Spring 2017

Seminar in Political Leadership — POL4213.01

Spring 2017

Instructor: Rotimi Suberu

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Credits: 2

Political leadership is one of the most under-researched and under-theorized subjects in contemporary political science, despite an abundance of political biographies and a rich literature on organizational and managerial leadership. This 7-week seminar is devoted to exploring and analyzing leadership from a political perspective. We will examine different prescriptive and

Society Culture and Thought

Senior Projects — ARC4109.01

Spring 2017

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Credits: 4

This is an advanced studio class for students who have a proficient understanding of architectural concepts, history and theory. Each student will develop a personal project. Students must submit a detailed proposal. Weekly readings will be assigned.

Visual Arts

Senior Projects — MPF4104.01

Spring 2017

Instructor: Kitty Brazelton

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Credits: 2

Salon-style, seniors will meet to discuss advanced work, whether composition and performance related to senior concerts or other culminating work. Critical exchange and support between salon members is required, along with practical help in planning productions. Corequisite: Must participate in Music Workshop (Tuesday 6:30-8:00pm).

Music

Senior Seminar in Society, Culture, and Thought II — SCT4751.01; section 1

Spring 2017

Instructor: Noah Coburn

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Credits: 4

This is the second half of the SCT senior seminar, designed as a venue for students to complete their advanced work. For most students, this seminar will focus on analyzing data collected for their senior work during the first term or during Field Work Term and using that analysis to complete their senior projects. Aside from a few shared readings, the bulk of what individuals

Society Culture and Thought

Serialism — MTH4423.01

Spring 2017

Instructor: Nicholas Brooke

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Credits: 2

A course on the watershed musical techniques that dominated classical musical composition in the 20th century. We’ll trace serial thought from its roots in late 19th century through Schoenberg’s discovery of the dodecaphonic technique. We’ll analyze the works of the Second Viennese School and explore the aesthetic domination of so-called post-Webernian serialism, as well

Music

Set the Table: Tableware Design — CER4208.01

Spring 2017

Instructor: Aysha Peltz

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Credits: 4

Throughout history, tableware has been an expression of a specific time and place. In this way utilitarian objects embody the ideas that define culture. For this class intermediate and advanced ceramic students will produce prototypes that are a thoughtful response to this problem. The emphasis will be on designing compelling pots rather than producing many matching sets.

Visual Arts

Shorter Songs — MTH4110.01

Spring 2017

Instructor: Bruce Williamson

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Credits: 2

What elements set certain composers apart from their contemporaries? In any genre, there are those who “raise the bar” and gain respect both for being prolific and breaking traditions of harmony and form. Jazz saxophonist Wayne Shorter took his cue from ground-breaking composers before him such as Duke Ellington and Thelonius Monk, helping to create new directions in jazz while

Music

Silkscreen/Serigraphy Workshop — PRI2112.01

Spring 2017

Instructor: Michael Smoot

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Credits: 2

This course will focus on the basic technical processes of screen printing including, idea generation, image development, screen preparation, registration, paper handling, and printing multi-color prints. Through demonstrations and hands on experiences, students will complete a series of projects using various methods of creating stencils on screens including, direct block

Visual Arts

Silkscreen/Serigraphy Workshop — PRI2112.02

Spring 2017

Instructor: Michael Smoot

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Credits: 2

Visual Arts

Social Expectations for Japanese Children — JPN4224.01

Spring 2017

Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida

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Credits: 4

This course is designed for students to learn Japanese through Japanese children’s books and animation. In this course, students will read Japanese children’s books and watch Japanese animation that is based on children’s books to examine how Japanese children are expected to behave and communicate with others. Students will also analyze cultural values in Japan,

Languages

Social Issues in Japan Through Online News — JPN4601.01

Spring 2017

Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida

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Credits: 4

The course is designed for students to deepen their understanding of Japanese language and culture through analysis of Japanese online newspapers and examination of Japanese news articles from various contexts. Students will practice various reading strategies, which will help them become independent learners. Mass media is the reflection of a society and the mirror

Languages

Social Movements in Latin America — ANT2111.01

Spring 2017

Instructor: Eileen Scully

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Credits: 4

What circumstances prompt people to disrupt their daily lives, with the goal of bringing about social change? Through literature, journalistic accounts and ethnographies of social movements, this course will explore the contexts in which social movements arise, the strategies they use and the issues they address, throughout Latin America. We will explore how the shared

Society Culture and Thought

Solo Performance: Telling My Story — DRA4322.01

Spring 2017

Instructor: Kirk Jackson

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Credits: 4

Students develop original and/or primary source material and explore its shape, arc, and thematic whole in a performance medium that can involve text, movement, characterization, and personal examination and observation. We will view solo performance artists. Students write, edit, rewrite multiple drafts and perform original memorized material. Class work will be tailored

Drama

Song for Ireland and Celtic Connections — MHI2251.01

Spring 2017

Instructor: John Kirk

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Credits: 2

Celtic history and music from Ireland, Scotland, Bretagne, Galatia, and Cape Breton will be experienced, studied, and performed using instruments and voices. We’ll find and cross the musical bridges between regions–from the ballads of Ireland, Scotland and Wales to the Alalas of Spain and dance tunes of Brittany. An end-of-term presentation will be prepared drawing on

Music

Space on Stage — DRA2142.01

Spring 2017

Instructor: Jiyoun Chang

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Credits: 4

How do designers determine how a play will look on stage? How do they evoke the time, space, and future of the play, relate it to the world we know, but also reflect their own personal experience of architecture, time, and space? All these elements influence how we interpret a story, and the people who live in that story. Students will learn how to approach the design process

Drama

Special Projects in Advanced Japanese — JPN4801.01

Spring 2017

Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida

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Credits: 4

This course is designed for students to research/ complete a project in their field of study/interest. In order to take this course, students are required to write a proposal of their project and be accepted by the instructor. Corequisite: Students must attend at least two Language Series events (Mondays, 7:00pm – 8:00pm)

Languages

Statistical Methods for Data Analysis — MAT2104.01

Spring 2017

Instructor: Katie Montovan

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Credits: 4

This course focuses on developing the statistical skills needed to design studies, to analyze large datasets and to be a critical consumer of statistical results. We will design studies, collect and analyze data, and create effective presentations of results. We will also analyze large observational datasets. Emphasis will be placed on gaining a solid conceptual understanding

Environment Science and Mathematics

Strategies of Display (The Museum as Muse) — PHO4102.01

Spring 2017

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Credits: 2

This course will present a history of art exhibitions, that artists and curators have embarked upon that have shifted the way we think about exhibitions today. We will look closely at artist-driven exhibitions, and how these displays have impacted artistic production and institutions that exhibit Art. Students will be doing self-directed

Visual Arts

Stravinsky Seminar — MTH4103.01

Spring 2017

Instructor: Allen Shawn

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Credits: 2

Stravinsky Seminar will meet for the first seven weeks of the term to focus on four musical works from different phases of Igor Stravinsky’s long creative life. In the class we will analyze, discuss, listen to and, in the case of the ballet scores and the oratorio, watch, Le Sacre du Printemps (1913), Symphonies of Wind Instruments (1920), Oedipus Rex (1927), and Agon (1957).

Dance Music

String Chamber Ensemble — MPF4235.01

Spring 2017

Instructor: Kaori Washiyama

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Credits: 2

Music for string ensemble to be selected according to number and level of participants. Corequisite: Must participate and perform in Music Workshop (T 6:30pm - 8:00pm).

Music

Style and Tone in Essay Writing — LIT2397.01

Spring 2017

Instructor: Wayne Hoffmann-Ogier

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Credits: 4

This introductory course focuses on the weekly writing of extended essays, including nonfiction narrative, personal essay, literary criticism, research writing, and the analytical essay. It gives particular attention to developing individual voice and command of the elements of style. The class incorporates group editing in a workshop setting with an emphasis on re-writing. It

Literature

Surrealism in French Cinema — FV4316.01

Spring 2017

Instructor: Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly

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Credits: 4

In this course, students will examine what Michael Richardson calls "practices of surrealism" in French cinema. Theoretical readings will help students explore surrealism, the first literary and artistic movement to become seriously associated with cinema. This course will also invite students to reflect upon traces of surrealism in French cinema at the end of the 20th and

Visual Arts

Sustainability and Social Justice — POL4256.01

Spring 2017

Instructor: Tim Schroeder

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Credits: 4

This course will explore how different social movements have incorporated principles of ecological sustainability and social justice into their activism. We will examine how environmentalists (mainstream and radical), indigenous rights activists, feminists, immigrants’ rights activists, anti-immigrant groups, religious organizations, conservatives and labor unions have

CAPA Environment Society Culture and Thought

Tell the Truth: Reading and Writing the Modern Memoir — LIT4286.01

Spring 2017

Instructor: Michael Dumanis

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Credits: 4

In the past twenty years, the genre of memoir has exploded onto the literary scene. What is it about the intimate details of someone else's life that intrigues the reading public? Is there a hint of voyeurism is our enjoyment? Or do we simply fall in love with real people through the power of their words, and hope for them to overcome the obstacles that life has thrown in their

Literature

The Afghan-Pakistani Frontier — ANT2208.01

Spring 2017

Instructor: Noah Coburn

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Credits: 2

The mountains separating Pakistan and Afghanistan are home to nomads and pastoralists, who rely on centuries old pathways with little concern for modern state boundaries. They are also the site of America’s largest and most intense drone campaign and the only place in the world to experience a significant comeback by polio. The border, created by the British Empire

CAPA Society Culture and Thought