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Metrics of Prosperity II: Labor Markets — PEC2280.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Emma Kast
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Credits: 4
This course introduces students to econometric approaches to asking and answering questions about the economy, with a specific focus on labor markets. The primary aim of the course is to understand how economists analyze data to determine causal effect. We will analyze data sets to explore socioeconomic questions centered around labor such as: What factors affect a person鈥檚
Society Culture and Thought

Middle Eastern Ensemble — MPF4358.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Joseph Alpar
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Credits: 2
This ensemble will introduce students to playing the music of the Middle East and neighboring areas. Students will learn a diverse repertoire of traditional urban, village, and popular music drawn from Arabic, Armenian, Greek, Hebrew, Kurdish, Ladino, Persian, Turkish, and other ethno-linguistic backgrounds. We will also study music by artists who have successfully blended
Music

Modern Guitar — MIN4224.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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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

More-than-human Dances — DAN2366.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Mina Nishimura
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Credits: 4
Through creative embodied inquiry and somatic practice, we will disorient and deconstruct human-centric ways of being, doing and performing. We will engage the more-than-human as teacher, as agent, and collaborator, by attuning ourselves toward more-than-human timescales, spatialities, relationships, and modes of perception and embodiment. Physical investigations will be
CAPA Dance

Morning Dance: Beginning-level Dance Technique — DAN2365.01) (faculty update 12/2/2024

Spring 2025
Instructor: Mina Nishimura
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Credits: 2
This beginning-level dance course requires no previous dance training and welcomes absolute beginners who would like to start a day with physical practice and body attunement. Students are introduced to some basic principles of dancing by learning various movement patterns, choreographed sequences and by engaging in improvisational and compositional movement practice. As early
Dance

Movement Practice: Spiraling around... — DAN2364.01) (cancelled 10/7/2024

Spring 2025
Instructor: Levi Gonzalez
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Credits: 2
In this course we will explore spiraling in and out of the floor. This is a rigorous movement class that focuses on traveling through space, using the spirals embedded in the body and exploring how these will help us to separate from the floor and come back to it. We will create movement sequences and phrases sourced from postmodern dance techniques and Flying Low (movement

Music and Culture: An Introduction to Ethnomusicology — MET2136.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Joseph Alpar
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Credits: 4
This course will be a hands-on introduction to ethnomusicology, the study of music in its social and cultural contexts. Ethnomusicologists think about the role music plays in everyday life. How do music and musicians build community, ignite protest and revolution, articulate racial identity, express and complicate gender and sexuality, or affirm faith? Some ethnomusicologists
Music Society Culture and Thought

Music and Moving Image — MUS2030.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
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Credits: 2
The practice of underscoring moving images is as old as the medium itself, from early improvised accompaniments to modern experimental approaches. In this course, we will look and listen to a variety of films and sound scores throughout the ages, analyzing the way in which they act as counterpoint to a visual score. Written analysis of film sound design, foley, and musical
Music

Musical Taste and Monetization 鈥 The Business Side of Music — MHI2244.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
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Credits: 2
How do we find the music we like? Recommendations from friends? Listening to the opening band at a live concert? Movies? Video games? Algorithms? Music is everywhere. But (as of 2024), when more than 100,000 tracks are being uploaded every day to digital streaming platforms and Spotify gives us access to over 100 million tracks, the chances of encountering a piece of music
Music

Mutants: Genetic variation and human development — BIO2210.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Amie McClellan
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Credits: 4
Why do humans have precisely 5 fingers and toes? How does a bone know to stop growing when it reaches the appropriate length? What controls our gender? While the human genome successfully encodes the information required to produce a 鈥渘ormal鈥 human being, genetic variation dictates the subtle and not so subtle differences that make us each a unique individual. 鈥淢utant鈥 humans
Science and Mathematics

Native (North) American Literature — LIT2567.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 4
Native storytelling has thrived in recited, sung, painted, etched, sculpted, and danced forms since centuries before European colonists arrived on the North American continent. Against the backdrop of this long, linguistically complex, and multi-national artistic tradition, we will closely read the works of Indigenous North American authors, studying how their formal and
Literature

Non-normative Bodies — DAN4364.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Levi Gonzalez
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Credits: 4
This course will combine theory and practice to explore representations of non-normative bodies and corporeal difference, their impacts on embodied experience, and the role artistic work can play in expanding and/or challenging limited and often harmful notions of normativity. This class is designed for students interested in the intersections of embodiment, art, corporeality,
Dance Society Culture and Thought

Of Sound and Nature — MET4102.01

Spring 2025
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,
Science and Mathematics Environment Music

Paris on Screen — FRE4498.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Stephen Shapiro
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Credits: 4
In this intermediate-low level course, we will study the representation of the city of Paris on film in order to examine modernity使s challenges to tradition. In particular, we will focus on the question of how urban communities and city dwellers react to increasing disconnectedness, anonymity, and solitude. We will also examine contemporary urban planning and the repercussions
Cultural Studies and Languages

Patternmaking and Garment Construction — DRA4119.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Richard MacPike
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Credits: 2
This course is designed to teach the student the many steps involved in creating a finished garment from a simple idea, piece of research, or sketch. Students will learn the basics of draping, flat patterning, and fitting. Construction of a final garment will allow them to explore and employ sewing skills beyond the fundamentals.
Dance Drama

Peacebuilding Training and Action — APA2363.03

Spring 2025
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
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Credits: 1
This Module will include discussion and training on the following Peacebuilding skills: identity, discrimination based on identity, prejudices that limit our capacities to live fully and trauma informed peacebuilding. Guests will include post-war peace builders from Bosnia and Herzegovina; guests that focus on memories in post-violence societies, and activists involved in
CAPA

Performance Pedagogies of Dance — DAN4816B.04, section 4

Spring 2025
Instructor:
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Credits: 3
PODs offer students the opportunity to make connections through multiple access points, especially in areas of performance. PODs are designed to help students recognize the tools and methodologies used in their own creative work both as performers and as choreographers. Structurally each POD is identified by a unique topic. PODs have required rehearsal times and culminate in a

Performance Pedagogies of Dance — DAN4816B.01, section 1

Spring 2025
Instructor:
Days & Time:
Credits: 3
PODs offer students the opportunity to make connections through multiple access points, especially in areas of performance. PODs are designed to help students recognize the tools and methodologies used in their own creative work both as performers and as choreographers. Structurally each POD is identified by a unique topic. PODs have required rehearsal times and culminate in a

Performance Pedagogies of Dance — DAN4816B.02, section 2

Spring 2025
Instructor:
Days & Time:
Credits: 3
PODs offer students the opportunity to make connections through multiple access points, especially in areas of performance. PODs are designed to help students recognize the tools and methodologies used in their own creative work both as performers and as choreographers. Structurally each POD is identified by a unique topic. PODs have required rehearsal times and culminate in a

Performance Pedagogies of Dance — DAN4816B.03, section 3

Spring 2025
Instructor:
Days & Time:
Credits: 3
PODs offer students the opportunity to make connections through multiple access points, especially in areas of performance. PODs are designed to help students recognize the tools and methodologies used in their own creative work both as performers and as choreographers. Structurally each POD is identified by a unique topic. PODs have required rehearsal times and culminate in a

Performance Project: Dancing Chavela Vargas — DAN4365.01) (cancelled 9/30/2024

Spring 2025
Instructor: Levi Gonzalez
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Credits: 2
Chavela Vargas has often been called 鈥渓a voz de M茅xico鈥. An iconoclastic figure, a publicly queer woman singing rancheras and comporting with radical artists and activists, her life is a study in refusing to submit to social norms and embracing the power of art as an act of solidarity, resistance and love. In this course, students will participate in a rehearsal process that

Performance Project: New Territory / Place — DAN4369.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Dana Reitz
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Credits: 2
In this course we will create a new dance project together. The ensemble work will allow participants to engage in a rigorous approach to the practice of performing. Each performer is invited to bring what they know with them to the project, yet leave room for each to express a complex and indefinable range of experience through the humor, intelligence and emotional engagement
Dance

Performing Collaborating with Advanced Design — DRA4397.02

Spring 2025
Instructor: Tilly Grimes
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Credits: 2
Working in conjunction with Advanced Design and Collaboration students, performers will be invited to join a design orientated devised performance. 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 explore design centric performative work. Students will keep a journal as
Dance Drama

Pessimism, Despair, and Hope — PHI4245.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Paul Voice
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Credits: 4
The pessimist Arthur Schopenhauer writes, 鈥淚n 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.鈥 What is the right attitude to the human condition? This advanced level course examines this question through the writings of philosophers who directly
Society Culture and Thought

Phenomenology of the Strange — FV4243.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Laura Sof铆a P茅rez
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Credits: 4
This seminar is a textual and cinematic study of specific categories of ineffable experiences. We will study altered states of consciousness, unexplainable phenomena, and unfathomable human experiences and analyze their representation in cinema. Grounded in film analysis and psychological, philosophical, and historical readings, we will address screenwriting, genre, lighting,
Visual Arts