2009-10 Catalog

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Expressive Arts

Expressive Arts programs engage students in media arts, performing arts, visual arts and environmental arts practices by incorporating theoretical, critical and art historical learning with opportunities for hands-on work in a wide range of art forms. The Expressive Arts Faculty sees the creation of imaginative and artistic work to be a central element of a broad, liberal arts education. Our curriculum accommodates a range of students in a variety of full and part time programs, courses and individual contract opportunities.  Those who want to focus their studies in the arts work side by side with those interested in using arts practices to give voice to perspectives they have developed in the study of other disciplines. Learn more...

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NEW! at the beginning of a Program Title refers to online-only publication (not in print catalog).

NEW! Acts of Trans: -Lation, -Dancing, -Texting, -Posing, -Musicking
Revised: 11/12/2009
All level Fall    
NEW! Art and Place: Exploring Questions of Land, Home, and Identity
Accepts Winter Enrollment
All level   Winter  
Art, Culture, and Spirit
Revised: 08/28/2009
Unrestricted Fall    
NEW! The Art of Adaptation
Revised: 11/19/2009
Accepts Spring Enrollment
All level   Winter Spring
Art of Mexico
Revised: 10/21/2009
Accepts Winter Enrollment
Junior/Senior Fall Winter  
NEW! Art of Mosaic Junior/Senior     Spring
Art Worlds
Revised: 05/12/2009
Accepts Winter Enrollment
Core Fall Winter  
NEW! Centering: Narratives of Near and Far
Revised: 11/19/2009
Accepts Spring Enrollment
Unrestricted   Winter Spring
NEW! Ceramic Sculpture: Tradition to Experimentation Sophomore to Senior Fall    
Consciousness, Art and Matter
Revised: 05/05/2009
Accepts Winter Enrollment
Accepts Spring Enrollment
Sophomore to Senior Fall Winter Spring
NEW! Dance Intensive All level     Spring
Drawing Outside the Lines
Revised: 11/09/2009
Accepts Winter Enrollment
Sophomore to Senior Fall Winter  
Fiber Arts Sophomore to Senior     Spring
The Generative Self: Theory and Artistic Practice
Faculty Signature Required
Junior/Senior     Spring
NEW! Geography and Art: Investigating Place
Accepts Winter Enrollment
All level Fall Winter  
Greece and Italy: An Artistic and Literary Odyssey
Revised: 08/07/2009
Accepts Winter Enrollment
Sophomore to Senior Fall Winter Spring
Growing Up: Stories, Scripts, and Performance All level Fall    
India: Politics of Dance, Dance of Politics Sophomore to Senior Fall Winter  
Individual Study: Fiber Arts, Installation, Non-Western Art History, Native American Studies, Creative Writing, Poetry, and Multicultural American Literature
Faculty Signature Required
Accepts Winter Enrollment
Sophomore to Senior Fall Winter  
Ireland
Revised: 07/20/2009
Faculty Signature Required
Junior/Senior Fall Winter Spring
NEW! Making Dances: Creative Process in Motion All level   Winter  
Making Your Place
Accepts Winter Enrollment
Accepts Spring Enrollment
Junior/Senior Fall Winter Spring
NEW! Media Artists Studio
Faculty Signature Required
Junior/Senior Fall Winter Spring
NEW! Media Services Internships
Revised: 10/09/2009
Faculty Signature Required
Junior/Senior Fall Winter Spring
Mediaworks
Faculty Signature Required
Sophomore to Senior Fall Winter Spring
Music and the Environment
Revised: 05/05/2009
Accepts Winter Enrollment
Junior/Senior Fall Winter  
NEW! Objects in Performance: An Experimental Laboratory
Faculty Signature Required
All level     Spring
NEW! Performing meaning, translating thought All level   Winter  
Plein Air Junior/Senior     Spring
CANCELLED Poetics and Performance
Faculty Signature Required
Junior/Senior     Spring
Popular Music and Literature in the 1960s Junior/Senior     Spring
NEW! Portraits
Accepts Winter Enrollment
Sophomore to Senior Fall Winter  
Ready Camera One
Revised: 05/05/2009
Faculty Signature Required
Accepts Winter Enrollment
Sophomore to Senior Fall Winter Spring
CANCELLED Student Originated Studies: New Dimensions In Visual Art
Faculty Signature Required
Sophomore to Senior Fall Winter  
Student Originated Studies: Performance, Theatre, Dance and Technical Theatre
Revised: 08/24/2009
Faculty Signature Required
Accepts Winter Enrollment
Sophomore to Senior Fall Winter  
NEW! Student Originated Studies: Visual Art
Faculty Signature Required
Sophomore to Senior     Spring
NEW! Student-Originated Studies: Visual Arts
Revised: 10/09/2009
Faculty Signature Required
Accepts Winter Enrollment
Junior/Senior Fall Winter  
CANCELLED Student-Originated Studies: Visual Arts (winter)
Faculty Signature Required
Junior/Senior   Winter  
Studio Projects: Land and Sky
Revised: 11/09/2009
Accepts Winter Enrollment
All level Fall Winter  
NEW! Sustainable Design: A new building for the Organic Farm
Revised: 08/04/2009
Faculty Signature Required
Sophomore to Senior Fall Winter  
Theatre Intensive: Theatre Production
Revised: 11/17/2009
Faculty Signature Required
All level     Spring
NEW! Transcending Time and Space in the Performing Arts
Revised: 08/24/2009
Accepts Winter Enrollment
All level Fall Winter  
Working Small
Revised: 05/05/2009
Faculty Signature Required
Accepts Winter Enrollment
Junior/Senior Fall Winter  
NEW! Writing Matters: Passion and Discipline in Literary and Media Arts
Accepts Winter Enrollment
All level Fall Winter