Spring 2024

Course System Home Course Listing Spring 2024

Select Filters and then click Apply to load new results

Areas of Study
Course Day & Time(s)
Course Level
Credits
Course Duration
Showing 25 Results of 299

20th Century Afrocaribbean Writers — LIT2537.01) (day/time updated as of 10/9/2023

Spring 2024
Instructor: An Duplan
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
To date, the Afrocaribbean world has produced some of the most essential poetry, fiction, and scholarship of the Americas. Poets like the Barbadian Kamau Brathwaite also double as social scientists, as Brathwaite’s Development of Creole Society in Jamaica illuminates a picture of the linguistic development of Jamaica under British colonial rule. Similarly, Glissant’s idea of
Black Studies Literature Society Culture and Thought

Abstract Algebra — MAT4223.01) (cancelled 10/11/2023

Spring 2024
Instructor: Andrew McIntyre
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Abstract algebra begins with the algebra of polynomial equations. We all learn (and mostly forget) the solution of quadratic polynomial equations in school, and the "quadratic formula". A corresponding method, and a formula, was discovered in the 1500s for both cubic and quartic equations (involving x to the third or fourth power), but people searched for a method for quintic
Science and Mathematics

Actor's Instrument — DRA2170.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Jenny Rohn
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
An actor honors and bears witness to humanity by embodying and giving voice to the human element in the landscape of theatrical collaboration. Investigating the impulses and intuitions that make us unique as individuals can also identify that which constitutes our shared humanity. Through exploration of the fundamentals of performance, students address the actor’s body, voice,
Drama

Adaptations — ARC4104.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Donald Sherefkin
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This studio will be focused on Adaptive Reuse of an existing structure. The Paper Mill on the Walloomsac River will be the site for a series of interventions. This studio will begin with a day-long charrette to generate a conceptual design strategy. Over the course of the following weeks, the design will then be subjected to a sequence of significant modifications requiring an
Visual Arts

Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator Basics — DA2117.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
This class will cover the essentials of Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Students will learn the foundations of each interface and how to use basic and advanced functions of each program including, but not limited to: artboard and layer management, pen tools and path-finders, text and type formatting, color management, selection tools, and clipping masks. Through a mix of
Visual Arts

Advanced Art History Practicum — AH4118.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Vanessa Lyon
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
For students considering or undertaking senior work, independent research, or combined thesis projects in art history or visual/material culture. This practicum is a hybrid methods proseminar AND writing workshop designed for advanced students with prior coursework in art history beyond the introductory level. Whether you wish to revise, amplify, or refine an existing art
Visual Arts

Advanced Ceramic Sculpture: Build Big — CER4242.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Anina Major
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Make it monumentality! In this course you will learn methods of building large-scale ceramic sculpture including historic and contemporary techniques, as well as conceptual and political implications of building big. The potential for conceptual, visual, and functional activation of space will be explored. Students will gain valuable building and surface skills
Visual Arts

Advanced Facilitation, Mediation and Negotiation — APA4315.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
This class is for students who have studied negotiation, mediation and/or restorative justice and want to engage in advanced work. We will practice complex problem simulations and look at case studies of wicked problems. We will review and understand the Conflict Resolution Complexity Model. Students need to have studied negotiation, mediation and/or restorative justice
CAPA

Advanced Improvisation Ensemble for Dancers and Musicians — DAN4361.02) (cancelled 2/26/2024

Spring 2024
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Days & Time:
Credits: 1
This class is for advanced dance improvisers who will collaborate with musicians in creating ensemble forms for the performance of improvisation. We will meet once a week with musicians to create a performance at the end of the term. Students will learn a Solo Practice and an Ensemble practice in improvisation techniques. Development of a movement vocabulary, pattern
Dance Music

Advanced Linear Algebra — MAT4175.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Andrew McIntyre
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This is a second course on linear algebra. The primary focus will be on matrix decompositions (especially spectral, singular value, and QR decompositions), related concepts (e.g. Moore-Penrose psuedoinverse), and their applications. Applications will include least squares, principal component analysis, google search, data compression, and discrete and fast Fourier transforms.
Science and Mathematics

Advanced Mixing Techniques — MSR4365.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Senem Pirler
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
This course will offer advanced study in studio practices. We will explore various mixing objectives and techniques through critical listening sessions, analysis, and hands-on projects. We will focus on the fundamentals as well as advanced practices of mixing, shaping the sounds through dynamic range processors and modulation tools, and various other techniques. Students will
Music

Advanced Projects in Dance — DAN4795.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
This is an essential course for students wishing to make new work for performance this term, whether one project or a series. It is designed specifically to support each person’s artistic voice and manner of working. Attention will be given to all elements involved in composition and production, including collaborative aspects. Students are expected to show their work
Dance

Advanced Projects in Film and Video — FV4304.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Jen Liu
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Students will work towards completing one moving image piece or body or work of their own devising during the course of the semester.  This course is primarily intended for seventh- and eighth-term students with a Plan concentration in Film/Video who have already taken Advanced Projects I in the prior fall, but exceptions may be made by permission of the instructor. 
Visual Arts

Advanced Topics in Biology and Biochemistry: From the Cradle to the Grave - The Life and Death of Proteins — BIO4319.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Amie McClellan
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
The viability of a cell, and therefore an organism, depends upon the proper synthesis, function, and ultimately the destruction, of the proteins therein. This course will focus on understanding how proteins are made and degraded in the cell, with an emphasis on what happens in-between – how proteins fold, function, and localize to their proper cellular compartment(s). We will
Science and Mathematics

Advanced Voice — MVO4401.01) (cancelled 9/18/2023

Spring 2024
Instructor: Kerry Ryer-Parke
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
Advanced study of vocal technique and the interpretation of vocal repertoire, designed for advanced students who have music as a plan concentration and to assist graduating seniors with preparation for senior concerts. Students are required to study and to perform a varied spectrum of vocal repertory for performance and as preparation for further study or graduate school. A
Music

Advanced Workshop for Painting and Drawing: the Contemporary Idiom — PAI4216.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: J Blackwell
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This course is for experienced student artists with a firm commitment to serious work in the studio. Students will work primarily on self-directed projects in an effort to refine individual concerns and subject matter. Students will present work regularly for critique in class as well as for individual studio meetings with the instructor. Development of a strong work ethic will
Visual Arts

An Introduction to Functional Programming — CS4138.01) (cancelled 10/5/2023

Spring 2024
Instructor: Michael Corey
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
In this course we will introduce functional programming through Learn You a Haskell for Great Good, one of the more entertaining and approachable manuals on functional programming. This material will be supplemented by looking at how the R programming language was influenced by functional programming concepts and methods. The latter part may be of particular interest to people
Science and Mathematics

Animation Projects — MA4202.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Sue Rees
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
The course will be for sustained work on an animation or design project, and should be a space for both experimentation, ambition and a consistent endeavor. Students will be expected to create a complete animation, a series of experiments or interactive project. The expectation is that students will be fully engaged in all aspects of the class from critiques, to experimenting
Drama Visual Arts

Anne Carson — LIT4382.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This course is an in-depth study of Anne Carson, Canada’s most renowned living poet. In addition to writing poetry, Carson has written experimental essays, operas, screenplays, and translations. She has also lectured widely on ancient Greek and Latin texts. In examining the major works in Carson’s oeuvre, we will investigate how she transforms ancient texts to create vibrant
Literature

Anthropological linguistics and biocultural knowledge — LIN2109.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Leah Pappas
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This course provides an overview of the relationship between linguistics and anthropology and the methodologies for studying the key areas of inquiry for both disciplines. We will cover topics relating to the processes by which language can both reflect and create identity, cultural practices, power, and cognition. We’ll focus in particular on the biocultural—the relationship
Society Culture and Thought

Anthropology and the Body — ANT2140.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Cecilia Salvi
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
The body has been crucial (but sometimes overlooked) in anthropological theory since the early days of the discipline. This course begins with an introduction to recent anthropological analysis and methods of studying the body as both social and individual, biological and cultural, object and subject. We then explore its conceptualization in relation to topics such as the self,
Society Culture and Thought

Ballet Anarchy — DAN4181.01) (cancelled 9/28/2023

Spring 2024
Instructor: Mina Nishimura
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
This course is designed for students who have some ballet experience and are familiar withballet terms and movement vocabulary. While following basic structure and vocabularies that are being used in a traditional ballet class, this course, accompanied by non-traditional music scores such as pop music, offers an opportunity to recalibrate, reactivate, improve, deepen, expand,
Dance

Banjo — MIN2215.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: John Kirk
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
Beginning, intermediate, or advanced group lessons on the 5-string banjo in the claw-hammer/frailing style. Students will learn to play using simple song sheets with chords, tablature, and standard notation. Using chord theory and scale work, personal music-making skills will be enhanced. History of the African origins of banjo and its introduction to the western world will be
Music