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Spring 2018

Introduction to Video — FV2303.02, section 2

Spring 2018

Instructor: Ilana Harris-Babou

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Credits: 4

This production course introduces students to the fundamentals of working in video and the language of film form. Drawing on the energy, intensity and criticality of avant-garde film and contemporary video art practices, students will complete a series of projects exploring dimensions of cinematography, mise-en-scène, editing and sound design before producing a final self

Visual Arts

Introduction to Video — FV2303.01, section 1

Spring 2018

Instructor: Fern Silva

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Credits: 4

Visual Arts

Jazz Ensemble — MPF4250.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Bruce Williamson

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Credits: 2

This ensemble will perform a wide range of Jazz music (a genre that is constantly evolving), with an emphasis on both ensemble playing and improvisation skills. By playing together, students will learn how blues, swing, latin, and rock elements have all fueled this music called jazz. Students will also learn how major Jazz artists such as Ellington, Monk, Mingus, Wayne Shorter,

Music

Jazz Piano — MIN4240.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Bruce Williamson

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Credits: 2

Weekly private instruction in jazz piano to be arranged with instructor. Explore and develop skills and knowledge required to effectively play non-classical piano repertoire. Styles covered: blues, reggae, salsa, bossa-nova and jazz. Create bass lines, chord voicings, stylistic rhythms, melodies and improvised solos. Corequisites: Participation in Music Workshop, Tuesdays 6:30

Music

Jazz Vocal Workshop — MPF4273.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Bruce Williamson, Kerry Ryer-Parke

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Credits: 2

This will be a repertoire/performance class where vocalists will have the opportunity to work with both a vocal coach and jazz pianist. Bass and drums will be added towards the end of the term. Through extensive listening to jazz vocalists and their own practice, students will gain confidence in phrasing, microphone technique and jazz vocal idioms. Songs will be selected from

Music

Juxtaposition: Drawing and Collage — DRW4106.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Mary Lum

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Credits: 4

Since the beginning of the 20th century, collage has existed as a vehicle for the most diverse ideas and concerns of the times. Collage is not simply a method of assembly, a way to bring unrelated fragments into new contexts, but a way of thinking that reflects revolution of all kinds. From Picasso and Braque to Hannah Hoch and John Heartfield, and more recently Martha Rosler

Visual Arts

Language through Film — SPA4223.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher

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Credits: 4

Students with burgeoning linguistic skills will learn the language through an immersion in Latin American and Spanish film in the second half of this full-year introduction to the Spanish-speaking world. While there will be some discussion of more common tactics such as stylistic nuances, script-writing, acting, dubbing, and directors’ biographies, it is expected that we will

Languages

Letterpress: Metal Type and Plastic Plates — PRI4236.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Art Larson and Michael Smoot

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Credits: 4

This will be a studio art class during which students are introduced to the techniques, materials and equipment used in letterpress printing. Students will complete a series of assignments designed to give them practice in these techniques and for them to become more adept at using the materials and equipment. Ambitious students will be able to do more advanced work, as the

Visual Arts

Life and Death: Buddhism in Modern Japanese films — JPN4401.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida

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Credits: 4

In this course, students will examine how Buddhism influenced Japanese thought on the after-life and analyze how Japanese views on the relationship between life and death are depicted in recent Japanese films. In the first seven weeks of the course, students will examine and discuss the history, beliefs, and deities of Buddhism and their influences on society. In the second

Languages

Life Drawing Lab — DRW2118.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Colin Brant

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Credits: 2

This class is designed for student artists of any level of experience who wish to hone their skills of observation and drawing. Working primarily with the human figure, students will explore shape, line, form and space, always with an emphasis on possibilities for personal expression. A variety of drawing materials will be introduced. Class time will be divided between drawing

Visual Arts

Life Stories — FRE4604.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Stephen Shapiro

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Credits: 4

This course will focus on perfecting your written French through creative autobiographical writing. Literary readings will offer both a critical perspective on a wide variety of autobiographical genres as well as models for inspiration and imitation in your own writing. We will also examine style and register while striving to master some of the stylistic and grammatical

Languages

Linguistics of Music — MTH4258.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Kitty Brazelton

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Credits: 4

Students collaborate with instructor to generate a set of grammatical "rules" for various musical genres. We review existing theories and grammars of Western classical and other musics, compare parallels between 20th-c. theories of Heinrich Schenker and Noam Chomsky, and gather musical data from scores, recordings and our own transcription. The course will culminate in

Music

Logic, Proofs, Algebra, and Set Theory — MAT2410.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Andrew McIntyre

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Credits: 4

This introductory course will cover key foundations needed for more advanced mathematics; it should also be of interest to students not primarily studying mathematics. Topics will include symbolic logic and rules of inference; how to write mathematical proofs; the beginnings of abstract algebra, including Boolean algebras; extensions of high school polynomial algebra; and set

Science and Mathematics Society Culture and Thought

L’Amica Geniale — ITA4609.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Barbara Alfano

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Credits: 4

This course focuses on Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan quartet--L'amica geniale (2011), Storia del nuovo cognome (2012), Storia di chi fugge e di chi resta (2013), and Storia della bambina perduta (2014). The study of the four novels will also be an opportunity to focus on the history of Italy from the end of WW II to nowadays, on Italian and Neapolitan women writers, and on Naples

Languages

Mandolin — MIN2229.01

Spring 2018

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

Mapping Public Art, Performance and Intervention — APA2211.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Susie Ibarra

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Credits: 4

This course will examine public art , performance and intervention in urban and rural settings of different regions. Historically what have been some of the practices in these communities? What are some of the contemporary practices presently? What happens in communities built around conflict? The class will look at art, performance and intervention in cultures that emphasize

CAPA

Markmaking and Representation — DRW2149.01

Spring 2018

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 Convergence and Culture — APA4102.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Erika Mijlin

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Credits: 4

A seminar on the changing nature of the relationship between consumption and production of media, and how these newly intersect. With a perspective rooted in the cultural history of forms such as quotation, parody, and collage, in this course we will explore the many transitions in the present media paradigm — the changing aesthetics of digital media content and context, the

CAPA

Medicinal Chemistry — CHE4130.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Janet Foley

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Credits: 2

The action of drugs and their mechanisms are of immense importance to people interested in health care. In this class we will examine basic mechanisms of drugs, side effects, clinical trials, and evaluation of efficacy. Students will direct the study by choosing drugs to investigate and by presenting information identifying what they need to know to understand how the drug

Science and Mathematics

Merely Players: Shakespeare’s Women, Shakespeare’s Men — DRA2164.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Jean Randich

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Credits: 4

A revival of an old tradition in the playing of Shakespeare has been rocking stages around the world: cross-gender casting. Shakespeare’s plays were originally performed by men and boys. But when the Globe Theater’s all male double bill of Twelfth Night and Richard III hit Broadway in 2013, theatergoers screamed with delight. Similarly, when Phyllida Lloyd and Harriet Walter

Drama

Migration and Migrants in Theatre, Film, and Documentaries — DRA2175.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Burcu Seyben

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Credits: 4

Migration and migrants have been explored extensively in theatre, film and documentaries. The Immigrants’ Theatre Project by NYC-ARTS in New York, Royal Court Theatre in London, and Gorki Theatre in Berlin are some of the theatre companies that especially help immigrant playwrights to develop works about the experience of migration. Ariane Mnouchkine, Robert Lepage and Rimini

CAPA Drama

Migration, Diaspora and Exile: New Voices in the Literature of Global Dislocation — LIT2286.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Benjamin Anastas

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Credits: 4

The recent mass migrations of people due to armed conflict, the globalized economy, the fall of the colonial world order and climate change have unsettled political establishments throughout the West and set of waves of pro-nationalist and anti-immigrant protests. In literature, however, the voices of the dispossessed have arguably never been stronger or more influential. This

CAPA Literature

Modern Guitar — MIN4224.01

Spring 2018

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. Corequisites: Attendance at Music Workshop

Music

Movement Practice: Advanced Dance Technique — DAN4344.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Stuart Shugg, MFA Teaching Fellow

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Credits: 2

This advanced movement class will develop from simple skeletal mobility sequences to expansive movement forms. The warm-up will examine the joints and how their range of motion relates to alignment, readiness to move, and articulation. These principles will then become the foundation for traveling sequences and longer movement phrases. We will hone in on the importance of

Dance

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

Spring 2018

Instructor: Yanan Yu, MFA Teaching Fellow

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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