Spring 2027

This course allows students more time to complete thesis project work.

Fundamentals of 2-D animation principles will be explored through drawing, from basic motion cycles to straight-ahead animation. Students will primarily work analog- pencil and pen on paper, with additional instruction in After Effects compositing workflow. Weekly exercises will explore a variety of animation techniques to create short

This course will focus on the learning of traditional Scottish and Irish melodies on the harp as well as developing foundational technique. This will include looking at body posture, the importance of relaxation and its relationship to developing good tone, and finger placement. In group lessons, students will learn melodies and exercises the traditional aural way, by ear,

Until Vaclav Havel was 53 years old he was a repressed playwright, and dissident. He had spent his adulthood doing menial jobs being imprisoned , isolated and always closely watched. On New Year’s Day 1990, less than a year after his final prison term, he became the first democratically elected President

A brief history of animated images from the 1500s to the present day including early devices to create sequential images, through to the invention of the rotoscope, avantgarde

We will work semi-chronologically from the late 19th to the early 21st century, examining how the “director” emerged as a seminal force in the experimental theater. Parallel movements in film will be considered, but our focus remains on live performance. We will read historic manifestos, critical responses, and examine videos and visual research. We may read contemporary

How did pre-modern culture understand the human body? How did it work? Where did it fit in the Great Chain of Being, and what differentiated men from women? Medicine has always been a hybrid of thinking, seeing, knowing, and doing. But what defined medicine in the past?  Was it a science, an art, or a random assortment of practices? Between the age of

This course offers a continuing introduction to the history and development of world theater and drama. We will experience the vibrant pageant of theater history through an exploration of its conventions and aesthetics, as well as its social and cultural functions. Starting in the nineteenth century, we will read representative plays ranging from the advent of stage Realism

Human rights are universal in principle, but often they are systematically violated in practice, especially in developing countries of the global south. This introductory course explores the international politics of human rights, with a particular focus on the developing world. Topics to be examined in lectures, written assignments, discussions

Each class begins with practices influenced by release-based approaches to contemporary floorwork. A fundamental principle of this work is to move as smoothly and efficiently as possible, without unnecessary effort or muscular tension, by allowing the body to make use of its natural mechanics, gravity, weight, and momentum. Through these practices, students learn to let go

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

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, 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 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.