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Presentation of Statistics — MAT2246.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Josef Mundt
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Credits: 4
Data can come to us in many forms: tables, charts, graphs, observations, experimental results, and other less formal avenues. To best understand the world around us, we must be able to take that data, answer questions, and then convey those answers to others in a clear, concise manner. This course will show different methods for presenting statistical data to others as well as
Science and Mathematics

Print and Process — PHO4246.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: May Hemler
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Credits: 2
The focus of this course is preparing digital files for large inkjet printing. Starting with capture, students will learn how to make images with the intention of printing them larger than 20 inches. Students may work with analog negatives or digital RAW files and will learn how to properly scan and import. Students will learn how to appropriately organize and catalog their
Visual Arts

Programming Languages — CS4116.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Justin Vasselli
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Credits: 4
This class will look at a variety of different programming languages, both common and obscure. In this class, we'll look at functional programming languages, object oriented programming languages, and languages that combine these paradigms. We will look at interpreted vs compiled languages, and look at the differences in memory management systems between languages. Students
Science and Mathematics

Projects in Ceramics — CER4229.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Barry Bartlett
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Credits: 4
The process of making artwork will be the major focus of the class. This studio class is designed to support the development of the creative process in ceramics with an understanding lending itself to all forms of art making.  Projects will be conceptually based requiring investigation on an individual level. Issues to be raised in this class will include functional and
Visual Arts

Queer American Poetry: Stonewall to Present — LIT2297.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Phillip Williams
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Credits: 4
Often, same-sex desire exists as the sole portrayal and determining factor of whether or not a text dwells in queerness. But the idea of queer has never been solely about same-sex desire or even sexual desire at all. Contrary to expectation, poets for years have written about revolutionary ways to exist in a society that has made the self-proclaimed orthodoxy of gender
Literature

Queer Feminist Sculpture: The Space Between Us — APA4158.02

Fall 2019
Instructor: Caroline Woolard, MFA Teaching Fellow
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Credits: 2
In this seven-week seminar and studio, students will produce creative, self-directed projects across media (video, sound, sculpture, etc.) that deal with the space between us, or proxemics, the study of personal and interpersonal spatial politics. The seminar will center artists Jeff Kasper and Chloe Bass, in particular Kasper's wrestling embrace, a customizable workshop co
CAPA

Race and Mediation — MS4102.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Brian Michael Murphy
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Credits: 4
Media technologies, such as photography, were instrumental in establishing modern conceptions of race. But the reverse is also true—racial ideas deeply shaped our belief that media technologies have the ability to faithfully represent reality. In this advanced course, we will engage an exciting area of scholarship and artistic practice, located at the intersection of media
Society Culture and Thought

Rakugo: Art of Storytelling — JPN4505.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
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Credits: 4
Rakugo is one of the traditional Japanese art and storytelling entertainment which became extremely popular during the Edo period (1603-1868). Rakugo is a rather unique storytelling performance because a storyteller sits on a seat on the stage called “kooza” and tells humorous stories without standing up from the seat. Moreover, the storyteller narrates and plays various
Cultural Studies and Languages

Reading and Writing Poetry: Lyric Persona — LIT4130.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Anna Maria Hong
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Credits: 4
Lyric poems express the thoughts, feelings, and perceptions of a single, first-person speaker, often aligned with the poet themselves. Persona poems or dramatic monologues invoke the mask of another figure—fictional character, animal, plant, object, or person—to convey idea, emotion, and voice. Reading a diverse array of poems by poets from different eras, nations, and
Literature

Reading into Refuge: Stories of Migration — LIT2340.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Stuart Nadler
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Credits: 4
The repercussions of the refugee crisis in Syria and at our southern border have once again thrust the politics of migration and refuge into the public discussion. In this course we will investigate the literature of forced exile and resettlement in order to understand how our collective narratives about emigration are formed, and to ask what it means for a writer to
Literature

Reinventing and Branding Japan — JPN4710.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
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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

Restoring Juvenile Justice: Improved Outcomes for Emerging Adult Offenders in Vermont — APA4121.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Alisa del Tufo
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Credits: 4
The school-to-prison pipeline, is the result of the national trend towards increasingly harsh school and municipal policies, sometimes called Zero Tolerance. This problem has become a significant topic of debate in discussions surrounding educational discipline, juvenile justice and child welfare practices. In 2018, the State of Vermont took a bold step to address this problem,
CAPA

Russian Jewish Literature and Film — LIT2203.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Alexandar Mihailovic
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Credits: 4
The roots of Russian Jewish literature reach back into the Pale of Settlement of the pre-revolutionary era. The vibrant cosmopolitan city of Odessa on the Black Sea provided an important cultural model for the style and political stance of Jewish literature written in Russian. Although Stalin’s purges and the second World War affected all social levels and ethnic groups within
Literature

Sage City Symphony — MPF4100.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke (Conductor is Michael Finckel)
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Credits: 1
Sage City Symphony is a community orchestra which invites student participation. The Symphony is noted for the policy of commissioning new works by major composers, in some instances student composers, as well as playing the classics. There are openings in the string sections, and occasionally by audition for solo winds and percussion. There will be two concerts each term.
Music

Samurai and Art — JPN4301.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
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Credits: 4
What is the relationship between samurai warriors and art? It is hard to imagine the two words – warriors and art - in one sentence. However, many of samurai warriors practiced and enjoyed various types of arts. For example, the powerful feudal samurai warriors, Nobunaga Oda and Hideyoshi Toyotomi, practiced closely with a tea master, Sen No Rikyu, and enjoyed tea ceremony. In
Cultural Studies and Languages

Science Fiction as Agent of Change — FV4223.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Jen Liu
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Credits: 2
This is a seminar, screening and production half-semester course, based on themes within Science Fiction and Speculative Fiction as means to imagine a different future.  In the first half we will be viewing films, from big budget to experimental and performance-based video art, while also listening to music, audio plays, and reading experimental and theoretical texts to
Visual Arts Society Culture and Thought

Screenwriting: Scene and Structure — LIT2354.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Manuel Gonzales
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Credits: 4
Reading contemporary screenplays and story treatments, we will discuss the structure and scene work that goes into writing a successful screenplay. Almost without fail, all screenplays utilize a familiar and easy to learn three-act structure, but the very best screenwriters manipulate this structure nimbly via character development, excellent dialogue, and strong storytelling
Literature

Senior Projects — LIT4795.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Michael Dumanis
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Credits: 4
For seniors working on critical or creative senior theses in Literature.Each student will devote the term to completing the draft of a unified manuscript in a single genre –- 75 pages of fiction or creative nonfiction, 50 pages of criticism, 30 pages of poetry, or a lengthy translation project. Every week, the class will critique individual manuscripts-in-progress. These peer
Literature

Senior Seminar in Society, Culture, and Thought — SCT4750.01, section 1

Fall 2019
Instructor: Eileen Scully, Rotimi Suberu
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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

Senior Seminar in Society, Culture, and Thought — SCT4750.02, section 2

Fall 2019
Instructor: David Anderegg
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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

Sensory Technique — DRA4161.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Dina Janis
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Credits: 4
How do you create imaginary rain or cold or heat? Where are you coming from when you enter a stage from the wings? How do you personalize and endow the set and props your character thinks of as real? What is substitution and how can it help bring the relationships of a play to life? In this class, we will work with the basic canon of sensory exercises designed to give the
Drama

Shakespeare: The Tragedies — LIT2217.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Marguerite Feitlowitz
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Credits: 4
We will read the major tragedies--Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, Antony Cleopatra; view important film productions; and read a range of historical and contemporary criticism. There will be exams, papers, and in-class conferences.
Drama Literature

Silkscreen Printmaking — PRI2122.02

Fall 2019
Instructor: Corinne Rhodes
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Credits: 2
Screen printing is an extremely versatile means of reproducing a 2-D image onto a variety of objects. Hand-drawn, painted, photographic and digital images can be used singularly and in combination with each other. Preparation and processing is relatively simple and multiples can be produced quickly. In this class, we will print with non-toxic, water based inks. We will begin
Visual Arts