Academic Catalog 2016-2017 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Listing
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Courses listed below are grouped together alphabetically by subject prefix. To search for a specific course, please follow the instructions in the course filter box below and click on “Filter.”
Departments and interdisciplinary programs are described in detail on the Majors, Minors, and Other Programs page within this catalog. Please refer to the detailed sections on each area of study for more information. Requirements to fulfill a major or minor appear within each program or area of study.
All students must also complete the courses in the Common Curriculum (General Education), including Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) requirements and other requirements that pertain to the undergraduate degree. Courses are numbered as follows.
000-049 - Non-credit courses.
050-099 - Common Curriculum (General Education) courses and others that do NOT count toward the major.
100-199 - Introductory-level courses which count for the major.
200-299 - Sophomore/junior-level courses that often may be easily taken by non-majors. (Some departments may use 200-249 and 250-259 to delineate between sophomore and junior level offerings.)
300-399 - Upper-level courses intended primarily for majors - these are courses representing the depth component of the major.
400-499 - All advanced courses for seniors, including those used to fulfill WS (Senior Writing Experience requirement), small seminars, research, thesis, and independent studies.
Wherever possible, the departments have indicated the instructor and the term during which a course is given. Some courses are offered only occasionally and are so indicated. The College retains the right not to offer a course, especially if enrollment is insufficient.
A few courses are not valued at full course credit, and some carry double credit.
A full course unit may be equated to five quarter-credit hours, or three and one-third semester credit hours.
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AAH 101 - (201) Islamic Art and Architecture Course Units: 1
(Not offered this Academic Year) A broad and select survey of the art and architecture of Islamic cultures from the 7th through the 16th centuries that will stress the religious, social, economic, and historical contexts within which Islamic arts and architecture developed. We will study a variety of arts in addition to the traditional architecture, painting and sculpture familiar to students in Western art history surveys, including calligraphy and book painting, metalwork, ceramics, glass, carpets and textiles, and gardens and landscape design. CC: LCC, HUM
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AAH 102 - Medieval Art and Architecture of Northern Europe, 5th-15th Century Course Units: 1
(Fall; Matthew) An introductory survey of sculpture and decorative arts, manuscripts, painting and architecture from the seventh through fourteenth centuries north of the Alps. Examines the emergence of western medieval culture and attitudes toward the arts, as well as western European views of its Byzantine and Muslim neighbors. In addition to introducing major monuments and patrons, students will be introduced to the materials and techniques used to produce the art and architecture of the Middle Ages. The art of medieval Italy is covered in a separate course, AAH 300 CC: LCC, HUM
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AAH 103 - Introduction to European Painting and Sculpture, 17th-20th century Course Units: 1
(Not offered this Academic Year) Major works of art and artistic traditions from the 17th century to the present, primarily in western Europe. The vocabulary and techniques of painting, sculpture, architecture, the decorative arts, and printmaking; the emergence of modernism, abstraction, new materials, and non-objective art. Emphasis on the institutions of art and historical context as well. Visual analysis, verbal and written interpretation of art. CC: LCC, HUM
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AAH 104 - Arts of China Course Units: 1
(Fall, Spring; Lullo) This survey covers works of art and artistic traditions in China from the Neolithic period to the early 20th century. Lectures will focus on representative works in various media - calligraphy, painting, sculpture, architecture, and decorative arts - within the contexts of the tomb, court production, literati culture, Buddhist and Daoist temples, and interactions with other cultures. CC: LCC, HUM
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AAH 105 - Arts of Japan Course Units: 1
(Fall; Lullo) This introduction to the arts of Japan from the Neolithic period to the 20th century will focus on key monuments of sculpture, architecture, painting, calligraphy, gardens, printing, and other arts within their historical and cultural contexts. Themes discussed include: materials and technologies, sacred and profane spaces, patrons and viewers, tradition and modernity, and the creation of a distinctly “Japanese” aesthetic. CC: LCC, HUM
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AAH 106 - Arts of India Course Units: 1
(Spring; Lullo) This course is designed as an introduction to ways of seeing, understanding, and questioning the visual arts in India. You will learn how the visual arts (cities, architecture, monuments, statues and painting) have informed us about the history, culture, and religion of India from the rise of civilization to the colonial period. It is important to approach the works we will study not simply as objects of aesthetic taste, but as meaningful and functional to those who commissioned, used, created, and experienced them. In addition to studying the social and political nature of the arts, a large portion of this course looks at works that served to activate the sacred within and across several religious belief systems, including Buddhism, Hinduism, and Islam. CC: LCC, HUM
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AAH 110 - (200) Classical Art and Architecture Course Units: 1
(Same as CLS 134 ) (Spring; Matthew) An introductory survey of the arts of Greece and Rome, including painting, sculpture, architecture, and decorative arts. Emphasis will be placed upon learning art historical and archaeological terminology and methods, the place of art and architecture in ancient society and culture, and contacts with other cultures, in addition to becoming familiar with the most important monuments, artists, and patrons. CC: LCC, HUM
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AAH 120 - (320) European Baroque Art and Architecture: 17th-18th Century Course Units: 1
(Not offered this Academic Year) This course will cover the major European art movements of the 17th and 18th centuries. It will be structured chronologically and treat the art of the Catholic Counter-reformation, the “Golden Age” in the Netherlands, the art under the absolute monarchy in France, the Rococo period, and the rise of Neo-classicism during the Enlightenment. We will examine the stylistic characteristics of these major movements, and explore the relationships between art and religious, political, and cultural history. CC: LCC, HUM
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AAH 160 - (260) Art and Architecture of the United States Course Units: 1
(Not offered this Academic Year) An introductory survey of the visual culture of the United States from colonial times through the present including painting, sculpture, architectural structures, photography, folk traditions and objects more recently defined as “material culture.” Artists and media are situated and studied within the context of broader cultural, political and social themes. Emphasis on visual and textual analysis. CC: HUM
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AAH 163 - (263) Latin American & Caribbean Art of the 19th and 20th Century Course Units: 1
(Not offered this Academic Year) An examination of the major aspects of Latin American and Caribbean art from the early 19th through the 20th century. Emphasis is placed on integrating the social and political background of the various cultures with the key artists, artistic issues and movements of particular countries and periods. Topics to be covered include: the influence of the major art academies in Mexico, Brazil and Ecuador, the strong links between art and politics, Indigenism, woman as artist and subject, and the on-going dialogue with the art of Europe and later the United States. CC: LCC, HUM
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AAH 194 - (294) Visual Culture of Communist China, 1919 to Present Course Units: 1
(Winter; Lullo) This course explores the relationship between ideology and visual culture in China, from the founding of the Communist Party in 1919, to Mao Zedong’s prescriptions at the 1942 Yan’an Conference of Literature and Art, to art policy after the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949. Readings and discussion will cover the range of adherence and resistance to the official party line by art workers. Topics include expressionism, socialist realism, peasant art, “wound art,” cynical realism, political pop, and the avant-garde, as seen in painting, sculpture, architecture, posters, advertising, video, performance, and the material culture of quotidian life. CC: LCC, HUM
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AAH 205 - The Art & Science of Painting Course Units: 1
(Same as CHM 090 ) (Not offered this Academic Year) A historical and chemical grounding in the topic of painting and its impact on society, with a focus on the 14th to the 17th centuries. Topics include inorganic and organic pigments and binders used in late medieval workshops, fresco painting, the tempera tradition, and oil painting in the Renaissance (properties of oil, mixing pigments, glazing, drying). Students will work with primary sources and secondary literature, and engage in laboratory experimentation. CC: SET, HUM
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AAH 206 - The Renaissance Tradition in Architecture, 15th-18th Centuries Course Units: 1
(Winter; Matthew) An historical survey that examines the language and functions of architecture and its roles in Western European culture. The course begins with the revival of interest in classical antiquity in the 1400s in Italy and its effect on the practice and theory of architecture. We then examine the transmission of these ideas to northern Europe during the subsequent centuries, and the evolution of architectural ideas and practices both north and south of the Alps. CC: LCC, HUM
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AAH 208 - The Business of Visual Art and Contemporary Entrepreneurship Course Units: 1
(Spring; Cox) In this course students will study and learn the business of the art world and entrepreneurship in the visual arts from the early 20th century through today. Topics to be covered include the economics of the art market and the commodity of art, auction houses, private collectors, art fairs, gallery ownership, art foundations, non-for-profits, and art criticism. Group assignments, field trips and guest lectures form a large component of the course. CC: LCC, HUM
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AAH 214 - The Golden Age of Venice: Art and Architecture in “The Most Serene Republic” Course Units: 1
(Not offered this Academic Year) An introduction to the art and architecture of the Republic of Venice during the period of its economic, political, and artistic “golden age” - from the 14th through the 17th centuries. We will consider the many relationships between the material culture of the city, its maritime and land-based empires, and Venice’s role as a commercial and cultural power in Western Eurpe during a period of great change. Objects and structures ranging from oil paintings to the new invention of printed books, not to mention the building in which they were created and used, will be examined from multiple points of view: materials, fabrication and workshop practice, artistic reputation, patronage and costs, site and functions, innovation and tradition. CC: HUM
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AAH 222 - History of Photography Course Units: 1
(Winter; Ogawa) An introductory survey of the history of photography from its pre-history to the present. We will explore the evolution of photographic expression in the period, and focus on relationships between photography and fine art, photography and popular culture, and photography and theory. We will spend time studying first-hand the original photographic works housed in Special Collections, Schaffer Library and in the Union College Permanent Collection. CC: HUM
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AAH 223 - The Nude Course Units: 1
(Not offered this Academic Year) The nude in its art historical and social contexts. Traditionally considered shorthand for abstract concepts such as “truth” or “beauty,” the nude is in fact a powerful index to ideas about gender, power, and sexuality in any of the historical periods which produced it. Drawing on recent scholarship, we will examine works produced in Ancient Greece, the Renaissance, and the Modern Period in social and historical context, and consider ways in which the human body has been both a stylistic vehicle for artistic expression and a social tool for constructing ideas of masculinity and femininity. CC: LCC, HUM
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AAH 251T - Visual Culture, Urban Landscape and Politics in Washington, DC Course Units: 1
(Same as AMS 251T ) (Spring; Staff) This course focuses on the ways Washington, DC residents, writers, politicians and critics have defined the nation’s capital, exploring the dichotomy between Washington as the “lived” city, with that as the nation’s public capital (and spectacle). The course examines the racial and class shifts over the last century in its residential space, its recent rapid gentrification, and the dramatic racial and class divide in both living space and working space. Moreover, the public space, such as presidential monuments, war memorials, federal museums, the White House, the Library of Congress, the Supreme Court, and the Mall are contentious political spaces as well as symbolic spaces for tourists viewing the “values” of the United States. CC: Does not get LCC credit; term-abroad not outside the United States.
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AAH 260 - Nature, Art, and The Environment Course Units: 1
(Not offered this Academic Year) This course studies attitudes toward nature in Western Europe and North America from the Middle Ages through the 20th century. We will be examining cultural and artistic ideas related to the natural world, noting both continuity and change. In keeping with the interdisciplinary nature of the course, we will be examining such diverse sources as religion, literature and the printed book, gardens and landscape art, painting and printmaking, the history of botany, botanical art and scientific illustration, exploration and travel, climate and geography, agriculture and industrialization, and the development of “ecology”.
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AAH 265 - Environmentalism and Globalization in Contemporary Art Course Units: 1
(Fall; Cox) This course examines artistic practices that meld science, aesthetics, and politics in imaginative and critical ways as they address environmentalism and globalization. The course primarily focuses on 21st century artists whose work takes on such subjects as pollution, biodiversity, sustainability and climate change. We will consider the blurring of the boundaries between art and activism and the many art genres and strategies used to address these issues from photography and sculpture to community collaborations and public art.
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AAH 286 - Art and Religion of the Silk Road Course Units: 1
(Not offered this Academic Year) Central Asia - broadly defined as the area occupied, from East to West, by present-day western China, Mongolia, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, northern India, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Iran - has been characterized as both harsh wasteland and cultural crossroads. This course concerns the visual culture of the Silk Road of Central Asia, focusing on the roles visual culture played in establishing modes of religious imagination in medieval culture. CC: LCC, HUM
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AAH 295H - Art History Honors Independent Project 1 Course Units: 0
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AAH 296H - Art History Honors Independent Project 2 Course Units: 1
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AAH 300 - Italian Art and Architecture, 14th-15th Century Course Units: 1
(Not offered this Academic Year) A study of art and architecture in Italy from 1100 to 1400 emphasizing religious, political, and cultural contexts and the role of the Byzantine tradition. Examination of paintings, sculpture, architecture, and the decorative arts in the major urban centers of the Italian peninsula, including Florence, Siena, Pisa, Rome and Milan, as well as the courts of northern Italy. Venetian topics are covered separately in AAH 206 and AAH 305. Prerequisite(s): One art history course or permission of the instructor. CC: HUM, LCC
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AAH 304 - Renaissance Art in Italy: The 16th Century Course Units: 1
(Not offered this Academic Year) A study of the visual arts that emphasizes painting, prints, sculpture, and the decorative arts. Particular attention to the growth of secular art, the role of court patronage, definitions of Mannerism, the cult of the artistic genius, and the emergence of a history of art in this period. Prerequisite(s): One art history course or permission of the instructor. CC: HUM, LCC
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AAH 322 - 19th-Century European Art Course Units: 1
(Fall; Ogawa) An advanced course examining major artistic movements and developments after 1789. We will examine the stylistic characteristics of these major movements, and consider art-making of this century in the context of the development of industrial capitalism, colonialism, and imperialism. We will also consider the development of such modern art institutions as the art museum and the commercial gallery. Prerequisite(s): At least one Art History course, or by permission of the instructor. CC: HUM, LCC
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AAH 340 - European Modern Art, 1880-1940 Course Units: 1
(Spring; Ogawa) Major developments in modernism primarily in Europe. Traces the emergence of modernist visual vocabularies in painting, graphic arts, photography, sculpture, architecture, and “decorative arts” ranging from ranging from Van Gogh’s post-impressionism, through the cubist art of Picasso and Dali’s dream-like surrealism. Topics include the transformations of traditional modes of art making, the proliferation of movements and “-isms,” the political functions of art and exhibitions, film as an art, and the rise of abstraction. Visual and textual analysis. Prerequisite(s): at least one art history course, or permission of the instructor. CC: HUM, LCC
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AAH 360 - (460) Seminar: Visual Culture, Race & Gender Course Units: 1
(Not offered this Academic Year) A lecture and discussion-based course concerned with how constructions of race and sexual differentiation are played out across art history and visual culture, focusing on the visual arts of Western Europe and the United States. The first half of the course investigates the constructs of gender and race from antiquity to the middle of the 20th century as expressed in art and visual culture. The second half of the course is a close study of female artists of color living and working in the United States, grouped as African- American, Latina/Chicana, Asian and Middle Eastern and Multi-ethnic. CC: LCC, HUM
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AAH 363 - Early American Modernism, 1900-1945 Course Units: 1
(Not offered this Academic Year) A study of modern art in the United States from 1900-1945. Topics to be covered reflect the divergent styles, movements and influences that gave shape to the art of this period, including the rise of the avant-garde in New York City, important patrons, social realism, the WPA and the Harlem Renaissance to name a few. Art works are studied in relation to the cultural and political context of the period. Verbal and written interpretation of art; emphasis on visual and textual analysis. CC: HUM, LCC
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AAH 366 - From Pollock to Post-Modern: European and American Art 1940-2000 Course Units: 1
(Not offered this Academic Year) Art of the United States and Europe since World War II in critical and historical perspective, emphasizing the influence of social movements on artistic thought and expression. Topics include the impact of technology and popular culture, the subversion of the traditional boundaries between arts, the rejection of the object, and the rise of pluralism. CC: LCC, HUM
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AAH 390 - The Art Museum: History, Theory, and Practice Course Units: 1
(Not offered this Academic Year) This upper-level course takes the art museum as its subject. It will examine the history of the art museum and its roots in late 18th century ideas about knowledge, display, and democratic politics, and trace the growth of the art museum over the course of the 19th and 20th centuries in the context of changing cultural notions of “the public,” philanthropy, and modernist and avant-garde art practice. The course will be supplemented by visits to local art museums. This course also serves as a prerequisite to TAB 336T: Three Weeks in the Louvre. CC: LCC, HUM
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AAH 440 - Seminar: Special Topics in Art History Course Units: 1
(Winter; Lullo) Writing-intensive, research-oriented, discussion-based seminar that involves comparative methodologies; designed principally for majors. Topics vary. CC: HUM
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AAH 490 - Art History Independent Study 1 Course Units: 1
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AAH 491 - Art History Independent Study 2 Course Units: 1
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AAH 492 - Art History Independent Study 3 Course Units: 1
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AAH 493 - Art History Independent Study 4 Course Units: 1
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AAH 495 - Museum Internship 1 Course Units: 1
Students who have largely fulfilled the requirements for a concentration in art history may be able to intern at the Albany Institute of History and Art, the Hyde Collection, the Schenectady Museum, other regional museums, or the National Buildings Museum in Washington, D.C. The latter is offered in conjunction with Union’s spring term in Washington, D.C. Permission of the Chair required.
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AAH 496 - Museum Internship 2 Course Units: 1
Students who have largely fulfilled the requirements for a concentration in art history may be able to intern at the Albany Institute of History and Art, the Hyde Collection, the Schenectady Museum, other regional museums, or the National Buildings Museum in Washington, D.C. The latter is offered in conjunction with Union’s spring term in Washington, D.C. Permission of the Chair required.
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AAH 498 - Art History Senior Thesis 1 Course Units: 0
Part 1 of a 2 term thesis; grades pass/fail.
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AAH 499 - Art History Senior Thesis 2 Course Units: 2
Two term credits when completed.
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ACC 100 - Survey of Accounting Course Units: 1
(Spring; McDonald) A survey of selected topics within various areas of accounting, such as managerial accounting, financial accounting, and tax accounting. Emphasis will be on concepts and not on record-keeping.
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ADA 010 - Ballet 1 Course Units: 0
(Fall, Winter, Spring; Geren) An introduction to the basic techniques of classical ballet. Each class incorporates proper body alignment, balance and self-awareness of the classical form. Students learn ballet technique and style by combining a barre warm-up, centre phrases, and across-the-floor combinations. Note: For all students.
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ADA 011 - Ballet 2 Course Units: 0
(Fall; Geren, Winter; Geren, Spring; Moutillet) The intermediate ballet level is designed for dancers who have been trained in the classical form. Class includes complex combinations at the barre and in the center. Musical accompaniment will explore the lyricism of the classical form. Insight into progressive step combinations, physical control, and variations through turns, jumps, adagios and allegros. Repertoire and new creations will be taught in class. Note: For intermediate level.
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ADA 012 - Ballet 3 Course Units: 0
(TBD) This advanced ballet level emphasizes academic training as well as repertoire. Depending on student’s ability and strength, pointe work will be added. Variations from original or traditional ballets will be learned in class. Dancers who have a desire to perform are encouraged to attend. Note: For advanced level.
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ADA 020 - Jazz Dance 1 Course Units: 0
(Winter; Rogers) Learn the basics of Jazz technique, a high powered energy form that moves to fast rhythms. A challenging free style that uses dynamic body movements, flexibility and present day dance steps. Note: For beginner level.
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ADA 021 - Jazz Dance 2 Course Units: 0
(Fall; Winter; Rogers) Dancers continue their training for a solid technique in the jazz form. Combinations will include several styles as well as explore the classical, funky and contemporary aspects of dance. Note: For intermediate level.
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ADA 022 - Lyrical Jazz Course Units: 0
(Fall, Winter, Spring; Rogers) This class will primarily focus on self expression, exploration and musicality. Dancers will learn metaphorical and symbolic movements to convey and array of emotions. Class will include warm-up, technical progression and a contemporary combination. Note: For intermediate level
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ADA 023 - Broadway Dance Practicum Course Units: 0
(Fall, Spring; Rogers) This class focuses on dance styles that use gestures and ensemble movements done in musicals. Students will learn a variety of numbers from shows including repertoire from both past and present productions. Different styles will consist of a diverse selection of Broadway musical theater dance. Note: For all students
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ADA 030 - Modern Dance 1 Course Units: 0
(Fall; Cawley, Winter, Spring; Staff) This contemporary form focuses on gaining an in depth understanding of how the body moves, proper placement, alignment, and flexibility. This class explores different ways of using organic and creative movements, the floor and traveling through space. Note: For beginner level.
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ADA 031 - Modern Dance 2 Course Units: 0
(Spring; Cawley) Explore the dynamics, rhythms, phrasing and use of space unique to contemporary dance while developing technical strength. Reinforce your physical possibilities and perfect your inner potential toward dance expression. The use of music, space and choreographic gestures will be learned through challenging group choreography. Note: For intermediate level.
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ADA 035 - Dance and Fitness Course Units: 0
(Not offered this Academic Year) Provides students with the study of a trained body in modern dance, yoga and fitness routines. Emphasis on proper alignment, quality of movements and tempo. Gain expertise on how to shape and train your body to its fullest potential. Note: For all students.
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ADA 036 - Pilates For Performers Course Units: 0
In class, students learn the basic, intermediate, and advanced exercises of the Pilates workout. The course focuses specifically on technique that helps with centering of body work for the Performing Arts. Strengthening and working on flexibility enhance performers’ abilities. Gain confidence and awareness of body placement as well as studying a technique for warming up before shows. The Pilates for Performers is an ideal training base for all performance artists, including novices. Note: For all students.
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ADA 037 - Zumba Course Units: 0
Zumba combines high energy and inspiring music with unique moves and combinations that allow the Zumba participants to dance. It is based on the principle that dance steps are fun and easy to follow allowing Zumba participants to enjoy the art of dancing and achieve long-term health benefits. ZUMBA is a fusion of Latin and International music that creates a dynamic, exciting, and effective aerobic/dance training. The combination of movements to fast and slow rhythms tones and sculpts the body. Experience a mix of diverse dance styles such as salsa, raggaeton, merengue, cha cha, belly dance, cumbia and more. Note: For all students.
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ADA 040 - Afro-Dance Course Units: 0
(Not offered this Academic Year) A class built for everyone who wants to dance to African rhythms. Emphasizes stamina and the learning of exiting dance routines. A cultural dance style and technique welcoming dancers of all levels into a rich range of African dance movements. Note: For all students.
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ADA 045 - Tap Dance 1 Course Units: 0
(Not offered this Academic Year) For beginners who want to explore the world of tap dance. Students will learn basic footwork, and routines on exciting rhythms and combinations. Note: For beginner level.
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ADA 046 - Tap Dance 2 Course Units: 0
(Fall, Spring; Rogers) Tap dance provides students with the study of steps found in the tap dancing art form. Students will be introduced to proper warm up, tap steps, specific exercises in rhythms, routines, and use of music. Students that have previous experience in tap will be able to expand their expertise. Note: For intermediate level
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ADA 050 - Rehearsal and Production: Course Units: 0
(Same as ATH 050 ) Students are invited to participate in theater or dance productions in a variety of capacities, both on-stage and off-stage. To gain transcript recognition for participation in these activities, students must register for the theater or dance practicum with the registrar and achieve a passing grade from the faculty supervisor.
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ADA 060 - Hip Hop 1 Dance Class Course Units: 0
(Fall, Winter, Spring; Wasbes) This class gives students the opportunity to learn the basic of a popular and contemporary dance form, based on routines from street jazz, breaking, popping, and locking. This dazzling style gives students a way to gain confidence in their body to today’s most celebrated pop music. Note: For all students.
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ADA 061 - Hip Hop 2 Dance Class Course Units: 0
(Fall, Winter, Spring; Wasbes) This level 2 class provides dancers with a high energy, and innovative dance experience. Hip Hop is urban, it’s diverse, and it’s forever changing. This freestyle dance fusion gives students the opportunity to develop their own style to the latest hit songs. Note: For intermediate level.
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ADA 070 - Choreography - Modern Course Units: 0
(Winter; Staff) This creative class gives students the opportunity to focus on a particular theme that will generate choreographic scenes. The dance vocabulary aims to combine an amalgam of styles to produce a contemporary vision. Each week the class will build on material that will be presented as part of the winter dance concert at the Yulman Theater. Note: For intermediate level.
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ADA 071 - Choreography - Jazz Course Units: 0
(Winter; Rogers) Each week this class works toward the composition of innovative dance movements found in the jazz form incorporating vocabulary such as lyrical, funk jazz and musical theatre dance. Students explore a wide range of intricate steps as a mean of self-expression.. The finalized choreography will be presented as part of the winter dance concert. Note: For intermediate level.
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ADA 072 - Choreography - Ensemble Course Units: 0
(Winter; Moutillet, Rogers) This class concentrates on creating a choreography that will give students the opportunity to work as a unit.. The Ensemble practicum encourages cooperation between students and faculty members striving to create momentum for the winter dance concert. Note: For intermediate level
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ADA 073 - Choreography - Rhythms Course Units: 0
(Winter; Rogers) This practicum will focus on developing various rhythms to create vibrant sounds and a challenging choreography. The dance vocabulary stresses the primacy of percussive beats. This dance style includes tap dancing, stepping and rhythms with the body or with percussive instruments that is performed in our winter dance concert. Note: For intermediate level.
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ADA 074 - Choreography - Ballet Course Units: 0
(Winter; Moutillet) This class emphasizes either the traditional or contemporary repertoire to present the lyricism of the classical form. Dancers to perform classical dance will be part of a creation that embraces their expertise. Depending on the dance concert, this choreography class will focus on a particular era, technique or master choreographer. The creation is presented in our winter dance concert. Note: For intermediate level.
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ADA 130 - (050) The Dance Experience Course Units: 1
(Spring; Moutillet) An experiential survey course introducing the many facets of the art of making dances. Through lectures, workshops and performances students discover new dance techniques, dance vocabulary, styles, and inner skills. Special emphasis on creative abilities, built on trust, and exploration. Students work as a choreographer in an individual and collective dance piece to be performed publicly at the Steinmetz Symposium and An Intimate Afternoons with Dancers. CC: HUM
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ADA 140 - American Musical Theater and Dance Course Units: 1
(Same as ATH 140 ) (Fall; Moutillet) This course is an introduction to the American Musical from Vaudeville and Minstrel Shows to today’s contemporary Broadway shows. Through lectures, video viewing and workshops students learn the historical background that focuses on the work of lyricists, composers, dancers, signers, choreographers, directors and producers. This unique American entertainment art form reflects American diversity and culture, changing times, values and trends. Prerequisite(s): No prerequisite. CC: LCC, HUM
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ADA 142 - Dance in America Course Units: 1
(Not offered this Academic Year) An introduction to dance in America from Native American to contemporary diverse styles, approached through lecture, video viewing, and dance workshops. A voyage through time from the French Court with the birth of Classical Dance through the twentieth century with the development of Modern and Post-Modern Dance. Study of the advent of new music and dance with the African American heritage and American contributions towards social dancing. Special emphasis on historical background and international influences, studying the dancers, choreographers, traditions, and trends that influence the making of contemporary dance as an art and form of expression. Prerequisite(s): No prerequisite. CC: LCC, HUM
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ADA 150 - Staging Exploration in Theater and Dance Course Units: 1
(Same as ATH 150 ) (Not offered this Academic Year) This course is based on the close examination of a particular period or theme of multidisciplinary artistic production that offers students an immersion into important developments in per formative expressions. This course explores dynamic movements in the artistic avant-garde, its historical background, and its principal creators in theater, dance and associated performing arts, through discussions, lectures, studio work, and collaborative creation. The resulting collaboration is produced and performed at Yulman Theater during our winter dance concert. Prerequisite(s): No prerequisite. CC: HUM
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ADA 153 - Histoire de la danse, Danse de l’histoire/History of Dance, Dance of History Course Units: 1
(Same as FRN 421 , MLT 211 ) (Not offered this Academic Year) Examination of Western European dance and dance texts as revelatory of broader historical and cultural patterns, with special analyses of dance as a key tool of nation-building (as with the court of Louis XIV) and/or a central medium of artistic creation (as in 1920s Paris). Primary focus on France as creator, user, and potential abuser of dance’s power, but some attention given other European models (Berlin, St. Petersburg, London). Readings from theoreticians, historians, and dance litterateurs (Moliere, Gautier, Cocteau). CC: HUL, LCC
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ADA 295H - Choreography Honors 1 Course Units: 0
This course seeks to develop students’ choreographic potential through research and exploratory exercises. Methods focus on concept, phrase development, compositional tools, design and artistic presentation. Through discussions, decision-making, individual and group work, the choreographer develops a sense of craft used in the art of making dances. Prerequisite: ADA130. Dance Experience or by permission of faculty. Prerequisite(s): A weekly dance technique class is required. CC: HUM
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ADA 296H - Choreography Honors 2 Course Units: 1
Students create choreography and work in collaboration with dancers, designers or any inter-disciplinary artists to fulfill their creative objectives. The final dance piece is presented publicly in the dance concert (winter) or Steinmetz Dance Performance (spring). Prerequisite(s): A weekly dance technique class is required. CC: HUM
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ADA 350 - Choreography Course Units: 1
Students can elect to pursue a specific area of interest. Subjects might include dance styles, a choreographer or dancer’s life and achievements, a dance craze as well as a specific dance technique. Students can develop their own dance style, create a dance piece, restage the work of a famous choreographer or make a dance film or documentary. The student will act as an Artistic Director, overseeing their creation as well as being in charge of their collaborators such as musicians, actors, dancers, sculptors or any other inter-disciplinary artists. Prerequisite(s): ADA 130 and a weekly technical dance class. CC: HUM
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ADA 370 - Theatre or Dance Internship Course Units: 1
As a professional work/study experience, students can elect to pursue a specific area of interest in a one-term internship with a professional theatre or dance company. The precise form of this project will vary with the student and area of focus within the department, but may include production, performance, management, or administrative work in the field or other projects approved by the faculty. Appropriate credit is granted upon completion of the internship. This course will be taken Pass/Fail. An appropriate Departmental faculty member will be assigned to oversee the internship. Students planning on applying for ATH-370 Theatre Internship or ADA- 370 Dance Internship approval will be expected to complete a Departmental form which must be submitted to the Chair ideally no later than the fifth week of the term prior to the internship term. Appropriate advisement and guidance will be available to the student. Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing and approval of Departmental Chair.
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Africana Studies |
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AFR 100 - Introduction to Africana Studies Course Units: 1
(Fall; Staff) An interdisciplinary introduction to the field of Africana Studies. This course will examine the issues and perspectives-social, economic, political, historical, and cultural-of the peoples of Africa and the African diaspora. CC: LCC
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AFR 295H - Africana Studies Honors Independent Study 1 Course Units: 0
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AFR 296H - Africana Studies Honors Independent Study 1 Course Units: 1
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AFR 490 - Africana Studies Independent Study 1 Course Units: 1
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AFR 491 - Africana Studies Independent Study 2 Course Units: 1
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AFR 498 - Africana Studies Senior Thesis 1 Course Units: 0
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AFR 499 - Africana Studies Senior Thesis 2 Course Units: 2
Prerequisite(s): AFR 498
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Asian Studies |
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AIS 295H - Asian Studies Honors Independent Project 1 Course Units: 0
(Fall, Winter, Spring; Staff)
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AIS 296H - Asian Studies Honors Independent Project 2 Course Units: 1
(Fall, Winter, Spring; Staff)
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AIS 490 - Asian Studies Independent Study 1 Course Units: 1
(Fall, Winter, Spring; Staff)
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AIS 491 - Asian Studies Independent Study 2 Course Units: 1
(Fall, Winter, Spring; Staff)
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AIS 492 - Asian Studies Independent Study 3 Course Units: 1
(Fall, Winter, Spring; Staff) Prerequisite(s): AIS 491
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AIS 498 - Asian Studies Senior Project 1 Course Units: 0
(Fall, Winter; Staff) Interdisciplinary investigation of a topic in Asian Studies.
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AIS 499 - Asian Studies Senior Project 2 Course Units: 2
(Fall, Winter; Staff) Interdisciplinary investigation of a topic in Asian Studies.
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Music |
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AMU 010 - Instrumental and Vocal Lessons Course Units: 0
Individual instruction is offered in voice, keyboard, guitar, wind, string, brass, and percussion instruments. Lessons offered at a cost of $500 per term. Scholarships are available by application to music majors, IDs, and minors to offset the cost of lessons. For registration information and a list of approved instructors see Professor McMullen.
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AMU 012 - Union College Japanese Drumming Ensemble Course Units: 0
(Fall; Staff) The Union College Japanese Drumming Ensemble (Zakuro-Daiko) rehearses weekly on a variety of Japanese drums and other forms of global percussion. The ensemble regularly performs both on- and off-campus. No previous musical experience is required, though members need to audition/interview to determine participation at the discretion of the instructor . See Professor Matsue.
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AMU 014 - Union College Chorale Course Units: 0
The Union College Chorale performs works from a broad chronological and stylistic range, including western and non-western traditions. The ensemble performs at least once each term and normally performs at one off-campus venue each year. This ensemble is open by audition to all students and prior experience is not necessary. See Professor McMullen.
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AMU 015 - Union College Jazz Ensemble Course Units: 0
The Union College Jazz Ensemble meets weekly and performs throughout the year in both formal and informal settings. Experience in improvisation is desirable but not required. Instrumentalists and vocalists are welcome to audition. See Professor Olsen.
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AMU 016 - Union College Camerata Singers Course Units: 0
(Not offered this Academic Year) The rehearsal and performance of a cappella literature from five centuries of the choral tradition. Open by audition to all Union College students. The Camerata Singers, a select group of twelve to sixteen singers, rehearses twice a week and offer one formal concert each term.
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AMU 017 - Union College and Community Orchestra Course Units: 0
The Orchestra meets once a week and presents at least one concert each term. The Orchestra is open by audition to all students and members of the community. Section and principal chairs are assigned on a rotating basis. See Professor Tann.
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AMU 018 - Early Music Ensemble Course Units: 0
The Early Music Ensemble, open to both singers and instrumentalists, is devoted to the study and performance of music from the Middle Ages through the Early Viennese Era. Participants will play on both modern instruments and reproductions of historic instruments, including the harpsichord, organ, and recorder. Emphasis will be placed upon historical performance practices, as described in music treatises and other documents and as understood by scholars and performers today. The Ensemble, open by audition, rehearses twice a week. See Professor McMullen.
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AMU 050 - The Language of Music Course Units: 1
(Not offered this Academic Year) An introductory survey of the main aspects of music theory and practice including rhythm, intervals, scales and keys, melody, harmony, and form. Designed for students with no formal background in music. Does not count toward major. CC: HUM
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AMU 060 - From Chant to Mozart Course Units: 1
(Not offered this Academic Year) A chronological study of compositions from the ninth century through the time of the French Revolution. Gregorian chant; Renaissance court music; the effect of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation on music; Florentine opera; Vivaldi’s concertos; sacred music of Bach and Handel; symphonies, keyboard works, and operas of Haydn and Mozart. CC: HUM
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AMU 061 - From Beethoven to Bernstein Course Units: 1
(Spring; McMullen) A study of composers and their works from the end of the eighteenth century through the present. Beethoven, Chopin, Berlioz, Mendelssohn, Schubert, Schumann, Verdi, Wagner, Brahms, Debussy, Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Ives, Copland, Varese, among others. CC: HUM
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AMU 100 - Elements of Music Theory Course Units: 1
(Not offered this Academic Year) An introduction to the art of music for students already familiar with the basics of notation. A review of musical elements (intervals, triads, scales, durations) complemented by hands-on creative work in the Music Technology Studio. CC: HUM
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AMU 101 - Theory 1: Diatonic Harmony Course Units: 1
(Fall, Winter; Tann) Traditional harmony and modulation approached through short written exercises and listening assignments. Prerequisite(s): ability to read (sing/play) music. CC: HUM
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AMU 102 - Theory 2: Chromatic Harmony Course Units: 1
(Winter; Tann) Chromatic harmony: models drawn from late Classical and Romantic composers. Prerequisite(s): AMU 101 or permission of the instructor. CC: HUM
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