Spring 2027

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

This course allows students to self-design coursework 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 coursework 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 insiderʹs perspective on a cultural and communicative system whose ideas, customs, and

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

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.

This course is intended for the student who is looking to build a robust studio practice. Experimenting with materials, techniques, and styles in painting will be encouraged in order to develop an artistic sensibility while instituting regular work habits. Assigned projects and independent work are intended to develop problem-solving as

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.

This intermediate movement class progresses from foundational skeletal mobility sequences toward more expansive and complex movement forms. The warm-up focuses on joint articulation and range of motion, examining how these relate to alignment, readiness, and efficiency in movement. These principles then extend into traveling sequences and longer compositional phrases. 

Since the early 20th century cameras have been on the move, not always stuck to a fixed point of view but rambling, sometimes overhead or moving as fast as a train. Cameras take on the movement cues from the culture—peering over the shoulder, through keyholes, onto phone screens in moments of cultural paranoia,or drone-ing about like the all-seeing eye of warfare. In

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.  <

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.  <

In this course, students will continue to develop their throwing skills and define their own approach to using the potter’s wheel as a tool for generating forms. They will expand their form vocabulary and further integrate form and fired surface. Students interested in function will examine associated questions. All students will explore the

This class uses the lens of the Alexander Technique to teach principles of mindfulness and awareness in action. The Alexander Technique is a method for cultivating awareness and creating the conditions for change to emerge in our movement patterns, thought processes, and sensory experiences. Using these principles one can discover movement possibilities that are supportive

How do you design a computer program to build a world when you don’t know in advance how big that world will get? A snake eats and grows longer, segment by segment. A fleet of alien invaders fills the screen, each one tracking its own position and trajectory. A dictionary contains a quarter of a million words, and your program needs to search through all of them. This course

The dramaturg serves as a powerful medium in the theatre. They bridge the past and the present, the creative team and the audience, while providing critical generosity and historical and literary insight. In this course, we will learn about the history and practice of dramaturgy, while learning how the critical and research skills of the dramaturg can apply to a wide array

This course is an introduction to the magic of copper plate Intaglio. We will explore various techniques to prepare our plates including hand working and acid etching with materials such as rosin resists and sugar lifts. By the end of term, we will be printing in color. Ultimately, the overall goal of our endeavors will be to begin a dialog about artistic production in a

What in family is given, what is found, what is made? This seminar explores a range of methods developed through the anthropological study of kinship. Students will explore what is revealed, through these methods, about the very texture of relations and relatedness. By considering how kinship is imbricated with various

The purpose of this course is twofold: first, to immerse students in the rich linguistic setting of Vermont and its immediate neighbors, and second, to introduce them to the basic methodologies of field research in sociolinguistics and related disciplines.  Thematically, the course will consider language diversity at three different

This course explores the art and science of mixing and producing audio for both emergent immersive formats and traditional legacy platforms. Students will gain hands-on experience with spatial audio technologies such as Dolby Atmos, Ambisonics, and binaural mixing, while also mastering industry-standard techniques for stereo and 5.1

QAnon, The Big Lie, “crisis actors,” The Great Replacement, climate change denialism, and vaccine skepticism. The epistemic landscape of the early 21st century is marked, perhaps more than any other time in recent memory, by fast-spreading misinformation, disinformation, and conspiracy theories. So much so that the newsmagazine Politico recently