Advanced Improvisation: Game of the Scene — DRA4380.01
This course is an in-depth exploration of improvised comedy scene work, with a central focus on finding and playing “Game.” Game is loosely defined as a pattern of unusual behavior that breaks from the pattern of your everyday life. In other words, Game is what's funny about your scene.
To play Game in a long-form scene, you’ll learn to answer three key questions:
Advanced Improvisation: Game of the Scene — DRA4380.01
This course is an in-depth exploration of improvised comedy scene work, with a central focus on finding and playing “Game.” Game is loosely defined as a pattern of unusual behavior that breaks from the pattern of your everyday life. In other words, Game is what's funny about your scene.
To play Game in a long-form scene, you’ll learn to answer three key questions:
Advanced Improvisation: Scene Work — DRA4386.01
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
Advanced Improvisation: Scene Work — DRA4386.01
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
Advanced Improvisation: The Game of the Scene — DRA4380.01
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
Advanced Improvisation: The Game of the Scene — DRA4380.01
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
Advanced Improvisation: The Game of the Scene — DRA4380.01
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
Advanced Improvisation: The Game of the Scene — DRA4380.01
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
Advanced Improvisation: The Harold — DRA4392.01
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
Advanced Individual Piano Instruction — MIN4333.01
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 Individual Piano Instruction — MIN4333.01
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 —
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
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
Advanced Jazz Piano — MIN4240.01
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.
Advanced Jazz Piano — MIN4240.01
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.
Advanced Jazz Piano — MIN4240.02
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.
Advanced Jazz Piano — MIN4240.01
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.
Advanced Jazz Piano — MIN4240.01
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.
Advanced Jazz Piano — MIN4240.01
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).
Advanced Leadership and Strategic Planning Workshop — APA4130.01
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
Advanced Lighting Technology — DRA4437.01
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
Advanced Linear Algebra — MAT4175.01
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.
Advanced Linear Algebra — MAT4175.01
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.
Advanced Linear Algebra, Group Theory, and Geometry I — MAT4342.01
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