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Approaches to Political Geography: Understanding Space, Territory, and Power — ENV2119.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 4
Political geography is the study of the spatial nature of political power. Political geographers explore both how power struggles shape space and how space shapes power. This includes examining uneven economic development, spatial segregation, urban politics, social movements, geopolitics, and environmental injustice—to name a just a few. In tracing how power is spatialized
Environment

Architectural Graphics — ARC2104.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 2
An introduction to a broad range of drawing techniques, including observational drawing, diagrammatic sketching, and geometric constructions. We will also master the conventions of architectural drawing, from plans and sections to three-dimensional projections. Weekly workshops and drawing assignments are required. This class also requires registration in ARC 2121: Elements of
Visual Arts

Attention Studio — APA4112.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Sal Randolph
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Credits: 4
The Attention Studio is a lab class where we will engage in protocols and practices of sustained attention, most often in relation to works of art. Through these experiments we will explore the way objects and performances choreograph our attention, and study the internal movements of our own response. Our collective work will engage questions of attention that reach beyond
CAPA

Basic Visual Programming and Parametric Modeling — DA2115.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 4
**** New day/time as of 2/8/2022 **** Parametric modeling can be used to create generative art, repetitive architectural elements, structural models, and statistical data among many other uses. A visual programming language (VPL) is one that uses graphic elements within an interface rather than textual code. This course is an introduction to creating visual material through
Visual Arts

Bass Intensive — MIN4026.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Michael Bisio
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Credits: 2
Advanced studies in theory relating to performance. Students must be enrolled in Bass with Bisio (MIN4417) simultaneously, no exceptions. This class is only for advanced students and by permission of instructor.
Music

Bebop, Rock Beyond (Fundamentals) — MIN4226.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
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Credits: 2
Bebop, Rock Beyond (Fundamentals) is a drum set seminar that surveys specific drumming architects of Bebop, Funk, and Rock music while investigating innovative drum set performers of today who are blending traditional rhythms from global communities into mainstream and improvised forms of music. Students will listen to drum set innovators Ed Blackwell, Art Blakey, Alex Acuna,
Music

Beginning Cello II — MIN4354.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Nat Parke
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Credits: 2
***new faculty as of 2/21/2022*** The basics of cello, part two. In a small group, students will learn how to play cello, with an emphasis on a group performance at the term’s conclusion.
Music

Beginning Guitar — MIN2247.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 2
Introduces the fundamentals of acoustic electric guitar playing, including hand positions, tuning, reading music, major and pentatonic scales, major, minor, and seventh chords, chord progressions, blues progressions, and simple arrangements of songs. Reviewing the history of the guitar and its pioneers and innovators.
Music

Beginning Violin/Viola — MIN2241.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Kaori Washiyama
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Credits: 2
Basic techniques will include the reading of music in either treble or alto clefs in easy keys. Basic hand positions and appropriate fingerings will be shown, and a rudimentary facility with bow will be developed in order that all students may participate in simple ensemble performance by the end of the term. Students should have a general knowledge of note reading and rhythmic
Music

Beginning Violin/Viola — MIN2241.02

Spring 2022
Instructor: Kaori Washiyama
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Credits: 1
Basic techniques will include the reading of music in either treble or alto clefs in easy keys. Basic hand positions and appropriate fingerings will be shown, and a rudimentary facility with bow will be developed in order that all students may participate in simple ensemble performance by the end of the term. Students should have a general knowledge of note reading and rhythmic
Music

Beginning Wheel Throwing — CER2107.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Aysha Peltz
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Credits: 4
This class is an introduction to using the potter's wheel as a tool for generating clay forms with an emphasis on pottery making. While focusing on throwing skills, students will explore various possibilities for assembling wheel-thrown elements and experiment with functional and non-functional formats. Students will be introduced to the whole ceramic process from wet working
Visual Arts

Beloved and Halfway Home: Narrating the Aftermaths of Slavery and Mass Incarceration in the United States — APA4165.02) (cancelled

Spring 2022
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
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Credits: 2
This course examines Beloved, by Nobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, Toni Morrison and a contemporary nonfiction work in the social sciences by Reuben Jonathan Miller. Together, these works of literature embody an intersectional approach to critical race theory, which incorporates race, gender, social policy, structural violence, and culture in experiences
CAPA

¿­ÐýÃŹÙÍø Review: A Practicum in Literary Editing and Publishing - Poetry — LIT4330.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Michael Dumanis
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Credits: 2
This two-credit course involves working on selecting and editing the content of ¿­ÐýÃŹÙÍø’s recently relaunched national print literary magazine, ¿­ÐýÃŹÙÍø Review. Students will serve as Editorial Assistants for the magazine, studying and practicing all aspects of magazine editing. The course will also engage students in discussions of contemporary print and digital literary
Literature

¿­ÐýÃŹÙÍø Review: A Practicum in Literary Editing and Publishing–Prose — LIT4529.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Ben Anastas
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Credits: 2
This two-credit course involves working on selecting and editing the content of ¿­ÐýÃŹÙÍø’s recently relaunched national print literary magazine, ¿­ÐýÃŹÙÍø Review. Students will serve as Editorial Assistants for the magazine, studying and practicing all aspects of magazine editing. The course will also engage students in discussions of contemporary print and digital literary
Literature

Beyond Plastic Pollution — APA2334.02

Spring 2022
Instructor: Judith Enck
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Credits: 1
This is a public policy class, with a focus on public action.  Plastic pollution is an important issue that requires a systemic response, far beyond individual consumer choices. Readings and discussion will be on the latest cutting edge information on this topic. The class will explore the dimensions of the production, use, and disposal of plastics (often in low income
CAPA

Biochemistry — CHE4335.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: John Bullock
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Credits: 4
Biochemistry is an intermediate chemistry course in which students apply principles from general and organic chemistry, as well as general biology, to understand the molecular processes that characterize life. Biochemistry is a broad discipline that is growing rapidly in its scope – new developments and discoveries are being made daily. The goal of this class will be to give
Science and Mathematics

Black Queer Writing and Theoretical Approaches — LIT2327.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Phillip B. Williams
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Credits: 4
This class serves an introduction to Black queer writing and the theories that feed into and are inspired from said writing. We will read poetry, fiction, and essays by writers who revolutionized and made possible Black queer expression in the United States. What is the necessary vocabulary for Black writers left out of white academic and creative circles? When white gender and
Literature

Blackness, Fugitivity, and Visual Culture — MS4108.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 4
This course explores the ways in which visual culture in the United States has mobilized Blackness and fugitivity for the purposes of both liberation and capture.  Starting in the 19th century we will trace the abstraction and the materiality of Blackness and fugitivity through print, photography, and film ending in the vortex of the digital. Our inquiry will be
Society Culture and Thought

Building a Responsive Electronic Instrument — MCO2000.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 4
This class will focus on imagining and developing electronic set-ups for use in improvisation. Over the course of the term, students will develop at least two different electronic set-ups or instruments. We will look at artists using electronics in music and improvisation, such as Zeena Parkins, Laetitia Sonami, Ikue Mori, Peter Blasser, and John Driscoll, and discuss their
Music

Butoh Extension—In search of dance of darkness — DAN4245.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 2
This advanced level project-based course is designed for students, who have prior experience of making a work around a body, especially (yet not limited) in dance, theater and visual arts context. Inspired by butoh-based movement practice and philosophies, students will seek a way of liberating a body from socially pre-conditioned self. While engaging in some particular somatic
Dance

Calculus: A Classical Approach — MAT4288.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Andrew McIntyre
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Credits: 4
This course covers the breadth of university calculus: differentiation, integration, infinite series, and ordinary differential equations. It focuses on concepts and interconnections. In order to cover this much material, computational techniques are de-emphasized. The approach is historically based and classical, following original texts where possible. Further techniques and
Science and Mathematics

CAPA Advanced Workshop — APA4256.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 4
This course is for Seniors who are focusing on Advanced Work in Public Action. It involves producing a digital portfolio that will be housed in the Crossett Library. The portfolio includes research, a mission statement, theory of change and a plan of action with supporting materials (video, photography, images, etc.). Students should be engaged in advanced work in a discipline
CAPA

Cartography of Desire in Latin American and Spanish Poetry — SPA4811.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Sarah Harris
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Credits: 4
This advanced Spanish course will examine the diverse literary manifestations of desire throughout a wide array of Latin American and Spanish poets that configure eroticism, the lover and the beloved in radical ways. We will discuss the varied approaches from which desire is written, from a surrealist perspective, through philosophical-poetic traditions and a Non-Western
Cultural Studies and Languages

Cell Biology — BIO4131.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Amie McClellan
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Credits: 4
The cell is the fundamental organizational unit of all living organisms on Earth. In this class we will investigate cell structure and function, learn about DNA replication and transcription, find out how proteins are synthesized, folded, localized, and regulated, ultimately coming to understand how interfering with cell biological processes can result in disease. In the
Science and Mathematics