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Senior Projects — MCO4376.01) (day/time updated as of 10/9/2023

Spring 2024
Instructor: Joseph Alpar
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Credits: 4
This course will serve as a workshop and forum for senior music students who are planning to present their senior projects in Spring 2024. In this course, we will meet and discuss students’ projects produced through any creative practice, including, but not limited to, performance, installation, musical show, and publication. Students will be expected to complete most of their
Music

Shakespeare: The Tragedies — LIT2217.01) (day/time updated as of 10/9/2023

Spring 2024
Instructor: Michael Dumanis
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Credits: 4
We will spend the term immersed in in-depth reading and analysis of the plot, structure, and language, and cultural context of five Shakespeare tragedies: Titus Andronicus, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, King Lear, and Othello. We will also read Tom Stoppard’s 20th-century existentialist, absurdist parody of Hamlet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. We will focus on the themes of
Literature

Social and Cultural Values in Japan: Digital Book Project (Intermediate) — JPN4402.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
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Credits: 4
This fourth term Japanese course is designed for students to create digital books which will teach Japanese children how to embrace cultural differences. First, students will read short stories for Japanese children and watch Japanese animations to examine how Japanese children are expected to behave and communicate with others. Students will also analyze social and cultural
Cultural Studies and Languages

Song for Ireland and Celtic Connections — MHI2251.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: John Kirk
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Credits: 4
Celtic history and music from Ireland, Scotland, Bretagne, Galatia, and Cape Breton will be experienced, studied, and performed using instruments and voices. We’ll find and cross the musical bridges between regions–from the ballads of Ireland, Scotland and Wales to the Alalas of Spain and dance tunes of Brittany. An end-of-term presentation will be prepared drawing on
Music

Songwriting — MCO4002.01) (time updated as of 10/4/2023

Spring 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 2
This class will focus on the art of songwriting. What makes a strong melody? What makes an effective chord progression? How do lyrics bring a simple song to life? What are the other elements of a song that can make it a compelling piece of music? We will study the music of great songwriters and compose pieces in the style of these great musicians. We will also work on bringing
Music

Sonic Ethnography — MSR2213.01) (cancelled 10/6/2023

Spring 2024
Instructor: Senem Pirler Joseph Alpar
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Credits: 4
Sonic ethnography is an emerging field that sits at the intersection of studies of sound and ethnographic methodologies. In this course, we will focus on investigating the “sonic” in relation to social and environmental structures. We will focus on how putting our attention to sound-making, recording, and listening practices can bring innovative contributions to the field of
Music Society Culture and Thought

Sonorous and Silent: Transatlantic Poetry in Spanish — SPA4404.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Lena Retamoso Urbano
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Credits: 4
What is a poem? Let’s start to explore this question with a verse from the Peruvian poet Luis Hernández Camarero: “Las mil fases de lo eterno” (“The thousand phases of the eternal.”) In this course, we will explore the different ways in which a poem has expressed the human search for meaning, and has been a verbal, visual, sonorous, and/or silent, continent of dreams, desire,
Cultural Studies and Languages

Sound Design for Moving Images — MSR4120.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Senem Pirler
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Credits: 2
This class is an introduction to the creative approaches and applications of sound design and audio production for moving images. In this course, we will explore the techniques used in the audio post-production for moving images and focus on the role of the sound designer. We will focus on designing sounds using Foley recordings, sound effects editing, and post-processing.
Visual Arts Music

Spanish Through Film — SPA4222.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
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Credits: 5
Students with burgeoning linguistic skills will learn the language through an immersion in Latin American and Spanish film in the second half of this full-year introduction to the Spanish-speaking world. While there will be some discussion of more common tactics such as stylistic nuances, script-writing, acting, dubbing, and directors’ biographies, it is expected that we will
Cultural Studies and Languages

Stage Management Process — DRA2251.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Michael Giannitti
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Credits: 2
The centrality of the stage manager as collaborative artist and manager in the production process is explored by students in this class. Readings, discussions, and projects on topics including scheduling, play breakdowns, prompt book preparation, blocking notation, ground plan and theatre layout, and the running of rehearsals and performances are included. The relationship of
Dance Drama

Statistical Methods for Data Analysis — MAT2104.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Katie Montovan
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Credits: 4
In this course, we will focus on developing the statistical skills needed to answer questions by collecting data, designing experimental studies, and analyzing large publicly available datasets. The skills learned will also help students to be critical consumers of statistical results. We will use a variety of datasets to develop skills in data management, analysis, and
Environment Science and Mathematics

Statistics for Social Science — SOC4103.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Emily Waterman
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Credits: 4
In this course students will learn to use social science statistics to test their own research questions, while becoming more educated consumers of statistical analyses presented in research and news sources. Students will employ various inferential statistics techniques commonly used in social science, such as confidence intervals, t-tests, chi-square testing, correlation,
Society Culture and Thought

Strategic thinking and social interactions — PEC2271.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 2
This course explores strategic thinking in social interactions, analyzing these interactions in a game-theoretic framework. We will textually explore the fundamental concepts of the course, employing case studies to provide evidential support for our arguments. Our emphasis will be on the core ideas and intuitions behind the theory rather than their mathematical expressions,
Society Culture and Thought

Stravinsky — MHI2101.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Allen Shawn
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Credits: 4
In this course we will explore the musical, intellectual and artistic world of Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971), one of the most exciting artists of the 20th century, and a composer whose range of interests and influences connected him to five hundred years of music and to many of the dominant artistic figures of his own time. We will watch videos of his principal operas and some of
Music

Survival Skills: Building a Career in the Performing Arts — DAN4330.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Levi Gonzalez
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Credits: 2
In this course we will encounter various strategies for building a career in the performing arts field. In a lab-like environment, we will address topics such as writing an artist statement, fundraising, generating proposals for residencies and grants, understanding the panel process, building social media presence, developing practical organizational skills for project
Dance

Systems 1: Hardware Architecture and Design—From circuits to machine code — CS2114.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 4
Have you ever wondered what a computer is and how it actually works?  In this course, we’ll answer the hardware half of this question. Working from the ground up, we will start with basic circuits and develop elementary logic gates.  Taking these gates as our building blocks, we will construct the core components of a modern computer: the central processing unit,
Science and Mathematics

Technical Theatre Collaborating with Advanced Design —

Spring 2024
Instructor: Tilly Grimes
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Credits: 4
Working in conjunction with Advanced Design and Collaboration students will be invited to join a design orientated devised performance as part of the technical team building and creating the shows When theater starts with a script, visuals tend to follow the narrative. But what happens when bold visuals lead the way? Class will be used as a space to build on existing
Drama

Technology Pathways and Independent Study — CS4134.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Meltem Ballan
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Credits: 4
Technology Pathway and Independent Study is designed to accommodate students independent projects and ideas to help them with their FWT and their senior projects. This is a course designated for study and research in an area of software engineering, data science, AI and technology product development. This course may be repeated each semester. Professional Values and
Science and Mathematics

Terrible Choices: Philosophy Tragedy — PHI4226.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 4
The tragic protagonist is a person pushed to the breaking point- dealing with disaster, fate, suffering, unspeakable loss, and often the consequences of their own bad decisions. Greek tragedy shows human beings struggling in a world that often seems brutal, senseless, and beyond their control, where contingency is a hard fact of life. As such, tragedy raises significant
Society Culture and Thought

The Antiquity of Others — PHI4247.01) (cancelled 10/6/2023

Spring 2024
Instructor: Catherine McKeen
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Credits: 4
For us moderns, the statue of the elite male is emblematic of Greek and Roman antiquity. You may know this figure- able-bodied, athletic, impassive, and marble white. The figure represents societies shaped by unequal power relations which privileged men and masculinity, as well as the centering of elite male whiteness in historical narratives about Greek and Roman antiquity. In
Society Culture and Thought

The art of Letting Go: Daoism and Buddhism in Daily Life — CHI4405.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 4
Daoism and Buddhism hold a significant place in the daily lives of most Taiwanese people. These philosophical traditions influence spirituality, meditation practices, and ethical values. Many Taiwanese incorporate elements of these philosophies into their daily lives to reduce stress and improve mental wellbeing, and so can you. Students will be introduced to central concepts
Cultural Studies and Languages

The Art of the Interview — APA2450.02

Spring 2024
Instructor: David Bond
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Credits: 2
Interviewing has been called an “art” by many writers. Some interviews require extensive preparation, others cursory, while still others are conducted with none. Students in this course will get experience in a variety of interviewing genres and techniques. We will also watch, listen to, and read several examples of interviews to further analyze various approaches. We will
CAPA