Courses

Fall 2024

• Abstract Algebra and Number Theory

  Andrew McIntyre

• Accidents, Glitches and Errors/From Content to Form

  Elena Demyanenko

• Acting Ensemble: The Cherry Orchard

  Jennifer Rohn

• Actors Instrument

  Avery Glymph

• Actors Instrument

  Avery Glymph

• Adaptation

  Sherry Kramer

• Advanced Dramaturgy

  Maya Cantu

• Advanced Film/Video Projects I

  Mariam Ghani

• Advanced Guitar: Folk Styles

  John Kirk

• Advanced Improvisation: Being in relationship with all there is

  Ros Warby

• Advanced Improvisation: The Game of the Scene

  Shawtane Bowen

• Advanced Improvisation: The Harold

  Shawtane Bowen

• Advanced Modular Synths Projects

  Sergei Tcherepnin

• Advanced Python Programming: Applications and Development

  Meltem Ballan

• Advanced Restorative Justice

  Alisa Del Tufo

• Advanced Shakespeare Lab

  Avery Glymph

• Advanced Workshop for Painting and Drawing

  Ann Pibal

• Advanced Workshop in Philosophy

  Catherine McKeen

• Advanced/Senior Projects in Dance

  Elena Demyanenko

• Alexander Technique: Optimizing how you work when moving

  Ros Warby

• All About Medium Format Film

  Eddy Leonel Aldana

• Animation One – Animating Inanimate Objects

  Sue Rees

• Anthropology of Science and Technology

  David Bond

• Anti-Perspective

  Farhad Mirza

• Avant-Garde Art in China

  Ginger Lin

• Bad Romance: Shakespeare’s Poetry

  Camille Guthrie

• Banjo

  John Kirk

• Barriers to Democracy in Modern and Modernizing Nations

  Mansour Farhang & John Limbert

• Bass Intensive

  Michael Bisio

• Bass with Bisio

  Michael Bisio

• Beauty

  Catherine McKeen

• Beginning Cello I

  Nathaniel Parke

• Beginning Guitar

  John Kirk

• Beginning Violin

  Joana Genova

• Best laid plans: an introduction to design

  Farhad Mirza

• Beyond Plastic Pollution

  Judith Enck

• Black Music: Black Music Division (a 50 year retrospective)

  Michael Wimberly

• Bodies in Inner and Outer Space

  Terry Boddie

• Camera Performances

  Luiza Folegatti

• Campaign Coverage in an Age of Disinformation

  Andrea Bernstein

• Cello

  Nathaniel Parke

• Chemistry 1: Chemical Principles (with Lab)

  John Bullock

• Chemistry 3: Organic Reactions and Mechanisms (with Lab)

  Fortune Ononiwu

• Child Development

  Emily Waterman

• Collaboration in Light, Movement and Clothes

  Michael Giannitti, Tilly Grimes, & Dana Reitz

• Collecting Quantitative Data

  Emily Waterman

• Comparing Political Institutions

  Rotimi Suberu

• Composing for Instruments

  Allen Shawn

• Contemporary African Literature

  Devon Walker-Figueroa

• Creating A Successful Residential Community

  Li-Chen Chin

• Creative Writing in Spanish

  Lena Retamoso Urbano

• Créatrices

  Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly

• Critical Dance Processes: Actions I

  Cameron Childs, Shayla-Vie Jenkins, & Jesse Zaritt

• Critical Dance Processes: Research I

  Donna Faye Burchfield

• Critical Dance Processes: Research I

  Donna Faye Burchfield

• Critical Dance Studies

  Emily Wexler

• CUPS: Mold Making and Slip Casting

  Yoko Inoue

• Dalcroze Eurhythmics: Music and Motion

  Chris Rose

• Dance Intensive: Embodiment through Improvisation and Performance

  Elena Demyanenko

• Deep Fakes: An Introduction to Oil Painting

  J Blackwell

• Dickinson and Hopkins

  Michael Dumanis

• Digital Design Basics

  Gus Ramirez

• Dining Culture In Taiwan

  Ginger Lin

• Directing II

  Kirk Jackson

• Dis/orientation in Spatial Sound Composition and Expanded Image

  Mariam Ghani & Senem Pirler

• Dramaturgies of Care

  Jaamil Olawale Kosoko

• Drawing as Record

  Elisa Lendvay

• Drawing Excess: Gesamtkunstwerk

  J Blackwell

• Drawing Intensive: Conditions for Visual Inquiry

  Ann Pibal

• Drugs, Culture and Society

  Cecilia Salvi

• Drum Set Fundamentals

  Michael Wimberly

• Duets: Making and Moving

  Ros Warby

• Dynamic Anatomy

  Martín Lanz, MFA Teaching Fellow

• Earth Materials (with Lab)

  Tim Schroeder

• Ecologies and Ethics of the Soundscape

  Maia Nichols

• Economics of Work and Employment

  Lopamudra Banerjee

• Effort Lab

  Londs Reuter, MFA Teaching Fellow

• Elements in Video: Simplicity of Method

  Jen Liu

• Embracing Difference

  Miroslava Prazak

• Endocrinology: The Hormonal Symphony

  Blake Jones

• Energy, Entropy and Quantization

  Dor Ben-Amotz

• Environmental Action Fellowship Pre Fellowship Class

  Alexis Goldsmith

• Environmental Geology

  Tim Schroeder

• Environmental Political Theory

  John Hultgren

• Examining Space

  John Umphlett

• Experimental Sound Practices

  Senem Pirler

• Faith in Literature

  Nicolette Polek

• Federalism and Peacebuilding

  Rotimi Suberu

• Feminist Writing by Women of Color, 1970s-80s

  Franny Choi

• Fiddle

  John Kirk

• Film Titles

  Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly

• Flourishing: Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics

  Catherine McKeen

• Form and Process: Introduction to Painting

  Ann Pibal

• Foundations of Photography/Analog

  Terry Boddie

• Foundations of Photography: Digital Practice

  Elizabeth White

• Foundations of Python Programming: Theory and Practice

  Meltem Ballan

• Fourier Analysis, Differential Equations, and Mathematical Methods

  Andrew McIntyre

• From the Edo to the Meiji Period: Examining Equality and Equity through the Examinations of Japanese Society

  Ikuko Yoshida

• Fundamentals of Buddhism and Meditation

  Dor Ben-Amotz

• Fundamentals of Creative Writing

  Stuart Nadler

• Fundamentals of Ecology

  Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie

• GANAS

  Jonathan Pitcher

• Genetics – Principles and Practice (with Lab)

  Amie McClellan

• Genome Jumpstart

  Amie McClellan

• Genres and Forms of Poetry

  Michael Dumanis

• Graduate Music Pedagogy

  Nicholas Brooke

• Graduate Projects and Research in Music

  Nicholas Brooke

• Graduate Research in Dance

  Dana Reitz

• Graduate Seminar

  Jesse Zaritt

• Graduate Teaching Fellowship in Dance

  Dana Reitz

• Graduate Thesis Continuation

  Donna Faye Burchfield

• Harmonic Spheres

  Nicholas Brooke

• Hello World: An Introduction to Drawing

  Colin Brant

• Henrik Ibsen

  Maya Cantu

• Historical Dress: Building the Victorians

  Tilly Grimes

• History of Christianity: From the Hebrews to Henry VIII

  Carol Pal

• History of Theater I

  Maya Cantu

• How to Build a Forest

  Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie

• How to Build an Organism (with Lab)

  Blake Jones

• Image Objects

  Elizabeth White

• Impediments to the Growth of Democracy in the Middle East

  Mansour Farhang & John Limbert

• Improvisation for a Catastrophe: Complexity and Resilience

  Susan Sgorbati

• Improvisation – Building Community Through Improvisation

  Jen Allen

• Independent Study

  Donna Faye Burchfield

• Indigenous languages of the Americas

  Alexia Fawcett

• Individualized Lab

  Donna Faye Burchfield

• Individualized Practice

  Shayla-Vie Jenkins

• Individualized Practice

  Shayla-Vie Jenkins

• Individualized Studio Practice + Process

  Donna Faye Burchfield

• Insider Perspectives on the Francophone World I

  Stephen Shapiro

• Intermediate Drum Set (Fundamentals)

  Michael Wimberly

• Intermediate Guitar

  John Kirk

• Intermediate Guitar

  John Kirk

• Intermediate Painting: From Practice to Discovery

  J Blackwell

• Intermediate Video: Place and Modes of Presentation

  Laura Sofía Pérez

• Intermediate Voice

  Virginia Warnken Kelsey

• Intermediate Voice

  Virginia Warnken Kelsey

• Interview Etiquette for Technology Pathway

  Meltem Ballan

• Intro to Afropessimism

  Anaïs Duplan

• Intro to Max

  Nicholas Brooke

• Intro to Melodic Musicianship

  Virginia Warnken Kelsey

• Intro to Metalshop

  Olivia Saporito

• Intro to Modular Synths

  Sergei Tcherepnin

• Introduction to 16mm

  John Crowe

• Introduction to Computer Science 1: Programming and Computer Science

  Darcy Otto

• Introduction to International Law

  Andy Galindo

• Introduction To Quantitative Reasoning and Modeling

  Kathryn Montovan

• Introduction to Relief Printing

  Anna Hepler

• Introduction to Restorative Justice

  Alisa Del Tufo

• Introduction to Sound Recording and Mixing

  Senem Pirler

• Introduction to Video

  Jen Liu

• Introduction to Viola

  Ariel Rudiakov

• It’s Gonna Be Epic

  Manuel Gonzales

• Japanese Art and Society: From Jomon Pottery to Superflat

  Ikuko Yoshida

• Jazz and Modern Music Theory

  Jen Allen

• Jazz Ensemble

  Jen Allen

• Kilns and Firing Techniques

  Maedeh Tafvizi

• Kilns and Firing Techniques

  Anina Major

• La Vie Quotidienne – Art of Everyday Life

  Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly

• Language and Space

  Alexia Fawcett

• Language as System and Social Behavior

  Thomas Leddy-Cecere

• Latin American Art Since Independence

  Jonathan Pitcher

• Layers Upon Layers – Animated Collages

  Sue Rees

• Life Drawing Lab

  Colin Brant

• Life Stories

  Stephen Shapiro

• Linear Algebra

  Josef Mundt

• Live Sound – Load In to Load Out

  Curt Wells

• Logic and Proof: The Art of Mathematics and the Limits of Knowledge

  Andrew McIntyre

• Looking, Perceiving, and Attending

  Anne Gilman

• Mad Props: Theatrical Property Design and Production

  Seancolin Hankins

• Main Meanings

  Farhad Mirza

• Mallet Percussion Ensemble

  Michael Wimberly

• Managing Ethnic Conflicts

  Rotimi Suberu

• Mandolin

  John Kirk

• Material World

  John Umphlett

• Medieval and Early Modern Female Visionary Writers

  Zoe Tuck

• Meisner Technique

  Jennifer Rohn

• Melancholy Pilates

  Londs Reuter, MFA Teaching Fellow

• Modeling and Thinking in Rhino 7

  Derek Parker

• Modern Guitar

  Hui Cox

• Modern Observational Techniques

  Hugh Crowl

• Monsters, Magic, and Madness in Western Music

  Joseph Alpar

• Morning Mind-Body Teleportation: An Intimate Conversation with Self and Others

  Mina Nishimura

• Movement Practice: Sénémali – Traditional West African Dance I

  Kaolack Ibrahima Ndiaye

• Movement Practice: Sénémali – Traditional West African Dance II

  Kaolack Ibrahima Ndiaye

• Movement Practice: Spiraling around…

  Martín Lanz, MFA Teaching Fellow

• Music Composition for Dance

  Michael Wimberly

• Music Lecture Series

  Joseph Alpar

• Music Theory I – Applied Fundamentals

  John Kirk

• Ndaga – a way of making dance

  Kaolack Ibrahima Ndiaye

• Needs, Wants, and Economic Rights

  Emma Kast

• On Collecting: Writings of Walter Benjamin

  Anne Thompson

• Open Source Software in Practice

  Michael Corey

• Our Chemical World

  Fortune Ononiwu

• Pedagogies: Theory and Practice

  Jonathan Pitcher

• Perception and Augmentation in Computer Vision

  Meltem Ballan

• Performance Pedagogies of Dance

  Sidra Bell

• Performance Pedagogies of Dance

  Rena Butler

• Performance Pedagogies of Dance

  Kyle Clark

• Performance Pedagogies of Dance

  Gary Jeter

• Performative Methodologies

  Benjamin Pranger

• Performative Methodologies

  Benjamin Pranger

• Phenomenology of the Strange

  Laura Sofía Pérez

• Philosophical Reasoning

  Catherine McKeen

• Photography and Migration

  Luiza Folegatti

• Physics I: Forces and Motion (with Lab)

  Hugh Crowl

• Piano

  Christopher Lewis

• Piano

  Yoshiko Sato

• Piano Composition Studies

  Allen Shawn

• Piano Lab I : Beginning Piano

  Yoshiko Sato

• Piano Lab I: Beginning Piano

  Chris Rose

• Piano Lab I: Beginning Piano

  Benjamin April

• Piano Lab II : Intermediate Piano

  Yoshiko Sato

• Political Ideologies in Action: American Conservatism

  John Hultgren

• Pop Culture in Taiwan

  Ginger Lin

• Portfolio 1

  Emily Wexler

• Portfolio 1

  Emily Wexler

• Post-Production Intensive

  Mariam Ghani

• Practice Lab

  Paul Matteson

• Presentation of Statistics

  Timothy Kane

• Prints into Books

  Anna Hepler

• Production and Design Projects

  Michael Giannitti

• Production and Design Projects

  Michael Giannitti

• Production, Employment, Prices

  Lopamudra Banerjee

• Professional Practices: Demystifying the Art World

  Beverly Acha

• Projections – Animation Projects

  Sue Rees

• Psychology of Gender and Sexuality

  Arita Balaram

• Public Policy Forum: Saving Democracy Together

  Susan Sgorbati, Brian Campion & Eileen Scully

• Queer Asian Pacific American Literature

  Franny Choi

• Race in Publishing

  Mariam Rahmani

• Rakugo and Humor: The Art of Storytelling

  Ikuko Yoshida

• Rare and Common: Advanced Reading in Conservation and Ecology

  Caitlin McDonough Mackenzie

• Reading & Writing Fiction: ESLit

  Mariam Rahmani

• Reading & Writing Poetry: Revision as Play

  Anaïs Duplan

• Reading and Writing Nonfiction: Childhood and Its Aftermaths

  Jenny Boully

• Rebetiko Ensemble: Songs of the Greek Underworld

  Joseph Alpar

• Reckless Desire

  Manuel Gonzales

• Redefining Scenography

  Michael Giannitti

• Reproductive Justice in Latin America

  Cecilia Salvi

• Research in Applied Mathematics

  Kathryn Montovan

• Resilience: Analysis and Practice

  Lizah Makombore

• Rock and Metal Technique for Band Vocalists

  Thann Scoggin

• Sankofa: Archiving – Finding your history in order to go forward

  Kaolack Ibrahima Ndiaye

• Saving Democracy Together

  Susan Sgorbati, Brian Campion & Eileen Scully

• Screenwriting: Story Studio

  Manuel Gonzales

• Sculptural Equilibrium: Contemporary Context of Ikebana

  Yoko Inoue

• Sculpture Studio/Advanced practice

  John Umphlett

• Senior Projects in Literature

  Franny Choi

• Senior Seminar

  Sara Procopio

• Senior Seminar in Society, Culture, and Thought

  Eileen Scully

• Senior Seminar in Society, Culture, and Thought

  Eileen Scully

• Senior Thesis Workshop

  Jesse Zaritt & Shayla-Vie Jenkins

• Sewing Fundamentals

  Richard MacPike

• Sewing Fundamentals

  Richard MacPike

• Silkscreen Printmaking

  Corinne Rhodes

• Silkscreen Printmaking

  Corinne Rhodes

• Stage Management Process

  Davison Scandrett

• Structures of Power in Society

  Miroslava Prazak

• Studies Lab

  Donna Faye Burchfield

• Studio Practice + Process: Afro-Contemporary Performance Making: Sampling + Poetics + Sonics

  Kingsley Ibeneche

• Studio Practice + Process: Insistence/Persistence: Dancing/Drawing/Writing

  Jesse Zaritt

• Studio Practice + Process: Minor De Luxe: a mass(mess) for body and other rogue im/materials

  Niall Jones

• Studio Practice + Process: Moving From the Inside Out

  Paul Matteson & Shayla-Vie Jenkins

• Studio Practice + Process: Play Effort Catharsis

  Shayla-Vie Jenkins & Rena Butler

• Studio Practice: Ballet Forms

  Mark Caserta

• Studio Practice: Ballet Forms

  Mark Caserta

• Studio Practice: Ballet Forms

  Michael Sheridan

• Studio Practice: Ballet Forms

  Michael Sheridan

• Studio Practice: Combined Contemporary Modern Dance Forms

  Curt Haworth & Mikhail Calliste

• Studio Practice: Combined Contemporary Modern Dance Forms

  Curt Haworth & Mikhail Calliste

• Studio Practice: Contemporary Diasporic Dance Forms

  Mikhail Calliste

• Studio Practice: Contemporary Modern Dance Forms

  Katie Swords-Thurman

• Studio Practice: Contemporary Modern Dance Forms

  Katie Swords-Thurman

• Studio Practice: Contemporary Modern Dance Forms

  Paul Matteson

• Study Group 1

  Esther Siddiquie

• Studying Place by Metes and Bounds

  Miroslava Prazak

• Surrealism in Latin America: Origins and Reception

  Lena Retamoso Urbano

• Sustainable Agriculture, Building Regenerative and Resilient Communities

  Kelie Bowman

• Sustainable Development

  Lopamudra Banerjee

• Sustainable Development Goals

  Andy Galindo

• Systems 2: Software Architecture and Design-From virtual machines to compilers

  Darcy Otto

• Tai-Chi 37 forms

  Ginger Lin

• Teaching to Transgress: Radical Pedagogy Practicum

  Anaïs Duplan

• Tessellation

  Farhad Mirza

• The Art of Mediation and Negotiation

  Susan Sgorbati

• The Baroque Imaginary

  J. Vanessa Lyon

• The Body Acoustic: Toward a Sense of Place

  Dana Reitz

• The Field Recorder and the Plein Air Musician

  Omeed Goodarzi, MFA Teaching Fellow

• The Global Enlightenment: 18th-20th cent. Literature

  Mariam Rahmani

• The Great Transformation in 2024

  David Bond & John Hultgren

• The Hand as Tool

  Anina Major

• The Hand as Tool

  Maedeh Tafvizi

• The Hand as Tool

  Maedeh Tafvizi

• The Hand as Tool

  Anina Major

• The Journey and the Pity: Revisiting Dante’s Inferno

  Devon Walker-Figueroa

• The Perfect Chorale

  Nicholas Brooke

• The Poetics of Protest

  Franny Choi

• The Power of Image

  Lena Retamoso Urbano

• The Recording Studio as a Magical Escape Pod

  Kevin Barnes

• The Renaissance

  Carol Pal