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First Hundred Days (Again) — APA2030.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: David Bond
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Credits: 2
Marx once quipped that all historical personages happen twice, as it were: "First time as tragedy, second time as farce." Marx clearly got the second coming of Trump wrong: the first time was a farce, this time around its tragedy. The bewildering saga of the 2024 presidential election and bludgeoning start to the new administration in 2025 has overturned much of the
CAPA Society Culture and Thought

Floor to Standing: How We Get Up, How We Go — DAN2370.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
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Credits: 2
This course will introduce students to physical fundamentals often utilized in Western contemporary dance techniques. This class will attend to the physical structure of the body—including its commonalities and idiosyncrasies—to build the strength and range required to move horizontally and vertically, with gravity and against it, with momentum and in stillness. We will work
Dance

Form and Process: Introduction to Painting — PAI2107.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Ann Pibal
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Credits: 4
This course introduces a variety of materials, techniques and approaches to working with oil paint. Emphasis is placed on developing and understanding of color, form and space as well as individual research and conceptual concerns. The daily experience of seeing, along with examples from art history and contemporary art, provide a base from which investigations are made. Formal
Visual Arts

Foundations of Photography: Digital Practice — PHO2153.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Luiza Folegatti
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Credits: 4
This course will discuss practices and ethics around digital photography and experiment with foundational tools and techniques, aiming to create space for students to develop their own interests within the possibilities of the medium. Classes will combine practical exercises, discussions mostly around the work of contemporary LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC photographers, and readings on
Visual Arts

Foundations of Political Leadership — POL2115.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Rotimi Suberu
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Credits: 4
As an interactive process between leaders and their followers or supporters, political leadership is a socially ubiquitous, yet analytically elusive and normatively contentious, concept. This exploration of the qualities of political leaders and the process of political leadership will accomplish five things: (1) Survey contributions to studies of political leadership from
CAPA Society Culture and Thought

From an Indigenous Point of View — ANT4205.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Miroslava Prazak
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Credits: 4
Using the novel as ethnography, this course examines world cultures through literary works of authors from various parts of the world. We explore the construction of community in precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial times; independence movements; issues of individual and social identity; and the themes of change, adaptation and conflict. Student work includes an analytical
Society Culture and Thought

Fundamentals of Creative Writing — LIT2566.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 4
Creative writing is a method not just of expression, but of deep attention: thus we will begin our journey to the blank page by looking, with wonder and precision, at pages filled by such masters of craft as Cathy Park Hong, Robyn Schiff, Nathaniel Mackey, Ben Lerner, Miranda July, Mariana Enriquez, and Souvankham Thammavongsa. Our reading assignments, which will span poetry
Literature

Gospel Music; Share the Joy — MUS2256.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Virginia Kelsey
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Credits: 2
This singing ensemble is dedicated to the performance of African American spirituals, gospel music, protest songs, and South African songs as understood in their historical, spiritual, and social contexts. Messages of hope, faith, healing, of striving for justice and peace and of celebrating life will be the focuses for this singing experience. The course will culminate in a
Black Studies Music

Graduate Assistantship in Public Action — APA5101.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 2
Graduate students in Public Action are integrated into the CAPA and related discipline areas as teaching assistants. In consultation with the faculty, MFA candidates develop an assistantship schedule of approximately 5 hours weekly.
CAPA

Graduate Music Pedagogy — MUS5302.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 2
MFA in Music candidates will attend and observe weekly classes across the music discipline, and have individual meetings with faculty throughout the semester to discuss pedagogical approaches.
Music

Graduate Projects and Research in Music — MUS5303.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 6
This course is designed to assist graduate students with the research and development of their work. The MFA candidate meets weekly with their primary advisor and select core faculty. Students are expected to spend considerable time each week in active, ongoing creative research and practice. Projects and works-in-progress will be presented in public forums, such as Music
Music

Graduate Research in Dance — DAN5305.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
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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 2025
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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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 Seminar — DAN5408B.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Donna Faye Burchfield
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Credits: 2
This topic driven seminar focuses on current developments within the field of dance and performance. Students will learn to think of dance and performance through their own embodied experiences and by placing dance, movement, and performance in wider disciplinary, cultural and global contexts.  

Graduate Seminar on Pedagogy and Public Action — APA5103.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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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

Graduate Teaching Fellowship in Dance — DAN5304.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
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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

Harlem the Northern Renaissance: New/Amsterg@ddam, 1450-now — AH4312.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Vanessa Lyon
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Credits: 4
In this transcultural, transhistorical upper-level course, we will study the crucial phases and practitioners of early modern Netherlandish art—-from Jan Van Eyck and Rogier van der Weyden to Clara Peeters plus Peter Paul Rubens, Rembrandt, Vermeer, and de Hooch. Then—we’ll recalibrate and look at the ways in which modern and contemporary artists of color, particularly Black
Visual Arts

History of Medicine: From Hippocrates to Harvey — HIS2312.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Carol Pal
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Credits: 4
How did premodern culture understand the human body? How did it work? Where did it fit in the Great Chain of Being, and what differentiated men from women? Medicine has always been a hybrid of thinking, seeing, knowing, and doing. But what defined medicine in the past? Was it a science, an art, or merely a collection of practices? Between the age of Hippocrates and the age of
Society Culture and Thought

History of Theater II — DRA2282.01

Spring 2025
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

Housing in America, Housing in Ź — APA4171.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: David Bond
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Credits: 4
Housing has become a crisis for many Americans, but how it is a crisis is still poorly understood. This class takes housing as an urgent question, and aims to use the classroom as a critical research hub to better grasp the national and local dimensions of the current housing crisis. Students will be expected not only to participate in the academic study of housing in America
CAPA Society Culture and Thought

Human Rights in Action — APA2349.02

Spring 2025
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
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Credits: 2
In 1948, Eleanor Roosevelt, instrumental for the approval of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, said “In a true sense, human rights are a fundamental object of law and government in a just society. Human rights exist to the degree that they are respected by people in relations with each other and by governments in relations with their citizens.” We have come a long way
CAPA

Hyper Body! – Anarchic Ballet to Water Movement to African Dance to Floor Ninja to Body Architecture to Shining Zombie to Unknown Transformation….. — DAN2156.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Mina Nishimura
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Credits: 2
This beginning-intermediate level course is designed and recommended for students who have some dance experience or equivalent physical training in any movement forms. Anyone who would like to recultivate, reactivate, improve, deepen, expand, develop or break the relationship to their own body and commit to consistent physical learning, are welcomed. In order to have our minds
Dance

I am a Material — SCU4112.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: John Umphlett
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Credits: 2
What is a more valuable piece of matter? String, cotton-balls and rubber bands may be what should be affixed to your unique prosthetic to complete a given task… This course will cover information and techniques related to body casting, wire rope rigging, fabrication, and other building processes.The students will be asked to keep a journal which will be the most important
Visual Arts

Improvisation Ensemble for Dancers and Musicians — MPF4375.02) (cancelled 10/10/2024

Spring 2025
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