This course provides preparation for work in the arts and other fields where visual ideas are presented sequentially. Sequential skills will be built through assignments that may utilize drawing, digital work and sculpture. Assignments addressing linear and nonlinear sequence with, line, tone, color, space, and light will facilitate the development of personal imagery. Narrative and non-narrative themes will be discussed. A wide range of tools and techniques will be employed in exploration of subject matter. A substantial independent project will be a major component of the course.

This studio course applies introductory principles of acting to contemporary American scenes. Primary concerns are identifying and playing clear objectives, developing character through behavior, and cultivating a language for the critical analysis of contemporary drama. Assignments include workshopping and performing three contemporary American scenes, presenting two life studies, completing three written character analyses, and writing one theatre review.

This course explores the creation and analysis of interdisciplinary theatre through the lens of the theatrical jazz aesthetic. We will combine music, movement and non-linear narrative to create short dramatic pieces, and deconstruct the works of such theatre artists as Laurie Carlos, Sharon Bridgforth and Daniel Alexander Jones.

Nearly 40 years ago Rosalind Krauss advanced her theory of the "expanded field" to interrogate the relationship between sculpture, architecture and landscape. Has our media-centric post-internet condition expanded the field of sculpture once again? This studio art course seeks to explore that question and more, with notions of beauty and the technological sublime serving as a compass.

The ability to authentically reproduce the inner and outer lives of real people and to deploy those people as "characters" in scenes that tell true stories are skills that all literary journalists must master. This course-devoted to the reading and writing of portrait/biographies-is intended to develop those skills in aspiring nonfiction narrative writers. Students will be asked to write short portrait/biographies of friends, relatives, acquaintances,and strangers. They will be asked to extend these prose portraits into longer biographies.

Cultures evolved from histories of colonialism or slavery have embedded in them forms of racism and racial polarisations that haunt and are reproduced even along the arteries of struggle against them. But there have been collaborations and connections that challenged the prevailing racialised assumptions and positionings that the dominant discriminations or oppressions continue to re-invoke. This course considers the importance of seeding the imagination with analyses, argument or narratives that disturb or defy the repetition of polarised differences that racisms depend on.

How can scenic, lighting, and sound design enhance or underscore a social or political message? How can a designer's vision influence one's experience or interpretation of a performance? In this class we look at designers and designs whose work has amplified or challenged traditional and nontraditional social and political texts. Throughout the semester students will be challenged to create scenery, lighting, and sound designs with the intention of enhancing or confronting the social or political themes of selected works.

In this course students will be teaching art to children in grades K-6. We will focus on visual arts teaching by exploring art materials, methods and techniques appropriate for a K-6 art program. Students will prepare themselves for behavior, academic and circumstantial situations which might arise in an elementary school classroom. The first half of the semester will include discussions and exploration of contemporary theory, issues and methods within the field of Art Education.

This dramaturgy class will introduce contemporary playwrights and performance makers who create work about China and the Chinese experience from diverse perspectives. As China expands its influence economically, politically, and culturally, we seek to understand and locate "Chinese-ness" in our contemporary society by examining its increasingly complex cultural dynamics. We will delve into issues of race, nation, history, culture, and the socio-political through the eyes of ethnic Chinese theatre makers writing from China, as well as Chinese-American and the global Chinese Diaspora.

This seminar class will explore a range of plays written for children (concentrating on 4th-7th grade). We will critically analyze plays and consider trends in writing. Included will be plays that have been adapted from other forms and works that are intended to open dialogue about social issues (Theatre-In-Education). In addition to reading plays we will research TYA companies around the world, go on a field trip to see a play for children and speak to playwrights and Artistic Directors of children's theatre companies about their work.