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Material World — SCU2113.02

Fall 2024
Instructor: John Umphlett
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Credits: 2
This course is directed at the student who is interested in furthering a visual vocabulary and conceptual enhancement through material introductions and demonstrations. The class will be based primarily on mastering methods of working with materials that we come across in this everyday modern life. Foundational understanding of these materials in their raw states; synthetic
Visual Arts

Medieval and Early Modern Female Visionary Writers — LIT2569.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 4
In this seminar, we’ll read an assortment of Medieval and Early Modern female visionary writers alongside contemporary writers that they inspired. Primary readings will include Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648-1695), writer, nun, and polymath in colonial Mexico and poet Eileen Myles (1949- ), who wrote a play inspired by her life; Margery Kempe (1373-1438) and Margery Kempe
Literature

Meisner Technique — DRA4268.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Jennifer Rohn
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Credits: 4
“If you are really doing it, you don’t have time to watch yourself doing it.” Sanford Meisner was an actor and founding member of the Group Theater. He went on to become a master teacher of acting who sought to give students an organized approach to the creation of truthful behavior on stage within the imaginary circumstances of a play. This class focuses on developing an actor
Drama

Melancholy Pilates — DAN2361.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
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Credits: 2
Instead of approaching movement seeking transformation, Melancholy Pilates is a class to stay with how you feel and feel it more. How can we move with feelings of sadness and melancholy? This class asks the student to practice finding action, even when the body might feel stagnant, leaden, or difficult to motivate. We will utilize a lot of horizontal positions to build length
Dance

Modeling and Thinking in Rhino 7 — DES2101.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Derek Parker
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Credits: 2
Modeling and Thinking in Rhino 7 is an introductory course to Computer-Aided Design (CAD) Modeling and how those models can be used in real-world applications. This course will explore the use of Rhino to create interactive models that represent imagined designs for; manufacturing, architecture, and spatial sketching. Particular attention will be paid to how computer models
Visual Arts

Modern Guitar — MIN4224.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Nat Parke
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Credits: 2
Individual training is available in jazz, modern and classical guitar technique and repertoire, song accompaniment (finger style), improvisation, and arranging and composing for the guitar. Course material is tailored to the interests and level of the individual student.
Music

Modern Observational Techniques — PHY4107.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Hugh Crowl
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Credits: 4
How are we able to learn about the universe around us? All information astronomers gather about the universe comes to us in the form of light. Sensing this light can be as simple as looking up at a nearby star or as complex as pointing a computerized telescope with a state-of-the-art digital detector at a distant galaxy. This class will focus on observing with a focus on using
Science and Mathematics

Monsters, Magic, and Madness in Western Music — MHI4136.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Joseph Alpar
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Credits: 4
Magic bullets forged in a pact with the Devil. A blood-stained bride driven to despair and murder on her wedding night. An opium dream of a diabolical witches' Sabbath. Composers and performers have represented horror, madness, magical creatures, and supernatural elements in innumerable and thrilling ways since the Middle Ages. In this course, we will study key musical works
Society Culture and Thought Music

Morning Mind-Body Teleportation: An Intimate Conversation with Self and Others — DAN2362.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Mina Nishimura
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Credits: 2
How can we be together and create something together, when we are physically not in the same space and time? In light of the above question, this course will be fully remote, facilitated through a combination of synchronous remote sessions and individual outside-class projects. Throughout the course, with body-centered minds, we will interview each other, and exchange
Dance

Movement Practice: Sénémali - Traditional West African Dance I — DAN2413.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 2
This course is an introduction to Sabar (traditional dance, drum, and ceremony) from Sénégal and Gambia and Traditional West African Mandingo dance and music forms. We will build an improvisation practice that explores the dynamics between the musicians and dancers as well as how movement and live music can be experienced as a singular, integrated entity.  We will also
Dance

Movement Practice: Sénémali - Traditional West African Dance II — DAN4487.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 2
For students with some dance background, this version of Sénémali is taught at a more advanced level. This course is an introduction to Sabar (traditional dance, drum, and ceremony) from Sénégal and Gambia and Traditional West African Mandingo dance and music forms. We will build an improvisation practice that explores the dynamics between the musicians and dancers as well as
Dance

Movement Practice: Spiraling around... — DAN4501.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Levi Gonzalez
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Credits: 2
In this course we will explore spiraling in and out of the floor. This is a rigorous movement class that focuses on traveling through space, using the spirals embedded in the body and exploring how these will help us to separate from the floor and come back to it. We will create movement sequences and phrases sourced from postmodern dance techniques and Flying Low (movement
Dance

Music Composition for Dance — MCO4152.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
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Credits: 2
Music Composition for Dance looks retrospectively at collaborative twentieth-century works for ballet and modern dance from Stravinsky, Diaghilev, Nijinsky, Ellington, Ailey, Cage, Syvilla Fort, Copland, and Martha Graham, amongst others. These collaborations helped revolutionize dance choreography, philosophies and musical methods from their use of tonalities, sonorities,
Music Dance

Music Lecture Series — MHI2000.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Joseph Alpar
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Credits: 2
The class will meet weekly for 12 lectures on a wide range of musical topics, given by faculty and visiting speakers on a rotating basis. The course will provide snapshots into musical performance and scholarship, across genres, cultures, and histories. Lecture topics will be drawn from several areas, including ethnomusicology, music history, Black Music Studies, Queer Studies,
Music

Music Theory I – Applied Fundamentals — MTH2274.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: John Kirk
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Credits: 4
An introduction to music theory course. Music theory fundamentals will be taught utilizing voice (singing) and an instrument in hand. Knowledge of the piano keyboard will be learned and utilized. Curriculum will span the harmonic series, circle of 5ths, scales and chords to ear training, harmonic and rhythmic dictation, and beginning composition. Score reading, listening, and
Music

Ndaga - a way of making dance — DAN4486.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 4
We can define Ndaga as the awareness of legacy and debt, border crossing, re/invention, re/creation, and the desire to create new space for time travel. This is a self-journey. This course is for students who wish to find their artistic voices by exploring an interdisciplinary approach to making work. Using poetry, visual art, improvisation and various movement practices, we
Dance

Needs, Wants, and Economic Rights — PEC2279.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Emma Kast
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Credits: 4
Commodities such as cars, smartphones, laptops, and refrigerators were initially considered luxuries but are now widely viewed as everyday necessities. This shift suggests that our understanding of need is shaped by social, historical, and cultural context. In this class we will explore questions such as: how do we distinguish what we want from what we need to live a dignified
Society Culture and Thought

On Collecting: Writings of Walter Benjamin — VA4209.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Anne Thompson
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Credits: 4
This course examines major themes in the writings of German philosopher and cultural theorist Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) including history, politics, aesthetics, technology, urban life, archives, and collections. Our goal is to gain a greater understanding of Benjamin’s significance for cultural producers across disciplines, in particular artists, critics, and curators. Texts
Visual Arts

Open Source Software in Practice — CS4387.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Michael Corey
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Credits: 4
The majority of complex computer systems are built on open source software. From webpages and blogs through to trillion dollar companies, open source software (OSS) is at the heart of these endeavors. Open source is simultaneously a license, rallying cry, political philosophy, and a practice of creation and curation. Popular examples of open source software include: the LAMP
Science and Mathematics

Our Chemical World — CHE2119.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Fortune Ononiwu
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Credits: 4
Chemistry is all around us, shaping the world we live in and influencing our daily lives in fascinating ways. Have you ever wondered about the chemical compounds found in plants or fungi? Have you wondered what's in your drinking water or household cleaners? In this course, we will explore the fundamental principles of chemistry while delving into these questions and more.
Science and Mathematics

Pedagogies: Theory and Practice — EDU2113.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 4
This course will focus on teaching methods. While applicable to college, they’ll mostly be of the K-12 variety. Proleptically, it should always already recognize the false dichotomy rather too neatly encapsulated in its subtitle. On the one hand, yes, weekly, we’ll scour the history of education, the issues most pertinent to it, its possibly reified institutions, rationales,
Education

Perception and Augmentation in Computer Vision — CS4385.01) (cancelled 5/10/2024

Fall 2024
Instructor: Meltem Ballan
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Credits: 4
In the first two weeks, we'll learn about how our eyes and brain work together to make sense of what we see. We'll also explore ways to make computer programs better at understanding images by changing them in different ways. We'll try out some of these changes ourselves using a computer program called Python with a special tool called OpenCV. Moving on, we'll dive into how we
Science and Mathematics

Performance Pedagogies of Dance — DAN4816B.04, section 4

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 3
BFA students only PODs offer students the opportunity to make connections through multiple access points, especially in areas of performance. PODs are designed to help students recognize the tools and methodologies used in their own creative work both as performers and as choreographers. Structurally each POD is identified by a unique topic. PODs have required rehearsal times
Dance (BFA)

Performance Pedagogies of Dance — DAN4816B.03, section 3

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 3
BFA students only PODs offer students the opportunity to make connections through multiple access points, especially in areas of performance. PODs are designed to help students recognize the tools and methodologies used in their own creative work both as performers and as choreographers. Structurally each POD is identified by a unique topic. PODs have required rehearsal times
Dance (BFA)

Performance Pedagogies of Dance — DAN4816B.02, section 2

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 3
BFA students only PODs offer students the opportunity to make connections through multiple access points, especially in areas of performance. PODs are designed to help students recognize the tools and methodologies used in their own creative work both as performers and as choreographers. Structurally each POD is identified by a unique topic. PODs have required rehearsal times
Dance (BFA)