Undergraduate Courses

Few art forms exert as much influence today as comics and graphic novels as visual culture is becoming increasingly flattened, demolishing long-established boundaries between high and low. Incorporating figuration, narrative, complex spatial and cinematic strategies, and forms also pioneered by the avant-gardes, sequential art has risen to a level of unprecedented complexity. But what can it teach painting? This class seeks to establish a dialogue between these connected but mostly disparate disciplines, cross-pollinating their formal and conceptual
concerns.

Examination of parenting views & practice across socio-cultural groups, discussion of similarities & differences in parenting around the globe, how parenting changes over the life course of the child, & how parenting shapes children’s development.

The political and industrial revolutions in Europe and America during the late 18th
and early 19th centuries and their restructuring of society created profound changes in the style, production, consumption and representation of fashion. Our exploration of the resulting practices and attitudes towards clothing and the body addresses in particular new definitions of class, gender and race, including masculine dandy style, the Cult of True Womanhood and celebrity courtesan, struggles for representation in art and media, and the creation of a designer-centered fashion system.

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Study and performance of standard and contemporary percussion repertoire in chamber ensembles.

Private or group lessons (by examination) in percussion instruments, supplemented by extra assignments, outside practice, and observation. Required attendance at recitals.

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Private or group lessons (by examination) in percussion instruments, supplemented by extra assignments, outside practice, and observation.

Private or group lessons (by examination) in percussion instruments, supplemented by extra assignments, outside practice, and observation.

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Instrumental Performance juries assess each student’s growth in instrumental techniques including intonation, rhythm, tone production, articulation, dynamics, and musicality. Juries take place at a designated time at the end of the semester and are evaluated by each student’s program director and any additional invited faculty. Jury repertoire is selected in conversation with each student’s private teacher, and
each student studies their jury repertoire in their private lessons.

An ensemble approach to teaching, learning and performing on percussion instruments in diverse music and school settings. Each student will have experience with a variety of percussion instruments for current and traditional music. This course is designed for students in Music Education and prepares them for meeting the requirements for K-12 music teacher certification.

An ensemble approach to teaching and learning percussion instruments. Students perform, compose/arrange, and conduct using various percussion configurations.

Analysis of factors inherent in the persuasive process, examination and application of these factors in presentations. Hours are arranged for student evaluation and practice.

This course introduces students to the nature of human speech and speech sounds. Students explore how different sounds are produced (phonetics), how they pattern (phonology), and how speech production can vary across individuals. Students learn to represent the speech sounds of English with phonetic transcription, including transcribing clinically relevant variation in speech production and speech patterns in major varieties of American English.

Emphasis is on the creation of a body of prints dealing with one subject or theme. Aesthetic decisions made by the individual in choice of subject matter & technique are considered. Lectures, technical demonstrations, & individual critiques are included. Readings on individual photographers, aesthetics, & darkroom techniques are assigned. Critiques by visiting photographers/artists are held.

This course examines the role and history of photography within the historical landscape of media and communication. Special emphasis on the accumulative meaning of visual archives, tracing how images reconfigure and establish cultural territories across a variety of texts and media. Investigates and contrasts the mimetic visual strategies within western and nonwestern traditions, looking at historical and contemporary images in a variety of forms.

Introduction to the use of photography as a medium of documentation and expression. Assignments and critiques enhance the development of individual work while developing photographic skills and techniques. Students provide their own cameras. Enlargers and photographic chemicals are provided in class.

The course is focused on photography as an art and photography as a means of communication. It includes aspects of history and the theory of photography and practical photographic education of classic analog/wet darkroom process — i.e. black and white photographic image making and printing. The goal is to develop a new way of seeing through the viewfinder of the camera and to hone critical thinking about photography. This course aims to teach students to experience the photographic works of art and reflect on that experience. Importance is laid on students’ understanding of the photographic image as a means of expressing an individual artistic attitude towards the world.

Assignments, critiques & demonstrations for the more advanced photography student. Further exploration of the use of photography as a medium of documentation & expression. Assignments & critiques enhance the development of individual work while developing photographic skills & techniques. Students provide their own camera & paper. Enlargers & photographic chemicals are provided in class.