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Observations: Photography and the Environment — PHO4113.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Jonathan Kline
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Credits: 4
This class explores the many ways photographers have shifted our understanding of the global environment, from documentary projects to collaborative interventions completed over the past 50 years. In addition to studying the works of Ansel Adams, Robert Adams, Mary Mattingly, Trevor Paglen, there will be assigned readings by Elizabeth Kolbert and John McPhee. Students will also
Visual Arts

Painterly Painters Portraiture — AH4122.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Vanessa Lyon
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Credits: 2
According to art historical tradition, “painterly painters” are those whose work exhibits a gestural, often loose, facture that makes the viewer conscious of its painted quality through visible brushwork, inchoate, haptic, blotches and sometimes, heavy impasto. Portraits, like painterly painting, are thought to be largely concerned with fixing or situating individuality,
Visual Arts

Paris on Screen: Tradition and Modernity — FRE4498.01

Spring 2020
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,
Cultural Studies and Languages

Participating in the Archive — DAN2138.02) (cancelled

Spring 2020
Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
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Credits: 2
In this project-based course, we will collectively engage creative documentation, written, discursive and embodied practices in the production of an online zine and podcast in order to explore the challenges of documenting dance processes, live performance, and the creative communities that gather around these practices. Attuning ourselves to the ephemera that surround and
Dance

Participation in a Democracy: What Can I Do to Make a Difference? — POP2351.02

Spring 2020
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Credits: 1
According to Larry Diamond in his lecture on "What is Democracy?" Democracy consists of four basic elements: 1. A political system for choosing and replacing the government through free and fair elections. 2. The active participation of the people, as citizens, in politics and civic life. 3. Protection of the human rights of all citizens. 4. A rule of law, in which the laws
CAPA

Patternmaking and Garment Construction — DRA4119.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Richard MacPike
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Credits: 2
This course is designed to teach the student the many steps involved in creating a finished garment from a simple idea, piece of research or sketch. Students will learn the basics of draping, flat patterning, and fitting. Construction of final garment will allow them to explore and employ sewing skills beyond the fundamentals.
Dance Drama

Patternmaking and Garment Construction —

Spring 2020
Instructor: Richard MacPike
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Credits: 2
This course is designed to teach the student the many steps involved in creating a finished garment from a simple idea, piece of research or sketch. Students will learn the basics of draping, flat patterning, and fitting. Construction of final garment will allow them to explore and employ sewing skills beyond the fundamentals.
Dance Drama

Peacebuilding — APA2212.03

Spring 2020
Instructor: David Bond
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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, obstacles for peace, identity, discrimination, methods of
CAPA

Peacebuilding Two: Be the change you want to see in the World — APA2240.03

Spring 2020
Instructor: David Bond
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Credits: 1
This Module will be a chance for students to reflect on their identities, inner issues they are aware or not aware and the desire to be social change agents. Together we will explore key topics of non-violent communication, personal potentials for peacebuilding, community building skills and different methods to deal with our individual daily struggles to be more effective
CAPA

Performance Art — DAN2129.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
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Credits: 2
This class explores the concepts, questions and ideas of performance and performance practice. The class will cover a range of modalities in creating and developing performance, using text, scores and improvisation to generate material and expand the palette and practice of art making. This work will focus on the corporeal and experiential aspect of developing performance work.
Dance

Philosopher Queens — PHI2118.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Rotimi Suberu
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Credits: 4
Various stories of women philosophers in antiquity have come down to us. In Plato’s Symposium, for example, Socrates quotes a long speech on love by Diotima of Mantinea, who Socrates describes as a “wise woman” and his teacher. We also have accounts of Aesara, Arete, Aspasia, Hipparchia, Hypatia, and Theano. However, these accounts are all filtered through male-authored texts.
Society Culture and Thought

Photo Now — PHO2141.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Jonathan Kline
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Credits: 2
This course explores the evolution of contemporary photography from the late 20th century to the present day. We will be looking at a wide range of influences from identity politics, TV and film, social media, and the move from analog to digital technologies. The class format will be weekly faculty lectures accompanied by student research and presentations. Students will keep a
Visual Arts

Photography Foundations — PHO2136.01

Spring 2020
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 2020
Instructor: Hugh Crowl
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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 — MIN4333.03, section 3

Spring 2020
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 — MIN4333.01, section 1

Spring 2020
Instructor: Allen Shawn
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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 — MIN4333.02, section 2

Spring 2020
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 II — MIN4236.01

Spring 2020
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

Plastic Pollution and What You Can Do Ź It — APA2176.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Judith Enck
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Credits: 4
Plastic pollution has emerged as a major environmental, health and economic issue with direct links to climate change. 9 million metric tons of plastic enter the ocean each year. In the next decade, there will be 1 lb of plastic in the ocean for every 3 lbs of fish.  Plastics are made from chemicals and a by-product of fracking. And we can't recycle our way out of this
CAPA Environment

Poets' Love: The Song Cycle — MVO4127.01

Spring 2020
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Credits: 2
This class is directed toward the somewhat advanced vocal performer. They will learn about German Lieder, the wonderful confluence of text and music, which is a highpoint of the Romantic period in music. They will study and perform Schumann’s Dichterliebe, one of the greatest song cycles ever written. Students will together and separately learn all of the sixteen songs and
Music

Price Theory — PEC2218.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Lopamudra Banerjee
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Credits: 4
A central element of the “economic problem” is scarcity. In a market economy, prices play a crucial role in addressing this problem. This course examines how the system of prices work. This is an introductory course in microeconomic theory and applications. We will explore the basic ideas in the course verbally and through written expositions, and we will use graphs and
Society Culture and Thought

Projection_Mapping_Design — MA4106.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Sue Rees
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Credits: 2
The class will be concerned with investigating the interaction of projected imagery with an actor/performer/viewer. Investigation will center on how projections can be integrated into, and bring further information to a location, a set and or a text. Various examples will be looked at and researched. Two plays or texts will be used as a basis for two projects and for each,
Drama Visual Arts