Goucher College 2016-2017 Undergraduate Catalogue PLEASE NOTE: This is an archived catalog. Programs are subject to change each academic year.
Course Descriptions
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MUS 144 - Goucher Chamber Music Group (1.5 Cr.) (LER ARC - but not if taken in Fall 2013 or Spring 2014)
Performance of chamber music repertoire. Course structure includes master classes, individual coaching sessions, and formal concerts. May be repeated for credit. Fall semester, repeated spring semester. Weiss.
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MUS 146 - Goucher African Drum and Dance Ensemble (1 Cr.) (DAN 146 )
Practical performance of selected percussion instruments from West Africa (Ghana, in particular), and the interpretation of the rhythms through body movement and gestures; explores the historical and cultural contexts of specific West African music and dance forms relative to the African diaspora. Students will be required to know the basic techniques of West African traditional music and dance expressions; includes master classes and formal concert. Repeatable. Spring semester. Powell and Von Hendricks.
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MUS 147 - Opera and Musical Theatre Workshop (1.5 Cr.)
Performance of works for the stage from the operatic and musical theatre repertoires. Attention both to solo and ensemble singing. Includes both class and coaching. Course concludes with a staged public performance. May be repeated for credit. Blades and Weiss.
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MUS 149 - Goucher Jazz Ensemble (1.5 Cr.)
Group performance designed to provide experience in reading charts and improvising in multiple jazz styles. By audition or permission of the instructor. May be repeated for credit. Fall semester, repeated spring semester. Chappell.
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MUS 203 - Special Topics in Music (3 Cr.)
In-depth examination of a specific musical topic. The choice of topic will remain flexible. Examples include American Music from Colonial Times to the Present; First Nights-Notable Premieres of Great Works; History of Rock and Roll; American Musical Theatre; Music Criticism and Esthetics; Nationalism in Music; Diction for Singers; and composer-/genre-specific topics such as the Beethoven symphonies, the string quartet, piano literature, and the Second Viennese school. Prerequisite: any three-credit, 100-level music course. Offered as needed.
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MUS 205 - Music Theory III: Counterpoint (3 Cr.)
Study of contrapuntal techniques of the Renaissance and Baroque eras, and composition projects in those styles. Prerequisite: MUS 106 . Fall semester. Kennison.
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MUS 210 - Computer Music (3 Cr.) (LER-ARC)
An introduction to the aesthetics, history, literature, and theory of electronic and computer music. Individual composition or research projects are undertaken in the Goucher Computer Music Studio. Opportunity for participation in a public concert of computer music. Fall semester, repeated spring semester. Burt.
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MUS 213 - Multimedia: Computer Music and Digital Video (3 Cr.)
A continuation of MUS 210 for those wishing to pursue intermediate-level computer music combined with digital video to create multimedia works for a public concert. Current digital audio techniques in sampling, MIDI programming, and digital signal processing will be combined with MTC and SMPTE video synchronization to develop multimedia works for the Web and the concert hall. Prerequisite: MUS 210 or permission of the instructor. Fall semester, repeated spring semester. Burt.
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MUS 223 - Improvisation (1.5 Cr.)
Designed to facilitate the experience and understanding of improvisation as a procedure for music-making and its application to several idioms, including classical and jazz styles. Aspects including sound, harmony, melody, rhythm, structure, and expression are addressed, and attention is given to techniques used in both solo and ensemble situations. Prerequisite: intermediate level fluency on any instrument or voice. May be repeated for credit as needed, at the discretion of course instructor and chair of the department. Fall semester, repeated spring semester. Chappell.
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MUS 226 - Musicianship II (3 Cr.)
Continuation of the material studied in MUS 121. Includes further dictation and sight-singing, as well as keyboard experience. Prerequisites: MUS 105 and MUS 121 . Suggested co-requisite: MUS 106. Spring semester. McDavitt.
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MUS 228 - Keyboard Harmony (1.5 Cr.)
Practical studies in music theory and ear training through keyboard exercises, including scales and chords, melodic harmonization, transposition, reading leadsheet chord symbols, and harmonic chord progressions, and chord voicing. Prerequisites: MUS 105 , MUS 121 , MUS 131 , or MUS 182 . Spring semester. Lane.
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MUS 241 - Conducting (1.5 Cr.)
Instruction in metric beat patterns, expressive gestures, baton technique, basic instrumentation, score reading, and rehearsal techniques. Students who pass this course are eligible to enroll in an Independent Study (MUS 299 ) in conjunction with either chorus (MUS 140 ) or orchestra (MUS 141 ) to gain ensemble conducting experience, with permission from the instructor. Prerequisites: MUS 106 and MUS 121 . Fall semester. Offered in 2016-2017 and alternate years. McDavitt.
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MUS 244 - Vocal Diction (3 Cr.)
Designed to introduce the International Phonetic Alphabet and pronunciation rules for English, Latin, Italian, French, and German. The objective of the course is to increase clarity and expression of texts for vocal music in performance through the study of phonetics. Fall 2016 and alternate years. Widney.
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MUS 249 - Music of the 20th and 21st Centuries (3 Cr.)
Designed to provide a listener’s knowledge of principal trends in contemporary art music. Among the topics to be considered in this century of “isms” are neoclassicism, serialism, indeterminism, primitivism, minimalism, and nationalism, as well as the influence of folk and jazz elements. Composers to be considered include Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Bartok, Copland, Ravel, and Prokofiev. Prerequisites: MUS 115 and MUS 117 , or permission of the instructor. Fall semester. Offered 2014-15 and alternate years. Mauk.
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MUS 272G - Intensive Course Abroad (3 Cr.) (LER-SA)
Course includes a three-week intensive course abroad in the winter or summer. Variable.
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MUS 272Y - Intensive Course Abroad (8 Cr.) IT 272Y (LER-SA)
Courses include a pre-departure or post-departure discussion (or both) in the fall or spring term and a three-week intensive course abroad in the winter intersession or summer. Variable.
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MUS 290 - Internship in Music (3-4 Cr.)
As an aid to career development, students are placed in various musical organizations (e.g., Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Baltimore Choral Arts Society, Carnegie Hall, and Lincoln Center) to gain experience in the various areas of arts administration in music. Internships are also available accompanying singers and/or instrumentalists under faculty supervision. Experiences may include performing in or arranging music for small ensembles or jazz groups and apprenticeships in various aspects of the composing professions, computer music, and music recording technology. Internships may be chosen in music libraries in Baltimore and adjacent cities for experience in bibliography and technical services relating to music and music criticism. The internship in music is graded pass/no pass. Prerequisite: permission of the director.
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MUS 291 - Student Recital (1.5 Cr.)
In preparation for the senior recital (MUS 391 ), students in their junior year may perform a formal solo recital, the repertoire of which is to be selected in collaboration with the chair and the student’s private lesson instructor(s). Online registration is not available for this course. Students must register for recitals using a paper Course Change Form and reserve a performance date with the Music Program Office no later than May 1 for a fall semester recital and December 1 for a spring semester recital. Prerequisites: approval of the director and private lesson instructor(s). Fall semester, repeated spring semester. Koehler.
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MUS 299 - Independent Work in Music (1.5, 3, OR 4 Cr.)
Special topics of study based on previous coursework in the program and selected in conference with the instructor. Fall semester, repeated spring semester.
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MUS 306 - Music Theory IV: 20th- and 21st-Century Practice and Advanced Analysis (3 Cr.)
Study, through analysis and composition, of the greatly varied music of the 20th and 21st centuries. Advanced analytical study will include atonal analysis, set theory, and serial procedures. Prerequisite: MUS 205 . Spring semester. Kennison.
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MUS 313 - Computer Music and Multimedia Seminar (1.5 OR 3 Cr.)
Intensive work on individual projects in computer music and multimedia, with class discussion of these and of current developments in the field. May be repeated for credit with permission of the chair. Specifically for computer music majors, but open to others with permission of the instructor. Multimedia works will be created for the Web and the concert hall. No more than nine credits without program approval. Prerequisite: MUS 213 or permission of the instructor. Fall semesters, repeated spring semester. Burt.
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MUS 329 - Composition Seminar (3 Cr.)
A seminar in composition meant to encourage a community of creative musicians, intended for students of varied background from beginners to those with several semesters in private study in composition. The course will enable students to view and be influenced by one another’s works, hear performances of their compositions, and receive instruction from a diverse, rotating group of established composers from within and without the Goucher community. Students will regularly compose pieces for assigned performing media. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: MUS 106 or permission of the instructor. Fall or spring semester. Kennison.
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MUS 353 - Jazz Theory (3 Cr.)
This course examines the specifics of styles such as bebop, cool, modal, and Latin jazz, with an emphasis on rhythmic analysis in addition to harmonic and melodic analysis, and a jazz ear-training component. Students will compose and orchestrate tunes for a jazz band.
Prerequisites: MUS 105 and MUS 121 . Spring semester. Chappell.
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MUS 360 - Classical Style and Beethoven (3 Cr.)
A seminar focused on the research tools required of a music historian (musicologist), such as those encountered in biographical research, studies of stylistic developments, work with primary sources (both text and music), and studies that place musical practice in its historical and societal contexts. The seminar focuses on the life and works of Beethoven (1770-1827) as a catalyst to study the transformation of the Classical style of the late eighteenth-century into the Romantic style of the early nineteenth-century. The course ends with an integrated, capstone project, which will combine historical research skills with a subject relevant to each student’s concentration in the music major. Prerequisites: MUS 115 and MUS 117 , or permission of the instructor. Spring semester. Offered 2016-17 and alternate years. Mauk.
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MUS 391 - Senior Recital (4.0 Cr.)
Upon approval of the program, a student may give a full-length juried public recital. If the program judges that a performer has insufficient background for a public recital, he/she will give a closed recital (juried but not open to the public). Online registration is not available for this course. Students must register for recitals using a paper Course Change Form and reserve a performance date with the Music Office no later than May 1 for a fall semester recital and December 1 for a spring semester recital. Prerequisites: MUS 291 , senior music major status, and approval of the program. Fall semester, repeated spring semester. Koehler.
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MUS 392 - Senior Integrative Project in Music Theory and Composition (4 Cr.)
This project may consist of several options, for example, investigation of an aspect of the history of theory, the presentation of a new theoretical position, a large musical analysis, a composition, etc. Online registration is not available for this course. Students must register for this capstone project by using a paper Course Change Form and obtaining approval and signatures from both the instructor and the program director. Prerequisite: two semesters of MUS 329 and senior music major status. Fall semester, repeated Spring semester. Kennison and program faculty.
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MUS 393 - Senior Integrative Project in Music History (4 Cr.)
This project will consist ordinarily of a paper in music history. Online registration is not available for this course. Students must register for this capstone project by using a paper Course Change Form and obtaining approval and signatures from both the instructor and the program director.
Prerequisites: MUS 249 and senior music major status. Fall semester, repeated Spring semester. Greenwood and program faculty.
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MUS 394 - Senior Integrative Project in Computer Music (4 Cr.)
This project may consist of several options. Three tracks dividing computer music study include composition, performance, and research. The student may choose one of these tracks to pursue the project. Students must register for this capstone project by using a paper Course Change Form and obtaining approval and signatures from both the instructor and the program director. Prerequisite: MUS 313 and senior music major status. Fall semester, repeated Spring semester. Burt and program faculty.
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MUS 395 - Senior Interdisciplinary Project in Music (4 Cr.)
This project may consist of several options, in combination with other programs. Students must register for this capstone project by using a paper Course Change Form and obtaining approval and signatures from both the instructor and the program director.
Prerequisite: Any 200-level music course and senior music major status. Fall semester, repeated spring semester. Koehler and program faculty.
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MUS 396 - Senior Integrative Project in Jazz Studies (4 Cr.)
This project will consist ordinarily of a paper on a jazz topic or a musical composition in a jazz idiom. Online registration is not available for this course. Students must register for this capstone project by using a paper Course Change Form and obtaining approval and signatures from both the instructor and the program director Prerequisite: MUS 353 and senior music major status. Spring semester. Chappell and program faculty.
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MUS 399 - Independent Work in Music (1.5, 3, OR 4 Cr.)
Special topics of study based on previous coursework in the program and selected in conference with the instructor. Fall semester, repeated spring semester.
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MUS 160 - Voice (1.5 Cr.)
A one-semester course of individual instruction given to students at any level. Those who do not read standard music notation should additionally enroll in MUS 101. The fee structure is as follows: $600 per semester or a discounted fee of $200 per semester for those enrolled in an ensemble (MUS 140 - 149) for that semester, using the same instrument or voice as the lessons. There is no fee for one course of private instruction for declared majors; minors receive only the required two semesters of private instruction free of charge. Additional fees: auditing private instruction ($800; music majors and minors may not audit lessons), taking a second course of lessons (on a different instrument) within one semester ($600; possible fee reductions for declared music majors at the discretion of the program director). May be repeated for credit. Optional corequisites: MUS 140, MUS 141, MUS 143, MUS 144, MUS 146, MUS 147, MUS 149. Final performance exams (juries) are required of program majors and minors who have not performed a recital (MUS 291, 391) during the semester of the private instruction. Fall semester, repeated spring semester. Private Music Instructors.
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MUS 161 - Mandolin (1.5 Cr.)
A one-semester course of individual instruction given to students at any level. Those who do not read standard music notation should additionally enroll in MUS 101. The fee structure is as follows: $600 per semester or a discounted fee of $200 per semester for those enrolled in an ensemble (MUS 140 - 149) for that semester, using the same instrument or voice as the lessons. There is no fee for one course of private instruction for declared majors; minors receive only the required two semesters of private instruction free of charge. Additional fees: auditing private instruction ($800; music majors and minors may not audit lessons), taking a second course of lessons (on a different instrument) within one semester ($600; possible fee reductions for declared music majors at the discretion of the program director). May be repeated for credit. Optional corequisites: MUS 140, MUS 141, MUS 143, MUS 144, MUS 146, MUS 147, MUS 149. Final performance exams (juries) are required of program majors and minors who have not performed a recital (MUS 291, 391) during the semester of the private instruction. Fall semester, repeated spring semester. Private Music Instructors.
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MUS 162 - Violin (1.5 Cr.)
A one-semester course of individual instruction given to students at any level. Those who do not read standard music notation should additionally enroll in MUS 101. The fee structure is as follows: $600 per semester or a discounted fee of $200 per semester for those enrolled in an ensemble (MUS 140 - 149) for that semester, using the same instrument or voice as the lessons. There is no fee for one course of private instruction for declared majors; minors receive only the required two semesters of private instruction free of charge. Additional fees: auditing private instruction ($800; music majors and minors may not audit lessons), taking a second course of lessons (on a different instrument) within one semester ($600; possible fee reductions for declared music majors at the discretion of the program director). May be repeated for credit. Optional corequisites: MUS 140, MUS 141, MUS 143, MUS 144, MUS 146, MUS 147, MUS 149. Final performance exams (juries) are required of program majors and minors who have not performed a recital (MUS 291, 391) during the semester of the private instruction. Fall semester, repeated spring semester. Private Music Instructors.
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MUS 163 - Viola (1.5 Cr.)
A one-semester course of individual instruction given to students at any level. Those who do not read standard music notation should additionally enroll in MUS 101. The fee structure is as follows: $600 per semester or a discounted fee of $200 per semester for those enrolled in an ensemble (MUS 140 - 149) for that semester, using the same instrument or voice as the lessons. There is no fee for one course of private instruction for declared majors; minors receive only the required two semesters of private instruction free of charge. Additional fees: auditing private instruction ($800; music majors and minors may not audit lessons), taking a second course of lessons (on a different instrument) within one semester ($600; possible fee reductions for declared music majors at the discretion of the program director). May be repeated for credit. Optional corequisites: MUS 140, MUS 141, MUS 143, MUS 144, MUS 146, MUS 147, MUS 149. Final performance exams (juries) are required of program majors and minors who have not performed a recital (MUS 291, 391) during the semester of the private instruction. Fall semester, repeated spring semester. Private Music Instructors.
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MUS 164 - Cello (1.5 Cr.)
A one-semester course of individual instruction given to students at any level. Those who do not read standard music notation should additionally enroll in MUS 101. The fee structure is as follows: $600 per semester or a discounted fee of $200 per semester for those enrolled in an ensemble (MUS 140 - 149) for that semester, using the same instrument or voice as the lessons. There is no fee for one course of private instruction for declared majors; minors receive only the required two semesters of private instruction free of charge. Additional fees: auditing private instruction ($800; music majors and minors may not audit lessons), taking a second course of lessons (on a different instrument) within one semester ($600; possible fee reductions for declared music majors at the discretion of the program director). May be repeated for credit. Optional corequisites: MUS 140, MUS 141, MUS 143, MUS 144, MUS 146, MUS 147, MUS 149. Final performance exams (juries) are required of program majors and minors who have not performed a recital (MUS 291, 391) during the semester of the private instruction. Fall semester, repeated spring semester. Private Music Instructors.
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MUS 165 - Double Bass (1.5 Cr.)
A one-semester course of individual instruction given to students at any level. Those who do not read standard music notation should additionally enroll in MUS 101. The fee structure is as follows: $600 per semester or a discounted fee of $200 per semester for those enrolled in an ensemble (MUS 140 - 149) for that semester, using the same instrument or voice as the lessons. There is no fee for one course of private instruction for declared majors; minors receive only the required two semesters of private instruction free of charge. Additional fees: auditing private instruction ($800; music majors and minors may not audit lessons), taking a second course of lessons (on a different instrument) within one semester ($600; possible fee reductions for declared music majors at the discretion of the program director). May be repeated for credit. Optional corequisites: MUS 140, MUS 141, MUS 143, MUS 144, MUS 146, MUS 147, MUS 149. Final performance exams (juries) are required of program majors and minors who have not performed a recital (MUS 291, 391) during the semester of the private instruction. Fall semester, repeated spring semester. Private Music Instructors.
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MUS 166 - Harp (1.5 Cr.)
A one-semester course of individual instruction given to students at any level. Those who do not read standard music notation should additionally enroll in MUS 101. The fee structure is as follows: $600 per semester or a discounted fee of $200 per semester for those enrolled in an ensemble (MUS 140 - 149) for that semester, using the same instrument or voice as the lessons. There is no fee for one course of private instruction for declared majors; minors receive only the required two semesters of private instruction free of charge. Additional fees: auditing private instruction ($800; music majors and minors may not audit lessons), taking a second course of lessons (on a different instrument) within one semester ($600; possible fee reductions for declared music majors at the discretion of the program director). May be repeated for credit. Optional corequisites: MUS 140, MUS 141, MUS 143, MUS 144, MUS 146, MUS 147, MUS 149. Final performance exams (juries) are required of program majors and minors who have not performed a recital (MUS 291, 391) during the semester of the private instruction. Fall semester, repeated spring semester. Private Music Instructors.
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MUS 167 - Flute (1.5 Cr.)
A one-semester course of individual instruction given to students at any level. Those who do not read standard music notation should additionally enroll in MUS 101. The fee structure is as follows: $600 per semester or a discounted fee of $200 per semester for those enrolled in an ensemble (MUS 140 - 149) for that semester, using the same instrument or voice as the lessons. There is no fee for one course of private instruction for declared majors; minors receive only the required two semesters of private instruction free of charge. Additional fees: auditing private instruction ($800; music majors and minors may not audit lessons), taking a second course of lessons (on a different instrument) within one semester ($600; possible fee reductions for declared music majors at the discretion of the program director). May be repeated for credit. Optional corequisites: MUS 140, MUS 141, MUS 143, MUS 144, MUS 146, MUS 147, MUS 149. Final performance exams (juries) are required of program majors and minors who have not performed a recital (MUS 291, 391) during the semester of the private instruction. Fall semester, repeated spring semester. Private Music Instructors.
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MUS 168 - Clarinet (1.5 Cr.)
A one-semester course of individual instruction given to students at any level. Those who do not read standard music notation should additionally enroll in MUS 101. The fee structure is as follows: $600 per semester or a discounted fee of $200 per semester for those enrolled in an ensemble (MUS 140 - 149) for that semester, using the same instrument or voice as the lessons. There is no fee for one course of private instruction for declared majors; minors receive only the required two semesters of private instruction free of charge. Additional fees: auditing private instruction ($800; music majors and minors may not audit lessons), taking a second course of lessons (on a different instrument) within one semester ($600; possible fee reductions for declared music majors at the discretion of the program director). May be repeated for credit. Optional corequisites: MUS 140, MUS 141, MUS 143, MUS 144, MUS 146, MUS 147, MUS 149. Final performance exams (juries) are required of program majors and minors who have not performed a recital (MUS 291, 391) during the semester of the private instruction. Fall semester, repeated spring semester. Private Music Instructors.
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MUS 169 - Saxophone (1.5 Cr.)
A one-semester course of individual instruction given to students at any level. Those who do not read standard music notation should additionally enroll in MUS 101. The fee structure is as follows: $600 per semester or a discounted fee of $200 per semester for those enrolled in an ensemble (MUS 140 - 149) for that semester, using the same instrument or voice as the lessons. There is no fee for one course of private instruction for declared majors; minors receive only the required two semesters of private instruction free of charge. Additional fees: auditing private instruction ($800; music majors and minors may not audit lessons), taking a second course of lessons (on a different instrument) within one semester ($600; possible fee reductions for declared music majors at the discretion of the program director). May be repeated for credit. Optional corequisites: MUS 140, MUS 141, MUS 143, MUS 144, MUS 146, MUS 147, MUS 149. Final performance exams (juries) are required of program majors and minors who have not performed a recital (MUS 291, 391) during the semester of the private instruction. Fall semester, repeated spring semester. Private Music Instructors.
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MUS 170 - Oboe (1.5 Cr.)
A one-semester course of individual instruction given to students at any level. Those who do not read standard music notation should additionally enroll in MUS 101. The fee structure is as follows: $600 per semester or a discounted fee of $200 per semester for those enrolled in an ensemble (MUS 140 - 149) for that semester, using the same instrument or voice as the lessons. There is no fee for one course of private instruction for declared majors; minors receive only the required two semesters of private instruction free of charge. Additional fees: auditing private instruction ($800; music majors and minors may not audit lessons), taking a second course of lessons (on a different instrument) within one semester ($600; possible fee reductions for declared music majors at the discretion of the program director). May be repeated for credit. Optional corequisites: MUS 140, MUS 141, MUS 143, MUS 144, MUS 146, MUS 147, MUS 149. Final performance exams (juries) are required of program majors and minors who have not performed a recital (MUS 291, 391) during the semester of the private instruction. Fall semester, repeated spring semester. Private Music Instructors.
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MUS 171 - Bassoon (1.5 Cr.)
A one-semester course of individual instruction given to students at any level. Those who do not read standard music notation should additionally enroll in MUS 101. The fee structure is as follows: $600 per semester or a discounted fee of $200 per semester for those enrolled in an ensemble (MUS 140 - 149) for that semester, using the same instrument or voice as the lessons. There is no fee for one course of private instruction for declared majors; minors receive only the required two semesters of private instruction free of charge. Additional fees: auditing private instruction ($800; music majors and minors may not audit lessons), taking a second course of lessons (on a different instrument) within one semester ($600; possible fee reductions for declared music majors at the discretion of the program director). May be repeated for credit. Optional corequisites: MUS 140, MUS 141, MUS 143, MUS 144, MUS 146, MUS 147, MUS 149. Final performance exams (juries) are required of program majors and minors who have not performed a recital (MUS 291, 391) during the semester of the private instruction. Fall semester, repeated spring semester. Private Music Instructors.
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MUS 173 - Trumpet (1.5 Cr.)
A one-semester course of individual instruction given to students at any level. Those who do not read standard music notation should additionally enroll in MUS 101. The fee structure is as follows: $600 per semester or a discounted fee of $200 per semester for those enrolled in an ensemble (MUS 140 - 149) for that semester, using the same instrument or voice as the lessons. There is no fee for one course of private instruction for declared majors; minors receive only the required two semesters of private instruction free of charge. Additional fees: auditing private instruction ($800; music majors and minors may not audit lessons), taking a second course of lessons (on a different instrument) within one semester ($600; possible fee reductions for declared music majors at the discretion of the program director). May be repeated for credit. Optional corequisites: MUS 140, MUS 141, MUS 143, MUS 144, MUS 146, MUS 147, MUS 149. Final performance exams (juries) are required of program majors and minors who have not performed a recital (MUS 291, 391) during the semester of the private instruction. Fall semester, repeated spring semester. Private Music Instructors.
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MUS 174 - French Horn (1.5 Cr.)
A one-semester course of individual instruction given to students at any level. Those who do not read standard music notation should additionally enroll in MUS 101. The fee structure is as follows: $600 per semester or a discounted fee of $200 per semester for those enrolled in an ensemble (MUS 140 - 149) for that semester, using the same instrument or voice as the lessons. There is no fee for one course of private instruction for declared majors; minors receive only the required two semesters of private instruction free of charge. Additional fees: auditing private instruction ($800; music majors and minors may not audit lessons), taking a second course of lessons (on a different instrument) within one semester ($600; possible fee reductions for declared music majors at the discretion of the program director). May be repeated for credit. Optional corequisites: MUS 140, MUS 141, MUS 143, MUS 144, MUS 146, MUS 147, MUS 149. Final performance exams (juries) are required of program majors and minors who have not performed a recital (MUS 291, 391) during the semester of the private instruction. Fall semester, repeated spring semester. Private Music Instructors.
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MUS 175 - Trombone (1.5 Cr.)
A one-semester course of individual instruction given to students at any level. Those who do not read standard music notation should additionally enroll in MUS 101. The fee structure is as follows: $600 per semester or a discounted fee of $200 per semester for those enrolled in an ensemble (MUS 140 - 149) for that semester, using the same instrument or voice as the lessons. There is no fee for one course of private instruction for declared majors; minors receive only the required two semesters of private instruction free of charge. Additional fees: auditing private instruction ($800; music majors and minors may not audit lessons), taking a second course of lessons (on a different instrument) within one semester ($600; possible fee reductions for declared music majors at the discretion of the program director). May be repeated for credit. Optional corequisites: MUS 140, MUS 141, MUS 143, MUS 144, MUS 146, MUS 147, MUS 149. Final performance exams (juries) are required of program majors and minors who have not performed a recital (MUS 291, 391) during the semester of the private instruction. Fall semester, repeated spring semester. Private Music Instructors.
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MUS 176 - Tuba (1.5 Cr.)
A one-semester course of individual instruction given to students at any level. Those who do not read standard music notation should additionally enroll in MUS 101. The fee structure is as follows: $600 per semester or a discounted fee of $200 per semester for those enrolled in an ensemble (MUS 140 - 149) for that semester, using the same instrument or voice as the lessons. There is no fee for one course of private instruction for declared majors; minors receive only the required two semesters of private instruction free of charge. Additional fees: auditing private instruction ($800; music majors and minors may not audit lessons), taking a second course of lessons (on a different instrument) within one semester ($600; possible fee reductions for declared music majors at the discretion of the program director). May be repeated for credit. Optional corequisites: MUS 140, MUS 141, MUS 143, MUS 144, MUS 146, MUS 147, MUS 149. Final performance exams (juries) are required of program majors and minors who have not performed a recital (MUS 291, 391) during the semester of the private instruction. Fall semester, repeated spring semester. Private Music Instructors.
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MUS 178 - Percussion (1.5 Cr.)
A one-semester course of individual instruction given to students at any level. Those who do not read standard music notation should additionally enroll in MUS 101. The fee structure is as follows: $600 per semester or a discounted fee of $200 per semester for those enrolled in an ensemble (MUS 140 - 149) for that semester, using the same instrument or voice as the lessons. There is no fee for one course of private instruction for declared majors; minors receive only the required two semesters of private instruction free of charge. Additional fees: auditing private instruction ($800; music majors and minors may not audit lessons), taking a second course of lessons (on a different instrument) within one semester ($600; possible fee reductions for declared music majors at the discretion of the program director). May be repeated for credit. Optional corequisites: MUS 140, MUS 141, MUS 143, MUS 144, MUS 146, MUS 147, MUS 149. Final performance exams (juries) are required of program majors and minors who have not performed a recital (MUS 291, 391) during the semester of the private instruction. Fall semester, repeated spring semester. Private Music Instructors.
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MUS 182 - Piano (1.5 Cr.)
A one-semester course of individual instruction given to students at any level. Those who do not read standard music notation should additionally enroll in MUS 101. The fee structure is as follows: $600 per semester or a discounted fee of $200 per semester for those enrolled in an ensemble (MUS 140 - 149) for that semester, using the same instrument or voice as the lessons. There is no fee for one course of private instruction for declared majors; minors receive only the required two semesters of private instruction free of charge. Additional fees: auditing private instruction ($800; music majors and minors may not audit lessons), taking a second course of lessons (on a different instrument) within one semester ($600; possible fee reductions for declared music majors at the discretion of the program director). May be repeated for credit. Optional corequisites: MUS 140, MUS 141, MUS 143, MUS 144, MUS 146, MUS 147, MUS 149. Final performance exams (juries) are required of program majors and minors who have not performed a recital (MUS 291, 391) during the semester of the private instruction. Fall semester, repeated spring semester. Private Music Instructors.
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MUS 183 - Organ (1.5 Cr.)
A one-semester course of individual instruction given to students at any level. Those who do not read standard music notation should additionally enroll in MUS 101. The fee structure is as follows: $600 per semester or a discounted fee of $200 per semester for those enrolled in an ensemble (MUS 140 - 149) for that semester, using the same instrument or voice as the lessons. There is no fee for one course of private instruction for declared majors; minors receive only the required two semesters of private instruction free of charge. Additional fees: auditing private instruction ($800; music majors and minors may not audit lessons), taking a second course of lessons (on a different instrument) within one semester ($600; possible fee reductions for declared music majors at the discretion of the program director). May be repeated for credit. Optional corequisites: MUS 140, MUS 141, MUS 143, MUS 144, MUS 146, MUS 147, MUS 149. Final performance exams (juries) are required of program majors and minors who have not performed a recital (MUS 291, 391) during the semester of the private instruction. Fall semester, repeated spring semester. Private Music Instructors.
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MUS 186 - Guitar (1.5 Cr.)
A one-semester course of individual instruction given to students at any level. Those who do not read standard music notation should additionally enroll in MUS 101. The fee structure is as follows: $600 per semester or a discounted fee of $200 per semester for those enrolled in an ensemble (MUS 140 - 149) for that semester, using the same instrument or voice as the lessons. There is no fee for one course of private instruction for declared majors; minors receive only the required two semesters of private instruction free of charge. Additional fees: auditing private instruction ($800; music majors and minors may not audit lessons), taking a second course of lessons (on a different instrument) within one semester ($600; possible fee reductions for declared music majors at the discretion of the program director). May be repeated for credit. Optional corequisites: MUS 140, MUS 141, MUS 143, MUS 144, MUS 146, MUS 147, MUS 149. Final performance exams (juries) are required of program majors and minors who have not performed a recital (MUS 291, 391) during the semester of the private instruction. Fall semester, repeated spring semester. Private Music Instructors.
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MUS 187 - Accordion (1.5 Cr.)
A one-semester course of individual instruction given to students at any level. Those who do not read standard music notation should additionally enroll in MUS 101. The fee structure is as follows: $600 per semester or a discounted fee of $200 per semester for those enrolled in an ensemble (MUS 140 - 149) for that semester, using the same instrument or voice as the lessons. There is no fee for one course of private instruction for declared majors; minors receive only the required two semesters of private instruction free of charge. Additional fees: auditing private instruction ($800; music majors and minors may not audit lessons), taking a second course of lessons (on a different instrument) within one semester ($600; possible fee reductions for declared music majors at the discretion of the program director). May be repeated for credit. Optional corequisites: MUS 140, MUS 141, MUS 143, MUS 144, MUS 146, MUS 147, MUS 149. Final performance exams (juries) are required of program majors and minors who have not performed a recital (MUS 291, 391) during the semester of the private instruction. Fall semester, repeated spring semester. Private Music Instructors.
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MUS 238 - Private Instruction: Jazz Composition (1.5 Cr.)
Private instruction in jazz composition. Creative work for instrumental and vocal media using contemporary musical materials; analysis of selected scores. Opportunities for reading performance by musical organizations of the college. Fee associated; see MUS 160 - MUS 188, Private Instrumental and Vocal Lessons. Prerequisites: permission of the instructor. May be repeated up to four times for credit. Fall semester, repeated spring semester. Chappell and Department
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MUS 203 - Special Topics in Music (3 Cr.)
A semester-long, in-depth examination of a specific musical topic. The choice of topic will remain flexible. Possible courses include American Music from Colonial Times to the Present; First Nights-Notable Premieres of Great Works; The History of Rock and Roll; American Musical Theater; Music Criticism and Aesthetics; Nationalism in Music; Diction for Singers; and composer/genre-specific topics such as the Beethoven symphonies, the String Quartet, piano literature, chamber music masterworks, Mozart operas, Lieder in the 19th century, Stravinsky’s Russian ballets, and the Second Viennese school. Prerequisite: any three-credit, 100-level music course. Spring semester, at the discretion of the program.
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PCE 110 - Introduction to Peace Studies: Power and Progress (4 Cr.) (LER-SSC)
The first course in the introduction to peace studies sequence will expose students to foundational concepts in the interdisciplinary field. These include power, progress, conflict, violence, human evolution, capitalism, systems, anti-systemic movements and positive and negative peace. Fall semester. Al-Bulishi, Dawit.
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PCE 111 - Introduction to Peace Studies: Peace (4 Cr.)
This course is a study of the nature of peace, peace-making and conflict transformation. In particular, it will examine the social, political and economic choices that facilitate the evolution of peaceable societies and the circumstances under which societies choose to become peaceful. We will explore the history of different strategies of social change and how peace movements have evolved in tandem with changing world contexts. Prerequisite: PCE 110 . Spring semester. Al-Bulushi, Dawit.
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PCE 124 - Being Human (4 Cr.)
This course combines reading, service, conversation, and personal exploration to reveal how people define themselves, their relationship to the world, and their processes of meaning-making. The course addresses these issues on an intellectual and a personal level and enables students to view their questions and answers critically at the same time that they explore how age, race, gender, nationality, and other factors shape not only their answers to ontological questions, but the nature of the questions that they ask and the reasons why some questions aren’t asked. Students engage in a service project as part of the course. Spring semester. Bess.
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PCE 148 - Nonviolence, Mapping, and (r)Evolution (4 Cr.)
This class will examine the nature and uses of nonviolence, linking historical case
studies with emerging developments and dilemmas. Although many associate
nonviolence with its most famous proponents or well-known movements (Gandhi, King,
the civil rights movement in the U.S. south), nonviolence is actually still evolving. This
course asks: What is nonviolence, what is it useful for, and what are its new
vocabularies? More and more, groups are expanding the practice of nonviolence from
things like “protest” and “direct action,” to “document,” “research,” “collaborate,” and
other ways of seeing systems and intervening in life-giving ways.
We will explore how nonviolence is not “either” a tactic “or” a theory, but something
more holistic and challenging. We will use the base DNA of Gandhian nonviolence— to
collect the facts —- using mapping techniques to research, document, and re-present
situations. We will engage in experiential exercises, using the class, campus, and
community as a micro-scale version of the same dynamics, forces, and choices that
nonviolence asks us to observe and decide on in the world. Fall and spring semester. Hopper.
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PCE 205 - Maintaining the Status Quo: Power and Privilege in the United States (4 Cr.) (WS 205)
This course will examine the history of race-based privilege and its evolution from the nineteenth century to today. By reading historical documents, biography and socio-economic studies, students will explore samples of structural violence in education, housing and employment. They will analyze the means through which injustices have been challenged. This course serves as the WID course for PCE and WGS. Prerequisite: Sophomore standing. Fall and spring semester.
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PCE 210 - Research Methods for Peace and Justice (4 Cr.)
A critical introduction to research methods in the study and pursuit of peace and justice, covering three interwoven epistemological domains; basic statistical principles and applications; research design, data collection, analysis and interpretation; and quantitative and qualitative methods and worldviews. Special consideration is given to participant action research (e.g., PAR) methods. The ethics of responsible research will be addressed throughout. Prerequisite: PCE 110 and sophomore standing, or permission of the instructor. Spring semester. Pringle.
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PCE 220 - Organizing (4 Cr.)
This course explores local, national and international organizing for social change. Using urban-based movements and organizations, we will study key concepts such as teambuilding, strategy, planning, leadership and implementation. We will examine problems often encountered by structured as well as unstructured entities and suggest possible solutions and alternatives. This course requires a 30 hour community-based learning component in a Baltimore city organization or informal group of the student’s choice. Fall 2018. Alternating years. Dawit.
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PCE 226 - Women, Peace, and Protest: Latin American Women and the Search for Social Justice (3 Cr.) (WS 226 and LAM 226) (GEN. ED. #10)
Examination of women’s participation in the human rights, social, and economic movements. Focus on understanding if, why, and under what circumstances gender becomes a central force in the development of these movements. We will address three questions: Has the involvement of women helped to define the human rights movement in Latin America? To what extent have feminist theory and theories of the state accounted for the nature of women’s protest? How and why were women instrumental in the political process that led from authoritarian to democratic rule in their countries? This course focuses primarily (but not exclusively) on women’s movements in the southern cone countries: Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, and Brazil. Prerequisites: WS 150 and a HIS or LAM 100-level course. Spring semester. Offered 2014-15 and alternate years. François.
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PCE 231 - Special Topics in International Film and Literature (4 Cr.)
This course, organized around a rotating thematic topic in a given semester, will focus on social, economic, and cultural disparity as represented by filmmakers and authors. Of particular interest will be issues of nationalism; difference/identity; displacement; globalization; resources/wealth; environmental degradation; and control of information in post-war, post-colonial and/or post-Cold War societies. When possible, filmmakers and authors will be invited for special sessions of this course. Repeatable if topic is different. Prerequisites: sophomore standing or permission of instructor. Variable semesters.
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PCE 238 - The Right to the City (4 Cr.) Since 1968, struggles have increasingly shifted beyond of the boundaries of factory walls to envelope the entirety of urban space. Moving beyond an individualist understanding of rights, this course explores the necessarily collective right to the city by examining the geography of struggles over urban space around the world. Case studies vary by semester, but there will be a consistent focus on cities in of the global south (especially Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East), alongside periodic incorporation of North American and European cities.
Prerequisite: A 100-level Peace Studies course or sophomore standing. Spring 2017. Every other year. Al-Bulushi.
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PCE 241 - Issues in Conflict Resolution (4 Cr.)
A topics course for the Peace Studies Program, in which students explore the mechanisms of conflict resolution in a variety of settings, using a case-study method. Prerequisite: PCE 110 or permission of the instructor. Variable semesters.
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PCE 242 - Social Practice: Transformation of Self and World (4 Cr.)
Beginning with the assertion that each of us both mirrors and enacts larger social patterns, this course trains students in effecting social change by transforming their interactions with these patterns at the scale of the personal. Through mindfulness training, students learn to recognize and disrupt their habits of meaning-making and invent new ways of engaging with the world. Through training in nonviolent communication, students enhance their ability to communicate across differences. Finally, through collaborative vision projects, students learn to “trope against trope,” inventing narrative practices that do not merely respond or react, but disturb and discover new possibilities within the self-organizing systems of which they are a part. Prerequisites: PCE 110 or permission of the instructor. Fall semester. Hopper.
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PCE 251 - Human Rights (4 Cr.)
Emerging concepts of human rights, 18th century to the present; conflicting views and their justifications. Rights of persons against the state and other institutions as basic moral claims to achieve both individual self-development and social justice. Prerequisite: PCE 110 , one course in political science or history, or sophomore standing. Fall semester. Dawit.
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PCE 253 - Haitian History and the Culture of Resistence (4 Cr.) (WS 253)
This course examines Haitian history through various forms of creative expression that serve as forms of political, economic or epistemological resistance. The course addresses Haiti’s long history of resistance and social justice action before and since its birth as a nation in 1804. Of particular interest will be issues of nationalism, colonialism/racism, difference/identity, resources/wealth/environmental degradation, U.S. occupations (military and non-profit), displacement, trauma, geo-psychoanalytic space, exile and globalization. Prerequisite: Sophomore standing. Spring. Every other even year. Bess, Francois.
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PCE 262 - Studies in Self-determination in Native America (4 Cr.) (ANT 262)(HIS 262)
This course provides a critical overview of Native American self-determination. Drawing on examples from prehistory, the era of conquest and US expansion, and modern-day battles over natural resources, this course will encourage students to examine concepts such as identity, colonization and sovereignty through an inter-disciplinary perspective. Prerequisite: Sophomore standing. Spring semesters. Every other odd year. Bess.
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PCE 272Y - The Basque in Spain: A Peace and Conflict History (8 Cr.) (SP 229G and SP 299G)
The Basque in Spain: A Peace and Conflict History (8)(SP 229G and SP 299G) This course will explore contemporary conflicts and the peace movements that grow beside them through a study of their historical roots as seen in the Basque conflict in Spain. The course builds Spanish language skills into the curriculum of peace studies throughout the semester in addition to a three-week immersion experience in Bilbao, San Sebastian and Guernica (Spain) in June (four credits). Prerequisite: PCE 110, 124 or 148, or permission of the instructor, and SP 130 or SP 130G or SP 130S or SP 130V. Summer 2017. Dawit and Miranda-Aldaco.
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PCE 280 - Selected Topics in Latin American Peace Studies (3 Cr.) (LAM 280) (GEN. ED. #9 and #10) (LER - DIV)
An interdisciplinary approach to significant topics relating to contemporary Latin America. Specific topic for the semester to be announced in advance. Topics may include: Latino issues in the United States, Latin American cinema, or revolutionary movements in Latin America (for peace studies credit). Prerequisite: Frontiers or sophomore standing. Fall semester.
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PCE 290 - Individually Identified Internship (3 OR 4 Cr.)
Graded pass/no pass only. Fall/spring semester.
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PCE 291 - Internship: City Schools Program (3 Cr.)
Students should plan to have free time in their schedule between 2:30 and 5 p.m. Graded pass/no pass only. Fall/spring semester.
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PCE 299 - Independent Work (1.5-3 Cr.)
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PCE 305 - Peace and Rewriting Race (4 Cr.)
Examining works of literature, film, and visual arts organized around a thematic or geographic case study, students will distinguish the range of ways we use art and literature to survive, imagine, and to “name the nameless,” as Audre Lorde said, “so it can be thought.” Combining creative writing, rhetoric, and literary analysis with the lenses of peace studies (e.g. conflict resolution, structural violence), we will create and consider the roles of transgression, lyricism, and alienation; the ways that the human voice can be used to reinscribe, resist, or renew. Prerequisite: Sophomore Standing. Spring semester. Hopper.
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PCE 310 - International Human Rights Law (4 Cr.)
This course is an intensive critical exploration of the international human rights legal system, including treaty bodies, regional organizations, commissions, courts, and special complaints committees. Of particular interest is the work of the European Court of Human Rights, the Inter-American and African commissions and courts, the International Court of Justice, and the UN tribunals for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia. Prerequisites: PCE 251 . Spring semesters. Dawit.
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PCE 315 - Returning Citizens in Community: Opportunities for Building Social Capital (4 Cr.)
In this course, students will be introduced to the historical and social contexts that have led to mass incarceration and recidivism in the U.S. They will explore relationships among the criminal justice system, America’s history of racism, and the social-structural violence aimed, in particular, at young African-American men today. Focusing on the process of re-entering society, students will engage in a qualitative research project in cooperation with faith-based institutions, law enforcement, and community organizers coordinating with returning citizens in Baltimore City. Student research will be utilized: (1) to improve (and possibly expand) a specific program designed to help returning citizens meet immediate needs such as housing and employment and (2) to investigate the ways in which supporting them improves opportunity factors for their children, fosters community stability and social inclusion, and encourages public or political participation. Prerequisite: Junior standing; and permission of instructor or one of the following courses PCE 210 , PSY 255 , SOC 203 , or SOC 217 . Fall semester. Bess.
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PCE 321 - Transnational Feminist Theory and Women’s Activism (3 Cr.) (WS 320)
Crossing the boundaries of nationality, ethnicity, citizenship, sexuality, and genre, this course brings together a plurality of women’s voices of the non-Western world that counter colonial, post-colonial, multinational, and masculine paradigms of “otherness.” The central aims are to examine the extent to which their activism and theoretical thinking grew out of historical conditions, to establish a dialog that forms the wide-ranging spectrum of women’s experiences across the globe, and to assess these social and political writings for national change in the 21st century. Prerequisites: Junior standing; and WS 150 , WS 235 , or a PCE 200-level course. Fall semester. François.
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PCE 330 - Collapse (4 Cr.)
This course explores the epochal crisis of unsustainable resource consumption and the conflicts and systems collapses it causes. We will study collapse in the historical past, the present and in the near future. We will examine the ways in which basic resources such as water, energy, seed, food crops, timber, among others become scarce, how political actors respond to scarcity, and the social impact of scarcity. Our goal is to find realistic alternatives to over-consumption and collapse. Prerequisites: a 100-level course in Peace Studies and junior standing. Spring 2017. Dawit.
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PCE 333 - Christian Ethics and War (3 Cr.) ( )
How do religions impact individual and communal self-understanding and decision-making? In this course students are introduced to the study of Christian ethics through investigation and analysis of one particular ethical issue: war. Students study war theory and its relationship to Christianity, as well as Christian pacifism and nonviolence. Their investigation will focus on how Christian sacred texts, history, theology, and practice are utilized by Christian ethicists to diverse ends. Prerequisite: one course in religion or sophomore standing. Fall 2016 and alternate semesters thereafter. Duncan.
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PCE 335 - Future Cities: Speculations, Countermappings, and Narratives of Possibility (4 Cr.)
How do people build the institutions that will democratize the processes by which the future cities will be built, whether we mean “build” in material terms or in terms of communities’ social shaping? Even as “innovation” and “imagination” are praised by hegemonic institutions, we find ourselves too often in narratives that are at best remodelings of the status quo. This class will look at the role of this imaginative labor, the strategies that learn from and rearrange the predictable into the possible in processes of social change. Studying creative text, especially speculative fiction, futurisms, and countermappings, we will experiment with such new narrative practices, using examples from both the global arena and the Baltimore metropolitan area. Prerequisite: a 100-level course in Peace Studies or sophomore standing. Spring 2017. Hopper.
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PCE 340 - Special Topics in U.S. and International Peace Studies (4 Cr.)
Examination of advanced concepts in peace, conflict resolution, and/or human rights thought through an in-depth study of major international and current events. These may include conflict in relation to peacekeeping, public health, globalization, international tribunals, and diplomacy. Repeatable with different topic. Variable semesters.
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PCE 345 - Topics in Peace Studies: Country Study (4 Cr.)
This topics course will explore the historical and contemporary politics of one country within its regional context. Research and analysis will focus on colonial and post-colonial realities, legal and de facto gender disparities, sources of current conflict, and social and economic challenges. Prerequisite: a 200-level course in peace studies or permission of the instructor. Repeatable with different topic. Variable semesters.
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PCE 380 - Senior Symposium (2 Cr.)
This capstone course for majors and minors, will be a symposium on bridging peace thought and peace work. Students and faculty will read, analyze, and discuss a number of peace theories and the ways in which individuals, communities, solidarity groups, and organizations implement them to bring about personal, social, and political change. Some years, faculty and students together will design community interventions from determination of problems, to identification of stakeholders, to program design and implementation. Prerequisites: senior peace studies major or minor. Fall and Spring semester.
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PCE 399 - Independent Work (4 Cr.)
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PHL 105 - Personal and Community Ethics (3 Cr.) (LER-TXT AND DIV)
An introduction to ethical thought with particular attention given to the conflict between individual interest and communal good. The course includes a survey of classical writings on ethics, as well as a selection of more recent texts that focus on concrete issues such as gender and sexuality, racism, economic injustice, and environmental ethics. In each case, we will examine how various conceptions of individual rights coincide with the obligations individuals owe to their neighbors, their nation, and the global community. Fall semester. DeCaroli.
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PHL 115 - Race, Gender, and Sexuality (3 Cr.) (LER-DIV)
An introduction to the theories of oppression and privilege, with particular attention paid to racism, sexism, and heterosexism. The readings analyze the nature of social identity and difference, including the intersections of sexuality, gender, and race on the individual and social levels. We will examine oppression and privilege as systems and structures, which are maintained and sustained by social practices, language, education, and cultural production. We will also examine these areas as possible sites of resistance. Fall semester. Grebowicz.
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PHL 157 - Individual, Community, Cosmos (3 Cr.) (LER-TXT)
Exploration of the historical philosophical views on the identity, self-understanding and values of human beings and their relationships to larger totalities such as community, society, and the natural or divine order. Reading and discussion of Plato’s Dialogues, Descartes’ Meditations, Hume’s Enquiry, and Nietzsche’s Twilight of the Idols. Spring semester. Rose.
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PHL 176 - Logic (3 Cr.)
Study of the theory and history of logic, its uses and justification, its applicability and limitations. Focus on formal deductive logic. Fall semester. Rose.
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PHL 205 - Environmental Ethics (3 Cr.) (LER-ENV)
A philosophical examination of the relationship between human beings and the natural world. Readings address cultural and scientific construction of nature and the environment, various constructions of human versus animal being, the metaphysical underpinnings of various “animal rights” and “conservation” positions, and the relationship between environmental and social concerns. Students will consider and evaluate competing approaches to environmental justice. Prerequisite: either sophomore standing, one course in philosophy, or permission of the instructor. Fall semester, Offered 2015-16 and alternate years. Grebowicz.
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PHL 208 - Philosophy of Religion (3 Cr.) (JS 208 and RLG 208) (LER DIV and LER TXT)
In a historically sensitive and comparative manner, this course examines classical and contemporary philosophical accounts of the nature and existence of ultimate reality. Topics covered include conceptions of ultimate reality, evil, immortality, religious experience, and human subjectivity as well as arguments for and against theism, atheism, and agnosticism. Our approach will draw on both Eastern and Western traditions. Offered spring 2017 and every two years. Shuster.
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PHL 212 - Philosophy and Art (3 Cr.) (ARH 207 formerly ART 207) (LER-TXT)
An analysis of the philosophical implications and cultural significance of art during the modern period. In pursuing an answer to the question “What is art?” we will examine a selection of philosophical writings on the subject, each of which tries to determine what characteristics make art objects different from all others. In addition, we will examine the political, social, racial, and historical factors that helped produce the institutions, economies and values that, in the West at least, sustain the notion of “fine art.” Our investigation will include a critical consideration of such things as the modern museum, colonialism, the role of the art critic, the art industry, etc. (This course cannot be used as one of the two 200-level art history survey courses required for the art major.) Prerequisite: either sophomore standing, one course in philosophy, or permission of the instructor. Fall semester. Offered 2015-16 and alternate years. DeCaroli.
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PHL 216 - Modern Philosophy (3 Cr.)
An advanced survey of 17th- and 18th-century philosophy as developed in the writings of Descartes, Leibniz, Spinoza, Locke, Berkeley, and Hume. All readings are from primary sources, supplemented by lecture and discussion. We will consider not only the internal arguments of these texts, but also the broader cultural and political questions that frame their arguments. Prerequisite: one course in philosophy or permission of the instructor. Spring semester. Offered 2014-15 and alternate years. DeCaroli.
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PHL 217 - Contemporary Philosophy (3 Cr.)
An advanced survey of contemporary philosophy as developed in the major philosophers of post-structuralism (post-1968), as well as a substantial examination of the traditions that have shaped contemporary philosophical debates. The course will begin with an overview of the writings of both Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud, emphasizing dialectical materialism and the formation of subjectivity. The course will then examine how the ideas of Marx and Freud have been embraced by late twentieth-century theorists. Prerequisite: two courses in philosophy (one at the 200-level), or permission of the instructor. Spring semester. Offered 2015-16 and alternate years. DeCaroli.
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PHL 218 - Philosophy of Time (3 Cr.)
Examination of speculations about time in the Classical, Enlightenment, and contemporary periods and the specific ways these speculations have helped develop philosophy, physics, mathematics, religion, history, and psychology. Key themes include the role of time as a measure, changes in concepts of time, time and the cosmos, the ubiquitous presence of concepts of time in our understanding of the natural world, abstraction, classification, and our self-understanding throughout Western thought. Prerequisite: either sophomore standing, one course in philosophy, or permission of the instructor. Fall semester. Offered 2014-15 and alternate years. Rose.
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PHL 219 - Nineteenth Century Philosophy (3 Cr.)
Study of Kant’s epistemology, Hegel’s phenomenology, and philosophy of history to show new confidence in reason; Nietzsche’s and Kierkegaard’s responses and the subsequent crisis in confidence in reason, and the loss of absolute values that give rise to the issues of modern life. Readings include Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, Hegel’s “Preface” to Phenomenology of Spirit, Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morals, and Kierkegaard’s The Concept of Anxiety and Repetition. Influence of these works on psychology, social science, religion, and ethics. Prerequisite: One course in philosophy or permission of the instructor. Fall semester. Offered 2014-15 and alternate years. Rose.
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PHL 220 - Phenomenology (3 Cr.)
Study of phenomenology as foundational science in Husserl’s Crisis and its development in the work of Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty’s The Prose of the World, and Levinas’ Time and the Other. This course explores the prospect of a holistic way of knowing in opposition to the detached, objective methodology of the natural and social sciences. Prerequisite: one course in philosophy or permission of the instructor. Spring semester, offered 2015-16 and alternate years. Rose.
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PHL 224 - Existentialism: Philosophy and Theater (3 Cr.) (THE 202 )
The study of existentialist and hermeneutic theories of how we humans create and exact meaning. The thesis of this course is that philosophy and theater are the two human activities that enact and create meaning in the world and do so self-consciously, whereas other human activities attribute objective value to the truth they ascribe to the world. Using readings from Plato, Nietzsche, Artaud, Sartre, and Gadamer and the plays of Pirandello, Brecht, Duras, Genet, and Beckett, students enter the threshold of a conscious place in which we can see the world and see ourselves reflected in the world just as actors create a “world” on the stage. Philosophy and theater reveal we humans as the ones who “enact reality” and, in doing so, create history, personal and political identities, and the meaning of the world. Prerequisite: One course in philosophy, or permission of the instructor.
Prerequisite: one course in philosophy or permission of the instructor. Fall semester. Offered 2015-16 and alternate years. Rose.
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PHL 227 - Neoplatonism: the Perennial Philosophy (3 Cr.)
The “neo” in “Neoplatonism” describes the appropriation of key elements in Plato’s thought in an application that Plato never intended and could not foresee. These versions of Plato’s thought are the ones that Western Culture received and that have dominated Christianity and many aspects of western culture to this day. Focusing on the origins of Neoplatonism, we study Plotinus’ Enneads in detail. We will also read Porphyry the Phoenician’s Isagoge and Boethius’, Consolation of Philosophy and trace the development of Neoplatonism into its ubiquitous modern appropriation in modern philosophy (especially Hegel’s dialectical logic), theology and literature. Prerequisite: one course in philosophy, or permission of the instructor. Fall semester, offered 2014-15 and alternate years. Rose.
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PHL 228 - Philosophy and the Animal (3 Cr.)
Are humans animals? Are animals persons? This class goes beyond animal ethics to consider the ontological and epistemological assumptions underlying the ethical debates. How is “the animal” constructed in science, philosophy and culture? How should animal being be imagined in order to contribute to a more just and sustainable vision of society? Prerequisite: Either sophomore standing, one course in philosophy, or permission of the instructor. Spring semester, offered 2014-15 and alternate years. Grebowicz.
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