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Sun Ra: Space is the Place — MPF2146.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
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Credits: 2
SUN RA…SPACE IS THE PLACE takes a look at the life of Herman Poole Blount, founder and creator of the Sun Ra Arkestra. Considered a prolific composer of jazz and a pioneer of electronic music, Herman Blount aka Le Sony’r Ra or Sun Ra, was quite controversial for his electronic music and unorthodox lifestyle. He claimed he was of the “Angel Race” and not from Earth, but from
Music

Teaching Languages and Cultures K-6 — FLE2107.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly, Ikuko Yoshida Sarah Harris
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Credits: 2
Early exploration of foreign languages and cultures is gaining increasing attention nationwide. This seven-week course is intended to help students gain a basic understanding of language and culture teaching to young children. Students will explore theories and pedagogical techniques, develop lesson plans and units, and implement them in class. Students will create, share, and
CAPA Languages

Ten Decades, Ten Exhibitions: Popular Art Narratives of the Twentieth Century — VA2226.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Anne Thompson
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Credits: 4
This introductory course considers modernism and postmodernism through a close examination of exhibitions that shaped scholarly and popular conceptions of twentieth-century art. Starting with the Last Futurist Exhibition of Painting in 1915, readings, films, discussions and interactive lectures will address styles and ideas within the context of the art spectacle or “show.”
Visual Arts

The Art of the Staged Reading — DRA2159.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Dina Janis
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Credits: 4
In the professional world, particularly in the area of new play development, actors, writers and directors will be often be required to present staged readings of new or classic work. How does one master the art of the staged reading? In this class, we will explore the specific techniques of acting and staging involved. When acting in a staged reading, one must make strong
Drama

The Ecstasy of Influence: Style in Fiction — LIT4124.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Kathleen Alcott
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Credits: 4
“Nothing is inherently interesting,” wrote John Gardner, discoursing on the crucial center of any fictive work: style. When it comes to writing short fiction and novels, the ideas we’ve absorbed about narrativizing from our outside lives often don’t apply. Even the most thrilling story, if written without a reverence to form, loses its audience quickly. In this seminar on
Literature

The French New Wave — FV2109.02

Fall 2018
Instructor: Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly
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Credits: 2
This course will survey the French New Wave, an innovative movement that redefined cinema around the world. Definitions of cinematographic key elements and the study of the historical context of the 1950s and 1960s will allow students to better understand how a group of young critics – among whom Truffaut, Godard, Rivette, Varda, Resnais, and Rohmer- transformed filmmaking. We
Visual Arts

The Hollow Form — CER2221.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Barry Bartlett
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Credits: 4
The objective of this class is to help students learn the breadth of handbuilding techniques in the ceramic arts that have given rise to a vast history of ideas observed using hollow forms. Unlike traditional sculptural techniques used in wood, stone and metal, ceramic forms have depended on the interior space, the void, to define both symbolic meaning and formal structure.
Visual Arts

The Language of Drawing: Investigating Abstraction — DRW4246.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Mary Lum
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Credits: 4
Drawing is inherently a process of abstracting the world. How do we make use of myriad concepts, forms, and materials to make meaningful drawn images? How does a practitioner “use” drawing to express ideas? What does it mean to work “through” an idea? In this course we look carefully at systems and structures, as well as modes of thinking about drawing in the real world.
Visual Arts

The Life and Death of Proteins — BIO4311.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Amie McClellan
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Credits: 2
This is an advanced literature-based course aimed at understanding the events that follow the transcription of a DNA sequence into a messenger RNA and the subsequent translation of that message into an amino acid sequence, or protein. The primary emphasis will be on experimental design and interpretation in the context of critical reading, discussion, and writing informed
Science and Mathematics

The Line of Clothing: Rendering for Costume Design — DRA2267.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Charles Schoonmaker
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Credits: 4
The rendering of one’s design ideas is a basic tool of the designer. This class will explore various methods of communicating oneʹs design ideas to directors, performers, producers, and other members of a creative team. We will primarily use traditional materials such as paper, pencil, and paint. We may also work in digital media, such as ʹBrushesʹ on tablets, or Photoshop. It
Dance Drama

The Magical Object - Visual Metaphor — DRA2116.01

Fall 2018
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 Visual Arts

The Meaning of Life — PHI2134.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Doug Kremm
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Credits: 4
This course examines some of philosophy’s deepest and most central questions. What is the meaning of life? Is there a point to pursuing the things we pursue in life? How can we bring more meaning and happiness into our lives? Should we fear death? We will explore these and other questions from a variety of perspectives, engaging with historical and contemporary works by
Society Culture and Thought

The Psychology of Feelings and the Social Construction of Emotions — PSY4105.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Ella Ben Hagai
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Credits: 4
This advanced course provides a general introduction to the basic science of feelings and emotions, including evolutionary, neurophysiological, and cognitive approaches. In addition to examining the psychological processes with which emotions are privately felt, we will examine the social construction of emotions. We will explore how culture, gender and class backgrounds shape
Society Culture and Thought

The Real Betty Parsons — VA4121.02

Fall 2018
Instructor: Anne Thompson
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Credits: 2
Gallerist Betty Parsons was every bit as maverick as the Abstract Expressionist painters she so famously debuted. An artist in her own right and a lesbian, she championed women, gay and bisexual artists and other practitioners outside the white, macho midcentury scene. A reconsideration of this history shapes a course that positions Parsons within today’s discourse as a hybrid
Visual Arts

The Scriptorium: Borders and Boundaries — WRI2152.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Camille Guthrie
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Credits: 4
This scriptorium, a “place for writing,” functions as a class for writers interested in improving their essay-writing skills. We will read to write and write to read. Much of our time will be occupied with writing and revising—essai means “trial” or “attempt”—as we work to create new habits and strategies for our analytical writing. As we practice various essay structures with
Writing

The Study Center for Group Work: Threeing — APA2214.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Caroline Woolard
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Credits: 2
If group work is both the most necessary and the most difficult endeavor of our time, what methods are necessary for collaboration in the arts? In this seminar and studio, students will focus on a method for group work that was developed by the video-artist (not politician) Paul Ryan between 1971 and the end of his life, in 2013. Threeing is "a voluntary practice in which three
CAPA

The Whiteness of the Whale: Moby-Dick and Melville's America — LIT2401.02

Fall 2018
Instructor: Benjamin Anastas
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Credits: 2
The poet Charles Olson, in his groundbreaking lyric study of Melville Call me Ishmael (1947), argues that Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (1851) is a truer and more essentially American literary document than Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass (1855) because "it is all of America, all of her space, the malice, the root." We'll spend seven weeks reading Melville's account of Ahab's
Literature

Theories of Psychotherapy — PSY4108.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: David Anderegg
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Credits: 4
This course addresses the history of the “talking cure” with a systematic look at the links between psychological theory and therapeutic technique. The practice of psychoanalysis and analytic therapy is investigated through a reading of some of Freud’s papers on technique. The historical development of psychotherapy, including later developments in analysis, behavior therapy,
Society Culture and Thought

Thing Library Project — VA4211.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Yoko Inoue
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Credits: 4
Thing Library Project is a research based Visual Arts class in which students investigate critical theories of “thingness” and design and create artwork (designed objects, sculptures, utilitarian goods, garments etc.) to establish an object lending library within the Crossett Library. This collection of three-dimensional items will be classified and catalogued for circulation
Visual Arts

Topping It Off — DRA4115.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Richard MacPike
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Credits: 2
Nothing can inform, conceal or embellish like a hat. Students in this course will learn a variety of millinery techniques through the making of buckram, wire framed, and felt hats.
Drama

Toward a Rigorous Art History — AH2109.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: J. Vanessa Lyon
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Credits: 4
A “rigorous study of art” became the goal of Philosopher and Cultural Critic Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) when his growing distaste for the outlook and methods of his art history professor—the famous and foundational Heinrich Wölfflin—caused him to consider publishing an account of “the most disastrous activity I have ever encountered at a German university.” Striking a balance
Visual Arts

Traditional Music Ensemble — MPF4221.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: John Kirk
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Credits: 2
We will study and perform from the string band traditions of rural America. Nova Scotia, Quebecois, Irish, New England, Scandinavian, African American dance and ballad traditions will also be experienced with listening, practice (weekly group rehearsals outside of class), and performing components. Emphasis on ensemble intuition, playing by ear, and lifetime personal music
Music

Traditional Music of North America — MHI2135.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: John Kirk
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Credits: 2
This course explores music from early native music through contemporary singer-songwriters. Some of the traditions we draw from include African, Native American, Quebecois, Appalachian, Irish and Scottish, British Isle traditions, Cajun, Blues, Gospel, and Conjunto music. Instrumental, dance, and ballad traditions are explored. Students must bring a guitar, banjo, mandolin, or
Music

Transnational Feminist Geography — SCT2138.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Emily Mitchell-Eaton
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Credits: 4
What is the global? What is the transnational? Are these spaces of connection, of division, of possibility, or dislocation? What does solidarity mean, how is it practiced (or critiqued), and whom does it benefit? This course aims to grapple with the complexities and contradictions of such questions in the context of transnational feminist theory and praxis. In particular, we
Society Culture and Thought