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Your search for courses · during 2023-24 · meeting requirements for Arts Practice · returned 217 results
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ARTH 267 Gardens in China and Japan 6 credits
A garden is usually defined as a piece of land that is cultivated or manipulated in some way by man for one or more purposes. Gardens often take the form of an aestheticized space that miniaturizes the natural landscape. This course will explore the historical phenomenon of garden building in China and Japan with a special emphasis on how cultural and religious attitudes towards nature contribute to the development of gardens in urban and suburban environments. In addition to studying historical source material, students will be required to apply their knowledge by building both virtual and physical re-creations of gardens.
- Spring 2024
- Arts Practice International Studies
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ARTH 267.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Kathleen Ryor 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THBoliou 161 1:15pm-3:00pm
- T, THBoliou 140 1:15pm-3:00pm
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Extra time
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ARTS 110 Observational Drawing 6 credits
A beginning course for non-majors and for those who contemplate majoring in art. The aim of the course is to give the student an appreciation of art and of drawing. An understanding of aesthetic values and development of technical skills are achieved through a series of studio problems which naturally follow one another and deal with the analysis and use of line, shape, volume, space, and tone. A wide range of subjects are used, including still life, landscape and the human figure.
Sophomore Priority
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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ARTS 110.01 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Jade Hoyer 🏫 👤
- Size:17
- M, WWeitz Center 242 8:30am-11:00am
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Sophomore Priority
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ARTS 110.01 Winter 2024
- Faculty:David Lefkowitz 🏫 👤
- Size:18
- T, THWeitz Center 242 9:00am-11:30am
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Sophomore Priority
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ARTS 110.02 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Jade Hoyer 🏫 👤
- Size:17
- M, WWeitz Center 242 8:30am-11:00am
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Sophomore Priority
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ARTS 110.03 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Eleanor Jensen 🏫 👤
- Size:19
- T, THWeitz Center 242 1:15pm-3:45pm
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Sophomore Priority
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ARTS 110.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:David Lefkowitz 🏫 👤
- Size:17
- M, WWeitz Center 242 8:30am-11:00am
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Sophomore Priority
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ARTS 113 Field Drawing 6 credits
A beginning drawing course for students who are interested in developing their skills in drawing from nature, to better see and understand their surroundings. Class material covers line, form, dimension, value, perspective, and space using a variety of drawing materials. Subject matter includes specimens, plant forms, and the landscape. Students will use a portable sketchbook, and classes during the second part of the term are primarily outside. Locations include the Arb and field trips; access to these sites does include walking on unpaved paths and uneven terrain.
Sophomore Priority
- Fall 2023, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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ARTS 113.01 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Eleanor Jensen 🏫 👤
- Size:14
- T, THWeitz Center 242 9:00am-11:30am
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Sophomore Priority
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ARTS 113.02 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Eleanor Jensen 🏫 👤
- Size:14
- T, THWeitz Center 242 1:15pm-3:45pm
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Sophomore Priority
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ARTS 113.01 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Eleanor Jensen 🏫 👤
- Size:14
- T, THWeitz Center 242 9:00am-11:30am
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Sophomore Priority
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ARTS 113.02 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Eleanor Jensen 🏫 👤
- Size:14
- T, THWeitz Center 242 1:15pm-3:45pm
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Sophomore Priority
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ARTS 114 Architectural Studies in Europe Program: Introduction to Drawing Architecture 6 credits
Suitable for students of any skill level, this course teaches different drawing techniques both in a classroom setting and on location at various architectural sites. The course aims to hone observational and sketching skills and to develop greater awareness of formal characteristics in the built environment. Consideration of line, tone, shape, scale, surface, volume and other foundational concepts and technical skills will be emphasized. Drawing practice will be reinforced with sketching assignments throughout the trip at different locations and types of structures.
Requires participation in OCS Program: Architectural Studies in Europe
- Winter 2024
- Arts Practice
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ARTS 122 Introduction to Sculpture 6 credits
The ability to build structures that reflect or alter the environment is a basic defining characteristic of our species. In this class we explore creative construction in three dimensions using a variety of media, including plaster, wood, and steel. Using both natural and architectural objects for inspiration, we will examine and manipulate form, space, and expressive content to develop a deeper understanding of this core trait and reawaken our experience of the spaces we inhabit.
Sophomore Priority. Extra Time Required
- Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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ARTS 122.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Stephen Mohring 🏫 👤
- Size:11
- T, THBoliou 020 9:00am-11:30am
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Sophomore Priority
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ARTS 122.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Stephen Mohring 🏫 👤
- Size:11
- T, THBoliou 020 9:00am-11:30am
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Sophomore Priority
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ARTS 130 Beginning Ceramics 6 credits
This course is an introduction to wheel throwing and handbuilding as primary methods of construction for both functional and non-functional ceramic forms. An understanding of ceramic history and technical skills are achieved through studio practice, readings, and demonstrations. Emphasis is placed on the development of strong three-dimensional forms as well as the relationship of form to surface. Coursework includes a variety of firing techniques and development of surface design.
Sophomore Priority
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024
- Arts Practice
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ARTS 130.01 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Kelly Connole 🏫 👤
- Size:11
- M, WBoliou 046 12:30pm-3:00pm
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Sophomore Priority
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ARTS 130.01 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Juliane Shibata 🏫 👤
- Size:11
- M, WBoliou 046 8:30am-11:00am
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Sophomore Priority
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ARTS 130.02 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Juliane Shibata 🏫 👤
- Size:11
- M, WBoliou 046 12:30pm-3:00pm
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Sophomore Priority
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ARTS 139 Beginning Photography 6 credits
In this course students explore photography as a means of understanding and interacting with both the world and the inner self. We will emphasize a balance of technical skills, exploration of personal vision, and development of critical thinking and vocabulary relating to photography. Beginning students will learn how to use analogue and digital cameras, to use basic studio lighting equipment, and to print their own photographic work. Additionally, students will learn to develop a portfolio as an ongoing process that requires informed and critical decision making to assemble a body of work. Collectively we will critique, analyze, give feedback on work, and discuss readings that are pertinent to the production of images in contemporary times.
Sophomore Priority
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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ARTS 139.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Xavier Tavera Castro 🏫 👤
- Size:12
- T, THBoliou 130 9:00am-11:30am
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ARTS 139.01 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Xavier Tavera Castro 🏫 👤
- Size:12
- T, THBoliou 130 9:00am-11:30am
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Sophomore Priority
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ARTS 139.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Xavier Tavera Castro 🏫 👤
- Size:12
- T, THBoliou 130 9:00am-11:30am
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Sophomore Priority
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ARTS 151 Metalsmithing 6 credits
A basic course in metal design and fabrication of primarily jewelry forms and functional objects. Specific instruction will be given in developing the skills of forming, joining, and surface enrichment to achieve complex metal pieces. Students will learn to render two-dimensional drawings while exploring three-dimensional design concepts. The course examines how jewelry forms relate to the human body. Found materials will be used in addition to traditional metals including copper, brass, and silver.
Sophomore Priority
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024
- Arts Practice
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ARTS 151.01 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Danny Saathoff 🏫 👤
- Size:11
- T, THBoliou 044 9:00am-11:30am
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Sophomore Priority
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ARTS 151.01 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Danny Saathoff 🏫 👤
- Size:11
- T, THBoliou 044 9:00am-11:30am
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Sophomore Priority
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ARTS 210 Life Drawing 6 credits
Understanding the basic techniques of drawing the human form is fundamental to an art education and is the emphasis of this class. Humans have been engaged in the act of self-representation since the beginning of time. The relationship artists have had with drawing the human body is complex and has been the subject of religious, philosophical and personal investigation for centuries. Concentrating on representational drawing techniques we will explore a variety of media and materials. Supplemented by lectures, readings and critiques, students will develop an understanding of both contemporary and historical approaches to drawing the human form. Our emphasis this term will be on anatomy, the study of portraiture, and the complexity of hands and feet.
Extra Time
- Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Studio Art 110, 113, 142 or 211
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ARTS 210.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Soren Hope 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WWeitz Center 242 12:30pm-3:00pm
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ARTS 230 Ceramics: Throwing 6 credits
This course is focused on the creative possibilities of the pottery wheel as a means to create utilitarian objects. Students are challenged to explore conceptual ideas while maintaining a dedication to function. An understanding of aesthetic values and technical skills are achieved through studio practice, readings, and demonstrations. Basic glaze and clay calculations, high fire and wood kiln firing techniques, and a significant civic engagement component, known as the Empty Bowls Project, are included in the course.
- Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Studio Art 128, 130, 236 or high school experience with wheel throwing and instructor permission
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ARTS 230.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Kelly Connole 🏫 👤
- Size:11
- M, WBoliou 046 8:30am-11:00am
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Extra time
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ARTS 236 Ceramics: Vessels for Tea 6 credits
Students will learn techniques used by Japanese potters, and those from around the world, to make vessels associated with the production and consumption of tea. Both handbuilding and wheel throwing processes will be explored throughout the term. We will investigate how Japanese pottery traditions, especially the Mingei “arts of the people” movement of the 1920s, have influenced contemporary ceramics practice in the United States and how cultural appropriation impacts arts practice. Special attention will be paid to the use of local materials from Carleton’s Arboretum as well as wood firing and traditional raku processes.
Extra Time, requires concurrent registration in Art History 266
- Fall 2023
- Arts Practice Intercultural Domestic Studies
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Requires concurrent registration in Art History 266
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ARTS 236.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Kelly Connole 🏫 👤
- Size:12
- M, WBoliou 046 8:30am-11:00am
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ARTS 245 Constructed Image 6 credits
In this course we will explore image making beyond the still photographic image. Students will investigate the possibilities of construction and manipulation of photographic images using various camera and darkroom methods including sequence, multiples, narrative, installation and book formats, marking and altering photographic surfaces, using applied color, and toning both in-camera and manually. Special attention will be put into display and installation of the work produced.
- Fall 2023
- Arts Practice
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One 100 level Studio Arts courses or instructor consent
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ARTS 245.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Xavier Tavera Castro 🏫 👤
- Size:12
- T, THBoliou 130 1:15pm-3:45pm
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ARTS 252 Metalsmithing: Ancient Techniques, New Technologies 6 credits
This course focuses on lost wax casting, 3D modeling and printing, and stone setting as methods to create jewelry and small sculptural objects in bronze and silver. Specific instruction will be given in the proper use of tools, torches, and other equipment, wax carving, and general metalsmithing techniques. Through the use of 3D modeling software and 3D printing, new technologies will expedite traditional processes allowing for a broad range of metalworking possibilities.
- Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Studio Arts 151
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ARTS 252.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Danny Saathoff 🏫 👤
- Size:11
- T, THBoliou 044 9:00am-11:30am
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ARTS 260 Painting 6 credits
The course serves as an introduction to the language of painting. Students develop a facility with the physical tools of painting–brushes, paint and surfaces–as they gain a fluency with the basic formal elements of the discipline–color, form, value, composition and space. Students are also challenged to consider the choices they make in determining the content and ideas expressed in the work, and how to most effectively convey them.
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024
- Arts Practice
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Studio Art 110, 113, 114, or instructor consent
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ARTS 260.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:David Lefkowitz 🏫 👤
- Size:13
- M, WBoliou 162 12:30pm-3:00pm
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ARTS 260.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:David Lefkowitz 🏫 👤
- Size:13
- T, THBoliou 162 1:15pm-3:45pm
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ARTS 262 Watercolor 6 credits
This course provides an introduction to the medium of watercolor painting and gouache (opaque water-based paint) on paper surfaces. Students will develop an understanding of basic color interactions and a wide spectrum of paint application strategies from meticulous refined brushwork to fluid, expressive markmaking.
- Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Studio Art 110, 113, 114 or instructor consent
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ARTS 262.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:David Lefkowitz 🏫 👤
- Size:13
- M, WBoliou 160 12:30pm-3:00pm
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ARTS 274 Printmaking – Silkscreen and Relief 6 credits
Students will work in two primary printmaking media: relief and/or silkscreen. Through printmaking techniques, layering, color mixing, and generating multiples, students will explore how to develop a narrative in their work and build upon skills established in prerequisite drawing classes.
- Fall 2023
- Arts Practice
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Studio Art 110, 113, 114 or instructor consent
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ARTS 274.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Jade Hoyer 🏫 👤
- Size:12
- M, WBoliou 032 12:30pm-3:00pm
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ARTS 278 Printmaking: Intaglio Processes 6 credits
This course will emphasize intaglio printmaking, a process that allows for a rich array of mark-making and the creation of multiples. Through the use of different intaglio techniques such as hard ground, aquatint, and drypoint, students will explore and generate imagery with emphasis on experimentation, state proofing / animation, and narrative.
- Winter 2024
- Arts Practice
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Studio Arts 110, 113, 114, 210, 211 or 212 or instructor consent
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ARTS 278.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Jade Hoyer 🏫 👤
- Size:12
- M, WBoliou 032 12:30pm-3:00pm
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ARTS 339 Advanced Photography 6 credits
In this course students explore photography as a means of understanding and interacting with both the world and the inner self. We will emphasize a balance of technical skills, exploration of personal vision, and development of critical thinking and vocabulary relating to photography. Advanced students will focus on developing a concise body of work independently through two self-directed longer projects. Instruction includes: use of large format cameras with a hand meter, film scanning, and strobe lighting. Students will learn to develop a portfolio as an ongoing process that requires informed and critical decision making to assemble a body of work. Collectively we will critique, analyze, give feedback on work and discuss readings that are pertinent to the production of images in contemporary times.
- Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Studio Art 139, 142, 244, 245 or instructor permission
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ARTS 339.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Xavier Tavera Castro 🏫 👤
- Size:12
- T, THBoliou 130 1:15pm-3:45pm
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ARTS 360 Advanced Painting and Drawing 6 credits
This course is designed for students who want to explore these 2-D media in greater depth. Students may choose to work exclusively in painting or drawing, or may combine media if they like. Some projects in the course emphasize strengthening students’ facility in traditional uses of each medium, while others are designed to encourage students to challenge assumptions about what a painting or drawing can be. Projects focus on art making as an evolving process and a critical engagement with systems of visual representation.
- Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Either Studio Art 260 or two of the following courses: Studio Art 110, 113, 114, 210, 212, 273, 274
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ARTS 360.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Soren Hope 🏫 👤
- Size:13
- M, WBoliou 162 8:30am-11:00am
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CAMS 111 Digital Foundations 6 credits
This class introduces students to the full range of production tools and forms, building both the technical and conceptual skills needed to continue at more advanced levels. We will explore the aesthetics and mechanics of shooting digital video, the role of sound and how to record and mix it, field and studio production, lighting, and editing with Adobe Premiere Pro CC. Course work will include individual and group production projects, readings, and writing. This is an essential foundation for anyone interested in moving-image production and learning the specifics of CAMS’ studios, cameras, and lighting equipment.
Sophomore Priority. Extra Time required.
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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CAMS 111.01 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Laska Jimsen 🏫 👤
- Size:12
- M, WWeitz Center 138 12:30pm-3:00pm
- M, WWeitz Center 133 12:30pm-3:00pm
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Sophomore Priority Typically CAMS 111 has evening technical labs. Those labs will take place during class time for this section on the Arts Schedule, so this is a good option for those with busy evening schedules
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CAMS 111.02 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Noah Schamus 🏫 👤
- Size:12
- T, THWeitz Center 138 10:10am-11:55am
- T, THWeitz Center 132 10:10am-11:55am
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Sophomore Priority
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CAMS 111.01 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Noah Schamus 🏫 👤
- Size:12
- T, THWeitz Center 138 10:10am-11:55am
- T, THWeitz Center 133 10:10am-11:55am
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Sophomore Priority
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CAMS 111.02 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Cecilia Cornejo 🏫 👤
- Size:12
- M, WWeitz Center 138 12:30pm-3:00pm
- M, WWeitz Center 133 12:30pm-3:00pm
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Typically, CAMS 111 has evening technical labs. For this section on the Arts Schedule, those labs take place during class time. No additional time is required.
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CAMS 111.01 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Cecilia Cornejo 🏫 👤
- Size:12
- T, THWeitz Center 133 10:10am-11:55am
- T, THWeitz Center 138 10:10am-11:55am
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Sophomore Priority
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CAMS 111.02 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Laska Jimsen 🏫 👤
- Size:12
- T, THWeitz Center 132 1:15pm-3:45pm
- T, THWeitz Center 138 1:15pm-3:45pm
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Sophomore Priority. Typically CAMS 111 has evening technical labs. Those labs will take place during class time for this section on the Arts Schedule, so this is a good option for those with busy evening schedules
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CAMS 175 Studio Filmmaking 6 credits
This course will explore the techniques and formal filmmaking strategies that can be employed when working on a soundstage, as well as a grounding in the historical uses of studio filmmaking. Topics will include lighting, set design, blocking/performance, and cinematography with an eye towards how these tools can be deployed in a controlled environment. Students will gain an understanding of the technical and creative tools at their disposal in a studio setting, as well as the ways these tools may be applied for a broader filmmaking practice.
- Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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CAMS 175.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Noah Schamus 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WWeitz Center 136 12:30pm-3:00pm
- M, WWeitz Center 040 12:30pm-3:00pm
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CAMS 222 Collaborative Narrative Filmmaking 6 credits
Narrative films are the product of many specialized artists working in concert toward a shared artistic vision. In this course, students will explore the essential crew roles on narrative films and choose an area in which they would like to specialize during the making of a collaborative project. Through the term, we will move through film development, pre-production, production, post-production, and distribution with each student taking on a specific role in a group project. The term culminates in the exhibition of films that were made over the previous 10 weeks.
Extra Time
- Fall 2023
- Arts Practice
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Cinema and Media Studies 111
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CAMS 222.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Catherine Licata 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 231 3:10pm-4:55pm
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CAMS 245 The Essay Film 6 credits
This course explores a hybrid cinematic genre whose critical and creative energies spring from the collision of traditionally separated spheres: documentary and fiction, text and image, private and public, reason and intuition. We focus on the intersection where creative practice and intellectual inquiry meet through theoretical readings, film screenings, and the fulfillment of various production exercises aimed at the production of original film work. Screenings include works by Carmen Castillo, Chris Marker, Ignacio Agüero, Jem Cohen, Agnés Varda, Harun Farocki, Jonas Mekas, and other filmmakers who have explored this hybrid form.
Extra Time required, evening screenings
- Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Cinema and Media Studies 111
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CAMS 245.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Cecilia Cornejo 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 133 1:15pm-3:00pm
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CAMS 270 Nonfiction 6 credits
This course addresses nonfiction media as both art form and historical practice by exploring the expressive, rhetorical, and political possibilities of nonfiction production. A focus on relationships between form and content and between makers, subjects, and viewers will inform our approach. Throughout the course we will pay special attention to the ethical concerns that arise from making media about others’ lives. We will engage with diverse modes of nonfiction production including essayistic, experimental, and participatory forms and create community videos in partnership with Carleton’s Center for Community and Civic Engagement and local organizations. The class culminates in the production of a significant independent nonfiction media project.
Extra Time
- Fall 2023
- Arts Practice Intercultural Domestic Studies
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Cinema and Media Studies 111 or instructor consent
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CAMS 270.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Laska Jimsen 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 133 10:10am-11:55am
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CAMS 271 Fiction 6 credits
Through a series of exercises, students will explore the fundamentals of making narrative films. Areas of focus in this course include visual storytelling and cinematography, working with actors, and story structure. Through readings, screenings, and writing exercises, we will analyze how mood, tone, and themes are constructed through formal techniques. Course work includes individual and group exercise, and culminates in individual short narrative projects.
Extra Time required
- Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Cinema and Media Studies 111 and one additional Cinema and Media Studies course, or instructor permission
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CAMS 271.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Noah Schamus 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 133 3:10pm-4:55pm
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CAMS 273 Digital Editing Workshop 6 credits
This course introduces students to the art of motion picture editing by combining theoretical and aesthetic study with hands-on work using the non-linear digital video editing software Adobe Premiere. We explore graphic, temporal, spatial, rhythmic and aural relationships in a variety of moving image forms including classical narrative continuity and documentary storytelling. Underscoring the strong links between concept, direction, shooting, and editing, this course examines the close ties between production and post-production. Through editing assignments and class critique, students develop expressive techniques and proficiency in basic video and sound editing and post-production workflow.
- Winter 2024
- Arts Practice
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CAMS 273.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Noah Schamus 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 138 3:10pm-4:55pm
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CAMS 278 Writing for Television 6 credits
TV is a very specific, time-driven medium. Using examples from scripts and DVDs, students will learn how to write for an existing TV show, keeping in mind character consistency, pacing, tone, and compelling storylines. Students will also get a taste of what it’s like to be part of a writing staff as the class itself creates an episode from scratch. Topics such as creating the TV pilot, marketing, agents, managers, and more will be discussed. Finally, general storytelling tools such as creating better dialogue, developing fully-rounded characters, making scene work more exciting, etc., will also be addressed.
- Winter 2024
- Arts Practice Writing Requirement
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Cinema and Media Studies 110 or 111 or instructor permission
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CAMS 278.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Andrew Rosendorf 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 136 10:10am-11:55am
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CAMS 370 Advanced Production Workshop I 6 credits
In this course, students will develop a concept and complete pre-production for their CAMS production comps. Students will draw inspiration from a variety of sources that are personal, cultural, and observational, and in doing so, develop confidence in their own artistic practice and perspective. We will refine technical and formal strategies, consider audience reception, and practice giving and receiving constructive critique. Prior to registering for the course, students must submit a project proposal to the instructor. Final enrollment is based on the quality of the proposal. Note: This course is intended to prepare students for a Comps production project in winter term and it is the first in a two part sequence with CAMS 371. If you have any questions about enrolling in this course, please email the instructor.
Extra Time, Instructor Consent required, Waitlist only
- Fall 2023
- Arts Practice
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Cinema and Media Studies 111, and either Cinema and Media Studies 270 or 271 or instructor consent
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CAMS 370.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Catherine Licata 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 133 1:15pm-3:00pm
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CAMS 371 Advanced Production Workshop II 6 credits
Advanced Production Workshop II is taken in conjunction with CAMS 400 for students completing production comps. Production projects are inherently collaborative; this course supports collaboration through workshops, crewing, and informed critique. This course is the second in the advanced production workshop sequence with a focus on production and post-production. Please contact instructor for further information.
Project Proposal required, Extra Time
- Winter 2024
- Arts Practice
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Cinema and Media Studies 370 or instructor consent
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CAMS 371.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Laska Jimsen 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 133 1:15pm-3:00pm
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CCST 233 The Art of Translation in the Age of the Machine 6 credits
In an era when AI tools can produce a translation that is indistinguishable from the work of a professional translator, what role is left for humans? In this course students study the history and theory of translation, while gaining practical experience in literary translation. Topics include the visibility of the translator, questions of identity, authority, and power, and challenges to Eurocentric traditions of translation. Students will become familiar with available translation tools and practice using them ethically and effectively in a workshop setting. The final project will be an annotated translation into English of a literary text of the student’s choice.
- Winter 2024
- Arts Practice International Studies
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Proficiency in a modern language taught at Carleton (204 or above). Native or near-native fluency in English.
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CCST 233.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Laura Goering 🏫 👤
- Size:16
- T, THHasenstab 109 10:10am-11:55am
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CLAS 116 Greek Drama in Performance 6 credits
What is drama? When and where were the first systematic theatrical performances put on? What can Athenian tragedies and comedies teach us about the classical world and today’s societies? This course will explore the always-relevant world of Ancient Greek theater, its history and development, through the works of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes. We will decode the structure and content of Greek tragedies and comedies, ponder their place in the Athenian society and the modern world, and investigate the role of both ancient and contemporary productions in addressing critical questions on the construction and performance of individual and communal identities.
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CLAS 116.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 402 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 402 1:10pm-2:10pm
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CS 232 Art, Interactivity, and Microcontrollers 6 credits
In this hands-on course, taught (in an art studio) by a sculpture professor and computer science professor, we’ll explore and create interactive three dimensional art. Using basic construction techniques, microprocessors, and programming, this class brings together sculpture, engineering, computer science, and aesthetic design. Students will engage the nuts and bolts of fabrication, learn to program microcontrollers, and study the design of interactive constructions. Collaborative labs and individual projects will culminate in a campus-wide exhibition. No prior building experience is required.
Extra time required
- Fall 2023
- Formal or Statistical Reasoning
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Computer Science 111
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CS 232.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:David Musicant 🏫 👤 · Stephen Mohring 🏫 👤
- Size:12
- T, THBoliou 160 9:00am-11:30am
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DANC 107 Ballet I 1 credits
A beginning course in ballet technique, including basic positions, beginning patterns and exercises. Students develop an awareness of the many ways their body can move, an appreciation of dance as an artistic expression and a recognition of the dancer as an athlete.
Meets concurrently with PE 107, which satisfies different requirements. Note that DANC 107 does not satisfy the PE graduation requirement.
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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DANC 107.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Jennifer Bader 🏫 👤
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- M, WWeitz Center 168 9:50am-11:00am
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DANC 107.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Jennifer Bader 🏫 👤
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- M, WWeitz Center 168 9:50am-11:00am
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DANC 107.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Jennifer Bader 🏫 👤
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- M, WWeitz Center 168 9:50am-11:00am
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DANC 147 Moving Anatomy 1 credits
This course seeks to provide an underlying awareness of body structure and function. Using movement to expand knowledge of our anatomy will encourage participants to integrate information with experience. Heightened body awareness and class studies are designed to activate the general learning process.
Meets concurrently with PE 147, which satisfies different requirements. Note that DANC 147 does not satisfy the PE graduation requirement.
- Winter 2024
- Arts Practice
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DANC 147.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Elayna Waxse 🏫 👤
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- M, WWeitz Center 165 12:30pm-1:40pm
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DANC 148 Modern Dance I: Technique and Theory 1 credits
A physical exploration at the introductory level of the elements of dance: time, motion, space, shape and energy. Students are challenged physically as they increase their bodily awareness, balance, control, strength and flexibility and get a glimpse of the art of dance.
Meets concurrently with PE 148, which satisfies different requirements. DANC 148 does not satisfy the PE graduation requirement.
- Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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DANC 148.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Daphne McCoy 🏫 👤
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- T, THWeitz Center 165 9:20am-10:30am
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DANC 148.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Daphne McCoy 🏫 👤
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- T, THWeitz Center 165 9:20am-10:30am
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DANC 150 Contact Improvisation 1 credits
This is a course in techniques of spontaneous dancing shared by two or more people through a common point of physical contact. Basic skills such as support, counterbalance, rolling, falling and flying will be taught and developed in an environment of mutual creativity.
Meets concurrently with PE 150, which satisfies different requirements. DANC 150 does not satisfy the PE graduation requirement.
- Fall 2023
- Arts Practice
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DANC 150.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Kristin Van Loon 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- M, WWeitz Center 165 12:30pm-1:40pm
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DANC 158 Contemporary Dance Forms I 1 credits
This course provides an introduction to a variety of movement approaches that develop an awareness of the body in space and moving through space. Students will learn approaches designed to strengthen muscles, support joint mobility, find breath support, enhance coordination, and encourage embodied learning.
Meets concurrently with PE 115, which satisfies different requirements. Note that DANC 158 does not satisfy the PE graduation requirement.
- Fall 2023
- Arts Practice
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DANC 158.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Alanna Morris 🏫 👤
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- M, WWeitz Center 165 1:50pm-3:00pm
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DANC 190 Fields of Performance 6 credits
This introductory course in choreography explores games, structures, systems and sports as sources and locations of movement composition and performance. Readings, viewings and discussion of postmodernist structures and choreographers as well as attendance and analysis of dance performances and sports events will be jumping off point for creative process and will pave the way for small individual compositions and one larger project. In an atmosphere of play, spontaneity and research participants will discover new ways of defining dance, pushing limits and bending the rules. Guest choreographers and coaches will be invited as part of the class. Open to all movers. No previous experience necessary.
- Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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DANC 190.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Judith Howard 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- T, THWeitz Center 165 1:15pm-3:00pm
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DANC 200 Modern Dance II: Technique and Theory 1 credits
A continuation of Level I with more emphasis on the development of technique and expressive qualities.
Meets concurrently with PE 149, which satisfies different requirements. DANC 200 does not satisfy the PE graduation requirement.
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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DANC 200.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Daphne McCoy 🏫 👤
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- T, THWeitz Center 165 9:20am-10:30am
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DANC 200.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Daphne McCoy 🏫 👤
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- T, THWeitz Center 165 10:40am-11:50am
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DANC 200.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Daphne McCoy 🏫 👤
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- T, THWeitz Center 165 10:40am-11:50am
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DANC 205 Winter Dance 1 credits
Intensive rehearsal and performance of a work commissioned from professional guest choreographer. The class will culminate in a performance in the Spring Term, so students taking this course should plan to register for DANC 206 in Spring. Open to all levels.
- Winter 2024
- Arts Practice
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DANC 205.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Alanna Morris 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- TWeitz Center 165 6:30pm-8:00pm
- SWeitz Center 165 10:00am-12:00pm
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DANC 206 Spring Dance 1 credits
Rehearsal and full concert performance of student dance works created during the year and completed in the spring term. Open to all levels.
- Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Dance 205 or 215
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DANC 206.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Judith Howard 🏫 👤 · Daphne McCoy 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- MWeitz Center 165 4:30pm-5:30pm
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DANC 208 Ballet II 1 credits
For the student with previous ballet experience. This course emphasizes articulation of technique and development of ballet vocabulary.
Meets concurrently with PE 108, which satisfies different requirements. DANC 208 does not satisfy the PE graduation requirement.
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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DANC 208.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Jennifer Bader 🏫 👤
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- M, WWeitz Center 168 11:10am-12:20pm
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DANC 208.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Jennifer Bader 🏫 👤
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- M, WWeitz Center 168 11:10am-12:20pm
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DANC 208.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Jennifer Bader 🏫 👤
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- M, WWeitz Center 168 11:10am-12:20pm
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DANC 210 Contemporary Dance Forms II 1 credits
This course is intended for students seeking to refine and deepen their awareness of embodied movement approaches. Through these approaches, students will work to develop an alert and articulate body. In both standing and floor work, momentum, dynamic shifts and spatial challenges are introduced.
Meets concurrently with PE 116, which satisfies different requirements. Note that DANC 210 does not satisfy the PE graduation requirement.
- Winter 2024
- Arts Practice
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DANC 210.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Elayna Waxse 🏫 👤
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- M, WWeitz Center 165 1:50pm-3:00pm
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DANC 215 Winter Dance, Student Choreography 1 credits
For students enrolled in Dance 205, supervised student choreography with two public showings.
DANC 205 required.
- Winter 2024
- Arts Practice
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Dance 205
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DANC 215.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Judith Howard 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- TWeitz Center 165 8:00pm-8:30pm
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DANC 254 Jazz Dance: Roots and Grooves 3 credits
This course positions jazz and related social dance styles as forms with African diasporic roots and American branches. Composed of 60% in-class movement investigation and 40% both in-class and out of class reading, viewing, writing, and creating, Jazz Dance: Roots and Grooves will ask students to invest in how the elements of groove, improvisation and interaction unite different approaches to jazz and make it a form that appreciates the past, centers the present and innovates for the future. Some dance experience recommended.
- Winter 2024
- Arts Practice
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DANC 254.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Erinn Liebhard 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 165 9:50am-11:00am
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DANC 295 Dance Lab 6 credits
DANCE LAB will provide an adventurous and practical space where students of various levels can explore body-based performance with an emphasis on the solo form. Students will examine the choreographic elements of space, time, energy, action, framing, and environment as they discover personal aesthetics and investigate how to organize physical ideas in both immediate and virtual spaces. A community of deep listening will support creative acts that can effect change – socio-political-personal. Performance solos will be developed through discussion, peer feedback, and regular meetings with the faculty mentor. Work for the class will include your own rehearsals and, outside readings and viewings. The ability to record your work is required and access to a camera is recommended (phones are fine).
- Fall 2023
- Arts Practice
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DANC 295.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Judith Howard 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 165 1:15pm-3:00pm
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DANC 300 Modern Dance III: Technique and Theory 1 credits
Intensive work on technical, theoretical, and expressive problems for the experienced dancer.
Meets concurrently with PE 151, which satisfies different requirements. Note that DANC 300 does not satisfy the PE graduation requirement.
- Fall 2023
- Arts Practice
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DANC 300.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Daphne McCoy 🏫 👤
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- T, THWeitz Center 165 10:40am-11:50am
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DANC 301 West African Dance 2 credits
In this class you will be introduced to traditional West African dance movement accompanied by live drumming. A variety of dynamics such as grounding, centeredness, and footwork will be addressed. Each class will cover the cultural background of the rhythm as well as the conversation between drummer and dancer. All levels are welcome to join in this vigorous experience of West African dance forms.
- Fall 2023
- Arts Practice
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DANC 301.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Whitney McClusky 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- SWeitz Center 165 10:00am-12:00pm
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DANC 309 Ballet III 1 credits
This is an advanced class for students who have some capabilities and proficiency in ballet technique. Content is sophisticated and demanding in its use of ballet vocabulary and musical phrasing.
Meets concurrently with PE 109, which satisfies different requirements. DANC 309 does not satisfy the PE graduation requirement.
- Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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DANC 309.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Jennifer Bader 🏫 👤
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- M, WWeitz Center 168 12:30pm-1:40pm
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DANC 310 Contemporary Dance Forms III 1 credits
This advanced course will continue to focus on a variety of embodied movement approaches to refine the awareness of the moving body and prepare for the rigors of performance and physical research. The aim will be on finding a personal connection to movement through subtlety, speed and effort.
Meets concurrently with PE 117, which satisfies different requirements. DANC 310 does not satisfy the PE graduation requirement.
- Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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DANC 310.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Elayna Waxse 🏫 👤
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- M, WWeitz Center 165 1:50pm-3:00pm
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DANC 350 Semaphore Repertory Dance Company 1 credits
Provides advanced dance students with an intensive opportunity to develop as performers in professional level dances. Skills to be honed are: the dancer as contributor to the process of art-making; defining individual technical and expressive gifts; working in a variety of new technical and philosophical dance frameworks. In addition to regular training during the academic terms, participation in a “preseason” rehearsal period before fall term is required. A few pieces of student choreography will be accepted for repertory. The group produces an annual concert, performs in the Twin Cities and makes dance exchanges with other college groups.
Audition required.
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Audition required
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DANC 350.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Judith Howard 🏫 👤 · Daphne McCoy 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- M, WWeitz Center 165 3:30pm-5:30pm
- THWeitz Center 165 7:00pm-9:00pm
- SWeitz Center 165 12:01pm-3:00pm
- M, WWeitz Center 168 3:30pm-5:30pm
- THWeitz Center 168 7:00pm-9:00pm
- SWeitz Center 168 12:00pm-3:00pm
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DANC 350.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Judith Howard 🏫 👤 · Daphne McCoy 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- M, WWeitz Center 165 3:30pm-5:30pm
- THWeitz Center 165 7:00pm-9:00pm
- SWeitz Center 165 12:00pm-3:00pm
- M, WWeitz Center 168 3:30pm-5:30pm
- THWeitz Center 168 7:00pm-9:00pm
- SWeitz Center 168 12:00pm-3:00pm
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DANC 350.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Judith Howard 🏫 👤 · Daphne McCoy 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- MWeitz Center 165 3:30pm-4:29pm
- WWeitz Center 165 3:30pm-5:30pm
- THWeitz Center 165 7:00pm-9:00pm
- SWeitz Center 165 12:00pm-3:00pm
- MWeitz Center 168 3:30pm-4:29pm
- WWeitz Center 168 3:30pm-5:30pm
- THWeitz Center 168 7:00pm-9:00pm
- SWeitz Center 168 12:00pm-3:00pm
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ENGL 160 Creative Writing 6 credits
You will work in several genres and forms, among them: traditional and experimental poetry, prose fiction, and creative nonfiction. In your writing you will explore the relationship between the self, the imagination, the word, and the world. In this practitioner’s guide to the creative writing process, we will examine writings from past and current authors, and your writings will be critiqued in a workshop setting and revised throughout the term.
Sophomore Priority
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024
- Arts Practice Writing Requirement
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ENGL 265 News Stories 6 credits
This journalism course explores the process of moving from event to news story. Students will study and write different forms of journalism (including news, reviews, features, interviews, investigative pieces, and images), critique one another’s writing, work in teams with community partners, and revise their pieces to produce a final portfolio of professional work.
- Spring 2024
- Arts Practice Writing Requirement
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ENGL 265.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Susan Jaret McKinstry 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- M, WWeitz Center 133 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWeitz Center 133 2:20pm-3:20pm
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ENGL 267 Studies in Description 6 credits
Why do we describe things? Why do writers put so much care into their descriptions of objects and inner states? What authority do they draw from precise descriptive language? What is an “exactly perceived” detail? How do phrases carry sensory information? This class explores the power of description in capturing perceptions and making pictures of the world more felt. To understand the range of technical strategies involved in description, we will read and imitate the acute sensory visions of Basho, Issa, Hopkins, Rilke, and a range of American poets. Each week the reading will be a springboard for written exercises.
- Spring 2024
- Arts Practice Writing Requirement
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ENGL 270 Short Story Workshop 6 credits
An introduction to the writing of the short story (prior familiarity with the genre of the short story is expected of class members). Each student will write and have discussed in class three stories (from 1,500 to 6,000 words in length) and give constructive suggestions, including written critiques, for revising the stories written by other members of the class. Attention will be paid to all the elements of fiction: characterization, point of view, conflict, setting, dialogue, etc.
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024
- Arts Practice Writing Requirement
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One prior 6-credit English course
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ENGL 271 Poetry Workshop 6 credits
This workshop offers you ways of developing poetic craft, voice, and vision in a small-group setting. Your poetry and individual expression is the heart and soul of the course. Through intensive writing and revision of poems written in a variety of styles and forms, you will create a significant portfolio.
- Winter 2024
- Arts Practice Writing Requirement
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One prior 6 credit English course
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ENGL 271.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Gregory Hewett 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- TWeitz Center 231 2:30pm-5:30pm
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ENGL 275 Film, Literature, and Culture in Mumbai and Seoul Program: Writing Mumbai and Seoul 6 credits
Under supervision of the program director, students will work together in small groups to conceive and produce text and image based projects that will knit their experience of Mumbai and Seoul together. Students will draw on the breadth of guided program outings in both cities as well as on their own explorations to produce work that expresses their understanding of the cultural contexts of and connections between these two vibrant metropolises as well as their own experience of them.
Requires participation in OCS Program: Film, Literature, and Culture in Mumbai and Seoul
- Winter 2024
- Arts Practice
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Participation in OCS Mumbai/Seoul Program
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ENGL 279 Living London Program: Urban Field Studies 6 credits
A combination of short, focused background readings, guided site visits, and individual exploration will give students tools for understanding the history of multicultural London. Starting with the city’s early history and moving to the present, students will gain an understanding of how the city has been defined and transformed over time, and of the complex cultural narratives that shape its standing as a global metropolis. There will be a few short written assignments and group presentations.
Requires participation in OCS Program: Living London
- Spring 2024
- Literary/Artistic Analysis
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ENGL 281 Living London Program: Reading London, Writing London 6 credits
This is a creative writing course about writing and place, specifically London. Students will have the opportunity to write short stories, poetry, and non-academic essays (also referred to as creative nonfiction). We will be reading select examples in these genres by contemporary writers and poets based in the United Kingdom, some of whom will visit our class. The primary mode of instruction will be the workshop, which involves large and small-group critique and discussion.
Requires participation in OCS Program: Living London
- Spring 2024
- Arts Practice International Studies Writing Requirement
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Participation in OCS London Program
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ENGL 370 Advanced Fiction Workshop 6 credits
An advanced course in the writing of fiction. Students will write three to four short stories or novel chapters which will be read and critiqued by the class.
- Spring 2024
- Arts Practice Writing Requirement
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English 160, 161, 263, 265, 270, 271, 273, Cinema and Media Studies 271, 278, 279, Cross Cultural Studies 270 or Theater 246
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ENGL 371 Advanced Poetry Workshop 6 credits
In this workshop, students choose to write poems from a broad range of forms, from sonnets to spoken word, from ghazals to slam, from free-verse to blues. Over the ten weeks, each poet will write and revise their own collection of poems. Student work is the centerpiece of the course, but readings from a diverse selection of contemporary poets will be used to expand each student’s individual poetic range, and to explore the power of poetic language. For students with some experience in writing poetry, this workshop further develops your craft and poetic voice and vision.
- Spring 2024
- Arts Practice Writing Requirement
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English 160, 161, 263, 265, 270, 271, 273, Cinema and Media Studies 271, 278, 279, Cross Cultural Studies 270 or Theater 246
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ENGL 381 Living London Program: Reading London, Writing London 6 credits
This is a creative writing course about writing and place, specifically London. Students will have the opportunity to write short stories, poetry, and non-academic essays (also referred to as creative nonfiction). We will be reading select examples in these genres by contemporary writers and poets based in the United Kingdom, some of whom will visit our class. The primary mode of instruction will be the workshop, which involves large and small-group critique and discussion.
For students pariticipating in OCS London Program
- Spring 2024
- Arts Practice International Studies Writing Requirement
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One English foundations course and one other 6 credit English course or permission of instructor
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MUSC 101 Music Fundamentals 2 credits
A course designed for students with little or no music background as preparation and support for other music courses, ensemble participation and applied music study. The course covers the fundamentals of music notation, including notes and chords in treble and bass clefs, key and time signatures, and the realization of basic rhythmic patterns.
- Fall 2023
- Arts Practice
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MUSC 101.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Lauren Visel 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WWeitz Center 230 11:10am-12:20pm
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MUSC 103 Musicianship I 2 credits
A course in aural skills, focusing upon sight reading using solfège (movable do, la-based minor), and short melodic dictation exercises of up to four bars in length in major and minor keys.
- Winter 2024
- Arts Practice
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Music 101, or permission of the instructor as assessed by a diagnostic exam administered at the start of the term
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MUSC 103.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Justin London 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 230 8:30am-9:40am
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MUSC 104 Musicianship II 2 credits
Continuation of Musicianship I, with an emphasis on singing and dictation skills. More advanced solfège is introduced, including melodies in minor keys and chromaticism. Longer melodic dictation exercises which introduce standard four-and eight-bar melodic schemas will also be covered. Some harmonic dictation will also be included.
- Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Music 103, or permission of instructor as assessed by a diagnostic exam administered at the start of the term
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MUSC 104.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Justin London 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 230 8:30am-9:40am
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MUSC 108 Introduction to Music Technology 6 credits
A course in using the computer to make meaningful interventions into our practices as musicians. We’ll explore a number of approaches to composing, producing, and hearing music, among them coding, visual programming, and working in a digital audio workstation. Students will ultimately combine and hybridize these different methods in order to create unique, individual systems, using them to make new work. Open to all interested students; no prior experience with music, programming, or production required.
- Fall 2023
- Arts Practice
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MUSC 108.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Andrea Mazzariello 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WWeitz Center 138 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 138 12:00pm-1:00pm
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MUSC 128 Introduction to Conducting 3 credits
This course provides an overview of the history of conducting, as well as an introduction to score analysis and the physical skills required for communicating with an ensemble. Extensive classroom time is given to conducting the other members of the class in order to develop a repertory of non-verbal gestures that communicate form, timbre, ensemble.
- Winter 2024
- Arts Practice
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Ability to read music
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MUSC 128.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Hector Valdivia 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center M215 1:50pm-3:00pm
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MUSC 150 Piano 1 credits
Weekly half-hour lessons, with repertoire selected as appropriate for the individual student’s experience. Works from a variety of style periods may be studied, with attention to both musical and technical development. Open to students with no previous musical experience.
2023-24 lesson fee $376
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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MUSC 150.00 Fall 2023
- Size:50
- Grading:S/CR/NC
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MUSC 150J Piano (Juried) 1 credits
Weekly half-hour lessons, with repertoire selected as appropriate for the individual student’s experience. Works from a variety of style periods may be studied, with attention to both musical and technical development. The juried (J) course includes the opportunity for students to share their work in an end-of-term public or closed performance. Open to students with no previous musical experience.
2023-24 $376 fee
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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MUSC 150J.00 Fall 2023
- Size:50
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MUSC 151 Voice 1 credits
A study of voice production, breathing, tone development, diction, and pronunciation. Selection (according to the individual voice) of Italian, German, French, and English songs of the Classic, Romantic, and Modern periods. Arias and songs from operas, oratorios, musical theater and popular songs from Western and non-Western traditions. In addition, one studio class per week.
2023-24 $376 fee
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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MUSC 151J Voice (Juried) 1 credits
A study of voice production, breathing, tone development, diction, and pronunciation. Selection (according to the individual voice) of Italian, German, French, and English songs of the Classic, Romantic, and Modern periods. Arias and songs from operas, oratorios, musical theater and popular songs from Western and non-Western traditions. In addition, one studio class per week.
2023-24 $376 fee
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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MUSC 152 Guitar 1 credits
Studies for the development of technique appropriate to the needs of the student. Music is chosen from all musical periods including folk picking, blues, ragtime, popular and classical styles. Students with no prior experience or lessons should take one term of class guitar (Music 197).
2023-24 $376 fee
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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MUSC 152J Guitar (Juried) 1 credits
Studies for the development of technique appropriate to the needs of the student. Music is chosen from all musical periods including folk picking, blues, ragtime, popular and classical styles. Students with no prior experience or lessons should take one term of class guitar (Music 197).
2023-24 $376 fee
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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MUSC 153J Composition (Juried) 1 credits
Individual instruction focusing on the student’s original compositions. Course work includes the study of compositional techniques, analysis of relevant works, and computer/MIDI/synthesizer technologies. The course is particularly directed toward the major who wishes to pursue the composition option in the Senior Integrative Exercise.
2023-24 $376 fee
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Music 220, or two courses from Music 221, 222 or 223 or instructor consent
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MUSC 155 Violin 1 credits
2023-24 $376 fee
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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MUSC 155J Violin (Juried) 1 credits
2023-24 $376 fee
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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MUSC 156 Viola 1 credits
2023-24 $376 fee
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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MUSC 156J Viola (Juried) 1 credits
2023-24 $376 fee
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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MUSC 157 Cello 1 credits
2023-24 $376 fee
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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MUSC 157J Cello (Juried) 1 credits
2023-24 $376 fee
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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MUSC 158 Classical String Bass 1 credits
The study of the acoustic string bass in the Classical style.
2023-24 $376 fee
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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MUSC 158J Classical String Bass (Juried) 1 credits
The study of the acoustic string bass in the Classical style.
2023-24 $376 fee
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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MUSC 159 Flute 1 credits
2023-24 $376 fee
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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MUSC 159.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:50
- Grading:S/CR/NC
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MUSC 159.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:50
- Grading:S/CR/NC
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MUSC 159.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:50
- Grading:S/CR/NC
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MUSC 159J Flute (Juried) 1 credits
2023-24 $376 fee
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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MUSC 159J.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:50
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MUSC 159J.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:50
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MUSC 159J.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:50
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MUSC 160 Oboe/English Horn 1 credits
2023-24 $376 fee
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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MUSC 160J Oboe/English Horn (Juried) 1 credits
2023-24 $376 fee
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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MUSC 161 Clarinet 1 credits
2023-24 $376 fee
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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MUSC 161J Clarinet (Juried) 1 credits
2023-24 $376 fee
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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MUSC 162 Saxophone 1 credits
2023-24 $376 fee
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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MUSC 162J Saxophone (Juried) 1 credits
2023-24 $376 fee
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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MUSC 163 Bassoon 1 credits
2023-24 $376 fee
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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MUSC 163J Bassoon (Juried) 1 credits
2023-24 $376 fee
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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MUSC 164 French Horn 1 credits
2023-24 $376 fee
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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MUSC 164J French Horn (Juried) 1 credits
2023-24 $376 fee
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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MUSC 165 Trumpet 1 credits
2023-24 $376 fee
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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MUSC 165.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:50
- Grading:S/CR/NC
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MUSC 165.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:50
- Grading:S/CR/NC
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MUSC 165.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:50
- Grading:S/CR/NC
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MUSC 165J Trumpet (Juried) 1 credits
2023-24 $376 fee
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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MUSC 165J.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:50
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MUSC 165J.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:50
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MUSC 165J.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:50
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MUSC 166 Trombone/Euphonium 1 credits
2023-24 $376 fee
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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MUSC 166J Trombone/Euphonium (Juried) 1 credits
2023-24 $376 fee
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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MUSC 167 Tuba 1 credits
2023-24 $376 fee
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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MUSC 167J Tuba (Juried) 1 credits
2023-24 $376 fee
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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MUSC 169 Harp 1 credits
Studies to develop technique and a varied selection of works from the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Works from the Romantic and Modern periods are also studied.
2023-24 $376 fee
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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MUSC 169J Harp (Juried) 1 credits
Studies to develop technique and a varied selection of works from the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Works from the Romantic and Modern periods are also studied.
2023-24 $376 fee
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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MUSC 170 Harpsichord 1 credits
2023-24 $376 fee
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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MUSC 170J Harpsichord (Juried) 1 credits
2023-24 $376 fee
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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MUSC 171 Organ 1 credits
Basic piano skills required.
2023-24 $376 fee
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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MUSC 171J Organ (Juried) 1 credits
Basic piano skills required.
2023-24 $376 fee
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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MUSC 172 Oud 1 credits
Beginning through advanced study of the Arab oud. Previous musical experience is not necessary. Instruments are provided.
2023-24 $376 fee
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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MUSC 172J Oud (Juried) 1 credits
Beginning through advanced study of the Arab oud. Previous musical experience is not necessary. Instruments are provided.
2023-24 $376 fee
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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MUSC 174 Recorder 1 credits
2023-24 $376 fee
- Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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MUSC 174.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:50
- Grading:S/CR/NC
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MUSC 174.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:50
- Grading:S/CR/NC
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MUSC 174J Recorder (Juried) 1 credits
2023-24 $376 fee
- Winter 2024
- Arts Practice
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MUSC 174J.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:50
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MUSC 175 Jazz Piano 1 credits
Study the tools for learning the jazz “language.” Learn to improvise through scale and mode study, transcription, and composition. Turn chord symbols into chord voicings and accompaniment. Explore the blues, jazz “standards,” and today’s music. Materials: staff paper, The Real Book, vol. 1, or similar fake book, and the app iReal Pro. Weekly studio class required.
2023-24 $376 fee
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Three years of piano or instructor permission
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MUSC 175J Jazz Piano (Juried) 1 credits
Study the tools for learning the jazz “language.” Learn to improvise through scale and mode study, transcription, and composition. Turn chord symbols into chord voicings and accompaniment. Explore the blues, jazz “standards,” and today’s music. Materials: staff paper, The Real Book, vol. 1, or similar fake book, and the app iReal Pro. Weekly studio class required.
2023-24 $376 fee
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Three years of piano or instructor permission
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MUSC 176 Electric & Acoustic Bass 1 credits
The study of either electric bass guitar or acoustic string bass in all contemporary styles including rock, jazz, pop, rap, and reggae.
2023-24 $376 fee
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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MUSC 176J Electric & Acoustic Bass (Juried) 1 credits
The study of either electric bass guitar or acoustic string bass in all contemporary styles including rock, jazz, pop, rap, and reggae.
2023-24 $376 fee
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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MUSC 177 Jazz and Blues Guitar 1 credits
Study of chord voicings, accompanimental techniques, and solo guitar performance in the jazz idiom. Prerequisites: previous study of guitar and the ability to read music, or the permission of the instructor. Students must provide their own instruments.
2023-24 $376 fee
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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MUSC 177J Jazz and Blues Guitar (Juried) 1 credits
Study of chord voicings, accompanimental techniques, and solo guitar performance in the jazz idiom. Prerequisites: previous study of guitar and the ability to read music, or the permission of the instructor. Students must provide their own instruments.
2023-24 $376 fee
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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MUSC 178 Drum Set Instruction 1 credits
Drum Set Instruction on/in jazz and popular drumming styles which use the standard drum set. Equipment available for registered students.
2023-24 $376 fee
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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MUSC 178J Drum Set Instruction (Juried) 1 credits
Drum Set Instruction on/in jazz and popular drumming styles which use the standard drum set. Equipment available for registered students.
2023-24 $376 fee
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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MUSC 179 Jazz Improvisation 1 credits
The study of the basic grammar and syntax of jazz improvisation styles, including transcribing solos, chord/scale materials and melodic patterns. Weekly studio class required.
2023-24 $376 fee
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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MUSC 179.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:50
- Grading:S/CR/NC
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MUSC 179J Jazz Improvisation (Juried) 1 credits
The study of the basic grammar and syntax of jazz improvisation styles, including transcribing solos, chord/scale materials and melodic patterns. Weekly studio class required.
2023-24 $376 fee
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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MUSC 179J.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:50
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MUSC 180 Raga: Vocal or Instrumental Study of Hindustani Music 1 credits
Beginning, intermediate, and advanced students of voice, guitar, violin, flute, clarinet, etc., approach raga from their current level of musicianship. In all cases, traditional practical instruction is complemented by some theoretical and philosophical exploration of the underpinnings of the music.
2023-24 $376 fee
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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MUSC 180J Raga: Vocal or Instrumental Study of Hindustani Music (Juried) 1 credits
Beginning, intermediate, and advanced students of voice, guitar, violin, flute, clarinet, etc., approach raga from their current level of musicianship. In all cases, traditional practical instruction is complemented by some theoretical and philosophical exploration of the underpinnings of the music.
2023-24 $376 fee
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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MUSC 181 Sitar 1 credits
Beginning through advanced study of sitar in the gayaki ang style of Ustad Vilayat Khan. Previous musical experience is not necessary. Sitars are provided.
2023-24 $376 fee
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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MUSC 181J Sitar (Juried) 1 credits
Beginning through advanced study of sitar in the gayaki ang style of Ustad Vilayat Khan. Previous musical experience is not necessary. Sitars are provided.
2023-24 $376 fee
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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MUSC 182 Chinese Musical Instruments 1 credits
Beginning through advanced study on traditional Chinese instruments, pipa (Chinese lute), erhu (Chinese violin), guzheng (Chinese zither), zhongruan (Chinese moon guitar), hulusi, bawu and dizi (Chinese bamboo flutes).
2023-24 $376 fee
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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MUSC 182J Chinese Musical Instruments (Juried) 1 credits
Beginning through advanced study on traditional Chinese instruments, pipa (Chinese lute), erhu (Chinese violin), guzheng (Chinese zither), zhongruan (Chinese moon guitar), hulusi, bawu and dizi (Chinese bamboo flutes).
2023-24 $376 fee
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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MUSC 184 American Folk Instruments 1 credits
Beginning to advanced study of technique and improvisational styles on American folk instruments. Students may study 5-string banjo (bluegrass or clawhammer style), bluegrass guitar, Dobro©, fiddle (violin, viola, cello), bass, ukulele, mandolin, and accordion. The Music Department has a single mandolin, fiddle, banjo, and guitar (and two ukuleles) available for shared use by enrolled students unable to provide their own instruments.
2023-24 $376 fee
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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MUSC 184J American Folk Instruments (Juried) 1 credits
Beginning to advanced study of technique and improvisational styles on American folk instruments. Students may study 5-string banjo (bluegrass or clawhammer style), bluegrass guitar, Dobro©, fiddle (violin, viola, cello), bass, ukulele, mandolin, and accordion. The Music Department has a single mandolin, fiddle, banjo, and guitar (and two ukuleles) available for shared use by enrolled students unable to provide their own instruments
2023-24 $376 fee
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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MUSC 185 Carleton Choir 1 credits
The Carleton Choir, the cornerstone of the choral program, is a select mixed chorus of Carleton students. Each term, the ensemble presents a concert of short and extended works from the large bodies of classical, ethnic, and cultural repertories, including works for mixed, treble, and tenor-bass voices. Concerts are sometimes repeated off campus. Students must have good vocal skills, music reading ability, and a high degree of interest in performing quality choral music. Admission is by audition.
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Audition
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MUSC 185.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Matthew Olson 🏫 👤
- Size:70
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- M, WWeitz Center M215 4:45pm-6:00pm
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MUSC 185.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:70
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- M, WWeitz Center M215 4:45pm-6:00pm
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MUSC 185.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Matthew Olson 🏫 👤
- Size:70
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- M, WWeitz Center M215 4:45pm-6:00pm
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MUSC 186 Carleton Chamber Choir 1 credits
The Carleton Chamber Choir is a select, mixed ensemble performing challenging choral music from the Renaissance era to the twenty first century. Admission is by audition and membership in the Carleton Choir (MUSC 185) is also required. Except in rare instances, Chamber Choir singers are expected to commit to all three terms in a given academic year. One weekly TBD sectional rehearsal in addition to the Thursday 5-6:30PM meeting time.
By Audition only, requires concurrent registation in MUSC 185
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Requires concurrent registration in Music 185
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MUSC 186.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Matthew Olson 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- THWeitz Center M215 4:45pm-6:15pm
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MUSC 186.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:30
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- THWeitz Center M215 4:45pm-6:15pm
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MUSC 186.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Matthew Olson 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- THWeitz Center M215 4:45pm-6:15pm
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MUSC 187 Carleton Orchestra 1 credits
The Carleton Orchestra performs large symphonic masterpieces, such as Beethoven, Stravinsky and Bernstein. Concerti with students and faculty soloists, and smaller works for string and wind ensembles are also performed. Occasional sight-reading sessions. Admission by audition.
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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MUSC 187.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:100
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- Weitz Center M104 6:30pm-8:00pm
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MUSC 187.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:100
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- Weitz Center M104 6:30pm-8:00pm
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MUSC 187.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:100
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- Weitz Center M104 6:30pm-8:00pm
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MUSC 188 Carleton Chinese Music Ensemble 1 credits
The ensemble will use indigenous instruments and a Chinese approach to musical training in order to learn and perform music from China. In addition to the Wednesday meeting time, there will be one sectional rehearsal each week.
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice International Studies
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Previous experience in a music ensemble, Chinese Musical instruments or instructor permission
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MUSC 188.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Gao Hong 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- WWeitz Center M104 4:30pm-6:00pm
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MUSC 188.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Gao Hong 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- WWeitz Center M104 4:30pm-6:00pm
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MUSC 188.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Gao Hong 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- WWeitz Center M104 4:30pm-6:00pm
- WWeitz Center M032 4:30pm-6:00pm
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MUSC 189 Carleton Symphony Band 1 credits
The Carleton Symphony Band performs music selected from the standard and contemporary repertory, including compositions by Holst, Masianka, Arnold and others. Regular sight-reading sessions. Admission by audition.
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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MUSC 189.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Lauren Visel 🏫 👤
- Size:100
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- M, WWeitz Center M126 4:00pm-5:30pm
- FWeitz Center M126 3:30pm-5:00pm
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MUSC 189.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Lauren Visel 🏫 👤
- Size:100
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- M, WWeitz Center M126 4:00pm-5:30pm
- FWeitz Center M126 3:30pm-5:00pm
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MUSC 189.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Lauren Visel 🏫 👤
- Size:100
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- M, WWeitz Center M126 4:00pm-5:30pm
- FWeitz Center M126 3:30pm-5:00pm
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MUSC 190 Carleton Jazz Ensemble 1 credits
The Carleton Jazz Ensemble’s focus is on improvisation and the fusion between jazz, rock, funk, and Latin influences. There is no predetermined instrumentation. Rather, the ensemble’s size and instrumentation vary each term. String players, vocalists, and any brass or woodwind instrumentalists are welcome to register. The ensemble performs once each term.
Admission by audition.
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Admission by audition
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MUSC 190.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Laura Caviani 🏫 👤
- Size:50
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- MWeitz Center M126 6:30pm-8:00pm
- WWeitz Center M126 6:30pm-8:00pm
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MUSC 190.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Laura Caviani 🏫 👤
- Size:50
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- MWeitz Center M126 6:30pm-8:00pm
- WWeitz Center M126 6:30pm-8:00pm
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MUSC 190.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:50
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- MWeitz Center M126 6:30pm-8:00pm
- WWeitz Center M126 6:30pm-8:00pm
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MUSC 192 West African Drum Ensemble 1 credits
Participants will learn basic playing techniques, drum patterns, and polyrhythmic structures by playing in djembe-centered percussion ensembles based on repertoire from Mali. The teaching and learning style will be primarily oral/aural and “by doing”. Course objectives include an informal public performance toward the end of the semester. A highlight will be rehearsing and a brief but intense joint performance with a group of professional guest artists from Mali, who will share their concert stage with us for a piece.
- Spring 2024
- Arts Practice International Studies
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Prior experience in drumming/percussion is helpful but not required. A division into subgroups (e.g., beginners and advanced) is possible according to need.
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MUSC 192.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Dave Schmalenberger 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center M027 3:10pm-4:10pm
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MUSC 194 Chamber Music 1 credits
Small group study and performance of instrumental and/or vocal chamber music from the western art music or non-western/folk repertory. Groups are usually formed by students prior to registration, and should consist of 3-8 musicians. Student groups are coached weekly by specialized music faculty, and participate in an end-of-term performance. Students must be registered, may not audit, and can register for only one group per term.
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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At least one term of applied music lessons at Carleton, or co-registration in applied music lessons, or permission of instructor
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MUSC 194.01 Fall 2023
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:50
- Grading:S/CR/NC
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MUSC 194.02 Fall 2023
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:50
- Grading:S/CR/NC
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MUSC 194.02 Winter 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:50
- Grading:S/CR/NC
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MUSC 194.05 Winter 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:50
- Grading:S/CR/NC
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MUSC 194.09 Spring 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:50
- Grading:S/CR/NC
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MUSC 195 Jazz Chamber Music 1 credits
Small groups participate in the study and performance of instrumental and/or vocal jazz chamber music. Groups are usually formed by students prior to registration, and should usually consist of 3-8 students. Groups rehearse independently, and are coached weekly by jazz music faculty; all groups participate in an end-of-term performance. Students must register, and may not audit; students register for only one group, but may participate in two groups with permission of instructor.
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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At least one term of applied music lessons at Carleton, or co-registration in applied music lessons, or permission of instructor
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MUSC 195.01 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Laura Caviani 🏫 👤
- Size:100
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- TWeitz Center M126 5:00pm-6:30pm
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MUSC 196 Jazz Workshop 1 credits
This class focuses on the theory and practice of jazz improvisation. Students will develop their improvisational skills by learning and applying various scales, modes, and chord structures to lab performances of standard jazz repertoire on their respective instruments.
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Instructor permission required
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MUSC 196.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Laura Caviani 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- TWeitz Center M126 3:15pm-5:00pm
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MUSC 196.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Laura Caviani 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- TWeitz Center M126 3:15pm-5:00pm
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MUSC 196.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Zacc Harris 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- THWeitz Center M126 3:15pm-5:00pm
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MUSC 197 Class Guitar 1 credits
An introduction to classical and folk guitar: styles, chords and music notation for persons with little or no previous music instruction. Not to be taken concurrently with Music 152 or 252 (Guitar).
2023-24 fee $104
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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MUSC 197.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Mark Kreitzer 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- THWeitz Center M027 1:50pm-3:00pm
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MUSC 197.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Zacc Harris 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- THWeitz Center M027 1:50pm-3:00pm
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MUSC 197.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Zacc Harris 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- THWeitz Center M027 1:50pm-3:00pm
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MUSC 218 Improvisation: A Living History 6 credits
Jon Batiste told Forbes in 2019: “I think that you have to open your mind to really be comfortable improvising. It really starts in the mind.” We’ll embrace this mind-music connection by thinking flexibly and critically about improvisation in American music, and by improvising musically ourselves. Readings and discussion will engage Black studies, performance studies, gender studies, philosophy, and political theory. And we’ll build our creative practice with your instruments and voices. Throughout, we’ll keep alive to the ethics of improvisation and the term’s multiplicity of meanings, which call out for your interpretation. Expected preparation: participation in a music ensemble, registration in music lessons, or facility on a musical instrument (Western or non-Western) including voice
- Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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MUSC 218.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:20
- T, THWeitz Center 230 1:15pm-3:00pm
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MUSC 220 Composition Studio 6 credits
This course focuses on creating new music, through several exercises as well as a substantial term composition. Class meetings reinforce key concepts, aesthetic trends, and compositional techniques, as well as provide opportunities for group feedback on works in progress. Individual instruction focuses on students’ own creative work in depth and detail.
- Winter 2024
- Arts Practice
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Music 110, 204 or instructor permission
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MUSC 220.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Andrea Mazzariello 🏫 👤
- Size:7
- M, WWeitz Center 230 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 230 9:40am-10:40am
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MUSC 221 Electronic Music Composition 6 credits
This course focuses on creating new electronic music. We will use digital audio workstations for composition and production, grounding their use in the fundamentals of digital audio. We will listen extensively, in many genres of electronic music, applying this critical listening to our own work and our colleagues’ work. Frequent composition assignments build fundamental skills in melodic creation and development, drum programming, synthesis, and audio production. The course culminates in a term project, a stylistically unrestricted, substantial original composition.
- Winter 2024
- Arts Practice
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Music 108, Music 110 or instructor consent
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MUSC 221.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Andrea Mazzariello 🏫 👤
- Size:14
- M, WWeitz Center 138 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 138 12:00pm-1:00pm
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MUSC 250 Piano 2 credits
Weekly one-hour lessons, with repertoire selected as appropriate for the individual student’s experience. Works from a variety of style periods may be studied, with attention to both musical and technical development. Music 250 is intended for the more advanced piano student; permission of instructor is required.
2023-24 $752 fee. Instructor permission
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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MUSC 250J Piano (Juried) 2 credits
Weekly one-hour lessons, with repertoire selected as appropriate for the individual student’s experience. Works from a variety of style periods may be studied, with attention to both musical and technical development. The juried (J) course includes the opportunity for students to share their work in an end-of-term public or closed performance. Music 250J is intended for the more advanced piano student; permission of instructor is required.
2023-24 $752 fee. Instructor permission
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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MUSC 251 Voice 2 credits
A study of voice production, breathing, tone development, diction, and pronunciation. Selection (according to the individual voice) of Italian, German, French, and English songs of the Classic, Romantic, and Modern periods. Arias and songs from operas, oratorios, musical theater and popular songs from Western and non-Western traditions. In addition, one studio class per week. Prerequisite: Music 151 or permission of the instructor.
2023-24 $752 fee. Instructor permission
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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MUSC 251J Voice (Juried) 2 credits
A study of voice production, breathing, tone development, diction, and pronunciation. Selection (according to the individual voice) of Italian, German, French, and English songs of the Classic, Romantic, and Modern periods. Arias and songs from operas, oratorios, musical theater and popular songs from Western and non-Western traditions. In addition, one studio class per week. Prerequisite: Music 151 or permission of the instructor.
2023-24 $752 fee. Instructor permission
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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MUSC 252 Guitar 2 credits
Studies for the development of technique appropriate to the needs of the student. Music is chosen from all musical periods including folk picking, blues, ragtime, popular and classical styles. Students with no prior experience or lessons should take one term of class guitar (Music 197).
2023-24 $752 fee. Instructor permission
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Instructor Permission
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MUSC 252J Guitar (Juried) 2 credits
Studies for the development of technique appropriate to the needs of the student. Music is chosen from all musical periods including folk picking, blues, ragtime, popular and classical styles. Students with no prior experience or lessons should take one term of class guitar (Music 197).
2023-24 $752 fee. Instructor permission
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Instructor Permission
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MUSC 253J Composition (Juried) 2 credits
Individual instruction focusing on the student’s original compositions. Course work includes the study of compositional techniques, analysis of relevant works, and computer/MIDI/synthesizer technologies. The course is particularly directed toward the major who wishes to pursue the composition option in the Senior Integrative Exercise.
2023-24 $752 fee. Instructor permission
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Music 220, or two courses from Music 221, Music 222 or Music 223 or instructor consent
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MUSC 255 Violin 2 credits
2023-24 $752 fee. Instructor permission
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Instructor Permission
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MUSC 255J Violin (Juried) 2 credits
2023-24 $752 fee. Instructor permission
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Instructor Permission
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MUSC 256 Viola 2 credits
2023-24 $752 fee. Instructor permission
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Instructor Permission
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MUSC 256J Viola (Juried) 2 credits
2023-24 $752 fee. Instructor permission
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Instructor Permission
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MUSC 257 Cello 2 credits
2023-24 $752 fee. Instructor permission
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Instructor Permission
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MUSC 257J Cello (Juried) 2 credits
2023-24 $752 fee. Instructor permission
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Instructor Permission
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MUSC 258 Classical String Bass 2 credits
The study of the acoustic string bass in the Classical style.
2023-24 $752 fee. Instructor permission
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Instructor Permission
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MUSC 258J Classical String Bass (Juried) 2 credits
The study of the acoustic string bass in the Classical style.
2023-24 $752 fee. Instructor permission
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Instructor Permission
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MUSC 259 Flute 2 credits
2023-24 $752 fee. Instructor permission
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Instructor Permission
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MUSC 259.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:50
- Grading:S/CR/NC
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MUSC 259.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:50
- Grading:S/CR/NC
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MUSC 259.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:50
- Grading:S/CR/NC
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MUSC 259J Flute (Juried) 2 credits
2023-24 $752 fee. Instructor permission
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Instructor Permission
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MUSC 259J.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:50
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MUSC 259J.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:50
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MUSC 259J.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:50
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MUSC 260 Oboe/English Horn 2 credits
2023-24 $752 fee. Instructor permission
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Instructor Permission
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MUSC 260J Oboe/English Horn (Juried) 2 credits
2023-24 $752 fee. Instructor permission
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Instructor Permission
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MUSC 261 Clarinet 2 credits
2023-24 $752 fee. Instructor permission
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Instructor Permission
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MUSC 261J Clarinet (Juried) 2 credits
2023-24 $752 fee. Instructor permission
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Instructor Permission
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MUSC 262 Saxophone 2 credits
2023-24 $752 fee. Instructor permission
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Instructor Permission
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MUSC 262J Saxophone (Juried) 2 credits
2023-24 $752 fee. Instructor permission
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Instructor Permission
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MUSC 263 Bassoon 2 credits
2023-24 $752 fee. Instructor permission
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Instructor Permission
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MUSC 263J Bassoon (Juried) 2 credits
2023-24 $752 fee. Instructor permission
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Instructor Permission
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MUSC 264 French Horn 2 credits
2023-24 $752 fee. Instructor permission
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Instructor Permission
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MUSC 264J French Horn (Juried) 2 credits
2023-24 $752 fee. Instructor permission
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Instructor Permission
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MUSC 265 Trumpet 2 credits
2023-24 $752 fee. Instructor permission
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Instructor Permission
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MUSC 265.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:50
- Grading:S/CR/NC
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MUSC 265.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:50
- Grading:S/CR/NC
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MUSC 265.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:50
- Grading:S/CR/NC
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MUSC 265J Trumpet (Juried) 2 credits
2023-24 $752 fee. Instructor permission
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Instructor Permission
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MUSC 265J.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:50
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MUSC 265J.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:50
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MUSC 265J.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:50
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MUSC 266 Trombone/Euphonium 2 credits
2023-24 $752 fee. Instructor permission
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Instructor Permission
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MUSC 266J Trombone/Euphonium (Juried) 2 credits
2023-24 $752 fee. Instructor permission
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Instructor Permission
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MUSC 267 Tuba 2 credits
2023-24 $752 fee. Instructor permission
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Instructor Permission
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MUSC 267J Tuba (Juried) 2 credits
2023-24 $752 fee. Instructor permission
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Instructor Permission
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MUSC 269 Harp 2 credits
2023-24 $752 fee. Instructor permission
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Instructor Permission
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MUSC 269J Harp (Juried) 2 credits
2023-24 $752 fee. Instructor permission
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Instructor Permission
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MUSC 270 Harpsichord 2 credits
2023-24 $752 fee. Instructor permission
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Instructor Permission
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MUSC 270J Harpsichord (Juried) 2 credits
2023-24 $752 fee. Instructor permission
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Instructor Permission
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MUSC 271 Organ 2 credits
Basic piano skills required.
2023-24 $752 fee. Instructor permission
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Instructor Permission
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MUSC 271J Organ (Juried) 2 credits
Basic piano skills required.
2023-24 $752 fee. Instructor permission
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Instructor Permission
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MUSC 272 Oud 2 credits
Advanced study of the Arab oud. Instruments are provided. Instructor’s permission required.
2023-24 $752 fee. Instructor permission
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Instructor Permission
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MUSC 272J Oud (Juried) 2 credits
Advanced study of the Arab oud. Instruments are provided. Instructor’s permission required.
2023-24 $752 fee. Instructor permission
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Instructor Permission
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MUSC 274 Recorder 2 credits
2023-24 $752 fee. Instructor permission
- Winter 2024
- Arts Practice
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Instructor Permission
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MUSC 274.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:50
- Grading:S/CR/NC
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2023-24 $752 fee. Instructor permission
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MUSC 274J Recorder (Juried) 1 credits
2023-24 $752 fee. Instructor permission
- Winter 2024
- Arts Practice
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Instructor Permission
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MUSC 274J.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:50
- Grading:S/CR/NC
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2023-24 $752 fee. Instructor permission
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MUSC 275 Jazz Piano 2 credits
Study the tools for learning the jazz “language.” Learn to improvise through scale and mode study, transcription, and composition. Turn chord symbols into chord voicings and accompaniment. Explore the blues, jazz “standards,” and today’s music. Materials: staff paper, The Real Book, vol. 1, or similar fake book, and the app iReal Pro. Weekly studio class required.
2023-24 $752 fee. Instructor permission
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Instructor Permission
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MUSC 275J Jazz Piano (Juried) 2 credits
Study the tools for learning the jazz “language.” Learn to improvise through scale and mode study, transcription, and composition. Turn chord symbols into chord voicings and accompaniment. Explore the blues, jazz “standards,” and today’s music. Materials: staff paper, The Real Book, vol. 1, or similar fake book, and the app iReal Pro. Weekly studio class required.
2023-24 $752 fee. Instructor permission
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Instructor Permission
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MUSC 276 Electric & Acoustic Bass 2 credits
The study of either electric bass guitar or acoustic string bass in all contemporary styles including rock, jazz, pop, rap, and reggae.
2023-24 $752 fee. Instructor permission
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Instructor Permission
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MUSC 276J Electric & Acoustic Bass (Juried) 2 credits
The study of either electric bass guitar or acoustic string bass in all contemporary styles including rock, jazz, pop, rap, and reggae.
2023-24 $752 fee. Instructor permission
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Instructor Permission
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MUSC 277 Jazz and Blues Guitar 2 credits
Study of chord voicings, accompanimental techniques, and solo guitar performance in the jazz idiom. Prerequisites: previous study of guitar and the ability to read music, or the permission of the instructor. Students must provide their own instruments.
2023-24 $752 fee. Instructor permission
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Instructor Permission
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MUSC 277J Jazz and Blues Guitar (Juried) 2 credits
Study of chord voicings, accompanimental techniques, and solo guitar performance in the jazz idiom. Prerequisites: previous study of guitar and the ability to read music, or the permission of the instructor. Students must provide their own instruments.
2023-24 $752 fee. Instructor permission
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Instructor Permission
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MUSC 278 Drum Set Instruction 2 credits
Drum Set Instruction on/in jazz and popular drumming styles which use the standard drum set. Equipment available for registered students.
2023-24 $752 fee. Instructor permission
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Instructor Permission
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MUSC 278J Drum Set Instruction (Juried) 2 credits
Drum Set Instruction on/in jazz and popular drumming styles which use the standard drum set. Equipment available for registered students.
2023-24 $752 fee. Instructor permission
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Instructor Permission
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MUSC 279 Jazz Improvisation 2 credits
The study of the basic grammar and syntax of jazz improvisation styles, including transcribing solos, chord/scale materials and melodic patterns. Weekly studio class participation required.
2023-24 $752 fee. Instructor permission
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Instructor Permission
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MUSC 279.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:50
- Grading:S/CR/NC
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MUSC 279J Jazz Improvisation (Juried) 2 credits
The study of the basic grammar and syntax of jazz improvisation styles, including transcribing solos, chord/scale materials and melodic patterns. Weekly studio class participation is required.
2023-24 $752 fee. Instructor permission
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Instructor Permission
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MUSC 279J.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:50
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MUSC 280 Raga: Vocal or Instrumental Study of Hindustani Music 2 credits
Beginning, intermediate, and advanced students of voice, guitar, violin, flute, clarinet, etc., approach raga from their current level of musicianship. In all cases, traditional practical instruction is complemented by some theoretical and philosophical exploration of the underpinnings of the music.
2023-24 $752 fee. Instructor permission
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Instructor Permission
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MUSC 280J Raga:Voc/Instr Study Hindustani (Juried) 2 credits
Beginning, intermediate, and advanced students of voice, guitar, violin, flute, clarinet, etc., approach raga from their current level of musicianship. In all cases, traditional practical instruction is complemented by some theoretical and philosophical exploration of the underpinnings of the music.
2023-24 $752 fee. Instructor permission
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Instructor Permission
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MUSC 281 Sitar 2 credits
Beginning through advanced study of sitar in the gayaki ang style of Ustad Vilayat Khan. Previous musical experience is not necessary. Sitars are provided.
2023-24 $752 fee. Instructor permission
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Instructor Permission
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MUSC 281J Sitar (Juried) 2 credits
Beginning through advanced study of sitar in the gayaki ang style of Ustad Vilayat Khan. Previous musical experience is not necessary. Sitars are provided.
2023-24 $752 fee. Instructor permission
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Instructor Permission
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MUSC 282 Chinese Musical Instruments 2 credits
Beginning through advanced study on traditional Chinese instruments, pipa (Chinese lute), erhu (Chinese violin), guzheng (Chinese zither), zhongruan (Chinese moon guitar), hulusi, bawu and dizi (Chinese bamboo flutes).
2023-24 $752 fee. Instructor permission
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Instructor Permission
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MUSC 282J Chinese Musical Instruments (Juried) 2 credits
Beginning through advanced study on traditional Chinese instruments, pipa (Chinese lute), erhu (Chinese violin), guzheng (Chinese zither), zhongruan (Chinese moon guitar), hulusi, bawu and dizi (Chinese bamboo flutes).
2023-24 $752 fee. Instructor permission
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Instructor Permission
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MUSC 284 American Folk Instruments 2 credits
Beginning to advanced study of technique and improvisational styles on American folk instruments. Students may study 5-string banjo (bluegrass or clawhammer style), bluegrass guitar, Dobro©, fiddle (violin, viola, cello), bass, ukulele, mandolin, and accordion. The Music Department has a single mandolin, fiddle, banjo, and guitar (and two ukuleles) available for shared use by enrolled students unable to provide their own instruments.
2023-24 $752 fee. Instructor permission
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Instructor Permission
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MUSC 284J American Folk Instrument (Juried) 2 credits
Beginning to advanced study of technique and improvisational styles on American folk instruments. Students may study 5-string banjo (bluegrass or clawhammer style), bluegrass guitar, Dobro©, fiddle (violin, viola, cello), bass, ukulele, mandolin, and accordion. The Music Department has a single mandolin, fiddle, banjo, and guitar (and two ukuleles) available for shared use by enrolled students unable to provide their own instruments.
2023-24 $752 fee. Instructor permission
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Instructor Permission
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MUSC 299 Recital 3 credits
A public music recital of a minimum of thirty minutes of solo performance (some chamber music may be included). Students enrolling in 299 do so in lieu of registering for applied lessons; 299 includes nine one-hour lessons. Normally 299 would be taken in the junior or senior year, and is repeatable one time. Fees and financial aid for 299 are the same as for two-credit applied lessons.
2023-24 $752 fee. Instructor permission
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Permission of department. At least two terms of juried lessons at the 200 level. Students must have completed recital form and permission of the Music Department the term prior to the recital
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MUSC 299.00 Fall 2023
- Size:30
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MUSC 299.00 Winter 2024
- Size:30
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MUSC 299.00 Spring 2024
- Size:30
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MUSC 299.04 Spring 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:30
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MUSC 341 Rock Lab and Lab 6 credits
This class combines performance and academic study of rock music. In the first half of the course, we will learn to perform simple songs in small-group coaching sessions with a polished public performance as a midterm goal. During the second half of the course, we will make recordings of these performances. Throughout the term, we will accompany performance and recording activities with readings and discussion about aesthetics, performance practice in rock music, and mediation of recording techniques, all extraordinarily rich topics in popular music studies. No performance experience is needed. The course will accommodate students with a range of experience. Students will be grouped according to background, interest, and ability. There is a required hands-on laboratory component, which will be assigned before the start of the course. In these smaller groups, students will perform, record, and work with sound in small groups. Work will include experimentation with electric instruments, amplifiers, synthesizers, microphones, recording techniques, performance practice issues, musical production, mixing, and mastering.
- Spring 2024
- Arts Practice Intercultural Domestic Studies
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MUSC 341.52 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Andy Flory 🏫 👤
- Size:8
- M, WWeitz Center 230 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWeitz Center 230 1:10pm-2:10pm
- TWeitz Center M038 2:00pm-5:00pm
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MUSC 341.53 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Andy Flory 🏫 👤
- Size:8
- M, WWeitz Center 230 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWeitz Center 230 1:10pm-2:10pm
- WWeitz Center M038 2:00pm-5:00pm
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MUSC 342 Creative Music Performance Seminar 3 credits
Over the course of the term, each student will prepare the performance of a solo work, informed by the exploration of sources, comparison of recordings, score analysis, and performance science. Group meetings explore the pedagogy of musical, psychological, and intellectual preparation, and will guide improvement in technical and musical consistency during performance. Open to performers of all genres of applied music taught in the Carleton music department.
- Winter 2024
- Arts Practice
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One term of 2 credit juried lessons on any instrument/voice or permission of instructor
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MUSC 342.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Nikki Melville 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- TWeitz Center M215 3:10pm-4:55pm
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THEA 110 Beginning Acting 6 credits
Introduces students to fundamental acting skills, including preliminary physical training, improvisational techniques, and basic scene work. The course includes analysis of plays as bases for performance, with a strong emphasis on characterization.
Extra Time
- Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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THEA 110.01 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Jeanne Willcoxon 🏫 👤
- Size:16
- M, WWeitz Center 172 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWeitz Center 172 2:20pm-3:20pm
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Sophomore Priority
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THEA 110.02 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Andrew Carlson 🏫 👤
- Size:16
- T, THWeitz Center 172 10:10am-11:55am
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THEA 110.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Andrew Carlson 🏫 👤
- Size:16
- T, THWeitz Center 172 10:10am-11:55am
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Sophomore priority
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THEA 110.02 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Andrew Carlson 🏫 👤
- Size:16
- M, WWeitz Center 172 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 172 9:40am-10:40am
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THEA 185 The Speaking Voice 6 credits
This course seeks to provide a practical understanding of the human voice, its anatomy, functioning and the underlying support mechanisms of body and breath. Using techniques rooted in the work of Berry, Linklater and Rodenburg, the course will explore the development of physical balance and ease and the awareness of the connection between thinking and breathing that will lead to the effortless, powerful and healthy use of the voice in public presentations and in dramatic performance.
- Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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THEA 185.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:David Wiles 🏫 👤
- Size:16
- T, THWeitz Center 172 1:15pm-3:00pm
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THEA 185.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:David Wiles 🏫 👤
- Size:16
- T, THWeitz Center 172 1:15pm-3:00pm
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Sophomore Priority
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THEA 190 Carleton Players Production 1 credits
Each term students may participate in one Players production, a hands-on, faculty-supervised process of conceptualization, construction, rehearsal, and performance. Credit is awarded for a predetermined minimum of time on the production, to be arranged with faculty. Productions explore our theatre heritage from Greek drama to new works. Students may participate through audition or through volunteering for production work.
- Fall 2023, Spring 2024
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THEA 195 Acting Shakespeare 6 credits
Though widely read, Shakespeare’s plays were written to be performed. This acting class, designed for students with no prior experience with Shakespeare, will explore approaches to performance with an emphasis on the use of the First Folio. Students will create performances using Shakespeare’s approaches to rhetoric, imagery and structure while examining some of the plays’ principal themes. Video and audio recordings will be used to develop a critical perspective on acting Shakespeare with an emphasis on the differing demands of live and recorded performance.
- Fall 2023
- Arts Practice
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THEA 195.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:David Wiles 🏫 👤
- Size:16
- T, THWeitz Center 172 10:10am-11:55am
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THEA 199 Theater Practicum 3 credits
This course is designed for students who have major responsibilities in Carleton Players productions as Stage Managers, Actors and Designers. Students enrolled in this class will have more responsibility and be expected to commit to more time than the students registered in Theater 190, including additional time for research, design and role preparation. Students in this course will get in-depth learning experiences in the processes most central to the discipline; the creation of performances. Students will waitlist for the course; enrollment in the course will be by instructor’s permission depending on the responsibilities students have.
Waitlist only
- Fall 2023, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Waitlist only, instructors permission required
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THEA 227 Theatre for Social Change 6 credits
This class is an examination of significant artists who use theatre as a tool for envisioning and enacting social change. We will study the justice-making strategies of a variety of artists, including Augusto Boal, Cherríe Moraga, Anna Deavere Smith, among many other contemporary artists whose work continues to shape American society. We will also examine influential methods of using theatre for social change, including documentary theatre, Theatre of the Oppressed, theatre for young audiences, and theatre in prisons. The class will include a number of guest artist visits from people making work in the field. The final project will be an original theatrical creation that uses the strategies studied in class to address a contemporary social issue.
Extra Time
- Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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THEA 227.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Jeanne Willcoxon 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 172 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWeitz Center 172 2:20pm-3:20pm
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THEA 237 Scenic Design for the Performing Arts 6 credits
This course will focus on the art and practice of creating scenic designs for the performing arts. It will introduce basic design techniques while exploring the collaborative process involved in bringing scenery from concept to the stage. The course will include individual and group projects utilizing collage, sketching, and model-making.
Extra Time
- Fall 2023
- Arts Practice
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THEA 237.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:12
- T, THWeitz Center 048 1:15pm-3:00pm
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THEA 246 Playwriting 6 credits
A laboratory to explore the craft of playwriting, concentrating on structure, action and character. The class uses games, exercises, scenes, with the goal of producing a short play by the end of the term.
- Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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THEA 246.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Andrew Rosendorf 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- T, THWeitz Center 231 1:15pm-3:00pm
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THEA 314 Advanced Acting 6 credits
Advanced Acting focuses on in-depth scene study, auditioning, and acting for the camera. While Beginning Acting THEA 110 is recommended, students with other previous acting experience may also register.
Extra Time
- Winter 2024
- Arts Practice
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THEA 314.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Andrew Carlson 🏫 👤
- Size:10
- T, THWeitz Center 172 3:10pm-4:55pm
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THEA 320 Live Performance and Digital Media 6 credits
We live in a world where the presence of digital technology is ubiquitous. Our reality is augmented by portals that open up universes of undiscovered possibilities for expanding, creating, archiving and documenting art. Yet these media have a physical presence that demands the artist find new ways of negotiating space and time on a stage. This class explores the ways in which digital media shape the everyday and ways in which they relate to performing and performance art in a historical, cultural and technological sense. Students will experiment with processes for incorporating digital technologies into their performances, while engaging in conversations around embodiment, identity and space.
- Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Any course in Theater Arts, Dance, Cinema and Media Studies, Studio Art, creative writing or musical composition.
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THEA 320.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 172 3:10pm-4:55pm
- T, THWeitz Center 136 3:10pm-4:55pm
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THEA 345 Devised Theater and Collective Creation 6 credits
A usual evening in the theater consists of seeing a text–the play–staged by a director and performed by actors. While this is certainly a collaborative endeavor, recent decades have seen a marked increase in “devised theater,” a mode intended to upset the traditional hierarchies of theatrical production. In practical terms, this means the abandonment of the extant text in favor of a performance “score”–sometimes textual, often physical–developed improvisationally in rehearsal by the performers. This course will explore the methods and approaches used to work in this collective and highly creative manner, and will culminate in a public performance. We will also discuss the history and cultural politics that inform devised practice.
- Fall 2023
- Arts Practice
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Theater 110 or Dance 150 or 190 or instructor permission
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THEA 345.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Jeanne Willcoxon 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 172 3:10pm-4:55pm