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Advanced Improvisation: Scene Work — DRA4386.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Shawtane Bowen
Days & Time: MO,TH 3:40pm-5:30pm
Credits: 2

In this 7-week course, we’ll explore a variety of approaches to improvised scene work, focusing on techniques beyond the Upright Citizens Brigade paradigm. Emphasizing Chicago-style improv, we’ll shift away from a strict ‘Game’ focus and instead prioritize relationship and character.

Get ready to jump in, take risks, and perform hundreds of scenes as you sharpen your

Drama

Advanced Improvisation: Scene Work — DRA4386.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Shawtane Bowen
Credits: 2
In this 7-week course, we will explore different approaches to improvised scene work with an emphasis on methods that exist outside the Upright Citizens Brigade paradigm. These include more Chicago-style improv exercises and techniques, with less emphasis on 'Game', and more of a focus on relationship and character. What time we do spend on 'Game' will be with respect to 'group
Drama

Advanced Improvisation: The Game of the Scene — DRA4380.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Shawtane Bowen
Credits: 4
Advanced Improvisation: GOTS is an in-depth study of improvised comedy scene work. The central theme of this course is finding and playing “Game.” In order to find a Game in a long form improvised scene, you typically need to be able to answer three questions: What is the situation? What is the first unusual thing? If this is true, then what else is true. We’ll
Drama

Advanced Improvisation: The Game of the Scene — DRA4380.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Shawtane Bowen
Credits: 4
Advanced Improvisation: GOTS is an in-depth study of improvised comedy scene work. The central theme of this course is finding and playing “Game.” In order to find a Game in a long form improvised scene, you typically need to be able to answer three questions: What is the situation? What is the first unusual thing? If this is true, then what else is true? We’ll
Drama

Advanced Improvisation: The Game of the Scene — DRA4380.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Shawtane Bowen
Credits: 4
Advanced Improvisation is an in-depth study of improvised comedy scene work. The central theme of this course is finding and playing "Game." In order to find a Game in a long form improvised scene, you typically need to be able to answer three questions: What is the situation? What is the first unusual thing? If this is true, then what else is true. We'll be
Drama

Advanced Improvisation: The Game of the Scene — DRA4380.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Shawtane Bowen
Credits: 4
Advanced Improvisation is an in-depth study of improvised comedy scene work. The central theme of this course is finding and playing “Game.” In order to find a Game in a long form improvised scene, you typically need to be able to answer three questions: What is the situation? What is the first unusual thing? If this is true, then what else is true. We’ll be
Drama

Advanced Improvisation: The Harold — DRA4392.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Shawtane Bowen
Credits: 4
In this course, we will learn how to perform 'The Harold'. The Harold is a long-form improvised form developed by Del Close. It is a collage of scenes inspired by a single suggestion which are interwoven and connected. Students, now with a solid understanding of scene work and 'Game', will come to learn the Harold structure and perform full Harolds both in class and in their
Drama

Advanced Individual Piano Instruction — MIN4333.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Christopher Lewis
Credits: 2
Private piano instruction. Study of instrumental technique and musical interpretation of classical repertoire. Requirements: attendance at weekly lessons; participation in Music Workshop; performance at end-of-term recital. Students accepted by audition.
Music

Advanced Individual Piano Instruction — MIN4333.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Christopher Lewis
Credits: 2
Private piano instruction. Study of instrumental technique and musical interpretation of classical repertoire. Requirements: attendance at weekly lessons; participation in Music Workshop; performance at end-of-term recital. Students accepted by audition.

Advanced Interdisciplinary Projects in Emusic —

Spring 2015
Instructor: Andrea Parkins
Credits: 2
This course focuses on the creation of interdisciplinary collaborative projects that include sound as a primary component, pairing advanced e-music students with students working in other disciplines including but not limited to the arts.  Students will form collaborative teams, with each team developing a semester-long compositional, installation, performance or

Advanced Intermediate Improvisation: Dynamic Movement — DAN4241.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 2
In this Advanced Intermediate Improvisation class we will focus on finding and building a dynamic movement vocabulary.  Students will be learning to observe, listen, trust, respect and respond to every moment without forcing their own movement choices or imposing connections with someone else.  Throughout the course, we will pay attention to personal physical language
Dance

Advanced Jazz Piano — MIN4240.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Jen Allen
Credits: 2
Weekly private instruction in jazz piano to be arranged with instructor. Explore and develop skills and knowledge required to effectively play non-classical piano repertoire. Styles covered: blues, pop, folk, salsa, bossa-nova and jazz. Create bass lines, chord voicings, stylistic rhythms, melodies and improvised solos.
Music

Advanced Jazz Piano — MIN4240.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 1
Intermediate-to-Advanced piano skills, a good understanding of music theory (basic major and minor scales + chord inversions) and the ability to read music notation are required. Audition and/or permission of the instructor.
Music

Advanced Jazz Piano — MIN4240.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 1
Weekly private instruction in jazz piano to be arranged with instructor. Explore and develop skills and knowledge required to effectively play non-classical piano repertoire. Styles covered: blues, reggae, salsa, bossa-nova and jazz. Create bass lines, chord voicings, stylistic rhythms, melodies and improvised solos.
Music

Advanced Jazz Piano — MIN4240.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Bruce Williamson
Credits: 2
Weekly private instruction (online) in jazz piano to be arranged with instructor. Explore and develop skills and knowledge required to effectively play non-classical piano repertoire. Styles covered: blues, reggae, salsa, bossa-nova and jazz. Create bass lines, chord voicings, stylistic rhythms, melodies and improvised solos.
Music

Advanced Jazz Piano — MIN4240.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Jen Allen
Credits: 2
Weekly private instruction in jazz piano to be arranged with instructor. Explore and develop skills and knowledge required to effectively play non-classical piano repertoire. Styles covered: blues, reggae, salsa, bossa-nova and jazz. Create bass lines, chord voicings, stylistic rhythms, melodies and improvised solos.
Music

Advanced Jazz Piano — MIN4240.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Bruce Williamson
Credits: 2
Weekly private instruction in jazz piano offered to experienced pianists interested in developing the knowledge and skills necessary to play various non-classical styles. Areas covered: chord-voicings, chord-scales, reharmonization of chord progressions and stylistic approaches to improvisation (both melodically and rhythmically).
Music

Advanced Leadership and Strategic Planning Workshop — APA4130.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: alison dennis
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
The problems we face today are too great for any one person to solve alone. But what does it practically take to lead meaningful change and advance public action? What leadership capacities are needed now to move ourselves and others forward strategically and adaptively in a changing world? This course will support student leaders and entrepreneurs who are engaged in forwarding
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Advanced Lighting Technology — DRA4437.01

Spring 2027
Instructor: Davison Scandrett
Days & Time: WE 2:10pm-4:00pm
Credits: 2

As the tools for lighting design become increasingly complex and advanced, so must the understanding of the artists using them.  This course will explore some of the most important technologies used in contemporary professional lighting design. This includes not only the moving lights, LEDs, and control consoles used to create our

Dance Drama Design

Advanced Linear Algebra — MAT4175.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Andrew McIntyre
Credits: 4
This is a second course on linear algebra. The primary focus will be on matrix decompositions (especially spectral, singular value, and QR decompositions), related concepts (e.g. Moore-Penrose psuedoinverse), and their applications. Applications will include least squares, principal component analysis, google search, data compression, and discrete and fast Fourier transforms.
Science and Mathematics

Advanced Linear Algebra — MAT4175.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Andrew McIntyre
Credits: 4
This is a second course on linear algebra. The primary focus will be on matrix decompositions (especially spectral, singular value, and QR decompositions), related concepts (e.g. Moore-Penrose psuedoinverse), and their applications. Applications will include least squares, principal component analysis, google search, data compression, and discrete and fast fourier transforms.
Science and Mathematics

Advanced Linear Algebra, Group Theory, and Geometry I — MAT4342.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Andrew McIntyre
Credits: 4
This advanced class combines a traditional abstract algebra curriculum with topics in linear algebra and geometry. Topics include: introductory group theory; Sylow theorems; isometries of the Euclidean plane; symmetries of wallpaper patterns; isometries of the hyperbolic plane and Kleinian groups; elementary Lie groups and their discrete subgroups; Lie algebras; spectral
Science and Mathematics

Advanced Linear Algebra, Group Theory, and Geometry II — MAT4129.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Andrew McIntyre
Credits: 4
This advanced class combines a traditional abstract algebra curriculum with topics in linear algebra and geometry. Topics include: introductory group theory; Sylow theorems; isometries of the Euclidean plane; symmetries of wallpaper patterns; isometries of the hyperbolic plane and Kleinian groups; elementary Lie groups and their discrete subgroups; Lie algebras; spectral
Science and Mathematics

Advanced Mediation — APA4206.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: David Bond
Credits: 1
This course is an advanced level of training in mediation. Advanced mediator skills are featured, including effective neutral intervention, constructive communication, reframing, problem framing, interest‐based negotiation, and agreement writing. Students will participate in daily role‐play exercises, read and present articles, and write a reflection essay or short project.
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