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Spring 2019

Life and Death: Buddhism in Modern Japanese Films — JPN4401.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida

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Credits: 4

In this course, students will examine how Buddhism influenced Japanese thought on the after-life and analyze how Japanese views on the relationship between life and death are depicted in recent Japanese films. In the first seven weeks of the course, students will examine and discuss the history, beliefs, and deities of Buddhism and their influences on society. In the second

Languages

Life Drawing Lab — DRW2118.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Colin Brant

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Credits: 2

Drawing Lab provides an opportunity for student artists of all experience levels to further develop their skills with observational-based drawing. Working primarily with the human figure, students build increased understanding of the poetic, dynamic, and inherently abstract nature of drawing, while paying close attention to the potential of formal elements such as shape, line,

Visual Arts

Linear Algebra — MAT4115.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Carly Briggs

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Credits: 4

Together with calculus, linear algebra is one of the foundations of higher level mathematics and its applications. This course is necessary for students concentrating in mathematics, is strongly recommended for students intending to study computer science, physics, or geology, and may be useful for students in economics or biology. This course is a prerequisite for

Science and Mathematics

Literature of Barcelona and Madrid — SPA4806.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Sarah Harris

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Credits: 4

Only two cities in Spain have over one million inhabitants, and these same two cities often seem at odds with each other. One city is geographically and politically central, the seat of the royal family, while the other is on the periphery, with a government that is currently in exile. Architecturally, one is largely neoclassical and monumental, while the other can seem

Languages

Literature of Travel and Discovery — FRE4605.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Stephen Shapiro

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Credits: 4

In this course, we will explore the representation of travel and discovery in a variety of genres (essay, theatre, novel, poetry, film, bande dessinée). By examining both fictive and real travel narratives, we will look at how reality is transformed into a text and how fictions help us to imagine and discover new ways of thinking and living. Central themes will include exile

Languages

Local Governance in Comparative Perspective — POL4239.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Rotimi Suberu

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Credits: 4

Around the world, there is renewed interest in empowering institutions of local governance (county, city, town/township, municipal, village, or special-purpose local government, and non-governmental local associations) in order to promote political democracy, enhance socio-economic welfare, and accommodate subnational identities, among other goals. This course will examine the

Society Culture and Thought

Making Work — DAN4135.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Miguel Gutierrez

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Credits: 2

This course focuses on the creative process in making body/movement-based performance/dance. A variety of approaches to creating - intuitive, improvisational, and analytical - is exploited to uncover your individual interests, your process and your work. The workshop consists of unequal parts making, discussing, improvising and watching the work of other workshop participants.

Dance

Mandolin — MIN2229.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: John Kirk

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Credits: 2

Beginning, intermediate and advanced group or individual lessons on the mandolin will be offered. Student will learn classical technique on the mandolin and start to develop a repertoire of classical and traditional folk pieces. Simple song sheets with chords, tablature, and standard notation, chord theory, and scale work will all be used to further skills. Students will be

Music

Markmaking and Representation — DRW2149.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Mary Lum

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Credits: 4

The fundamentals of drawing are the basic tools for this investigation into seeing and translation. Using simple methods and means, the practice of drawing is approached from both traditional and experimental directions. The focus of this inquiry is on drawing from observation, broadly defined. In class drawing sessions are complemented by independent, outside of class work and

Visual Arts

Material Science — CER4106.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Joshua Primmer

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Credits: 2

In Material Science students will be exploring the science of glaze chemistry beginning with developing an understanding of the major components of a glaze and culminating with establishing the ability to create original glazes designed to fulfill predetermined traits. Some of the subjects explored will be color development, surface, glazes designed for the three major firing

Visual Arts

Medieval Travelers on the Silk Road — HIS4116.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Carol Pal

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Credits: 4

In this course, we examine six moments of intellectual encounter between "east" and "west" along the storied route of the Silk Road. These encounters spanned a millennium, from the fifth century BCE to the fourteenth century. We will be reading primary sources written by these scholar-travelers – Herodotus, Xuan Zang, Al-Biruni, Marco Polo, Ibn Battuta, and Sir John Mandeville

Society Culture and Thought

Metamorphoses: Borders and Beyond — Devising Multicultural Theater — DRA2165.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Jean Randich

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Credits: 4

This course on devised theater is aimed at students who have experienced living in more than one culture and are interested in creating a multilingual theater piece inspired by their own experiences of crossing cultures, sensing boundaries, and the role of transformation. We will read selections from contemporary writers, such as Marjane Satrapi, Gloria Anzaldua, and Kapka

Drama

Middle Eastern Diasporic Experience in Theatre and Cinema — APA2155.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Burcu Seyben

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Credits: 4

This course will focus on the plays, films, playwrights, directors and theatre companies exploring the diasporic experience of the recent Middle Eastern migrants. The course will explore how Middle Eastern Diaspora Theatre responds to the recent political climate, the conflict and wars in the Middle East. The course will look at the works of those artists who have left their

CAPA

Mixing Techniques — MSR4110.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Senem Pirler

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Credits: 2

In this course, we will explore various mixing objectives and techniques through critical listening sessions, analysis, and hands-on projects. We will focus on the fundamentals of mixing, shaping the sounds through dynamic range processors and modulation tools, and various other techniques. Students will have an opportunity to practice their mixing skills through multitracks,

Music

Modern Guitar — MIN4224.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Hui Cox

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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. Corequisites: Attendance at Music Workshop (Tuesday, 6:30 – 8:00 pm).

Music

Mother Figure and Motherly Figures in Italian Culture – Taught in English — ITA2117.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Barbara Alfano

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Credits: 4

This course explores the concept of motherhood and the role of the mother in Italian culture primarily through literature and film, but also through art and music. Particular attention will be given to the history of Italian women’s writing and Italian feminist thought. Some of the questions that the course will ask are: What are the implications and ramifications of the

Languages

Movement Practice: Advanced Dance Technique — DAN4344.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Hilary Clark

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Credits: 2

This advanced movement practice will begin slowly through utilizing alignment exercises, scores, improvisation and set phrase material. We will investigate the interconnections of fascial tissue and energetic pathways and explore different somatic approaches. We will practice using a healthy range of motion, shifts of weight, changes of direction and dynamic fluctuations of

Dance

Movement Practice: Beginning Dance Technique — DAN2121.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Hilary Clark

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Credits: 2

For those looking for a basic movement class we will begin with a slow warm up focusing on our natural desire to move, basic anatomical information, imagery and embodiment practices. Using improvisation, simple exercises and choreographed phrase material, we will explore alignment principles, healthy range of motion, shifts of weight, changes of direction, and dynamic

Dance

Movement Practice: Intermediate Dance Technique — DAN4236.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Elena Demyanenko

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Credits: 2

This intermediate movement class will develop from simple skeletal mobility sequences to expansive movement forms. The warm-up will examine the joints and how their range of motion relates to alignment, readiness to move, and articulation. These principles will then become the foundation for traveling sequences and longer movement phrases. Distinguishing between tempo, rhythm,

Dance

Movement Practice: Intermediate-Advanced Dance Technique — DAN4148.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Russell Lilie

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Credits: 2

In this Intermediate-Advanced movement class, we will work on establishing a day-to-day practice of evaluating and fine-tuning our dancing bodies through guided self-examination and peer-to-peer feedback. At the core of developing our practice, we will be learning to accomplish the same movement with ever changing bodies and minds. We will focus on anatomical economy by

Dance

Music Composition Project: Acoustic/Electronic — MCO4501.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Allen Shawn Sergei Tcherepnin

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Credits: 4

In this course students will compose a substantial work for one solo instrument with electroacoustic accompaniment. Class will meet twice a week and will be team taught. In Tuesday’s session we will review the history of compositions involving acoustic instruments with electronics and there will be technical instruction in the electronic music studio. On Thursdays, we will have

Music

Mutants: Genetic Variation and Human Development — BIO2210.01

Spring 2019

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 biological sex? While the human genome successfully encodes the information required to produce a “normal” human being, genetic variation dictates the subtle and not so subtle differences that make us each a unique individual. “Mutant”

Science and Mathematics

Narrative, Trauma, and Bearing Witness — PSY4134.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Ella Ben Hagai

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Credits: 4

In this advanced psychology seminar, we will dive into foundational work in Narrative Psychology. We will study the relationship between the narrative structure and human cognitive processes including memory, perception, and conceptualization. We will learn how cultural differences shape children’s varied storytelling practices. Through the lens of social psychology research,

Society Culture and Thought

New Play Development: Rewriting in Company — DRA4213.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Sherry Kramer

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Credits: 4

For students with completed first drafts of plays. We will create a workshop environment, and all students in the class will make contributions to each play, serving as actors, directors, and dramaturges in turn. Different models for generating new work and presenting it will be studied and sampled. Two full drafts of plays are expected, culminating in a finished draft and a

Drama

Niedecker, Graham, Ford — LIT4259.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Phillip B. Williams

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Credits: 4

This is an advanced literary study of three women poets who seem connected aesthetically through the modernist school of poetics, focusing on fragmentation, lyricism, formal inventiveness, and interrogation of self and self's participation/existence in their specific time. What bridges exist between Lorinne Niedecker, an early objectivist poet; Jorie Graham, arguably one of the

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