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Spring 2018

Movement Practice: Intermediate-Advanced Dance Technique — DAN4148.01

Spring 2018

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 intermediate-advanced movement class will develop from simple skeletal mobility sequences to

Dance

Movement Practice: Moving from the Spine — DAN2152.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Yanan Yu, MFA Teaching Fellow

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Credits: 2

Using principles from Chinese movement practice, we will focus on the 3-dimensional spiraling form of the body in the space. The class will emphasize the breath and its connections to the mechanics of the spine, which is the main source of the fluid movements that extend throughout the body. We will work on weight shifting and cycling dynamic movement, integrating the principle

Dance

Movement Practice: Moving Out-Beginning Dance Technique — DAN2212.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Terry Creach

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Credits: 2

For those looking for a basic but intense movement class. We will begin with a slow warm-up focused on anatomical structures, muscular systems and basic alignment principles, but then progress to vigorous, rhythmic movement patterns. We will work to strengthen, stretch and articulate the body through longer movement phrases, focused on weight shifting, changes of direction, and

Dance

Movement Practice: Partnering — DAN2179.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Stuart Shugg, MFA Teaching Fellow

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Credits: 2

Throughout this course, we will work with simple partnering exercises that focus on the sense of touch, the sharing of weight, and the play of counterbalancing. Within each class, after an initial warm-up, we will progress to larger more complex forms and lifts. It is easier to move someone already in motion. By taking our partners off center, we are destabilizing and then

Dance

Music Theory 1 – Applied Fundamentals — MTH2274.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: John Kirk

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Credits: 4

An introduction to music theory course. Music theory fundamentals will be taught utilizing voice (singing) and an instrument in hand. Knowledge of the piano keyboard will be learned and utilized. Curriculum will span the harmonic series, circle of 5ths, scales and chords to ear training, harmonic and rhythmic dictation, and beginning composition. Course will include singing,

Music

Music, Politics, and Society in the Modern Middle East — MHI2108.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Joseph Alpar

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Credits: 4

The Middle East, home to many of the world’s oldest civilizations and major religions, remains a region of remarkable cultural diversity. From the fall of the Ottoman Empire in 1922 to the Arab Spring and the current refugee crisis, this vast territory has experienced extraordinary political and social change over the past nearly one hundred years. While often riven by conflict

Music

Narrative, Trauma, and Bearing Witness — PSY4134.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Ella Ben Hagai

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Credits: 4

In this advanced psychology seminar, we will dive into foundational work in Narrative Psychology. We will study the relationship between the narrative structure and human cognitive processes including memory, perception, and conceptualization. We will learn how cultural differences shape children's varied storytelling practices. Through the lens of social psychology research,

CAPA Society Culture and Thought

Nasty Women of Antiquity — LIT4278.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Monica Ferrell

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Credits: 2

This seminar in comparative mythology will serve as a journey through the narratives produced by a number of ancient and pre-modern civilizations that feature a complex female character. In these stories, feminine archetypes are not nurturing mother or fertility goddesses but warriors, witches, choosers of the slain and of rulers, ethically ambiguous and often terrifying

Literature

Nature and Artifice – A History of Architecture — ARC2112.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Donald Sherefkin

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Credits: 2

Because architecture seeks to establish a degree of permanence in the world, it is by definition, not natural, a work of human artifice. But our structures are very much of the earth, and the history of architecture is a record of the manifold ways in which cultures have understood, and responded to, their relationship to nature. This course will explore the ways in which the

Visual Arts

New Modes of Listening — MTH2273.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Andrew Greenwald

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Credits: 2

This is a music-centric course for those interested in investigating new ways of thinking about and listening to music. Our received modes of comprehension will be questioned by theories of reception, network, and system in diverse fields of inquiry. The relationship of form and content in numerous musical works will act as a testing ground for developing these modes. Together

Music

Normality and Abnormality — PSY2204.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: David Anderegg

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Credits: 4

This course is an examination of the idea of normality as a central organizing principle in psychology. We begin with an effort to define normality and/or psychological health, and then move on to examine the limits or borders of normality. The course examines the value-laden, historically determined, and political nature of psychological normality. Topics discussed include:

Society Culture and Thought

Observations: Photography and the Environment — PHO4113.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Jonathan Kline

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Credits: 4

This class explores the many ways photographers have shifted our understanding of the global environment, from documentary projects to collaborative interventions completed over the past 50 years. In addition to studying the works of Ansel Adams, Robert Adams, Mary Mattingly, Trevor Paglen, there will be assigned readings by Elizabeth Kolbert and John McPhee. Students will also

Visual Arts

One Day in New York City — HIS2271.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Eileen Scully

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Credits: 4

January 25, 1929 - this was not a day of any grand consequence in the scheme of time and history. What was this lived day like for ordinary residents of New York City? In what ways were the day's demands and experiences shaped by one or another individual's birth, gender, race, age and heritage? What changes in daily routines and ways of thinking did the decades after 1929

Society Culture and Thought

Oral History, Restorative Justice, and Youth Impacted by the Criminal Justice System in ��Ź�� — APA2147.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Alisa Del Tufo

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Credits: 2

��Ź�� County has the highest rate of incarceration in the State of Vermont. Why is this and how does this impact the community and those caught up in the criminal justice system? More importantly, what can be done to change the way the criminal justice system comes into contact with and treats youth? Using oral history and participatory problem solving strategies we will

CAPA

Out of the Ordinary: Costume Design for Fantasy — DRA4126.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Charles Schoonmaker

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Credits: 4

How do you design clothes for a world that that does not exist? In this class we will be doing that with a series of projects. Worlds may be extraterrestrial, riffs on human history in the manner of Game of Thrones, or purely an invention of the author. We will explore methodology to find inspiration in the worlds of art, science, costume history, and our own imaginations.

Drama

Peacebuilding Seminar — MOD2171.03

Spring 2018

Instructor: Vahidin Omanovic

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Credits: 1

This Module will serve as an introduction to the work of Peacebuilding around the world, both in theory and practice. Vahidin Omanovic, Director of Center for Peacebuilding in Bosnia, will be joining us to reflect on her work and introduce us to key topics in peacebuilding, including: peacebuilding in a local community, identity and discrimination, methods of sustainable

CAPA Modules: Transferable Approaches

Performance Project: Exchange — DAN4126.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Terry Creach

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Credits: 2

In this performance project, we’ll work with close encounters and with the physical puzzles that result. We’ll work individually and collectively to generate movement materials that build toward small group patterns that mix, combine, and sometimes clash. For those interested in challenging their athleticism, movement invention and negotiating skills. The new work will be

Dance

Performance Project: Overly Engineered — DAN2133.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Stuart Shugg, MFA Teaching Fellow

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Credits: 2

I am interested in making dances that reveal the unique personalities of group members while they work towards achieving a particular goal. Through using improvisation and set material, we will work to accomplish simple tasks in an overly contrived fashion. As with the mechanisms found in a Rube Goldberg Machine, the multiple components will add up to a needlessly complex and

Dance

Personal Learning Plan: Vermont Act 77 Educational Reform — MOD2170.02

Spring 2018

Instructor: Susan Sgorbati

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Credits: 1

Vermont Act 77 is a recent bill passed in the Vermont Legislature to enact educational reform. It includes implementing a Personal Learning Plan for all Middle and High School students in public education in Vermont. It is a radical new vision of public education and shares many of the same goals as a ��Ź�� College Plan Process. This Module will introduce ��Ź��

CAPA Modules: Transferable Approaches

Physics II: Electricity and Magnetism (with lab) — PHY4327.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Hugh Crowl

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Credits: 4

How does influence travel from one thing to another? In Newton’s mechanics of particles and forces, influences travel instantaneously across arbitrarily far distances. Newton himself felt this to be incorrect, but he did not suggest a solution to this problem of “action at a distance.” To solve this problem, we need a richer ontology: The world is made not only of particles,

Science and Mathematics

Piano — MIN4333.02; section 2

Spring 2018

Instructor: Yoshiko Sato

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Credits: 2

One-on-one lessons, scheduled individually, available to students with previous study. Corequisites: Attendance at Music Workshop (Tuesday, 6:30 – 8:00 pm)

Music

Piano — MIN4333.01; section 1

Spring 2018

Instructor: Joan Forsyth

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Credits: 2

One-on-one lessons, scheduled individually, available to students with previous study. Corequisites: Attendance at Music Workshop (Tuesday, 6:30 – 8:00 pm).

Music

Piano — MIN4333.03; section 3

Spring 2018

Instructor: Christine Tofani

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Credits: 2

One-on-one lessons, scheduled individually, available to students with previous study. Corequisites: Attendance at Music Workshop (Tuesday, 6:30 – 8:00 pm)

Music