Courses
Spring 2023
A Celebration Service – The Dancer’s Ensembles
Thomas Bogdan & Levi GonzalezA Collective Portrait of America: Literary Memoir Since the Civil War
Rachel LyonA History of Mathematics
Timothy KaneAdvanced CAPA Workshop
Susan SgorbatiAdvanced Ceramic Projects
Aysha PeltzAdvanced Chamber Music
Nathaniel ParkeAdvanced Improvisation Ensemble for Dancers and Musicians
Susan Sgorbati & Michael WimberlyAdvanced Improvisation: The Game of the Scene
Shawtane BowenAdvanced Mixing Techniques
Senem PirlerAdvanced Piano
Christopher LewisAdvanced Piano – Intensive
Christopher LewisAdvanced Projects in Architecture
Donald SherefkinAdvanced Projects in Dance
Dana ReitzAdvanced Projects in Dance
Dana ReitzAdvanced Projects in Video II
Jen LiuAdvanced Voice
Kerry Ryer-ParkeAdvanced Voice
Thomas BogdanAdvanced Workshop for Painting and Drawing
Ann PibalAlternate Visions: Seeing the world through Women and LGBTQIA+ Contemporary Photographers
Farzana Wahidy, MFA Teaching FellowAn Introduction to the Rust Programming Language
Michael CoreyAnalog Avatars
Erin Ellen Kelly, MFA Teaching FellowAnarchist Anthropologies
Steve MoogAncient to Modern Environments: Near and Far
Tim SchroederAnimation Projects
Sue ReesAnother Audience: Performance with/for/of/by/through/between the More-than-Human
Nicole DaunicAnti-Perspective
Farhad MirzaArchitectural Graphics
Donald SherefkinBad Citizen: letting go of being good for a better world and A New Dream
Being, FKA Kriss Mincey, MFA Teaching FellowBalkan Music Ensemble
Joseph AlparBallet Anarchy
Kota YamazakiBass Intensive
Michael BisioBass with Bisio
Michael BisioBeans Give Back 2.0
Alexis EltonBeginning Cello II
Nathaniel ParkeBeginning Guitar
Hui CoxBeginning Violin/Viola
Joana GenovaBeginning Wheel Throwing
Aysha PeltzBennington Past and Present
Eileen ScullyBennington Past and Present
Eileen ScullyBeyond Le Triangle et l’Hexagone: Narrating the (Hi)story and the Self
Maboula SoumahoroBeyond Plastic Pollution
Judith EnckBLACK IS THE JOURNEY: sampling the intellectual and artistic productions of the African Diaspora
Maboula SoumahoroButoh Intensive—In search of dance of darkness
Mina NishimuraCell Biology (with Lab)
Amie McClellanCello
Nathaniel ParkeChemistry 2: Organic Structure and Bonding (with Lab)
Abbey KillamClothing Beyond Binary
Michael Sylvan RobinsonComparing Political Institutions
Rotimi SuberuComposing for Improvisers: Analyses, Creation and Community
Kyoko KitamuraConflict Resolution Theories: An Introduction
Michael CohenConservation Biology
Sara BebusContemporary Chinese Poetry
Ginger LinCooperative Vision: The Value of Photography Collectives
Farzana Wahidy, MFA Teaching FellowCrafting a Book Review
Sandra SimondsCrafting the “It Narrative”
Frances Ya-Chu CowhigCrafting the “It Narrative”
Frances Ya-Chu CowhigCreating Immersive Soundscapes from Information: An introduction to data sonification
Jen KutlerCrocheting the Classics: Elizabeth Gaskell’s Cranford
Jenny BoullyDalcroze Eurhythmics: Groove, Body, Flow State
Chris RoseDesign From Nature
Charles SchoonmakerDifferential Geometry, Gauge Theories, and Gravity
Andrew McIntyreDigital Foundations
Farhad MirzaDirecting I: The Director’s Vision
Jean RandichDirt Line
Alexis EltonDoorways into Solo Practice
Tal Shibi, MFA Teaching FellowDostoevsky’s Major Novels
Alexandar MihailovicDrawing As A Verb: Exploring Uncertainty
J BlackwellDrawing As Record
Annette LawrenceDrumming: An Extension of Language
Michael WimberlyDrumming: An Extension of Language
Michael WimberlyDybbuks, Golems, Tradition & Resistance: Isaaac Basheveis Singer, Cynthia Ozick, Grace Paley
Marguerite FeitlowitzEcology
Sara BebusEconomic Inequality
Lopamudra BanerjeeElectroacoustic Band Workshop
Senem PirlerElements of Architecture
Donald SherefkinEnhancing Cultural Understanding and Embracing Cultural Differences: Digital Book Project (Introductory)
Ikuko YoshidaEnvironmental Action Fellowship Post Fellowship Class
Judith EnckEnvironmental Geology
Tim SchroederEnvironmental Political Theory
John HultgrenEssays of Walter Benjamin
Anne ThompsonEurope and Islam: Art and Architecture of the Mediterranean
Razan FrancisExperiential Anatomy/Somatic Practices
Levi GonzalezExplorations in Movement and Sound
Levi Gonzalez & Senem PirlerFaculty Performance Production: Unibeauty & Her Wicked Daughters, a corporate fairy tale in process, by Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig
Jean RandichFantasy Literature 1160-1900
Paul La FargeFinding Form: Dance
Dana ReitzFOCUS & FLOW: Developing a Generative Playwriting Practice
Frances Ya-Chu CowhigFOCUS & FLOW: Developing a Generative Playwriting Practice
Frances Ya-Chu CowhigForm and Process: Introduction to Painting
Ann PibalFoundation of Software Design and Data Structure
Meltem BallanFoundations of Photography/Analog
Jonathan KlineFoundations of Photography: Digital Practice
Luiza FolegattiFramed? Literature Heroines on Screen
Noëlle Rouxel-CubberlyFrom Process to Performance
Jennifer RohnFundamentals of Creative Writing
Jenny BoullyFuture Histories, Speculative Sites II || YEAR ONE SEED LAB
Elae Moss, MFA Teaching FellowGames And Probability
Josef MundtGeometry and Physics
Andrew McIntyreGothic Vision: Specters of Subversion, 1300 to Now
J. Vanessa LyonGraduate Assistantship in Public Action
Susan SgorbatiGraduate Research in Dance
Dana ReitzGraduate Research in Public Action
Susan SgorbatiGraduate Seminar on Pedagogy and Public Action
Susan SgorbatiGraduate Teaching Fellowship in Dance
Dana ReitzHand-drawn Animation
John CroweHaptic Media
Teddy PozoHistorical Dress: The Great Couturiers
Charles SchoonmakerHistory of Theater II
Maya CantuIdiosyncratic Tools
John UmphlettImprovisation Ensemble for Dancers and Musicians
Michael Wimberly & Susan SgorbatiInner Travel
Jonathan PitcherInsider Perspectives on the Francophone World II
Noëlle Rouxel-CubberlyIntermediate Drum Set (Fundamentals)
Michael WimberlyIntermediate Ear Training
Nicholas BrookeIntermediate Guitar
Hui CoxIntermediate Painting: From Practice to Discovery
J BlackwellIntermediate Video: Migration and Landscape
Jen LiuIntermediate Video: Moving Image and Structured Improvisation
Beatriz Santiago MuñozIntermediate Voice
Kerry Ryer-ParkeIntermediate Voice
Kerry Ryer-ParkeIntermediate Voice
Thomas BogdanIntermediate Voice
Thomas BogdanIntermediate/Advanced Violin/Viola
Joana GenovaInternational Human Rights Law
Andy GalindoInternational Modernist Poetics
Sandra SimondsIntro to Maps and Geographic Information Systems
Tim SchroederIntro to Scene Painting
Seancolin HankinsIntro to Sketch Comedy 1
Shawtane BowenIntro Video Projects
Jen LiuIntroduction to 3D Modeling and Printing
Derek ParkerIntroduction to Butoh—Who are you?
Mina NishimuraIntroduction to Cancer Biology
Amie McClellanIntroduction to Dramaturgy
Maya CantuIntroduction to Intaglio: The Alchemist’s Print
Thorsten DennerlineIntroduction to Video
Beatriz Santiago MuñozIntroduction to Video
Beatriz Santiago MuñozIntroduction to Web3
Meltem BallanIntuitive Electronics for Sound
Jen KutlerIran: A Theocracy in Crisis
Mansour FarhangJavanese Gamelan
Nicholas BrookeJazz Ensemble
Jen AllenKilns and Firing Techniques
Anina MajorKilns and Firing Techniques
Anina MajorLanguage Contact and Shift
Leah PappasLanguage Documentation and Description
Leah PappasLife and Death: Buddhism in Modern Japanese films
Ikuko YoshidaLife Drawing Lab
Colin BrantListening to psyche: an interdisciplinary method of generating choreography
Parijat DesaiMaking Work: Aesthetics & Ideology
luciana achugar, MFA Teaching FellowManaging Complexity for an Abundant Future
Jesse McDougallMandolin
John KirkMarket Society
Lopamudra BanerjeeMarket Structure
Lopamudra BanerjeeMeisner Technique
Jennifer RohnModern Guitar
Hui CoxMorning Butoh- A Practice of Renewing and Redefining Self
Mina NishimuraMovement Practice: (de)composing dance, choreographing breath
mayfield brooksMovement Practice: A Spell for Utopia
luciana achugar, MFA Teaching FellowMovement Practice: Contact Improvisation Advanced
Tal Shibi, MFA Teaching FellowMovement Practice: Let’s get Physical!
luciana achugar, MFA Teaching FellowMovement Practice: Morning Chi, Waking Up the Body
Erin Ellen Kelly, MFA Teaching FellowMovement Practice: Orbiting the self and community
Parijat DesaiMultivariable Calculus
Andrew McIntyreMusic Composition Project
Allen ShawnMusic Theory 1 – Applied Fundamentals
John KirkMusical Taste and Transformation: the Self, Algorithms and the Human Connection
Kyoko KitamuraOf Sound and Nature
Joseph Alpar & Blake JonesOff The Chart
Annette LawrenceOn the Question of Violence: Inquiry, Movement, and Rupture
David BondOne Day in New York City
Eileen ScullyOrchestration
Nicholas BrookePeacebuilding
Vahidin OmanovicPeacebuilding 2 : Be the Change You Want to See in the World
Vahidin OmanovicPerfect Vacuums: Critical Studies of Nonexistent Texts
Manuel GonzalesPessimism, Despair, and Hope
Paul VoicePhilosophical Puzzles
Paul VoicePhilosophical Zombies and Super-intelligent Robots
Catherine McKeenPhotography, Materiality, and Storytelling
Luiza FolegattiPhysics II: Electricity & Magnetism (with Lab)
TBAPiano
Christopher LewisPiano
Yoshiko SatoPiano Lab I: Beginning Piano
Chris RosePiano Lab I: Beginning Piano
Chris RosePiano Lab I: Beginning Piano
Chris RosePiano Lab II
Yoshiko SatoPlatform: Projects in Drama
Jennifer Rohn & Dina JanisPLAYWRITING AS CIVIC INQUIRY: Chevron vs. Steven Donziger
Frances Ya-Chu CowhigPolitical Ideologies in Action: Socialism in the United States
John HultgrenPopulation Ecology and Ecological Models
Kathryn MontovanPositionality and Time
Annette LawrencePower
Catherine McKeenPretty Lies, Ugly Truths, and Deep Fakes: An Introduction to Oil Painting
J BlackwellProduction and Design Projects
Michael GiannittiProduction and Design Projects
Michael GiannittiProjection_Mapping_Design
Sue ReesPsychedelics: Mind and Brain
Blake JonesPunk Culture: An Interdisciplinary Approach
Steve MoogQuesting the Bizarre: Writing, Rewriting, and Un-Writing in Hispanic Literature
Lena Retamoso UrbanoRace, Robots, and Asian/American Literature
Franny ChoiRadio Plays (Advanced): Making Theatre for Radio and Podcast
Dina JanisRalph Ellison’s Invisible Man
Benjamin AnastasRe-Thinking Society: Radical Visions
Paul VoiceReading and Writing Nonfiction: Mourning and Grief
Jenny BoullyReading and Writing Poetry: Conjuring El Duende
Anaïs DuplanReading and Writing Short Stories: Narrative Shape-Shifting
Rachel LyonReality and Dreams: Robert Musil and the Vienna Secession
Benjamin AnastasReimagining Representation
Terry BoddieRepresenting Sexuality and Gender On Screen
Teddy PozoResearch Methods
Özge SavaşResponding to Site / Site Specific Dance
Erin Ellen Kelly, MFA Teaching FellowRestorative Practices and Sexual Misconduct on Campus
Alisa Del TufoRiso Printing: Photographs
Veronica MelendezSelf and Identity in Diaspora
Özge SavaşSeminar in Comparative Democratization
Rotimi SuberuSenior Projects
Nicholas BrookeSenior Seminar in Society, Culture, and Thought II
Rotimi SuberuSeven Composers
Allen ShawnShakespeare’s Problem Plays
Paul La FargeSing What You Write
Kerry Ryer-ParkeSocial and Cultural Values in Japan: Digital Book Project (Intermediate)
Ikuko YoshidaSocial Semiotics of Contemporary Literature
Anaïs DuplanSolo Performance: Telling My Story
Kirk JacksonSong for Ireland and Celtic Connections
John KirkSongs in the Key of Wonder
Michael WimberlySongs of Protest and Praise
Kathy BullockSongwriting
Jen AllenSound Bites
Noëlle Rouxel-CubberlySounding Home: Music, Migration and Diaspora
Joseph AlparSpanish Through Song
Lena Retamoso UrbanoSpecial Projects in Advanced Japanese
Ikuko YoshidaSpecial Projects in Spanish
Jonathan PitcherSpecial Projects: As It Relates to the Tool
John UmphlettStatistical Methods for Data Analysis
Kathryn MontovanSun Ra: Space is the Place
Michael WimberlyTaiwan and China in Global Affairs
Ginger LinTechnologies of Heartbreak
Manuel GonzalesTechnology Entrepreneurship
Meltem BallanThe Actor’s Instrument
Shawtane BowenThe Art of Literary Translation: Your Histories, Texts, and Authorial Selves
Marguerite FeitlowitzThe Basic Calligraphy Strokes for Beginners
Ginger LinThe Beautiful City: Plato’s Republic
Catherine McKeenThe Big Picture: Stewarding Artists’ Legacies (FWT Course)
Elizabeth WhiteThe Business Side of Music
Kyoko KitamuraThe Faulkner Fan Club
Manuel GonzalesThe Haggadah of Passover: An Exploration
Michael CohenThe Hand as Tool
Anina MajorThe Image in Islamic Cultures
Razan FrancisThe Manner of Moving
Dana ReitzThe Renaissance
Carol PalThe Scriptorium: Monsters!
Camille GuthrieThe Scriptorium: Monsters!
Camille GuthrieThe Slow Burn
Manuel GonzalesThe View Camera & Contemporary Practice
Jonathan KlineTopping It Off
Richard MacPikeToward a Rigorous Art History
J. Vanessa LyonTracing a Wound: In Usdan Gallery with artist Emilio Rojas
Anne ThompsonTraditional Music Ensemble
John KirkTransformational Acting
Oliver WadsworthTrashy
Jen LiuUkulele Comprehensive
John KirkVisionary Architecture
Donald SherefkinVisual Arts Lecture Series
J. Vanessa LyonVisual Arts Lecture Series Seminar
J. Vanessa LyonWearable Paper Prints Experiment
Thorsten DennerlineWitchcraft and Magic in Premodern Europe
Carol PalWomen and Human Mobility
Andy GalindoWoodcut Printmaking on the Vandercook Proofing Press
Corinne RhodesWorking With Light
Michael GiannittiWriting a Life
Jonas Hassen KhemiriZen Buddhism
Ginger Lin
Fall 2022
19th Century Photography Revisited
Jonathan KlineA Brief Introduction to Astronomical Observing
Hugh CrowlActor’s Instrument
Kirk JacksonAdaptation
Sherry KramerAdvanced Chamber Music
Nathaniel ParkeAdvanced Dramaturgy
Maya CantuAdvanced Film/Video Projects I
Mariam GhaniAdvanced Jazz Piano
Jen AllenAdvanced Modular Synths
Sergei TcherepninAdvanced Piano
Christopher LewisAdvanced Piano – Intensive
Christopher LewisAdvanced Projects in Dance
Levi GonzalezAdvanced Sculpture
John UmphlettAdvanced Voice
Kerry Ryer-ParkeAdvanced Voice
Thomas BogdanAdvanced Workshop for Painting and Drawing: The Contemporary Idiom
J BlackwellAdvanced/Intermediate Printmaking: Refinement and New Methods (Laser Cut for the Print Studio)
Thorsten DennerlineAfter Super Flat
Yoko InoueAfter Super Flat
Yoko InoueAmerican Environmental Politics
John HultgrenAn Actor’s Technique: Nuts and Bolts
Jennifer RohnAnalysis
Kathryn MontovanAnimation 1
Sue ReesAnimation_Projects
Sue ReesArchitectural Analysis
Donald SherefkinArchitectural Graphics
Donald SherefkinArt of the Islamic World
Razan FrancisAvant-Garde Art in China
Ginger LinBanjo
John Kirk