Studio Art

Dance historians traditionally represented dance history in surveys limited to the history of Western theatrical dance, setting apart “ethnic” or folk dance forms into sections labeled, not as history, but as anthropology.  Presenting some dance forms as history and others as anthropology creates a sense that some dances are art, and perhaps of higher complexity or status, and some dances simply expressions of social behavior or religious belief.

Introduction to ideas and techniques in drawing in a wide range of subject matter.  Media may include pencil, ink, charcoal and pastel. ART

This course is the second half of a two-semester sequence capstone experience.  Students complete, curate, exhibit and defend a body of original creative work as a capstone experience. A portfolio of professional documentation will accompany the exhibition.  Prerequisite: Permission of adviser.

The first half of a two-semester sequence capstone experience. Students develop their conceptual and practical skills through research and application of contemporary theory and technique in order to form a personal creative statement. The result is the initial body of work for the thesis exhibition the following semester. Prerequisite: Permission of adviser.

A study of feminist theory that explores the mutually constructive relationship between gender identities and visual cultures; analyzes the way in which feminist insights drive many modes of understanding visual culture; and recognizes that visual experience is one of the key modes by which gender is culturally inscribed. Prerequisites: English Foundations course and one 200-level course in any discipline for WS 320; permission of Master of Humanities director for WS 520. WS, ART, WI