Course Listing | 51��

Fall 2015

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

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

(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

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Advanced Chamber Music — MPF4230.01

Fall 2015

Instructor: Nathaniel Parke

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 2

An intensive, performance-oriented exploration of chamber music literature. Corequisite: Must participate in Music Workshop (T. 6:30 – 8pm).

Music

Advanced Printmaking Research and Group Exhibition — PRI4402.01

Fall 2015

Instructor: Thorsten Dennerline

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 4

This course is an advanced printmaking research class. Within a basic structure of critiques and discussions, students will independently pursue their own research interests in a workshop environment. Demonstrations of techniques will be given according to the needs of the class. Students with experience in a diverse range media are encouraged to enroll. It is expected that

Visual Arts

Advanced Projects in Dance — DAN4795.01

Fall 2015

Instructor: Dana Reitz

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 2

This is an essential course for students involved in making work for performance this term. Attention is given to all of the elements involved in composition and production, including collaborative aspects. Students are expected to show their work throughout stages of development, complete their projects, and perform them to the public by the end of the term. Dance Workshop is

Dance

Advanced Projects in Video — FV4304.01

Fall 2015

Instructor: Kate Purdie

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 4

This is a workshop for advanced students pursuing self-directed projects in video. Class time will be spent on group critiques to be supplemented by screenings, readings, discussion, student presentations and individual meetings with the instructor. Please note that this course will require additional materials to be purchased by the student.

Visual Arts

Advanced Slip Casting Project — CER4103.01

Fall 2015

Instructor: Yoko Inoue

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 4

This is an intermediate/advanced course for developing casting methods for making functional or sculptural ceramic components for mixed media projects. The focus will be on designing prototypes in various materials and investigating how specific aesthetics or functions can be achieved through the material transformation of ceramics. We will explore creating complex forms

Visual Arts

Advanced Voice — MVO4401.01; section 1

Fall 2015

Instructor: Kerry Ryer-Parke

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 2

Advanced study of vocal technique and the interpretation of the vocal repertoire, designed for advanced students who have music as a plan concentration and to assist graduating seniors with preparation for senior recitals. Students are required to study and to perform a varied spectrum of vocal repertory for performance and as preparation for further study or graduate

Music

Advanced Voice — MVO4401.02; section 2

Fall 2015

Instructor: Thomas Bogdan

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 2

Music

Advanced Workshop for Painting and Drawing — PAI4302.01

Fall 2015

Instructor: Josh Blackwell

Days & Time: TBA

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 instructor. Development of a strong work ethic will

Visual Arts

African Music Ensemble — MHI4134.01

Fall 2015

Instructor: Michael Wimberly

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 2

This course is a continuation of the class Drumming: An Extension of Language. Using indigenous percussion instruments from West Africa, students will continue to develop hand and stick drumming patterns, techniques, and songs in several African languages. The class will expand on this music in preparation for outreach and performances at Bennington College,

Music

After Borges — SPA4117.01

Fall 2015

Instructor: Jonathan Pitcher

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 4

Whether he is the last modernist, or the first postmodern, the least Latin American of all Latin American authors or perhaps the most, the grand destroyer of all illusions or ultimately their victim, in the wake of his own statement that “Every writer creates his own precursors,” Jorge Luis Borges has already provided the theoretical premise for so much subsequent work that

Languages

America's History Through Her Music: 1500-1900 — MHI2103.01

Fall 2015

Instructor: Kitty Brazelton

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 4

Start with the tributaries: European, African, then Caribbean. Trace these forward in great whorls, mingling currents in a hard-rushing river. For instance, chamber music from Germany in the Pennsylvania countryside was venerated by the High Anglican merchants in Philadelphia and the gentlemen farmers further south. And while those noble white gentlemen listened in parlors to

Music

An Actor's Technique – Nuts and Bolts — DRA4127.01

Fall 2015

Instructor: Dina Janis

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 4

How do actors bridge the gap between themselves and the role they are playing? How do actors rehearse with other actors in order to explore the world of the play? This non-performance based class is designed to help individual actors discover their own organic, thorough rehearsal process. Step by step we will clarify the actor’s process: character research, character

Drama

Animating the 2-Dimensional World — MA4101.01

Fall 2015

Instructor: Sue Rees

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 4

The class will be concerned with creating short animations utilizing two-dimensional imagery. Drawn, collaged, scanned, captured images and video footage will be manipulated with After Effects, Photoshop, and other software programmes. Original narratives, adopted stories, and historical references will be used for the animations. Various animators will be looked at. Students

Visual Arts

Animation 1 — MA2105.01

Fall 2015

Instructor: Sue Rees

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 4

The class will be concerned with animating inanimate objects by stop motion, drawings, and cut out collages. A variety of filmmakers and techniques will be looked at during the course of the semester. Students will be expected to produce a variety of short projects followed by a longer more sustained project. Students will be instructed in using ‘Dragonframe’ Software, the

Visual Arts

Another Roadside Attraction: Travel Photo — PHO2110.02

Fall 2015

Instructor: Elizabeth White

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 2

This seminar examines the intertwined histories of travel and photography, considering social, philosophical, political, and artistic questions. Readings and slideshows will provide context for critical thinking about photography’s relationship to tourism in general and to “the American road” in particular. We will look at a range of practices of image making, collecting, and

Visual Arts

Art of Stage Design — DRA2250.01

Fall 2015

Instructor: Michael Giannitti

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 4

A set design communicates lots of information to an audience, and provides the physical world in which a performance takes place. In his book The Dramatic Imagination, the great set designer Robert Edmond Jones wrote: “…we may fairly speak of the art of stage designing as poetic, in that it seeks to give expression to the essential quality of a play rather than to its outward

Drama

Art on the Brink of Modernity in the 18th Century — AH4103.01

Fall 2015

Instructor: Zirwat Chowdhury

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 4

This seminar explores how art and visual culture in France, Britain, and South Asia catalyzed and were informed by an emerging culture of modernity in the 18th century. By situating the relationship between art and modernity within global networks of trade, diplomacy, and colonial power, the course also offers students an opportunity to asses the ways in which art instantiated

Visual Arts

Artist's Portfolio — DAN4366.01

Fall 2015

Instructor: Dana Reitz

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 2

Explaining artwork often goes against the grain, yet artists are regularly called upon to articulate their processes, tools, and dynamics of collaboration. To help secure any of the myriad forms of institutional support including funding, venues, and engagements, artists must develop--creatively and flexibly--essential skills. Finding a public language for what is the private

Dance Drama Music Visual Arts

Arts and Cities: Aural and Visual Cartographies of East and Southeast Asia — APA2126.01

Fall 2015

Instructor: Susie Ibarra

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 4

Much of the expected urban growth has been predicted to occur in Asian cities and its megacities. This class studies city communities in Asia with the use of artists' aural and visual cartographies. Alongside mapping are the artists and activists creative work that challenges social, political, and environmental issues, and reimagines time and space in these communities. Field

CAPA Environment

Augustine's Confessions — HIS4113.01

Fall 2015

Instructor: Stephen Higa

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 2

It has been said that St. Augustine's Confessions--the spiritual autobiography of an Amazigh bishop from Roman North Africa--was a formative event in the history of subjectivity. Here we find an early and influential enunciation of many of the major themes that would come to preoccupy Western writers, philosophers, and theologians for centuries to come: memory,

Society Culture and Thought