Spring 2019

Digital Materiality — MS4101.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Brian Michael Murphy

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Credits: 4

“The cloud” is not in the sky, but is comprised of thousands of securitized data centers and fiber optic networks that span continents. Undersea cables still carry nearly all internet traffic that travels across oceans. How can we critically analyze these massive systems that are often either invisible or too large to see all at once? This course will explore the materiality of

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Digital Modeling and Animation — MA2103.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Sue Rees

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Credits: 2

This course introduces students to the basic language of 3D animation and modeling. Students will be expected to become familiar with the basic principles of the MAYA program. A series of modeled objects placed in locations will be created. The emphasis will be on becoming proficient with modeling forms, texturing using Arnold Renderer, adding lights and cameras. Additionally,

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Digital Negatives Alternative Processes — PHO4255.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Jonathan Kline

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Credits: 2

This class explores the rich possibilities of creating digital negatives using Photoshop and printing them on 100% cotton papers using 19th century photographic processes such as Cyanotypes, Van Dyke Browns, and Kallitypes . We will spend time in class preparing optimum negatives using Pictorico inkjet transparency material followed by four weeks of making iron based light

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Directing I: The Director’s Vision — DRA4332.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Jean Randich

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Credits: 4

What is action? What is character? What are gesture, timing, rhythm and stakes? How do actors, playwrights, and directors collaborate to create an experience in space and time? This seminar offers theater artists the chance to examine their craft from the inside out. Throughout the course everyone participates in all exercises and assignments. Non-writers make up stories, non

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Doll House, Diorama — VA2224.02

Spring 2019

Instructor: Farhad Mirza

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Credits: 2

For centuries, miniature models have been used as representations of larger things or as standalone objects of wonder. In this seven week course, students will work at ‘dollhouse scale’ (1:12 or 1:24) on a personal project that would benefit from expression as a dollhouse, diorama, or maquette. Coursework will emphasize the importance of an organized and well-managed digital

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Dostoevsky’s Major Novels — LIT2332.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Alexandar Mihailovic

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Credits: 4

In their encounters with Dostoevsky’s fiction, readers enter into a world that is rich with the inner struggles of a wide range of individual identities. In this course, we will read Memoirs from the House of the Dead, Crime and Punishment, and The Brothers Karamazov, three novels that represent different stages in the evolution of Dostoevsky’s portrayal of power, social

Literature

Double Exposure: Acting for Singers/Singing for Actors — DRA4263.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Kerry Ryer-Parke Jennifer Rohn

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Credits: 4

Actors and singers study remarkably similar skills: efficient use of the body and breath, development of text, character and context, staying present and emotionally connected. But even the most seasoned performer feels doubly exposed when asked to sing and act at the same time. In this class, using repertoire as varied as incidental music for Shakespeare plays, musical theatre

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Drawing In Color — DRW4281.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Mary Lum

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Credits: 4

From Kandinskyʹs teaching of color and analytical drawing at the Bauhaus, through modernism and minimalism to the invented worlds of many contemporary artists, ideas about color continually push drawing to its limits. This course provides an opportunity for students to develop a set of interests and impulses connected to translating and intermingling the languages of color and

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Drumming: An Extension of Language — MIN2120.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Michael Wimberly

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Credits: 2

This course serves as an introduction to rhythms, chants and songs from Africa, Brazil, Cuba, Haiti, and the African Diaspora. Using indigenous percussion instruments, students will learn basic hand and stick drumming patterns and techniques associated with traditional rhythms from these regions. In the second half of the term the class will present the music they have learned

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Drums, Gongs and Bamboo Percussion Ensemble — MPF2252.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Susie Ibarra

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Credits: 4

Drums, Gongs and Bamboo is an introduction to Southeast and South Asian Percussion. This workshop will offer an overview and opportunity to listen,learn and play percussion music from several countries in these regions. This ensemble will listen to and learn and adapt traditional music from countries such as Philippines, Burma, Nepal, Bhutan, India, Pakistan, Iran. Open to all

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Edible Matters: Cartography and the Cultural Biography of Food — APA4149.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Yoko Inoue

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Credits: 4

Food, place and politics. This course investigates food in the globalized world considering political economy, history of colonialism and cultural identity. Focusing on various geographical locales, we examine the economic factors, socio-political structures and cultural implications behind what determines a crop’s value based on power relationships and global trade strategies.

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Entry to Mathematics — MAT2100.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Carly Briggs

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Credits: 4

This is a basic course, covering most of high school mathematics, and will be accessible to all interested and willing students. It is appropriate for students who do not feel confident in their high school mathematics background. Students may proceed from this course to other 2000 level mathematics courses. Mathematics is inherent across all disciplines and undertakings. It is

Science and Mathematics

Environmental Studies Advanced Work Seminar — Canceled

Spring 2019

Instructor: Tim Schroeder John Hultgren

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Credits: 1

This advanced work seminar offers students the opportunity to receive feedback on culminating/advanced work studying environmental problems. This course is ideal for two types of students: (1) 8th term students who are completing senior work in a particular discipline group (e.g. Science or Society, Culture, and Thought) but would benefit from having feedback from both

Environment

Evolution — BIO4104.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Kerry Woods

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Credits: 4

Evolutionary theory provides conceptual unity for biology; Darwin’s concept and its derivatives inform every area of life science, from paleontology to molecular biology to physiology to plant and animal behavior to human nature. This course will establish deep grounding in basic evolutionary theory with particular focus on selective processes and life-history theory.

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Expanding Fields: Histories and New Practices of Curating the Rural — VA4152.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Anne Thompson

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Credits: 4

Artists and curators have long embraced the southwestern U.S. desert as the landscape equivalent of the sublime yet neutral “white cube.” This course addresses the history of land art and landscape-based institutions alongside current strategies for moving these practices into literal and metaphorical new territories. Lecture-based discussions and research assignments examine

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Experiential Anatomy/Somatic Practices — DAN2149.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Elena Demyanenko

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Credits: 4

This is a studio class for any discipline intended to deepen the understanding of your own moving body. We will be studying kinesthetic anatomy by approaching the material through visual, cognitive, kinesthetic, and sensory modes. Class time will be divided between discussion of anatomy and kinesthetic concepts, and engagement with the material experientially through movement

Dance

Experimental Making in Ceramics — CER4214.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Barry Bartlett

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Credits: 4

This course will investigate the material nature of clay as a medium to create three-dimensional forms. Students will explore the material aspects of clay such as dryness, wetness, mass and scale using a variety of mechanical processes that include extrusion, slab rolling, slip casting and digital fabrication. In doing so, the pieces created will be used to convey ideas of form

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Extinction and the Endangered Species Act — POP2258.03

Spring 2019

Instructor: David Mears

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Credits: 1

We are living in the midst of a mass extinction caused by humans, the most significant loss of living species since an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. In the United States, the Endangered Species Act has provided a framework for efforts by the federal government to protect the most critically threatened and endangered species. Despite evidence of

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Faculty Performance Production: Sarah Gancher’s “The Place We Built” — DRA4160.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Jean Randich

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Credits: 4

Sarah Gancher’s award-winning 2016 play, "The Place We Built": “In a deserted neighborhood in post-communist Budapest, young bohemians squat in an abandoned building and build a bar. Reclaiming the Jewish identity their parents’ generation abandoned after the Holocaust, they create a vibrant new subculture that combines big ideas and intense debates with wild parties.

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Feminist Geographies of Dis/ability, Care, and Embodiment — SCT2133.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Emily Mitchell-Eaton

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Credits: 4

In this course we will engage anti-racist feminist theory, crip theory, and human geography to think critically about dis/ability. Topics include: the built environment and institutional design; geographic scales of the body, the home, and institutions; trauma, pathology, illness, and recovery; desire and pain; and im/mobility. We will consider how disability is shaped by (and

Society Culture and Thought

Fiddle — MIN2227.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: John Kirk

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Credits: 2

For the experienced (2+ years of playing) violinist. Lessons in traditional styles of fiddling: Quebecois, New England, Southern Appalachian, Cajun, Irish, and Scottish. This tutorial is designed to heighten awareness of the variety of ways the violin is played regionally and socially in North America (and indeed around the world these days) and to give practical music skills

Music

Five Approaches to Acting — DRA4170.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Kirk Jackson

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Credits: 4

Taking as our premise that when we study acting we study the art of human relationships (actor to actor as well as actor to audience), this course is an overview of the theories behind the practice of various ways actors work from a script to create characters to tell a story. Analysis of film performances, written responses, and extended work on one scene will be the focus of

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Form and Process: Investigations in Painting — PAI2107.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Ann Pibal

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Credits: 4

This course introduces a variety of materials, techniques and approaches to painting. Emphasis is placed on developing and understanding of color, form and space as well as individual research and conceptual concerns. The daily experience of seeing, along with the history of art, provides a base from which investigations are made. Formal, poetic, and social implications within

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Form to Function Part Two — VA4112.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Jon Isherwood, Farhad Mirza John Umphlett

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Credits: 4

Designers, architects, and artists continue to find digital design and fabrication processes to be common ground for communication and collaboration, in large part because many new projects necessitate multidimensional thinking about form and making. This self-directed studio course offers the opportunity for students to work at an advanced level to explore, research, and

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Foundations in Ceramics: The Hand as a Tool — CER2105.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Barry Bartlett

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Credits: 4

Exploring the unique, material nature of clay as a medium for personal and visual expression will be the focus of this course. All ceramic forms, whether sculptural or utilitarian require a knowledge of the basic skills and an understanding of clay. A variety of construction methods will be introduced employing handbuilding techniques. Emphasis will be placed on developing a

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