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Spring 2024

Introduction to Sustainable Agriculture — APA2189.02

Spring 2024

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 2

This course explores the broad field of sustainable farming and food systems. Through work at the Purple Carrot Farm students will learn hands-on skills such as food cultivation, preservation, processing, techniques for propagation, and design of annual and perennial production systems. We will further explore sustainable food systems by meeting with a cross-section of local

CAPA

Introduction to Video — FV2303.01, section 1

Spring 2024

Instructor: Beatriz Santiago Muñoz

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Credits: 4

This production course introduces students to the fundamentals of working in video and the language of film form. Drawing on the energy, intensity and criticality of avant-garde film and contemporary video art practices, students will complete a series of projects exploring dimensions of cinematography, mise-en-scène, editing and sound design before producing a final self

Visual Arts

Introduction to Video — FV2303.02, section 2

Spring 2024

Instructor: Beatriz Santiago Muñoz

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Credits: 4

Visual Arts

Introduction to Viola — MIN2214.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 1

The course is designed for students with no prior string instrument experience. Admission is on a first come first serve basis. Classes will be individual. Daily practice (10-15 min.) is expected so students can become familiar and comfortable with the instrument.

Music

Introduction to Violin — MIN2250.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 1

The course is designed for students with no prior string instrument experience. Admission is on a first come first serve basis. Classes will be individual or together with another student. Daily practice (10-15 min.) is expected so students can become familiar and comfortable with the instrument.

Music

Intuitive Electronics for Sound — MSR4262.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 4

This course offers a hands-on introduction to electronic components, oscillators, sound transduction and MIDI from an artistic perspective. Students will be guided through theory, construction and/or modification of their own set of electronic sound instruments. Areas of study will include noise generators, MIDI controllers, ambient RF transducers, converting speakers into

Music

Jazz Ensemble — MPF4250.01) (time updated as of 10/4/2023

Spring 2024

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, Mingus, Wayne Shorter,

Music

Keeping Close: Journals Notebooks — LIT2531.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: Jenny Boully

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Credits: 4

In his essay "The Uses of Literature," Italo Calvino asserts that in order to write, the writer must first invent the "I" who is writing. The "I" who writes in a notebook, journal, or diary may or may not be an invention. We often think of notebooks as presenting a more candid and honest voice, simply due to the intimacy and purposes of a journal. Who exactly is the writer of a

Literature

Kilns and Firing Techniques — CER2319.01) (cancelled 10/9/2023

Spring 2024

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 — CER4203.01) (cancelled 10/9/2023

Spring 2024

Instructor: Anina Major

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Credits: 4

Visual Arts

Kinetic Solutions — SCU2305.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: John Umphlett

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Credits: 4

This is a dynamic world. Have you ever found yourself mesmerized at how the conveyor belt works at the airport? Have you ever wondered or questioned a device's purpose with the way it functions? Do you want to learn how to communicate your thoughts and interests by making a sculpture that has movement? This class is designed for the student who is interested in learning basic

Visual Arts

Klezmer Ensemble — MPF4128.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: Joseph Alpar

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Credits: 2

Klezmer is a musical tradition of the Ashkenazi Jewish communities of Central and Eastern Europe. With its breakneck dance tunes, soulful strings, and wailing horns, Klezmer has been an ever-evolving fixture of Jewish cultural life since its beginnings in the sixteenth century, incorporating elements from Ottoman Turkish music, Baroque music, Slavic and German folk dances, and

Music

Lab: Orchestrating Electronics — MIN2359.02

Spring 2024

Instructor: Michael Wimberly

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Credits: 1

This Lab for Orchestrating Electronics will focus on the theory and practice in the use of live electronics in performance. Both hardware and software strategies will be considered. Discussions include historical examples dating back to the 1950s as well Sharp's wide-ranging approaches. This lab is designed for students interested in expanding their understanding of signal

Music

Language Documentation and Description — LIN4111.01) (cancelled 10/9/2023

Spring 2024

Instructor: Leah Pappas

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Credits: 4

This course is designed to equip students with the basic methodologies necessary to carry out linguistic fieldwork on un(der)documented languages. Students will be trained in the skills and tools of language documentation and description by working with a speaker of a language previously unknown to them. Students will learn techniques of data collection, elicitation, management

Society Culture and Thought

Latin American Critical Theory — SPA4716.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher

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Credits: 4

Oddly, perhaps, theory itself, despite its own premises, its ethical veneer and visceral critical posture, has never quite overcome the traditional, global division of intellectual labor. It is applied, and alterity is nominally, similarly, embraced, thus paradoxically resulting in a cultural neo-imperialism that all the while overtly denies its own imperialist practices. The

Cultural Studies and Languages

Life and Death: Buddhism in Modern Japanese films — JPN4604.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida

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Credits: 4

In this sixth term Japanese 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 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

Cultural Studies and Languages

Life Drawing Lab — DRW2118.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: Colin Brant

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Credits: 2

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, line,

Visual Arts

Logic and Proof: The Art of Mathematics and the Limits of Knowledge — MAT2378.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: Andrew McIntyre

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Credits: 4

How do we know something "beyond a reasonable doubt"? What is the relationship of insight to logical argument? How can we have certain knowledge about concepts which are infinite? These questions are at the core of mathematics, but also at the core of liberal arts. In mathematics, people have found rather detailed answers to how much certainty is possible, and have found

Science and Mathematics

Looking closer; making work — SCU4122.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: John Umphlett

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Credits: 4

This course asks each student to work in a self-directed way among a community of critical thinkers. Finding one’s voice, as a maker, requires researching sources of influence and inspiration. Students are expected to undertake a significant amount of work outside of regular class meetings. At this point in your Visual Arts Education you must be able to represent serious

Visual Arts

Mandolin — MIN2229.01

Spring 2024

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

Material culture in and of media — MS2112.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: Maia Nichols

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Credits: 4

This course will focus on material culture: clothing, objects, art, tools, machines, toys, crafts and the physical stuff in and of media. By focusing on the material cultures of television, film, and images, the physical and material things in movies and photographs, and the beliefs and practices related to mediation through objects, students will gain knowledge in

Society Culture and Thought

Metrics of Prosperity: Data Analysis for Health, Well-being, and the Economy — PEC2108.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: Emma Kast

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Credits: 4

This course introduces students to econometric approaches to asking and answering questions about health, well-being, and the economy. The primary aim of the course is to understand how economists analyze data to determine causal effect. We will analyze data sets to ask and answer socioeconomic questions such as: What factors affect a person’s income, and how do we know? How

Society Culture and Thought

Modern Guitar — MIN4224.01) (faculty updated as of 2/19/2024

Spring 2024

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 2024

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: Growing a body like a plant — DAN2014.01) (course description updated as of 10/9/2023

Spring 2024

Instructor: luciana achugar, MFA Teaching Fellow

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Credits: 2

This course is a dance class as a ritual for creating a deeper relationship to our bodies and a practice of “growing” our bodies organically from the process of tending to its needs for more strength, mobility, ability and connection between all its parts and the ground and space, This class is also a way to learn to better use our bodies in everyday life and when exercising

Dance