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Riso Printing: Photographs — PHO2209.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Veronica Melendez
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Credits: 2
A Risograph is a digital duplicator designed for high volume print jobs. Using technology that plays off of screen printing and color copiers, Riso prints retain a unique handmade aesthetic while having the convenience of digital editing and reproduction. In this class students will learn how to print photographs using a Risograph Duplicator. The first 7 weeks of this course
Visual Arts

Self and Identity in Diaspora — PSY2378.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Özge Savaş
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Credits: 4
How have transnational diaspora communities become new sites for the rethinking core concepts of psychology such as self and identity alongside culture and nation? How do people build self, identity, and community in multiple homes? Who belongs in where? In this course, we will explore the social, cultural, and economic influences of globalization and neoliberalism on the lives
Society Culture and Thought

Seminar in Comparative Democratization — SCT4101.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Rotimi Suberu
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Credits: 4
Against a background of what is often described as a worldwide democratic recession or regression, this advanced seminar surveys current theoretical debates, empirical analyses, and policy conversations on the emergence, survival, challenges, breakdowns, and prospects of global democratization. Themes to be explored include: conceptualizing and measuring varieties of democracy
Advancement of Public Action Society Culture and Thought

Senior Projects — MCO4376.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
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Credits: 4
This course will serve as a workshop and forum for senior music students who are planning to present their senior projects in Spring 2023. In this course, we will meet and discuss students’ projects produced through any creative practice, including, but not limited to, performance, installation, musical show, and publication. Students will be expected to complete most of their
Music

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

Spring 2023
Instructor: Rotimi Suberu
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Credits: 4
This advanced research seminar offers students the opportunity to continue their culminating work in SCT in the form of an independent research project. For some students, this will be the second half of a year-long thesis; for others, this will be a one-semester project. Writing will take place throughout term. Students will receive feedback from the instructor, a second
Society Culture and Thought

Seven Composers — MHI2001.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Allen Shawn
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Credits: 4
In this course we will study the lives and music of seven fascinating composers whose work can be looked at from a variety of angles--historical, social and musical. They are: Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Florence Price, Vivian Fine, Nina Simone, Galina Ustvolskaya and Sofia Gubaidulina. Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel was the sister of one of the most celebrated
Music

Shakespeare’s Problem Plays — LIT4332.01) (cancelled 1/31/2023

Spring 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 4
What do you do with a cruel comedy? With a tragedy that ends ‘well’? With a play that defies generic classification altogether? In this course, we’ll read four of Shakespeare’s so-called ‘problem plays’ — Measure for Measure, The Merchant of Venice, Timon of Athens, and The Winter’s Tale — with particular attention to their use of language, and we’ll
Literature

Sing What You Write — MVO4403.04

Spring 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 1
Do you compose songs but lack confidence in your singing? Learn skills to get your ideas across clearly while preserving your unique sound. We’ll study successful singer-songwriters to see how they do it, then study and apply breath, alignment, diction, phrasing, mic technique and timing to help you sing anything you can imagine writing. You will be expected to show progress
Music

Social and Cultural Values in Japan: Digital Book Project (Intermediate) — JPN4402.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
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Credits: 4
This intermediate-level course is designed for students to create digital books which will teach Japanese children how to embrace cultural differences. First, students will read short stories for Japanese children and watch Japanese animations to examine how Japanese children are expected to behave and communicate with others. Students will also analyze social and cultural
Cultural Studies and Languages

Social Semiotics of Contemporary Literature — LIT2561.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: An Duplan
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Credits: 4
Writers don’t just tell stories. They live them. In Familiar Stranger: A Life between Two Islands, Stuart Hall describes his upbringing in 1930’s Jamaica, then a British colony. Eventually, Hall–– who is credited with being one of the founding figures of the field of Cultural Studies––made his way to the UK, where he went on to publish a number of seminal texts. Without a doubt
Literature Society Culture and Thought

Solo Performance: Telling My Story — DRA4322.01

Spring 2023
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 observation / examination. We may reference the work of solo performance artists. Students write, edit, rewrite multiple drafts and perform original memorized material. Class work will be
Drama

Song for Ireland and Celtic Connections — MHI2251.01

Spring 2023
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

Songs in the Key of Wonder — MTH4148.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
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Credits: 2
Songs in the Key of Wonder: In this songwriting seminar based on the classic 1973 release “Innervisions”, and the 1976 release, “Songs in the Key of Life”, students will examine the melodic and harmonic chord progressions that Stevie Wonder used in composing these landmark recordings. Using music theory, form analysis, and contrafacts (i.e., composing a new melody over a
Music

Songs of Protest and Praise — MUS2466.03

Spring 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 1
This singing ensemble will learn and sing music from the African-American tradition focusing particularly on historical songs of protest and contemporary songs of praise.  The repertoire will include music from the recently premiered project: “Songs of Slavery and Emancipation (1780-1800s)” as well more contemporary spirituals and gospel music. All will be considered in
Advancement of Public Action Music

Songwriting — MCO2002.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 2
This class will focus on the art of songwriting.  What makes a strong melody?  What makes an effective chord progression?  How do lyrics bring a simple song to life? What are the other elements of a song that can make it a compelling piece of music? We will study the music of great songwriters and compose pieces in the style of these great musicians.
Music

Sound Bites — FRE4403.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly
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Credits: 4
In this course, students will examine various elements of French “oraliture” (or oral literature and culture transmitted by word of mouth) that will also allow for a focus on the language itself. Through the exploration of a wide variety of “sound bites” – songs, poems, podcasts, riddles, and tales – students will hone their linguistic skills and enrich their understanding of
Cultural Studies and Languages

Sounding Home: Music, Migration and Diaspora — MET2240.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 4
We live in an era when millions of people across the globe—victims of forced migration, asylum seekers, refugees, and mobile workers—are on the move. Music often can tell more about the migration experience than statistical analysis and surveys. This course is about the experiences of immigrants and refugees in the United States and elsewhere, investigating the role
Music Society Culture and Thought

Spanish Through Song — SPA4259.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Lena Retamoso Urbano
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Credits: 5
Students in this course will continue to learn the Spanish language through an examination of music. The focus of discussion will be on social, cultural, historical, and aesthetical aspects present in music. A consideration, for instance, of local, national, regional, and transnational identity; social justice; expressions of freedom; gender identity; different styles; and
Cultural Studies and Languages

Special Projects in Spanish — SPA4703.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
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Credits: 4
In lieu of more conventional advanced Spanish classes, paralleling a series of often disparate tutorials, with tutees working in relative isolation, the proposal is to allow students free reign over an idea for a final, term-long project, while concurrently offering them an educated, exoteric audience to assist in fleshing out their work. Faculty will provide key secondary and
Cultural Studies and Languages

Special Projects: As It Relates to the Tool — SCU4227.02

Spring 2023
Instructor: John Umphlett
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Credits: 2
This class exists as an expansion into individual projects related to information that was discovered in Idiosyncratic Tools. Each student must write a proposal due on the first day of class that includes an outline of the proposed “Tool” functionality, ideas about materials and some rough diagram describing the procedures involved in producing the device. This Tool proposal
Visual Arts

Statistical Methods for Data Analysis — MAT2104.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Katie Montovan
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Credits: 4
In this course, we will focus on developing the statistical skills needed to answer questions by collecting data, designing experimental studies, and analyzing large publicly available datasets. The skills learned will also help students to be critical consumers of statistical results. We will use a variety of datasets to develop skills in data management, analysis, and
Environment Science and Mathematics

Sun Ra: Space is the Place — MPF2146.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
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Credits: 2
SUN RA…SPACE IS THE PLACE unfolds the life of Herman Poole Blount, (May 22, 1914 – May 30, 1993) founder and creator of the Sun Ra Arkestra. Considered a prolific composer of jazz and a pioneer of electronic music, Herman Blount, aka Le Sony’r Ra, better known as Sun Ra, was quite controversial for his electronic music and unorthodox lifestyle. He claimed he was of the “Angel
Music Society Culture and Thought

Taiwan and China in Global Affairs — CHI4605.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Ginger Lin
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Credits: 4
Whether it's global economic disruptions from COVID-19 and Beijing's "zero cases" policy, the US-China trade war and heightened tensions over Taiwan as it becomes a high-tech chip manufacturing powerhouse, China's failing "One Belt One Road" program or Putin courting Xi's favor in his war against Ukraine, China and Taiwan are making a lot of global affairs headlines recently.
Cultural Studies and Languages

Technologies of Heartbreak — LIT2409.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 4
Reading itself is a mystery -- that these small black and white symbols on a page or screen should be able to pass along information, much less evoke specific emotions in a reader is ludicrous and makes no reasonable sense (not to me, anyway) -- and this class hopes to explore and pull at the loose threads of this mystery with a focus on writing that has the potential to break
Literature