Further examination of jazz dance principles. Limited enrollment.

A duet form of movement improvisation. The technique will focus on work with gravity, weight support, balance, inner sensation and touch, to develop spontaneous fluidity of movement in relation to a partner. Prerequisite: at least one previous dance technique course or permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 10. (E)

For students who have taken Jazz I or the equivalent. Combined enrollment 130/131 limited to 30.

Advanced exploration of photographic techniques and visual ideas. Examination of the work of contemporary artists and traditional masters within the medium. (Varying topics to include large-format photography and advanced darkroom processes). A required fee of $75 to cover group supplied materials will be charged at the time of registration. Students may require additional supplies as well and will be responsible for purchasing them directly. Prerequisites: 282 and permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 15.

Advanced problems in sculpture using bronze casting, welding, and various media. A required fee of $25 to cover group supplied materials will be charged at the time of registration. Prerequisites: 273 and permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 12.

Investigates (1) the structure and history of the Latin alphabet, augmenting those studies with brief lessons in the practice of calligraphy, (2) a study of typography that includes the composing of type by hand and learning the rudiments of printing type, and (3) an introduction to digital typography. A required fee of $25 to cover group supplied materials will be charged at the time of registration. Students may require additional supplies as well and will be responsible for purchasing them directly. Prerequisite: Design (ARS 161 or equivalent) or permission of the instructor.

This is a course that introduces students to different installation strategies (e.g., working with multiples, found objects, light, site-specificity, among others). Coursework includes a series of projects, critiques, readings and a paper. A required fee of $25 to cover group supplied materials will be charged at the time of registration. Prerequisite: ARS 164, 173 (pending CAP approval), or permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 12.

Topics course. The 1980s saw both the ?end of painting? and a resurgence of expressionism. Artists extended Duchamp?s legacy in practices of appropriation, allied with poststructuralist critiques of authorship and originality. Postmodernism emerged in contested forms, as style or period, ?complicit? with or ?critical? of late consumer capitalism. Neo-conservatism deployed a rhetoric of ?traditional values,? while postmodernism gave voice to identities traditionally excluded from public discourse.

Topics course. This course investigates the historical origins of abstract art from late Impressionism and Post-Impressionism to the avant-garde movements of the twenties and thirties. What prepared artists for the shift towards abstraction? What were the aesthetic, psychological, and political implications of non-figurative art? And finally, what was the reception of abstract art by critics and scholars? In answering these and other questions, this course works towards elucidating how an art of colors and shapes alone ? ?representing nothing? ?

This class examines current issues in contemporary art, suggested by critical debates and significant exhibitions. The class will be particularly interested in practices and debates that offer the following: analyses of the global condition of art; demonstrations of the influence of new technologies; reflections on institutional frameworks; excavations of earlier art-historical moments; accounts of the shifting status of art, artists and audiences in the contemporary public sphere. Prerequisites: One 200-level art history course, or permission of the instructor. Group III