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Music Theory I - Applied Fundamentals — MTH2274.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: John Kirk
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Credits: 4
An introduction to music theory course. Music theory fundamentals will be taught utilizing voice (singing) and an instrument in hand. Knowledge of the piano keyboard will be learned and utilized. Curriculum will span the harmonic series, circle of 5ths, scales and chords to ear training, harmonic and rhythmic dictation, and beginning composition. Score reading, listening, and
Music

Musical Taste and Transformation: the Self, Algorithms and the Human Connection — MHI2254.02

Spring 2022
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
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Credits: 1
With so much recorded music available at our fingertips, recommender systems such as algorithmic playlists have become a routine part of our daily lives. By focusing on the self and examining our own listening history and habits, this course will build a chain of musical works which will allow us to investigate how we encounter music and become more aware of what actually
Society Culture and Thought Music

Nonlinear Dynamical Systems — MAT4127.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Katie Montovan
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Credits: 4
Differential equations are a powerful and pervasive mathematical tool in the sciences and are fundamental in pure mathematics as well. Almost every system whose components interact continuously over time can be modeled by a differential equation, and differential equation models and analyses of these systems are common in the literature in many fields including physics, ecology
Science and Mathematics

Nonsense, Surrealism, and The Absurd — LIT2407.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Michael Dumanis
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Credits: 4
This course will consider the multifarious ways writers have sought to subvert linearity, coherence, logic, and reason. We will begin with contemporary prose poet and fabulist Sabrina Orah Mark and then move backwards into the strange and satirical 1970s fictions of Donald Barthelme, a master of the collage form; the surrealist short fictions of Argentina's Julio Cortazar; and
Literature

Off The Chart — DRW4104.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Annette Lawrence
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Credits: 4
Athletes accumulate statistics. Musicians write scores. Sailors keep logs. Courts keep records. Artists turn quantitative observations into qualitative experiences. We will look at the works of Charles Gaines, Mark Lombardi, Howardena Pindell, Guillermo Kuitca, Sofie Calle, On Kawara, Alfred Jensen, and Alighiero Boetti as examples for discussion. Students will engage in the
Visual Arts

Orchestration —

Spring 2022
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
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Credits: 2
A primer in orchestration, for students who are selected to write for Sage City Symphony. We will pore over the 19th and 20th century orchestral repertoire, getting to know instruments, ranges, and agilities. Analysis, piano reduction, and orchestration from grand staff will be used to internalize and hear orchestration. Students will be expected to create and get feedback on
Music

Out of Dark Noise: The History of Black Documentary Poetics — LIT4357.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 4
“Dark noise,” as Black video artist Lawrence Andrews calls it, is an alternate truth-building system. The idea of dark noise indicates a sort of failed consensual reality, or in Audre Lorde’s terminology, a “chaos of knowledge.” Dark noise is the area outside of the state-sanctioned truth that the justice system, for instance, relies upon. As such, we will use the phrase “dark
Literature

Peacebuilding — APA2212.03

Spring 2022
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
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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 2 : Be the Change You Want to See in the World — APA4209.03

Spring 2022
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
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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. Module dates: 4/8, 4/12
CAPA

Performance as Radicalism in Practice — MPF2165.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
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Credits: 2
This class will explore performance as a tool for affecting social arrangements. We'll examine it from the perspective of the performer and the audience, moving from the hyper-local to the extended sites where change can take place. Performance as Radicalism in Practice names and works to understand the social phenomena that can affect a performance experience,
CAPA Music

Performance as Radicalism in Practice — MPF2165.02

Spring 2022
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
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Credits: 2
This class will explore performance as a tool for affecting social arrangements. We'll examine it from the perspective of the performer and the audience, moving from the hyper-local to the extended sites where change can take place. Performance as Radicalism in Practice names and works to understand the social phenomena that can affect a performance experience,
CAPA Music

Performance Project: Activating the Ambiguous Zone — DAN4222.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Maura Gahan, MFA Teaching Fellow
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Credits: 2
There’s a ‘place’ where the front of the body meets the back of the body– the inner meets the outer–fabric becomes clothing and clothing becomes a movement score for the body–an object transforms from a tool in motion to a puppet in motion–flesh becomes cardboard and cardboard becomes flesh–light turns into dark and dark to light. We will call these places–these in-between
Dance

Persona Poetry: An Overview — LIT2517.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Phillip B. Williams
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Credits: 2
The mask, or persona, is a common construction in creative, focusing on building a personality in a work by manipulation of rhetorical strategies, sound, and perspective. Writers such as William Shakespeare, Robert Browning, Ai, Kevin Young, Patricia Smith, Rita Dove, and many others have relied on their ability to create convincing characters in order to satirize, criticize,
Literature

Philosophical Problems — PHI4239.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Paul Voice
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Credits: 2
This course invites students to research and write a paper on a philosophical topic of their own choosing. Students will be required to clearly state the philosophical problem they want to research, construct a detailed bibliography, and write a paper that explains the problem, engages with the philosophical literature, and advances an argument.
Society Culture and Thought

Photography History 1 — AH2233.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 4
This introductory course investigates the fraught relationship between photography and history.  Photographs are often thought to record history. However, they frequently alter the course of the histories they purport to merely document. Through a series of case studies, we will explore the possibilities and perils of regarding photographs as factual evidence.
Visual Arts

Piano — MIN4333.02

Spring 2022
Instructor: Yoshiko Sato
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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.
Music

Piano — MIN4333.01

Spring 2022
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.
Music

Piano Lab I — MIN2232.01

Spring 2022
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 learn a basic repertoire of scales and chords. They will use the chords in improvisation and harmonization of melodies. In addition they will explore a repertoire that utilizes the musical components covered in
Music

Piano Lab I — MIN2232.02

Spring 2022
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 learn a basic repertoire of scales and chords. They will use the chords in improvisation and harmonization of melodies. In addition they will explore a repertoire that utilizes the musical components covered in
Music

Piano Lab I — MIN2232.03

Spring 2022
Instructor: Joan Forsyth
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Credits: 2
**** New day/time as of 2/16/2022**** 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 learn a basic repertoire of scales and chords. They will use the chords in improvisation and harmonization of melodies. In addition they will explore a repertoire that
Music

Piano Lab II — MIN4236.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Joan Forsyth
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Credits: 2
The goals of this course are to gain ease and dexterity at the keyboard, further developing a confident piano technique, musical expression and the skill of reading musical notation. Students will expand upon a repertoire of scales and chords. They will study and learn to perform selected compositions.
Music

Placing Anthropocene Stories: The Place of Imagination within Environmental Transformation — ENV4112.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 4
Extreme weather events, rising sea levels, species extinctions, chemical contamination, and uneven human suffering mark the Anthropocene. In this new epoch, humanity’s influence on the Earth system has become a geological and planetary force. Telling stories about planetary and geological change that resonate with people is critically important, yet also deeply challenging. The
Environment

Plan Computing Projects — CS4133.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 4
Have a coding project in mind for your advanced work in computer science? This class will give you space to explore your idea, share your work with others, and get feedback as you develop and refine your code. Group projects are also possible within this setting. new time as of 12/13/2021
Science and Mathematics

Platform: Projects in Drama — DRA4311.03

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 1
The purpose of this course is to create a platform for students to express themselves through theatrical performance. We are interested in projects that are inclusive and allow for, and celebrate diversity. All applicants must be interested in developing their project while investigating what it means to create a supportive, inclusive community that regularly engages
Drama

Platform: Projects in Drama — DRA4311.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Dina Janis
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Credits: 4
The purpose of this course is to create a platform for students to express themselves through theatrical performance. We are interested in projects that are inclusive and allow for, and celebrate diversity. All applicants must be interested in developing their project while investigating what it means to create a supportive, inclusive community that regularly engages in group
Drama