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Child Development — PSY2212.01

Instructor: Emily Waterman
Days & Time: MO,TH 10:00am-11:50am
Credits: 4

It is trite but true: kids grow up so fast. In this course we will discuss the incredible growth of infants, toddlers, and children in multiple domains (physical, cognitive, emotional/social). We will discover how growth in each domain affects the others. We will explore enduring topics of discourse in child development, such as nature and nurture, individual differences, and the nature of change.

Cognitive neuroscience of words and memory — PSY4246.01

Instructor: Faculty TBA
Days & Time: TU,FR 10:30am-12:20pm
Credits: 4

How do cognitive neuroscientists examine words and word meanings?  What are the different ways we can remember words, such as definitions (鈥減ollo鈥, 鈥渏i鈥, 鈥渃hicken鈥) and lyrics, and how do words work in our brains?   Why do we sometimes struggle to remember a word that comes to mind easily later on?  Are words and images stored together or separately in our brains?  These questions and more will be addressed in this course, after an overview of the central nervous system.

How I feel is real but not eternal — PSY2243.01

Instructor: Faculty TBA
Days & Time: TU,FR 2:10pm-4:00pm
Credits: 4

How have psychologists defined feelings over the years, and how is the field continuing to change?  We will begin with the 19th Century, when scientists like Wundt and Charcot brought human perception and mental health symptoms out of the realm of metaphysics.  After briefly considering Darwin鈥檚 view of emotion and new perspectives on artwork from early asylums, we will evaluate emotion as featured in two central debates from the 20th Century: (1) the psychodynamic approach of Freud, one of Charcot鈥檚 students, versus humanism and (2) the behaviorists鈥 broad rejection of feelings a

Silkscreen Printmaking — PRI2122.02

Instructor: Corinne Rhodes
Days & Time: MO 1:40pm-5:20pm
Credits: 2

Screen printing is an extremely versatile means of reproducing a 2-D image onto a variety of objects.  Hand-drawn, painted, photographic and digital images can all be used singularly and in combination with each other.  Preparation and processing is relatively simple and multiples can be produced quickly. In this class, we will print with non-toxic, water-based inks.

Critical Dance Processes: Action Studies — DAN2509B.01

Instructor: Shayla-Vie Jenkins
Days & Time: W 2:10PM-4:00PM, Th 1:40PM-3:30PM
Credits: 4

This course gives students the opportunity to encounter, participate in and design choreographic practices with an emphasis on the vast approaches to process and artistic research that are current and emergent in the expanded field of dance. The course challenges students to develop relationships to performance/performative action as research. We will engage practices where seeing and being seen by each other are central, studying the ways in which witnessing one another in process stimulates and deepens learning.

Introduction to Relief Printing — PRI2105.01

Instructor: Thorsten Dennerline
Days & Time: TU 2:10pm-5:50pm
Credits: 4

This course is an introductory level print media and drawing class. Students will learn about relief printmaking through demonstrations of techniques, hands-on experience, and critiques. Techniques include but are not limited to wood cut and linoleum cut. With this simple process, we will be able to explore color printing in depth. This course is also an introduction to making 2D images and the study of visual language. Students who have experience beyond the introductory level are welcome.

Unique Prints: 3-D Prints and Modular Works — PRI4272.01

Instructor: Thorsten Dennerline
Days & Time: TH 1:40pm-5:20pm
Credits: 4

This course is an introduction to unique prints, or prints that are not necessarily printed as an edition. We will emphasize the making of mixed media prints using a broad range of methods from monotypes to digital prints. The class is structured around a series of projects where rigorous experimentation is encouraged.

Critical Dance Studies — DAN4830B.01

Instructor: Emily Wexler
Days & Time: W 10:00AM-11:50AM & 7:00PM-8:50PM
Credits: 4

This course looks through multiple modes of questioning, research, and a critically theoretical lens to put into consideration the complex ways that dance shapes and reflects our lives. We will look to scholars, artists, thinkers, and ourselves to process the elliptical paths people take to understand material existence through the relationality of dance. We will try to bring a scope of questioning to regard dance as an artistic practice which illuminates the continuum of time rooted in the lived phenomena of recognizing aliveness as it is lived.

Critical Dance Processes: Research Studies — DAN4801B.01

Instructor: Donna Faye Burchfield
Days & Time: W 2:10PM-4:00PM, Th 1:40PM-3:30PM
Credits: 4

This course utilizes a seminar and workshop format focusing on conceptual, relational, and material frameworks of the choreographic. Through shaping a bibliographic course archive, we will source current developments within the field of contemporary art making. The class investigations, projects and discussions will yield imaginative and experimental directions for student鈥檚 development towards a senior thesis project.

Performance Pedagogies of Dance — DAN4816B.01, section 1

Instructor: Faculty TBA
Days & Time:
Credits: 3 (BFA Only)

PODs offer students the opportunity to make connections through multiple access points, especially in areas of performance. PODs are designed to help students recognize the tools and methodologies used in their own creative work both as performers and as choreographers. Structurally each POD is identified by a unique topic. PODs have required rehearsal times and culminate in a public showing.

The artist will create an original work with BFA students through an intensive research and rehearsal process.

Performance Pedagogies of Dance — DAN4816B.02, section 2

Instructor: Faculty TBA
Days & Time:
Credits: 6

PODs offer students the opportunity to make connections through multiple access points, especially in areas of performance. PODs are designed to help students recognize the tools and methodologies used in their own creative work both as performers and as choreographers. Structurally each POD is identified by a unique topic. PODs have required rehearsal times and culminate in a public showing.

The artist will create an original work with BFA students through an intensive research and rehearsal process.

Senior Seminar — DAN4802B.01

Instructor: Faculty TBA
Days & Time: TU 2:10pm-4:00pm
Credits: 2

This seminar course explores and enacts multidirectional modes of research in and through dance. The course moves through lectures, workshops and experiments that activate processes of creation/performance and guide each student in the development of a portfolio of documents related to professional practice. Students will create social and public platforms for their research and engage in dialogues related to sustainability, equity, and possibility within the field of dance.

Senior Thesis Workshop — DAN4803B.01, section 1

Instructor: Jesse Zaritt
Days & Time: W 8:30AM-9:50AM, F 2:10PM-4:00PM
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. 

Senior Thesis Workshop — DAN4803B.02, section 2

Instructor: Shayla-Vie Jenkins
Days & Time: W 8:30AM-9:50AM, F 2:10PM-4:00PM
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. 

Practice + Process — DAN4831B.01, section 1

Instructor: Faculty TBA
Days & Time:
Credits: 3 (BFA Only)

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.

Module dates: September 2-23

Practice + Process — DAN4831B.02, section 2

Instructor: Faculty TBA
Days & Time: M 3:40PM-5:30PM, T 4:10PM-6:00PM & 7:00PM-8:50PM, W 4:10PM-6:00PM, Th 3:40PM-5:30PM, F 4:10PM-6:00PM
Credits: 3 (BFA Only)

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.

Module dates: September 23-October 16

Practice + Process — DAN4831B.03, section 3

Instructor: Faculty TBA
Days & Time: M 3:40PM-5:30PM, T 4:10PM-6:00PM & 7:00PM-8:50PM, W 4:10PM-6:00PM, Th 3:40PM-5:30PM, F 4:10PM-6:00PM
Credits: 3 (BFA Only)

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.

Module dates: October 21-November 13

Practice + Process — DAN4831B.04, section 4

Instructor: Faculty TBA
Days & Time: M 3:40PM-5:30PM, T 4:10PM-6:00PM & 7:00PM-8:50PM, W 4:10PM-6:00PM, Th 3:40PM-5:30PM, F 4:10PM-6:00PM
Credits: 3 (BFA Only)

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.

Module dates: November 19-December 12

Studio Practice — DAN4832B.01, section 1

Instructor: Faculty TBA
Days & Time:
Credits: 1

Studio Practice is designed to offer each student a rigorous and immersive dance study experience. A deep-dive into practices of critical physicality, students will be supported in making direct connections across an abundance of dance forms that rearrange and blur the boundaries between traditional and emerging techniques. Studio Practice courses focus on the relationships between curiosity, desire, strength, effort, force, and presence, all while moving within the lineages and histories that inform the ways in which we create and encounter our dancing futures.

Studio Practice — DAN4832B.02, section 2

Instructor: Faculty TBA
Days & Time:
Credits: 1

Studio Practice is designed to offer each student a rigorous and immersive dance study experience. A deep-dive into practices of critical physicality, students will be supported in making direct connections across an abundance of dance forms that rearrange and blur the boundaries between traditional and emerging techniques. Studio Practice courses focus on the relationships between curiosity, desire, strength, effort, force, and presence, all while moving within the lineages and histories that inform the ways in which we create and encounter our dancing futures.

Studio Practice: Ballet — DAN4815B.01, section 1

Instructor: Faculty TBA
Days & Time: MO,WE,TH 8:30am-9:50am
Credits: 2

Studio Practice is designed to offer each student a rigorous and immersive dance study experience. A deep-dive into practices of critical physicality, students will be supported in making direct connections across an abundance of dance forms that rearrange and blur the boundaries between traditional and emerging techniques. Studio Practice courses focus on the relationships between curiosity, desire, strength, effort, force, and presence, all while moving within the lineages and histories that inform the ways in which we create and encounter our dancing futures.

Studio Practice: Ballet — DAN4815B.02, section 2

Instructor: Faculty TBA
Days & Time: MO,WE,TH 8:30am-9:50am
Credits: 2

Studio Practice is designed to offer each student a rigorous and immersive dance study experience. A deep-dive into practices of critical physicality, students will be supported in making direct connections across an abundance of dance forms that rearrange and blur the boundaries between traditional and emerging techniques. Studio Practice courses focus on the relationships between curiosity, desire, strength, effort, force, and presence, all while moving within the lineages and histories that inform the ways in which we create and encounter our dancing futures.

Studio Practice: Ballet — DAN4815B.03, section 3

Instructor: Faculty TBA
Days & Time: TU,FR 8:30am-10:20am
Credits: 2

Studio Practice is designed to offer each student a rigorous and immersive dance study experience. A deep-dive into practices of critical physicality, students will be supported in making direct connections across an abundance of dance forms that rearrange and blur the boundaries between traditional and emerging techniques. Studio Practice courses focus on the relationships between curiosity, desire, strength, effort, force, and presence, all while moving within the lineages and histories that inform the ways in which we create and encounter our dancing futures.

Studio Practice: Ballet — DAN4815B.04, section 4

Instructor: Faculty TBA
Days & Time: TU,FR 8:30am-10:20am
Credits: 2

Studio Practice is designed to offer each student a rigorous and immersive dance study experience. A deep-dive into practices of critical physicality, students will be supported in making direct connections across an abundance of dance forms that rearrange and blur the boundaries between traditional and emerging techniques. Studio Practice courses focus on the relationships between curiosity, desire, strength, effort, force, and presence, all while moving within the lineages and histories that inform the ways in which we create and encounter our dancing futures.

Studio Practice — DAN4832B.03, section 3

Instructor: Faculty TBA
Days & Time: MO,TH 10:00am-11:50am
Credits: 2

Studio Practice is designed to offer each student a rigorous and immersive dance study experience. A deep-dive into practices of critical physicality, students will be supported in making direct connections across an abundance of dance forms that rearrange and blur the boundaries between traditional and emerging techniques. Studio Practice courses focus on the relationships between curiosity, desire, strength, effort, force, and presence, all while moving within the lineages and histories that inform the ways in which we create and encounter our dancing futures.

Studio Practice — DAN4832B.04, section 4

Instructor: Faculty TBA
Days & Time: MO,TH 10:00am-11:50am
Credits: 2

Studio Practice is designed to offer each student a rigorous and immersive dance study experience. A deep-dive into practices of critical physicality, students will be supported in making direct connections across an abundance of dance forms that rearrange and blur the boundaries between traditional and emerging techniques. Studio Practice courses focus on the relationships between curiosity, desire, strength, effort, force, and presence, all while moving within the lineages and histories that inform the ways in which we create and encounter our dancing futures.

Studio Practice — DAN4832B.05, section 5

Instructor: Faculty TBA
Days & Time: TU,FR 10:30am-12:20pm
Credits: 2

Studio Practice is designed to offer each student a rigorous and immersive dance study experience. A deep-dive into practices of critical physicality, students will be supported in making direct connections across an abundance of dance forms that rearrange and blur the boundaries between traditional and emerging techniques. Studio Practice courses focus on the relationships between curiosity, desire, strength, effort, force, and presence, all while moving within the lineages and histories that inform the ways in which we create and encounter our dancing futures.

Studio Practice — DAN4832B.06, section 6

Instructor: Faculty TBA
Days & Time: TU,FR 10:30am-12:20pm
Credits: 2

Studio Practice is designed to offer each student a rigorous and immersive dance study experience. A deep-dive into practices of critical physicality, students will be supported in making direct connections across an abundance of dance forms that rearrange and blur the boundaries between traditional and emerging techniques. Studio Practice courses focus on the relationships between curiosity, desire, strength, effort, force, and presence, all while moving within the lineages and histories that inform the ways in which we create and encounter our dancing futures.