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Adobe CC for the Moving Image Artist — CANCELLED

Fall 2015

Instructor: Colin Z. Brant

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 2

This seven-week course is designed for students of all skill levels who want to expand their understanding of video making from a technical vantage point. The focus will be on video editing in Premiere Pro, and the workflow of Adobe’s Dynamic Link between other applications like Photoshop and After Effects. Students will be asked to complete weekly assignments.

Visual Arts

Advanced techniques; welding and metal fabrication. — SCU4229.01

Spring 2026

Instructor: John Umphlett

Days & Time: MO 1:40pm-5:20pm

Credits: 2

In this course we will focus on cutting and welding non-ferrous metals. Hand cutting and CNC assisted plasma cutting will be the methods in which stock will be cut. The fabrication processes will begin through brazing methods (acetylene) for connecting non-similar metals. There will also be instruction on pinpoint forging as well as

Sculpture

Advanced Workshop for Painting and Drawing: The Contemporary Idiom — PAI4216.01

Fall 2025

Instructor: J Blackwell

Days & Time: WE 2:10pm-5:50pm

Credits: 4

This course is for experienced student artists with a firm commitment to serious work in the studio. Students will work primarily on self-directed projects in an effort to refine individual concerns and subject matter. Students will present work regularly for critique in class as well as for individual studio meetings with the

Painting

Contemporary Chinese Poetry — CHI4220.01

Spring 2026

Instructor: Ginger Lin

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 5

While the language of classical Chinese poetry is practically inaccessible to even today’s native speakers of Chinese, the poetry of the five contemporary poets studied in this course is written in the vernacular and serves as a rich source of authentic texts for this course, which integrates language learning with poetry study. The

Chinese

Future Generations: Urban and Rural Revitalization and the Arts —

Fall 2015

Instructor: Susie Ibarra

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 4

This course examines the art practices in city, town and village communities both past and present to better understand its effectiveness with multiple generations in a community. How have artists and their communities engaged and intervened with public life? Students will study historical and current artists works in communities that address public issues of

"A Celebration Service" - Dance Ensemble — DAN2123.01

Fall 2015

Instructor: Terry Creach

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 1

To mark Meredith Monk’s fifty years of performing, Tom Bogdan will reconstruct Monk’s “A Celebration Service” for the 51�� community. Bogdan, an original cast member in the work, will cast an ensemble of singer/dancers (see the music listing for "A Celebration Service") and will schedule intensive weekend dance rehearsals with dancer/singer Allison Easter to

Dance

"A Celebration Service," Meredith Monk — MPF4109.01

Fall 2015

Instructor: Thomas Bogdan

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 4

To mark Meredith Monk’s fifty years of performing, Tom Bogdan will reconstruct Monk’s “A Celebration Service” for the 51�� community. Bogdan, an original cast member, in the work will cast an ensemble of singers to be joined by an ensemble of 10 dancers, supervised by Terry Creach, to perform this spiritually inspired performance piece--created by

Dance Music

"Beastly and Beautiful": Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita — LIT2520.01

Spring 2022

Instructor: Jenny Boully

Credits: 4

(Important Notice: This course focuses on the novel Lolita, which can be disturbing to some readers. Our class discussions will not be able to circumvent the narrative of an older man exploiting a child. Please be aware of this difficult material before registering for the course.) In Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita (1955), Humbert Humbert writes, “I am trying to describe these

Literature

"Culture" in a Globalized World — ANT2115.01) (cancelled 10/10/2024

Spring 2025

Instructor: Cecilia Salvi

Credits: 4

This introductory course explores the ways that the idea of culture underpins legal and political discourses, frameworks and agendas. Using the work of post-colonial, feminist and legal anthropologists, we will do a close (and interesting!) reading of primary sources, such as UN protocols and conventions, asylum and refugee principles, and development and anti

"Spain" Image and Ideology — SPA2110.01

Fall 2014

Instructor: luis gonzalez-barrios

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 4

Students with little or no Spanish will learn the language through an immersion in the iconography associated with the “Spain” created during the first third of the 20th century. This period witnessed the eruption of the mass media (press, radio, cinema, tv), which in conjunction with the plastic arts (drawing, painting, sculpture) was crucial in the construction of certain

Languages

"the splendor of truth": James Joyce and the Tedium of Sublimity — LIT4590.01

Fall 2024

Instructor: Jenny Boully

Credits: 4

When asked to define "claritas," our (shall we dare say?) hero Stephen Dedalus in Jame Joyce's A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man responds thus: "The connotation of the word, Stephen said, is rather vague. Aquinas uses a term which seems to be inexact. It baffled me for a long time. It would lead you to believe that he had in mind symbolism or idealism, the supreme

Literature

#Stop Asian Hate: Taking Actions Against Hate — JPN4711.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida

Credits: 4

Since the start of COVD-19, harassment and violence against Asian people has been on the rise in the US. Under the Human Rights Law, discriminating anyone due to the basis of race, age, nationality, and disability is illegal, and educating the public about their rights and discussing diversity and inclusion have been a key element of educational programs and institutions.

Cultural Studies and Languages

(In)Justice and (In)Equality — PSY4208.01

Fall 2013

Instructor: Ronald Cohen

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 4

Distinctions between justice and injustice, and between equality and inequality, underlie some of the most fundamental dimensions of social life. This course will address several questions about the relation between inequality and injustice Among them will be the following: 1. What conditions do people consider (un)just, and what factors contribute to

Unknown

(Re)Center: Reimagining a New Student Center — ARC4116.01

Fall 2018

Instructor: Andrew Schlatter Donald Sherekfin

Credits: 4

This course presents an opportunity to participate in re-imagining the “next life” of the Student Center, as it transitions from its temporary function as a dining facility back to a home for student-centered programming. Students will work together collaboratively to generate program concepts and physical design ideas as a basis for envisioning a full interior renovation of

Visual Arts CAPA Environment Music

(Re)Presenting Culture — ANT4204.01

Fall 2015

Instructor: Miroslava Prazak

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 4

Anthropologists use ethnographic writing and films to present cultures to outsiders. Both inscribe/transcribe social life, but the portraits they create differ. Theoretical considerations as well as stylistic conventions influence both the shape and the content of the final product. In this course we examine closely a body of films to explore how each genre (e.g., observational

Society Culture and Thought Visual Arts

100 Drawings — ARC4118.01

Spring 2022

Instructor: Donald Sherefkin

Credits: 4

Using a fixed format of a 9″ x 9″ sheet, we will do a drawing each day of the term in a process which will parallel Georges Perec’s Life: A User’s Manual. Each drawing will have a set of constraints from which the student must extrapolate an image. A narrative will gradually be built through the accumulation of evidence. A variety of media, techniques and strategies will be

Visual Arts

100 Drawings — ARC4118.01

Fall 2013

Instructor: Donald Sherefkin

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 4

**Time Change** Using a fixed format of 9" x 9" paper, we will do a drawing each day of the term in a process which will parallel Georges Perec's Life: A User's Manual. Each drawing will have a set of constraints from which the student must extrapolate an image. A narrative will gradually be built through the accumulation of evidence. A variety of media, techniques and

Visual Arts

100 Drawings — ARC4118.01

Spring 2017

Instructor: Donald Sherefkin

Credits: 4

Using a fixed format of 9″ x 9″ paper, we will do a drawing each day of the term in a process which will parallel Georges Perec’s Life: A User’s Manual. Each drawing will have a set of constraints from which the student must extrapolate an image. A narrative will gradually be built through the accumulation of evidence. A variety of media, techniques and strategies will be

Visual Arts

100 Experiments — PHO4131.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Jonathan Kline

Credits: 4

This course is a hands-on exploration of the many photographic materials spanning the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. Over the term, students will study ten specific processes and be asked to create ten experiments utilizing each one. Processes include digital camera lucida drawings, pinhole images, cyanotypes, analog color negatives, Polaroid images, scanograms, UV infrared

Visual Arts

100 Experiments — PHO4131.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: Jonathan Kline

Credits: 4

This course is a hands-on exploration of the many photographic materials spanning the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. Over the term, students will study ten specific processes and be asked to create ten 8x10 inch experiments utilizing each one. Processes include camera lucida drawings, pinhole images, cyanotypes, analog color negatives, Polaroid images, scanograms, digital

Visual Arts

100 Experiments — PHO4131.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: Jonathan Kline

Credits: 4

This course is a hands-on exploration of the many photographic materials spanning the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. Over the term, students will study ten specific processes and be asked to create ten 8x10 inch experiments utilizing each one. Processes include digital camera lucida drawings, pinhole images, cyanotypes, analog color negatives, Polaroid images, scanograms,

Visual Arts

100 Places Where You Must Visit in Japan — JPN2112.01

Fall 2018

Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida

Credits: 4

Where do you want to go when you visit Japan: Mount Fuji in Shizuoka, Kyoto Imperial Palace, or Ghibli Museum in Tokyo? What would you like to eat there? Do you want to eat sushi, tonkatsu, ramen, or pizza that is topped with corn, tuna, and mayonnaise? Do you want to see traditional performing arts like Noh and Kabuki? Or would you like to see current pop groups like Arashi

Languages

100 Places Where You Must Visit in Japan — JPN2112.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida

Credits: 4

Where do you want to go when you visit Japan: Mount Fuji in Shizuoka, Imperial Palace in Kyoto, or Ghibli Museum in Tokyo? What would you like to eat there? Do you want to eat sushi, tonkatsu, ramen, or pizza that is topped with corn, tuna, and mayonnaise? Do you want to see traditional performing arts like Noh and Kabuki? Or would you like to see current pop groups like Arashi

Cultural Studies and Languages

100 Places Where You Must Visit in Japan — JPN2112.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Ikuko Yoshida

Credits: 4

Languages

13 Zines: Research, Drawing, Design — DRW2266.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: Mary Lum

Credits: 4

This is a course for students who love to look into things. In it drawing is the means to communicate research, in the form of zines. We work closely with, in, and around the library to gather knowledge about a different topic each week. We then translate the research into handmade representations (words and images) that combined with empirical evidence and an organized design

Visual Arts