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Studio Practice: Contemporary Forms/Expansion and Continuity — DAN4824B.01, section 1

Spring 2025
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Credits: 2
The class integrates a technical movement base with short phrases of full, supple, expansive movements that prepare students to tackle complex phrases at the end of each class. The work in class is designed to enable the student to manipulate his or her energy and strength in ways that are sharp, clear, specific, and contained in one instance and wild, abandoned, expansive and

Studio Practice: Contemporary Forms/Unearthing Physicality — DAN4828B.01, section 1

Spring 2025
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Credits: 2
Pulling from contemporary and modern dance forms, this class takes an integrative, technical approach to develop a potent and creatively charged movement practice. We begin with a progressive warm up in center, informed by Horton and contemporary ballet techniques, to organize, awaken, and generate an aliveness in the body. Choreographic sequences and improvisational tasks

Studio Practice: Contemporary Forms/Unearthing Physicality — DAN4828B.02, section 2

Spring 2025
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Credits: 2
Pulling from contemporary and modern dance forms, this class takes an integrative, technical approach to develop a potent and creatively charged movement practice. We begin with a progressive warm up in center, informed by Horton and contemporary ballet techniques, to organize, awaken, and generate an aliveness in the body. Choreographic sequences and improvisational tasks

Studio Practice: Hip Hop Under the Scope Intensive - The Clark Method, Street Dance Training Module — DAN2504B.01, section 1

Spring 2025
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Credits: 1
We will delve into the art of storytelling, a staple in Hip Hop culture and of African diasporic traditions, using dance forms under the Hip Hop umbrella. Together we will explore our range of artistry using codified techniques and freedom of self-expression. Together we will trail blaze what it means to make street dance work on many frontiers and bring light to the Hip Hop

Studio Practice: Hip Hop Under the Scope Intensive – The Clark Method, Street Dance Training Module — DAN2504B.02, section 2

Spring 2025
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Credits: 1
We will delve into the art of storytelling, a staple in Hip Hop culture and of African diasporic traditions, using dance forms under the Hip Hop umbrella. Together we will explore our range of artistry using codified techniques and freedom of self-expression. Together we will trail blaze what it means to make street dance work on many frontiers and bring light to the Hip Hop

Studio Practice: Hip Hop Under the Scope Intensive – The Clark Method, Street Dance Training Module — DAN2504B.03, section 3

Spring 2025
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Credits: 1
We will delve into the art of storytelling, a staple in Hip Hop culture and of African diasporic traditions, using dance forms under the Hip Hop umbrella. Together we will explore our range of artistry using codified techniques and freedom of self-expression. Together we will trail blaze what it means to make street dance work on many frontiers and bring light to the Hip Hop

Study Group 2 — DAN5421B.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Donna Faye Burchfield
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Credits: 2
What does studying together offer us critically that studying alone might not? Ariella Azoulay refers to studying with companions as a method of unlearning. What are the shifts experienced when you are studying with and alongside others? What conditions might group study provide that allow different questions and understandings to emerge? If, as Irit Rogoff states, “All

Sun Ra: Space is the Place — MHI2213.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
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Credits: 2
SUN RA…SPACE IS THE PLACE unfolds the life of Herman Poole Blount, (May 22, 1914 – May 30, 1993) founder and creator of the Sun Ra Arkestra. Considered a prolific composer of jazz and a pioneer of electronic music, Herman Blount, aka Le Sony’r Ra, better known as Sun Ra, was quite controversial for his electronic music and unorthodox lifestyle. He claimed he was of the “Angel
Black Studies Music

Sustainable Agriculture: Advanced Projects — APA4170.01) (new day/time 11/15/2024

Spring 2025
Instructor: Kelie Bowman
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Credits: 2
This course is for students who are doing advanced work in Sustainable Agriculture or community engagement work. Students will create an individual project developing project management skills that include planning, research, development, and implementation. The students will have the opportunity to collaborate with a community partner and will present their completed project
CAPA

Teaching Languages and Cultures K-6 — EDU2151.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly
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Credits: 4
Early exploration of foreign languages and cultures is a powerful tool towards antiracism, social justice, and intercultural understanding. In this course, students will gain a basic understanding of language and culture teaching to young children. Discussions with local teachers and language acquisition experts will provide a professional perspective on the course content.
Cultural Studies and Languages Education

Ten Decades, Ten Exhibitions: Art Narratives of the Twentieth Century — CUR2226.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Anne Thompson
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Credits: 4
This introductory course considers exhibitions that have shaped scholarly and popular conceptions of twentieth-century Western art history. Readings, films, discussions and interactive lectures address styles and ideas within the context of the art spectacle or “show.” Starting with the Armory Show of 1913, we examine art-world machinations as part of economic, political and
Visual Arts

Tessellation — DES2105.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Farhad Mirza
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Credits: 4
This course is an introduction to tessellation, also known as space filling, or packing. Through drawing exercises on various grids (which also happen to be tessellations) we will learn about edges and vertices, moving to regular, semi-regular, and edge tessellation among others, eventually proceeding from planar tiling to packing in three dimensions. Tessellation is a spatial
Visual Arts

The Art of Losing: Composing and Editing Dances and Writing — DAN4372.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
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Credits: 2
In this course, students will focus on composition in both writing and in dance with a particular focus on editing. This course is designed for students interested in excavating and investigating their patterns and tendencies and interested in the rigor of crafting a work for public reception. We will explore the effect of removing materials. What space is created through
Dance

The Big Picture: Stewarding Artists’ Legacies (FWT Course) — VA4406.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Liz White
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Credits: 1
What forces and individuals contribute to shaping an artist’s legacy? What happens to all of the objects, materials, and correspondence that artists create during their lifetime? What is a catalogue raisonné? This one-credit remote module will introduce students to the nascent field of artist-endowed foundations, and invite the consideration of philosophical and creative
Visual Arts

The Body Speaking — DAN2352.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Levi Gonzalez
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Credits: 4
This class incorporates speaking, language, sounding and scoring as activities that can be integrated with movement in complex and novel ways, through both structured and improvisatory practices.  Through these practices, we will access the expressive and artistic possibilities of sound and language as an extension of the body. Additionally, we will look at the work of
Dance

The Curatorial: Your Top Ten — CUR2230.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 2
This class explores curatorial thinking through the process of compiling a Top Ten, a media staple that invites cultural producers to discuss ten things they like or recommend. Creating a Top Ten, like curating, involves making selections within parameters including (but not limited to) history, context, aesthetics, politics, style and preference. A good Top Ten is a cohesive
Visual Arts

The Emerson Problem: American Transcendentalism, Then and Now — LIT2546.01) (cancelled 10/8/2024

Spring 2025
Instructor: Ben Anastas
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Credits: 4
A comprehensive survey of American Transcendentalism through the writing of its major figures (Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller) as well as more overshadowed club members like Orestes Brown, Bronson Alcott and Ellery Channing. We will explore the debates the movement set off among thinkers of the 19th Century, especially concerning slavery, Abolitionism

The Global Music Classroom — EDU4403.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 4
This course will introduce students to several methods for incorporating diverse global music practices into the general music classroom. Geared toward K-12 music education, our course will combine experiences in music, cultural understanding, and culturally sensitive pedagogical strategies. We will listen actively, sing, dance, play instruments, and discuss the sociocultural
Education

The Hand as Tool — CER2317.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Anina Major
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Credits: 4
Clay responds directly to touch, retains memory and is forced through the dynamic process of firing to fix a point in time. This class will introduce students to a variety of hand-building techniques to construct sculptural and/or utilitarian forms. Students will develop their skills by practicing techniques demonstrated in class. Through making, students' skills will increase,
Visual Arts

The Latin American Short Story — SPA4006.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
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Credits: 4
Along with intermittent textual analysis and some socio-historical context, the intention is to obsess over the ideology of that most lauded of genres, the Latin American short story, from modernismo to its contemporary forms. Students will develop their oral and written skills, progressing from paragraph-level exposition to imitation to an initial defense of ideas. The course
Cultural Studies and Languages

The Lives of Wives — LIT4600.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Zoe Tuck
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Credits: 4
This literature survey is designed to engage with the figure of the wife. We’ll read 20th century writing by authors whose fame was at the time eclipsed by their husbands and partners. We will approach them as writers, thinkers, and activists in their own right, before turning to where their creative and intellectual work meets their conscription in a system of gendered labor.
Literature

The Magic of Adolescence — PSY4380.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 4
Adolescence sometimes has a bad reputation—teens are often seen as impulsive, hormonal, irresponsible beings who talk back, do drugs, have risky sex, and drive too fast. In this class, we will flip this belief. Backed by the science of adolescent brain development, we will discuss adolescence as a time of malleability, social engagement, resilience, identity development,
Society Culture and Thought

The Music of J.S.Bach — MHI2177.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Allen Shawn
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Credits: 4
This course is intended for those who want to learn about Bach's music, whether or not they read music or have studied music before. Those who can study the musical and theoretical aspects of Bach's beautiful work will be encouraged to do so, and those who can approach it from historical, philosophical, scientific, or poetic point of view will be encouraged to do that.
Music

The Politics of Pedro Almodóvar — SPA4603.01) (cancelled 6/3/2024

Spring 2025
Instructor: Sarah Harris
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Credits: 4
Sometimes called apolitical or ahistorical, many of Pedro Almodóvar’s luscious films have met with consternation, if not distain, by Spanish critics. Yet Almodóvar leads the jury for the 2017 Cannes film festival. In fact, Spanish film scholar Paul Julian Smith notes that while “Pedro Almodóvar is now the most successful Spanish filmmaker of all time, whether that success is

The Power and Ethics of Photography — APA4172.01) (cancelled 2/5/2025

Spring 2025
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 4
This course delves into the influence and impact of photography by examining the works of iconic and contemporary photographers. Students will explore how photography has shaped visual culture and society, gaining a deeper understanding of its power as an artistic and documentary medium. Ethical considerations are central to the course, as students will analyze the
CAPA