This course allows students to focus on the figure. Students primarily sculpt in clay from live models. Perception and working from life are central issues. Through the observation of the figure, students study sculptural concepts of structure, proportion, gesture and the resulting image. Students are challenged to develop their individual approach and vision towards the human figure. Group critiques will encourage the development of a critical vocabulary.

In this course we will read writers who disturb experiences of memory, perception, the body and desire itself, rupturing a familiar, stable 'reality', and offering in its stead the elusive workings of the unconscious. The fiction of Proust and Woolf uniquely leaves a trace of this process of disturbance, a rich vein of language in which each maps and remaps the shifting shoreline of consciousness and desire - processes that change engagement with the world. Their work interrogates the routines and habits that disallow ambivalence and fluidity.

About the prose poem, poet Cambell McGrath asks, 'Do the formal fields end where the valley begins, or does everything that surrounds us emerge from its embrace?' We will explore this well-established (yet liminal) form in workshop. Assignments will include weekly readings and responses to published and peer work, imitations, and writing exercises. Each workshop member is required to maintain a course journal and to complete one formal presentation of the work of a published (prose) poet.

What does it take to produce, book and tour a theatre for young audiences (TYA) production? The answers to this question will be explored while producing Lily Plants a Garden by Jose Cruz Gonzalez. The play deals with issues of war, diversity, identity and difference, family and adoption, biological interdependence, and hope. The course will begin with researching touring practices of TYA companies(including marketing, booking, education components, management, and design elements).

Air, gas and vapors are not often thought of as artistic or design mediums but they have great potential as such. This course through experiential means will explore some of the potential these "invisible" mediums have. Through a variety of projects, participants will enhance their technological creativity and designing capacity while gaining a deeper understanding of their creative process by exploring the design and artistic potential of air, gas and vapors.

This course will replicate the dynamic, collaborative spirit of a theater ensemble at the beginning of a rehearsal process. During the course of the semester, students will rehearse and present staged readings of a series of plays, including classical texts and contemporary plays from visionary playwrights of diverse races, identities, and artistic styles.

Literary journalism encompasses a variety of genres, including portrait/biography, memoir, and investigation of the social landscape. Literary journalism uses such devices as plot, character, and dialogue to tell true stories about a variety of real worlds. By combining evocation with analysis, immersion with investigation, literary journalism tries to reproduce the complex surfaces and depth of people, places, and events. Books to be read will include: The JOHN McPHEE READER, Dexter Filkin's THE FOREVER WAR, and Wilkerson's THE WARMTH OF OTHER SUNS.

Through sculpture and drawing projects students will investigate the form and expression of the human head. Assignments will cover the study of the head in clay, the creation of masks, experiments in basic proportional systems, drawing from life and imagination, and more. Class discussions will draw from numerous cultural and historic points of view. The class will conclude with a major independent project of the student's own related to this subject. Students will have the option to work with either traditional or digital media. Significant outside work will be expected.

In this course students will explore the sculptural object as a self contained form and as an element within a found or created environment. Traditional materials such as steel, wood, plaster and concrete will be taught concurrently with more ephemeral materials including paper, wire mesh and found materials. Ideas originating within the traditions of modernism, postmodernism, minimalism, post minimalism, installation art and public art will be introduced through slide lectures, readings and independent research. The course will culminate in an independent project.

This course will take a close look at plays written in Britain and Ireland over the last century, exploring works by playwrights such as John M. Synge, George Bernard Shaw, Shelagh Delaney, Harold Pinter, Carol Churchill, Brian Friel and Martin McDonagh. Each week will be devoted to a different playwright. Students will both examine how the plays speak to the particular time and society in which they were written, and explore the creative potential of producing them on our own stages now.