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Finding Form: Dance — DAN4319.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 4
Looking at forms found in nature, architecture, music, drama, literature, etc., we search for examples to help formulate ideas and structures for movement-based creation. When making new artwork, we are constantly balancing and integrating the need for exploratory freedom and the desire for structural integrity. How do we use spontaneous impulse to help find form, and how do we
Dance Drama Visual Arts

Finding Form: Dance — DAN4319.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 4
Looking at forms found in nature, architecture, music, drama, literature, etc., we search for examples to help formulate ideas and structures for movement-based creation. When making new artwork, we are constantly balancing and integrating the need for exploratory freedom and the desire for structural integrity.  How do we use spontaneous impulse to help find form, and how
Dance

Finding Form: Dance — DAN4319.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 4
Looking at forms found in nature, architecture, music, drama, literature, etc., we search for examples to help formulate ideas and structures for movement-based compositional purposes. How can we as artists find form that best supports our investigations and challenges our working processes; how do we analyze, interpret and further utilize form that is inherent in work that is
Dance

Finding Form: Dance — DAN4319.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 4
Looking at forms found in nature, architecture, music, drama, literature, etc., we search for examples to help formulate ideas and structures for movement-based compositional purposes. How can we as artists find form that best supports our investigations and challenges our working processes; how do we analyze, interpret and further utilize form that is inherent in work that is
Dance

Finding Form: Dance — DAN4319.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 4
Looking at forms found in nature, architecture, music, drama, literature, etc., we search for examples to help formulate ideas and structures for movement-based creation. When making new artwork, we are constantly balancing and integrating the need for exploratory freedom and the desire for structural integrity. How do we use spontaneous impulse to help find form, and how do we
Dance

Finding Form: Dance — DAN4319.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Looking at forms found in nature, architecture, music, drama, literature, etc., we search for examples to help formulate ideas and structures for movement-based compositional purposes. How can we as artists find form that best supports our investigations and challenges our working processes; how do we analyze, interpret and further utilize form that is inherent in work that is
Dance

Finding Form: Dance — DAN4319.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 4
Looking at forms found in nature, architecture, music, drama, literature, etc., we search for examples to help formulate ideas and structures for movement-based creation. When making new artwork, we are constantly balancing and integrating the need for exploratory freedom and the desire for structural integrity. How do we use spontaneous impulse to help find form, and how do we
Dance Drama Visual Arts

Fine Art Digital Printing — PHO4220.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
This class explores how to make fine art black and white and color inkjet prints from digital files. Students will learn how to edit digital media with Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom by using non-destructive workflows to preserve the integrity of their files. The course will emphasize developing technical proficiency along with making meaningful decisions on when, why, and how
Visual Arts

Fine Art Digital Printing — PHO4220.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Eddy Aldana
Credits: 2
This class explores how to make fine art black and white and color inkjet prints from digital files. Students will learn how to edit digital media with Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom by using non-destructive workflows to preserve the integrity of their files. The course will emphasize developing technical proficiency along with making meaningful decisions on when, why, and how
Visual Arts

First Hundred Days (Again) — APA2030.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: David Bond
Credits: 2
Marx once quipped that all historical personages happen twice, as it were: "First time as tragedy, second time as farce." Marx clearly got the second coming of Trump wrong: the first time was a farce, this time around its tragedy. The bewildering saga of the 2024 presidential election and bludgeoning start to the new administration in 2025 has overturned much of the
CAPA Society Culture and Thought

First World Problems: Microcinema and popular media — CHI4325.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Ginger Lin
Credits: 4
“First world problems” has become a prolific meme-generating phrase. However, it can have a deeper meaning. How is Chinese and Taiwanese society dealing with their own “First world problems” while simultaneously dealing with those of their own unique histories? These are some of the questions we will explore through the lenses of Chinese language microcinema and other popular
Cultural Studies and Languages

First-Year Dance Intensive — DAN2107.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Terry Creach
Credits: 4
Primarily for first-years, but for any student who has a serious interest in dance, whether or not they have previous dance experience. We will consider many aspects of dance making, including an investigation of the physical sensations and impulses that inform our moving; the development of one’s own physical awareness and movement skills; improvisational structures that test
Dance

First-Year Dance Intensive — DAN2403.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
Credits: 4
Primarily for first-years, but for any student who has a serious interest in dance, whether or not they have previous dance experience. We will consider many aspects of dance making, embodiment, and performance. We will work towards constantly evolving ways to be one’s own teacher, by recognizing the patterns, heightening awareness of observation and selecting easier, more
Dance

First-Year Dance Intensive — DAN2107.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Terry Creach
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Primarily for first-years, but for any student who has a serious interest in dance, whether or not they have previous dance experience. We will consider many aspects of dance making, including an investigation of the physical sensations and impulses that inform our moving; the development of one’s own physical awareness and movement skills; improvisational structures that test
Dance

First-Year Dance Intensive — DAN2107.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Terry Creach
Credits: 4
Primarily for first-years, but for any student who has a serious interest in dance, whether or not they have previous dance experience. We will consider many aspects of dance making, including an investigation of the physical sensations and impulses that inform our moving; the development of one’s own physical awareness and movement skills; improvisational structures that test
Dance

First-Year Dance Intensive — DAN2107.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Terry Creach
Credits: 4
Primarily for first-years, but for any student who has a serious interest in dance, whether or not they have previous dance experience. We will consider many aspects of dance making, including an investigation of the physical sensations and impulses that inform our moving; the development of one’s own physical awareness and movement skills; improvisational structures that test
Dance

First-Year Dance Intensive — DAN2107.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: terry creach
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Primarily for first-years, but for any student who has a serious interest in dance, whether or not they have previous dance experience. We will consider many aspects of dance making, including an investigation of the physical sensations and impulses that inform our moving; the development of one's own physical awareness and movement skills; improvisational structures that test
Dance

First-Year Dance Intensive — DAN2107.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Terry Creach
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Primarily for first-years, but for any student who has a serious interest in dance, whether or not they have previous dance experience. We will consider many aspects of dance making, including an investigation of the physical sensations and impulses that inform our moving; the development of one's own physical awareness and movement skills; improvisational structures that test
Dance

First-Year Dance Intensive — DAN2107.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
Credits: 4
Primarily for first-years, but for any student who has a serious interest in dance, whether or not they have previous dance experience. We will consider many aspects of dance making, embodiment, and performance. We will work towards constantly evolving ways to be one’s own teacher, by recognizing the patterns, heightening awareness of observation and selecting easier, more
Dance

Fitzgerald and Hemingway — LIT2275.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: doug bauer
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway were arguably the preeminent literary figures in America in the first quarter of the Twentieth century. Their work and their lives were both closely intertwined and dramatically contrasting. Each came from the conservative Midwest. Each enjoyed stunning early success. Each made his permanent mark in a very different fashion as a
Literature

Five Approaches to Acting — DRA4170.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Kirk Jackson
Credits: 4
Taking as our premise that acting is the study of the art of human relationships (actor to actor as well as actor to audience) this course is a comprehensive overview of the theories behind the practice of various ways an actor works from a script to create a character to tell a story. Using the text book "Five Approaches to Acting" by David Kaplan as a study guide, as well as
Drama

Five Approaches to Acting — DRA4170.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Kirk Jackson
Credits: 4
Taking as our premise that when we study acting we study the art of human relationships (actor to actor as well as actor to audience), this course is an overview of the theories behind the practice of various ways actors work from a script to create characters to tell a story. Analysis of film performances, written responses, and extended work on one scene will be the focus of
Drama

Five Obstructions — MCO4125.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
Days & Time: MO,TH 3:40pm-5:30pm
Credits: 4

A song feedback collective, focused on how musical restrictions can spur us to growth. Over the course of the term, students will write five songs (or revise a single song in radical ways) based on the critique and decisions of the group. We’ll discuss how to form supportive but insightful critique while challenging each other to go new places. What does it take to create a

Composition

Five Obstructions — MCO4125.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
Credits: 4
A song feedback collective, focused on how musical restrictions can spur us to growth. Over the course of the term, students will write 5 songs (or revise a single song in radical ways) based on the critique and decisions of the group. We’ll discuss how to form supportive but insightful critique while challenging each other to go new places. What does it take to create a song
Music

FLEABAG: A Workshop about Structure — DRA2224.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Sherry Kramer
Credits: 1
Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s transcendent ode to longing creates some of the most inescapable structural gravities in recent memory.  Spend three Saturday afternoons talking about the precision and elegance of the way structure works in this remarkable piece of time bound art. We’re going to talk about direct address, structural reasons why season 2 is better than season 1,
Drama