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Directed Projects in Photography — PHO4248.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Terry Boddie
Credits: 4
Students in this advanced level course will engage in research through both texts and images. Reflective writing and constructive peer critiques will expand their critical thinking and expand their photographic practice. Individual feedback by the instructor will be geared towards the progressive development of the student’s semester long project. By the end of the semester,
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Dis/orientation in Spatial Sound Composition and Expanded Image — MSR4112.01) (cancelled 5/6/2024

Fall 2024
Instructor: Mariam Ghani Senem Pirler
Credits: 2
This course will be based on Sara Ahmed’s theories on orientation and dis/orientation and her questioning of “What do such moments of disorientation tell us? What do they do, and what can we do with them?” The course will focus on finding recipes for the concept of dis/orientation using immersive audio technologies and expanded images and will focus on materializing the texts
Visual Arts Society Culture and Thought Music

Documentary Practice: Ethics of the Photographer — PHO4109.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Jonathan Kline
Credits: 4
This course will investigate our understanding of the role photography has played in representing recent conflicts, disasters, and social upheaval from around the world. Readings include Martha Rosler, Susan Sontag, AD Coleman, David Levi-Strauss, and others. Films will also be scheduled to articulate particular points of view. Students are expected to complete either two
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Documentary Production: Personal and Political — FV4313.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Kate Purdie
Credits: 2
This course explores the full range of non-fiction possibilities including ethnographic films, personal cinema, cinema verite and even mockumentaries through screenings and video projects. Beginning with a group project and advancing to individual work, we will take a hands-on approach to documentary production: from interview techniques and verite shooting to character
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Documentary Video Production – Experimental, Personal and Political — FV4108.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Kate Purdie
Credits: 4
This course explores documentary possibilities through screenings and video projects. The class will look at and consider non-fiction techniques from early cinema verite films to recent attempts to address point of view and outsider status in documentary and experimental video work. In collaborative and individual projects, the class will take a hands-on approach to documentary
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Doll House, Diorama — VA2224.02

Spring 2019
Instructor: Farhad Mirza
Credits: 2
For centuries, miniature models have been used as representations of larger things or as standalone objects of wonder. In this seven week course, students will work at ‘dollhouse scale’ (1:12 or 1:24) on a personal project that would benefit from expression as a dollhouse, diorama, or maquette. Coursework will emphasize the importance of an organized and well-managed digital
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Doll House, Diorama – Created Worlds — MA4207.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Sue Rees
Credits: 4
For centuries, miniature models have been used as representations of larger things or as standalone objects of wonder. Working at ‘dollhouse scale’ (1:12 or 1:24) students in this course will create dollhouses or dioramas and turn them into sites, surfaces and containers for animated and projected worlds. Students will use a variety of digital modeling and animation software
Visual Arts Drama

Dollhouse, Diorama — VA4131.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Farhad Mirza
Credits: 4
The poet Susan Stewart compares the dollhouse to "the secret recesses of the heart: center within center, within within within." Paul Preciado likens a 1962 photo of Hugh Hefner beside a scale model of the first Playboy Club to similar portraits of modern architects like Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe—it suggests the “bonds of creation.” As a metaphor for interiority, or as
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Drawing As A Verb: Exploring Uncertainty — DRW2120.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Josh Blackwell
Credits: 4
Shying away from the static, resolved, or finished image, this course will explore drawing as a process of ongoing inquiry. It is intended to foster an experimental and experiential approach to making art, generally eschewing representation. Students will engage with various techniques and processes to make drawings that document experience as well as create an image. Topics to
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Drawing As A Verb: Exploring Uncertainty — DRW2120.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: J Blackwell
Credits: 4
1. Conceptual artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach. 2. Rational judgements repeat rational judgements. 3. Irrational judgements lead to new experience. 4. Formal art is essentially rational. 5. Irrational thoughts should be followed absolutely and logically. -Sol LeWitt, “Sentences on Conceptual Art” 1969 Shying away
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Drawing As A Verb: Exploring Uncertainty — DRW2120.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: J Blackwell
Credits: 4
Conceptual artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach. Rational judgements repeat rational judgements. Irrational judgements lead to new experience. Formal art is essentially rational. Irrational thoughts should be followed absolutely and logically. -Sol LeWitt, “Sentences on Conceptual Art” 1969 Shying away from the
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Drawing As A Verb: Exploring Uncertainty — DRW2120.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: J Blackwell
Credits: 4
Shying away from the static, resolved, or finished image, this course will explore drawing as a process of ongoing inquiry. It is intended to foster an experimental and experiential approach to making art, generally eschewing representation. Students will engage with various techniques and processes to make drawings that document experience as well as create an image. Topics to
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Drawing As A Verb: Exploring Uncertainty — DRW2120.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: J Blackwell
Credits: 4
Conceptual artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach. Rational judgements repeat rational judgements. Irrational judgements lead to new experience. Formal art is essentially rational. Irrational thoughts should be followed absolutely and logically. -Sol LeWitt, “Sentences on Conceptual Art” 1969 Shying away from
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Drawing As A Verb: Exploring Uncertainty — DRW2120.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: J Blackwell
Credits: 4
Conceptual artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach. Rational judgements repeat rational judgements. Irrational judgements lead to new experience. Formal art is essentially rational. Irrational thoughts should be followed absolutely and logically. -Sol LeWitt, “Sentences on Conceptual Art” 1969 Shying away from
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Drawing As Record — DRW2121.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Colin Brant
Credits: 4
The fundamentals of drawing are the basic tools for this investigation into seeing and translation. Using simple methods and means, the practice of drawing is approached from both traditional and experimental directions. The focus of this inquiry is on drawing from observation, broadly defined. In class drawing sessions and discussions are complemented by independent, outside
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Drawing As Record — DRW2121.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Mary Lum
Credits: 4
The fundamentals of drawing are the basic tools for this investigation into seeing and translation. Using simple methods and means, the practice of drawing is approached from both traditional and experimental directions. The focus of this inquiry is on drawing from observation, broadly defined. In class drawing sessions are complemented by independent, outside of class work and
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Drawing As Record — DRW2121.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Annette Lawrence
Credits: 4
The fundamentals of drawing are the basic tools for this investigation into seeing and translation. Using simple methods and means, the practice of drawing is approached from both traditional and experimental directions. The focus of this inquiry is on drawing from observation, broadly defined. In class drawing sessions and discussions are complemented by independent, outside
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Drawing as Record — DRW2121.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: J Blackwell
Credits: 4
The fundamentals of drawing are the basic tools for this investigation into seeing and translation. Using simple methods and means, the practice of drawing is approached from both traditional and experimental directions. The focus of this inquiry is on drawing from observation, broadly defined. In class drawing sessions and discussions are complemented by independent, outside
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Drawing as Record — DRW2121.02

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
The fundamentals of drawing are the basic tools for this investigation into seeing and translation. Using simple methods and means, the practice of drawing is approached from both traditional and experimental directions. The focus of this inquiry is on drawing from observation, broadly defined. In class drawing sessions and discussions are complemented by independent, outside
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Drawing As Record — DRW2121.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Annette Lawrence
Credits: 4
The fundamentals of drawing are the basic tools for this investigation into seeing and translation. Using simple methods and means, the practice of drawing is approached from both traditional and experimental directions. The focus of this inquiry is on drawing from observation, broadly defined. In class drawing sessions and discussions are complemented by independent, outside
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Drawing Everywhere — DRW4239.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Mary Lum
Credits: 4
Interior and exterior, observed and imagined, expansive and intimate, this course revolves around drawings of all sorts of spaces. In class we examine historical, narrative, architectural, and natural spaces through work that pushes the definition of drawing in many different directions, including drawing installation. Students complete work weekly building a body of drawings
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Drawing Everywhere — DRW4239.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Mary Lum
Credits: 4
Interior and exterior, observed and imagined, expansive and intimate, this course revolves around drawings of place. In class we examine natural, architectural, and narrative spaces through readings and visual references that push the definition of drawing in many different directions. Students complete work weekly building a body of drawings that begins with assigned problems
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