Spring 2016

Architectural Analysis — ARC4157.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Donald Sherefkin

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Credits: 4

Students will select a critically significant building from the history of architecture. After careful research and documentation, a detailed analysis will be made, resulting in critical drawings, diagrams and models. A final project will then be formulated for a new building, generated from the discoveries that emerged through the analysis.

Visual Arts

Art, Visual Culture, and Empire in the Nineteenth Century — AH4104.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Zirwat Chowdhury

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Credits: 4

This course will engage students with a critical history of nineteenth-century art and visual culture in Europe (primarily France, Britain, and Belgium) and its colonial domains in North and Central Africa, the Near and Middle East, and South Asia. It will thus explore how nineteenth-century art and visual culture instantiated the psychological, physical, and imaginative

Visual Arts

Auden and Isherwood — LIT2498.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Brooke Allen and Mark Wunderlich

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Credits: 4

Poet W.H. Auden (1907-73) and novelist Christopher Isherwood (1904-86) were lifelong friends, literary collaborators, and occasional lovers. They met at school as small boys, saw each other frequently during their university years (Auden attended Oxford, Isherwood was at Cambridge), lived in Berlin during the rise of Nazism, and in 1939 emigrated together to America, where they

Literature

Banjo — MIN2215.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: John Kirk

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Credits: 2

Beginning, intermediate, or advanced group lessons on the 5-string banjo in the claw-hammer/frailing style. Student will learn to play using simple song sheets with chords, tablature, and standard notation. Using chord theory and scale work, personal music-making skills will be enhanced. Awareness of traditional styles of playing the instrument will be furthered through a

Music

Bass Intensive — MIN4026.01

Spring 2016

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Credits: 2

This class is the application of theory. It includes drills both on and off the instrument to insure the studied information (theory) is available to the performer in real time along with idiomatic considerations: construction of bass lines and solo ideas. We will also study masters in recording and by transcription.

Music

Bass with Bisio — MIN4417.01

Spring 2016

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Credits: 2

Private instruction covering technique and theory appropriate to the student's level and goals. Corequisites: Must participate in Music Workshop (T 6:30pm - 8:00 pm).

Music

Basso Continuo and You — MTH2110.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Kitty Brazelton

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Credits: 4

The practice of putting chords over a bass line and a melody on top - sound familiar? - exploded in the Early Baroque and we haven't been the same since. Listening changed. Ensembles changed. And a new era of functional harmony began. Learn about figured bass, chordal voicing and interpretation, the Spanish rhythmic ostinati which fueled popular dances from the New World. We'll

Music

Beginning Cello II — MIN4354.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Nat Parke

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Credits: 2

The basics of cello. In a small group, students will learn how to play the cello, with an emphasis on a group performance at the term’s conclusion. Corequisites: Attend Music Workshop seven times per term.

Music

Beginning Guitar — MIN2247.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Hui Cox

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Credits: 2

Introduces the fundamentals of acoustic guitar playing, including hand positions, tuning, reading music, major and pentatonic scales, major, minor, and seventh chords, chord progressions, blues progressions, and simple arrangements of songs. Corequisites: Must participate in Music Workshop (Tuesday, 6:30 - 8pm).

Music

Beginning Potter's Wheel — CER2107.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Aysha Peltz

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Credits: 4

This class is an introduction to using the potter's wheel as a tool for generating clay forms with an emphasis on pottery making. While focusing on the development of throwing skills, students will explore various possibilities for assembling wheel-thrown elements and will experiment with both functional and non-functional formats. Students will be introduced to the whole

Visual Arts

Beginning Violin and Viola — MIN2241.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Kaori Washiyama

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Credits: 2

Basic techniques will include the reading of music in either treble/or alto clefs in the easy keys. Basic hand positions and appropriate fingerings will be shown, and a rudimentary facility with bow will be developed in order that all students may participate in simple ensemble performance by the end of term. Student must arrange for the use of a college instrument, if needed

Music

Big: Exploring Large Scale Photography — PHO4236.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Jonathan Kline

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Credits: 4

Photographically derived imagery is increasingly seen in public spaces in addition to gallery and museum settings. This course offers students an opportunity to work with both digital and traditional means of attaining large scale photographs for installations in and out of doors. Through readings and presentations we will explore the issues of scale in contemporary photography

Visual Arts

Biochemistry — CHE4335.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Janet Foley

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Credits: 4

Biochemistry is an intermediate chemistry course in which students apply principles from general and organic chemistry, as well as general biology, to understand the molecular processes that characterize life. Biochemistry is a broad discipline that is growing rapidly in its scope – new developments and discoveries are being made daily. The goal of this class will be to give

Science Mathematics and Computing

Bringing Creativity to B Corporations — MOD2253.03

Spring 2016

Instructor: Laura Callanan and Robert Ransick

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Credits: 1

Certified B Corporations are for profit companies that voluntarily meet standards of transparency, accountability, and performance. B Corps share a commitment to create higher quality jobs and improve the quality of life in their communities. Currently certification standards for B Corps consider: the company’s governance structure, how it treats its workers, how it

CAPA Modules: Transferable Approaches

Building Materials/Woodshop — SCU2109.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: John Umphlett

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Credits: 2

This seven-week course is recommended for students interested in developing their technical skills in making sculpture and building methods. There will be a fundamental introduction to working with wood and general shop safety, with a focus on design. Processes such as joinery, scraping, and laminating will be covered, among others. The course is project-based. Students will be

Visual Arts

Calculus: Analysis of the Infinite — MAT4145.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Andrew McIntyre

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Credits: 4

Calculus is the mathematics of quantities that are infinitely small or infinitely many in number. For example, in physics, the curved trajectory of a planet can be understood by splitting it into infinitely many, infinitely short straight line pieces. An area can be computed by splitting the shape into infinitely many, infinitely small squares or triangles. The paradox of

Science Mathematics and Computing

Capital Punishment — PSY4223.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Ronald Cohen

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Credits: 4

Capital punishment is the state‐sanctioned killing of a person convicted of committing a crime. Its existence as public policy requires the approval or acquiescence of individual citizens and social groups, and its implementation requires the approval, acquiescence, and participation of a wide range of individuals and institutions. Attitudes toward capital punishment ‐ as

Society Culture and Thought

Cello — MIN4355.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Nat Parke

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Credits: 2

Studio instruction in cello. There will be an emphasis on creating and working towards an end-of-term project for each student. Students must have had at least three years of cello study. Corequisite: Music Workshop attendance 7 times per term.

Music

Chemistry 2 Lab — CHE4212L.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: John Bullock

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Credits: 0

Students will be introduced to new lab techniques and ways to measure progress of reactions. In particular, students will employ a variety of spectroscopic techniques to identify reaction products and measure rates. The utility of the latter for considering mechanistic possibilities is one of the key concepts in the lecture portion of the course and will be emphasized in

Science Mathematics and Computing

Chemistry 2: Organic Structure Bonding — CHE4212.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: John Bullock

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Credits: 4

Building on structural and reactivity insights developed in Chemistry 1, this course delves into molecular structure and modern theories of bonding, especially as they relate to the reaction patterns of functional groups. We will focus on the mechanisms of reaction pathways and develop an understanding for how those mechanisms are experimentally explored. There will be numerous

Science Mathematics and Computing

Chemistry Independent Research Projects — CHE4275.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Janet Foley

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Credits: 2

Students will apply the principles of Chemistry 1, 2, and 3 to the execution of substantive research projects of their own design. Interdisciplinary projects are encouraged: chemistry/biology, chemistry/geology etc. Students will also be responsible for independently analyzing their data and publicly presenting their findings. Persons interested in this class need to have

Science Mathematics and Computing

Cities Art Forum — APA4151.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Susie Ibarra

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Credits: 4

Cities have defined many artist’s work, while artists have also defined and help build cities. Art has transformed public spaces and created economic growth. It has provided a critical eye and ear for what is not being seen or heard. While collaborating with health programs and supporting children’s education, art also grapples with poverty, and speaks out on human rights

CAPA

Citizenship and the Nation-State — Canceled

Spring 2016

Instructor: Eileen Scully

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Credits: 4

First articulated in the city-states of ancient Greece and Rome and occupying a central place in the development of liberal political thought, the concept of citizenship today represents the modern, unquestioned form of membership linking individuals to territorial nation-states. Yet some scholars, focusing on new patterns of global governance, exchange and

Society Culture and Thought

Clarinet — MIN4223.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Bruce Williamson

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Credits: 2

Study of clarinet technique and repertoire with an emphasis on tone production, dexterity, reading skills, and improvisation. This course is for intermediate-advanced students only. Corequisite: Must participate in Music Workshop (Tuesdays, 6:30-8pm).

Music

Classic Film Comedies — LIT2499.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Brooke Allen

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Credits: 2

In this class we will watch some of the greatest film comedies ever made--mostly American, but a few French and British examples as well--and discuss the films' styles, cultural contexts, techniques, political content, and other questions. The films will include classics like Some Like it Hot, To Be Or Not To Be, The Palm Beach Story, Dr. Strangelove, and numerous others.

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