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Advanced Dramaturgy — DRA4190.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Maya Cantu
Credits: 4
The dramaturg serves as a powerful medium in the theatre. They bridge the past and the present, the creative team and the audience, while providing critical generosity and historical and literary insight. Focusing upon the practical application of dramaturgy, this course will offer students a credited platform for dramaturgical work oriented toward production. Three groups
Drama Literature

Advanced Dramaturgy — DRA4190.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Maya Cantu
Days & Time: WE 2:10pm-5:50pm
Credits: 4

The dramaturg serves as a powerful medium in the theatre. They bridge the past and the present, the creative team and the audience, while providing critical generosity and historical and literary insight. Focusing upon the practical application of dramaturgy, this course will offer students a credited platform for dramaturgical work oriented toward production.

Three

Drama

Advanced Electronic Music Composition and Performance Workshop — MCO4119.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Sergei Tcherepnin
Credits: 2
This is an electronic music composition intensive class that will focus on performance. Over the course of the class students will be expected to home in on personal electronic music instrument set-ups that can be used live in performance. Throughout the course students will be composing for different ensembles assigned to them - solos, duos, trios. Each week will consist of
Music

Advanced Explorations in Experiential Anatomy — DAN4107.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
Credits: 4
***Time Change*** This is a studio class of advanced anatomy intended to deepen understanding of your own moving body. We approach the material through visual, cognitive, kinesthetic, and sensory modes. Class time is divided between discussion of anatomy and kinesthetic concepts and engagement with the material experientially through visualization and movement studies.
Dance

Advanced Facilitation, Mediation and Negotiation — APA4315.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 2
This class is for students who have studied negotiation, mediation and/or restorative justice and want to engage in advanced work. We will practice complex problem simulations and look at case studies of wicked problems. We will review and understand the Conflict Resolution Complexity Model. Students need to have studied negotiation, mediation and/or restorative justice
CAPA

Advanced Film/Video Projects I — FV4476.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Mariam Ghani
Credits: 4
This course, intended for students who will continue to the Advanced Projects in Film/Video II course in spring 2025, supports advanced students in planning, pre-production, and early production for more complex, larger-scale, longer-duration, self-directed video projects. It also includes a screening series where we watch and analyze the process behind feature and mid-length
Visual Arts

Advanced Film/Video Projects I — FV4476.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Mariam Ghani
Credits: 2
This course supports advanced students in planning, pre-production, and early production for more complex, larger-scale, longer-duration, self-directed film/video projects. Please note that this course is primarily intended for and used by seventh-term and eighth-term students with a Plan concentration in film, video, or screenwriting. Exceptions may be made on the
Visual Arts

Advanced Film/Video Projects I — FV4476.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Mariam Ghani
Credits: 4
This course, intended for students who will continue to the Advanced Projects in Film/Video II course in spring 2024, supports advanced students in planning, pre-production, and early production for more complex, larger-scale, longer-duration, self-directed video projects. It also includes a screening series where we watch and analyze the process behind feature and mid-length
Visual Arts

Advanced Film/Video Projects I — FV4476.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Mariam Ghani
Days & Time: WE 10:00am-11:50am
Credits: 2

This semester-length, 2-credit course, intended for students who will continue to the Advanced Projects in Film/Video II course in spring 2023, supports advanced students in planning, pre-production, and early production (or for 8th term students, post-production and finishing) for more complex, larger-scale, longer-duration, self-directed

Film and Video

Advanced Film/Video Projects IA — FV4254.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Mariam Ghani
Credits: 2
This course, intended for students who will continue to the Advanced Film/Video Projects II course in spring 2021, will support advanced students in planning, pre-production, and early production for more complex, larger-scale, longer-duration, self-directed video projects. In fall 2020, Advanced Projects I will technically be split into one 2-credit course in the first seven
Visual Arts

Advanced Film/Video Projects IB — FV4255.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Mariam Ghani
Credits: 2
This course, intended for students who will continue to the Advanced Film/Video Projects II course in spring 2021, will support advanced students in planning, pre-production, and early production for more complex, larger-scale, longer-duration, self-directed video projects. In fall 2020, Advanced Projects I will technically be split into one 2-credit course in the first seven
Visual Arts

Advanced Forest Ecology Conservation (with Lab) — BIO4323.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie
Credits: 4
Forest ecosystems regulate climate, store and filter water, provide food and fiber, and serve as recreational areas and sacred spaces. These ecosystems are undergoing dramatic changes — climate change, deforestation, management — with important ecological, economic, and social consequences for the future of ecosystems and society. Vermont is among the most forested states in
Science and Mathematics Environment

Advanced Garment Construction — DRA4406.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
This course is for students who have experience sewing and patternmaking with a firm commitment to serious work in the costume studio. Students will work on a self-directed project in consultation with the instructor. The goal is to improve construction skills from patternmaking to finishing, and to deepen their overall sewing knowledge.
Drama

Advanced Guitar: Folk Styles — MIN4361.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: John Kirk
Credits: 2
Individual or small group lessons of advanced study on guitar. Continued studies from Intermediate Guitar. Advanced study in fret-board harmony and theory, playing in different tunings, increase chord vocabulary and repertoire, emphasis on finger picking styles.
Music

Advanced Guitar: Folk Styles — MIN4361.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
Individual or small group lessons of advanced study on guitar. Continued studies from Intermediate Guitar. Advanced study in fret-board harmony and theory, playing in different tunings, increase chord vocabulary and repertoire, emphasis on finger picking styles.
Music

Advanced Improvisation and Partnering — DAN4292.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Dai Jian
Credits: 2
This class takes improvisation as an exploration of the present moment without expectation or preconceived purpose; improvisation is seen as the exercise of listening, observing, and trusting in one’s instincts and in the principles of nature. We will explore the use of improvisation in performance, showing each other often, to develop these particular performance skills.
Dance

Advanced Improvisation Ensemble for Dancers Musicians — DAN4673.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 1
This advanced course focuses on work in the performance of improvisation. For dancers, special attention is given to the development of individual movement vocabularies, pattern recognition and the exploration of forms and structures.  Dancers are expected to have experience with improvisation in performance and are asked to develop a structure for the group. This class
Dance

Advanced Improvisation Ensemble for Dancers and Musicians — DAN4361.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Days & Time: WE 4:10pm-6:00pm
Credits: 2

This class is for students who have had training in improvisational music and/or movement practices. Students will investigate and perform structures and concepts while paying attention to pattern recognition, arcs of development, and the building of gestural, sonic, spatial, and energetic movement

Dance

Advanced Improvisation Ensemble for Dancers and Musicians — DAN4361.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 2
This class will be co-taught by Dance Faculty from the BFA and BA Dance program and is open to both groups of dance students as well as music students. This class is for students who have had training in improvisational practices. Students will explore and perform structures, paying attention to pattern recognition, arcs of development and the building of gestural, sonic,
Dance Music

Advanced Improvisation Ensemble for Dancers and Musicians — DAN4673.02

Spring 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
This class is for advanced dance improvisers who will collaborate with musicians in creating ensemble forms for the performance of improvisation. We will meet once a week with musicians and will also collaborate with Thorsten Dennerline's Printmaking class to create a performance at the end of the term. Students will learn a Solo Practice and an Ensemble practice in
Dance Music Visual Arts

Advanced Improvisation Ensemble for Dancers and Musicians — DAN4673.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 2
This advanced course focuses on work in the performance of improvisation. For dancers, special attention is given to the development of individual movement vocabularies, pattern recognition and the exploration of forms and structures. Dancers are expected to have experience with improvisation in performance and are asked to develop a structure for the group. This class will
Dance

Advanced Improvisation Ensemble for Dancers and Musicians — DAN4361.02) (cancelled 2/26/2024

Spring 2024
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 1
This class is for advanced dance improvisers who will collaborate with musicians in creating ensemble forms for the performance of improvisation. We will meet once a week with musicians to create a performance at the end of the term. Students will learn a Solo Practice and an Ensemble practice in improvisation techniques. Development of a movement vocabulary, pattern
Dance Music

Advanced Improvisation Ensemble of Dancers and Musicians — MPF4357.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Credits: 4
This course focuses on work in the performance of improvisation. For dancers, special attention is given to the development of individual movement vocabularies, group ensemble structures, and the exploration of emergent forms. For musicians, attention is given to creating rhythms and sonorities which can then be manipulated and developed while interacting with dancers in the
Music

Advanced Improvisation Ensemble of Dancers and Musicians — DAN4673.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati Michael Wimberly
Credits: 2
This course is for dancers and musicians to work on the performance of improvisation. This section is for dancers who will focus on developing an original movement vocabulary, understand pattern recognition and learn a solo and ensemble practice in emergent forms. Once a week, the dancers will have a class with musicians and will collaborate on improvisational structures.
Dance