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Spring 2018

The Albumen Print — PHO4114.02

Spring 2018

Instructor: Jonathan Kline

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Credits: 2

In this 7-week session, students will explore the most widely used process of making photographic prints in the 19th century, the albumen process. Ideally suited for contact printing either glass or paper negatives in sunlight, the albumen print has a glossy surface and rich tonal scale that became very popular for photographers exhibiting their work in the 19th century.

Visual Arts

The Anthropology of Religion — ANT2108.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Noah Coburn

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Credits: 4

This course takes an anthropological approach to the study of religion. It will look comparatively at how religion is understood in different cultures as well as studying different historical and theoretical approaches to religion. The course takes a holistic approach to religion and asks how religion is tied to such concepts as politics, kinship, gender and nationalism. It

Society Culture and Thought

The Artist as Curator: Exhibition as Medium and the Politics of Display — VA4124.02

Spring 2018

Instructor: Anne Thompson

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Credits: 2

Artists throughout history have played signal roles in shifting the parameters around and definitions of exhibition making. This course considers the various ways that artists working in and outside conventional structures have shaped art history and radicalized curatorial practice. Readings and assignments will cover artist groups and collaborative networks; artists who create

Visual Arts

The Arts of Spain and the Politics of Cultural Heritage — AH4116.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Razan Francis

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Credits: 4

Not long after Muslims had conquered most of the Iberian Peninsula in 711, the Spanish Christians declared their intent to reconquer the land for Christianity. With the fall of Granada in 1492 and the subsequent repression of Jews and Muslims, the reconquest was finally complete. However, the many centuries of coexistence and mutual influence meant that the art and architecture

Visual Arts Society Culture and Thought

The Coming Community: Migration, Inclusion, and Obligation in the 21st Century — POL2204.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: John Hultgren

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Credits: 4

What is the basis for granting someone membership within a political community? What obligations do we have toward those who are not formally members of our political community? Is “the nation” - today's dominant form of political community - capable of meeting the ethical challenges of a globalizing world? Is an alternative form of political community possible and/or desirable

CAPA Society Culture and Thought

The Films of Alfred Hitchcock — LIT2295.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Brooke Allen

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Credits: 2

Alfred Hitchcock was the greatest director of suspense films, and one of the most original and influential film directors of all time. In this class we will watch a number of HItchcock's best movies, beginning with the silent classic The Lodger and finishing at the end of his career in the 1970s, taking in classics like The Thirty-Nine Steps, Rear Window, North By Northwest and

The Haunted South — LIT2376.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Annie DeWitt

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Credits: 4

The American South, with its complex and difficulty history, has long given rise to voices both lyrical and confessional, empathic and dangerous, realistic and strange. Rooted in this landscape's shifting racial, domestic and socio-economic identity, we will explore the grand and problematic tradition of U.S. Southern Literature from the Civil War to the Present. Writers to be

Literature

The Key to Songs — MTH4419.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Nick Brooke

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Credits: 4

A seminar on advanced harmony, based on in-class analyses of a broad range of classical, pop, and jazz songs. Students will learn about chromaticism, pivot chords, modulation, and extended triadic harmonies, while composing songs in a variety of styles. Students must have a good knowledge of notation and harmony, be willing to tackle in-depth harmonic analyses and aural

Music

The Migrant Worker issue in Chinese Film — CHI4602.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Ginger Lin

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Credits: 4

While movies such as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon have helped Chinese cinema broadened its appeal and consolidate its position as a significant force in international cinema, such historical fantasies may not do much to help us understand modern Chinese culture. Fortunately, there is much more to contemporary Chinese cinema, and many fine Chinese language films are available

CAPA Languages

The Philosophy of Hannah Arendt — PHI4131.02

Spring 2018

Instructor: Paul Voice

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Credits: 2

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) was a major political theorist whose work has become increasingly influential in recent years. A student of Martin Heidegger and Karl Jaspers, her extensive writings cover such topics as the nature of power, the meaning of the political and the problem of revolution. This seven week course is a critical exploration of some of her major works, including

Society Culture and Thought

The Politics of Bodies in Motion — DAN4128.02

Spring 2018

Instructor: Nicole Daunic

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Credits: 2

Scholars within dance studies, such as Randy Martin, André Lepecki, and Susan Manning, have proposed that dance serves as a unique practical and theoretical site through which to think the political--what philosopher Jacques Ranciére defines as the distribution of the sensible. In this course, we will read foundational texts addressing corporeality, biopolitics, aesthetics,

Dance

The Politics of Pedro Almodóvar — SPA4603.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Sarah Harris

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Credits: 4

Sometimes called apolitical or ahistorical, many of Pedro Almodóvar’s luscious films have met with consternation, if not distain, by Spanish critics. Yet Almodóvar leads the jury for the 2017 Cannes film festival. In fact, Spanish film scholar Paul Julian Smith notes that while “Pedro Almodóvar is now the most successful Spanish filmmaker of all time, whether that success is

Languages

The Power of Art — APA2142.02

Spring 2018

Instructor: Souleymane Badolo

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Credits: 2

Art has the power to help people in communities to communicate, to mobilize, to educate and to understand their living situation. Art can help political movements find their voice, and connect people to planning visions for the future. Beginning in 2014, protests in Burkina Faso organized against the current political dictatorship. Life was very difficult for the people.

CAPA

The Power of Art — APA2142.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Souleymane Badolo

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Credits: 2

CAPA

The Sababa Project at Mount Anthony Union High School — APA2250.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Susan Sgorbati with Danielle Crosier

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Credits: 4

The Sababa Project is a ��Ź�� College course taught on the campus of Mount Anthony Union High School. In a collaborative effort between ��Ź�� College and two Mount Anthony Union High School programs (the Quantum Leap Exhibit Program and the Bridges Summer Transitional Program), the Sababa Project attempts to demystify the college experience while providing high school

CAPA

The Salt Print — PHO4121.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Jonathan Kline

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Credits: 2

This class explores one of the earliest means of creating a photographic image on paper. Invented by William Henry Fox Talbot in England and refined by a number of successive adaptations in France in the 1840's, the salt print has a unique tonal scale ideally suited for contact printing either paper or glass negatives in sunlight. The class will explore various papers,

Visual Arts

The Scriptorium: Borders and Boundaries — WRI2152.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Camille Guthrie

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Credits: 4

This scriptorium, a “place for writing,” will function as a class for multilingual writers interested in improving their essay-writing skills. We will read to write and write to read, following the originator of the form, Montaigne. Much of our time will be occupied with writing and revising—essai means “trial” or “attempt”—as we work to create new habits and strategies for our

CAPA Writing

The Scriptorium: Visual Culture — WRI2151.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Camille Guthrie

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Credits: 4

How do we organize and understand our perceptions of the world? How do we look at objects? At paintings and photographs, advertisements and films? What do we see, and not see, when we visit a new place, or when we encounter an animal? And, importantly, how do we perceive and comprehend each other? This scriptorium, a “place for writing,” will function as a class for beginning

Writing

The Textual City — SPA4805.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher

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Credits: 4

This course will chart the development of identity within the postcolonial Latin American city. The latter will be read both literally and as a guiding metaphor, as a reality ordered by ideas. We will use interdisciplinary theoretical models as discursive markers, selected from architecture, politics, philosophy, literature, and photography, in order to problematize urban

Languages

The Veil and the Arts: Discourses and Experiences around the Veil in Contemporary Works — APA2201.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Burcu Seyben

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Credits: 4

The veil, the headscarf or hijab has been a very controversial issue all over the world. It has also been the subject of many artworks produced both by veiled women themselves, or by others. Some of these art works serve and create the discourses of nationalism. colonialism, patriarchy, and Islamophobia, while others (especially those which have been created by veiled women)

CAPA Drama

The Victorian Novel — LIT4320.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Brooke Allen

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Credits: 4

In this class we will cover almost the entire Victorian period in England, starting with Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, published in the year of Queen Victoria's accession (1837), and finishing with Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890). Between these two, we will read major novels by George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans), Thomas Hardy, and Anthony Trollope. The class will

Literature

The Web as Artistic Platform — DA2110.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Robert Ransick

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Credits: 4

This course is an introduction to creative practices within digital technologies specifically focused on Internet based fine art projects. A broad survey of web-based digital arts is examined in tandem with an overview of design methodology and the tools necessary to create your own work. These include HTML, CSS, Photoshop, content management systems, and a basic introduction

Visual Arts

The World Ocean — ENV2205.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Chelsea Corr

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Credits: 4

Covering 70% of Earth’s surface, it is no surprise that the ocean is an important component of the natural Earth system. However, what might be surprising is that the role of the ocean extends well beyond sustaining the global water cycle and marine ecosystems. For instance, the uptake of atmospheric carbon dioxide by the surface ocean is the first step to moving carbon to long

Science and Mathematics Environment

Theater Games and Improvisation — DRA2123.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: James Smith III

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Credits: 4

Whose class is this anyway? Improvisation is for everyone. Life is made up as it happens and improv is no different. This course will explore the basic elements of improvisation. Through short and long form theater games, pattern and rhythm exercises, we aim to heighten observation, listening skills, and ensemble building. Character, object, and environment work will be

Drama

Thermal and Statistical Physics — PHY4108.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Hugh Crowl

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Credits: 4

In the wake of the Industrial Revolution, physicists developed thermal physics as a way of improving the efficiency of steam engines. At nearly the same time, the development of statistical physics gave birth to an understanding of how large ensembles of particles interacted. We will study both the macroscopic (“Thermal”) and microscopic (“Statistical”) view of systems and the

Science and Mathematics