16th-Century Counterpoint

Study of compositional approaches in the 16th & 18th century including species counterpoint & fugue.

16th-Century Counterpoint

Study of compositional approaches in the 16th and 18th centuries including species counterpoint and fugue.

18th-Century Counterpoint

Study of compositional approaches in the 18th century. Students will engage with 18th-century practice through analysis and model composition.

18th-Century Counterpoint

Study of compositional approaches in the 18th century. Students will engage with 18th-century practice through analysis and model composition.

2D Fundamentals

An exploration in the studio of a variety of contemporary processes, techniques, and experiences in drawing with a variety of making implements. Assigned independent work, term project, and field trips to galleries and museums.

2D Fundamentals II

An exposure to and exploration of a variety of contemporary processes, techniques, and experiences in drawing in a wide array of drawing media. Assignments include directed work, independent work, projects, critiques, field trips to galleries and museums and includes projects in color theory. This course in a continuation of ART-UE 107.

3 D Audio

An interdisciplinary course about the theory, techniques and applications of 3D and spatial audio. Topics include the psychoacoustics of directional hearing, physical acoustics of spatial sound, stereo and multi-speaker sound reproduction, and spatial sound applications in virtual reality and other fields.

3D Fundamentals I

Explores the medium of sculpture through the principles of three-dimensional design and the concepts that drive developments in contemporary art. Projects may include welding, mold making, and the use of wood working tools, as well as the use of sculpture as costume, performance, environment, or kinetic form. Students use a variety of materials from wood and cardboard to metal, plaster, and found objects to expand their understanding of form and space.

3D Fundamentals II

Explores the medium of sculpture through the principles of three-dimensional design and the concepts that drive developments in contemporary art. Projects may include welding, mold making, and the use of wood working tools, as well as the use of sculpture as costume, performance, environment, or kinetic form. Students use a variety of materials from wood and cardboard to metal, plaster, and found objects to expand their understanding of form and space. This course is a continuation of ART-UE 211.

4D Fundamentals

Course introduces student artists to the 4th dimensional concepts of TIME and MOVEMENT as the necessary building blocks of Art created by Photography, Video, Digital and Performance medias. Students will explore the attributes of TIME and MOVEMENT through project assignments that use the methods of photography, video, digital, and performance art. The course also includes a briefart history of 4D concepts spanning a wide array of subject matter from cave painting to contemporary art.

4D Fundamentals II

Course builds on 4D Fundamentals I focusing on TIME, MOVEMENT and BODY together as the foundational basis for advanced art making using various medias. Concepts of MOVEMENT develop into an examination of the BODY as a means to create art. Students will explore each concept using the methods of photography, video, digital and performance. Course includes a brief art history of the BODY spanning an array of subject matter from cave painting through Surrealism to contemporary performance artists.

A Song Repertoire:French

A survey and performance course on the art song repertoire. Student study the interpretive and stylistic aspects and performs songs in French from the genre of French melodie.

Abnormal Psychology

Classification, etiology, symptoms, and treatment of major psychological disorders, including anxiety, mood, eating, substance-related, sexual and gender identity, cognitive, personality, schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders as well as disorders associated with childhood.

Abnormal Psychology

Theories, conceptions, and descriptions of psychopathology with an emphasis on the interrelationship of diagnosis and treatment, theories of symptoms formation, and criteria of normality.

Academic Achievement Gaps: Socio-Psychological Dynamics

Focuses on understanding the central issues leading to academic achievement gaps between different social groups in America. Topics include: biological, structural, cultural, and psychological factors in gaps between African-Americans, Latinos, Asians, and Caucasians in terms of test and school performance; gender differences in math and science achievement; and policy and educational interventions shown to reduce achievement gaps.

Acoustic Phonetics

A broad-based study of acoustic phonetics including acoustic theory and measurement; distinctive feature systems; integration of physiologic and perceptual characteristics with concomitant acoustic features.

Acting I for Singers

A Stanislavski based course introducing fundamental acting technique and stage convention through the integration of improvisation, monologs, scene study, speech and movement.

Acting II for Singers

Continuation of skills and concepts introduced in Acting I for Singers with an increased focus on character development, interaction and heightened language.

Acting III for Singers

An intensive practicum course building on the skills introduced in Acting I and Acting II for Singers, with increased focus on acting styles for contemporary and classical theatre.

Acting: Fundamentals

This course offers a foundation upon which to build the technique needed to do the actors job: to live truthfully under the imaginary circumstances of the play. In this Stanislavski/Uta Hagen based approach, students participate in a guided study of self-observation and apply discoveries to scene work.