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Artist's Portfolio — DAN4366.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 2
Explaining artwork often goes against the grain, yet artists are regularly called upon to articulate their processes, tools, and dynamics of collaboration. To help secure any of the myriad forms of institutional support including funding, venues, and engagements, artists must develop–creatively and flexibly–essential skills. Finding a public language for what is the private
Dance Drama Music Visual Arts

Artist's Portfolio — DAN4366.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 2
Explaining artwork often goes against the grain, yet artists are regularly called upon to articulate their processes, tools, and dynamics of collaboration. To help secure any of the myriad forms of institutional support including funding, venues, and engagements, artists must develop–creatively and flexibly–essential skills. Finding a public language for what is the private
Dance Drama Music Visual Arts

Artist's Portfolio — DAN4366.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
Explaining art work often goes against the grain, yet artists are regularly called upon to articulate their processes, tools, and dynamics of collaboration. To help secure any of the myriad forms of institutional support including funding, venues, and engagements, artists must develop, creatively and flexibly, essential skills. Finding a public language for what is the private
Dance

Artist's Portfolio — DAN4366.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: dana reitz
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
Explaining art work often goes against the grain, yet artists are regularly called upon to articulate their processes, tools, and dynamics of collaboration. To help secure any of the myriad forms of institutional support including funding, venues, and engagements, artists must develop, creatively and flexibly, essential skills. Finding a public language for what is the private
Dance Drama Music Visual Arts

Artist's Portfolio — DAN4366.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 2
Explaining artwork often goes against the grain, yet artists are regularly called upon to articulate their processes, tools, and dynamics of collaboration. To help secure any of the myriad forms of institutional support including funding, venues, and engagements, artists must develop–creatively and flexibly–essential skills. Finding a public language for what is the private
Dance Drama Music

Artist's Portfolio — DAN4366.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 2
Explaining artwork often goes against the grain, yet artists are regularly called upon to articulate their processes, tools, and dynamics of collaboration. To help secure any of the myriad forms of institutional support including funding, venues, and engagements, artists must develop–creatively and flexibly–essential skills. Finding a public language for what is the private
Dance Drama Music Visual Arts

Artist's Portfolio — DAN4366.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
Explaining artwork often goes against the grain, yet artists are regularly called upon to articulate their processes, tools, and dynamics of collaboration. To help secure any of the myriad forms of institutional support including funding, venues, and engagements, artists must develop--creatively and flexibly--essential skills. Finding a public language for what is the private
Dance Drama Music Visual Arts

Artist's Portfolio: Parts I (the verbal) Part II (the visual) — DAN4150.01 (cancelled

Fall 2021
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 4
This is for advanced students (juniors and seniors) of the performing arts and visual arts disciplines who wish to find the language, both verbally and visually, that is reflective of their true creative processes, helps clarify and further their own investigations, and is readily available to present to others. Finding a public language for what is the private process of
Dance Drama Music Visual Arts

Artistic Interventions as a Form of Protest: Performance and Social Movements (HOLD FOR VISA) —

Fall 2017
Instructor: Burcu Şeyben
Credits: 4
The arts have always been one of the most effective means of political or social protest in history. Sometimes a work of art itself becomes a part of the protest whether or not it was so intended. In spring 2011 right before the Gezi Protests, Mi Minör, a play by Meltem Arıkan, was staged by a Turkish actor, Mehmet Ali Alabora, near the Gezi Park. Although Alabora and his play

Artist’s Portfolio — DAN4366.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 2
Explaining artwork often goes against the grain, yet artists are regularly called upon to articulate their processes, tools, and dynamics of collaboration. To help secure any of the myriad forms of institutional support including funding, venues, and engagements, artists must develop–creatively and flexibly–essential skills. Finding a public language for what is the private
Dance

Arts and Cities: Aural and Visual Cartographies of East and Southeast Asia — APA2126.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Susie Ibarra
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Much of the expected urban growth has been predicted to occur in Asian cities and its megacities. This class studies city communities in Asia with the use of artists' aural and visual cartographies. Alongside mapping are the artists and activists creative work that challenges social, political, and environmental issues, and reimagines time and space in these communities. Field
CAPA Environment

Arts of Asia — AH2406.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
This course is an introductory survey of major artistic and cultural traditions of Asia. Selected works of art of India, China, and Japan from the prehistoric period to the twenty-first century in various medias including architecture, sculptures, bronzes, ceramics, paintings, calligraphy, and woodblock prints will be discussed. The course invites students to understand and
Visual Arts

Asceticism — HIS4131.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Stephen Higa
Credits: 4
In our world of decadence and consumerism, it is almost impossible to fathom a world of discipline, renunciation, self-denial, and martyrdom. The records of early Mediterranean asceticism—from the Greco-Roman philosophers to the Christian saints—overflow with stories of men who stood on pillars for years on end and women who wandered the harsh deserts completely nude. In this
Social Science

Aspects of the Novel — LIT4193.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: annabel davis-goff
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
E.M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel (1927) is a delightful slim volume that is itself of the same high literary level as the novels that Forster describes. We will read some of Forster's own work, a selection of the books he writes about, and discuss his observations and theories. Students will write two papers.
Literature

Astrogeology — ES2109.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Tim Schroeder; Hugh Crowl
Credits: 4
***Title Change from Planetology*** This course will investigate the physical conditions and processes necessary for creating a habitable planet. We will study the formation of stars and planets, and the evolution of planets after formation into safe harbors for life. This will include investigation of how both stellar and geological processes affect the habitability of
Science Mathematics and Computing Environment

Attention Studio — APA4112.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Sal Randolph
Credits: 4
The Attention Studio is a lab class where we will engage in protocols and practices of sustained attention, most often in relation to works of art. Through these experiments we will explore the way objects and performances choreograph our attention, and study the internal movements of our own response. Our collective work will engage questions of attention that reach beyond
CAPA

Auden and Isherwood — LIT2498.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Brooke Allen and Mark Wunderlich
Credits: 4
Poet W.H. Auden (1907-73) and novelist Christopher Isherwood (1904-86) were lifelong friends, literary collaborators, and occasional lovers. They met at school as small boys, saw each other frequently during their university years (Auden attended Oxford, Isherwood was at Cambridge), lived in Berlin during the rise of Nazism, and in 1939 emigrated together to America, where they
Literature

Audiovisual Performance — MPF4229.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Senem Pirler
Credits: 2
In this course, we will explore various forms of emerging practices in audiovisual media such as visual music, VJing, video/audio mashups, live Foley for video and movement. The readings and discussions will give an introduction the audiovisual performance practice as well as the history of early audiovisual tools, theories on audiovisual perception, and aesthetics of collage.
Music

Augustine's Confessions — HIS4113.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Stephen Higa
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
It has been said that St. Augustine's Confessions--the spiritual autobiography of an Amazigh bishop from Roman North Africa--was a formative event in the history of subjectivity.  Here we find an early and influential enunciation of many of the major themes that would come to preoccupy Western writers, philosophers, and theologians for centuries to come:  memory,
Society Culture and Thought

Aural History — HIS2144.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Stephen Higa
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
From religious chant to village bells to elevator muzak to noise pollution, sound has played a major role in human cultures and human experience since time immemorial.  In this 2-credit course, students will approach and engage critically with sound, listening, hearing, and aurality as categories of historical analysis.  In the first part of the course,
Society Culture and Thought

Authenticity and Modernity — PHI4107.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Eileen Scully
Credits: 4
“Just be yourself”:  there is perhaps no piece of advice so trite and yet so confounding.  We have all given and received the injunction to be our “true” selves, as if there were such a thing; we have criticized poseurs and pretenders; we have all stood in line for tickets to see a favorite artwork or performer up close and in person.  We value
Society Culture and Thought

Autobiographical Memory — PSY2246.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Anne Gilman
Days & Time: MO,TH 1:40pm-3:30pm
Credits: 4

What do we remember about our lives, and how do these memories contribute to our sense of self?  This course will begin with an introduction to the scientific study of human memory to better understand how autobiographical memory brings episodic, semantic, and other types of memory together.  We will then explore what autobiographical memory has revealed about the

Cultural Studies and Languages Linguistics Psychology

Avant Garde Art in China — CHI4507.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Ginger Lin
Credits: 4
Art is always somehow a reflection of the culture and society in which it is produced. In this class, we will explore the ways in which contemporary (post-Mao) Chinese art reflects on modern Chinese culture and society. Each class or every other class, students will be given a packet with visual and written information on a particular work of art with a vocabulary list and
Languages

Avant Garde Art in China — CHI4507.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Ginger Lin
Credits: 4
Art is always somehow a reflection of the culture and society in which it is produced. In this class we will explore the ways in which contemporary (post-Mao) Chinese art reflects on modern Chinese culture and society. Each class or every other class, students will be given a packet with visual and written information on a particular work of art with a vocabulary list and
Cultural Studies and Languages

Avant Improv Ensemble — MIN4334.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Credits: 2
Avant Improv Ensemble is an experimental group of musicians who learn to take risks while improvising in the jazz and noise music traditions. The ensemble will touch on melodies and harmonic material in the vein of Ornette Coleman, Sun Ra, Charles Gayle, Brian Eno, Albert Ayler, Misha Mengelberg and others. Students must have a mid to advanced working knowledge on their
Music