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Making Melody — MCO4134.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Joseph Alpar
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
Melodies are precise, mysterious, and magical in equal measure.  In this course we will try to lift the veil of mystery and explore practices that will aid you in the creation of your own melodies. We will do this through the lens of Irish music, an oral tradition that informs the instructor's own composition. As an oral tradition, Irish music is handed down
Music

Making Music with Modular Soft Synths — MCO4124.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Sergei Tcherepnin
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
This class will focus on historical methods of electronic music composition through a contemporary lens. We will study synthesis in depth, and the development of early analog synthesizers, while learning how these techniques have influenced contemporary software design. While the class will focus on composing, students will be expected to learn how to use Reaktor, VCV Rack, and
Music

Making Sense of World Events — POP2356.03

Fall 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Days & Time:
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
Days & Time:
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

Spring 2020
Instructor: Sergei Tcherepnin
Days & Time:
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 the Third Ear — MUS4356.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
Days & Time:
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
Days & Time:
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
Days & Time:
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
Days & Time:
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 2017
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Days & Time:
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,
Music

Mallet Percussion Ensemble — MPF4106.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Days & Time:
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 2024
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Days & Time:
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,
Music

Mallet Percussion Ensemble — MPF4106.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Days & Time:
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 2026
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Days & Time: MO,TH 3:40pm-5:30pm
Credits: 4

Mallet Percussion Ensemble offers an environment for students to explore several mallet keyboard instruments, including the marimba, xylophone, glockenspiel, vibraphone, and African balafon. MPE's coursework is designed to link music theory, improvisation, and composition through the bi-weekly practice of playing scales, arpeggios, modes, and chord progressions while

Musical Performance

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 2018
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Days & Time:
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

Mallet Percussion Ensemble — MPF4106.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Days & Time:
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
Music

Managing Complexity for an Abundant Future — APA2013.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Days & Time:
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

Spring 2027
Instructor: Rotimi Suberu
Days & Time: WE 8:30am-12:10pm
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

Advancement of Public Action Politics

Managing Ethnic Conflicts — POL4101.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Rotimi Suberu
Days & Time:
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
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