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Global Environmental Politics — ENV2176.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: John Hultgren
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Credits: 4
Contemporary efforts to confront our most pressing ecological problems are characterized by a tension between the global realities of these problems and the territorial borders and logics that define sovereign nation-states. This course will explore this tension in three parts. First, we will engage with a variety of theoretical and conceptual debates introduced by
Environment Society Culture and Thought

Gospel Choir: Come Share the Joy! — MUS2313.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: John Kirk
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Credits: 2
This singing ensemble is dedicated to the preservation and performance of African-American sacred music. The repertoire will include traditional and contemporary gospel music, folk and arranged spirituals, and may also include South or West African sacred songs. Music will be taught and performed with importance placed on the historical and cultural context. No prior experience
Music

Graduate Research in Dance — DAN5305.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Dana Reitz
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Credits: 6
This course is designed to assist graduate students with the research and development of their new work. The weekly format is determined with the students. In class, they show works-in-progress, try out ideas with their colleagues, and discuss issues involved in their creative processes. Though the class meets only once a week, students are expected to spend considerable time
Dance

Graduate Research in Public Action — APA5102.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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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 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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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

Graduate Teaching Fellow Assistantship in Dance — DAN5304.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Dana Reitz
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Credits: 4
Graduate Teaching Fellows in Dance are integrated into the dance program as teaching assistants. In consultation with their academic advisors and the dance faculty, MFA candidates develop an assistantship schedule of approximately ten hours weekly; the courses they develop and teach are listed in the curriculum. All Teaching Fellows bring their own professional histories and
Dance

Hand as Tool — CER2317.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Aysha Peltz
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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. Through making, students skills will increase,
Visual Arts

Harmonic Spheres — MTH4130.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
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Credits: 4
Composers and improvisers periodically reinvent the wheel, creating systems of scales and tunings, instruments, and even philosophies of harmony and rhythm. In this course, we’ll also explore how to invent your own systems. Beginning with tuning, students will build an acoustic or virtual instrument based on their own temperament. We will then explore harmonic systems that
Music

Helping Skills — PSY2214.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Emily Waterman
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Credits: 4
This course is an introduction to dyadic (one on one) helping and communication skills that prompt personal growth and development. Students will learn about theories, techniques, and research regarding effective helping skills and human behavior. We will cover a range of specific skills and the rationale for their use, and how to apply these skills appropriately during helping
Society Culture and Thought

History of Theater II — DRA2282.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Maya Cantu
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Credits: 4
This course offers a continuing introduction to the history and development of world theater and drama. We will experience the vibrant pageant of theater history through an exploration of its conventions and aesthetics, as well as its social and cultural functions. Starting in the nineteenth century, we will read representative plays ranging from the advent of stage Realism and
Drama

Human Rights in Global Politics — POL2111.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Rotimi Suberu
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Credits: 4
Human rights are universal in principle, but often they are systematically violated in practice, especially in developing countries of the global South. This introductory course explores the international politics of human rights, with a particular focus on the developing world. Topics to be examined through lectures, written assignments, discussions, presentations, simulations
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Imagination, Creativity: Aesthetics and Philosophy of Music — MHI2324.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
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Credits: 1
In this course students will establish an expanded definition of ‘Music’ as inspired by the Sufi Master Hazrat Inayat Khan who wrote the mysticism of sound. This book confirmed my reason and purpose for playing music. In discussing this book, we can open up to other possibilities of understanding while discovering the music inside of us. With the acceptance and realization that
Music

Immortality — LIT2300.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Manuel Gonzales
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Credits: 4
Immortality. Everyone seems to want it. Or, well, practically everyone. Well, not me. I don't want it. But, look, even the world's oldest recorded epic hero, Gilgamesh, struggled against the notion of mortality and his own impending, inevitable death, and ever since (and probably long-before) members of our species have sought ways to subvert it. This course aims to explore
Literature

Improvisation Ensemble with Focus on Electronics — MCO2001.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 2
This class will be a hands-on improvisation workshop. Students will be asked to bring in both acoustic and electronic instruments, and we will develop strategies and techniques to integrate and combine them. We will play improvisation exercises in solos, duos, and trios as well as interpret text and graphic scores. We will listen and look at examples of compositions and music
Music

Insider Perspectives on the Francophone World II — FRE4224.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly
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Credits: 5
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 insider's perspective on a cultural and communicative system whose ideas, customs, and belief
Cultural Studies and Languages

Intermediate Ear Training — MTH4284.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Joseph Alpar
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Credits: 4
In this course, students will develop skills in aural perception, learning to visualize, sing, and notate music through melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic exercises. Students will learn to identify key signatures, intervals, 7th chords, triads, key relationships, common cadences and phrase structures, larger forms, tempo markings, and more. Classwork will include singing melodies
Music

Intermediate Ear Training —

Spring 2022
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
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Credits: 2
In this course, students will develop intermediate skills in aural perception, learning to visualize, sing, and notate music through melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic exercises. Classwork will include singing melodies with solfege (prepared and at sight); performing rhythms, eventually incorporating syncopation, cross-rhythms, small subdivisions, and changing meters; taking

Intermediate Video: The Future — FV4397.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Jen Liu
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Credits: 4
Intermediate Video: The Future is an in-person course with remote options, building on the technical skills introduced in Intro to Video.  Students will be expected to produce technical exercises, one short project assigned by the instructor, and one final project of their own design. Shorter assigned exercises will have specific technical constraints. These technical
Visual Arts

Intermediate Violin/Viola — MIN4232.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Kaori Washiyama
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Credits: 2
Increased basic techniques will include reading music in treble and /or alto clef in basic keys. Hand position including left hand sifting and fingering will be shown, and a rudimentary facility with the bow will be developed in order to participate in simple ensemble performances by the end of term. Sessions will be set up with the instructor individually on Fridays.
Music

Intermediate Voice — MVO4301.02

Spring 2022
Instructor: Thomas Bogdan
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Credits: 2
For students of varying levels of singing ability. Vocal production and physiology will be discussed. Group warm-ups and vocalizations will incorporate exercises to develop breath control, resonance, projection, range, color, and agility. The fundamental concepts of singing will be explored in the preparation of specific song assignments. Personalization of text and emotional
Music

Intermediate Voice — MVO4301.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Thomas Bogdan
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Credits: 2
For students of varying levels of singing ability. Vocal production and physiology will be discussed. Group warm-ups and vocalizations will incorporate exercises to develop breath control, resonance, projection, range, color, and agility. The fundamental concepts of singing will be explored in the preparation of specific song assignments. Personalization of text and emotional
Music

International Human Rights Law — APA2221.03

Spring 2022
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
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Credits: 1
Human rights are universal legal guarantees that protect individuals and groups against actions that interfere with fundamental freedoms and human dignity. Under international human rights law, States have the responsibility to respect, protect and fulfill human rights for all. If these obligations are not met, international legal action can be taken. Based on the international
CAPA

International Relations Theories — POL4104.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Rotimi Suberu
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Credits: 2
Realism, Liberalism, Marxism, and Constructivism have traditionally dominated theoretical perspectives in the academic field of international relations. As the field has evolved, however, its theoretical foundations and frameworks have become more complex, diverse and innovative, defying easy classifications into any self-contained categories. This course provides an advanced
Society Culture and Thought