Piano Lab I — MIN2232.02; section 2
Introductory course in basic keyboard skills. Topics include reading notation, rhythm, technique, and general musicianship.
Spring 2017
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Piano Lab II — MIN4236.02; section 2
Continuing course in basic keyboard skills. Students already fluent with notation and with music in their plan are encouraged to take this level, or talk with the instructor.
Piano Lab II — MIN4236.01; section 1
Continuing course in basic keyboard skills. Students already fluent with notation and with music in their plan are encouraged to take this level, or talk with the instructor.
Plant Ecology and Floristics — BIO4112.01
An intensive quantitative and field-based study of local plants and plant communities. Work will include intensive documentation of local natural areas with intensive field-work involving plant identification, community sampling, and environmental measurement/description. In addition, there will be opportunity to learn and apply tools like dendrochronology
Playwriting Workshop: Politics and Poetry — DRA4113.01
For our workshop, I’d like us to think about plays as being a combination of things. Of poetry and plot, in form (or structure). Of the personal and the political, in content. I’d so appreciate us thinking about this together because I’ve been thinking about this alone for quite some time. As I’ve thought about it, I haven’t been considering “poetry” and “prose” and “personal”
Playwriting Workshop: Sense Memory — DRA2140.01
In this course, we will explore methods for using our senses both to inspire our writing and to create plays that engage an audience's faculties and imagination. Through writing exercises tailored to creating text that is meant to be spoken and lived in, participants will create writing that is inspired by images, objects, music, and food that they share with the class. In this
Point of Criticality: Problems of Complexity — APA2140.01
This course looks at the application of complex systems analysis to problem-solving. Concepts such as self-organization, emergence and complexity will be examined in the context of case studies of specific conflicts and how they are or are not resolved. The central text is "Thinking in Systems" by environmental scientist, Donella Meadows as well as readings from scientists,
Pop Culture in Modern China — CHI4401.01
Understanding pop culture in modern China is no small effort. This course is not designed to do a comprehensive survey of popular culture in modern China. Instead we will explore ways of listening, speaking, reading, watching, seeing and writing to learn Mandarin Chinese through various forms of pop culture including TV shows, films, sports, newspapers, rock music, and posters
Popular Rule and its Discontents — POL2113.01
Nearly 2,500 years ago in Greece, a new word was coined, demokratia, combining the terms demos (“the people”) and kratos (“to rule”). From the moment of its Greek inception to the present day, when nearly every nation on earth claims to be democratic, the concept of popular rule has been a site of deep contestation in Western political theory and
Premiere Pro for Moving Image — FV2305.01
This course is a 1-credit, seven-week course focused on providing video and animation students with the skills to edit in Premiere Pro CC 2015. The first third of the course will provide the essential training of capturing, editing, audio mixing, and performing special effects, as well as review methods of best practice when organizing footage and exporting finished
Projections — ARC2120.01
This course will combine an introduction to both the history of architecture as well as its systems of representation. A thematic history of architecture will be presented through slide lectures and readings. Studio work will employ sketching, hand drawing with tools and digital modeling. The studio work will inform the understanding of the work that is presented in the history
Projects in Sculpture: Making It Personal — SCU4797.01
The question is what do you want to say? As we develop our interests in sculpture it becomes more and more imperative to find our own voice. The role of the artist is to interpret personal conditions and experiences and find the most effective expression for them. This course provides the opportunity for a self directed study in sculpture. Students are expected to produce a
Psychology of Creativity: Making and Using Metaphors — PSY4226.01
This course will address two large areas in the psychology of creativity: (1) special creativity, that is, the study of creative persons and the specific characteristics of high-level creative thinkers. We will look at how creativity is measured, what personal characteristics or life circumstances seem to foster creative achievement, and the contributions of history in making
Psychology Research Workshop — PSY4390.01
In this class, students will work in small groups to carry out psychology research projects from start to finish. The groups will do a (fast) literature review; IRB proposal; research design; data collection and data analysis. Each group will work on the same project throughout the term. In order to get going on projects, we will work on topics of the instructor’s choosing: one
Psychophysiology Research — PSY4103.01
Students will investigate the relationship between psychological constructs and physiological responses through research projects. the focus of the class is the application of practical knowledge, with some discussion of the psychological theory behind the measures. Equipment is available for students to collect data from multiple modalities including, cardiovascular function
Rape/Culture: Sexual Violence and the Visual Arts, from Giambologna to Kara Walker — AH2405.01
“Heroic rape” is no stranger to art history. Under this rubric, students have been introduced to the field and its concerns via crisp photographs of canonical works in which Roman foundation legends, etiological myths, and political absolutism are prescribed and perpetuated via the trope of (eroticized) sexual violence. The existence of a ‘rape culture’ in modern life in
Reading and Writing Poetry: First Book, Last Book—Considering Prosodic Evolution — LIT4279.01
We will focus on the first (or near-first) and last (or near-last) book of several authors of poetry with an intense exploration and dissection of the prosodic tools deployed in each book. We will investigate and compare/contrast the structure of the books including order of poems, sections and section titles, and how the poems themselves are written. Each author will also be
Reading and Writing the First Novel — LIT4282.01
Some writers are born gradually over a body of early work that allows them to develop a signature style and a series of concerns that will flower over time, while other writers are seemingly born complete--like Athena emerging whole from Zeus's head--with their first novels. We will read a wide selection of remarkable first novels over the term (examples include The
Reconsidering Time: Advanced Performing — DAN4124.01
In this course, when making and performing new movement material, we will be thoroughly investigating, modifying, rearranging, and reconsidering our understanding and use of time. By focusing on time, we will find more about its intricate relationship to space and motion. We will challenge personal timing habits and patterns, explore them more deeply to find a wealth of
Reinventing Radio — MSR2118.01
With the development of the podcast and online radio, audio documentary has made a major resurgence in popular culture. This course will explore the basic skills and techniques required to tell stories through sound. Along with the technical tools required, the focus will be on learning how audio production can enhance communication with an audience. Through reading and
Richard Wright and James Baldwin — LIT2193.01
“As writers we were about as unlike as any two writers could possibly be,” James Baldwin wrote of his early mentor and sometimes rival Richard Wright. “We were linked together, really, because both of us were black.” Now that both writers have been canonized, we can read their major works together, side by side, and identify the resonances and irreconcilable differences that
Roberto Bolaño — SPA4804.01
This is a paradoxical course. Roberto Bolaño explicitly shunned magical realism, the Boom years, the subsequent imitations, supposedly liberating Latin American literature from its hobnobbing with the establishment, and yet maintained filial ties to Dadaism, surrealism, modernism, Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar’s Rayuela, perhaps the first Boom novel. Despite the breadth
Saxophone — MIN4237.01
Study of saxophone technique and standard repertoire (jazz or classical), 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 (T 4:30pm-6:00pm)
Searching for Light — DRA2141.01
Designing lights on stage is not just designing looks for each moment, but determining how lighting changes over time. At which moments do we choose to change it, and what triggers those changes? When do we choose not to change it at all? Students will learn how lighting emotionally affects us in real life, and how we interpret that emotional effect and transfer it to the stage
Self, Identity, and Ideology — PSY2102.01
In this introductory seminar we will examine basic questions exploring the relationship between a sense of self, social identity, and political decision making. We will engage with questions such as the differences between a sense of self and identity, cross-cultural variations in the formation of the self, and the processes associated with the emergence of sexual, ethnic and