alfano
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Credits: 4
For many decades, Italy's geographical position in the center of the Mediterranean Sea has made the country a preferred port of entry into Europe for migrants coming from North Africa, joined over time by people coming from Eastern Europe, Albania, China, the Far East, South America,, and lately, from Syria. Some of Italy's Southern regions have been in a perpetual state of
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Inside Silicon Valley — CS2276.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Andrew Cencini
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Credits: 2
Technology startup companies have held the attention and fascination of the American public via popular culture and media. Television shows, movies, news coverage, and podcasts have portrayed, satirized, and romanticized life at these companies. But, what do we really know about these companies and the environment in which they exist? Who are the people that start these
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Insider Perspectives on the Francophone World II — FRE4224.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Stephen Shapiro
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Credits: 4
Viewed from the outside, the French‐speaking world offers enticing images of beauty, pleasure, and freedom. From the inside, however, it is a complicated, often contradictory world where implicit codes and values shape the most basic aspects of daily life. This course will give you an insiderʹs perspective on a cultural and communicative system whose ideas, customs, and belief
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Intaglio: The Incised Line — PRI2116.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Jesse Connor
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Credits: 4
Intaglio is among the richest artistic processes for drawing and generating expressive markmaking. The course will focus on the basic intaglio techniques of copper plate preparation, application of grounds, biting of plates using acids, rosin resists, printing of etched plates and paper handling. Themes in the class will reflect the students individual interest, sketchbooks and
Visual Arts

Intermediate Musicianship — MTH2277.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Andrew Greenwald
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Credits: 4
This course will focus on improving our ability to hear, replicate, and document music. We will concentrate on honing melodic and rhythmic transcription, while also developing ways of identifying and notating modern instrumental and electronic techniques. The students will help guide the direction of the course by choosing particular musical examples and topics for
Music

Intermediate Painting: Facture — PAI4106.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Josh Blackwell
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Credits: 4
Behind the impulse to put paint on canvas is a search for meaning. As an artwork comes into being, its meaning(s) evolve concurrently. Concentrating on the establishment of a rigorous artistic practice, this course will focus on the relationship between facture and meaning in painting. Sharpening practical and critical skills, assignments will investigate the processes and
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Intermediate Recording: Capturing the Song — MSR4122.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Eli Crews
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Credits: 4
This course will guide students through the entire process of recording a song, from pre-production through the final mix. We will team up with a few songwriters and give them the full support of the studio and our skills to help them realize their recording goals. Students will be expected to complete a mid-term project as well as a final project.
Music

Intermediate Violin/ Viola — MIN4232.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Kaori Washiyama
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Credits: 2
Basic techniques will include the reading music in treble and /or alto cleft in basic keys. Hand position including left hand shifting and fingering, and a rudimentary facility with the bow will be developed in order for students to participate in simple ensemble performances by the end of term. Corequisites: Must participate and perform at least twice in Music Workshop
Music

Intermediate Voice — MVO4301.03, Section 3

Spring 2018
Instructor: Kerry Ryer-Parke
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Credits: 2
For students of varying levels of singing ability. Vocal production and physiology will be discussed. Group warm-ups and vocalizations will incorporate exercises to develop breath control, resonance, projection, range, color, and agility. The fundamental concepts of singing will be explored in the preparation of specific song assignments. Personalization of text and emotional
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Intermediate Voice — MVO4301.02, Section 2

Spring 2018
Instructor: Tom Bogdan
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Credits: 2
The fundamental concepts of singing will be discussed and vocal production and physiology will be explored. Listening to important singers and creating a vocabulary to describe their voices and styles will be an introductory part of the class. Group warm-ups and vocalizations will incorporate exercises to develop breath control, resonance, projection, range, color, agility,
Music

Intermediate Voice — MVO4301.01, Section 1

Spring 2018
Instructor: Tom Bogdan
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Credits: 2
The fundamental concepts of singing will be discussed and vocal production and physiology will be explored. Listening to important singers and creating a vocabulary to describe their voices and styles will be an introductory part of the class. Group warm-ups and vocalizations will incorporate exercises to develop breath control, resonance, projection, range, color, agility,
Music

Intermediate Voice — MVO4301.04, Section 4

Spring 2018
Instructor: Kerry Ryer-Parke
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Credits: 2
For students of varying levels of singing ability. Vocal production and physiology will be discussed. Group warm-ups and vocalizations will incorporate exercises to develop breath control, resonance, projection, range, color, and agility. The fundamental concepts of singing will be explored in the preparation of specific song assignments. Personalization of text and emotional
Music

International Human Rights Law — MOD2172.03

Spring 2018
Instructor: Andrea Galindo
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Credits: 1
Human rights are universal legal guarantees that protect individuals and groups against actions that interfere with fundamental freedoms and human dignity. Under international human rights law, states have the responsibility to respect, protect and fulfill human rights for all. If these obligations are not met, international legal action can be taken. Based on the legal
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International Human Rights Law —

Spring 2018
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Human rights are universal legal guarantees that protect individuals and groups against actions that interfere with fundamental freedoms and human dignity. Under international human rights law, states have the responsibility to respect, protect and fulfill human rights for all. If these obligations are not met, international legal action can be taken. Based on the legal

Introduction To Computer Science via Game Development — CS2112.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Ursula Wolz
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Credits: 4
An introduction to computer science and programming through game development using Processing and Unity3D game engine. Not just a course in game design, students will learn the foundations of object oriented programming by participating in collaborative game development projects. Foundations are taught in the Processing environment and then reintroduced in the more complicated
Science and Mathematics

Introduction to Editing in Premiere — FV2322.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: John Yost
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Credits: 2
This course is a 2-credit, seven-week introductory course focused on providing students with the skills to edit video and create basic animations in Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2017. The course will provide essential training for capturing, editing, audio mixing, and motion graphics, as well as review methods of best practice for organizing footage and exporting finished files. No
Visual Arts

Introduction to Jazz Theory and Improvisation — MTH2272.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Bruce Williamson
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Credits: 4
This course will review both diatonic and modal harmony as it applies to chord structures, chord progressions and scales used in jazz improvisation. Students will learn how to translate the chord symbols found in lead sheets (music with only chord symbols and melody), how to interpret chord alterations, and how to identify key centers. This course will help students learn the
Music

Introduction to The Art of Literary Translation — LIT2259.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Marguerite Feitlowitz
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Credits: 4
It may be that the closest, most interpretative and creative reading of a text involves translating from one language to another. Questions of place, culture, epoch, voice, gender, and rhythm take on new urgency, helping us deepen our skills and sensibilities in new ways. This course has a triple focus: you will compare and contrast multiple translations of a single work; read
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