Spring 2027

This beginning-level dance course requires no previous dance training and welcomes absolute beginners who would like to start a day with physical practice and body attunement. Students are introduced to some basic principles of dancing by learning various movement patterns, choreographed sequences and by engaging in improvisational and

This class is a broad overview of professional music and sound practices that include sound and design in theaters, recording studios, concerts, clubs, museums, installations, performance ensembles, movies, games, podcasts, field recording, immersive environments, architectural spaces, schools, parks, historical sites, AI, AR, VR, health

This class focuses on musical architecture, by examining important and beautiful works from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, and discussing the traditional forms they exemplify. We will listen to works by Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, Brahms, Mahler, Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Berg, and Rzewski (among others), analyzing their structures in detail. Forms to be studied will

This course introduces students to a selection of global dance and music practices via scholarship and video that, while not exhaustive, will serve to expand students’ understanding of the meaningful roles these art forms can play in different cultural contexts. We will frame this exploration through a critical analysis of the Western

Discover birds like you’ve never seen or heard them before. This class takes an integrative approach to ornithology, as we will explore avian species from the perspective of evolution, natural history, development, ecology, conservation, physiology, genetics, behavior, functional morphology, and even quantum mechanics.

In this course, we will study the representation of the city of Paris on film in order to examine modernityʹs challenges to tradition. In particular, we will focus on urban planning and design as well the question of how urban communities and city dwellers react to increasing disconnectedness, anonymity, and solitude.

In this performance project, we will create a new original work in which a single “figure” emerges from the many bodies, beings, objects, places, and experiences that make up our world. Rather than imagining an individual as a fixed, separate identity, we will explore the possibility of a body composed of multiple presences and relationships. Each student will begin

The pessimist Arthur Schopenhauer writes, “In the first place, no man is happy but strives his whole life long after a supposed happiness which he seldom attains, and even if he does it is only to be disappointed with it.” What is the right attitude to the human condition? This advanced level course examines this

This course explores how photographers translate artistic concepts into the materiality of bookmaking, giving students insight into the basic steps of creating a photobook. The course will experiment with different book designs, paper qualities, digital printing, binding techniques, sequencing exercises, intervened photography, photo-collage, and layering. Students will be

Individual private lessons for advanced students, with focus on the classical repertoire. Students will meet with the instructor weekly on scheduled class days, at times to be arranged with the instructor. Two excused absences permitted, with every effort made for make-up lessons. Daily practice is expected, and participation in Tuesday evening music workshop and performance

This is a two credit composition workshop for students who want to practice their notated composing, and who have previously taken “Composing for Instruments” or another course requiring notational skills. This is a project class, with new pieces due every week. Students will gain fluency in the composing/notating process and confront some theory concepts along the way, by

Instructor will provide musical prompts such as chordal patterns, melodic fragments, and rhythms as a basis for evocative and expressive improvisation. While we will learn some music theory terminology, the class will de-emphasize sheet music in order to focus on navigating the keyboard itself. All experience levels are welcome.

"May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children." -- Rainer Maria Rilke This course is open to 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th year students who may join as directors, writers, actors, designers, or in more than one capacity. Think of this as a studio where you may hone many aspects of the craft of theatermaking

The term will be spent focusing on a teaching statement, evidence of teaching history, with a focus on intersectional Life writing. The continuation of the collection of documentation of

The term will be spent focusing on a teaching statement, evidence of teaching history, with a focus on intersectional Life writing. The continuation of the collection of documentation of

The term will be spent focusing on a teaching statement, evidence of teaching history, with a focus on intersectional Life writing. The continuation of the collection of documentation of

This course examines how cities in the Global South—and in some cases the Global North—are shaped by colonial histories, enduring power relations, and ongoing struggles over urban identity, citizenship, and development. It asks how past and present structures of power continue to shape urban space, and how cities

Lyric poetry prizes the personal "I," but what happens when writers embody the lives of objects, animals, robots, and environments? How does writing from these positions help illuminate the ways that the concept of "humanity" has excluded Black, POC, trans and gender-diverse, and disabled people? And what new possibilities are opened when we think and write beyond the human?

The course will be for sustained work on an animation or design project, and should be a space for both experimentation, ambition and a consistent endeavor.  Students will be expected to create a complete animation, a series of experiments, projection or interactive project.  The expectation is that students will be fully

Almost a century ago, Franklin D. Roosevelt alerted Americans to the impending global conflict pitting democracies founded on individual liberty against rising fascist dictatorships pursuing “final solutions.” Drawing inspiration from John Dewey’s progressive philosophy, FDR emphasized, ""In this conflict the part which education plays in each ideology is crucial. Democracy

In this course, we will examine French culture's engagement with questions of sexuality and gender, with a focus on authors, artists, theorists, and others who have questioned ideas of normative sexuality in the 20th and 21st centuries. Authors and texts to be studied will include Virginie Despentes, Paul Preciado,

By digging into the works of contemporary crime, spy, and thriller novelists, we will explore notions of narrative tension, good mystery versus bad mystery, red herrings, unreliable narrators, complex plots, anti-heroes, slick villains, the falsely accused and the downtrodden, not to mention the dark alleyways and the hidden compartments of fiction. How do these

As poets, we’re often conducting little experiments on the page: What happens if I break the line here? Can I make this a sestina? How many rhymes is too many rhymes? In this advanced poetry workshop, we will dig into the experimental impulse and explore rigorous play

With the practice of journalism undergoing its most profound changes since the invention of the television, this course will steep students in the traditions of criticism, literary non-fiction, reporting and cultural journalism that thrived during the golden age of print and have persisted in the Internet era. We’ll work our way through literary criticism from Robert Boswell

This course is writing-intensive course intended for seniors across methodologies who are in the final stages of their senior work. With Black studies serving as the overarching body of knowledge, this course provides its students with a deep and expansive exploration of the Black experience within the context of U.S. education. In doing so, this class aims to be a