Undergraduate Courses

Course provides students with internship experience via arts-based research and
performance projects with the Verbatim Performance Lab (VPL). Students support all stages of the VPL process including project development, data collection, creation and production, dissemination, and assessment. Students attend biweekly lab meetings, receive individualized supervision and mentoring, give an oral presentation on their assigned project at a lab meeting, and generate an original written project proposal incorporating VPL’s techniques. Permission of
instructor required.

Assignments, critiques, & demonstrations expand skills & knowledge in the use of the video camera as an art medium. This class stresses technical & conceptual skills & the exploration of the experimental possibilities of the medium.

Video art has become one of the most widely used media art forms because it allows both the artistic concentration of photography & the free flowing imagery of movement. Students acquire rudimentary skills in shooting & editing while working toward a personal statement in video.

The course approaches video games through the lens of political economy. This means examining games foremost as commodities, transactional goods through which various modes of economic life occur. This course is designed to introduce students to the structure and economics of the game industry since its emergence in the 1970s, particularly across the United States, China, and Japan. Special attention is brought to the dramatic industry changes catalyzed by digital distribution, mobile gaming, live streaming, and other contemporary developments.

The course approaches video games through the lens of political economy. This means examining games foremost as commodities, transactional goods through which various modes of economic life occur. This course is designed to introduce students to the structure and economics of the game industry since its emergence in the 1970s, particularly across the United States, China, and Japan. Special attention is brought to the dramatic industry changes catalyzed by digital distribution, mobile gaming, live streaming, and other contemporary developments.

Village records is a team-structure course in which students operate an independent record company. Decision-making on the operational & artistic levels leads to strategy formulation. Implementation of strategy & record label management concepts & techniques are central to this course. Specifically, students administer all aspects of a record label including but not limited to: artist selection, creative design, manufacturing, marketing, promotion, publicity, & sales.

Study and performance of chamber music.

A performance class devoted to precise understanding of orchestral excerpts from standard repertoire found on auditions. Students study includes tempo, dynamics, articulation and precision.

An examination of scale fingerings, arpeggios, bowings, articulations & rhythmic patterns through single scales & double stops.

Study and performance of chamber music.

A performance class devoted to precise understanding of orchestral excerpts from standard repertoire found on auditions. Students study includes tempo, dynamics, articulation & precision.

An examination of graded technical material, repertoire & teaching methods. Studies will include how to teach various technical concepts, working with various fingerings & bowings & the correct progression of repertoire. The emphasis will be on understanding how students learn mentally & physically.

An examination of scale fingerings, arpeggios, bowings, articulations & rhythmic patterns through single scales & double stops.

Building on Interdisciplinary Art Practice I and II and designed for practicing artists, this course combines theory and artistic practice to examine the development of the arts from a critical perspective. Students explore a range of models from structuralism and semiotics to modern and postmodern paradigms. Students gain the skills and confidence to express their artistic objectives in critical writing, art making, and verbal analysis through presentations, works of art generated through research, and written statements about their artistic objectives.

This course examines the imagery of science and technology, the role of visuality in the construction of scientific knowledge, artistic renditions of science, and the emergence of visual technologies in modern society. It looks at how visuality has been key to the exercise of power through such practices as cataloguing and identification; the designation of abnormality, disease, and pathologies; medical diagnosis; scientific experimentation; and the marketing of science and medicine. We will examine the development of the visual technologies in the emerging scientific practices of psychiatry and criminology; explore the sciences of eugenics, genetics, pharmacology, brain and body scans, and digital medical images of many kinds; the marketing of pharmaceuticals, and the emerging politics of scientific activism.

Examines visual culture of the city, from the dynamics of visuality in the 19th-century modern cityscape to the mega cities of globalization. It addresses the visual dynamics, infrastructure, architecture, public art and design imaginaries of urban spaces, taking New York City and Paris as primary case studies and including other cities from the 19th century to the present. The course will examine the politics of urban design, the city as a site of division, disaster, memory, and political activism. Meets Liberal Arts Core requirement for Societies and Soc Sciences.

Private coaching sessions in the preparation of material for performance in the student's graduating recital. Work is focused on the interpretation, style, and placing material in its appropriate cultural and historical context.

Private coaching sessions in the preparation of material for performance in the student's graduating recital. Work is focused on the interpretation, style, and placing material in its appropriate cultural and historical context.

Introduction to vocal techniques and materials with emphasis on vocal development at all grade levels, including the changing voice.

Study of vocal physiology and the basic principles and techniques of vocal production and pedagogy. Students learn practical application of vocal principles by giving private vocal instruction to nonvoice majors.