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100 Places Where You Must Visit in Japan — JPN2112.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
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Credits: 4
Where do you want to go when you visit Japan: Mount Fuji in Shizuoka, Kyoto Imperial Palace, or Ghibli Museum in Tokyo?  What would you like to eat there? Do you want to eat sushi, tonkatsu, ramen, or pizza that is topped with corn, tuna, and mayonnaise?  Do you want to see traditional performing arts like Noh and Kabuki?  Or would you like to see current pop
Languages

2D-3D-2D 鈥 Animation in a Created World — MA4203.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Sue Rees
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Credits: 4
The class will be concerned with manipulating two dimensional imagery, creating three dimensional forms and models by utilizing the laser cutter and Illustrator, and finally animating forms, drawings, objects combined with the three dimensional world using tracking cameras and a green screen. We will be moving backwards and forwards between creating worlds and manipulating
Visual Arts

A Philosophy of Data — DA2132.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Mimi Onuoha
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Credits: 4
We live in a world where more data has been and is being collected than ever before. But what does that mean? What information can we glean from the data? How do we represent what is being collected, and more importantly, what is missed? This intro-level course examines the emergent fields of data collection, analysis, and visualization from an art perspective, asking how the
Visual Arts

Absolutism and Its Discontents — FRE4803.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Stephen Shapiro
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Credits: 4
This course will examine the relationship between cultural forms (architecture, garden design, art, music, opera, ballet, literature, etc.) and power at the court of Louis XIV. We will focus our attentions on primary texts and cultural artifacts from the period while examining modern perspectives (including film) on the Golden Age of French Classicism at Versailles. We will
Languages

Adaptation — DRA2249.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Sherry Kramer
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Credits: 4
Appropriation, repurpose, pastiche, hybrid, sampling, remix, in conversation, mash up. Everyone knows that when you steal, steal from the best. When we write we may borrow the structure of a sonata, the plot from a story, the tang and tone of a novel, and characters from our own lives. Is everything we write adaptation? We will read 3-5 works of literature, watch movie and
Drama

Advanced Improvisation Ensemble for Dancers and Musicians — DAN4673.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
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Credits: 2
This advanced course focuses on work in the performance of improvisation. For dancers, special attention is given to the development of individual movement vocabularies, pattern recognition and the exploration of forms and structures. Dancers are expected to have experience with improvisation in performance and are asked to develop a structure for the group. This class will
Dance

Advanced Individual Piano Instruction — MIN4333.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Christopher Lewis
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Credits: 2
Private piano instruction. Study of instrumental technique and musical interpretation of classical repertoire. Requirements: attendance at weekly lessons; participation in Music Workshop; performance at end-of-term recital. Students accepted by audition.

Advanced Linear Algebra, Group Theory, and Geometry I — MAT4342.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Andrew McIntyre
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Credits: 4
This advanced class combines a traditional abstract algebra curriculum with topics in linear algebra and geometry. Topics include: introductory group theory; Sylow theorems; isometries of the Euclidean plane; symmetries of wallpaper patterns; isometries of the hyperbolic plane and Kleinian groups; elementary Lie groups and their discrete subgroups; Lie algebras; spectral
Science and Mathematics

Advanced Mixing and Mastering — MSR4365.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: David Baron
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Credits: 2
Do you feel like widely released music sounds better than yours? Have you pushed your mixing skills to be as good as they can be? Do you understand the principals behind audio mastering for different formats?  Learn all this and more! We will cover metering, loudness, stereo imaging, bass control, dynamics, and data compression. Pro Tools knowledge required.
Music

Advanced Voice — MVO4401.02; section 2

Fall 2017
Instructor: Tom Bogdan
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Credits: 2
This class is organized as an individual voice lesson and deals with the advanced vocal study of technique and interpretation of vocal repertoire. This class is for students who have taken intermediate voice at least two times and have a good deal of singing experience. It is also designed to assist the graduating seniors with preparation for their senior recitals. Students are
Music

Advanced Voice — MVO4401.01; section 1

Fall 2017
Instructor: Kerry Ryer-Parke
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Credits: 2
Advanced study of vocal technique and the interpretation of the vocal repertoire, designed for advanced students who have music as a plan concentration and to assist graduating seniors with preparation for senior recitals.  Students are required to study and to perform a varied spectrum of vocal repertory for performance and as preparation for further study or graduate
Music

Advanced Workshop for Painting and Drawing: The Contemporary Idiom — PAI4216.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Josh Blackwell
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Credits: 4
This course is for experienced student artists with a firm commitment to serious work in the studio. Students will work primarily on self-directed projects in an effort to refine individual concerns and subject matter. Students will present work regularly for critique in class as well as for individual studio meetings with the instructor. Development of a strong work ethic will
Visual Arts

Afro-Futurism and Black Horror — LIT4289.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Phillip Williams
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Credits: 4
In this class we will read stories, novels, and essays that interrogate the execution and historicity of Black horror and and the Afro-future, using Black horror as the foundation for deeper intellectual and aesthetic delving into Afro-futuristic texts. We will engage with the question: How does Black horror reflect and shatter historical notions of horrific acts against Black
Literature

After Borges — SPA4302.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
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Credits: 4
Whether he is the last modernist, or the first postmodern, the least Latin American of all Latin American authors or perhaps the most, the grand destroyer of all illusions or ultimately their victim, in the wake of his own statement that 鈥淓very writer creates his own precursors鈥 Jorge Luis Borges has already provided the theoretical premise for so much subsequent work that this
Languages

Alexander Technique — DAN2151.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Rebecca Brooks, MFA Teaching Fellow
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Credits: 2
The Alexander Technique begins with the premise that the human organism is perfectly designed for an expansive range of activities. It is our own misuse that gets in the way of this potential. The Alexander Technique maps a neuromuscular process by which we use our thinking to undo habitual layers of use, and make conscious choices that create more freedom and range, resulting
Dance

Alternative Facts: The Undoing of Science in America — ENV2185.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Betsy Sherman
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There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge. (Isaac Asimov, 1980). Does the recent U.S. election suggest that the
CAPA Environment Science and Mathematics

Aluminum Casting — SCU4104.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: John Umphlett
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Credits: 2
This course is designed to introduce students to all processes involved in casting selected or designed objects in Aluminum. Students will observe class demonstrations and then apply the techniques to their own individual plans directed at a final aluminum pour of their objects. Processes involved and used include but not limited to: Developing part molds with sand, wax
Visual Arts

An Actor鈥檚 Technique-Nuts and Bolts — DRA4127.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Dina Janis
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Credits: 4
How do actors bridge the gap between themselves and the role they are playing? How do actors rehearse with other actors in order to explore the world of the play? This non-performance based class is designed to help individual actors discover their own organic, thorough rehearsal process. Step by step we will clarify the actor鈥檚 process: character research, character
Drama

An Intro to Acting: Suzuki and Viewpoints — DRA2174.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Gian-Murray Gianino
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Credits: 4
An introduction to the Suzuki Method of Actor Training and the Viewpoints practice. This class offers the beginning actor/artist a way of entering into a dialogue with technique. It will require rigorous physical exploration and puts a value and emphasis on the body as the bedrock of the artist. These trainings seek to heighten the actor's emotional and physical power, one's
Drama

Animation 1 — MA2105.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Sue Rees
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Credits: 4
The class will be concerned with animating inanimate objects by stop motion, drawings, and cut out collages. A variety of filmmakers and techniques will be looked at during the course of the semester. Students will be expected to produce a variety of short projects followed by a longer more sustained project. Students will be instructed in using 鈥楧ragonframe鈥 Software, the
Visual Arts

Animation-Projections-Experiments — MA4210.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Sue Rees
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Credits: 4
During the first half of the semester a series of experiments will occur by projecting on to created objects, spaces and locations. The intention is to create animations, images, videos which will bring a different perspective to the objects and locations by a shift in scale, content and context.From these short experiments and from other sources, longer animations or projects
Visual Arts

Architectural Graphics — ARC2104.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Donald Sherefkin
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Credits: 2
An introduction to a broad range of drawing techniques, including observational drawing, diagrammatic sketching, and geometric constructions. We will also master the conventions of architectural drawing, from plans and sections to three-dimensional projections. Weekly workshops and drawing assignments are required. Corequisite: Enrollment in Architecture 1-Elements Registration
Visual Arts

Architecture 1 鈥 Elements — ARC2101.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Donald Sherefkin
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Credits: 4
Introduction to the discipline of architectural exploration. This studio focuses on the formation of architectural concepts through the development of spatial investigations. using scale models and drawings. In addition, a thematic history of architecture will be presented through slide lectures and readings. We begin with a series of abstract exercises which explore ways in
Visual Arts Environment

Art in the Public Realm II: Bennington and China — APA4107.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Jon Isherwood and Susan Sgorbati
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Credits: 2
This course will research, develop and implement public art for two projects: Bennington We will research existing models nationally and internationally that have provided integrations for public spaces. We will explore opportunities on the Bennington campus including, but not limited to, the Commons project. Through dialogue and collaboration, we will assess what spaces are
CAPA Visual Arts