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Artist's Portfolio: Parts I (the verbal) Part II (the visual) — DAN4150.01 (cancelled

Fall 2021

Instructor: Dana Reitz

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Credits: 4

This is for advanced students (juniors and seniors) of the performing arts and visual arts disciplines who wish to find the language, both verbally and visually, that is reflective of their true creative processes, helps clarify and further their own investigations, and is readily available to present to others. Finding a public language for what is the private process of

Dance Drama Music Visual Arts

Artistic Interventions as a Form of Protest: Performance and Social Movements (HOLD FOR VISA) —

Fall 2017

Instructor: Burcu Şeyben

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Credits: 4

The arts have always been one of the most effective means of political or social protest in history. Sometimes a work of art itself becomes a part of the protest whether or not it was so intended. In spring 2011 right before the Gezi Protests, Mi Minör, a play by Meltem Arıkan, was staged by a Turkish actor, Mehmet Ali Alabora, near the Gezi Park. Although Alabora and his play

Artist’s Portfolio — DAN4366.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Dana Reitz

Days & Time:

Credits: 2

Explaining artwork often goes against the grain, yet artists are regularly called upon to articulate their processes, tools, and dynamics of collaboration. To help secure any of the myriad forms of institutional support including funding, venues, and engagements, artists must develop–creatively and flexibly–essential skills. Finding a public language for what is the private

Dance

Arts and Cities: Aural and Visual Cartographies of East and Southeast Asia — APA2126.01

Fall 2015

Instructor: Susie Ibarra

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 4

Much of the expected urban growth has been predicted to occur in Asian cities and its megacities. This class studies city communities in Asia with the use of artists' aural and visual cartographies. Alongside mapping are the artists and activists creative work that challenges social, political, and environmental issues, and reimagines time and space in these communities. Field

CAPA Environment

Arts of Asia — AH2406.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 4

This course is an introductory survey of major artistic and cultural traditions of Asia. Selected works of art of India, China, and Japan from the prehistoric period to the twenty-first century in various medias including architecture, sculptures, bronzes, ceramics, paintings, calligraphy, and woodblock prints will be discussed. The course invites students to understand and

Visual Arts

Asceticism — HIS4131.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Stephen Higa

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Credits: 4

In our world of decadence and consumerism, it is almost impossible to fathom a world of discipline, renunciation, self-denial, and martyrdom. The records of early Mediterranean asceticism—from the Greco-Roman philosophers to the Christian saints—overflow with stories of men who stood on pillars for years on end and women who wandered the harsh deserts completely nude. In this

Social Science

Aspects of the Novel — LIT4193.01

Fall 2014

Instructor: annabel davis-goff

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 4

E.M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel (1927) is a delightful slim volume that is itself of the same high literary level as the novels that Forster describes. We will read some of Forster's own work, a selection of the books he writes about, and discuss his observations and theories. Students will write two papers.

Literature

Assessment and Diagnosis — CMH5101.01

Summer 2026

Instructor: Faculty TBA

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 3

This course provides students with the knowledge and skills needed to conduct clinical assessments and develop accurate diagnoses. Topics include clinical interviewing, the use of standardized assessment tools, and the application of the current DSM (DSM-5-TR) criteria. Students will learn to integrate assessment data into comprehensive treatment plans that

Clinical Mental Health Counseling (MA)

Assessment and Diagnosis in Expressive Arts Therapy — CME5000.01

Summer 2026

Instructor: Faculty TBA

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 3

Clinical Mental Health Counseling (MA) Expressive Arts Therapy

Astrogeology — ES2109.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Tim Schroeder; Hugh Crowl

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Credits: 4

***Title Change from Planetology*** This course will investigate the physical conditions and processes necessary for creating a habitable planet. We will study the formation of stars and planets, and the evolution of planets after formation into safe harbors for life. This will include investigation of how both stellar and geological processes affect the habitability of

Science Mathematics and Computing Environment

Attention Studio — APA4112.01

Spring 2022

Instructor: Sal Randolph

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Credits: 4

The Attention Studio is a lab class where we will engage in protocols and practices of sustained attention, most often in relation to works of art. Through these experiments we will explore the way objects and performances choreograph our attention, and study the internal movements of our own response. Our collective work will engage questions of attention that reach beyond

CAPA

Auden and Isherwood — LIT2498.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Brooke Allen and Mark Wunderlich

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Credits: 4

Poet W.H. Auden (1907-73) and novelist Christopher Isherwood (1904-86) were lifelong friends, literary collaborators, and occasional lovers. They met at school as small boys, saw each other frequently during their university years (Auden attended Oxford, Isherwood was at Cambridge), lived in Berlin during the rise of Nazism, and in 1939 emigrated together to America, where they

Literature

Audiovisual Performance — MPF4229.01

Fall 2018

Instructor: Senem Pirler

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Credits: 2

In this course, we will explore various forms of emerging practices in audiovisual media such as visual music, VJing, video/audio mashups, live Foley for video and movement. The readings and discussions will give an introduction the audiovisual performance practice as well as the history of early audiovisual tools, theories on audiovisual perception, and aesthetics of collage.

Music

Augustine's Confessions — HIS4113.01

Fall 2015

Instructor: Stephen Higa

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 2

It has been said that St. Augustine's Confessions--the spiritual autobiography of an Amazigh bishop from Roman North Africa--was a formative event in the history of subjectivity. Here we find an early and influential enunciation of many of the major themes that would come to preoccupy Western writers, philosophers, and theologians for centuries to come: memory,

Society Culture and Thought

Aural History — HIS2144.01

Fall 2015

Instructor: Stephen Higa

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 2

From religious chant to village bells to elevator muzak to noise pollution, sound has played a major role in human cultures and human experience since time immemorial. In this 2-credit course, students will approach and engage critically with sound, listening, hearing, and aurality as categories of historical analysis. In the first part of the course,

Society Culture and Thought

Authenticity and Modernity — PHI4107.01

Spring 2017

Instructor: Eileen Scully

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Credits: 4

“Just be yourself”: there is perhaps no piece of advice so trite and yet so confounding. We have all given and received the injunction to be our “true” selves, as if there were such a thing; we have criticized poseurs and pretenders; we have all stood in line for tickets to see a favorite artwork or performer up close and in person. We value

Society Culture and Thought

Autobiographical Memory — PSY2246.01

Spring 2026

Instructor: Anne Gilman

Days & Time: MO,TH 1:40pm-3:30pm

Credits: 4

What do we remember about our lives, and how do these memories contribute to our sense of self? This course will begin with an introduction to the scientific study of human memory to better understand how autobiographical memory brings episodic, semantic, and other types of memory together. We will then explore what autobiographical memory has revealed about the

Cultural Studies and Languages Linguistics Psychology

Avant Garde Art in China — CHI4507.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: Ginger Lin

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Credits: 4

Art is always somehow a reflection of the culture and society in which it is produced. In this class we will explore the ways in which contemporary (post-Mao) Chinese art reflects on modern Chinese culture and society. Each class or every other class, students will be given a packet with visual and written information on a particular work of art with a vocabulary list and

Cultural Studies and Languages

Avant Garde Art in China — CHI4507.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Ginger Lin

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

Art is always somehow a reflection of the culture and society in which it is produced. In this class, we will explore the ways in which contemporary (post-Mao) Chinese art reflects on modern Chinese culture and society. Each class or every other class, students will be given a packet with visual and written information on a particular work of art with a vocabulary list and

Languages

Avant Improv Ensemble — MIN4334.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Michael Wimberly

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Credits: 2

Avant Improv Ensemble is an experimental group of musicians who learn to take risks while improvising in the jazz and noise music traditions. The ensemble will touch on melodies and harmonic material in the vein of Ornette Coleman, Sun Ra, Charles Gayle, Brian Eno, Albert Ayler, Misha Mengelberg and others. Students must have a mid to advanced working knowledge on their

Music

Avant-Garde Art in China — CHI4507.01

Fall 2024

Instructor: Ginger Lin

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Credits: 4

During the Mao era, artistic expression in China was completely relegated to serving the propaganda interests of the CCP. After the post Mao opening, avant-garde artists, such as the Stars group, seized upon the opportunity to explore western artistic influences and champion individualism and freedom of expression. In this class we will explore the ways in which post-Mao

Cultural Studies and Languages

Avant-Garde Art in China — CHI4507.01

Fall 2022

Instructor: Ginger Lin

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

Cultural Studies and Languages

Bad Citizen: letting go of being good for a better world and A New Dream — MPF2167.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Being, FKA Kriss Mincey, MFA Teaching Fellow

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Credits: 4

This class examines what it means to perform the identity of a good artist, from the perspective of the performer, and how the tenets of good citizenship get in the way of doing our most radical—from the root—work. By making this inquiry, we reclaim the performance process as both a medium and a model for building relationships that

Music

Bad Romance: Shakespeare's Poetry — LIT4380.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 4

We will immerse ourselves in reading Shakespeare’s Sonnets and his Neoclassical poems, Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece. Shakespeare invented his own style of the sonnet, originally popularized by Petrarch in the 14th century. In the 154 sonnets published in 1609, Shakespeare dazzles us with his lexical, semantic, aural, syntactic, and

Literature

Bad Romance: Shakespeare's Poetry — LIT4380.01

Fall 2024

Instructor: Camille Guthrie

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

We will immerse ourselves in reading Shakespeare’s Sonnets and his Neoclassical poem, Venus and Adonis. Shakespeare invented his own style of the sonnet, now called the English sonnet. The word sonnet comes from the Italian sonetto, which means “a little sound or song”; it was a poetic form originally popularized by Petrarch in the 14th century. In the 154 sonnets, first

Literature