Fall 2017

Senior Projects — LIT4795.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Benjamin Anastas

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Credits: 4

For seniors working on special projects or senior theses. Each student will devote the term to completing the draft of a unified manuscript–typically 75 pages of fiction or creative nonfiction, 50 pages of criticism, 30 pages of poetry, or a lengthy translation project. Each week, the class will critique individual manuscripts-in-progress. These peer critiques will be

Literature

Senior Projects in Dance — DAN4796.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Terry Creach

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Credits: 2

This is an essential course for seniors in dance involved in making work for performance this term. Attention is given to all of the elements involved in composition and production, including collaborative aspects. Students are expected to show their work throughout stages of development, complete their projects, and perform them to the public by the end of the term.

Dance

Senior Seminar in Society, Culture, and Thought — SCT4750.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Karen Gover; David Bond; Lopamudra Banerjee

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Credits: 4

This advanced research seminar offers students the opportunity to conduct culminating work in Society, Culture and Thought (SCT) in the form of an independent research project. For most students, this will be a one-semester project. For other students, this will be the first half of a year-long project that involves fieldwork, archival research, and/or the collection of data.

Society Culture and Thought

Shipwrecked — LIT2289.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Akiko Busch

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Credits: 4

Alienation, deprivation, solitude, and starting anew may be prevalent ideas in contemporary dystopian storytelling, but the physical and psychological circumstances of running aground, along with its rewards, have long been fertile ground for writers. The course would reflect on the precursors of such narratives, beginning in the eighteenth century with Robinson Crusoe and

Literature

Silkscreen/Serigraphy Workshop — PRI2210.02

Fall 2017

Instructor: Michael Smoot

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Credits: 2

This course will focus on the basic technical processes of screen printing including, idea generation, image development, screen preparation, registration, paper handling, and printing multi-color prints. Through demonstrations and hands on experiences, students will complete a series of projects using various methods of creating stencils on screens including, direct block

Visual Arts

Social Kitchen: Ceramics, Food, and Community — APA2269.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Yoko Inoue

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Credits: 4

This course will provide an opportunity to learn about creative community engaged practices of contemporary art and ethical processes in the context of local food insecurity. Through direct dialog and face-to-face interaction with local residents and by investigating creative interventions devised by artists/activists dealing with issues of food sovereignty and social justice,

CAPA Visual Arts

Sociology of Education — SOC2205.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Debbie Warnock

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Credits: 4

What is the purpose of schooling in modern society? Does everyone have access to equal educational opportunities? How do experiences of education vary by race, class, and gender? What role does education policy play in maintaining or reducing social inequalities? How has and how might education policy change under the leadership of Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos? In this

CAPA Sociology

Software, Algorithms and Computability — CS4131.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Ursula Wolz

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Credits: 4

This course covers essential material from three traditional upper level courses in computer science: Data Structures/Software Design, Analysis of Algorithms, and Computability. The first half of the course provides an intensive immersion in these areas as either introduction or review, while students define a personal direction for study in the second half of the course to

Science and Mathematics

Solving The Impossible: Breaking Bread — MED2118.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Susan Sgorbati

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Credits: 2

Why are certain conflicts so difficult to resolve? This course will examine conflicts that are long-standing and elude resolution. We will explore the factors that contribute to complex disputes and the conditions that allow groups to begin to address them. Can individuals like Martin Luther King, Jr., Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela transform historical conflict? What role

CAPA

Sports — FV4105.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Karthik Pandian

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Credits: 4

This intermediate video production course will explore the relationship between moving image and athletics. Students will examine the work of pivotal figures from Leni Riefenstahl to O.J. Simpson in an effort to understand the role sports play in society, art and life. Studio projects will focus on formal issues from camera movement, stabilization, resolution, depth

Visual Arts

Stage Management — DRA2241.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Michael Giannitti

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Credits: 4

The key role of the stage manager as both collaborative artist and manager in the production process is explored by students in this class. Readings, discussions, and projects on topics including scheduling, play breakdowns, prompt book preparation, blocking notation, ground plan and theatre layout, and the running of rehearsals and performances are included. The relationship

Drama

Stars, Planets, Life — PHY2107.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Hugh Crowl

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Credits: 4

In the last twenty-five years, the study of life beyond our own planet has gone from science fiction to legitimate science. The course will initially focus on how stars form and evolve, starting from the formation of the universe, and continuing to a discussion of stars as both the synthesizers of heavy elements and the central energy source for solar systems. From there, we

Science and Mathematics

Structural Geology and Field Methods — ES4104.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Tim Schroeder

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Credits: 4

Students in this course will learn to visualize and analyze the three-dimensional, dynamic complexity of the solid Earth. Understanding how our planet works requires knowing how to extrapolate limited surface data downward to unseen depths using geometric tools and logical abstractions. The class includes a significant field component to learn data collection techniques. In

Science and Mathematics Environment

Style in Motion — DRA4310.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Charles Schoonmaker

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Credits: 4

We will be designing costumes that are unrealized ‘paper’ projects as well as realized costumes for new works. Class members may work with student choreographers, utilizing this class as a resource in the creative process. We will also work, as a group, on designing and realizing costumes for specific pieces to be presented at the end of the term. Registration for this course

Dance Drama

The Actor’s Instrument — DRA2170.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Kirk Jackson

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Credits: 4

An actor honors and bears witness to humanity by embodying and giving voice to the human element in the landscape of theatrical collaboration. Investigating the impulses and intuitions that make us unique as individuals can also identify that which constitutes our shared humanity. Through exploration of the fundamentals of performance, students address the actor’s body, voice,

Drama

The Anglo-Irish Novel — LIT2167.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Annabel Davis-Goff

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Credits: 4

The contribution to British literature by the politically powerful, Protestant, land owning, Anglo-Irish is substantial and important. We will read Maria Edgeworth, Elizabeth Bowen, and Somerville Ross as representatives of the Ascendancy, as well as novels that reflect the political changes of the 1920s, and life, after Irish independence, for the descendants (actual and

Literature

The Art of Mediation and Negotiation — MED2107.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Peter Pagnucco

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Credits: 2

Conflict exists everywhere—with friends and roommates, within the family, between nations—but is conflict inevitable? In this class we will explore the basic elements of conflict resolution, focusing on the process of Mediation. We will learn and observe the differences between mediation, negotiation, and court processes. We will examine which behaviors

CAPA

The Art of Mediation and Negotiation — MED2107.02

Fall 2017

Instructor: Peter Pagnucco

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Credits: 2

CAPA

The Baroque Imaginary — AH4117.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Vanessa Lyon

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Credits: 4

The concept of the Baroque has long fascinated—and incensed—historians, literary critics, and philosophers. Often aligned with an artistic ‘Golden Age’ exemplified by the complex and discomfiting works of Bernini, Rubens, Velázquez, and Vermeer, the Baroque has also been associated with ruinous decadence and excess, irrationality, preciosity, and effeminacy—rhetorically charged

Visual Arts

The Body Acoustic: Toward a Sense of Place — DAN2112.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Dana Reitz

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Credits: 2

How do we physically understand the spaces we are in? How is each of us affected by them? How do we develop a deeper sense of place? The Body Acoustic aims to heighten awareness of the reciprocal relationship between the built environment and our senses. Light and sound, distances, height, volume, surfaces, angles/curves and a/symmetries all affect our movement through interior

Dance

The Film Trailer Project — FRE4603.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly

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Credits: 4

In this course, French films are used as linguistic and cultural textbooks. While honing their language skills (listening, reading, speaking and writing), students will focus their critical skills on selected cultural topics (food, clothes, history, gestures, etc.). Students will create film trailers that reflect their understanding of the French language and cultural realities

Languages

The Grand Vessel — CER4319.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Barry Bartlett

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Credits: 4

In this class we will investigate the history of vessels made to impress, awe, and celebrate the technical as well as symbolic meaning of culture in different countries. Large and small in scale these vessel have been made for millennia to be used in tombs, in palaces, industrial expositions as well as the private home. These vessels often go to unimagined

Visual Arts

The History of English Prosody — LIT2276.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Phillip Williams

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Credits: 4

This class explores the history and development of poetry in the English language. We will investigate the evolution of poetic techniques, forms, and tropes across history. We will begin with meter, syllabics, received forms such as the sonnet and villanelle, the ode, lyrical versus narrative poetry, accentual verse, structure versus form, prose poetry, and free verse. We will

Literature

The Language of Persuasion — SPA2103.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Sarah Harris

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Credits: 4

Students with little or no background in Spanish will learn the language through an immersion in the study of political propaganda, tourist campaigns, and advertising from the Spanish-speaking world. An examination of Spanish and Latin American print, radio, film, and television advertisements, as well as political cartoons and speeches, will allow students to consider

Languages

The Magical Object — DRA2116.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Sherry Kramer

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Credits: 4

There is a great difference between a prop and an object on stage that is built or filled with the dramatic forces of a play. Such objects become metaphors, they become fresh comprehensions of the world. In the theater, we believe in magic. Our gaze is focused on ordinary objects…a glass figurine, a pair of shoes, a wedding dress…and then our attention is shaped, and charged,

Drama