This course will build on students' previous study of modern dance technique, continuing the practice of employing the studio as a laboratory for semester-long exploration. This semester will include special attention to the ways Horton technique can be imagined as a release technique of sorts. This paradox will support ongoing focus on deepening sensation, clarifying points of initiation in the body, expansive use of space, connectivity, the development of strength and stamina, and increasingly complex phrase work.

This course introduces students to basic mechanisms of diatonic harmony. Through analysis, performance, and composition, we will build a solid working understanding of basic principles of melody, harmony, and form common in many musical traditions that we consume in our everyday lives. Assignments will include writing short melodies and accompaniments as well as more detailed compositional and improvisational projects. We will use our instruments and voices to bring musical examples to life in the classroom. Two class meetings and one ear training session per week.

This is an introductory course for students who would like to explore their interest in documentary practice. Through a combination of screenings, lectures, readings and technical workshops, we will explore a critical/historical overview of this genre and incorporate our knowledge and experience to produce individual or collaborative projects in a variety of "modes of representation". Projects need not be restricted to a particular medium; in fact, students will be encouraged to explore the ways in which film, video, and/or animation can be utilized together.

Mark / Make / Work asks what art can do. It is a communal exercise and urgent exploration of social engagement through art practices. This class examines cultural interventions and distruptions by contemporary and historical art movements. It looks at transgressions of literal and metaphorical barriers - political, societal, geological, ecological, internal. Work made in this class is expected to live in the world. Class will take the form of discussions and presentations, with two stagings of interventions - collaborative or individual. (keywords: studio art, installation, politics)

This course provides an opportunity for you to build your skills in research methods and practice as you discover what research can look like for those working in film, photography, video, installation, and related media.

This seminar is organized around students' Division III (Independent Study Projects). Students are responsible for presenting their Division III research and progress with their writing several times during the semester, and for providing serious, thoughtful oral and written feedback on one another's work. We address general and shared issues of narrowing questions for investigation, conducting ethnographic and bibliographic research, incorporating sources, proper formatting and citations, the writing process, and presentation of work.

The Shoah (Hebrew: catastrophe, devastation) or "Holocaust"-the Nazi attempt to exterminate the Jews of Europe-has entered popular consciousness and the curriculum. Museums and monuments are commonplace. And yet, knowledge is neither widespread nor deep. In 2020, a majority of Americans aged 18-39 do not know how many Jews were killed, and nearly half cannot name a concentration camp. Although many people find religious, philosophical, or political meaning in the genocide, it in fact contains no intrinsic, much less, consoling message.

In a little more than a century, Bohemia, Hungary, and Poland have been transformed from provinces of multiethnic empires into a series of small successor states whose experience went from independence to Nazi occupation and communist dictatorship and back again. Today, they are members of NATO and the European Union.

In 1968, while striking for union recognition and decent wages, Memphis Sanitation workers wore placards with the iconic words printed on them, "I am a Man." The simple phrase invokes the long struggle that African American workers fought for visibility, recognition and respect as citizens whose labor struggles constitute a critical component of the "Long Civil Rights Movement." By examining historical literature, films, interviews and historical newspapers, we will immerse ourselves in the lived experiences, work cultures and organizing strategies of African American work

In this course, students will work in teams to develop, from conception to formal output, a fully realized game project that focuses on an aspect of Analog or Digital Game Development. Students will brainstorm, document, iterate, develop, report on and finally deploy a finished element of the game design process - this can be focused on game art, UX/UI, game animation, level design or an analog game. All projects will be documented professionally, reported on each week by the teams working on them and have full cooperative development over the course of the semester.