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Understanding Ceramic Glazes — CER4251.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Anina Major
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Credits: 4
Learn how and why ceramic glazes work. This course focuses on the science behind glazes. No more myths and legends about how glazes work, only facts and science. ​The course provides information and science to help students utilize glazes in ways that will help them take control of materials and advance their work. This course is a hybrid in-person, online course consisting of
Visual Arts

Viewpoints Groundwork — DRA2124.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Jenny Rohn
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Credits: 4
Viewpoints is a physical improvisational form used for training actors and creating movement for the stage. This class encourages students to explore the physical and vocal possibilities of time and space, with a specific focus on developing the capacity to be physically present, emotionally open, and free to follow creative impulses. Special emphasis will be placed on
Dance Drama

Viola — MIN4241.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 2
The course is for students who have prior experience with the instrument. Students are expected to practice daily (minimum of 30 minutes). End-of-semester performance is required. Lessons will be tailored to the experience and development of each student and will target: -intermediate/advanced scales and repertoire -shifting -bow-strokes and articulations -vibrato -dynamics,
Music

Violin — MIN4345.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 2
The course is for students who have prior experience with the instrument. Students are expected to practice daily (minimum of 30 minutes). End-of-semester performance is required.
Music

Visual Arts Lecture Series — VA2999.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Vanessa Lyon
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Credits: 1
Each term, Ź offers a program of five-six lectures by visiting arts professionals: artists, curators, historians and critics, selected to showcase the diversity of contemporary art practices. Designed to enhance a broader and deeper knowledge of various disciplines in the Visual Arts and to stimulate campus dialogue around topical issues of contemporary art and culture
Visual Arts

Visual Arts Lecture Series Seminar — VA4218.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Vanessa Lyon
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Credits: 2
This discussion-animated, readings-based seminar provides art historical, cultural, and critical contexts for the Visual Arts Lecture Series (VALS). In addition to our ongoing interrogation of the public lecture as such, students present their own work (in any field) and analyze the technical and stylistic aspects of structuring an effective and engaging ‘talk.’ The course
Visual Arts

Voice Performance Intensive — MVO4404.01, section 1

Spring 2024
Instructor: Kerry Ryer-Parke
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Credits: 4
For students of varying levels of singing ability. This course will teach fundamental concepts of healthy voice technique that can be applied to singing in any style. Students will work towards individual goals through regular practice of warmups, vocalizations and awareness exercises, and progress will be assessed by preparation and performance of specific song assignments.
Music

Voice Performance Intensive — MVO4404.02, section 2

Spring 2024
Instructor: Virginia Kelsey
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Credits: 4
For students of varying levels of singing ability. This course will teach fundamental concepts of healthy voice technique that can be applied to singing in any style. Students will work towards individual goals through regular practice of warmups, vocalizations and awareness exercises, and progress will be assessed by preparation and performance of specific song assignments.
Music

Voice Performance Intensive — MVO4404.03, section 3

Spring 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 2
For students of varying levels of singing ability. This course will teach fundamental concepts of healthy voice technique that can be applied to singing in any style. Students will work towards individual goals through regular practice of warmups, vocalizations and awareness exercises, and progress will be assessed by preparation and performance of specific song assignments.
Music

War in the 21st Century — ANT2112.01) (cancelled 10/17/2023

Spring 2024
Instructor: Noah Coburn
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Credits: 4
This course explores the ways in which war has (or has not) changed over the past two decades. Using anthropological tools we will ask questions about: the role of drones and other new technologies, the changing nature of the American Empire, strategic approaches to warfare including counterinsurgency and nuclear deterrence, the economic impact of global economies and migration
Society Culture and Thought

What is (and What is Not) US Empire  — APA4311.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: David Bond
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Credits: 4
This course works to give a more exacting definition to the imperial shape of the United States, as much to name its haunting presence as to more effectively confront its unjust operations. As the first successful anti-colonial revolt, the United States has a long history of narrating itself against empire. Yet for anyone who has lived under the heavy hand of its territorial
CAPA Society Culture and Thought

What is Performing, Anyway? — DAN4028.01) (time updated as of 9/26/2023

Spring 2024
Instructor: Dana Reitz
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Credits: 2
What actually goes on when performing? Your interior environment changes from moment to moment; things change in the exterior environment as well. We process information from the audience as we perform. We constantly adapt. Creating a score for performance requires attention to detail – movement and space, timing, shifts of focus, intention, repetition, surprise, juxtaposition
Dance

When Technology and the Human Body become Partners, Who Leads? — DAN4294.02

Spring 2024
Instructor: Levi Gonzalez
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Credits: 1
This hands-on intensive course is taught by visiting artist Cathy Weis, who will be showing videos she shot in the studios and on the streets of New York City from 1983 to today. Examining these archival videos will serve as a launching pad for students to begin their own collaborative projects. Through these collaborative projects, students will have an opportunity to expand
Dance Visual Arts

Wicked Problems and Diabolical Dilemmas — HIS4235.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Eileen Scully
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Credits: 4
“Wicked problems” demand answers and resist remedies. They loom large yet cannot be located or pinned down. “Diabolical dilemmas” force us to make repugnant choices in favor of lesser evils. Examples of both include global warming, pandemics, terrorism, migration, healthcare, corruption, poverty, and human trafficking. After orienting ourselves in the relevant topology and
CAPA Society Culture and Thought

Women and Human Mobility — APA2213.03

Spring 2024
Instructor: David Bond
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Credits: 1
Human mobility has been an inherent human condition throughout history. From earliest human history, women and men have migrated in search of a better life, to populate other places on the planet, or to escape and survive human-made or natural dangers. Today migration is a fact of life for an increasing number of people around the world: there are more than 244 million migrants
CAPA

Women Rock: Dancing with the Erotic Feminine — DAN2021.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Erin Ellen Kelly, MFA Teaching Fellow
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Credits: 2
In this class, we will move with the sonic history of women in Rock n Roll, Blues, Punk, Pop and Dance music as a catalyst to explore erotic feminine archetype qualities.  We will dance hard with the music loud, flow eloquently with the ballads, then turn the music off and see where our movement impulses are at.  We will dance secular styles, explore floorwork,
Dance

Wood Firing Kiln — CER4172.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 4
This course will look into the use of the wood kiln as an integral tool and part of the creative process in ceramic art. We will examine the structure of the wood kiln and learn the roles of fire and atmosphere in transforming glaze components into desired surfaces within the wood kiln. We will also discuss the history of kiln technology and how it has influenced the
Visual Arts

Woodcut Printmaking on the Vandercook Proofing Press — PRI2123.02

Spring 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 2
Vandercook Proofing Presses were once a vital aspect of the printing industry and have been adopted widely by artists for letterpress printing and book arts. Ź College is fortunate to possess three Vandercooks, housed in the Word and Image Lab. Using type-high plywood blocks, oil-based and non-toxic, water-soluble inks, we will examine different approaches to mark
Visual Arts

Word Play In The Press Room — PRI4220.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Thorsten Dennerline
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Credits: 2
This class offers participants a unique chance to develop word-poem stories while simultaneously learning traditional letterpress relief printing techniques, making a distinctive multidisciplinary connection to letterforms on paper. Word play refers to the fact that we will be inventing poems spontaneously, using improvisation and therefore will become involved imaginatively
Visual Arts

Working With Light — DRA2234.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Michael Giannitti
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Credits: 2
Lighting design has the powerful ability to shape the experience of an audience. Its practice incorporates elements of artistry and craft, and should interest those working in all aspects of visual and performing arts. In addition to hands-on work with theatrical lighting equipment in and outside of class, awareness of light, play analysis and conceptualization, color, angle,
Drama

Writers, Directors Workshop — DRA4388.01, section 1) (new course code as of 10/20/2023

Spring 2024
Instructor: Kirk Jackson
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Credits: 4
This project-based class will bring playwrights, directors, and actors together into a collaborative company to workshop new material or re-imagined previously published work. Four projects will share resources to bring the work to its next logical level, dependent on each project’s goal and process. Each project will share a bill with another for two performances. As with
Drama

Writers, Directors Workshop — DRA4388.02, section 2

Spring 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 2
This project-based class will bring playwrights, directors, and actors together into a collaborative company to workshop new material or re-imagined previously published work. Four projects will share resources to bring the work to its next logical level, dependent on each project’s goal and process. Each project will share a bill with another for two performances. As with
Drama

YEAR ONE | SOCIAL PRACTICE as PUBLIC ACTION — APA4248.01) (cancelled 10/18/2023

Spring 2024
Instructor:
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Credits: 4
The YEAR ONE project asks you to imagine that you begin a new timeline for yourself starting now: whenever you begin, that’s your YEAR ONE. To participate in YEAR ONE, the question you ask yourself is, essentially, this: if you came to the conclusion that you couldn’t rely on currently existing systems and institutions to teach you the skills you need for a range of
CAPA

Zen Buddhism — CHI4405.01) (cancelled 10/9/2023

Spring 2024
Instructor: Ginger Lin
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Credits: 4
Although it was born in India, Buddhism has had a deep and profound influence on Chinese and East Asian culture, but this philosophy remains relevant to modern life in both the East and West. Students will be introduced to the spirit of Buddhism through modern Mandarin interpretations of classic Chinese Buddhist poems and stories. Students will explore Chinese Buddhist concepts
Cultural Studies and Languages