Linklater voice will be the major tool used to lay the groundwork for healthy, natural, dependable and expressive vocal communication and postural ease for theater. Students will learn how to speak with poise, gain confidence, reduce performance anxiety, and build the range, resonance, and authenticity of their voice and person. Poetry and dramatic texts will be used.

This hands-on course will explore creative video editing practice and modes through the production of several short projects, revisions, group screenings and feedback sessions. While this is primarily a production course, we will learn about the history of the craft, read iconic texts, and view selected films to help inform our process and understanding of editing.

This course is set up as an advanced-level theatrical design course. In the course, students will be grouped into miniature production teams, the teams will analyze scripts, create a design concept and bring a theoretical production to the final stages of design. Students will be asked to design in the following areas (costume, scenic and lighting), they will be expected to do each of these disciplines throughout the semester. Each theoretical production will last three weeks.

What is a thing? What is stuff? Water bottles, trash, smartphones, photos, dirt, a broken printer, your favorite socks... Where do they come from and where are they going? In this course we'll gain an understanding of the political, historical, philosophical, ecological, and affective agency of objects and non-human things. We'll use examples primarily from modern-day Latin America, Spain, and U.S.-border areas to study how artists, writers, collectors, environmentalists, and migrants engage with the stuff around us.

Cleopatra, last of the dynasty that ruled ancient Egypt for three centuries, was renowned for her learning and wit, her beauty and ambition, and for being both the mistress of Julius Caesar and wife of Marc Antony. A controversial figure in antiquity, Cleopatra has enjoyed a remarkable afterlife in modern literature, drama, and cinema.

This course examines the gendered causes and consequences of climate change through a feminist and intersectional lens. Using empirical case studies, we will investigate how lived experience and knowledge of climate change is shaped by multiple axes of social identity (e.g., gender, race, sexuality, ethnicity, class) and interrogate how prevailing notions of 'masculinity' and 'femininity' influence climate mitigation and adaptation processes across a variety of locations, scales, and contexts.

This course will introduce students to water science where we investigate the hydrological cycle, water distribution on the earth's surface and subsurface at the continental and catchments scale. We will study atmospheric processes such as precipitation, evapotranspiration, and surface runoff to understand how it affects the quantity and quality of potable water availability. Students will learn and practice introductory level groundwater calculations which are mathematical equations that describe the flow and storage of water.

Earth's polar environments have undergone rapid change during the 21st century and scientists have generated important new data and made groundbreaking insights. Using real data, diverse material types, and a range of activities, we have been selected to "Beta-test" education modules designed to teach polar science and polar exploration.