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Exploring the Work and Legacy of Jerzy Grotowski — DRA2219.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Jennifer Rohn
Credits: 2
"No one else in the world, to my knowledge, no one since Stanislavski, has investigated the nature of acting, its phenomenon, its meaning, the nature and science of its mental, physical, emotional process as deeply and completely as Grotowski"-Peter Brook Jerzy Grotowski is considered one of the most influential theater practitioners of the 20th century. In this course we will
Drama

Exploring the World through Research — ANT4238.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Miroslava Prazak
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
How do social scientists gather primary data for the study of social life? This workshop course provides an opportunity for students to learn and practice the fundamental non-positivist research techniques necessary to study of social phenomena, namely interviewing, participant observation, and focus group discussions. Workshops and field projects will provide the opportunity
Society Culture and Thought

Exploring the World through Research — ANT4238.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
How do social scientists gather primary data for the study of social life? This workshop course provides an opportunity for students to learn and practice the fundamental non-positivist research techniques necessary to study of social phenomena, namely interviewing, participant observation, and focus group discussions. Workshops and field projects will provide
Society Culture and Thought

Exploring the World Through Research — ANT4238.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Miroslava Prazak
Credits: 4
How do social scientists gather primary data for the study of social life? This workshop course provides an opportunity for students to learn and practice the fundamental non-positivist research techniques necessary to study of social phenomena, namely interviewing, participant observation, and focus group discussions. Workshops and field projects will provide the opportunity
Society Culture and Thought

Extinction and the Endangered Species Act — POP2258.03

Spring 2019
Instructor: David Mears
Credits: 1
We are living in the midst of a mass extinction caused by humans, the most significant loss of living species since an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. In the United States, the Endangered Species Act has provided a framework for efforts by the federal government to protect the most critically threatened and endangered species. Despite evidence of
CAPA Environment

Extragalactic Astronomy — PHY4216.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Hugh Crowl
Credits: 4
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
Science and Mathematics

Extragalactic Astronomy — PHY4216.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: hugh crowl
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
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
Science Mathematics and Computing

Extragalactic Astronomy Cosmology — PHY4103.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Hugh Crowl
Credits: 4
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
Science and Mathematics

Extragalactic Astronomy and Cosmology — PHY4103.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Hugh Crowl
Credits: 4
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
Science and Mathematics

Extragalactic Astronomy and Cosmology — PHY4103.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Hugh Crowl
Credits: 4
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
Science and Mathematics

Extreme Music Production Techniques — MSR2238.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Eli Crews
Credits: 2
This course will dive deep into non-traditional music production techniques, and look at the history of pioneering musicians, engineers and producers whose work changed how we listen to recordings, including the work of Karlheinz Stockhausen, Joe Meek, George Clinton, Brian Eno, Sun Ra, Pierre Henry, The Residents, Mark Mothersbaugh, and Public Enemy. This history will be a
Music

Faculty Performance Production — DRA4143.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Kirk Jackson Kerry Ryer-Parke
Credits: 4
A faculty directed production is to be determined. Mostly likely it will be a contemporary playwright and include live music either centrally or peripherally; music direction by Kerry Ryer-Parke and stage direction by Kirk Jackson, with a target performance date of early November. This course is for students cast or otherwise assigned production responsibilities and represents
Drama Music

Faculty Performance Production: Airline Highway by Lisa D’Amour — DRA4381.01, section 1) (days/times updated 5/5/2023

Fall 2023
Instructor: Dina Janis
Credits: 4
Airline Highway examines a tight knit community of “outsiders” over the course of a single, legendary day.  The Hummingbird Hotel is the figurative or literal home for a group of strippers, French Quarter service workers, hustlers, and poets who are bound together by their bad luck, bad decisions, and complete lack of pretense.  Presiding over them is Miss Ruby, a
Drama

Faculty Performance Production: Airline Highway by Lisa D’Amour — DRA4381.02, section 2

Fall 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
Airline Highway examines a tight knit community of “outsiders” over the course of a single, legendary day.  The Hummingbird Hotel is the figurative or literal home for a group of strippers, French Quarter service workers, hustlers, and poets who are bound together by their bad luck, bad decisions, and complete lack of pretense.  Presiding over them is Miss Ruby,
Drama

Faculty Performance Production: Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull — DRA4141.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Jean Randich
Credits: 4
Chekhov declared he was “flagrantly disregarding the basic tenets of the stage” in writing this comedy with “a view of a lake…little action, and five tons of love.” In the play’s openness, and its shunning of melodramatic plot in favor of the messiness of life, The Seagull feels as unconventional today as when it debuted. Our production of this ensemble-based play will also
Drama

Faculty Performance Production: August: Osage County — DRA4264.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Kirk Jackson
Credits: 4
Chronicling the dissolution of three generations of an American family, August: Osage County (2008 winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Tony and Drama Desk Awards for Best Play) has been called “a fusion of epic tragedy and black comedy”. Actor/playwright Tracy Letts sourced the darkly comedic and viciously nihilistic drama from his own family and tailored the characters for a
Drama

Faculty Performance Production: Everybody — DRA4152.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Kirk Jackson
Credits: 4
Everybody by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is a modern interpretation of the 15thC Morality play, Everyman, in which the character of Everyman is summoned by God to make account of his life before passing into the unknown afterlife. Everyman solicits entities such as Friendship, Kinship, and Love to accompany him, only to discover that few of these can be taken from this life into the
Drama

Faculty Performance Production: Everything That Never Happened by Sarah Mantell — DRA4152.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Jean Randich
Credits: 4
"Jessica and Lorenzo are in love, but in order to be together they must plan an escape from her father’s house, the Venetian ghetto, and her entire culture. Taking place in the gaps between "The Merchant of Venice" and the realities of Jewish history, "Everything That Never Happened" is a play about a father, a daughter, disguise, assimilation, pomegranates, and everything
Dance Drama Music

Faculty Performance Production: Gloria by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins — DRA4308.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Shawtane Bowen
Credits: 4
This funny, trenchant, and powerful play follows an ambitious group of editorial assistants at a notorious Manhattan magazine, each of whom hopes for a starry life of letters and a book deal before they turn thirty. But when an ordinary humdrum workday becomes anything but, the stakes for who will get to tell their own story become higher than ever. "These are people you can
Drama

Faculty Performance Production: Great Expectations — DRA4575.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Kirk Jackson
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Long before the feel-good self-help industry gave us "pay it forward", Charles Dickens gave us Great Expectations. The story of orphan Pip's social, moral and educational coming-of-age serves as critique of the wages of progress and the eternal value of friendship and gratitude. Dickens' genius for creating memorable characters is robus, from young Pip, loyal Joe, his spiteful
Unknown

Faculty Performance Production: Phillip Christian Smith's 2017 political thriller, "The Chechens" — DRA4143.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Jean Randich
Credits: 4
This is a faculty performance production of a new play, “The Chechens,” by Phillip Christian Smith, Black playwright and 2020-2021 Playwrights Realm Writing Fellow. “In modern Chechnya homosexuals are rumored to be held in camps. Can one family protect their brother suspected of being gay, or will they honor kill him to protect the name of the family? What prevails in the end
Drama

Faculty Performance Production: Sarah Gancher’s “The Place We Built” — DRA4160.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Jean Randich
Credits: 4
Sarah Gancher’s award-winning 2016 play, "The Place We Built": “In a deserted neighborhood in post-communist Budapest, young bohemians squat in an abandoned building and build a bar. Reclaiming the Jewish identity their parents’ generation abandoned after the Holocaust, they create a vibrant new subculture that combines big ideas and intense debates with wild parties.
Drama

Faculty Performance Production: Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" — DRA4308.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Jean Randich
Credits: 4
“The course of true love never did run smooth.” Shakespeare weaves the rebellious lovers, rude mechanicals, and fairies into the woods and everyone is transformed. This production will cast a dada/surrealist light on this popular comedy of gender friction, identity confusion, and the push and pull of rationality and dream logic. In this multi-media production we will re
Drama Music

Faculty Performance Production: Sweat by Lynn Nottage — DRA4383.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Shawtane Bowen
Credits: 4
Filled with warm humor and tremendous heart, Sweat tells the story of a group of friends who have spent their lives sharing drinks, secrets, and laughs while working together on the factory floor. But the post Y2K economy is changing, NAFTA is a new reality and rumors fly about layoffs. Promotions and pride inevitably collide, forming cracks in decades-old friendships that
Black Studies Drama