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Spring 2019

Chicanx Literature — LIT2329.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Natalie Scenters-Zapico

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Credits: 4

What does it mean to be Chicana/o/x, Latina/o/x, Hispanic, Spanish, or Mexican American in the United States? How has the history of Chicanismo shaped this country? This course will investigate the many complex answers to these questions. I will rely on each of you to have an open mind and use critical thinking to engage with the histories, stories, and texts in Chicanx

Literature

Child and Youth Migration: In Between Cultures — DRA2166.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Burcu Seyben

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Credits: 4

Today, millions of children and young people are forced to leave their homeland, or want to move to other countries for a variety of reasons. This course will focus on the experience of these children and young people who cross borders due to war, conflict, pursuit of education, new discoveries, jobs, family, or human trafficking. The course will explore how children and young

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Civil Society in Conflict Resolution — POL4248.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Rotimi Suberu

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Credits: 2

Civil society or the arena of autonomous associational organization and activity has been credited with promoting various virtuous outcomes, including democratization, development, and social peace. This course critically surveys civil societies’ roles in peacemaking and peace building. It will explore theoretical controversies on the nature and roles of civil society as well

CAPA Society Culture and Thought

Clarinet — MIN4223.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Bruce Williamson

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Credits: 2

Study of clarinet technique and repertoire with an emphasis on tone production, dexterity, reading skills, and improvisation. This course is for intermediate-advanced students only. Corequisites: participation in Music Workshop (T 6:30 -8:00pm).

Music

Climate Under Siege — POP2265.02

Spring 2019

Instructor: Brian Campion

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Credits: 1

Global warming is an existential threat to humanity. While the current federal executive administration actively undermines efforts to address this threat, states, municipalities and some industries, on the other hand, are working on strategies to best mitigate and prepare for the impacts of this crisis. Vermont is playing a role on both of these strategies. This course will

Color Photography: History Practice — PHO4129.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Jonathan Kline

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Credits: 4

This 4000 level course offers students the opportunity to explore the history of color photography and to research a wide range of work from the 20th 21st centuries. Working with either analog or digital capture, students will solve a series of creative assignments and conclude the term by producing a final portfolio of personal work. Expenses will vary depending on the nature

Visual Arts

Comparative Animal Physiology (with lab) — BIO4201.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Betsy Sherman

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Credits: 4

A rigorous course in which physiological processes of vertebrates and invertebrates are studied at the cellular, organ, organ system, and whole animal levels of organization. The unifying themes of the course are the phenomenon of homeostasis (whereby an animal maintains its organization in the face of environmental perturbations) and the relationship between structure and

Science and Mathematics Environment

Comparative Democratization — POL2102.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Rotimi Suberu

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Credits: 4

The twentieth century has been described as a century of democratization. This is in recognition of the third wave of democratization that saw the creation or restoration of about eighty democracies in southern Europe, Latin America, Asia, Eastern Europe, and Africa during the last quarter of the century. This introductory course will examine the drivers, patterns, outcomes,

Society Culture and Thought

Composition: Program, Position, Process — DAN2155.02

Spring 2019

Instructor: Eleanor Bauer

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Credits: 1

In this course we will unpack the word “composition” as a guide for authoring, and we will work in groups to create a performance. Starting with co or com as in “with,” every act of creation is in some way collaborative or relational. We will borrow the notion of “program” from architecture as the coordination of all the constraints and agendas of a project into a transparent

Dance

Computational Linguistics — CS4122.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Justin Vasselli

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Credits: 4

In this class, students will learn various techniques and algorithms for processing human languages. Topics we will cover include data structures and algorithms for text processing, tokenization, and part-of-speech tagging among other topics. Students will learn techniques for working with large amounts of data, and gain familiarity with common resources such as the Penn

Science and Mathematics

Conceptual art and the photograph — VA4114.02

Spring 2019

Instructor: Liz Deschenes

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Credits: 2

Students will study how some of the “pioneers” of conceptualism utilized photography and impacted the next generation of image makers, often referred to as the pictures generation, by studying works and writing from two key exhibitions that were organized, in part, to reevaluate the careers of many artists, their works and contributions- “Light Years: Conceptual Art and the

Visual Arts

Confucianism vs. Daoism — CHI4402.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Ginger Lin

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Credits: 4

The Twenty-four Stories of Filial Piety are well known Chinese stories that exemplify the devotion of children to their parents that is the chief virtue in Confucianism. The Daoist Tales of Zhuangzi, on the other hand, offer a much different set of values. These tales "translated" from classical Chinese into modern Mandarin at the student's language level will serve as a

Languages

Contemporary African Dance I — DAN2124.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Souleymane Badolo

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Credits: 2

Students are guided through a series of isolations, progressions, and concepts that demonstrate neo-traditional African dance styles combined with Solo Badolo’s own movement approach. Cultural, philosophical and aesthetic concepts are shared to assist in understanding and embodying the technique. With emphasis placed on grounded movement, articulation (head, torso, legs, arms)

Dance

Contemporary African Dance II — DAN4675.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Souleymane Badolo

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Credits: 2

Souleymane Badolo will teach his technique as well as choreographic segments from his larger works. Deeply involving ourselves in the harmonization of gesture, touch, listening and responding, we will work toward precision of movement in time and space, searching for the essence of movement.

Dance

Contemporary African Writing — LIT2383.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Phillip B. Williams

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Credits: 4

‘In your text, you treat Africa as if it were one country. It is hot and dusty with rolling grasslands and huge herds of animals and tall, thin people who are starving.’ —How to Write ��Ź�� Africa, Binyavanga Wainaina This class is an introductory survey of writing from Africa within the last few decades. The history of Africa has been captured in poetry, novels, plays, and

Literature

Contemporary Chinese Poetry — CHI4216.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Ginger Lin

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Credits: 4

While the language of classical Chinese poetry is practically inaccessible to even today’s native speakers of Chinese, the poetry of the five contemporary poets studied in this course is written in the vernacular and serves as a rich source of authentic texts for this course, which integrates language learning with poetry study. The five poets, all born after 1980, each offer a

Languages

Creation of Statistics — MAT2247.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Josef Mundt

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Credits: 4

The amount of data in the world is vast and is increasing exponentially. It is easy to become overwhelmed and lose sight of the goal of data: to answer questions we have about the world in a specific, concise manner. The goal of this course is to help craft answerable questions---and then answer them. In order to do this, we will be using a programming language ("R") to help us

Environment Science and Mathematics Society Culture and Thought

Creative Economies — APA2167.02

Spring 2019

Instructor: Caroline Woolard

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Credits: 2

This course is designed for students of all disciplines who are interested in connecting their discrete creations (a poem, a drawing, an artwork, a product, an event) to larger systems, organizations, and possible art worlds. In this course, we will examine the ways in which every aspect of your production and distribution process -- from sourcing materials to organizing your

CAPA

Creative Strategies for Artists — APA2165.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Aaron Landsman

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Credits: 2

This course examines production methods and career strategies for emerging artists, especially those working across genres. Specifically, we will focus on fundraising via donations, grants, commissions, day jobs and other sources; strategic planning, especially when looking at socially-engaged practice; written and verbal communications; working with venues; promotion and press

CAPA Dance Drama Visual Arts

Cross-cultural Psychology — PSY2289.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Ella Ben Hagai

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Credits: 4

In this course, we will carefully consider the ways in which certain cultural practices and ideologies shape individual psychology. Using a comparative lens, we will explore how people’s sense of self and identity differ in individualistic compared to collectivist cultures. How do differences in cultural codes associate with differences in thinking styles, emotional expression,

Society Culture and Thought

Culture, Environment, and Sustainable Living — ANT2117.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Miroslava Prazak

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Credits: 4

In this seminar, we examine how Western and non-Western cultures, both past and present, perceive and shape key environmental and social issues. Through readings, discussions and films we will evaluate the potential of environmental and cultural studies to address some of the most urgent contemporary problems. To work toward an understanding of what is today called

Society Culture and Thought Environment

Dance Now/Africa — APA2157.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Souleymane Badolo

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Credits: 2

A great deal of what we know of Non-Western dance makers is through written critiques, reviews, and social media. Contemporary dance artists in West and East Africa are essentially unknown in the United States. Dance as an art form is situated in a context of politics, history and the environment. In this course, we will look at, not only the critiques and reviews, but also the

CAPA

Dance on Film — DAN2277.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Terry Creach

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Credits: 2

Dance performance exists in time and space. How does our experience change when we see dance mediated by the videographer or the choreographer through a camera lens? In this course we have two simultaneous tasks: (1) to perceive and understand the point of view of the videographer/choreographer as we watch dances made for camera as well as documentary films, and 2) understand

Dance

Dancing Drumming — DAN2134.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Souleymane Badolo

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Credits: 2

This class is aimed to instruct dancers on the Art of Drumming , and drummers on the Art of Dancing. The drummers are in conversation with the dancers and the dancers in conversation with the drummers; they learn from each other. In Africa, to become a dancer you had to learn to be a drummer; if you are a drummer you had to learn to move. Movement and sound are connected to the

Dance Music

Designing a Light Plot — DRA2235.02

Spring 2019

Instructor: Michael Giannitti

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Credits: 2

As a follow-up to the course Working With Light, students in this class will learn how to integrate lighting design ideas with the architectural parameters of theater spaces, and deal with the challenges and opportunities imposed by scenery and various light sources. Design drafting will be emphasized in this course, beginning with hand drafting and moving on to Vectorworks CAD

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