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Spring 2020

Chemistry Independent Research Projects — CHE4275.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: Janet Foley

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Credits: 2

Students will apply the principles of Chemistry 1, 2, and 3 to the execution of substantive research projects of their own design. Interdisciplinary projects are encouraged: chemistry/biology, chemistry/geology etc. Students will also be responsible for independently analyzing their data and publicly presenting their findings. Persons interested in this class need to have

Science and Mathematics

Choice Theory — PEC4130.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: Lopamudra Banerjee

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Credits: 4

Economic decisions are usually taken under constraints. These constraints may include limited budget, limited time, or limited information available to people. Choice Theory in economics provides us with a way to make sense of these decision patterns for individuals and for groups, and to describe how the patterns might change when the constraints change. This is an advanced

Society Culture and Thought

Chromophilia: Explorations in Color — VA4215.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: Ann Pibal

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Credits: 4

Chromophilia, a term coined by contemporary artist David Batchelor, refers to intense passion and love for color. What is it about color that has the power to induce reverie, and conversely to manipulate, or disgust? How do we understand and respond to color from phenomenological, poetic, philosophical, and societal vantage points? How as artists can we become the master of our

Visual Arts

Clarinet — MIN4223.01

Spring 2020

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: Students will be requested to show work during the term at Music Workshop (Tuesday, 6:30 - 8 pm).

Music

Cognitive Development: Where do our Brains Come From? — PSY2235.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: Megan Bulloch

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Credits: 4

Students are introduced to the major theories, methods, and research findings of cognitive development, particularly as they apply to infancy and childhood. In order to best understand the findings of the field, students will read journal articles in cognitive development. These will include research on topics as varied as the development of problem solving and reasoning

Society Culture and Thought

Comics/Culture — SPA4401.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: Sarah Harris

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Credits: 4

What are comics? Why study them? What do they have to do with Spanish culture? Students in this course will consider the theoretical and artistic concerns for graphic narratives, especially in the interaction between text and image. We will examine the gradual evolution of the so-called historieta from its historical relegation to the realm of the juvenile and lowbrow, to the

Cultural Studies and Languages

Comparative Animal Physiology (with lab) — BIO4201.01

Spring 2020

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

Confucianism vs. Daoism — CHI4402.01

Spring 2020

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

Cultural Studies and Languages

Contemporary Chinese Poetry — CHI4216.01

Spring 2020

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 offers

Cultural Studies and Languages

Creation of Statistics — MAT2247.01

Spring 2020

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

Science and Mathematics

Creative Economies — APA2167.02

Spring 2020

Instructor: Caroline Woolard, MFA Teaching Fellow

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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 Visual Arts

Cup Lending Library — CER4108.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: Aysha Peltz

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Credits: 4

All art is a form of communication. The ceramic cup is unusual in that it communicates, perhaps best, through touch. The Cup Lending Library is designed to facilitate this kind of communication on our campus. In this course, students will curate and make cups for a Cup Lending Library to be permanently installed in Crossett Library. The Cup Lending Library will act as an

Visual Arts

Dalcroze Eurhythmics: Groove, Gesture, and Embodied Knowing — MFN2114.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: Chris Rose

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Credits: 2

Emile Jaques-Dalcroze (1865-1950) saw all music as a metaphor for the body experiencing itself. We don’t just hear music: we feel it, and the Swiss-born composer and teacher invented a whole coursework to musically explore our sixth sense, proprioception. In Eurhythmics, (greek for ‘good flow’) we'll play with embodiment as the origin of dynamic, felt experience, designing

Music

Dance Making: The Ephemeral Artifact — DAN2137.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: Hilary Clark, MFA Teaching Fellow

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Credits: 2

This course is an introduction to the creative process of dance making. We will look at choreography as a format for arranging bodies and movement; considering time, space, and emotion in performance based work. We will explore, improvise, watch, and discuss our work and the work of others. We will develop personal movement material from multiple sources and investigate

Dance

Dancer as Maker — DAN4149.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: Hilary Clark, MFA Teaching Fellow

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Credits: 2

Dancers working presently in the contemporary, experimental dance world do so in relation to the historical definitions of “the dancer,” all while deconstructing and recontextualizing its meaning. Dancers are makers in their own right inside choreographic structures. In this course, we will work with specific choreographic structures and scores, and use them as a frame to help

Dance

Delights of Ephemera — VA4128.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: Anne Thompson

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Credits: 4

This course invites students to consider the pleasure and significance of ephemera—cards, posters, invitations, and other written or printed materials—in the context of art exhibitions and events. Readings, lectures and field trips cover topics including traditional and experimental forms of ephemera; the collection of ephemera; and the function of ephemera as historical

Visual Arts

Design Patterns and Data Structures — CS4106.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: Justin Vasselli

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Credits: 4

In this class, students will learn common patterns used to solve problems found in software, and gain a deeper knowledge about common ways that data is stored and accessed. Students will learn about the design and implementation of data structures, including inked lists, stacks, queues, and trees. Students will also study common algorithms used to populate and query these data

Science and Mathematics

Development and Evolution of Language — PSY4116.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: Megan Bulloch

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Credits: 4

Relying heavily on evolutionary developmental biology, we will investigate transdisciplinary questions about origins of language. On the surface, we will look at the evolution of language, including the physical and cognitive aspects of language, and the individual developmental trajectories each of us takes in our learning of a language (or two or three). More deeply, we

Society Culture and Thought

Devising: Moving through Time and Space — DRA2177.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: Jean Randich

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Credits: 4

“The beauty here is a beauty you feel in your flesh. You feel it physically….Other beauty takes only the heart, or the mind.” (Barry Lopez, “Arctic Dreams.”) Devising is a form of collaborative creation in which the performers themselves author every moment of a performance from movement to text (if any), to spatial relationships, clothing, entrances and exits, etc. The “stage

Dance Drama

Differential Equations and Non-linear Dynamical Systems — MAT4108.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: Katie Montovan

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Credits: 4

Differential equations are a powerful and pervasive mathematical tool in the sciences and are fundamental in pure mathematics as well. Almost every system whose components interact continuously over time can be modeled by a differential equation, and differential equation models and analyses of these systems are common in the literature in many fields including physics, ecology

Science and Mathematics

Digital Materiality — MS4101.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: Brian Michael Murphy

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Credits: 4

“The cloud” is not in the sky, but is comprised of thousands of securitized data centers and fiber optic networks that span continents. Undersea cables still carry nearly all internet traffic that travels across oceans. How can we critically analyze these massive systems that are often either invisible or too large to see all at once? This course will explore the materiality of

Environment Society Culture and Thought

Directing I: The Director's Vision — DRA4332.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: Jean Randich

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Credits: 4

What is action? What is character? What are gesture, timing, rhythm and stakes? How do actors, playwrights, and directors collaborate to create an experience in space and time? This seminar offers young theater artists the chance to examine the craft from the inside out. Throughout the course everyone participates in all exercises and assignments. Non-writers make up stories,

Drama

Discrimination and Audit Studies — SOC4105.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: Debbie Warnock

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Credits: 4

In the first half of term, we will examine various definitions of discrimination, and methods of measuring discrimination, identifying advantages and pitfalls of each. We will read studies examining discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity, social class, gender, sexual orientation, and criminal record. Students will research the ways in which Supreme Court cases have

Society Culture and Thought

Distributed Systems (with Lab) — CS4280.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: Andrew Cencini

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Credits: 4

In this class, we will, as a group, build a working distributed system from scratch, such as a web search engine, distributed file system, blockchain/distributed ledger, or peer-to-peer network. By building such a system, students will learn about key theoretical and practical fundamentals related to distributed systems and software engineering, such as concurrency, replication

Science and Mathematics

Drawing As A Verb: Exploring Uncertainty — DRW2120.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: J Blackwell

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Credits: 4

1. Conceptual artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach. 2. Rational judgements repeat rational judgements. 3. Irrational judgements lead to new experience. 4. Formal art is essentially rational. 5. Irrational thoughts should be followed absolutely and logically. -Sol LeWitt, “Sentences on Conceptual Art” 1969 Shying away

Visual Arts