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Graduate Assistantship in Dance — DAN5301.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Dana Reitz
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Credits: 4
Graduate students in Dance are integrated into the dance program as teaching assistants, production assistants or dance archival assistants. In consultation with their academic advisor and the dance faculty, MFA candidates develop an assistantship schedule of approximately ten hours weekly.
Dance

Graduate Research in Dance — DAN5305.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Dana Reitz
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Credits: 6
This class is designed for MFA students to show works-in-progress, try out ideas with their colleagues, and discuss issues involved in the development of new work. The weekly format is determined with the students. Outside of class, students develop their own independent creative projects that will be presented to the public, either formally or informally, by the end of the
Dance

Graduate Research in Public Action — APA5102.01, section 1

Spring 2020
Instructor: Robert Ransick
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Credits: 6
This class is designed for MFA students to research and develop new work, show work-in-progress, be in critical dialogue with their colleagues, and discuss issues involved in the development of new work. The weekly format is determined with the students. Outside of class, students develop their own independent creative projects that will be presented to the public, either
CAPA

Graduate Research in Public Action — APA5102.02, section 2

Spring 2020
Instructor: Robert Ransick
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Credits: 6
This class is designed for MFA students to research and develop new work, show work-in-progress, be in critical dialogue with their colleagues, and discuss issues involved in the development of new work. The weekly format is determined with the students. Outside of class, students develop their own independent creative projects that will be presented to the public, either
CAPA

Graduate Seminar on Pedagogy and Public Action — APA5103.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Robert Ransick and Susan Sgorbati
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Credits: 4
This course is centered on conducting research and mapping the field of socially and civically engaged pedagogy within a global context. What capacities and skills do students who create artworks in collaboration with the public need to acquire and what is the history of teaching these practices?
CAPA

Hip Hop Archaeology — MS2105.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Brian Michael Murphy
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Credits: 4
Hip hop music producers have long practiced “diggin’ in the crates”—a phrase that denotes searching through record collections to find material to sample. In this course, we will examine the material and technological history of hip hop culture, with particular attention to hip hop’s tendency to sample, remix, mash-up, and repurpose existing media artifacts to create new works
Society Culture and Thought

History of Christianity: From the Hebrews to Henry VIII — HIS2227.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Carol Pal
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Credits: 4
The aim of this course is to explore the development of Christianity as a set of interlocking complex systems with an equally complex history.  Christianity has been around for 2,000 years, and there is no denying that we live under its enormously powerful influence.  Millions have fought and died over it.  But even those who identify themselves as
Society Culture and Thought

How to Build a Habitable Planet — PHY2118.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Tim Schroeder
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Credits: 4
This course will investigate the physical conditions and processes necessary for creating a habitable planet. We will study the formation of stars and planets, and the evolution of planets after formation into safe harbors for life. This will include investigation of how both stellar and geological processes affect the habitability of planets, and consideration of the possible
Environment Science and Mathematics

How to Think Like a Data Scientist — CS4115.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Tim Schroeder
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Credits: 4
This class will cover the methods used to gather, clean, normalize, visualize, and analyze quantitative data to inform decision making in multiple fields of study. We will use spreadsheets, SQL and Python to work on real-world datasets using a combination of procedural and basic machine-learning algorithms. Students will also learn to ask good, exploratory questions and develop
Science and Mathematics

Hybrids: Alternative Photographic Methods — PHO4215.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Terry Boddie
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Credits: 4
Students in this interdisciplinary course will focus on combining photographic media with other materials and artistic disciplines.  They will explore the techniques that directly manipulate the image before, during and after recording photograph. Experimentation and creative risk taking throughout the various assignments will be stressed. Through this process of
Visual Arts

I am a Material — SCU4112.02

Spring 2020
Instructor: John Umphlett
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Credits: 2
What is a more valuable piece of matter? Could it be something that will degrade in this art world and be okay? String, cotton-balls and rubber bands may be what should be affixed to your unique prosthetic to complete a task given. This course will cover information and techniques related to body casting, wire rope rigging, fabricating, building processes and encourage
Visual Arts

Identità e cucina: Food in Italian Regional Cultures — ITA4216.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Barbara Alfano
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Credits: 4
In Italy, regional cuisine is an essential component of local identities and a crucial element to understand diversity in the national context. This course focuses on the food practices and typical dishes of Italian regional cultures as the students advance in the study of the language. This course is offered at the elementary level and conducted in Italian. The class will
CAPA Cultural Studies and Languages

Identities and Affinities — PHI4109.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Rotimi Suberu
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Credits: 4
Each of us has multiple social identities. We belong to different social groups and are categorized along various social dimensions. What is involved in being a member of a race, gender, class, nation, sexual affinity, ethnic, or religious group? Are these groups somehow “natural” or objectively real? Are these groups “social constructs”? What, ultimately, is the social world
Society Culture and Thought

Improvisation Ensemble for Musicians and Dancers — DAN4357.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
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Credits: 4
This advanced course focuses on work in the performance of improvisation. For dancers, special attention is given to the development of individual movement vocabularies, physical contact and interaction, and the exploration of forms and structures. For musicians, special attention is given to creating rhythms and sonorities which can then be manipulated and developed while
Dance Music

Improvisation Ensemble for Musicians and Dancers — MPF4233.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
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Credits: 4
This advanced course focuses on work in the performance of improvisation. For dancers, special attention is given to the development of individual movement vocabularies, physical contact and interaction, and the exploration of forms and structures. For musicians, special attention is given to creating rhythms and sonorities which can then be manipulated and developed while
Dance Music

In Sickness and In Health: An Introduction to Medical Anthropology — ANT4149.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Miroslava Prazak
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Credits: 4
In this course we will explore the social dimensions of medicine, the body, illness, health, healing, medical care and biotechnologies across societies and times from comparative, cross-cultural, ethnographic perspectives. We will examine the role of cultural differences in defining and dealing with health and illness and investigate health related factors that link humanity
Society Culture and Thought

In the Public Realm: Chiang Mai Project (Thailand) — APA2182.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Jon Isherwood and Susan Sgorbati
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Credits: 4
The Center for the Advancement of Public Action at Ź College has received its second commission from the U.S. State Department's Office of Art in Embassies for the art collection at the new U.S. Consulate in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Students in this course will examine the definition, unique challenges, history, and implementation of public art. Over the course of the
CAPA

Inclusion Practices — SCT4149.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Delia Saenz
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Credits: 1
Students enrolled in this course will meet weekly with the instructor to design and deliver programming for a spring term diversity conference.  Enrolled students will be expected to familiarize themselves with readings provided by the instructor and will submit weekly updates of proposed conference activities.  The final product will involve independent or
Society Culture and Thought

Infinity — MAT2109.03

Spring 2020
Instructor: Andrew McIntyre
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Credits: 1
A large part of modern mathematics has to do with how we conceptualize and manage the idea of infinity. This occurs in different places: the infinity of the horizon line that appeared with the development of perspective drawing, the infinitely small and infinitely many quantities of calculus, the infinite depth of fractals. This class will survey some of these concepts and
Science and Mathematics

Insider Perspectives on the Francophone World II — FRE4224.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Stephen Shapiro
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Credits: 4
Viewed from the outside, the French‐speaking world offers enticing images of beauty, pleasure, and freedom. From the inside, however, it is a complicated, often contradictory world where implicit codes and values shape the most basic aspects of daily life. This course will give you an insiderʹs perspective on a cultural and communicative system whose ideas, customs, and belief
Cultural Studies and Languages

Intermediate Painting: Facture — PAI4106.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: J Blackwell
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Credits: 4
“Facture refers to the manner in which a painting, drawing, or object is made. It is the combination of brushstrokes, marks, material, and the texture of the surface. Facture is critical to the success of any object. Much of the fascination that accrues to all manual media comes from what can be observed at close range. That distance reveals the foundation, the touch, the
Visual Arts