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Spring 2025

"Culture" in a Globalized World — ANT2115.01) (cancelled 10/10/2024

Spring 2025

Instructor: Cecilia Salvi

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Credits: 4

This introductory course explores the ways that the idea of culture underpins legal and political discourses, frameworks and agendas. Using the work of post-colonial, feminist and legal anthropologists, we will do a close (and interesting!) reading of primary sources, such as UN protocols and conventions, asylum and refugee principles, and development and anti

Actors Instrument — DRA2170.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Kirk Jackson

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Credits: 4

An actor honors and bears witness to humanity by embodying and giving voice to the human element in the landscape of theatrical collaboration. Investigating the impulses and intuitions that make us unique as individuals can also identify that which constitutes our shared humanity. Through exploration of the fundamentals of performance, students address the actor’s body,

Drama

Advanced Design Collaboration — DRA4246.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Tilly Grimes

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Credits: 4

When theater starts with a script, visuals tend to follow the narrative. But what happens when bold visuals lead the way? This course will offer students an accredited platform for design-centered, devised work focusing on collaboration and resulting in a student driven, designed production. Three projects will be selected for the class. Students will need to join the

Drama

Advanced Forest Ecology Conservation (with Lab) — BIO4323.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie

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Credits: 4

Forest ecosystems regulate climate, store and filter water, provide food and fiber, and serve as recreational areas and sacred spaces. These ecosystems are undergoing dramatic changes — climate change, deforestation, management — with important ecological, economic, and social consequences for the future of ecosystems and society. Vermont is among the most forested states in

Science and Mathematics Environment

Advanced Guitar: Folk Styles — MIN4361.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: John Kirk

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Credits: 2

Individual or small group lessons of advanced study on guitar. Continued studies from Intermediate Guitar. Advanced study in fret-board harmony and theory, playing in different tunings, increase chord vocabulary and repertoire, emphasis on finger picking styles.

Music

Advanced Improvisation Ensemble for Dancers and Musicians — DAN4361.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Susan Sgorbati

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Credits: 2

This class will be co-taught by Dance Faculty from the BFA and BA Dance program and is open to both groups of dance students as well as music students. This class is for students who have had training in improvisational practices. Students will explore and perform structures, paying attention to pattern recognition, arcs of development and the building of gestural, sonic,

Dance Music

Advanced Improvisation: The Game of the Scene — DRA4380.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Shawtane Bowen

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Credits: 4

Advanced Improvisation: GOTS is an in-depth study of improvised comedy scene work. The central theme of this course is finding and playing “Game.” In order to find a Game in a long form improvised scene, you typically need to be able to answer three questions: What is the situation? What is the first unusual thing? If this is true, then what else is true. We’ll

Drama

Advanced Jazz Piano — MIN4240.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Jen Allen

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Credits: 2

Weekly private instruction in jazz piano to be arranged with instructor. Explore and develop skills and knowledge required to effectively play non-classical piano repertoire. Styles covered: blues, pop, folk, salsa, bossa-nova and jazz. Create bass lines, chord voicings, stylistic rhythms, melodies and improvised solos.

Music

Advanced Printing and Projects in Lithography — PRI4118.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Thorsten Dennerline

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Credits: 4

This advanced level course is also an introduction to lithographic processes. Students will start by processing and printing images from limestone and end the semester by exploring the possibilities of making positive films to expose lithographic plates. This studio class is structured around a number of projects, each one ending with a group critique. Students should find the

Visual Arts

Advanced Project: Analog/Digital Process in Ceramics — CER4317.02

Spring 2025

Instructor: Anina Major

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Credits: 2

Ceramics is the first material created by humankind, produced across scales and applications from the craft-studio to high-volume, automated manufacturing environments. Pleasing to the touch and easily manipulated by hand, it can also be subject to digital technologies and robotic approaches. This course investigates the material nature of clay as a medium to create three

Visual Arts

Advanced Projects in Architecture and Design — DES4104.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Farhad Mirza

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Credits: 4

“…every form of making a world through our encounters with things is fully multi-modal. It is principally a mixture of modes of know-how (technê) and modes of know-what (epistêmê) with more complex combinations of the two wherein the hard distinction between technique and episteme collapses.” —Reza Negarestani, What does it take to make anything at all? This is a

Visual Arts

Advanced Projects in Dance — DAN4795.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Levi Gonzalez

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Credits: 4

This course is for students with prior experience in dance making who wish to create new work for performance or senior work. We will share our work regularly, explore different feedback modalities, and reflect on our own individual artistic approaches and concerns. Attention will be given to the elements involved in composition, production, collaboration and presentation.

Dance

Advanced Projects in Film and Video — FV4304.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Jen Liu

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Credits: 4

Students will work towards completing one moving image piece or body or work of their own devising during the course of the semester. This course is primarily intended for seventh- and eighth-term students with a Plan concentration in Film/Video who have already taken Advanced Projects I in the prior fall, but exceptions may be made by permission of the instructor.

Visual Arts

Advanced Translation Workshop — LIT4596.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 4

This intensive advanced translation workshop focuses on student work. Meant for those who have taken Ethical Translation and learned the nuts of translation there – though students who have otherwise translated may apply for special permission to join, including those taking The Global Enlightenment fall 2024 – here we dig into your longer translation projects. Reading each

Literature

Advanced Workshop in Painting and Drawing — PAI4420.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Beverly Acha

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Credits: 4

This course is for experienced student artists making work in painting and drawing who have a firm commitment to serious work in the studio. In this course students will primarily work on self-directed projects in an effort to develop and refine individual concerns and subject matter. Overall, the development of a strong work ethic will be crucial; a high level of

Visual Arts

African Conflict Resolution — POL4254.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Rotimi Suberu

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Credits: 2

The prevention, management and resolution of African conflicts is a major challenge for the international community and the continent’s peoples. Africa accounts for the largest and highest number of United Nations’ peacekeeping operations, but these “stabilization” missions have mostly failed to stabilize the continent, and large segments of the African population

CAPA Black Studies Society Culture and Thought

After Superflat — VA2207.01

Spring 2025

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 context of art making. This

Visual Arts

After Superflat Directed Project: Nuclear War — VA4407.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Yoko Inoue

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Credits: 4

Conducted through research that focuses on the development of Japanese subcultures in the Post World War II period, this course poses various critical inquiries about the effects of nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on contemporary global consumer society and the production of art. We will also bring into focus the trauma revisited up on us by the more recent nuclear

CAPA Visual Arts

AI and Ethics — CS2140.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Darcy Otto

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Credits: 4

If you had a robot who always tied your shoes for you, would you ever have learned how to tie your shoes yourself? What about if that same agent did all your arithmetic and all your writing, and eventually shaped all your decisions? The promise of AI is fraught with ethical questions that strike at the very heart of what it means to be human and to act as a moral agent in

Science and Mathematics Society Culture and Thought

Alexander Technique: Optimizing how you work when moving (advanced) — DAN4370.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Dana Reitz

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Credits: 4

This course will deepen students’ understanding of the Alexander Technique and Ideokinesis in relation to dance, the practice of performance, and everyday movement. It is both a movement and somatic class. This is a more advanced study of the Technique and its application. The Alexander Technique opens up the possibility of finding new balance, efficiency, strength, direction,

Dance

All About Love: Advanced – Endurance Movement Practice — DAN2367.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Elena Demyanenko

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Credits: 4

“The search for love continues even in the face of great odds.” What is love? When we talk about love are we perceived as weak and irrational? We are living in the times where learning to love gets shadowed by a culture of narcissism. In this class we will analyze bell hooks’s “all about love”, then embody written material through rigorous movement practice, breath work,

Dance

American Environmental Politics — POL2109.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: John Hultgren

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Credits: 4

This course will explore American environmental politics, from the late 1800s to the present day, with a focus on understanding the actors, institutions, and structural power dynamics that impact environmental struggles. We will proceed by engaging with a variety of historical and contemporary case studies related to clean air and water, forests, energy, public lands, and

Environment Society Culture and Thought

An Actor's Technique: Nuts and Bolts — DRA4127.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Jenny Rohn

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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’s process: character research, character

Drama

Analysis — MAT4214.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Katie Montovan

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Credits: 4

For the first one hundred and fifty years after its introduction, calculus saw an explosive development in its applications to mathematical and physical problems, defeating old problems thought of as insoluble, and solving new problems no-one had even thought to consider before. At the same time, it was under a cloud of suspicion: it rested on vague arguments about quantities

Science and Mathematics

Ancient Fashion — DRA2379.01) (cancelled 10/11/2024

Spring 2025

Instructor: Tilly Grimes

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Credits: 4

Dive into the ancient world of fashion in this comprehensive class of making and meaning. Together we will explore the history of early textiles, weaving, and draping across multiple continents before working with some simple versions of those techniques ourselves. This course will be broken down into four sections: 1. Researching the history of how indigenous and early