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Insider Perspectives on the French-Speaking World — FRE2103.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly
Credits: 4
Viewed from the outside, the French-speaking world has offered, for a long time, enticing images of beauty, pleasure, and freedom. From the inside, however, it is a complicated, often contradictory world where implicit codes and values shape the most basic aspects of daily life. This course will give you an insider's perspective on a cultural and communicative system whose
Languages

Insider Perspectives on the French-Speaking World — FRE2103.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: stephen shapiro
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Viewed from the outside, the French-speaking world offers enticing images of beauty, pleasure, and freedom. From the inside, however, it is a complicated, often contradictory world where implicit codes and values shape the most basic aspects of daily life. This course will give you an insider’s perspective on a cultural and communicative system whose ideas, customs, and belief
Languages

InSights: Digitally Fabricated Site-Specific Installations — VA4217.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Karolina Kawiaka
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Site-specific sculpture and installations transform a place according to the sculptor's vision. Sculptors such as Robert Smithson, Christo Jeanne-Claude, Andy Goldsworthy and James Turrell use the inspiration from a specific site to make an intervention. A new generation of this type of work is emerging using digital tools. In this course students will collaborate in teams to
Visual Arts

Installation and Projection Design — FV2308.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Katie Soule
Credits: 1
The purpose of this course will be to go through the practical, material, and aesthetic concerns of installations involving moving image. Whether through the use of live feed for performance, or a static multichannel flatscreen display in a gallery, the curriculum will aim to prepare students with the skills to plan and improvise on their own installations. We will work
Visual Arts

Instrument Building — MUS4014.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Nick Brooke
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
A course on modern instrument building, focusing on experimental instruments and unheard-of sounds. A survey will introduce students to the innovations of Harry Partch, new gamelans, circuit bending, and interfaced instruments. Students are required to design, construct, and perform on at least two different instruments during the term. Students will be asked to be critical
Music

Instrument Building — MUS2229.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
Credits: 2
A course on modern instrument building, focusing on acoustic experimental instruments and unheard-of sounds. A survey will introduce students to the innovations of Partch, new gamelans, circuit bending, and interfaced instruments. Students are required to design, construct, and perform on at least one instrument of significant complexity during the term. Students will be asked
Music

Instrument Building — MUS2229.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
Credits: 2
A course on modern instrument building, focusing on experimental acoustic instruments. Students are required to design, critique, and eventually construct instruments collaboratively and individually. We will also work with the Schonbeck instruments at MoCA, and new prototypes for Commons. Students will be expected to work on projects early and progressively, creating proof-of
Music

Intaglio: The Incised Line — PRI2116.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Jesse Connor
Credits: 4
Intaglio is among the richest artistic processes for drawing and generating expressive markmaking. The course will focus on the basic intaglio techniques of copper plate preparation, application of grounds, biting of plates using acids, rosin resists, printing of etched plates and paper handling. Themes in the class will reflect the students individual interest, sketchbooks and
Visual Arts

Intensive Introduction to Computer Science — CS2137.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Andrew Cencini
Credits: 4
In this class, students will be exposed to the main areas and questions related to computer science, while beginning their journey towards becoming skilled practitioners in the field. A large part of this process will include learning basic programming skills (C, C++, or Python), computational thinking and algorithm design. In addition, students will also formulate and explore
Science Mathematics and Computing

Intensive Introduction to Computer Science — CS2137.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: andrew cencini
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
In this class, students will be exposed to the main areas and questions related to computer science, while beginning their journey towards becoming skilled practitioners in the field. A large part of this process will include learning basic programming skills (C, C++, or Python), computational thinking and algorithm design. In addition, students will also formulate and explore
Science Mathematics and Computing

Interdependence: Moving and Thinking with Disability Justice — DAN2202.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Londs Reuter
Days & Time: TU,FR 4:10pm-6:00pm
Credits: 2

“Disability justice culture is simultaneously beautiful and practical. Poetry and dance are as important [to disability justice culture] as a blog post about accessible bathroom hacks—because they are interdependent.”
- Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

This course will introduce students to the basic concepts of disability justice and disability justice culture

Dance

Interdisciplinary Improvisation Ensemble — APA2135.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Susie Ibarra; Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 4
When you see a flock of birds migrating south, how does self-organization form the patterns that result in their flight? When you observe dancers moving along a path without a choreographer and musicians creating music without each note written down, how do they follow and listen to each other? How do collaborative structures support dialogue or destroy communication?
CAPA Dance Music

Interdisciplinary Projects in EMusic and Sound — MPF4701.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
Credits: 2
This advanced course focuses on the creation of interdisciplinary projects that include electronic music/sound as a primary component. Students will work in collaborative pairs or individually to develop a substantial semester-long compositional, installation, performance or intermedia project. Projects will be informed by students' ongoing  interdisciplinary research,
Dance Music Visual Arts

Interdisciplinary Seminar: Time — VA2120.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Mariam Ghani
Credits: 4
A semester-length exploration of time – first as a phenomenological experience; second as a scientific, social and fictional construct, e.g. clock time, atomic time, machine time, entropic time, queer time, and time travel; third as broken into the fundamental elements of time-based practices - duration and repetition, simultaneity and succession, break and flow, narrative arcs
Dance Visual Arts

Interdisciplinary Studio/Seminar: Context and Original Documents — VA4123.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Ann Pibal
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This multi-disciplinary studio seminar course will take as its platform the investigation of writing by artists about art and artists. Working directly with the generous resources of Crossett Library, students will read primary documents of art history – artists’ essays, letters and sketchbooks, while developing and re-presenting their own self-defined studio projects. We will
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Intergroup Dialogue: The Art and Practice of Having Difficult Conversations Across the Lines of Difference — APA2024.02

Spring 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 1
This course is designed to teach basic facilitation skills that are integral to having constructive conversations about differing political and cultural perspectives, as well as difficult conversations about communicating from diverse identity standpoints. Facilitation skills are also crucial for being an effective leader in or of a group, crucial for being an advocate for
CAPA

Intermedia Performance — MPF4225.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Senem Pirler
Credits: 4
In this course, we will focus on hybrid practices and explore various forms of intermedia art such as video/audio mashups, audiovisual performance and installation, movement for the camera, and sound and video for movement. The readings and discussions will give an introduction to the intermedia art practice as well as the history of early audiovisual tools, theories on
Dance Music Visual Arts

Intermediate Drawing: Beyond Representation — DRW4103.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Beverly Acha
Credits: 4
In this intermediate drawing course students will expand on basic representational drawing skills through the investigation of the ways drawing is interdisciplinary, intersecting with painting, sculpture, printmaking, and performance. For inspiration along the way we will study artists who work in interdisciplinary ways including: Ana Mendieta, Mirtha Dermisache, David
Visual Arts

Intermediate Drawing: Beyond Representation — DRW4103.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Beverly Acha
Credits: 4
In this intermediate drawing course you will expand on basic drawing skills and be invited to investigate the ways drawing is interdisciplinary, intersecting with painting, sculpture, printmaking, and performance. Together we will explore diverse processes and conceptual frameworks for art making. This course invites you to investigate how drawing might influence, support, and
Visual Arts

Intermediate Drum Set (Fundamentals) — MIN4023.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
This course is for students who have experience in playing drum set. In this 7 week class, students will fine-tune their stick control, hi-hat, cymbal, and bass drum technique, grooves, and drum fills. Listening, viewing, and reviewing drummers who have contributed to the innovation of the art of the drum set is a weekly part of our class discussion. We will use 2 drum sets in
Music

Intermediate Drum Set (Fundamentals) — MIN4023.01) (cancelled 5/8/2024

Fall 2024
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Credits: 2
This course is for students who have experience in playing drum set. In this 7 week class, students will fine-tune their stick control, hi-hat, cymbal, and bass drum technique, grooves, and drum fills. Listening, viewing, and reviewing drummers who have contributed to the innovation of the art of the drum set is a weekly part of our class discussion. We will use 2 drum sets in
Music

Intermediate Drum Set (Fundamentals) — MIN4023.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Credits: 1
This course is for students who have experience in playing drum set. In this 7 week class, students will fine-tune their stick control, hi-hat, cymbal, and bass drum technique, grooves, and drum fills. Listening, viewing, and reviewing drummers who have contributed to the innovation of the art of the drum set is a weekly part of our class discussion. We will use 2 drum sets in
Music

Intermediate Ear Training — MTH4284.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
Credits: 2
In this course, students will develop intermediate skills in aural perception, learning to visualize, sing, and notate music through melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic exercises. Classwork will include singing melodies with solfege (prepared and at sight); performing rhythms, eventually incorporating syncopation, cross-rhythms, small subdivisions, and changing meters; taking
Music

Intermediate Ear Training — MTH4284.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Joseph Alpar
Credits: 2
In this course, students will develop skills in aural perception, learning to visualize, sing, and write music from melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic exercises. Students will learn to identify key signatures, intervals, 7th chords, triads, key relationships, common cadences and phrase structures, larger forms, tempo markings, and more. Classwork will include singing melodies with
Music