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"May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children." -- Rainer Maria Rilke This course is open to 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th year students who may join as directors, writers, actors, designers, or in more than one capacity. Think of this as a studio where you may hone many aspects of the craft of theatermaking

Students will research their favorite games and use its framework to create reimagined experiences inspired by the nature of the games. For example, a classic game of hide-and-seek could be upcycled into an academic treasure hunt or a clue-based quest. Can you imagine what school would be like if the campus turned into a giant version of your favorite video game or board game?

Students will research their favorite games and use its framework to create reimagined experiences inspired by the nature of the games. For example, a classic game of hide-and-seek could be upcycled into an academic treasure hunt or a clue-based quest. Can you imagine what school would be like if the campus turned into a giant version of your favorite video game or board game?

This seminar will delve deeply into the life and work of D. W. Winnicott, the British psychoanalyst famous for his work on playing, internal creative life, and the interplay between creative and psychotic elements in fantasy. We will read about the British psychoanalytic world in which Winnicott developed; his biography; some of his popular work, including transcripts of his

Where do plays come from? In this course we’ll look at the bloodline of plays: origination myths, tales, folklore, and, of course, other plays. We’ll read and discuss plays by Aeschylus, Euripides, Shakespeare, Buchner, Zola and their followers – Racine, Alfred Jarry, Sarah Kane, Neal Bell, Elizabeth Egloff, and others.

"A human being is the best plot there is. " --John Galsworthy A beginning workshop in the fundamentals of playwriting, with exercises in such craft elements as structure, plot, dialogue, setting, gesture, and a special focus on inventing characters the audience can't forget. Assignments will include both written responses to readings and creative writing exercises that explore

What makes Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag a singularly perfect work of art that we can’t stop watching? How exactly does Beyonce’s cinematic album Lemonade capture and sustain our emotional attention, outside of her inherent god-like energy? How can I write a play that “feels” like that? In this introductory course, we will take a “study what you love” approach to playwriting.

Over the past two centuries U.S. business corporations have gained civil rights originally intended for flesh-and-blood people. In this course we will work as a team of artist-investigators to (1) understand how this happened; (2) what some of the downstream consequences have been; (3) review ways artists and activists have tried to intervene with this development through

... the [Living Newspaper] seeks to dramatize a new struggle – the search of the average American today for knowledge about his country and his world; to dramatize his struggle to turn the great natural and economic forces of our time toward a better life for more people.” — Hallie Flanagan, National Director of the Federal Theatre Project. This spring we will resurrect the

For our workshop, I’d like us to think about plays as being a combination of things. Of poetry and plot, in form (or structure). Of the personal and the political, in content. I’d so appreciate us thinking about this together because I’ve been thinking about this alone for quite some time. As I’ve thought about it, I haven’t been considering “poetry” and “prose” and “personal”

In this course, we will explore methods for using our senses both to inspire our writing and to create plays that engage an audience's faculties and imagination. Through writing exercises tailored to creating text that is meant to be spoken and lived in, participants will create writing that is inspired by images, objects, music, and food that they share with the class. In this

How can anthropology help us listen more critically and carefully? Each class session will consider one ethnographic approach, which students will apply to their listening. Following in the anthropological tradition, where concepts both reveal social processes and are themselves modified by the material at hand, students will consider how podcast episodes they listen to can

Poetry is as much a visual medium as it is a sonic one. What do we learn about the process of composing poems by experimenting closely with their visual aspects? How does working simultaneously with both text and image impact the creative process? What happens when writers break out of the Google doc and engage with the physical process of

Poesis is used as a way of forming meaning and knowledge that incorporates elements of creativity, self-reflection, and subjective experiences. This can lead to the development of new ways of understanding psychological constructs and ways of examining those constructs. Poesis has the potential to promote greater social justice and equity. Women's ways of knowing and other

Though poetry was an oral art form before it was anything else, its contemporary relationship to performance is varied and complex. What does it mean to write a poem that comes alive in the air? What happens to poems when they become embodied? And how have questions of race, class, gender, and sexuality historically shaped (and been shaped by) the work at the intersection of

Since Open AI’s release of ChatGPT, many have wondered—even panicked—about how this new technology would impact literature, including the field of poetry. But literature has always been shaped by the technology of its time. In this 2-credit class, we will look beyond the common assumption of poems as ideally “timeless” to examine how poetry has developed alongside (not against)

We will begin our study of War Poetry not on the beach before Troy or in the trenches of the first World War, but in our present moment, when, as legal scholar Mary Dudziak argues, wartime is no longer “an exception to normal peacetime,” but “the only kind of time we have.” What are War Poems when war is everywhere and always? Who does and does not get to write them? What kind

This class is directed toward the somewhat advanced vocal performer. They will learn about German Lieder, the wonderful confluence of text and music, which is a highpoint of the Romantic period in music. They will study and perform Schumann’s Dichterliebe, one of the greatest song cycles ever written. Students will together and separately learn all of the sixteen songs and

This is a course on the relationship of complex systems to conflict analysis. Concepts such as self-organization and improvisation, emergence, pattern recognition and complexity, feedback loops, nesting and topologies will all be examined as aspects of how complex problems are constructed. By looking at the 10 Step Complexity CR Model, we will analyze two case studies of

This is a course on the relationship of complex systems to conflict analysis. Concepts such as self-organization and improvisation, emergence, pattern recognition and complexity, feedback loops, nesting and topologies will all be examined as aspects of how complex problems are constructed. "Thinking in Systems" by Donella Meadows is the primary text. By looking at the 10 Step

This course looks at the application of complex systems analysis to problem-solving. Concepts such as self-organization, emergence and complexity will be examined in the context of case studies of specific conflicts and how they are or are not resolved. The central text is "Thinking in Systems" by environmental scientist, Donella Meadows as well as readings from scientists,

This course explores methods of translating imagined shapes into three-dimensional objects. Students will study how sub-division, approximation, and discretization can be used to separate forms into component parts. Course work will focus on how systematic breaking-down of form reveals qualities that can be intentionally altered, thus changing their properties (visible or

How can anthropology help us understand political dynamics around the world? This course will introduce students to a range of approaches anthropologists have developed in the study of politics and the political. The course will consider anthropological methods for studying the powerful, the state and institutions, and political

This class will investigate the nature of making objects that address current political issues relating to the upcoming presidential election. Students will be asked to explore, identify culturally held meanings, values, and imagery stemming from the political discussion of our national debate leading up to the November election. From these discussions students will create work

ART HISTORY This class will investigate the nature of making objects that address current political issues relating to the upcoming presidential election. Students will be asked to explore, identify culturally held meanings, values and imagery stemming from the political discussion of our national debate leading up to the November election. From these discussions students