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Hybrid Performances: Animation, Video Movement — MA4206.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Sue Rees

Days & Time:

Credits: 2

Animation, Video Movement is an interdisciplinary class that includes students with a concentration in dance, animation or video. The intention is to create hybrid performance pieces in which those disciplines are closely interwoven in an attempt to find a form that is an independent art form in itself. We will develop common language, scores, and systems in an

Dance Visual Arts

Hybrids: Alternative Approaches in Photography — PHO4215.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

Students in this interdisciplinary course focus on combining photography with other artistic disciplines. They explore the techniques that can directly manipulate the image before, during and after recording the photograph. Experimentation and creative risk taking throughout the various assignments is encouraged. Through this process of visual exploration and

Visual Arts

Hybrids: Alternative Photographic Methods — PHO4215.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: Terry Boddie

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

Students in this interdisciplinary course will focus on combining photographic media with other materials and artistic disciplines. They will explore the techniques that directly manipulate the image before, during and after recording photograph. Experimentation and creative risk taking throughout the various assignments will be stressed. Through this process of

Visual Arts

Hyper Body! — DAN2432.01

Spring 2027

Instructor: Kota Yamazaki

Days & Time: MO,TH 10:00am-11:50am

Credits: 2

Each class begins with practices influenced by release-based approaches associated with European contemporary floorwork. Through these practices, students learn to let go of unnecessary tension and rediscover their relationship with gravity, the floor, and the body's own natural responsiveness. From there, we move into center work, investigating how the body

Dance

Hyper Body! — DAN2156.01

Spring 2026

Instructor: Kota Yamazaki

Days & Time: TU,FR 8:30am-10:20am

Credits: 2

This Beginner level course is designed and recommended for students with prior dance experience or equivalent training in any form of physical expression.

The aim is to encounter the inner energy and passion that dance evokes from within the body, alongside the choreographic language of Trisha Brown, which is rooted in neutrality and free from unnecessary movement.

Dance

Hyper Body! - Anarchic Ballet to Water Movement to African Dance to Floor Ninja to Body Architecture to Shining Zombie to Unknown Transformation….. — DAN4423.01) (cancelled 8/2/2023

Fall 2023

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

Days & Time:

Credits: 2

This course is designed for students who have dance experience or equivalent physical training in any movement form. We welcome anyone who would like to recultivate, reactivate, improve, deepen, expand, develop or disrupt their relationship to their own knowledge and experience of physical movements and commit to consistent physical

Dance

Hyper Body! – Anarchic Ballet to Water Movement to African Dance to Floor Ninja to Body Architecture to Shining Zombie to Unknown Transformation….. — DAN2156.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Mina Nishimura

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Credits: 2

This beginning-intermediate level course is designed and recommended for students who have some dance experience or equivalent physical training in any movement forms. Anyone who would like to recultivate, reactivate, improve, deepen, expand, develop or break the relationship to their own body and commit to consistent physical learning, are welcomed. In order to have our minds

Dance

Hyper Body! – Anarchic Ballet to Water Movement to African Dance to Floor Ninja to Body Architecture to Shining Zombie to Unknown Transformation….. — DAN2156.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

Days & Time:

Credits: 2

This intermediate-level movement practice course is designed for students who have dance experience or equivalent physical training in any movement form. We welcome anyone who would like to recultivate, reactivate, improve, deepen, expand, develop or disrupt their relationship to their own knowledge and experience of physical movements

Dance

Hyper Body!- Anarchic Ballet to Water Movement to African Dance to Floor Ninja to Body Architecture to Shining Zombie to Unknown Transformation….. — DAN2156.01) (updated course description as of 11/9/2023

Spring 2024

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

Days & Time:

Credits: 2

This course is designed for students who preferably have ballet experience or equivalent physical training in any movement forms. Anyone who would like to recultivate, reactivate, improve, deepen, expand, develop or break the relationship to their own body and commit to consistent physical learning, are welcomed. This course also might support to correct any distortions in

Dance

I am a Material — SCU4112.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: John Umphlett

Days & Time:

Credits: 2

What is a more valuable piece of matter? String, cotton-balls and rubber bands may be what should be affixed to your unique prosthetic to complete a given task… This course will cover information and techniques related to body casting, wire rope rigging, fabrication, and other building processes.The students will be asked to keep a journal which will be the most important

Visual Arts

I am a Material — SCU4112.02

Spring 2020

Instructor: John Umphlett

Days & Time:

Credits: 2

What is a more valuable piece of matter? Could it be something that will degrade in this art world and be okay? String, cotton-balls and rubber bands may be what should be affixed to your unique prosthetic to complete a task given. This course will cover information and techniques related to body casting, wire rope rigging, fabricating, building processes and encourage

Visual Arts

I am a Material — SCU4112.02

Spring 2017

Instructor: John Umphlett

Days & Time:

Credits: 2

Visual Arts

I Got a Right to the Tree of Life: Music of the Women’s Suffragist Movement — MHI2113.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

Days & Time:

Credits: 2

Through songs and stories this course will explore the journey for Women’s suffrage in the United States. Spanning the mid 1800s to the Voting Rights Act in 1965, the content will include voices of African American women, who are often underrepresented in these studies.

Music

Ideas Arrangements Effects — APA2178.02

Fall 2019

Instructor: Kenneth Bailey, MFA Teaching Fellow

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Credits: 2

How do we come to understand what we are doing when attempting to change or interfere with a messy complex social problem? How can we know if the thing we want to do to improve a social problem will work or backfire? There are many lessons from psychiatrists like RD Laing to cultural heroes like Hermès on this topic. Ideas Arrangements Effects will overview several lessons from

CAPA

Ideas Arrangements Effects — APA2178.02

Spring 2021

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 2

CAPA

Identità e cucina: Food in Italian Regional Cultures — ITA4216.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: Barbara Alfano

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Credits: 4

In Italy, regional cuisine is an essential component of local identities and a crucial element to understand diversity in the national context. This course focuses on the food practices and typical dishes of Italian regional cultures as the students advance in the study of the language. This course is offered at the elementary level and conducted in Italian. The class will

CAPA Cultural Studies and Languages

Identities and Affinities — PHI4109.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: Rotimi Suberu

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Credits: 4

Each of us has multiple social identities. We belong to different social groups and are categorized along various social dimensions. What is involved in being a member of a race, gender, class, nation, sexual affinity, ethnic, or religious group? Are these groups somehow “natural” or objectively real? Are these groups “social constructs”? What, ultimately, is the social world

Society Culture and Thought

Idiosyncratic Tools — SCU2205.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: John Umphlett

Days & Time:

Credits: 2

Use a hammer to hit a nail into a chunk of wood. Anyone may smash a cube of ice, carve a toy car or with strong encouragement, allow the hammer to sign its initials on your thumb - VBS (violet burning sunset.) Idiosyncratic devices enhance one's own senses. Once we completely understand the specific functions for which a tool is designed, we begin to tune

Visual Arts

Idiosyncratic Tools — SCU4216.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: John Umphlett

Days & Time:

Credits: 2

Use a hammer to hit a nail into a chunk of wood. Anyone may smash a cube office , carve a toy car or with strong encouragement, allow the hammer to sign its initials on your thumb - VBS (violet burning sunset.) Idiosyncratic devices enhance one's own senses. Once we completely understand the specific functions for which a tool is designed, we begin to tune senses back to the

Visual Arts

If I Loved you Less, I Might be able to Talk about it More: Jane Austen's Heroines — LIT2510.02

Fall 2020

Instructor: Manuel Gonzales

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Credits: 4

In this seminar, we will train our eyes on four of Jane Austen’s novels — Pride and Prejudice, Northanger Abbey, Mansfield Park, and Persuasion — with an aim to discover what connects and binds Jane Austen’s heroines together, what separates these women from each other, and to explore Austen’s evolution as a writer through the evolving nature of her protagonists. We will

Literature

If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more: Jane Austen's Heroines — LIT2510.01

Fall 2026

Instructor: Manuel Gonzales

Days & Time: WE 2:10pm-5:50pm

Credits: 4

In this seminar, we will train our eyes on all six of Jane Austen’s novels — Pride and Prejudice, Northanger Abbey, Mansfield Park, Persuasion, Sense and Sensibility, and Emma — with an aim to discover what connects and binds Jane Austen’s heroines together, what separates these women from each other, and to explore Austen’s evolution as a writer through the

Literature

If Only There Were a Mediator Between Us: The Book of Job and Conflict Resolution — MED2119.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Michael Cohen

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Credits: 2

The Book of Job is one of the great philosophical books of the Bible which addresses many relevant issues including, but not limited to, justice, friendship, responding to life's trials. Written as a series of dialogues between Job and his friends its pages address conflict through many forms and issues. We will read and discuss its pages as we explore the process of resolving

CAPA

Image Objects — PHO4103.02

Spring 2018

Instructor: Elizabeth White

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Credits: 2

This course meets the second seven weeks of the term, and through group critiques, assignments, artist slideshows, and readings, explores the broad range of physical forms that photographic works can take. As recent exhibitions and publications such as What is a Photograph? (The International Center of Photography, 2014), A Matter of Memory: The Photograph as Object in the

Visual Arts

Image Objects — PHO4103.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Elizabeth White

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

As recent exhibitions and publications such as What is a Photograph? (The International Center of Photography, 2014), A Matter of Memory: The Photograph as Object in the Digital Age (George Eastman Museum, 2016), and Photography is Magic (Charlotte Cotton, Aperture, 2015) attest, there are many contemporary artists whose work with photography draws increased focus to material

Visual Arts

Image Objects — PHO4103.01

Fall 2024

Instructor: Liz White

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

As exhibitions and publications such as What is a Photograph? (The International Center of Photography, 2014), A Matter of Memory: The Photograph as Object in the Digital Age (George Eastman Museum, 2016), and Photography is Magic (Charlotte Cotton, Aperture, 2015) attest, there are many contemporary artists whose work with photography draws increased focus to material and

Visual Arts