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No Narratives No Rehearsals: A Performance Art Workshop — VA2114.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Josh Blackwell
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Credits: 4
“Forget all the standard art forms. The point is to make something new, something that doesn’t even remotely remind you of culture. You’ve got to be pretty ruthless about this, wiping out of your plans every echo of this or that story or jazz piece or painting that I can promise you will keep coming up unconsciously.” -Allan Kaprow, “How to Make a Happening” Performance art is
Visual Arts

Normality and Abnormality — cancelled

Spring 2019
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

Paris on Screen: Tradition and Modernity — FRE4498.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Stephen Shapiro
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Credits: 4
In this intermediate-low level course, we will study the representation of the city of Paris on film in order to examine modernityʹs challenges to tradition. In particular, we will focus on the question of how urban communities and city dwellers react to increasing disconnectedness, anonymity, and solitude. Films may include Tanguy, La Haine, Chacun cherche son chat, Paris,
Languages

Partial Differential Equations and Fourier Series — MAT4134.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Andrew McIntyre
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Credits: 4
Many of the laws of physics and engineering may be expressed in terms of partial differential equations. These include the laws of heat conduction, wave motion, electromagnetism, fluid mechanics, quantum mechanics, and statics. This course will cover these key linear partial differential equations and the methods of solution through Fourier series. Fourier series are also of
Science and Mathematics

Peacebuilding Seminar — APA2212.02

Spring 2019
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 his work and introduce us to key topics in peacebuilding, including: peacebuilding in a local community, identity and discrimination, methods of sustainable
CAPA

Performance Project: A New Collective Work — DAN4136.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Souleymane Badolo
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Credits: 2
In this performance project, we will begin with a series of improvisations to help investigate and develop movements for individuals and the group as a whole. During this process, we will be building together a simple set for our performance space. This collective work, formed from new pathways of thinking together, will result in a piece for performance by the end of the term.
Dance

Performance Project: Natural State of Error — DAN4225.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
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Credits: 2
In this performance project, we will build on the body knowledge of each participant. We will explore the nuance and precision of impulses and will inhibit them when necessary. Keenly aware of our relationship to space and each other, we can intuit others’ actions just as inanimate bodies might repel and attract in a magnetic field. Attunement at the level of reflex, habit, and
Dance

Performance: Attention, Sensation, Perception — DAN2154.02

Spring 2019
Instructor: Eleanor Bauer
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Credits: 1
Attention is the medium of performance. Performers conduct attention, both theirs and the audience’s. Through a series of embodied practices, we will work with qualities and directions of attention, and explore performance from the perspective of the senses. Seeing and being seen, hearing and being heard, touching and being touched, moving and being moved, we will investigate
Dance

Performing Walks — APA2166.02

Spring 2019
Instructor: Aaron Landsman
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Credits: 2
This course invites students to create performance walks that draw on history, landscape, personal stories, and media. We will work together on finding source material, crafting narratives that move around or through campus, integrate naturally occurring design and/or the use of other elements such as projection or sound, and allow viewers to be with us in more than one place
CAPA Drama

Photographic Narratives — PHO4128.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Terry Boddie
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Credits: 4
In this course, students will be guided through the process of creating a series of assignments that explore the photograph as a narrative device. Students will learn how to explore the photographic narrative through class discussions and peer critique of their work. Structurally the assignments can take a traditional documentary form or a linear or thematic narrative. Image
Visual Arts

Photography Foundations — PHO2136.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Terry Boddie
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Credits: 4
This is an analog film-based black-and-white photography course designed for those with little or no experience in photography. Emphasis will be placed on the application of technique in terms of personal expression through the selection and composition of subject matter. The course comprises technical lectures, darkroom demonstrations; lectures on historical and contemporary
Visual Arts

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

Spring 2019
Instructor: Timothy Schroeder
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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 — MIN4333.01, section 1

Spring 2019
Instructor: Yoshiko Sato
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Credits: 2
Individual private lessons for advanced students. Audition required. Weekly meetings times on scheduled class days arranged with the instructor. Participation in music workshop and end-of-term recital required. Corequisites: Must participate in Music Workshop (Tuesday, 6:30 - 8pm).
Music

Piano — MIN 4333.03, section 3

Spring 2019
Instructor: Joan Forsyth
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Credits: 2
Individual private lessons for advanced students. Audition required. Weekly meetings times on scheduled class days arranged with the instructor. Participation in music workshop and end-of-term recital required. Corequisites: Must participate in Music Workshop (Tuesday, 6:30 – 8pm).
Music

Piano — MIN 4333.02, section 2

Spring 2019
Instructor: Christopher Lewis
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Credits: 2
Individual private lessons for advanced students. Audition required. Weekly meetings times on scheduled class days arranged with the instructor. Participation in music workshop and end-of-term recital required. Corequisites: Must participate in Music Workshop (Tuesday, 6:30 – 8pm).
Music

Piano Lab I — MIN2232.02, section 2

Spring 2019
Instructor: Michael Chinworth
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Credits: 2
Introductory course in basic keyboard skills. Topics include reading notation, rhythm, technique, and general musicianship. Corequisites: Music Workshop 6:30-8:00
Music

Piano Lab II — MIN4236.02, section 2

Spring 2019
Instructor: Michael Chinworth
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Credits: 2
The goals of this course are to gain ease and dexterity at the keyboard, developing a confident piano technique and the skill of reading musical notation. Students will expand upon the skills learned in Piano lab I, adding to a basic repertoire of scales and chords, use them in improvisation and harmonization of melodies. In addition they will explore a repertoire that utilizes
Music

Piano Lab II — MIN4236.01, section 1

Spring 2019
Instructor: Joan Forsyth
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Credits: 2
The goals of this course are to gain ease and dexterity at the keyboard, developing a confident piano technique and the skill of reading musical notation. Students will expand upon the skills learned in Piano lab I, adding to a basic repertoire of scales and chords, use them in improvisation and harmonization of melodies. In addition they will explore a repertoire that utilizes
Music

Plant Diversity and Ecology — BIO2240.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Kerry Woods
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Credits: 4
Plants define the biological environment. All other organisms depend on plantsʹ capacity for photosynthesis. Plant structure and chemistry have shaped animal (including human) evolution, and we directly depend on plant products for food, medicine, structural materials, and many other things. Yet few people can name even the dominant plants in their environment, explain what
Science and Mathematics Environment

Plastic Pollution: What Can We Do Ź It? — APA2164.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Judith Enck
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Credits: 2
The cover on “National Geographic” had a powerful artist rendering of an ocean iceberg, with a giant plastic bag hidden below the surface of the water. The magazine cover headlined: “Planet or Plastic? 18 billion pounds of plastic ends up in the ocean each year. And that’s just “ the tip of the iceberg.” Take a look at that edition of National Geographic (June 2018). If the
CAPA Environment

Poverty Analysis — PEC4245.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Lopamudra Banerjee
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Credits: 4
This seminar is an overview of the theory and practice of analyzing poverty. It introduces the complex philosophical debates that have shaped poverty analysis in economics and in political economy. The empirical aspect of this course will focus on how raw data can be converted into meaningful indices and measures so that we can have informed debates on this pressing issue and
Society Culture and Thought

Price Theory — PEC2218.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Lopamudra Banerjee
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Credits: 4
Price is the terms on which goods are bought and sold in a market. We often calculate prices in terms of the money we pay when we buy goods. But, for economists, prices are the relative value of goods. And, as Oscar Wilde pointed out in 1890: "Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing." Now, how do the relative values of goods get translated into
Society Culture and Thought

Programming and Data Structures in C++ — CS4119.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Andrew Cencini
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Credits: 4
In this class, students will learn the C++ programming language, as well as the design and implementation of computer science’s foundational data structures: stacks, queues, linked lists, trees, and their various and sundry variants. Since virtually every piece of software in existence relies upon several of these key data structures, the class will also look at examples of
Science and Mathematics

Projection – Mapping — MA4106.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Sue Rees
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Credits: 2
This class will be concerned with investigating the interaction of projected imagery with a location. Investigation will center on how projections can be integrated into, bring further information and alter a location. Two locations will be used one interior, the other exterior. The images can be created in a number of programs, with the content and how this works with the
Visual Arts