Undergraduate Courses

Fundamentals of ballet technique including special emphasis on placement and utilizing individual anatomical structures most efficiently.

Principles and methods of play writing. Completion of several writing assignments is required, including a one-act play. Plays of special merit considered for program production.

This course is designed to prepare digital-era students in all fields of study for professional achievement in a technologically sophisticated, global, networked environment. The course is structured around three central elements of “digital literacy” -- 1) human perception and cognition, 2) computers and electronic intelligence, and 2) the network architecture of the digital web. It is a rigorous intellectual introduction to the fundamental principles on which these technologies are based. There are no perquisites and those from the technologically challenged to the techno-geeks are welcome. Students will be introduced to the fundamentals of human attention, how sound waves, light waves and electromagnetic waves work and what computers and routers do. . This is a “flipped course” – what would normally be in-class lectures and demonstrations are available online as curricular modules and can be viewed at students’ convenience (and reviewed as appropriate) much like traditional reading assignments. In-person class sections are used for dialog, discussion and Q and A with the instructor.

This course explores the civil rights movement roots of Berkeley’s historic student
revolt, the reasons for the Free Speech Movement’s success in attracting student support and changing campus policy, its impact on the history of free speech, and on the rise of both the New Left and the Reaganite Right. This course ends with reflections on the state of free speech on campus in our own century when that freedom is often slighted, dismissed or weaponized by student groups on the left and right and the corporate groups that subsidize them, leaving us with
the question of whether the Free Speech Movement is still relevant to the campus scene today.

Basic principles and practical experience in development of beverage systems and menus. Considers pricing, equipment, legal, merchandising and personnel policies.

Overview of the conditions facing immigrant-origin and displaced children and youth in the U.S. and globally. Emphasis is placed on the experiences of children and youth in the contexts of family, school, social networks, and community in different countries and cultural environments. Discussion includes family- to policy-level interventions to improve the developmental potential of children and youth from immigrant families.

Students meet each week by advance appointment with faculty, visiting artists, and critics for individual critique and in-depth discussion of their work and the visual, technical, and theoretical issues that inform their practice.

Theory, policy, and practice of bilingual education. Key topics include models and programs of bilingual education; policy and politics of language minority education in the US and internationally; psycholinguist perspectives on bilingualism, including language development; cultural, social, and political perspectives on language minority education; and evaluation of bilingual education programs. Emphasis on pedagogical implications of the above, with attention to native language development, second language/literacy teaching for developmentally and linguistically diverse students.

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This course analyzes writing from 1845 to the present, surveying
African-American history and literature beginning with the writings of
Frederick Douglass and the Harlem Renaissance writers that originate from
Washington, DC’s Howard University (Zora Hurston and Alain Locke). From
this historical foundation, the course will move to examine issues of race
and caste from Ta-Nehisi Coates’ memoire Between the World and Me, a text
that focuses on the death of Coates’ Howard classmate at the hands of
police. In addition to the selected texts, the course will use the location
of Washington, DC as a resource, visiting sites related to course content,
including the Frederick Douglass National Historic Site, Howard University,
the National Museum of African-American Culture and History and the Martin
Luther King Memorial Site.

This experiential seminar interrogates the democratization of pattern discovery.
Who decides what to count and what to keep? Using New York City as a laboratory, we explore the systems of power embedded in tabulation and archiving, and the possibilities of open, decentralized, and autonomous futures. We reflect on the past and present of knowledge infrastructures -- from books to blockchain.

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

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

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

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 brass instruments in diverse music and school settings. Each student will have experience with high and low brass instruments, and will study the transpositions needed for these instruments. This course is designed for students in Music Education and prepares them for meeting the requirements for K-12 music teacher certification.