Spring 2021

Piano Lab II — MIN4236.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Joan Forsyth

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Credits: 2

The goals of this course are to gain ease and dexterity at the keyboard, further developing a conﬁdent piano technique, musical expression and the skill of reading musical notation. Students will expand upon a repertoire of scales and chords. They will study and learn to perform selected compositions.

Music

Price Theory — PEC2218.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Lopamudra Banerjee

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Credits: 4

A central element of the “economic problem” is coordination of people's economic actions. In a market economy, prices play a crucial role in addressing this problem. This course examines how the system of prices work, and when it fails. This is an introductory course in microeconomic theory and applications. We will explore the basic ideas in the course verbally and through

Society Culture and Thought

Printing with Purpose — PHO2461.02

Spring 2021

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 1

Throughout this course students will learn how to use the Epson 3880 and P800 printers to create high quality prints from their existing digital image files. Using adjustment layers in Photoshop, students will focus on color correcting, sharpening, and modifying curves in their images. While getting familiar with preparing their files for printing, students will also

Visual Arts

Production and Design Projects — DRA4486.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Michael Giannitti

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Credits: 2

This project-based class is for designers developing and implementing scenic or lighting designs, as well as stage managers of faculty or student directed projects being produced on campus. In a studio atmosphere, students will share work in process each week, from inception through realization of their respective production projects. Particular attention will be placed on

Drama

Projects in Sculpture: Making It Personal — SCU4797.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Jon Isherwood

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Credits: 4

The question that animates this advanced sculpture course 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. Paradoxically, however, the artist finds out what they have to say by

Visual Arts

Queer French — FRE4805.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Stephen Shapiro

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Credits: 4

In this advanced course, we will examine French culture's engagement with questions of sexuality and gender, with a focus on authors, artists, theorists, and others who have questioned ideas of normative sexuality from the Middle Ages through the 21st century. Authors and texts to be studied may include Marie de France, Louise Labé, Madeleine de l’Aubespine, Montaigne,

Cultural Studies and Languages

Radio Plays: Making Theatre for Radio and Podcast — DRA2305.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Dina Janis

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Credits: 4

A performance-based course for folks interested in this medium. It is not necessary to have elaborate skill in sound design and editing, though students with this interest are welcome to enroll. All students will perform as actors in each other's projects. Each week the class will listen to examples of current Radio Play and Theatre Podcast content, writing up play reports and

Drama

Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man — LIT2277.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Benjamin Anastas

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Credits: 2

“All novels are about certain minorities,” Ralph Ellison insisted in a 1955 interview with The Paris Review. “The individual is a minority," he went on. "The universal in the novel–and isn’t that what we’re all clamoring for these days?–is reached only through the depiction of the specific man in a specific circumstance.” If this assertion is still to be believed, then the the

Literature

Re-Thinking Society: Radical Visions — PHI2161.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Paul Voice

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Credits: 4

In this introductory course you will read a wide range of political philosophers and theorists who rethink and reimagine society. Beginning with the “masters of suspicion”, Marx, Nietzsche, Mill, and Freud, we will explore radical social visions from thinkers such as Rosa Luxumburg, Herbert Marcuse, Hannah Arendt, Franz Fanon, Steve Biko, Michel Foucault, John Rawls, Chantel

Society Culture and Thought

Reading and Writing Poetry: Refusals and Mythic Transformations — LIT4532.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Jenny Boully

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Credits: 4

What happens when a poem no longer behaves, when an orderly book of verse begins to display signs of the disorderly? In this course, we will examine poetry books that begin well behaved only to enter into the realm of rebellion. The poet seems to have derailed from their tidiness, their perfected planned lines. The outcome is often explosive, both formally and linguistically,

Literature

Reading and Writing: Looking Beyond the Self — LIT4375.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Paul La Farge

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Credits: 4

This writing class will depart from the premise that other people and other lives are interesting, and that it is possible to write about them in fiction. We’ll consider some techniques for gathering knowledge about the world beyond the self, from audio recording to interviews to book research. (Our ability to conduct in-person interviews will likely be curtailed by the

Literature

Reading Ethnography — ANT4218.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Noah Coburn

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Credits: 2

This course is an advanced exploration of theory and the history of anthropology by using the most basic of anthropological texts, the ethnography. By carefully analyzing a series of classic and more current ethnographies, students will look at the relationship between approaches, how ethnographic data is presented to the reader and how the shape of the text determines how the

Society Culture and Thought

Reading Poetry: A Basic Course — LIT2357.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Michael Dumanis

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Credits: 4

In what ways is reading poetry a fundamentally different practice from reading prose? What can we discover about a poem by examining its structure and the choices the poet made? In this introductory course we will trace the chronological development of poetry in English as we carefully consider a range of different poems from different historical periods, as well as

Literature

Really Cold Cases: Investigating America’s Most Notorious Unsolved Crimes, 1850-1950 — HIS2340.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Eileen Scully

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Credits: 4

Using films, documentaries, podcasts, historical newspapers, and mixed reality (VR/AR) resources, we will craft narratives of individuals caught up in America’s most notorious unsolved cases, from the mid-nineteenth century to about 1950. For our historically grounded storytelling, we will explore “portraiture,” a unique methodology that “seeks to unveil the universal truths

Society Culture and Thought

Really Cold Cases: Investigating America’s Most Notorious Unsolved Crimes, 1850-1950 — HIS2340.02

Spring 2021

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 4

Society Culture and Thought

Reimagining Representation — PHO2113.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 4

Photography was used for scientific purposes and a tool of imperial colonialization during the early years of its invention. These two things have helped shaped its history of representation of the body. Marginal groups of individuals when they were represented in photography were often presented in a stereotypical manner. This course will offer students an opportunity to

Visual Arts

Relief Printing Without a Press — PRI2123.02

Spring 2021

Instructor: Thorsten Dennerline

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Credits: 2

Using a choice of linoleum or wood blocks and non-toxic water-soluble ink, we will examine different approaches to mark-making: from graphic and angular to painterly and gestural. Students will learn image preparation and transfer methods, sharpening and care of tools, wood and linoleum carving methods, ink and paper preparation, hand-inking and rolling techniques and

Visual Arts

Resilience, Farming, and Food Access — APA2338.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Tatiana Abatemarco

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Credits: 4

What is a resilient community food system? How is community health impacted by food access and quality? How can we build food systems to adapt to changing climate, poverty, and health crises? What farming systems and practices best support community and ecological resilience? This class will explore these questions through the lens of resilience theory, which describes how

CAPA Environment

Rubens and Rauschenberg: Racing and Re/visioning Genealogies of Modern Art — AH4123.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Vanessa Lyon

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Credits: 4

The seventeenth-century Flemish painter-diplomat Peter Paul Rubens anchors a course proposing the residual baroqueness in diverse strains of high modernism. Our transdisciplinary project crosses entrenched nationalistic and chronological borders between modern and early modern art and artists including Bacon, Guston, Manet, Newman, Picasso, Reinhardt, and Titian in addition to

Visual Arts

Saxophone — MIN4237.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Bruce Williamson

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Credits: 2

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.

Music

Scenes — DRA4379.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Michael Giannitti

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Credits: 4

To write a play, write a scene. And then another. And then another. In this course, we will take a close look at how scenes work by reading great scenes and considering them in the context of their plays. What function does the scene serve in the play? How does the scene work, moment by moment? Where does conflict appear, and how is character revealed? What surprises and power

Drama Literature

SCT Advanced Work Preparation Module — SCT4104.04

Spring 2021

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 1

This one credit module is designed for students preparing to do advanced work in SCT during Fall 2020. In a series of workshops, students will work on formulating clear lines of inquiry and developing a research plan for their advanced work in SCT. Students will look at various examples of advanced work as presented by current seniors. Various SCT faculty members will present

Society Culture and Thought

Seminar on Virginia Woolf — LIT4526.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Marguerite Feitlowitz

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Credits: 4

In this Seminar, we focus intensively on the fiction and nonfiction of Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) whose enormous output, experimental techniques, and intellectual reach revolutionized the form and subject matter of both the novel and the essay. As a thinker and social critic, Woolf is artful, radical, and full of complication—a foundation for modern feminism and pacifism, and a

Literature

Senior Projects — ARC4109.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Don Sherefkin

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Credits: 4

This is an advanced studio class for seniors who have a proficient understanding of architectural concepts, history and theory. Each student will develop a personal project. Students must submit a detailed proposal for their project in advance.

Visual Arts

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

Spring 2021

Instructor: John Hultgren

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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