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TMD: Practice + Process — DAN4831B.01, section 1

Instructor: Katie Swords Thurman
Days & Time: MO,TH 3:40pm-5:30pm
Credits: 2

Each Practice + Process course is designed around the research/pedagogic interests of the faculty member leading the class. The overall curricular structure positions studio practice, creative process and critical reading, thinking and languaging as integrated elements within one course, enabling students to move between modes of learning, reflection and making.

TMD: Practice + Process — DAN4831B.03, section 3

Instructor: Faculty TBA
Days & Time: MO,TH 3:40pm-5:30pm
Credits: 2

Each Practice + Process course is designed around the research/pedagogic interests of the faculty member leading the class. The overall curricular structure positions studio practice, creative process and critical reading, thinking and languaging as integrated elements within one course, enabling students to move between modes of learning, reflection and making.

Effort Lab: Improvisation Workshop — DAN2424.01

Instructor: Londs Reuter
Days & Time: MO,TH 3:40pm-5:30pm
Credits: 2

This class will introduce students to basic concepts of improvised dancing with particular focus on effort.  Class will begin with an embodied check-in and a gentle warm-up. Weekly exercises will move students through various investigations regarding effort, from organ systems to Buddhist teachings to personal preferences to the laws of Physics. While the course's references will be wide-ranging, the objective of the class will always be to learn by doing and to physicalize knowledge. 

Human Rights in Action — APA2349.02

Instructor: Andrea Galindo
Days & Time: WE 10:00am-11:50am & WE 2:10pm-4:00pm
Credits: 2

In 1948, Elanor Roosevelt, instrumental for the approval of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, said “In a true sense, human rights are a fundamental object of law and government in a just society. Human rights exist to the degree that they are respected by people in relations with each other and by governments in relations with their citizens.”