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In this advanced 2-credit course, we will read contemporary poetry by Deaf, disabled, sick, and neurodivergent writers as well as works of crip theory. From the early years of the disability justice movement, poetry has been an important art form used to testify, agitate, build community, and inspire people to resist ableism. Some of the

Critical Dance Processes: Action Studies moves students through intensive and collaborative dance research practices including guided improvisation, the making of solo performance studies, and the co-creative design of collective movement research scores. Reading and

This is an introductory course of basic mold making and slip casting techniques for producing components to create a series of functional ware. This course focuses on the development of design concepts through exploration of slip casting methods, application of alteration and assemblage techniques and experimentation of prototype

This lab class is structured for students who are registered for CER 2208: CUPS: Slip Casting and Mold Making to achieve production goals. The two-hour mandatory lab will be guided by the faculty so that students can receive technical guidance and adequate support to establish their studio production practices and expand their

This lab class is structured for students who have completed CER2208 CUPS: Slip Casting and Mold Making (or equivalent introductory mold making and slip casting courses) to achieve independent production goals to create a series of ceramic functional ware (cups). The two-hour weekly lab will be guided by the faculty so that students

How do performing musicians develop their personal voices? The Swiss pedagogue Emile Jaques-Dalcroze (1865-1950) invented Eurhythmics to address this question. Specifically, we’ll focus on plastique animée, a movement practice that Dalcroze created for analyzing sound through movement. We’ll attempt to feel with our arms and legs what a

This course is designed for students with a serious interest in dance, as well as those curious about exploring embodied cognition and movement practice, whether or not they have previous dance experience. Together we will investigate multiple aspects of embodiment, dance-making and performance, cultivating tools for attentive observation,

Learning to draw is as much about learning how to use your hand as it is learning how to see. The focus of this course is learning to draw from observation and developing close looking skills; to that end this course will expand your capacity to see and represent what you see by inviting you to explore an array of methods, materials, and techniques. 

Drawing

This new class focuses on tortured love in two early twentieth century English novels: Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence, published in 1920, and EM Forster’s Maurice, penned in 1913-4.

While the former was celebrated at the time—it won the 1921 Pulitzer—the latter was only published posthumously, in 1971,

Where might automation fit into an art practice? How might we choose to orient ourselves and our work to technology that is (usually) developed with mass production in mind? How do we reconcile the desire for novelty, experimentation, and accidents as we depend on machines and softwares that require our participation in pre-determined, often rigid, ways?<

We will address the process of discerning a text’s dramatic potential and realizing that potential in performance by developing and implementing a directorial approach through analysis and rehearsal techniques. The term is divided between exercises and rehearsal of individual projects. The work of the course includes a midterm Director’s Approach Essay, a final Rehearsal Log

This course introduces students to the fundamentals of theatrical design with a focus on creating and interpreting scale drawings. Students will explore how scale functions as a means of communication between directors and designers, as a critical tool in scenic/lighting design, and stage management, allowing ideas to be translated from concept to construction to performance

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 personal expression in favor of developing an open-minded approach. Students will engage with various

This seminar explores key questions about people’s laboring lives: Why do people work, and what makes work meaningful? How does work shape well-being and life experiences? We will examine both wage work in the labor market and nonwage work, such as care work within households, and consider how these forms of work intersect.
We will also investigate how ascribed social

Find ways to your own thinking, writing, speaking, and creating by listening to your body and moving. Intellectual activities exist as part of the body, are rooted in the body, and resonate throughout the body. Observing, reading, and listening are physical acts. So is deciding. Thoughts can be rearranged, spatially spread, and musically timed.

In order to construct a historical costume accurately one often needs to start with the foundation garments of that period. This course will examine how corsets and their construction play a role in recreating period silhouettes. Students will learn how to reproduce period corset patterns as well as construct the corsets with

This is the pre-fellowship course for students selected to participate in the Endeavor Environmental Action Fellowship Program. The class is designed to prepare students with the skills and capacities for success in their fellowship, and ultimately, to successfully advance environmental justice issues, address complex societal challenges, and become effective change-makers

In this class we will explore the concepts of energy, entropy and quantization to discover how their dancing interplay determines the structure and dynamics of the world around us. Our aim will be to understand the organizing principles that drive all chemical and physical processes. Doing so inevitably involves mathematics, but the associated understanding

Earth and Environmental Science work begins with making observations of natural phenomena and collecting quantitative field data. This course will teach the basic methodologies used by scientists to collect and analyze field data. This will include how to make and record careful observations of landscapes and Earth materials, how to

Earthʹs life‐supporting environmental systems are controlled by a complex interplay between geologic and biological processes acting both on the surface and deep within the planetary interior. This course will explore how earth materials and physical processes contribute to a healthy environment, and how humans impact geologic processes. Topics covered will include: earth

What is nature? Who gets to speak for nature? What is the institutional arrangement, political economic system, and form of political community best suited to cultivating a more sustainable relationship with the non-human realm? These questions are most effectively grappled with by putting political theory into conversation with environmental studies. In cultivating this

This class will serve as a space for students to develop independent research projects in the field of anthropology and using ethnographic methods. Shared readings and exercises will center around ethnographic methods, ethics, and writing. Students’ independent projects will anchor their work in this class.<

Are you interested in taking a closer look at the  immediate and collective spaces that we live in? What are some of the realities that exist around us and why/ how can we build work that pushes against these basic constructs.

This

Bodies carry histories, geographies, and invisible structures of everyday life.
In the quiet threshold of morning, we take time to sense and attune to these layers.

This fully remote, early-morning course invites guest artists based in Japan whose practices emerge from unique intersections of culture, daily life, and embodied research. Without

Galaxies are massive collections of stars, gas, dust, and dark matter. They are both the birthplace of stars and planets and the signposts of the universe. By studying what happens inside galaxies, we are able to understand the conditions under which stars form. By studying the galaxies themselves, we can understand how the environment shapes their structure and makeup. By