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Examining Equality and Equity through the Analysis of Japanese Society in the Edo Period and Meiji Period — JPN4302.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

In this low-intermediate course students will learn and examine Japan’s drastic social changes during the Edo period and the Meiji period to investigate what equality and equity meant to Japanese people. During the Edo Period (1603-1868), Japan closed its doors to other countries for about two hundred fifty years, and this isolation helped Japan develop its own unique culture.

Cultural Studies and Languages

Examining Equality and Equity through the Examinations of Japanese Society in the Edo Period and Meiji Period — JPN4302.01

Fall 2022

Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

Cultural Studies and Languages

Examining Space — SCU2214.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

This introductory course will investigate basic building techniques and principles behind making Sculpture through experiential learning. A few weeks into term we will participate in an Iron Pour, understanding the practices of shaping wax and preparing sand-molds for participation. The students will also be introduced and immersed within a community of artists off campus. This

Visual Arts

examining space — SCU2214.01

Fall 2026

Instructor: John Umphlett

Days & Time: TH 8:30am-12:10pm

Credits: 4

Are you interested in taking a closer look at the immediate and collective spaces that we live in? What are some of the realities that exist around us and why/ how can we build work that pushes against these basic constructs.

This

Sculpture

examining space — SCU2214.01

Fall 2025

Instructor: John Umphlett

Days & Time: TH 8:30am-12:10pm

Credits: 4

This

Sculpture

Examining Space — SCU2214.01

Fall 2024

Instructor: John Umphlett

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

This introductory course will investigate basic building techniques and principles behind making Sculpture through experiential learning. Within the first couple of weeks of term we will participate in an Iron Pour. The students will shape wax and prepare sand-molds for participation. The students will also be introduced and immersed within a community of artists off campus.

Visual Arts

Exhibit Design- “oh the stitchery” — DES4109.01

Spring 2026

Instructor: Tilly Grimes

Days & Time: TU 8:30am-12:10pm

Credits: 4

Historical Dress: The Park-McCullough Project Spring ‘26

Working onsite at the local Park-McCullough Historic Governor’s Mansion, students will collaborate in the design of a new exhibition centered around the museum’s “stitchery” or sewing room.

Society Culture and Thought History Curatorial Studies Design

Exhibition Thematic Exposure — AH4101.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Andrew Spence

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

The primary goal in this class is for each student to create a theoretical thematic exhibition consisting of objects, artifacts, images or anything that has justifiable relevance. Originally born out of a visual art context, broader themes outside of visual art are possible. Students are expected to do independent research using source material from the library and the Internet

Visual Arts

Existentialism and Phenomenology — PHI2128.01

Fall 2014

Instructor: karen gover

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 4

Phenomenology is the philosophical study of the structures of human experience, whereas existentialism is the study of human existence. These two movements intersect and overlap in the history of philosophy. This course undertakes a survey of these movements and their central concepts as they are found in the writings of such thinkers as Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger,

Social Science

Existentialism and Phenomenology — PHI2128.01

Spring 2017

Instructor: Karen Gover

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

Society Culture and Thought

Expanded Bodies: Radical Art from Japan — DAN2433.01

Fall 2026

Instructor: Mina Nishimura

Days & Time: W 8:00AM-9:50AM

Credits: 2

Bodies carry histories, geographies, and invisible structures of everyday life.
In the quiet threshold of morning, we take time to sense and attune to these layers.

This fully remote, early-morning course invites guest artists based in Japan whose practices emerge from unique intersections of culture, daily life, and embodied research. Without

Dance

Expanded Performance — MPF4279.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Nicholas Brooke

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

Expanded and invented instruments utilizing electronics, object preparations, field recordings, and non-traditional performance techniques will be used to develop unique sonic vocabularies. Working with the premise that any sound can be an instrument we will work collaboratively to share our sounds, our scores and various approaches to music making. This seminar will serve as a

Music

Expanding Fields: Histories and New Practices of Curating the Rural — VA4152.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Anne Thompson

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

Artists and curators have long embraced the southwestern U.S. desert as the landscape equivalent of the sublime yet neutral “white cube.” This course addresses the history of land art and landscape-based institutions alongside current strategies for moving these practices into literal and metaphorical new territories. Lecture-based discussions and research assignments examine

Environment Visual Arts

Experiential Anatomy/Somatic Practices — DAN2149.01

Spring 2025

Instructor: Elena Demyanenko

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

This is a studio class for any discipline intended to deepen the understanding of your own moving body. We will be studying kinesthetic anatomy by approaching the material through visual, cognitive, kinesthetic, and sensory modes. Class time will be divided between discussion of anatomy and kinesthetic concepts, and engagement with the material experientially through movement,

Dance Drama

Experiential Anatomy/Somatic Practices — DAN2149.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Elena Demyanenko

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

This is a studio class for any discipline intended to deepen the understanding of your own moving body. We will be studying kinesthetic anatomy: approaching the material through visual, cognitive, kinesthetic, and sensory modes. Class time will be divided between discussion of anatomy and kinesthetic concepts, and engagement with the material experientially through movement

Dance

Experiential Anatomy/Somatic Practices — DAN2149.01

Spring 2022

Instructor: Elena Demyanenko

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

This is a studio class for students of any discipline intended to deepen the understanding of your own moving body. We will study kinesthetic anatomy by approaching material through visual, cognitive, kinesthetic, and sensory modes. Class time will be divided between discussion of anatomy and kinesthetic concepts, and engagement with the material experientially through movement

Dance

Experiential Anatomy/Somatic Practices — DAN4106.01

Fall 2013

Instructor: Elena Demyanenko

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 2

This is a studio class intended to deepen the understanding of your own moving body. We will be studying kinesthetic anatomy: approaching the material through visual, cognitive, kinesthetic, and sensory modes. Class time will be divided between discussion of anatomy and kinesthetic concepts, and engagement with the material experientially through movement visualization and

Dance

Experiential Anatomy/Somatic Practices — DAN2149.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Levi Gonzalez

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

This is a studio class for students of any discipline intended to deepen the understanding of your own moving body. We will study kinesthetic anatomy by approaching material through visual, cognitive, linguistic, kinesthetic, and sensory modes. Tools such as drawing and writing will become some of the building blocks for learning. Class time will be divided between discussion

Dance