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Spring 2016

24 Stories of Filial Piety vs. The Daoist Tales of Zhuang Zi — CHI4213.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Ginger Lin

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Credits: 4

The Twenty-four Stories of Filial Piety are well known Chinese stories that exemplify the devotion of children to their parents that is the chief virtue in Confucianism. The Daoist Tales of Zhuangzi on the other hand offer a much different set of values. These tales "translated" from classical Chinese into modern Mandarin at the student's language level will serve as a starting

Languages

A Dot and a Line: Literary Representations of the US-Mexico Border — SPA4221.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida

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Credits: 4

The border between Mexico and the U.S. is a physical space as well as a symbolic one, a place of exchange and hybridity, but also a place of violence and xenophobia. El Paso, Ciudad Juárez, Tijuana, and Mexicali are all zones where the North and the South meet, areas of conflict that contemporary literature has profusely portrayed. Writers like Rulfo, Fuentes, Poniatowska, P.

Languages

Adaptation — DRA2249.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Sherry Kramer

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Credits: 4

Adaptation: A writer is a reader moved to imitation. 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

Drama Literature

Advanced Ceramic Projects — CER4385.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Barry Bartlett

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Credits: 4

The process of making artwork will be the major focus of the class. This studio class is designed to support the development of the creative process in ceramics with an understanding lending itself to all forms of art making. Projects will be conceptually based, requiring investigation on an individual level. Issues to be raised in this class will include functional and

Visual Arts

Advanced Chamber Music — MPF4230.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Nat Parke

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Credits: 2

An intensive, performance oriented exploration of chamber music literature. Corequisite: Must participate in Music Workshop (T 6:30pm – 8:00pm).

Music

Advanced Computer Graphics — CS4103.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Justin Vasselli

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Credits: 4

One of Computer Graphics’ most interesting challenges for software engineers is optimizing the renderer. There are several different rendering algorithms, but in this class we’ll focus on ray tracing. This course is about more than making pretty pictures. We’ll be going under the hood to really understand how renderers are implemented and how to

Science Mathematics and Computing

Advanced Intermediate Improvisation: Dynamic Movement — DAN4241.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Dana Reitz

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Credits: 2

In this Advanced Intermediate Improvisation class we will focus on finding and building a dynamic movement vocabulary. Students will be learning to observe, listen, trust, respect and respond to every moment without forcing their own movement choices or imposing connections with someone else. Throughout the course, we will pay attention to personal physical language

Dance

Advanced Mediation — APA4206.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Peter Pagnucco

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Credits: 1

This course is an advanced level of training in mediation and negotiation. Advanced mediator skills are featured including effective neutral intervention, constructive communication, reframing, problem framing, interest‐based negotiation and agreement writing. Students will participate in role‐play exercises, read and present articles, and write a reflection essay. Based on

CAPA

Advanced Music Production — MSR4106.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: David Baron

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Credits: 4

We will examine pop hits, arrangements, and track programming. We will study beat programming. How to fill out an electronic arrangement. Fake a string section. What plugins are useful? How do you tune a vocal to sound natural or unnatural? How do you make a mix pump like Daft Punk? What’s the sonic difference between digital and analog synthesizers? We

Music

Advanced Observing Projects — PHY4326.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Hugh Crowl

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Credits: 2

Students will observe using the telescopes at Stickney Observatory for a series of astronomical observing projects. After a range of initial assigned projects designed to acquaint students with the capabilities of the observing equipment and astrophysically interesting observations, students will propose and carry out their own observing projects looking at astrophysical

Science Mathematics and Computing

Advanced Projects in Film and Video — FV4304.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Karthik Pandian

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Credits: 4

This is a workshop for advanced students pursuing self-directed projects in film and video. Class time will be spent on group critiques to be supplemented by screenings, readings, discussion, student presentations and individual meetings with the instructor. Please note that this course will require additional materials to be purchased by the student. Please download and

Visual Arts

Advanced Voice — MVO4401.02; section 2

Spring 2016

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 Voice — MVO4401.01; section 1

Spring 2016

Instructor: Kerry Ryer-Parke

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Credits: 2

Music

Advanced Workshop for Painting and Drawing — VA4404.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Ann Pibal

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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

Advanced Workshop in CAPA — APA4109.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: David Bond

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Credits: 4

This workshop is designed to enable students to pursue work they have already begun that is focused on public action regardless of the particular issue/s they are addressing and to integrate Field Work Term into that work. Students will be presenting their own work to the workshop as it unfolds. Some portion of the workshop will be dedicated to common experience – in particular

CAPA

Advanced Workshop in Photographic Practice — PHO4250.02

Spring 2016

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Credits: 2

This course meets the second seven weeks of the term and supports advanced students who are working primarily with photography as they pursue self-directed projects. Regular group discussion will challenge, complicate, clarify and deepen students understanding of their work in progress as they resolve its production both formally and conceptually. We will examine specific

Visual Arts

African Conflict Resolution — POL4254.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Rotimi Suberu

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Credits: 2

The prevention, management and resolution of African conflicts constitute a defining challenge for the international community, including the United Nations (UN), which has mounted multi‐billion dollar peace operations on the continent. Despite the peace dividend from these operations and other interventions, large segments of the African population continue to live in deadly

CAPA Society Culture and Thought

Alexander Technique — DRA2265.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Rebecca Brooks

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Credits: 4

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 Drama Music

An Introduction to Dance Phrasing — DAN2321.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Dana Reitz

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Credits: 4

This is designed for those who are interested in developing a sense of personal movement phrasing by making and exploring material. Full attention is paid to detail, nuance, and finesse of any phrase material that is made. Performance of the material will directly affect the sense of phrasing and technical understanding, and in reverse, knowledge of technique/phrasing will help

Dance

Anatomy of a Philosophical Essay — PHI2145.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Karen Gover

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Credits: 1

This course will provide an in-depth look at a single model philosophy essay over seven course meetings, in order to gain a deeper understanding of its form, content, context, aims, and purpose. Students will thereby obtain a deeper understanding of the academic research paper in general as a form in which scholars present, publish, and test their ideas. Possible

Society Culture and Thought

Ancient Greek Philosophy — PHI2146.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Karen Gover

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Credits: 4

This course is an introduction to Ancient Philosophy. We will study the ideas and works of the Presocratics, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoic philosopher, Epictetus. Using the course texts, in-class writing practices, class discussion, and group work students will gain familiarity with philosophical ideas from ancient Greek philosophy, some of which are complex

Society Culture and Thought

And Process for All — MED2110.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Peter Pagnucco

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Credits: 4

In American society, conflict resolution need not mean a punch in the nose-instead, we have process. This course is an experiential examination of two primary conflict resolution processes, litigation and mediation; and is intended for students willing to try things out. First, we will explore what society might want from a conflict resolution process and examine some of the

CAPA

Animation Projects — MA4201.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Sue Rees

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Credits: 4

The course will be for sustained work on an animation or set design. Students will be expected to create a complete animation, or project. The expectation is that students will be fully engaged in their project, and with critiques. Locations will be explored for showing of work including investigating digital projections on different surfaces and forms. Animation students

Visual Arts

Anthropology of Art — ANT4212.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Miroslava Prazak

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Credits: 4

This course is an exploration of art as defined and practiced in different cultures. We will look at how peoples of diverse world cultures create, use, manipulate, conceptualize, exchange, and evaluate objects of material culture. We will look at how material items are considered to be artistic or aesthetic in some fashion, and think of how and if we can translate those values

Society Culture and Thought

Applied Physics/Engineering Physics: Deformation of Solids — PHY4215.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Tim Schroeder

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Credits: 4

This course applies mechanical physics concepts to practical engineering and environmental problems. In order to ensure peoples’ safety, any structure, be it a building, a nuclear reactor, a dam, an embankment, or a natural hillside, must be able to withstand the stresses that are placed on it by its environment. You will learn how forces cause stress within solid

Science Mathematics and Computing Environment