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Recording and Mixing Music II — MSR2208.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: David Baron
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Credits: 4
Segues from MSR 2116.01 as the next step in in sound recording and mixing. We’ll working on advanced microphone technique, dynamic processing, producing, mixing, and mastering, starting start with hands-on A/B comparisons of microphone techniques, and capturing audio in diverse spaces around campus. The course will consider the merits of various formats, analog vs digital,
Music

Recording Studio as an Instrument — MSR2210.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: David Baron
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
The Beatles came to Abbey Road as a typical musical combo.  A few records into their career the recording studio got more and more important as a part of the compositional, arrangement, and creative process. We will approach the recording studio as an instrument. Creative uses of sampling, microphone techniques, composing in the studio, musique concrète, collaging,
Music

Redefining Economic Development — PEC4103.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Robin Kemkes
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Credits: 4
Using both theory and empirical analysis, this course will explore the diversity of economic progress across developing nations, confront existing challenges and consider multiple perspectives on desirable policy approaches. We will begin with an introduction to traditional measures of development including income, health and education, followed by a comparison of domestic
Environment Social Science

Redefining Scenography — DRA2308.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Michael Giannitti
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
In her book What is Scenography?, Pamela Howard states: “Scenography is the seamless synthesis of space, text, research, art, actors, directors and spectators that contributes to an original creation.” While the term “scenography” was regarded for centuries as synonymous with “theater design,” Howard’s definition does not mention theater or a stage, and other artists and
Dance Drama

Redefining Scenography — DRA2308.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Michael Giannitti
Days & Time:
Credits: 1
In her book What is Scenography?, Pamela Howard states: "Scenography is the seamless synthesis of space, text, research, art, actors, directors and spectators that contributes to an original creation." While the term "scenography" was regarded for centuries as synonymous with "theater design," Howard’s definition does not mention theater or a stage, and other artists and
Drama

Rediscovering Early American Vocal Music — MPF2203.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Stephen Higa
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
In this workshop, we will form a performance group to explore ancient Americana:  17th-century psalmody, shape-note music, Shaker chants, revival and gospel tunes, Victorian hymns, spirituals, music of California and the Southwest, etc.  Some of this music will come directly from forgotten, crumbling 19th-century songbooks, so we must resurrect this music quickly
Music

Reflections on the Refugee Experience: What Can I Do? — MOD2168.03

Spring 2018
Instructor: Vahidin Omanovic
Days & Time:
Credits: 1
In this Module, students will gain an understanding of the United Nations conventions pertaining to refugees, and the different forms of forced migration. Vahidin will then share his own direct experience of his time as a refugee, specifically how people live in refugee camps and how they are structured and managed. Students will be asked to examine their own responses to this
CAPA

Regardez — FRE4496.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
In this course, students will examine specific visual representations within the context of French culture. Through the reading of a wide variety of French images, including Chartres cathedral’s stained glasses, La Tour’s chiaroscuro paintings, cartoon hero Tintin, surrealist drawings and films, and contemporary installations, students will hone their linguistic skills and
Languages

Regardez — FRE4496.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
In this course, students will examine specific visual representations within the context of French culture. Through the reading of a wide variety of French images, including among other works Chartres cathedral’s stained glass, La Tour’s chiaroscuro paintings, Haitian art, as well as virtual reality experiments, students will hone their linguistic skills and enrich their
Cultural Studies and Languages

Regardez — FRE4496.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
In this course, students will examine specific visual representations within the context of French culture. Through the reading of a wide variety of French images, including Chartres cathedral’s stained glasses, La Tour’s chiaroscuro paintings, cartoon hero Tintin, Cocteau’s drawings and films, and contemporary installations, students will hone their linguistic skills and
Languages

Regions and Cuisine: Traveling Japan with Matsuo Basho — JPN4603.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
In this sixth-term Japanese course, students will follow the footsteps of a prominent Japanese poet in the seventeen-century, Matsuo Basho, and learn about different regions and cuisines of Japan.  As students "imaginary" travel to various regions of Japan, they will learn about historical and scenic places that are depicted in Basho’ poems and various local cuisines in
Cultural Studies and Languages

Reimagining Memory in Biology and Beyond — BIO2140.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: David Edelman
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
How are memories formed, stored, and accessed? This question has been central to psychology and neuroscience since their founding. In this class, we will first review psychological and neurobiological views of memory. We will then explore how memory as a dynamic process might be extended to biological—and even non-biological—systems outside the brain. We will survey cultural,
Science Mathematics and Computing

Reimagining Representation — PHO2113.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Terry Boddie
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Photography was used for scientific purposes and a tool of imperial colonization during the early years of its invention. These two things have helped shape its history of representation of the human figure. Marginal groups of individuals when they were represented in photography were often presented in a visually limiting and often stereotypical manner. The contemporary
Visual Arts

Reimagining Representation — PHO4370.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Photography was used for scientific purposes and a tool of imperial colonialization during the early years of its invention. These two things have helped shaped its history of representation of the human figure. Marginal groups of individuals when they were represented in photography were often presented in a visually limiting and often stereotypical manner.
Visual Arts

Reimagining Representation — PHO2113.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Photography was used for scientific purposes and a tool of imperial colonialization during the early years of its invention. These two things have helped shaped its history of representation of the body. Marginal groups of individuals when they were represented in photography were often presented in a stereotypical manner. This course will offer students an opportunity to
Visual Arts

Reimagining Representation — PHO2113.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Photography was used for scientific purposes and a tool of imperial colonialization during the early years of its invention. These two things have helped shaped its history of representation of the body. Marginal groups of individuals when they were represented in photography were often presented in a stereotypical manner. This course will offer students an opportunity to
Visual Arts

Reinventing and Branding Japan — JPN4710.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
After the World War II, Japan tried rigorously to improve their national reputation in the World. As Japan’s economy improved, Japan’s image shifted from a brutal and heartless military nation to a powerful economic nation, and then to a nation of “soft power.” In the last 10 years, the Japanese government came up with a PR strategy called “Cool Japan” and has been promoting
Cultural Studies and Languages

Reinventing Radio — APA2159.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Thom Loubet
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
With the development of the podcast and online radio, audio documentary has made a major resurgence in popular culture. This course will explore the basic skills and techniques required to tell stories through sound. Along with the technical tools required, the focus will be on learning how audio production can enhance communication with an audience and inform their local
CAPA

Reinventing Radio — APA2159.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Thom Loubet
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
With the development of the podcast and online radio, audio documentary has made a major resurgence in popular culture. This course will explore the basic skills and techniques required to tell stories through sound. Along with the technical tools required, the focus will be on learning how audio production can enhance communication with an audience and inform their local
CAPA

Reinventing Radio — MSR2118.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Thom Loubet
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
With the development of the podcast and online radio, audio documentary has made a major resurgence in popular culture.  This course will explore the basic skills and techniques required to tell stories through sound.  Along with the technical tools required, the focus will be learning how audio production can enhance communication with an audience.  Topics
Music

Reinventing Radio — MSR2118.01

Spring 2017
Instructor:
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
With the development of the podcast and online radio, audio documentary has made a major resurgence in popular culture. This course will explore the basic skills and techniques required to tell stories through sound. Along with the technical tools required, the focus will be on learning how audio production can enhance communication with an audience. Through reading and
Music

Reinventing the Frost House — LIT2324.02

Fall 2017
Instructor: Megan Mayhew-Bergman
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
What and who are writers’ houses for? In this course, we will ask this question in relation to the Robert Frost Stone House Museum in Shaftsbury, looking at Frost’s legacy as a poet, work done while in residence there, and archives, interiors, and grounds. With guest speakers and individual research, we’ll confront the challenges and goals of house museums and make
Literature

Relation, Reflection, Refraction: Contemporary South American Fiction — LIT2424.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Marguerite Feitlowitz
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Contemporary South American fiction is rife with urgency, politics, and history, as well as narrative mischief, layering, and literary gamesmanship. It is a highly self-conscious stream of writing, with novelists in conversation--and conflict--with earlier writers, with their contemporaries, and with novelists of their own creation. Highly divergent stylists have perforce
Literature