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3D Modeling for Painting, Drawing, and Printmaking — VA2225.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Farhad Mirza
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Credits: 2
3D Modeling for Painting, Drawing, and Printmaking This seven week course will provide students with an opportunity to explore ways that they might fold digital fabrication into an ongoing studio // art-making practice. Laser-cutters, a CNC mill, 3D printers, and a 3D scanner will all be available for students to use toward individually developed investigations. Students will
Visual Arts

Adaptation — DRA2249.01

Spring 2019
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

Addressing a Growing Environmental Problem: Plastic Pollution — APA4139.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Judith Enck
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Credits: 2
This class will provide the latest scientific, economic and policy information to students and marry that information to public action strategies that each student will be expected to lead. With guidance from the faculty, students develop and then implement their strategy for public action. Special attention will be paid to strategies that can be replicated. With over 8 million
CAPA Environment

Adobe Creative Suite for Artists — DA2102.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Anna Kroll
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Credits: 2
This course introduces artists to Adobe Creative Suite, focusing on Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign. We will explore the individual capabilities of each program and how to bridge between them. We will also learn best practices in creating and managing digital files. Students will apply skills learned to their own creative projects and ideas. They will also have the
Visual Arts

Advanced Ceramic Projects — CER4385.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Aysha Peltz
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Credits: 4
This course is designed for the intermediate or advanced ceramic student who is ready to focus intensely on a project. Projects will be conceptually based, requiring investigation on an individual level. Issues to be raised in this class will include functional and sculptural forms relating to the history of ceramic objects. Readings and research will supplement studio
Visual Arts

Advanced Counterpoint: Fugue Writing — MTH4249.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
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Credits: 2
A course in counterpoint, focusing on the virtuosic practice of writing fugues. The class will focus on the watershed fugues of Bach and later touch on contemporary versions by Bartok, Hindemith, and Shostakovich. Students will be expected to write fugues for two, three, and four voices.
Music

Advanced Electronic Music Composition and Performance Workshop — MCO4119.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Sergei Tcherepnin
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Credits: 2
This is an electronic music composition intensive class that will focus on performance. Over the course of the class students will be expected to home in on personal electronic music instrument set-ups that can be used live in performance. Throughout the course students will be composing for different ensembles assigned to them - solos, duos, trios. Each week will consist of
Music

Advanced Projects in Video — FV4305.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Jen Liu
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Credits: 4
Students will work towards completing one piece or body or work of their own devising during the course of the semester. Emphasis will be on depth of approach to content, the refinement of process, and in-class peer critical review.
Visual Arts

Advanced Voice — MVO4401.02, section 2

Spring 2019
Instructor: Thomas Bogdan
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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 school. A
Music

Advanced Voice — MVO4401.01, section 1|MVO4401.01, section 1

Spring 2019
Instructor: Kerry Ryer-Parke|Kerry Ryer-Parke
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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 school. A
Music

Advanced Workshop for Painting and Drawing — PAI4302.01

Spring 2019
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 2019
Instructor: Eileen Scully Susan Sgorbati
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Credits: 4
This course is designed for seniors or second term juniors who are doing advanced work. Advanced work in CAPA is expected to build on proven strengths in other discipline areas with previous coursework relevant to their area of interest. This spring seminar provides a unique venue for students to better define and pursue the public implications of their education. Students are
CAPA

Aesthetics — PHI2253.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Karen Gover
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Credits: 4
Why do we care about art? Why and how do artworks move us? What, if anything, do artworks mean, and how do we know? This course takes up these and other questions relating to the philosophy of art and artworks. This course will look at the philosophical tradition of aesthetics, including Plato, Aristotle, Kant, and Hegel, up to the present day. We will also look at the role of
Society Culture and Thought

After Super Flat — VA2207.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Yoko Inoue
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Credits: 4
Manga or Japanese comic book and Anime images have become integrated into the global contemporary art context. While investigating the social codes that can be found in the various genres of manga and trends within the cultural specificities of Japan from 1945 to today, this course explores the influences of Manga/Anime on fine art and contemporary art making. This is a
Visual Arts

American Others: Experimental American Literature — LIT4221.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Manuel Gonzales
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Credits: 4
The label, Experimental Fiction, has been applied and misapplied since Laurence Sterne's novel, Tristam Shandy, was first published in 1759. In this class, we will dissect and examine the label and the work often associated with that label, questioning what it means to be 'experimental' as an American writer of fiction. Over the semester we will tackle modernist and postmodern
Literature

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

Spring 2019
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 Tales: Fundamentals of Creative Writing — LIT2330.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Anna Maria Hong
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Credits: 4
What do writings about animals reveal about their lives and their interactions with human beings? How do human beings engage with mammals, sea creatures, reptiles, and birds as food, competitors, and companions? We will explore these questions as we read excellent writings focusing on the real and imagined lives of animals from ancient fables through 21st-century stories, poems
Environment Literature

Animated Collage — MA2216.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Sue Rees
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Credits: 4
Half of the class will be working with an analogue process of creating forms, using the multiplane and or copystands to create the animation. The other half will be concerned with scanning and isolating forms digitally and using After Effects to animate. We will be looking at Martha Colburn, Terry Gilliam, Janie Geiser, John Heartfield, Hannah Höch in particular as well as
Visual Arts

Animation Projects — MA4202.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Sue Rees
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Credits: 4
The course will be for sustained work on an animation or design project. Students will be expected to create a complete animation, or project. The expectation is that students will be fully engaged in all aspects of the class from critiques, to experimenting with ideas, undertaking research and being present. Locations may be explored for showing of work including investigating
Visual Arts

Architectural Analysis — ARC4157.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Donald Sherefkin
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Credits: 4
Students will select a critically significant building from the history of architecture. After careful research and documentation, a detailed analysis will be made, resulting in critical drawings, diagrams and both physical and digital models. A final project will then be formulated for a new project, generated from the discoveries that emerged through the analysis.
Visual Arts

Architectural Graphics — ARC2104.01

Spring 2019
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. Corequisites: Architecture 1-Elements **When you register for
Visual Arts

Architecture 1 – Elements — ARC2101.01

Spring 2019
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 Exhibitions as Site for Contemplation and Research — VA4138.01

Spring 2019
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, produces 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
Visual Arts

Art of Resistance: The 51³ÉÈËÁÔÆæ Poster Project (part 2) — VA2119.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Ann Pibal
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Credits: 2
This course will provide a collaborative site for the production of distributable protest and resistance imagery, as well as a shared investigation into the rich international history of political posters and related ephemera. Students will be provided structure both in which to work together on research, and on the design, production, and distribution of imagery. Discussion of
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