Spring 2026 Course Search

Third Cinema — FV2316.01

Instructor: Beatriz Santiago Muñoz
Days & Time: WE 2:10pm-5:50pm
Credits: 4

This course is a seminar focusing on films that were made by filmmakers and collectives which saw themselves as inaugurating a new kind of filmmaking modeled neither on the commercial American filmmaking, nor on the European “Auteur” Cinema, instead crafting a third position, a cinema that was implicated in anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist struggles of the time. These works challenged ideas of authorship, questioned the role of the filmmaker in political transformation, and proposed alternatives to the forms of production that filmmaking made use of.

CDP: Senior Thesis Workshop — DAN4803B.01, section 1

Instructor: Jesse Zaritt
Days & Time: W 10:00AM-2:00PM
Credits: 4

This course is designed to be the culmination of the BFA program for all dance majors. Each student will propose a thesis project, develop goals and objectives for the semester, and present their work. Modes of practicing, situating and expressing thesis project research will be mobilized and extended through ongoing critical dialogue. We will attend to, in practice, the urgent questions facing our lives and the field of dance and performance. 

CDP: Senior Thesis Workshop — DAN4803B.02, section 2

Instructor: Faculty TBA
Days & Time: W, 10:00AM-2:00PM
Credits: 4

This course is designed to be the culmination of the BFA program for all dance majors. Each student will propose a thesis project, develop goals and objectives for the semester, and present their work. Modes of practicing, situating and expressing thesis project research will be mobilized and extended through ongoing critical dialogue. We will attend to, in practice, the urgent questions facing our lives and the field of dance and performance. 

Reading as a Collective Act: Thinking Through Dance and Performance — DAN4819B.01

Instructor: Donna Faye Burchfield
Days & Time: M 1:40PM-3:30PM, W 10:00AM-11:50AM
Credits: 4

This course aims to experiment with generative and alternative forms of reading that can be thought of as not only a methodology, but as a practice that supports us as we engage in research with, alongside and through study in dance and performance. We will ask ourselves what it means to read and “make sense” of texts and events today…together. 
*For BFA students this course satisfies Critical Studies credit.