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Spring 2023

Music Composition Project — MCO4802.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Allen Shawn

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Credits: 2

This is a course for music composition students. Each student produces a sizable piece for a single small ensemble (to be determined), such as a piano trio or string quartet. All students will be composing for the same instrumentation. There are regular reading sessions of the pieces in progress, culminating in a class presentation and taping of the completed works. The class

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Music Theory 1 - Applied Fundamentals — MTH2274.01

Spring 2023

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

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Musical Taste and Transformation: the Self, Algorithms and the Human Connection — MHI2254.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 1

What affects our tastes? Why do we like the music we like? How do we discover music? How effective are algorithms? Using music as the entry point, we will try to answer these questions by focusing on the self, and by digging into the newest research regarding music, media and science. The aim of the course is to become more aware of our freedom, or the lack

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Of Sound and Nature — MET4102.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Blake Jones

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Credits: 4

Sound is critical to the survival, social structure, and well-being of many organisms, human and non-human alike. In this interdisciplinary course we will examine how animals, plants, humans, and other forms of life impact one another through the calls, songs, and other vibrations they make. Using various case studies about music, sound, and society in Papua New Guinea,

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Off The Chart — DRW4104.01

Spring 2023

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

On the Question of Violence: Inquiry, Movement, and Rupture — APA4253.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: David Bond

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Credits: 4

We live in a violent world. It seems that everywhere we look, humans and other living (and non-living) beings are engulfed in overwhelming cyclones of intimate and catastrophic violence. In corners of the globe, wars have continued unabated for generations while new conflicts erupt on every continent. Elsewhere neoliberal regimes flirt with coercion as a more reliable basis of

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One Day in New York City — HIS2271.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Eileen Scully

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Credits: 4

January 25, 1929 – this was not a day of any grand consequence, but as a microcosm, it takes us into more significant topics and longer timelines. What was this day like for an individual living in New York City? What difference in that day’s demands and experiences arose from the fact of this individual’s gender, race, age, heritage, and location in the city? How were these

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Orchestration — MCO4133.01

Spring 2023

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

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Peacebuilding — APA2212.03

Spring 2023

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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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

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Peacebuilding 2 : Be the Change You Want to See in the World — APA4209.03

Spring 2023

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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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: April 14,

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Perfect Vacuums: Critical Studies of Nonexistent Texts — LIT4177.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Manuel Gonzales

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Credits: 4

In this class, using Stanislaw Lem's 1971 book, A Perfect Vacuum: Perfect Reviews of Nonexistent Books as a jumping off point, we will discuss the influence and power of nonexistent texts in literature and pop-culture, and we will turn our critical eye to our own invented and imagined nonexistent texts, bounding across space, time, and genre as we do, with the goal of

Literature

Pessimism, Despair, and Hope — PHI4245.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Paul Voice

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Credits: 4

The pessimist Arthur Schopenhauer writes, “In the first place, no man is happy but strives his whole life long after a supposed happiness which he seldom attains, and even if he does it is only to be disappointed with it.” What is the right attitude to the human condition? This advanced level course examines this question through the writings of philosophers who directly

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Philosophical Puzzles — PHI2105.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Paul Voice

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Credits: 2

This class invites students to analyze and assess a number of philosophical puzzles, paradoxes, and thought experiments including experience machines, the trolley problem, zombies, and the original position. You will read and discuss the original source and some of the critical literature.

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Philosophical Zombies and Super-intelligent Robots — PHI2106.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Catherine McKeen

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Credits: 2

There is a 3 lb. grayish-white, fatty organ inhabiting your skull. All of your thoughts, dreams, hopes, beliefs, and memories originate, in some way, in this organ. But how does this meat in your head think? How is your brain capable of having conscious experiences? How does your brain allow you to taste a strawberry or hear more cowbell? And, don’t look now, but the

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Photography, Materiality, and Storytelling — PHO4213.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 4

This course draws on feminist and queer theory and visual anthropology methods to explore how photographers work with materiality to create representations of desired realities and criticize curatorial practices and “official histories,” especially those connected to migration, displacement, and colonization. The course will look at examples of photography

Visual Arts

Physics II: Electricity Magnetism (with Lab) — PHY4327.01) (cancelled 2/13/2023

Spring 2023

Instructor: Hugh Crowl

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Credits: 4

How does influence travel from one thing to another? In Newton’s mechanics of particles and forces, influences travel instantaneously across arbitrarily far distances. Newton himself felt this to be incorrect, but he did not suggest a solution to this problem of “action at a distance.” To solve this problem, we need a richer ontology: The world is made not only of particles,

Science and Mathematics

Piano — MIN4333.01, section 1

Spring 2023

Instructor: Christopher Lewis

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Credits: 2

Individual private lessons for beginning and intermediate students, with focus on the classical repertoire. Students will meet with the instructor weekly on scheduled class days, at times to be arranged with the instructor. 15-30 minutes practice per day is expected. Two excused absences permitted, with every effort made for make-up lessons. Participation in Tuesday evening

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Piano — MIN4333.02, section 2

Spring 2023

Instructor: Allen Shawn

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Credits: 2

Individual private lessons for intermediate or 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.

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Piano Lab I: Beginning Piano — MIN2249.01, section 1

Spring 2023

Instructor: Chris Rose

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Credits: 2

Have you been thinking about learning to play the piano? Perhaps you have a little experience from childhood and want to get back into it? Are you a singer, songwriter, producer, or composer who wants to accompany themselves, learn to read sheet music and chord symbols, and/or understand the basics of music theory? Maybe you are completely new to playing an instrument, and want

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Piano Lab I: Beginning Piano — MIN2249.02, section 2

Spring 2023

Instructor: Chris Rose

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Credits: 2

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Piano Lab I: Beginning Piano — MIN2249.03, section 3

Spring 2023

Instructor: Chris Rose

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Credits: 2

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Piano Lab II — MIN4236.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Allen Shawn

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Credits: 2

This course is intended for students with some playing and reading experience, who have passed Piano Lab I or its equivalent. 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

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Platform: Projects in Drama — DRA4311.01

Spring 2023

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

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PLAYWRITING AS CIVIC INQUIRY: Chevron vs. Steven Donziger — DRA4026.01) (cancelled 12/1/2022

Spring 2023

Instructor: Dina Janis

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Credits: 4

... the [Living Newspaper] seeks to dramatize a new struggle – the search of the average American today for knowledge about his country and his world; to dramatize his struggle to turn the great natural and economic forces of our time toward a better life for more people.” — Hallie Flanagan, National Director of the Federal Theatre Project. This spring we will resurrect the

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Poesis: Calling Psychology Into Existence: Study of Expressive Arts’ influences on Psychology — PSY4413.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 4

Poesis is used as a way of forming meaning and knowledge that incorporates elements of creativity, self-reflection, and subjective experiences. This can lead to the development of new ways of understanding psychological constructs and ways of examining those constructs. Poesis has the potential to promote greater social justice and equity. Women's ways of knowing and other

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