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Encounters: Drawing On-Site — DRW4119.01

Instructor: Beverly Acha
Days & Time: WE 2:10pm-5:50pm
Credits: 4

In this course we will engage drawing鈥檚 portable and responsive nature by working outside of the studio art classroom, opening the possibility of encounters that influence your subject matter and approaches to drawing. Students will practice and expand their skills of drawing from direct observation (not from photographs or other images) by working on-site in different indoor (non-classroom) locations on campus and working outdoors, or plein air. 

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.

Chocolat — FRE4608.01

Instructor: No毛lle Rouxel-Cubberly
Days & Time: TU,FR 10:30am-12:20pm
Credits: 4

Why is a Mayan food, chocolate, such a high-stake product in French-speaking countries ?

Framed? Literature Heroines on Screen — FRE4809.01

Instructor: No毛lle Rouxel-Cubberly
Days & Time: MO,TH 1:40pm-3:30pm
Credits: 4

French literature and film have always reciprocally inspired one another 鈥 as early as 1897, Lumi猫re represented the main characters of Hugo鈥檚 Les Mis茅rables. This course will offer students the opportunity to analyze literary representations of women and their film adaptations in terms of intermediality and intertextuality. Adaptations will include: La Princesse de Cl猫ves (La Fayette/Sauder), La Religieuse (Diderot/Rivette), La Noire de鈥 (Semb猫ne/Semb猫ne), La Prisonni猫re/La Captive (Proust/Akerman). Students will focus on various adaptation strategies and approaches.

Drawing Excess: the Gesamtkunstwerk — DRW4407.01

Instructor: J Blackwell
Days & Time: MO 1:40pm-5:20pm
Credits: 4

The German term Gesamtkunstwerk roughly translates as a 鈥渢otal work of art鈥 and refers to an artistic endeavor wherein various art forms are melded together to form a unified whole. Through the amalgamation of art, craft, music, and performance, Gesamtkunstwerk evokes a realm distinct from our everyday experience.