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Varied Vessels: from Useful to Fanciful — CER4154.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Aysha Peltz
Credits: 4
In this course, students will continue to develop their ceramic skills with a focus on the vessel. Readings, discussions, and research will support student’s individual search for personal expression through the making of vessel forms. The Usdan Gallery will be hosting a ceramic vessel exhibition during the second half of the term. This show will provide students with the
Visual Arts

Varied Vessels: The Composition of Parts — CER4253.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Aysha Peltz
Days & Time: MO 8:30am-12:10pm
Credits: 4

This intermediate to advanced-level course is for students who are interested in exploring more complex vessel forms. Using various building techniques, students will make vessels with multiple elements. Forms this class may explore include cups with handles, covered jars, baskets, and pouring pots. Students will be asked to expand their form

Ceramics

Verbing sCULpTURE — SCU4121.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
The word ‘sculpture’ contains the word ‘culture’ reminding us that in making objects, we not only make our world, but we also encode it with our own personal values and ways of seeing. Our choices in material, process, and idea are linked to personal sensibilities or affinities, aptitudes, tendencies of thinking and making. These choices encode the work being
Visual Arts

Version: The Art of Translating from French — FRE4807.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Stephen Shapiro
Credits: 2
In this course we will practice version, the art of translating from French into English. We will work on developing a mindfulness about language use as well as a comparative eye focused on English and French’s stylistic and structural preferences. Grammar and lexical development will also be on offer and will highlight points where the two languages converge and diverge.
Cultural Studies and Languages

Vertebrate Physiology — BIO4115.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Blake Jones
Credits: 4
Physiology is the study of how organisms work. In this course we will focus on the integrative aspects of physiology of vertebrates. We will explore comparative, mechanistic, and functional aspects in the context of how various systems in various taxa are adapted to their environments. We will cover the physiology of selected systems, including skeletal, digestion, circulation,
Science and Mathematics

Victorian Children's Literature: Girls in the Underworld — LIT4592.01) (cancelled 10/8/2024

Spring 2025
Instructor: Jenny Boully
Credits: 4
Quintessential to the Victorian cult of the girl-child, both Alice Liddell and Wendy Darling have emerged as contemporary mythic icons of both traditional and subversive femininity. In this class, we will investigate how girl-children are entrapped and enchanted in the works of men, focusing on J.M. Barrie’s Peter and Wendy and Lewis Carroll’s Alice books, including the

Victorian Children’s Literature: Girls in the Underworld — LIT2515.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Jenny Boully
Credits: 4
Quintessential to the Victorian cult of the girl-child, both Alice Liddell and Wendy Darling have emerged as contemporary mythic icons of both traditional and subversive femininity. In this class, we will investigate how girl-children are entrapped and enchanted in the works of men, focusing on J.M. Barrie’s Peter and Wendy and Lewis Carroll’s Alice books,
Literature

Victorian Ephemerality: Poetry, Photography, Paper — LIT2532.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Jenny Boully
Credits: 4
Time collapses while industry and science expands. Looking to the future, the Victorians clung to sentimentality as a response to a world that seemed to have industrialized overnight. From Arnold to Wilde, we’ll explore the prevailing poets of the Victorian era alongside investigations into Victorian visual culture, photography, and paper arts. In a time when letters were
Literature

Video Design for Dance — FV4104.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: jeff larson
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This workshop is concerned with investigating the integration of digital video in dance performance. Using a program called Isadora, basic control modules can be programmed, allowing dance and video students and faculty to create, manipulate, and present video content as an meaningfully integrated element of live performance. The technology will also be explored in tandem with
Dance Visual Arts

Video Installation — FV2127.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Warren Cockerham
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
This studio course will survey moving image work that is created for experiences outside of a typical cinematic setting. Students will explore the expanded possibilities of video in gallery and site-specific installations. Although this course will be mostly based on the technical practice of video installation, students will also be required to complete readings and
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Video/Performance — FV2140.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Warren Cockerham
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
The basic goals of this class are to familiarize students with the practices and possibilities of collaboration between performance and video. Its aim is to encourage the camera to become more embedded in the world of the performer by allowing experimentation to lead to innovative fusions of multiple disciplines and styles. This class will rely on a mix of historical,
Visual Arts

Viewpoints - Exploring a Play and its Characters — DRA4226.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Jenny Rohn
Credits: 4
Viewpoints is an improvisational movement technique used to train actors and create movement for the stage. In this class students will work as an ensemble, training together in order to create a common physical language. The first third of the term will be dedicated to building the ensemble. Each class will include a warm up, detailed exploration of the individual Viewpoints
Drama

Viewpoints Groundwork — DRA2124.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Jennifer Rohn
Days & Time: TU,FR 2:10pm-4:00pm
Credits: 4

Viewpoints is a physical improvisational form used for training actors and creating movement for the stage. This class encourages students to explore the physical and vocal possibilities of time and space, with a specific focus on developing the capacity to be physically present, emotionally open, and free to follow creative impulses. Special emphasis will be placed on

Drama

Viewpoints Groundwork — DRA2124.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Jenny Rohn
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Viewpoints is a physical improvisational form used for training actors and creating movement for the stage. This class encourages students to explore the physical and vocal possibilities of time and space, with a specific focus on developing the capacity to be physically present, emotionally open, and free to follow creative impulses. Special emphasis will be placed on the
Drama

Viewpoints Groundwork — DRA2124.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Jennifer Rohn
Credits: 4
Viewpoints is a physical improvisational form used for training actors and creating movement for the stage. This class encourages students to explore the physical and vocal possibilities of time and space, with a specific focus on developing the capacity to be physically present, emotionally open, and free to follow creative impulses. Special emphasis will be placed on the
Drama

Viewpoints Groundwork — DRA2124.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Jennifer Rohn
Credits: 4
Viewpoints is a physical improvisational form used for training actors and creating movement for the stage. This class encourages students to explore the physical and vocal possibilities of time and space, with a specific focus on developing the capacity to be physically present, emotionally open, and free to follow creative impulses. Special emphasis will be placed on the
Drama

Viewpoints Groundwork — DRA2124.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Jenny Rohn
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Viewpoints is a physical improvisational form used for training actors and creating movement for the stage. This class encourages students to explore the physical and vocal possibilities of time and space, with a specific focus on developing the capacity to be physically present, emotionally open, and free to follow creative impulses. Special emphasis will be placed on the
Drama

Viewpoints Groundwork — DRA2124.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Jennifer Rohn
Credits: 4
Viewpoints is a physical improvisational form used for training actors and creating movement for the stage. This class encourages students to explore the physical and vocal possibilities of time and space, with a specific focus on developing the capacity to be physically present, emotionally open, and free to follow creative impulses. Special emphasis will be placed on
Dance Drama

Viola — MIN4241.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Ariel Rudiakov
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2

This course is for students who have prior experience with the instrument. Students are expected to practice daily for a minimum of 30 minutes per day. End of semester performance required.

Instrumental Study

Viola — MIN4241.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Ariel Rudiakov
Credits: 2
This course is for students who have prior experience with the instrument. Students are expected to practice daily (minimum of 30 minutes).  End-of-semester performance is required. Lessons with be tailored to the experience and development of each student and will target: -Intermediate/advanced scales and repertoire -shifting -bow strokes and articulations -vibrato
Music

Viola — MIN4241.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Ariel Rudiakov
Credits: 2
This course is for students who have prior experience with the instrument. Students are expected to practice daily (minimum 30 minutes). End-of -semester performance is required. Lessons will be tailored to the experience of each student.
Music

Viola — MIN4241.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
The course is for students who have prior experience with the instrument. Students are expected to practice daily (minimum of 30 minutes). End-of-semester performance is required. Lessons will be tailored to the experience and development of each student and will target: -intermediate/advanced scales and repertoire -shifting -bow-strokes and articulations -vibrato -dynamics,
Music

Viola — MIN4241.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Ariel Rudiakov
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2

This course is intended for students with prior experience with the instrument. Students and expected to practice daily (minimum 30 minutes). End of semester performance is required.

Lessons are tailored to the experience of each student.

Instrumental Study

Violence — ANT4116.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Noah Coburn
Credits: 4
This course is a cross‐cultural exploration of violence.   We will ask: What is violence?  How do we experience, perceive, think and write about violence as a political concept?  The course will begin with the political philosophy of violence.  It will then move to ethnographies written about violence and look at how other
Society Culture and Thought