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Graduate Research in Dance — DAN5305.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
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Credits: 6
This class is designed for MFA students to show works-in-progress, try out ideas with their colleagues, and discuss issues involved in the development of new work. The weekly format is determined with the students. Outside of class, students develop their own independent creative projects that will be presented to the public, either formally or informally, by the end of the
Dance

Graduate Research in Public Action — APA5102.01, section 1

Fall 2019
Instructor: Robert Ransick
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Credits: 6
This class is designed for MFA students to research and develop new work, show work-in-progress, be in critical dialogue with their colleagues, and discuss issues involved in the development of new work. The weekly format is determined with the students. Outside of class, students develop their own independent creative projects that will be presented to the public, either
CAPA

Graduate Research in Public Action — APA5102.02, section 2

Fall 2019
Instructor: Robert Ransick
Days & Time:
Credits: 6
This class is designed for MFA students to research and develop new work, show work-in-progress, be in critical dialogue with their colleagues, and discuss issues involved in the development of new work. The weekly format is determined with the students. Outside of class, students develop their own independent creative projects that will be presented to the public, either
CAPA

Graduate Seminar on Pedagogy and Public Action — APA5103.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Robert Ransick, Susan Sgorbati
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Credits: 4
This course is centered on conducting research and mapping the field of socially and civically engaged pedagogy within a global context. What capacities and skills do students who create artworks in collaboration with the public need to acquire and what is the history of teaching these practices?
CAPA

History of Animation — MA2137.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Sue Rees
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Credits: 2
A brief history of animated images from the 1500s to the present day. The class will be split into watching documentaries and animations along with discussions. A quiz and short responses will be required.
Visual Arts

History of Photography/20th Century — PHO2154.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Jonathan Kline
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Credits: 2
This class explores the various ways photography was intertwined with the artistic, political, and scientific developments of the 20th century on a global level. Students will do weekly research connecting to online sites hosted by major institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Victoria Albert Museum, The Getty and others. Class discussions, identification
Visual Arts

History of the Book — HIS4109.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Carol Pal
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Credits: 4
The aim of this course is to think about books. Not just books as objects, but books as the signifiers of a wealth of relationships – between reading and writing, between people and ideas, between people and people, between technologies and desires. For centuries, our ideas have been shaped by the rhythms and hierarchies inherent in the nature of print. But the nature of the
Society Culture and Thought

History of Theater II — DRA2282.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Maya Cantu
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Credits: 4
This course offers a continuing introduction to the history and development of world theater and drama. We will experience the vibrant pageant of theater history through an exploration of its conventions and aesthetics, as well as its social and cultural functions. Starting in the nineteenth century, we will read representative plays ranging from the advent of stage Realism and
Drama

How to Collaborate: Threeing — APA2214.03

Fall 2019
Instructor: Caroline Woolard, MFA Teaching Fellow
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Credits: 2
If group work is both the most necessary and the most difficult endeavor of our time, what methods are necessary for collaboration in the visual arts? In this seminar and studio, students will focus on a method for group work that was developed by the video-artist (not politician) Paul Ryan between 1971 and the end of his life, in 2013. Threeing is "a voluntary practice in
CAPA

Ideas Arrangements Effects — APA2178.02

Fall 2019
Instructor: Kenneth Bailey, MFA Teaching Fellow
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Credits: 2
How do we come to understand what we are doing when attempting to change or interfere with a messy complex social problem? How can we know if the thing we want to do to improve a social problem will work or backfire? There are many lessons from psychiatrists like RD Laing to cultural heroes like Hermès on this topic. Ideas Arrangements Effects will overview several lessons from
CAPA

Image Objects — PHO4103.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Elizabeth White
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Credits: 4
As recent exhibitions and publications such as What is a Photograph? (The International Center of Photography, 2014), A Matter of Memory: The Photograph as Object in the Digital Age (George Eastman Museum, 2016), and Photography is Magic (Charlotte Cotton, Aperture, 2015) attest, there are many contemporary artists whose work with photography draws increased focus to material
Visual Arts

Improvisation: Somatic Nuance — DAN2143.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Hilary Clark, MFA Teaching Fellow
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Credits: 2
This is a class for those curious about their bodies’ potential for spontaneous, nuanced movement. We will begin with a slow warmup, emphasizing our natural desire to move. We will use varied improvisational structures or scores to create frames for attention. By gaining awareness in our bodies, we will improve our ability to move easily and articulately. We will explore
Dance

Incarceration in America — APA2108.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Annabel Davis-Goff
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Credits: 2
7 million Americans are under correctional supervision. The United States of America has the highest documented rate of incarceration in the world. Too many people are in prison, and in many cases the current system doesn’t work. It is inefficient, inhumane, and does not accomplish rehabilitation. It also costs too much – financially as well as in terms of human suffering – the
CAPA

Insider Perspectives on the Francophone World — FRE2103.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Noelle Rouxel-Cubberly
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Credits: 4
Viewed from the outside, the French-speaking world offers enticing images of beauty, pleasure, and freedom. From the inside, however, it is a complicated, often contradictory world where implicit codes and values shape the most basic aspects of daily life. This course will give you an insider's perspective on a cultural and communicative system whose ideas, customs, and belief
Cultural Studies and Languages

Interdisciplinary Seminar: Time — VA2120.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Mariam Ghani
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Credits: 4
A semester-length exploration of time – first as a phenomenological experience; second as a scientific, social and fictional construct, e.g. clock time, atomic time, machine time, entropic time, queer time, and time travel; third as broken into the fundamental elements of time-based practices - duration and repetition, simultaneity and succession, break and flow, narrative arcs
Dance Visual Arts

Intermediate Video: The Question of The Document — FV4117.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Mariam Ghani
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Credits: 4
Intermediate Video will build on technical skills introduced in Intro to Video. Students will be expected to produce several in-class technical exercises and short projects assigned by the instructor, and one final project of their own design. This semester of Intermediate Video will look at the question and current status of the document. What are the truth claims made by
Visual Arts

Intermediate Violin/ Viola — MIN4232.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Kaori Washiyama
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Credits: 2
Basic techniques will include the reading music in treble and /or alto cleft in basic keys. Hand position including left-hand sifting and fingering will be shown, and a rudimentary facility with the bow will be developed in order for students to participate in simple ensemble performances by the end of the term. Corequisites: must participate and perform at least twice in
Music

Intermediate Voice — MVO4301.01, section 1

Fall 2019
Instructor: Kerry Ryer-Parke
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Credits: 2
For students of varying levels of singing ability. Vocal production and physiology will be discussed. Group warm-ups and vocalizations will incorporate exercises to develop breath control, resonance, projection, range, color, and agility. The fundamental concepts of singing will be explored in the preparation of specific song assignments. Personalization of text and emotional
Music

Intermediate Voice — MVO4301.02, section 2

Fall 2019
Instructor: Thomas Bogdan
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
For students of varying levels of singing ability. Vocal production and physiology will be discussed. Group warm-ups and vocalizations will incorporate exercises to develop breath control, resonance, projection, range, color, and agility. The fundamental concepts of singing will be explored in the preparation of specific song assignments. Personalization of text and emotional
Music

Intermediate Voice — MVO4301.03, section 3

Fall 2019
Instructor: Thomas Bogdan
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Credits: 2
For students of varying levels of singing ability. Vocal production and physiology will be discussed. Group warm-ups and vocalizations will incorporate exercises to develop breath control, resonance, projection, range, color, and agility. The fundamental concepts of singing will be explored in the preparation of specific song assignments. Personalization of text and emotional
Music

Intermediate Voice — MVO4301.04, section 4

Fall 2019
Instructor: Kerry Ryer-Parke
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
For students of varying levels of singing ability. Vocal production and physiology will be discussed. Group warm-ups and vocalizations will incorporate exercises to develop breath control, resonance, projection, range, color, and agility. The fundamental concepts of singing will be explored in the preparation of specific song assignments. Personalization of text and emotional
Music