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Women and Men: The Biology of the Sexes — BIO2203.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Betsy Sherman
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Credits: 4
What are the biological differences between men and women and how do they come about? Beyond the obvious reproductive differences, do other biological differences influence the behavior of women and men? For example, not only do women and men differ in various sex hormone levels, but their brains are influenced in different ways by those hormones. To what extent are the
Science and Mathematics

Women and Moving Image Arts — FV2106.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Kate Purdie
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Credits: 2
A look at women’s roles in the history of the moving image—as subject, object, maker, viewer, consumer, and critic. What influence has feminism had on how we make and watch moving images today? We’ll study typically female roles within the film industry and notable women who occupied them, as well women who broke barriers to penetrate traditionally male realms. We’ll look at
Visual Arts

Women Composers — MHI2110.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Allen Shawn
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Credits: 4
This class will explore music by women composers, with a special emphasis on composers from the 20th and 21st centuries. We will become acquainted with music by Hildegard von Bingen, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, Clara Schumann, Germaine Tailleferre, Amy Beach, Lili and Nadia Boulanger, Rebecca Clarke, Ruth Crawford, Galina Ustvolskaya, Sofia Gubaidulina, Vivian Fine, Betsy Jolas,
Music

Working With Light — DRA2234.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Michael Giannitti
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Credits: 2
Lighting design has the powerful ability to shape the experience of an audience. Its practice incorporates elements of artistry and craft and should interest those working in all aspects of visual and performing arts. In addition to hands-on work with theatrical lighting equipment in and outside of class, awareness of light, play analysis and conceptualization, color, angle,
Drama

Yeats and Visions of the Apocalypse — LIT4167.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Anna Maria Hong
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Credits: 4
This course takes William Butler Yeats’s poem “The Second Coming” as its starting point, launching from this often invoked poem to other poems and writings by Yeats that concern his unusual concepts of time, aging, and apocalypse including his prose work A Vision. We will examine Yeats’s prosodic choices regarding meter, rhyme, and form and how these musical decisions enhance
Literature

You Do You, Feldenkrais and Dancing: Scores for Improvisation — DAN2144.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Miguel Gutierrez
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Credits: 2
The Feldenkrais Method® reawakens, restores and revitalizes the capacity for movement and function in all bodies. It is an spectacularly generative practice for people who are devoted to movement as a means of exploration and expression. In this workshop we will begin each day with an Awareness Through Movement lesson and from there go into scores for embodied improvisational
Dance