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From Process to Performance — DRA4253.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Jenny Rohn
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Credits: 4
In this course we will use Viewpoints, Meisner and other improvisation based acting techniques to fully explore, rehearse and present a play. The goal of our work will be to retain the truth, life and presence that we discover in the process of improvisation as we move into performance. How do you hold on to the fullest expression of what was discovered when you have to repeat
Drama

Fundamentals of Creative Writing — LIT2394.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Jenny Boully
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Credits: 4
In this class, we will begin by investigating sound, music, image, and form in poetry and how these poetic elements are presented in fiction. From fiction, we will study narrative, character, plot, and setting. Finally, we will progress towards personal nonfiction, fusing the elements of our poetry and fiction investigations. We will read classical and contemporary texts from
Literature

Future Histories, Speculative Sites II || YEAR ONE SEED LAB — APA4261.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 4
In this 4000-level iteration of the Future Histories, Speculative Sites Lab, students are invited to work together with Elæ Moss on envisioning and building the Speculative Solidarities : YEAR ONE Field Station / Community Care Hub as they develop their own original speculative proposals (for past, present, and future) and hone these into public-facing projects across a range
Advancement of Public Action

Games And Probability — MAT2377.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Joe Mundt
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Credits: 4
Throughout history, people have played games -- games of chance and games of skill.  Many of us grew up playing all kinds of different games, and most of those are infused with the core tenets of statistical reasoning and understanding:  probability, risk assessment, expected value, and game theory.  This course will look at statistics and probability through
Science and Mathematics

Geometry and Physics — MAT2245.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Andrew McIntyre
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Credits: 4
In the nineteenth and twentieth (and twenty-first!) centuries, mathematicians have been stretching the idea of “geometry” far beyond the geometry of Euclid's triangles and circles most people are familiar with: into the fourth (or higher) dimension, curved spaces, and more. This new geometry (the part I am referring to is technically called “differential geometry and topology”)
Science and Mathematics

Gothic Vision: Specters of Subversion, 1300 to Now — AH4108.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Vanessa Lyon
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Credits: 4
The Gothic is a worldview equally at home in nostalgia and strangeness. It thirsts for arcane, even craven, knowledge and is frequently motivated by a fearful fascination with the foreign. In Gothic novels (the first of which appeared in 1764) psychic ‘interiority’ is revealed in dark spaces tainted by unthinkable crimes or haunted by spirits--and/or The Church. But if seeing
Visual Arts

Graduate Research in Dance — DAN5305.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Dana Reitz
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Credits: 6
This course is designed to assist graduate students with the research and development of their new work. The weekly format is determined with the students. In class, they show works-in-progress, try out ideas with their colleagues, and discuss issues involved in their creative processes. Though the class meets only once a week, students are expected to spend considerable time
Dance

Graduate Research in Public Action — APA5102.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
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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
Advancement of Public Action

Graduate Teaching Fellowship in Dance — DAN5304.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Dana Reitz
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Credits: 4
Graduate Teaching Fellows in Dance are integrated into the dance program as teaching assistants. In consultation with their academic advisors and the dance faculty, MFA candidates develop an assistantship schedule of approximately ten hours weekly; the courses they develop and teach are listed in the curriculum. All Teaching Fellows bring their own professional histories and
Dance

Hand-drawn Animation — MA2217.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: John Crowe
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Credits: 2
Fundamentals of 2-D animation principles will be explored through drawing, from basic motion cycles to more nuanced straight-ahead movement and emotion. Students will primarily work with wet/dry mediums on paper, with additional instruction in Dragonframe and After Effects compositing workflow. Weekly exercises will explore a variety of animation techniques to create short
Visual Arts

Haptic Media — MS2110.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Teddy Pozo
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Credits: 4
“Haptic” is a word that refers to the sense of touch, derived from a Greek root meaning to grasp, perceive, or fasten. Haptic technologies and haptic aesthetics may communicate through, or mediate this tactile sense between people. We often think of touch as doing things with our hands, but touch affects all parts of the body, playing a role in smell (particles entering the
Visual Arts Society Culture and Thought

Harvest: Quyurciq — VA4319.02

Spring 2023
Instructor: Yoko Inoue
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Credits: 2
Harvest: Quyurciq examines the Alaska Native harvest of sea otters and, by extension, broader topics of environmental management, Native science, and Indigenous sovereignty. We will view and thoroughly discuss various topics and subjects of a documentary film, Harvest: Quyurciq. The course content is particularly suitable for students studying environmental science, marine
Environment Visual Arts

Historical Dress: The Great Couturiers — DRA2176.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 2
This class will examine the fashions and designers of the Couture, ranging from Worth to Dior and beyond, and including Chanel, Schiaparelli, Vionnet, McQueen, and van Herpen, among others. We will examine the topic in the context of the culture: the artistic, political and technological shifts of their times. While the primary focus of the class will be the giants there will
Drama

Histories of Numbers —

Spring 2023
Instructor: Tim Kane
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As mathematics has become increasingly complex and abstract, so too have the number systems necessary to define and work within each expansion.  The development of the concept of number parallels that of mathematics itself, intertwined in a symbiosis where numbers generate new mathematical fields and mathematical insight unveils deeper understanding of numbers.  This

Histories of Numbers —

Spring 2023
Instructor: Tim Kane
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As mathematics has become increasingly complex and abstract, so too have the number systems necessary to define and work within each expansion.  The development of the concept of number parallels that of mathematics itself, intertwined in a symbiosis where numbers generate new mathematical fields and mathematical insight unveils deeper understanding of numbers.  This

History of Theater II — DRA2282.01

Spring 2023
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

Idiosyncratic Tools — SCU2205.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: John Umphlett
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Credits: 2
Use a hammer to hit a nail into a chunk of wood. Anyone may smash a cube of ice, carve a toy car or with strong encouragement, allow the hammer to sign its initials on your thumb - VBS (violet burning sunset.) Idiosyncratic devices enhance one's own senses. Once we completely understand the specific functions for which a tool is designed, we begin to tune 
Visual Arts

Improvisation Ensemble for Dancers and Musicians — MPF4357.02

Spring 2023
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
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Credits: 2
This course is for dancers and musicians interested in working on the performance of improvisation. For musicians, specific attention is given to creating rhythms and sonorities which can then be manipulated and developed while interacting with dancers in the moment. Once a week dancers will have a class with musicians in collaboration on improvisational structures. Musicians
Dance Music

Improvisation Lessons — MIN2243.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 1
This class will focus on weekly instruction in improvisation through differing styles and feels. Explore and develop skills in chord analysis, rhythm and expression through your instrument. We will also touch on the deep history of improvisation. Weekly assignments will focus on growing improvisation skills and expanding ones knowledge of what improvisation can be. Individual
Music

Inner Travel — SPA4604.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
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Credits: 4
Beyond Columbus’ errant journey into the abyss and the ensuing quest for El Dorado, or Darwin’s Voyage of the Beagle, Latin America’s interior has often enticed its own learned population. Their travels, in space, time and thought, do not merely present a physical confrontation with alterity, with the continent’s supposed heart of darkness, but an intellectual clearing, an
Cultural Studies and Languages

Insider Perspectives on the Francophone World II — FRE4224.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly
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Credits: 5
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 insiderʹs perspective on a cultural and communicative system whose ideas, customs, and belief
Cultural Studies and Languages

Intermediate Drum Set (Fundamentals) — MIN4023.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
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Credits: 1
This course is for students who have experience in playing drum set. In this 7 week class, students will fine-tune their stick control, hi-hat, cymbal, and bass drum technique, grooves, and drum fills. Listening, viewing, and reviewing drummers who have contributed to the innovation of the art of the drum set is a weekly part of our class discussion. We will use 2 drum sets in
Music

Intermediate Ear Training — MTH4284.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
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Credits: 2
In this course, students will develop intermediate skills in aural perception, learning to visualize, sing, and notate music through melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic exercises. Classwork will include singing melodies with solfege (prepared and at sight); performing rhythms, eventually incorporating syncopation, cross-rhythms, small subdivisions, and changing meters; taking
Music