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Spring 2023

Iran: A Theocracy in Crisis — APA2012.02

Spring 2023

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 1

This course is designed to introduce students to the history, politics, and values of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The focus will be on the 20th century and the circumstances that paved the way for the 1979 revolution and establishment of a totalitarian theocracy called the “Islamic Republic”. The course covers both the domestic and foreign policy of the country

Advancement of Public Action

Javanese Gamelan — MPF2201.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 2

A practicum in playing and hearing the gamelan, the Central Javanese percussion orchestra. Students will learn about court and local traditions of Indonesia while playing classic works of karawitan (loosely translated as “weaving”), the multilayered repertoire of Central Java. Weekly rehearsals will focus on navigating the intricate levels of irama (rhythm), pathet

Music

Jazz Ensemble — MPF4250.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 2

This ensemble will perform a wide range of Jazz music (a genre that is constantly evolving), with an emphasis on both ensemble playing and improvisation skills. By playing together, students will learn how blues, swing, Latin, and rock elements have all fueled this music called jazz. Students will also learn how major Jazz artists such as Ellington, Monk,

Music

Kilns and Firing Techniques — CER4203.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Anina Major

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Credits: 4

This course will look into the use of the kiln as an integral tool and part of the creative process in ceramic art. We will explore various different kilns and firing techniques, learning the roles of fire and atmosphere in transforming glaze components into desired surfaces. We will also discuss the history of kiln technology and how it has influenced the development of wares,

Visual Arts

Kilns and Firing Techniques — CER2319.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Anina Major

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Credits: 4

Visual Arts

Language Contact and Shift — LIN2107.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Leah Pappas

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Credits: 4

Languages shift and change over time, and while much of this is due to new innovations by speakers, languages can also change due to contact with other languages. Throughout the course, we will examine various situations of contact and how the sociocultural factors shape the languages. We will examine English’s own history of contact, particularly with the French language, and

Society Culture and Thought

Language Documentation and Description — LIN4109.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Leah Pappas

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Credits: 4

In this course, we will learn about the current language endangerment crisis and methods that can be implemented to mitigate it. The course will be both theoretical and practical, starting with a discussion of the reasons for the loss of linguistic diversity around the world and what linguists are doing as a response. Students will concurrently learn language documentation

Society Culture and Thought

Life and Death: Buddhism in Modern Japanese films — JPN4604.01) (new day/time as of 12/19/2022

Spring 2023

Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida

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Credits: 4

In this course, students will examine how Buddhism influenced Japanese thought on the after-life and analyze how Japanese views on the relationship between life and death are depicted in recent Japanese films. In the first seven weeks of the course, students will examine and discuss the history, beliefs, and deities of Buddhism and their influences on society. In the second

Cultural Studies and Languages

Life Drawing Lab — DRW2118.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Colin Brant

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Credits: 2

Life Drawing Lab provides an opportunity for student artists of all experience levels to further develop their skills with observational-based drawing. Working primarily with the human figure, students build increased understanding of the poetic, dynamic, and inherently abstract nature of drawing, while paying close attention to the potential of formal elements such as shape,

Visual Arts

Listening to psyche: an interdisciplinary method of generating choreography — DAN2259.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Levi Gonzalez

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Credits: 1

This course is for people who are developing a choreographic voice. In this course, Parijat Desai will offer processes she is using to develop choreographic material for her project How Do I Become WE as well as for her ongoing artistic practice. How Do I Become WE is a participatory performance ritual based on a Tamil folk narrative in which a woman keeps a story

Dance

Making Work: Aesthetics Ideology — DAN4169.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Levi Gonzalez

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Credits: 2

This course is for students with prior experience making dance or performance art. In this class we will begin by looking at dances or performances from students’ own past work, or work they admire or are inspired by. We will use these as a springboard to discuss what attracts us in terms of aesthetics, site, style, identity, narratives, politics, etc., and consider how

Dance

Managing Complexity for an Abundant Future — APA2013.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 2

Everywhere we look—ecologically, economically, politically, socially—it seems we’re looking at disaster. Under a barrage of bad news, it is easy to understand why humans around the globe are suffering from depression, anxiety, anti-humanistic sentiment, and a devastating lack of hope. But it does not need to be so. A new and hopeful movement is growing around the globe—one

Advancement of Public Action

Mandolin — MIN2229.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: John Kirk

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Credits: 2

Beginning, intermediate and advanced group lessons on the mandolin will be offered. Students will learn classical technique on the mandolin and start to develop a repertoire of classical and traditional folk pieces. Simple song sheets with chords, tablature, and standard notation, chord theory, and scale work will all be used to further skills. History of the Italian origins of

Music

Market Society — PEC2266.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 4

Institutions and social conventions shape economic behaviours. In this seminar, we will explore why and how these social factors matter in economic life. Our specific focus will be on the institution of market, and we will study how market organization of society can, on one hand, shape people's economic interests, and, on the other, mobilize their economic

Society Culture and Thought

Market Structure — PEC2277.01) (new time as of 11/18/2022

Spring 2023

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 4

This course in microeconomics studies the functioning of markets. Specifically, we will examine the processes of price determination in four different categories of markets - perfect competition, monopoly, oligopoly and monopolistic competitions, which vary in terms of their relative competitive structure. For the decision makers of a firm (i.e., a for-profit

Society Culture and Thought

Meisner Technique — DRA4268.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Jenny Rohn

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Credits: 4

“If you are really doing it, you don’t have time to watch yourself doing it.” Sanford Meisner was an actor and founding member of the Group Theater. He went on to become a master teacher of acting who sought to give students an organized approach to the creation of truthful behavior on stage within the imaginary circumstances of a play. This class focuses on developing an actor

Drama

Modern Guitar — MIN4224.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Hui Cox

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Credits: 2

Individual training is available in jazz, modern and classical guitar technique and repertoire, song accompaniment (finger style), improvisation, and arranging and composing for the guitar. Course material is tailored to the interests and level of the individual student.

Music

Morning Butoh- A Practice of Renewing and Redefining Self — DAN2012.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Mina Nishimura

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Credits: 1

No previous experience in dance or movement practice is required. This course is open to and welcomes all students who are interested in liberating their bodies from socially pre-conditioned selves, and investigating the physical embodiment of transformation. By studying some breath, somatic and movement practices that are linked to butoh, which originated in Japan as a

Dance

Movement Practice: (de)composing dance, choreographing breath — DAN4185.02

Spring 2023

Instructor: Levi Gonzalez

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Credits: 1

This course is open to students from all disciplines with an interest in movement and practice as research. The course is an introduction to a way of working that continually asks questions without seeking answers or solutions. This method has been developed through mayfield's ongoing art/life/movement project, Improvising While Black or IWB. For this course, the movement

Dance

Movement Practice: A Spell for Utopia — DAN2140.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Levi Gonzalez

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Credits: 2

Can Utopia be a practice instead of a destination? Is a new world possible if we learn to create our own language as an incantation for our new future bodies? During this course we will delve into the relationship of language and somatic states and how our embodied presence is directly related to how we perceive the world. How we perceive the world is

Dance Drama

Movement Practice: Contact Improvisation Advanced — DAN4360.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Tal Shibi, MFA Teaching Fellow

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Credits: 2

The wide culture of Contact Improvisation includes a variety of somatic practices intended to empower the dancer to be able to sense their surroundings and respond to them efficiently and creatively. Surroundings may be everything inside us and around us including other bodies, the floor/ground/ earth, nature, objects and space. This course will build on students'

Dance

Movement Practice: Let's get Physical! — DAN2013.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Levi Gonzalez

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Credits: 2

This movement practice course is open to all levels of experience and even no experience at all with body conditioning or dance. The course is approached as a form of exercise as well as a way to recover from injuries, misuse, excess or lack of physical activity. We will learn how to take care of one’s body regularly and how to stay strong and able to move for life, as

Dance

Movement Practice: Morning Chi, Waking Up the Body — DAN2015.01) (new time as of 2/6/2023

Spring 2023

Instructor: Levi Gonzalez

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Credits: 2

Wake up your body and mind through a series of moving meditations and stretches using QiGong, the breath, visualizations, and touch that will stimulate the meridian system and activate a relaxed focus for the day. We will soften pathways in the body with circles, spirals, figure eights and undulating waveforms. QiGong theory, principles and cosmology will be covered with a

Dance

Movement Practice: Orbiting the self and community — DAN2260.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Levi Gonzalez

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Credits: 1

The course is for students with an intermediate level of experience with dance. Parijat Desai will share vocabularies she is developing for her project How Do I Become WE, a participatory performance ritual. She will offer movement practices to connect with land, individual somatic awareness, and community. Parijat pulls from modes she has inherited, trained in, or aspired

Dance

Multivariable Calculus — MAT4301.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Andrew McIntyre

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Credits: 4

Multivariable calculus is one of the core parts of an undergraduate mathematics curriculum. Introductory calculus mostly concentrates on situations where there is one input and one output variable; multivariable extends differentiation, integration, and differential equations to cases where there are multiple input and output variables. In this way, multivariable calculus

Science and Mathematics