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Jazz Theory I — MTH2280.01

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
This course will review both diatonic and modal harmony as it applies to chord structures, chord progressions and scales used in jazz improvisation. Students will learn how to translate the chord symbols found in “lead sheets” (music with only chord symbols and melody). Students must have the ability to read music notation and a basic understanding of major minor tonality.

Jazz Theory II — MTH2279.02

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
Students will learn how to interpret chord alterations, and how to identify key centers. This course will help students learn the language of jazz and develop the necessary skills to create intelligent and musical improvised solos. Students should have the ability to read music notation and a basic understanding of major minor tonality.

Jazz Trapset and Drums Ensemble — MPF4108.01

Instructor: Susie Ibarra
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Assembling the contraption, the trapset or the drumset, arose from the meeting and mixture of diverse cultures over the last century. This ensemble studies the music and musicians that have influenced the evolution of Jazz trapset and percussion playing over the last century. The class will examine African and Cuban clave influence, Asian and Middle Eastern influence, American

Jazz Vocal Improvisation — MVO4203.01

Instructor: yoon sun choi
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This performance workshop will explore vocal improvisation in jazz, both improvising within a form (jazz standards) and free improvisation. Students will learn to understand the language of jazz through listening and practicing, and there will be some ensemble singing. Students must be able to match pitch. There will be a performance scheduled at the end of term.

Jazz Vocal Workshop — MPF4273.01

Instructor: Bruce Williamson Kerry Ryer-Parke
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Students will gain a better understanding of jazz vocal styles by listening to recordings and studying the backgrounds of influential jazz singers. Students will learn and perform jazz vocal literature while receiving guidance from two faculty members, jazz pianist Bruce Williamson and vocal coach Kerry Ryer-Parke. Musical styles covered will include ballads, swing, blues

Jazz Vocal Workshop — MPF4273.01

Instructor: Bruce Williamson; Kerry Ryer-Parke
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This will be a repertoire/performance class where vocalists will have the opportunity to work with both a vocal coach and jazz pianist. Bass and drums will be added towards the end of the term. Songs will be selected from the standard jazz repertoire, which will then be interpreted in a number of different jazz styles (swing, latin, ballad, blues, etc.). Emphasis will be on

Jazz Vocal Workshop — MPF4273.01

Instructor: Bruce Williamson; Tom Bogdan
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This will be a repertoire/performance class where vocalists will have the opportunity to work with both a vocal coach and jazz pianist. Bass and drums will be added towards the end of the term. Songs will be selected from the standard jazz repertoire, which will then be interpreted in a number of different jazz styles (swing, latin, ballad, blues, etc.). Emphasis will be on

Jazz Vocal Workshop — MPF4273.01

Instructor: Bruce Williamson, Kerry Ryer-Parke
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
This will be a repertoire/performance class where vocalists will have the opportunity to work with both a vocal coach and jazz pianist. Bass and drums will be added towards the end of the term. Through extensive listening to jazz vocalists and their own practice, students will gain confidence in phrasing, microphone technique and jazz vocal idioms. Songs will be selected from

Jazz/ Improvisation Ensemble for Instrumentalists — MPF2163.01

Instructor: jacob sacks
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
This ensemble will explore extemporaneous improvisation in a jazz-oriented small group setting. Participants will play and study classic jazz compositions and standards in addition to composing and creating original works for the ensemble. A special focus of this small jazz ensemble will be on developing group interaction and musical communication skills. Another focus will be

Jerzy Grotowski — DRA2304.01

Instructor: Jenny Rohn
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
"No one else in the world, to my knowledge, no one since Stanislavski, has investigated the nature of acting, its phenomenon, its meaning, the nature and science of its mental, physical, emotional process as deeply and completely as Grotowski." - Peter Brook In this class we will explore, through readings and on our feet, the teachings and training techniques that Grotowski

Journalism & Democracy — APA2459.01

Instructor: Brian Campion
Days & Time: TU 10:30am-12:20pm
Credits: 2

This course recognizes the essential role that the arts and culture play in a healthy democracy. Arts and culture invite us to experience perspectives and ways of life different from our own; they shape conversations about freedom, equal rights and other values that are at the core of American society; and they help us engage with the world in new and important ways.

Journalism and Democracy — APA4213.01

Instructor: Brian Campion
Days & Time: TH 1:40pm-5:20pm
Credits: 4

Journalism & Democracy is the result of a grant and partnership with the Center for Community News at the University of Vermont, a national network of student journalism programs around the United States. The course recognizes the essential role that the arts and

Journalism and Democracy — APA4213.01

Instructor: Brian Campion
Days & Time: TH 10:00am-11:50am
Credits: 2

Journalism & Democracy is the result of a grant and partnership with the Center for Community News at the University of Vermont, a national network of student journalism programs around the United States. The course recognizes the essential role that the arts and culture play in a healthy democracy. Arts and culture invite us to experience perspectives and ways of life

Journey: 1890s — HIS2126.01

Instructor: Eileen Scully
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Students sign on to travel the world in the world-changing decade of the 1890s. In early weeks, students each create an historically credible persona, whom they will then lead and follow around the globe, starting out in Chicago at the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893.

Juxtaposition: Drawing and Collage — DRW4106.01

Instructor: mary lum
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Since the beginning of the 20th century, collage has existed as a vehicle for the most diverse ideas and political concerns of the times. Collage is not simply a method of assembly, a way to bring unrelated fragments into new contexts, but a way of thinking that reflects revolution of all kinds. From Picasso and Braque to Hannah Hoch and John Heartfield, and more recently

Juxtaposition: Drawing and Collage — DRW4106.01

Instructor: Mary Lum
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Since the beginning of the 20th century, collage has existed as a vehicle for the most diverse ideas and concerns of the times. Collage is not simply a method of assembly, a way to bring unrelated fragments into new contexts, but a way of thinking that reflects revolution of all kinds. From Picasso and Braque to Hannah Hoch and John Heartfield, and more recently Martha Rosler

Kafka — LIT2572.02

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
When he died at age 40 in a sanitarium outside Vienna, Franz Kafka left the bulk of his literary effort in a drawer in the desk of his parent’s home in Prague. What he wanted was for his friend Max Brod to burn everything. In this class, we will read what was not burned, including the two major novels—The Trial, and The Castle, as well as his shorter masterpieces, The

Kafka and Beckett — LIT2273.01

Instructor: Annie Dewitt
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Often lauded as literary iconoclasts and Modernist visionaries, Franz Kafka and Samuel Beckett are known for "making things strange." This course will examine these writers' signal works alongside their shorter works and diaries. In approaching Kafka, we will explore several of his essays, including: "Letters to My Father," "The Blue Octavio Notebook," and

Kalón and Chaos: The Secret History and its References — LIT2423.01

Instructor: Benjamin Anastas
Days & Time: TU 2:10pm-5:50pm
Credits: 4

"Live forever!" is the chosen mantra of the louche, monied and relentlessly insular group of Classics students at the center of Donna Tartt's now classic literary suspense novel The Secret History. Under the influence of their classics professor Julian Morrow--a "divine" with special status on the campus of Hampden College, a dark mirror-image of our own campus-

Kalón and Chaos: The Secret History and its References — LIT2423.01

Instructor: Benjamin Anastas
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
"Live forever!" is the chosen mantra of the louche, monied and relentlessly insular group of Classics students at the center of Donna Tartt's now classic literary suspense novel The Secret History. Under the influence of their classics professor Julian Morrow--a "divine" with special status on the campus of Hampden College, a dark mirror-image of our own campus--they undertake

Kansai Dialect and Culture — JPN4170.01

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Days & Time:
Credits: 1
Kansai is a bustling region of Japan on the western half of the main island of Honshu. The people of Kansai are loud and jovial, and take great pride in a special brand of humor only found in Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe, and the surrounding area.  The Japanese spoken in this region is a bit different from what you'll find in a standard textbook.  Everything from casual speech

Kant Seminar — PHI4266.01

Instructor: Paul Voice
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This seminar explores the writings of Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) whose work remains at the foundation of much of contemporary western philosophy. The course will focus on The Critique of Pure Reason, a text that reshaped the disciplines of epistemology and metaphysics. We will also look at Kant's writings on morality and aesthetics.

Kant Seminar: The Three Critiques — PHI4266.01

Instructor: Paul Voice
Days & Time: WE 2:10pm-5:50pm
Credits: 4

Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) describes his own work in metaphysics by analogy with Copernicus’s revolution in astronomy. He constructs a system of thought that attempts to move beyond the empiricism of Hume and the rationalism of Leibniz and Wolff. His method – critique – and his theory – transcendental idealism – have profoundly influenced all subsequent philosophy. In three

Kant Seminar: The Three Critiques — PHI4266.01

Instructor: Paul Voice
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) describes his own work in metaphysics by analogy with Copernicus’s revolution in astronomy. He constructs a system of thought that attempts to move beyond the empiricism of Hume and the rationalism of Leibniz and Wolff. His method - critique - and his theory - transcendental idealism - have profoundly influenced all subsequent philosophy. In three