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Making Sense of World Events — POP2356.03

Fall 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 1
Once again, Gaza has burst into view at the center of world events. More refugee camp than nation-state, Gaza is home to 2.2 million Palestinians (half of whom are under the age of 18) squeezed into a narrow sliver of land 25 miles long and 7 miles wide. One of the most densely populated, barricaded, and now bombed places on the planet, Gaza now demands attention on several
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Making Technical Theatre with Advanced Design Collaboration — DRA2383.02

Spring 2025
Instructor: Tilly Grimes
Credits: 2
Working in conjunction with Advanced Design and Collaboration, students will be invited to join the process of bringing the shows to life. When theater starts with a script, visuals tend to follow the narrative. But what happens when bold visuals lead the way? Students will explore each discipline of technical theatre and participate in collaborating to create each of the
Drama

Making the Third Ear — MUS4356.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
Credits: 2
This class will start with a grounding in the history and science of psychoacoustics. We will listen to binaural beats, watch psychostrobic flicker, create beating patterns using oscillators, and conduct other experiments in the sound studio to gain a deeper understanding of psychoacoustics. We’ll study an array of musical examples in popular culture (iDosers) and contemporary
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Making the Third Ear — MUS4356.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Sergei Tcherepnin
Credits: 2
This class will start with a grounding in the history and science of psychoacoustics. We will listen to binaural beats, watch psychostrobic flicker, create beating patterns using oscillators, and conduct other experiments in the sound studio to gain a deeper understanding of psychoacoustics. We’ll study an array of musical examples in popular culture (iDosers) and contemporary
Music

Making Work — DAN4135.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Miguel Gutierrez
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

Making Work: Aesthetics Ideology — DAN4169.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Levi Gonzalez
Credits: 2
This course is for students with prior experience making dance or performance art. In this class we will begin by looking at dances or performances from students’ own past work, or work they admire or are inspired by. We will use these as a springboard to discuss what attracts us in terms of aesthetics, site, style, identity, narratives, politics, etc., and consider how
Dance

Making Yesterday New — DRA4189.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Charles Schoonmaker; Richard MacPike
Credits: 4
Ever had an interest in vintage clothing? Have you ever contemplated the fashion trends of decades past? Ever see a vintage dress that you thought you'd love to reproduce? In this course students will explore and research the fashions of 3 iconic decades; the 1920's, 1930's and 1940's. Students will then design a dress which fits into the silhouette of the period and construct
Drama

Malamud, Bellow, and Roth — LIT2391.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Douglas Bauer
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
We will immerse ourselves in the novels and stories of three extraordinary American writers of the mid-20th and early 21st centuries, Bernard Malamud, Saul Bellow and Philip Roth. We'll be starting with Malamud, then turning to Bellow, and finally to Roth, almost twenty  years the youngest and still very much a dominant -- if self-proclaimed "retired" -- figure in
Literature

Malicious Compliance, or The Canterbury Tales — LIT2580.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Manuel Gonzales
Days & Time: WE 2:10pm-5:50pm
Credits: 4

According to "All Englang," Joan Acocella's essay in The New Yorker, Geoffery Chaucer, author of The Canterbury Tales, "was the freshest, clearest, and sweetest of the great English poets." She goes on to say that, living in the 14th century, he was also perhaps the first great English poet. Still. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote of Chaucer that "He is the poet of the

Literature

Mallet Percussion Ensemble — MPF4106.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Credits: 2
Mallet Percussion Ensemble explores a variety of musical techniques while creating compositions for the mallet keyboard instrument. Works for mallet percussion are learned or arranged from composers such as Bach, Fernando Sor, Gordon Stout, Franz Schubert, Jobim, Miles, and popular songs. No prior experience for playing mallet keyboards is required, but reading music and
Music

Mallet Percussion Ensemble — MPF4106.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Credits: 4
Mallet Percussion Ensemble (MPE) creates and develops original compositions for keyboard mallet instruments using a collective improvisation process. The ensemble also learns, arranges, and presents folkloric, classical, modern, and global genres of music. Students will study marimba, xylophone, glockenspiel, vibraphone, and African balafon. Our coursework connects to music
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Mallet Percussion Ensemble — MPF4106.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Credits: 2
Mallet Percussion Ensemble performs compositions from repertoire arranged for percussion keyboard instruments, which include the Marimba, Xylophone, Glockenspiel, Vibraphone, Balafon and Tubular Bells. The ensemble will learn classical, contemporary, Latin and African music, as well as compose original compositions. No prior experience for playing mallet keyboards is required,
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Mallet Percussion Ensemble — MPF4106.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Credits: 2
Mallet Percussion Ensemble explores a variety of compositions and techniques for the mallet keyboard instrument. This includes compositions for Marimba, Xylophone, Glockenspiel, Vibraphone, and African Balafon. Compositions are adapted from classical, jazz, and rock, as well as movie themes and popular songs. No prior experience for playing mallet keyboards is required,
Music

Mallet Percussion Ensemble — MPF4106.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
Mallet Percussion Ensemble explores a variety of compositions for the mallet keyboard instrument. This includes compositions for Marimba, Xylophone, Glockenspiel, Vibraphone, Balafon and Tubular Bells. Compositions are adapted from composers such as, Bach, Fernando Sor, Gordon Stout, Franz Schubert, Latin and African music, as well as popular songs for the ensemble. No
Music

Mallet Percussion Ensemble — MPF4106.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Credits: 4
Mallet Percussion Ensemble continues to perform folkloric, classical, modern, and global genres of music while composing and developing original work. The goal for each student is to become familiar with all of the mallet keyboard instruments, which include the marimba, xylophone, glockenspiel, vibraphone, and African balafon. Our coursework will link music theory,
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Mallet Percussion Ensemble — MPF4106.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Credits: 4
Mallet Percussion Ensemble explores a variety of musical techniques while creating compositions for the mallet keyboard instrument. This includes compositions for Marimba, Xylophone, Glockenspiel, Vibraphone, and African Balafon. Compositions may be adapted from composers such as, Bach, Fernando Sor, Gordon Stout, Franz Schubert, and World music, as well as popular songs. No
Music

Managing Complexity for an Abundant Future — APA2013.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
Everywhere we look—ecologically, economically, politically, socially—it seems we’re looking at disaster. Under a barrage of bad news, it is easy to understand why humans around the globe are suffering from depression, anxiety, anti-humanistic sentiment, and a devastating lack of hope. But it does not need to be so. A new and hopeful movement is growing around the globe—one
Advancement of Public Action

Managing Ethnic Conflicts — POL4101.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Rotimi Suberu
Credits: 4
How should states and the international community respond to protracted and violent conflicts involving ethnic, linguistic, religious or other identity groups? This is/was one of the central challenges of politics and governance in places as diverse as Afghanistan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Fiji, Iraq, India, Indonesia, Israel/Palestine, Lebanon, Northern Ireland, Nigeria, Rwanda
CAPA Society Culture and Thought

Managing Ethnic Conflicts — POL4101.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Rotimi Suberu
Credits: 4
How should states and the international community respond to protracted and violent conflicts involving ethnic, linguistic, religious and other identity groups? This is/was one of the central challenges of politics and governance in places as diverse as Afghanistan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Fiji, Iraq, India, Indonesia, Israel/Palestine, Lebanon, Northern Ireland, Nigeria, Rwanda
Society Culture and Thought

Managing Ethnic Conflicts — POL4101.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Rotimi Suberu
Credits: 4
How should states and the international community respond to situations of protracted, often lethal, conflicts involving ethnic, linguistic, religious and other identity groups? This is one of the central challenges of politics and governance in places as diverse as Afghanistan, Bosnia‐Herzegovina, Fiji, Iraq, Northern Ireland, Nigeria, Rwanda/Burundi, Sri Lanka, Sudan and
Society Culture and Thought

Mandolin — MIN2229.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: John Kirk
Credits: 2
Beginning, intermediate and advanced group lessons on the mandolin will be offered. Students 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. History of the Italian origins of
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Mandolin — MIN2229.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: John Kirk
Credits: 2
Beginning, intermediate and advanced group or individual lessons on the mandolin will be offered. Students 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