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A Play Takes Place in the Audience — DRA4133.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Sherry Kramer
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Credits: 4
A play is a unique, self organizing process which generates new states of order spontaneously out of nothing. It uses this order to create a perception shift in the audience. We will read 10 plays together to investigate the way that plays generate meaning. There will be a series of short writing exercises, and students will write a 30-90 minute play as their final project.
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Actor鈥檚 Instrument — DRA2139.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Dina Janis
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Credits: 4
The craft of acting will be the main focus of this class. Through physical and vocal warm-up exercises, sensory exploration, improvisation, scene work, and extensive reading students will be asked to develop an awareness of their own unique instrument as actors and learn to trust their inner impulses where this is concerned. Extensive out of class preparation of specific
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Adaptation — DRA4153.01

Spring 2018
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
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Advanced Individual Piano Instruction — MIN4333.01

Spring 2018
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.
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Advanced Linear Algebra, Group Theory, and Geometry II — MAT4129.01

Spring 2018
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 Projects in Dance — DAN4795.02, Section 2

Spring 2018
Instructor: Dana Reitz
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Credits: 2
This is an essential course for students involved in making work for performance this term. Attention is given to all of the elements involved in composition and production, including collaborative aspects. Students are expected to show their work throughout stages of development, complete their projects, and perform them to the public by the end of the term. Corequisites:
Dance

Advanced Projects in Dance — DAN4795.01, Section 1

Spring 2018
Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
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Credits: 2
This is an essential course for students involved in making work for performance this term. Attention is given to all of the elements involved in composition and production, including collaborative aspects. Students are expected to show their work throughout stages of development, complete their projects, and perform them to the public by the end of the term. Corequisites:
Dance

Advanced Projects in Film and Video — FV4304.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Fern Silva
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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. Registration: Proposals to be emailed to Fern Silva by November 17th.
Visual Arts

Advanced Voice — MVO4401.01, section 1

Spring 2018
Instructor: Kerry Ryer-Parke
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Credits: 2
Advanced study of vocal technique and the interpretation of 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 school. A
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Advanced Voice — MVO4401.02, section 2

Spring 2018
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
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Advanced Workshop for Painting and Drawing — PAI4302.01

Spring 2018
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 2018
Instructor: Erika Mijlin
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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 鈥 in particular
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Alexander Technique — DAN2151.01

Spring 2018
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
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All Movies Matter: Representation in Entertainment —

Spring 2018
Instructor: James Smith III
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Credits: 2
Examining racial and minority representation (gender, sexual orientation, age, etc.) in the media and entertainment. From Al Jolson in "The Jazz Singer", Mickey Rooney in "Breakfast at Tiffany's", and Matt Damon in "The Great Wall" to Zoe Saldana in "Nina", Zoe Saldana in "Avatar", or Zoe Saldana in "Guardians of the Galaxy", this class explores how people of diverse

Amplified Realities / Maxwell Render for Rhino — VA2111.02

Spring 2018
Instructor: Michael Stradley
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Credits: 2
Amplified Realities is a foundation course in Maxwell Render for Rhino, with some coverage of Adobe Photoshop. Maxwell Render is a professional software platform used by artists, designers, architects, and animators for the creation of images, films and animations from 3D models. Students in this class will learn how to specifically tailor 3D-models for rendering, set-up
Visual Arts

An Introduction to Dance Phrasing — DAN2321.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Dana Reitz
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Credits: 2
This is designed for those who are interested in developing a sense of phrasing by making and exploring movement material. Full attention is paid to the 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 and phrasing will help
Dance

Analyzing the Social Issues in Japan Through Online News — JPN4601.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
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Credits: 4
The course is designed for students to deepen their understanding of Japanese language and culture through analysis of Japanese online newspapers and examination of Japanese news articles from various contexts. Students will practice various reading strategies, which will help them become independent learners. Mass media is the reflection of a society and the mirror of a
Languages

Animal Social Behavior — BIO4307.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Betsy Sherman
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Credits: 4
E. O. Wilson has said that 鈥渢he organism is simply DNA鈥檚 way of making more DNA鈥. Are the elaborate, bizarre, (at times flamboyant), energy requiring social systems of animals simply adaptations which permit those animals to reproduce? Why is there so much diversity among animal social systems? Why are most mammals polygynous and most birds monogamous? Can we make predictions
Science and Mathematics Environment

Animation/Design Projects — MA4127.01

Spring 2018
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 will
Visual Arts

Art Exhibitions as Site for Contemplation and Research — VA4117.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Liz Deschenes
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Credits: 2
This is a six-week course that will require no previous knowledge of Museum or Curatorial studies. We will spend class time together looking at how for profits, otherwise know as a commercial art galleries, produce art exhibitions- solo and group exhibitions. Students will have assignments and readings, that will support the visits and research that we will embark upon as group
Visual Arts

Art of Stage Design — DRA2250.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Michael Giannitti
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Credits: 4
A scenic design communicates lots of information to an audience, and provides the physical world in which a performance takes place. In his book The Dramatic Imagination, the great set designer Robert Edmond Jones wrote: 鈥溾e may fairly speak of the art of stage designing as poetic, in that it seeks to give expression to the essential quality of a play rather than to its
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Avant Improv Ensemble — MIN4334.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
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Credits: 2
Avant Improv Ensemble is an experimental group of musicians who learn to take risks while improvising in the jazz and noise music traditions. The ensemble will touch on melodies and harmonic material in the vein of Ornette Coleman, Sun Ra, Charles Gayle, Brian Eno, Albert Ayler, Misha Mengelberg and others. Students must have a mid to advanced working knowledge on their
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Banjo — MIN2215.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: John Kirk
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Credits: 2
Beginning, intermediate, or advanced group lessons on the 5-string banjo in the claw-hammer/frailing style. Student will learn to play using simple song sheets with chords, tablature, and standard notation. Using chord theory and scale work, personal music-making skills will be enhanced. Awareness of traditional styles of playing the instrument will be furthered through a
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Bass Intensive — MIN4026.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Michael Bisio
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Credits: 2
This class is the application of theory. It includes drills both on and off the instrument to insure the studied information (theory) is available to the performer in real time along with idiomatic considerations: construction of bass lines and solo ideas. We will also study masters in recording and by transcription. Corequisites: Attendance at Music Workshop
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