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Simultaneous Occupancies — ARC4239.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Donald Sherefkin
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Credits: 4
This class will investigate architectural projects that posit simultaneous programs contained within a single envelope. We will look at various conditions under which varying, and even divergent interests are pursued by the building and its occupants, including the haunted house, the safe house, the "front", and similar conditions where one use conceals or overlies another.
Visual Arts

Sing — MUS2148.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Kerry Ryer-Parke
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Credits: 1
We will gather once a week to sing rounds, chant, chorales, work songs, protest songs, sea chanteys, Sacred Harp, and folk songs from around the world. The words are less important than the joy of singing as a community. No performances- evaluation is by attendance only. We will use our ears and simple notation to learn the music- no previous singing experience is necessary.
Music

Social Dynamics of Inclusion — SCT2134.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Delia Saenz
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Credits: 1
This course will examine social psychological approaches to promoting inclusivity. Content will include review of basic psychological processes that contribute to, and maintain bias in contemporary society; and on methods that can promote collaboration across difference.  Topics will include:  confirmation bias, tokenism, intergroup dynamics, social justice, and
Society Culture and Thought

Social Dynamics of Inclusion — SCT2134.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Delia Saenz
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Credits: 1
This course will examine social psychological approaches to promoting inclusivity. Content will focus on contextual factors that contribute to, and maintain bias in contemporary society, and on methods that can promote collaboration across difference. Topics will include: power, intersectionality, micro-aggression, intergroup dynamics, social justice, intergroup dialogue, and
Society Culture and Thought

Social Emergency Medicine to Prevent Gun Violence — Cancelled

Spring 2020
Instructor: Christopher Barsotti
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Credits: 1
Firearm-related victimization, injury and death are among the most urgent public health problems facing our country, but there exists no utilitarian set of solutions.  Firearm injuries create an expansive series of direct and indirect negative health outcomes that ripple throughout communities, and each episode of gun violence is the consequence of a complex interrelated
CAPA

Social Expectations for Japanese Children — JPN4224.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
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Credits: 4
This course is designed for students to learn Japanese through Japanese children’s books and animation. In this course, students will read Japanese children’s books and watch Japanese animation that is based on children’s books to examine how Japanese children are expected to behave and communicate with others. Students will also analyze cultural values in Japan, how those
Cultural Studies and Languages

Social Practices: House Music vs Neoliberalism — APA2184.02

Spring 2020
Instructor: Kenneth Bailey, MFA Teaching Fellow
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Credits: 2
Neoliberal culture asks us to see ourselves exclusively through our capacity to buy, sell, accumulate “likes” and “followers” and to do it as individuals. And the neoliberal cultural project tends to render invisible or illegitimate any alternatives to it as an orientation to social life. However there exists examples of cultural projects that remained on the outside of
CAPA Visual Arts

Song for Ireland and Celtic Connections — MHI2251.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: John Kirk
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Credits: 2
Celtic history and music from Ireland, Scotland, Bretagne, Galatia, and Cape Breton will be experienced, studied, and performed using instruments and voices. We’ll find and cross the musical bridges between regions–from the ballads of Ireland, Scotland and Wales to the Alalas of Spain and dance tunes of Brittany. An end-of-term presentation will be prepared drawing on
Music

Songs in the Key of Wonder — MTH4148.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
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Credits: 2
Songs in the key of Wonder is a songwriting seminar based on the classic 1976 release “Songs in the Key of Life” by Stevie Wonder. Students will listen to select tracks while learning the melodies and chord progressions that Mr. Wonder used in composing this landmark album. Students will also listen to select tracks from Mr. Wonder’s multiple hit songs from his extended
Music

Sounding Home: Music of Migration, Memory, and Exile — MHI2109.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Kerry Ryer-Parke
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Credits: 4
We live in an era when millions of people across the globe—victims of forced migration, asylum seekers, refugees, and mobile workers—are on the move. Music often can tell more about the migration experience than statistical analysis and surveys. How might songs transcribe and preserve the identities, memories, traumas, joys, and hopes of individuals and whole communities?
CAPA Music

Spatial Audio Practices — MSR4051.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Senem Pirler
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Credits: 2
This course will offer an introduction to the principles of spatial audio and its function in creative sound practices. The topics will include multichannel audio, Ambisonics and binaural sound, 360 spatial audio recording and mixing, sound design for VR, and immersive electroacoustic music. Along with readings and discussions, we will look at various current sound practices
Music Visual Arts

Spatial Justice: Incorporating Social Theory into Artistic Practice — APA2183.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Kenneth Bailey, MFA Teaching Fellow
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Credits: 2
Spatial Justice is concerned with how space produces and is a product of power. All social movements deal with some aspect of spatial injustice which makes it a useful way for movements to find possibilities for solidarity. There is also a growing constituency of artists—from socially engaged artists, to sculptors, scenographers, musicians, etc.—who are incorporating ideas from
CAPA Visual Arts

Speaking of Earth: Environmental Speeches that Moved the World — MOD2163.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Michael Cohen
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Credits: 1
In this course, based on the book Speaking of Earth, edited by Alon Tal, we will read twenty inspiring speeches by leading environmentalists around the world that examine a broad range of environmental issues. Included in the course is Rachel Carson's defense of her ground breaking book Silent Spring, Prince Charles's passionate call for sustainable agriculture, and the Dalai
CAPA Environment

Stage Management — DRA2241.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Michael Giannitti
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Credits: 4
The key role of the stage manager as both collaborative artist and manager in the production process is explored by students in this class. Readings, discussions, and projects on topics including scheduling, play breakdowns, prompt book preparation, blocking notation, ground plan and theatre layout, and the running of rehearsals and performances are included. The relationship
Drama

Standard of Living — PEC2219.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Lopamudra Banerjee
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Credits: 2
Economics is concerned with improvements in people's living standards. But standard of living has different meanings for different people. This course explores the different ways to think about the living standards, and investigates long-term trends and socioeconomic differences in quality of life. This is an introductory course. No prior knowledge of economics is necessary to
CAPA Society Culture and Thought

Strategies for Sustainability: Living Life as an Artist — DAN4143.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
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Credits: 4
We have consistently seen that artists are lacking certain skill sets, tools and resources that would empower and strengthen their ability to create work, develop personal stability and envision longevity in a realistic way. How can we approach these issues in a holistic way that addresses the person and well as the artist? This course covers a range of topics that addresses
Dance

Technical Topics: Video and Animation Post-Production — FV2143.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Colleen Murphy
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Credits: 2
This 2 credit course will be focused on developing post-production editing skills within Adobe Premiere and Adobe After Effects. The topics covered are applicable to any video based project within any discipline and include color correction, text and graphics, masking, compositing, key framing, and the visual language of editing. Students will be working independently at their
Visual Arts

The Actor's Instrument — DRA2170.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Shawtane Bowen
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Credits: 4
Acting, when done well, is the pure expression of human emotion and spirit through text. To do so effectively, one must have adequate training. The actor's voice, body, mind, and spirit are the tools of the trade and in this course, we will work to hone each one. This course provides a safe environment for the actor to explore and play in the pursuit of bringing texts to life.
Drama

The Art of Literary Translation — LIT4319.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Marguerite Feitlowitz
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Credits: 4
It may well be that the closest, most interpretative, and creative reading of a text involves translating it from one language to another. Questions of place, culture, epoch, voice, gender, and rhythm take on new urgency, helping us to deepen our writerly skills and sensibilities. As Joseph Brodsky put it: “You must memorize poems, do translation, study foreign languages. And
Literature

The Courtly World: Lady Shonagon and Lady Murasaki — LIT2379.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Anna Maria Hong
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Credits: 4
Written in eleventh century, The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu is considered the world’s first full novel and a masterwork of classical literature. Sei Shonagon’s The Pillow Book is a memoir recounting life in the Japanese court of the same time, also regarded as a masterpiece of observation and wit in evoking natural and human worlds. Both authors were ladies in waiting at
Literature

The Devil — LIT2404.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Phillip Williams
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Credits: 4
The Devil has taken many shapes and sizes throughout history and around the world. His story of origin has inspired canonical works that delve into Judeo-Christian theological examinations of daily life, political life, and the metaphysical. Who we are as people on earth seems to depend heavily on how we view our relationship with "good" and "evil." This class will focus on
Literature

The Five Obstructions — MCO4125.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
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Credits: 2
A song feedback collective, focused on how musical restrictions can spur us to growth. Over the course of the term, students will write 5 songs (or revise a single song in radical ways) based on the critique and decisions of the group. We’ll discuss how to form supportive but insightful critique while challenging each other to go new places. What does it take to create a song
Music

The Hand as Tool — CER2317.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Anina Major
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Credits: 4
Clay responds directly to touch, retains memory and is forced through the dynamic process of firing to fix a point in time. This class will introduce students to a variety of hand-building techniques to construct sculptural and/or utilitarian forms. Students will develop their skills by practicing techniques demonstrated in class and presentations on traditional and non
Visual Arts

The History of Directing — DRA2169.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Jean Randich
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Credits: 4
How did the director emerge as a driving, creative force in the theater? We will work semi-chronologically from the late 19th to the early 21st century, examining how culture and theater interact and change each other. We will consider traditional theater, the rise of the modern director, theatricality, epic theater, auteur directors, ensemble theater, theater for social change
Drama