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Mallet Percussion Ensemble — MPF4106.01

Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Days & Time: MO,TH 3:40pm-5:30pm
Credits: 4

Mallet Percussion Ensemble offers an environment for students to explore several mallet keyboard instruments, including the marimba, xylophone, glockenspiel, vibraphone, and African balafon. MPE's coursework is designed to link music theory, improvisation, and composition through the bi-weekly practice of playing scales, arpeggios, modes, and chord progressions while

Mandolin — MIN2229.01

Instructor: John Kirk
Days & Time: W 2:00PM-2:50PM
Credits: 2

Beginning, intermediate and advanced group lessons on the mandolin will be offered. Students will learn classical technique on the mandolin and start to develop a repertoire of classical and traditional folk pieces. Simple song sheets with chords, tablature, and standard notation, chord theory, and scale work will all be used to further skills. History of the Italian origins

Mediation, Negotiation and Complex Systems Analysis — APA2455.01

Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Days & Time: TU,FR 10:30am-12:20pm
Credits: 4

This class will examine contemporary cconflicts through the lens of complex systems. The class will include a 16 hour training in Mediation and Negotiation skills. Through readings, discussion, exercises and role-plays, the class will examine and deconstruct the complexities of current democratic and environmental issues related to local, national and global governance, We

Meisner Technique — DRA4268.01

Instructor: Jennifer Rohn
Days & Time: TU,FR 2:10pm-4:00pm
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

Metalshop; Foundations — SCU2217.01

Instructor: Phoenix Malanga
Days & Time: FR 8:30am-12:10pm
Credits: 2

This course is recommended for all students considering working in sculpture and interested in mild steel design/fabrication methods. It is open to anyone with a curiosity about materials and building processes. There are fundamental introductions to gas, arc, electric welding, forging, fabrication techniques like cutting and grinding

Minimalism — MTH4210.01

Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
Days & Time: WE 4:10pm-6:00pm
Credits: 2

A seminar in analyzing the diverse streams of musical minimalism. We'll look at minimalism's conceptual roots in the 1960s, and trace influences from the visual arts, as well as early works of Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Fluxus, Cage, and the UK's Scratch Orchestra. The seminar will combine on-the-score and aural analysis, contrasting open score,

Morning Teatime: Discovering Japanese Language and Culture Through Art and Pop Culture — JPN2115.01

Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
Days & Time: MO,WE,TH 8:30am-9:50am
Credits: 5

Start your day with a cup of tea and a journey into Japan’s vibrant cultural world. This introductory-level Japanese course offers a relaxed, immersive introduction to the Japanese language and culture, paired with an exploration of the visual art, history, and traditions that shape contemporary Japan

Movement Practice: Sénémali 2 — DAN2421.01

Instructor: Kaolack Ndiaye
Days & Time: TU,FR 4:10pm-6:00pm
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

Movement Practice: Contemplative Action — DAN2429.01

Instructor: Faculty TBA
Days & Time: MO,TH 10:00am-11:50am
Credits: 1

These two-hour movement-based classes weave physical, emotional, and energetic awareness into a single focus.

Deeply rooted in Asian somatic philosophies, this work prioritizes cultivating "being in one’s own skin" over outward achievement. The practice maintains a strong contemplative core while working at the thresholds of perceived possibility.

Movement Practice: Stretching and Conditioning — DAN2428.01

Instructor: Levi Gonzalez
Days & Time: TU,FR 10:30am-12:20pm
Credits: 2

This course is open to students at all levels of experience with body conditioning and/or dance. Class sessions will be approached as a form of exercise as well as a way to recover from injuries, misuse, excess or lack of physical activity. Incorporating tools and exercises from various physical practice modalities, including yoga,

Music Lecture Series — MHI2000.01

Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
Days & Time: MO 7:00pm-8:50pm
Credits: 2

The class will meet weekly for 12 lectures, workshops, and performances 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. Classes will consist of active participation, even performance, in

Music Theory 1 - Applied Fundamentals — MTH2274.01

Instructor: John Kirk
Days & Time: TU,FR 10:30am-12:20pm
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,

New Play Development Lab — DRA4353.01

Instructor: Abe Koogler
Days & Time: WE 2:10pm-5:50pm
Credits: 4

This advanced class will be modeled after a professional playwrights development lab. Each writer will focus on intensively revising 1-2 plays, with the goal of having these plays submission-ready by the end of the term. Writers will have several opportunities during the term to workshop their plays with actors from Dina Janis' New Play Development

Open Score Ensemble — MCO4804.01

Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
Days & Time: MO 3:40pm-5:30pm
Credits: 2

In this class, we’ll play open-ended and comprov pieces, sourced from the last half-century as well as ones of our own making. Based on early ensembles such as the Fluxus and Scratch Orchestras, we’ll plumb piece from the open-form proto minimalism of Julius Eastman to the deep listening scores of Pauline Oliveros. Some relationship to an instrument,

Out of the Woods: Advanced Reading in Conservation and Ecology — BIO4191.01

Instructor: Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie
Days & Time: WE 2:10pm-4:00pm
Credits: 2

The idea of old growth forests evokes romantic notions of "wild" and "natural" landscapes, especially in Vermont where our settler-colonial history includes rapid and widespread deforestation for logging and agriculture. How do ecologists identify "old growth" and what lessons about ecological structure, function, and processes can we learn from these

Patrick J. Leahy Public Policy Forum: Saving Democracy Together — APA2154.01

Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2

Almost a century ago, Franklin D. Roosevelt alerted Americans to the impending global conflict pitting democracies founded on individual liberty against rising fascist dictatorships pursuing “final solutions.” Drawing inspiration from John Dewey’s progressive philosophy, FDR emphasized, ""In this conflict the part which education plays in each ideology is crucial. Democracy

Pedagogies: Theory and Practice — EDU2113.01

Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
Days & Time: MO,TH 3:40pm-5:30pm
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

PERFORMANCE PRAXIS: Alone with Others — DAN2430.01

Instructor: Faculty TBA
Days & Time: WE 10:00am-11:50am & WE 2:10pm-4:00pm
Credits: 1

Open to all levels, this course integrates movement, voice, writing, and song. These four-hour sessions apply the principles of "Contemplative Action" to a collective creative process. The work is framed by the teaching artist’s current project, which investigates the mythical figure of Cassandra and explores the "unheard voices" in our personal and collective

Performative Methodologies — DAN5404B.01

Instructor: Ben Pranger
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2

This interdisciplinary class looks at the relationship between the visual arts, performance, and dance. In particular, we will focus on the influence of collage across disciplines by finding common methods and themes, such as juxtaposition, chance, and appropriation. We will trace the history of collage in the visual arts and then

Philosophical Problems — PHI4239.01

Instructor: Paul Voice
Days & Time: WE 7:00pm-8:50pm
Credits: 2

This course invites students to research and write a paper on a philosophical topic of their own choosing. Students will be required to clearly state the philosophical problem they want to research, construct a detailed bibliography, and write a paper that explains the problem, engages with the philosophical literature, and advances an argument. This class is suitable for

Philosophical Reasoning — PHI2109.01

Instructor: Paul Voice
Days & Time: MO,TH 10:00am-11:50am
Credits: 4

What is the difference between belief and knowledge? What is truth? What is the good? These are some of the questions this first course in philosophy asks. It has two aims: To introduce you to the methods and procedures of philosophical argument and, second, to engage you in a critical dialogue with three

Philosophy and Biography: Wittgenstein — PHI4247.01

Instructor: Paul Voice
Days & Time: WE 2:10pm-5:50pm
Credits: 4

Ludwig Wittgenstein is one of the most influential and important of twentieth century philosophers and one of its most enigmatic characters.  In this course you will read two of Wittgenstein's central works, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and Philosophical Investigations.  We will arrive at a detailed understanding of

Physics I: Forces and Motion (with Lab) — PHY2235.01

Instructor: Hugh Crowl
Days & Time: Tu/F 10:30AM-12:20PM, W 8:30AM-12:10PM (Lab)
Credits: 5

Physics is the study of what Newton called “the System of the World.” To know the System of the World is to know what forces are out there and how those forces operate on things. These forces explain the dynamics of the world around us: from the path of a falling apple to the motion of a car down the highway to the flight of a rocket from the Earth. Careful analysis of the