Fall 2026

Our country is changing rapidly—can a play help us make sense of where we are (gulp), and where we’re headed? In this course, we will read ambitious, formally inventive plays written within the last fifty years that attempt to capture some fundamental truth about the United States: its violence and despair as well its beauty and possibility. Readings will likely include Tony

Students propose an independent study plan with approval from Donna Faye Burchfield and select an approved thinking partner/mentor.

Students propose an independent study plan with approval from Donna Faye Burchfield and select an approved thinking partner/mentor.

Students propose an independent study plan with approval from Donna Faye Burchfield and select an approved thinking partner/mentor.

Through mentor-approved, independently paced work, students develop and schedule their own weekly, planned creative practices using student-initiated resources and/or classes.  Mentors guide students through the designed plan that can include a combination of practices, techniques, technologies, and methodologies.The study format

Through mentor-approved, independently paced work, students develop and schedule their own weekly, planned creative practices using student-initiated resources and/or classes.  Mentors guide students through the designed plan that can include a combination of practices, techniques, technologies, and methodologies.The study format

Students will work with their advisor to self-design study through combining and creating new pathways through the curriculum.

This course can earn variable credit (1, 2, 3 or 4 credits).

This course allows students to self-design course work by combining topics and approaches from the Practice LABs and the Study LABs to meet required hours. The Individualized LABS take the form of a series of self-directed study immersions.

This course allows students to self-design course work by combining topics and approaches from the Practice LABs and the Study LABs to meet required hours. The Individualized LABS take the form of a series of self-directed study immersions.

Viewed from the outside, the French-speaking world offers enticing images of beauty, pleasure, and freedom. From the inside, however, it is a complicated, often contradictory world where implicit codes and values shape the most basic aspects of daily life. This course will give you an insider’s perspective on a cultural and communicative system whose ideas, customs, and

In this course, students will arrange 2 hours per week of instruction time individually or in groups with the instructor in order to gain the specific graphic skills necessary for the intermediate studio course. Students will have the opportunity to discuss problems, worksheets, and design assignments prior to studio. This portion of the course is

This course starts with a series of directed assignments through which you will practice a variety of manual and digital drawing and modeling skills. As the group becomes familiar with a common representational language, we will segue into a term-long architectural design project employing digital and handmade drawings and models. You will work individually

Instrumental Study on Guitar. Continued studies from Beginning Guitar. Advanced study in fret-board harmony and theory, play in different tunings, increase chord vocabulary and repertoire.

Instrumental Study on Guitar.  Continued studies from Beginning Guitar. Advanced study in fret-board harmony and theory.

This course is intended for students with some playing and reading experience.

Students will expand upon a repertoire of scales and chords.

They will study and learn to play selected compositions.

Intermediate Video builds on the concepts and technical skills introduced in Intro to Video, and has a different theme each term. This semester of Intermediate Video will be focused on the following thematic, conceptual and formal questions. What are the truth claims made by different genres and forms of film and video? How have artists

For students with some prior singing experience. This class is designed to refine awareness and coordination of the mind and body and develop a reliable vocal technique applicable to all styles of singing and speaking performance.  <

For students with some prior singing experience. This class is designed to refine awareness and coordination of the mind and body and develop a reliable vocal technique applicable to all styles of singing and speaking performance.  <

Interstellar is defined as a vast region within galaxies and between stars. How do we as musicians connect to this interstellar region metaphorically, spiritually, or sonically through our music? Many musicians, such as John Coltrane, David Bowie, Sun Ra, Pink Floyd, Kraft Work, Miles Davis, Jimi Hendrix,

An introduction to 16mm film techniques, students will shoot and edit analog 16mm film, develop by hand and finally transfer film to video. Through screenings, experiments and hands-on workshops students will learn about cinematography and the photochemical process. Taking advantage of the special tactile, tangible nature of analog

This is an introductory course on the theory and practice of analyzing and displaying geo-spatial information. The methods that students will learn have wide-ranging applications in the natural and social sciences. Students will learn how to utilize mapping and spatial geographic information systems software to analyze patterns within spatial datasets and communicate

This course will look at the versatile program of Max/MSP/Jitter, a high-level programming platform for sound and visuals. Our focus will be on the sonic capabilities of the program, though we will dip occasionally into visuals, video, and sensing technologies. Students will develop research and projects based on their interests and abilities and must

This class will focus on historical methods of electronic music composition through a contemporary lens. We will study synthesis in depth, and the development of early analog synthesizers, while learning how these techniques have influenced contemporary software design. While the class will focus

In this introductory course, we will read, examine, discuss, and design in conversation with a selected literature of recorded audio, sound design practice, and history. This course will provide the foundational technical, historical, and contextual/cultural support to your knowledge of working in music and sound design in music, theater,

In 1962, a group of programmers at MIT created Spacewar!, one of the first video games ever made. By the end of this course, you’ll build your own version of it. Along the way, you’ll learn what computer science actually is, which turns out to be less about coding and more about systematic design.

We use Racket, a language designed for