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Faculty Performance Production: Airline Highway by Lisa D’Amour — DRA4381.02, section 2

Fall 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 2
Airline Highway examines a tight knit community of “outsiders” over the course of a single, legendary day.  The Hummingbird Hotel is the figurative or literal home for a group of strippers, French Quarter service workers, hustlers, and poets who are bound together by their bad luck, bad decisions, and complete lack of pretense.  Presiding over them is Miss Ruby,
Drama

Families: Love and Power in the Domestic Sphere — ANT2120.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Miroslava Prazak
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Credits: 4
Interpersonal relations constitute the cement of society. What does it mean to be a sibling, a friend, a spouse or a lover? We will examine relatedness as a fundamental aspect of society and social organization by looking at some of the classic and most recent anthropological findings on the topic of family, kinship, friendship, networking, and community. We will analyze how
Society Culture and Thought

Fine Art Digital Printing — PHO4220.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 2
This class explores how to make fine art black and white and color inkjet prints from digital files. Students will learn how to edit digital media with Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom by using non-destructive workflows to preserve the integrity of their files. The course will emphasize developing technical proficiency along with making meaningful decisions on when, why, and how
Visual Arts

First World Problems: Microcinema and popular media — CHI4325.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Ginger Lin
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Credits: 4
“First world problems” has become a prolific meme-generating phrase. However, it can have a deeper meaning. How is Chinese and Taiwanese society dealing with their own “First world problems” while simultaneously dealing with those of their own unique histories? These are some of the questions we will explore through the lenses of Chinese language microcinema and other popular
Cultural Studies and Languages

Five Obstructions — MCO4125.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
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Credits: 4
A song feedback collective, focused on how musical restrictions can spur us to growth. Over the course of the term, students will write 5 songs (or revise a single song in radical ways) based on the critique and decisions of the group. We’ll discuss how to form supportive but insightful critique while challenging each other to go new places. What does it take to create a song
Music

Form and Process: Introduction to Painting — PAI2107.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Ann Pibal
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Credits: 4
This course introduces a variety of materials, techniques and approaches to working with oil paint. Emphasis is placed on developing and understanding of color, form and space as well as individual research and conceptual concerns. The daily experience of seeing, along with examples from art history and contemporary art, provide a base from which investigations are made. Formal
Visual Arts

Foundations of Photography/Analog — PHO2204.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Jonathan Kline
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Credits: 4
This course is designed to allow students to explore photography using analog cameras and black and white film. Students will acquire basic skills in 35mm camera handling, light meters and exposure, film development, and making enlargements in the wet labs. In addition the class will research the formal and socio-political content of contemporary practitioners working globally
Visual Arts

Foundations of Photography: Digital Practice — PHO2153.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Liz White
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Credits: 4
This course offers an overview of foundational tools and techniques in digital photographic practice and aims to help students find new sources of inspiration, deepen their creative work, and enhance their ability to present it. Students will learn to shoot with digital SLR cameras using manual settings, manage, process, and manipulate digital image files, properly scan
Visual Arts

From Concept to Reality: Participatory Action Research and Restorative Practice — APA4312.02

Fall 2023
Instructor: Alisa Del Tufo
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Credits: 2
In this seven week class we analyze the ways that Participatory Action Research (PAR) and Restorative Practice can work together to create and sustain programs that are truly transformative. How can we better align restorative theory and practice in our work? The concepts and values embodied in restorative justice should be consistent with the practices and structures through
CAPA

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

Fall 2023
Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida
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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

From the Stoics to Ubuntu: Philosophies of the Good Life — PHI2149.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Catherine McKeen
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Credits: 4
This class examines a variety of answers to the ancient question: How do I live a good life? We’ll engage with thinkers from diverse traditions across time and space as we clarify our own understanding of what makes life worth living and as we articulate a more developed conception of the good life. Readings will include texts from Greek and Roman antiquity, selections from
Society Culture and Thought

Fundamentals of Creative Writing — LIT2394.01, section 1

Fall 2023
Instructor: Jenny Boully
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Credits: 4
In this highly generative class, we will begin by investigating sound, music, image, and form in poetry and how these poetic elements are presented in fiction. From fiction, we will study narrative, character, plot, and setting. Finally, we will progress towards personal nonfiction, fusing the elements of our poetry and fiction investigations. We will read classical and
Literature

Fundamentals of Creative Writing — LIT2394.02, section 2

Fall 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 4
The art of creative writing is also the art of being a witness to the world. In this class, we will learn what forms creative writing can take—focusing primarily on fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction—and discover new ways to see the raw materials of our lives.We will exercise our imaginations through generative experiments and keeping an observation notebook; identify
Literature

GANAS — APA4154.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher
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Credits: 4
In terms of public action, Ganas remains a community-driven, cross-cultural association that offers students volunteer opportunities to engage with the predominantly undocumented Latine migrant worker population. We maintain relationships with local organizations and members while developing new ones, along with more conventional classes and readings. Over the past year it has
CAPA

Genesis — HIS2220.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Carol Pal
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Credits: 4
Genesis is the first book in a compilation known collectively as the Bible. It is a text of enormous literary value, and one of our earliest historical chronicles, providing foundational material for Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Yet how many of us know what it actually says? How did it come together, what is the narrative, and how does it relate to ideas, cultures, and
Society Culture and Thought

Ghostly Body- The Art of Absence — DAN2349.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Mina Nishimura
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Credits: 2
This course requires no previous dance experience, and is open to anyone who is interested in the art of absence or art that deals with the presence of things we cannot see -- the invisibles, empty space and silence – found across different art forms and practices. We will investigate the potentiality of “in-between space” and “subject-less body,” while introducing some
Dance

Graduate Assistantship in Public Action — APA5101.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
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Credits: 4
Graduate students in Public Action are integrated into the CAPA and related discipline areas as teaching assistants. In consultation with the faculty, MFA candidates develop an assistantship schedule of approximately 5 hours weekly.
CAPA

Graduate Research in Dance — DAN5305.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Dana Reitz
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Credits: 6
This course is designed to assist graduate students with the research and development of their new work. The weekly format is determined with the students. In class, they show works-in-progress, try out ideas with their colleagues, and discuss issues involved in their creative processes. Though the class meets only once a week, students are expected to spend considerable time
Dance

Graduate Research in Public Action — APA5102.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
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Credits: 6
This class is designed for MFA students to research and develop new work, show work-in-progress, be in critical dialogue with their colleagues, and discuss issues involved in the development of new work. The weekly format is determined with the students. Outside of class, students develop their own independent creative projects that will be presented to the public, either
CAPA

Graduate Teaching Fellow Assistantship in Dance — DAN5304.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Dana Reitz
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Credits: 4
Graduate Teaching Fellows in Dance are integrated into the dance program as teaching assistants. In consultation with their academic advisors and the dance faculty, MFA candidates develop an assistantship schedule of approximately ten hours weekly; the courses they develop and teach are listed in the curriculum. All Teaching Fellows bring their own professional histories and
Dance

Growing a body like a plant — DAN2014.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: luciana achugar, MFA Teaching Fellow
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Credits: 2
This movement practice course is open to all levels of experience and even no experience at all with body conditioning or dance. The course is approached as a form of exercise that functions as a ritual for creating a deeper relationship to our bodies and a practice of “growing” our bodies organically from the process of tending to its needs for more strength, mobility,
Dance

Hello World: An Introduction to Drawing — DRW2122.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Colin Brant
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Credits: 4
The practice of drawing from observation brings us into direct contact with experiencing the visual world. Working from the human figure, landscape, plants and animals, or any other subject that inspires the imagination, this course introduces the fundamentals of seeing and translation with various drawing materials and approaches. The goals of the course include the
Visual Arts

Historical Dress: Drawing Connections Exploring Historical Icons Through Representation in Film and Art — DRA2320.02

Fall 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
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Credits: 2
Part lecture, part seminar and part student presentation, this course will be a detective mission in which students unpack contrasting depictions of historical costumes, learn to find the context around those depictions, and discover how clothes work by drawing and dimensionalizing garments. The source material will be representations in film and art, including work from Sofia
Drama