May 04, 2024  
2015-2016 Course Catalog 
    
2015-2016 Course Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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  • 66-6709 Art and Science Collaboration


    Collaborations between artists and scientists can generate new forms of inquiry and produce results that benefit multiple fields. This course will examine the rich history of art/science relationships and new art forms emerging from partnerships with scientific disciplines including ecology, biology, sociology, economics, and engineering. Students will investigate challenges related to how modern institutions distance the humanities and sciences and strategize how to meaningfully engage with scientists in this context.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 66-6701 Art As Discourse 
  
  • 66-6714 Visual Art Workshop


    This studio course focuses on offering instruction in specific visual art techniques. Students will develop more advanced skills for making substantial improvements for their projects. This course may be taught by visiting artists.

    1-6 Credits
  
  • 66-6720 Lighting Techniques Practicum


    This course will introduce artists to the basics of lighting including set-up and placement of lighting instruments, selection of appropriate lights, and safety issues. Through demonstrations and exercises, students will operate both portable and studio lighting equipment. Students will create visual images as well as define space using a variety of lighting techniques. This course will help artists determine the appropriate lighting for live performance, video production, installations, and the documentation of installations and ephemeral media.

    1-6 Credits
  
  • 66-6721 PhotoMechanical Monster


    Photomechanical reproduction, as Walter Benjamin would have it, completely changed the nature of art. The fundamental ideas and techniques of photographic reproduction will be taught in this short course, as a way of thinking about how photographic images are inflected by how they are produced. Students will learn about stochastic vs. amplitude-modulated dot formation, tonal reproduction curves, dot gain, and the vagaries of resolution as a path toward printing photographs that just might have aura.

    1 Credits
  
  • 66-6727 Mentorship


    The mentorship experience is designed to perfect the student’s craft in a particular medium through an intensive, hands-on experience with an acknowledged expert.  A mentorship is a collaboration among the student, the student’s advisor, and the mentoring environment’s point person.

    1-6 Credits
    Requirements Permission of Instructor
  
  • 66-6742 Image, Time and Motion


    In this course students will expand their conceptual and technical skills in image editing by applying 2D animation techniques to create the illusion of motion. Advanced strategies for sequencing real and artificial images will be addressed. Students will design and simulate three-dimensional space, which may be used to prototype sculptures, simulate performance space, or produce artwork for Internet distribution. This course stresses conceptual strategies and skills, intended to support individualized exploratory art-making processes and practices.

    3 Credits
  
  • 66-6744 Performing in Artificial Space


    This intensive course will expand students’ capabilities of performing with media. Students should come to class with concepts of performance in artificial space that they would like to explore with the understanding that all works will require collaboration. In this course, students will develop and stage a live performance that may include virtual environments, wireless cameras, webcams, surveillance cameras, networked performance, virtual sets, and artificial spaces via chroma-key techniques, multi-screen projection and live sound reinforcement.

    2 Credits
  
  • 66-6750 Code/Language


    This course introduces the use of coding and programming languages for creative outcomes to artists. The class will build a software drawing ‘machine’ together. This software drawing machine will have components constructed in several different programming languages - and these components will communicate with one another. This strategy will highlight the notion that coding itself is the core (portable) competency. Readings and discussions examine the conceptual and aesthetic impact of code within the context of an interdisciplinary art practice.

    2 Credits
  
  • 66-6752 Excavating the Image


    The proliferation of digital image capture technologies has complicated the notion of the camera. This course examines CCD/CMOS and related image capture technologies as the site for creative inquiry and investigation; it emphasizes the artist’s role as the organizer of optics that collect and focus light to form images that may be digitally captured or sampled. Image editing and output technologies will be discussed. Readings will introduce prominent theorists and concepts critical for integrating images within an interdisciplinary art practice.

    2 Credits
  
  • 66-6754 Shaping Solid Light


    This course explores the conceptual and technical use of light as projection, as image, and as source of illumination within the context of creating artificial spaces in installation and performance. This is a hands-on course in which students will use an expansive array of image projection, data display, and software controlled lighting technologies. Readings, discussions, and demonstrations in this course are organized to challenge the conceptual and technical assumptions about the materiality of the ephemeral image.

    2 Credits
  
  • 66-6756 Silence/Sonorous Objects


    This course introduces audio fundamentals focusing on collection and excavation of sound from the natural world, the body, and seemingly inert objects and physical materials. Topics include digital audio fundamentals (e.g. sample frequency, sample size), audio editing, field recording, microphones, contact microphones, electronics skills for contact microphone construction, and sampling / synthesis / sequencing. Readings and screenings will introduce prominent sound artists, artworks, theorists, and relevant concepts critical for contextualizing the use of sound within interdisciplinary art practice.

    2 Credits
  
  
  • 70-3110 Arts in Health Practicum


    This practicum, immediately following 70-3100, Arts in Health, is the capstone course for the Arts in Healthcare Minor. Students will gain experience in developing and implementing artistic projects within a healthcare setting. They will work within the system and abide by its unique policies to insure safety and best practice.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 70-3100 Arts in Health 
  
  • 70-4100 Introduction to Laban


    Introduction to Laban provides a general overview of Rudolf Laban’s taxonomy of human movement grounded in applied Laban-based studies. Through didactic and studio movement experientials students explore the body, effort, space, and shape; core concepts in Laban Movement Analysis.

    1 Credits
  
  • 70-4800 Performance as Therapy


    Performance involves preparation through engagement on many levels, intrapersonally and interpersonally. It includes being immersed in the creative process, feedback on the emerging creation, and its integration. While there is an ongoing reflective dialogue between the process and the product, it also involves intense decision making and community building. Performance and rehearsals will be explored for therapeutic impact and value.

    1 Credits
  
  • 70-4800J Performance as Therapy


    Performance involves preparation through engagement on many levels, intrapersonally and interpersonally. It includes being immersed in the creative process, feedback on the emerging creation, and its integration. While there is an ongoing reflective dialogue between the process and the product, it also involves intense decision making and community building. Performance and rehearsals will be explored for therapeutic impact and value.

    1 Credits
    Requirements 30 Earned Credit Hours
  
  • 70-4810 Introduction to Creative Arts Therapies


    This course allows students to experience a sampling of the creative arts therapies as a means of assisting them in recognizing the scope of practice along the continuum of arts and therapy in healthcare. In addition, this course invites students to examine their own creative process through the lens of a theoretical model. Guest lecturers present on their field of creative arts specialty, including art, music, dance, and drama. Emphasis is placed on the creative process and the students’ experience with it.

    1 Credits
  
  • 70-4810J Introduction to Creative Arts Therapies


    This course allows students to experience a sampling of the creative arts therapies as a means of assisting them in recognizing the scope of practice along the continuum of arts and therapy in healthcare. In addition, this course invites students to examine their own creative process through the lens of a theoretical model. Guest lecturers present on their field of creative arts specialty, including art, music, dance, and drama. Emphasis is placed on the creative process and the students’ experience with it.

    1 Credits
    Requirements 30 Earned Credit Hours
  
  • 70-4830 Introduction to Expressive Arts Therapy


    This course introduces students to the theory and application of expressive arts therapy. According to the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association, the expressive arts combine the visual arts, movement, drama, music, writing and other creative processes to foster deep personal growth and community development. The students will safely experience the creative process across expressive media.

    1 Credits
    Requirements 30 Earned Credit Hours
  
  • 70-4840 Special Topics:


    This course will focus on specific topics, themes, and ideas that might not be included in the permanent course offering or will concentrate on new and experimental approaches to issues in professional practices.

    1 Credits Repeatable
    Requirements 30 Earned Credit Hours
  
  • 70-5100 Introduction to Laban


    Introduction to Laban provides a general overview of Rudolf Laban’s taxonomy of human movement grounded in applied Laban-based studies. Through didactic and studio movement experientials students explore the body, effort, space, and shape; core concepts in Laban Movement Analysis.

    1 Credits
  
  • 70-5800 Performance as Therapy


    Performance involves preparation through engagement on many levels, intrapersonally and interpersonally. It includes being immersed in the creative process, feedback on the emerging creation, and its integration. While there is an ongoing reflective dialogue between the process and the product, it also involves intense decision making and community building. Performance and rehearsals will be explored for therapeutic impact and value.

    1 Credits
  
  • 70-5800J Performance as Therapy


    Performance involves preparation through engagement on many levels, intrapersonally and interpersonally. It includes being immersed in the creative process, feedback on the emerging creation, and its integration. While there is an ongoing reflective dialogue between the process and the product, it also involves intense decision making and community building. Performance and rehearsals will be explored for therapeutic impact and value.

    1 Credits
  
  • 70-5810 Introduction to Creative Arts Therapies


    This course allows students to experience a sampling of the creative arts therapies as a means of assisting them in recognizing the scope of practice along the continuum of arts and therapy in healthcare. In addition, this course invites students to examine their own creative process through the lens of a theoretical model. Guest lecturers present on their field of creative arts specialty, including art, music, dance, and drama. Emphasis is placed on the creative process and the students’ experience with it.

    1 Credits
  
  • 70-5810J Introduction to Creative Arts Therapies


    This course allows students to experience a sampling of the creative arts therapies as a means of assisting them in recognizing the scope of practice along the continuum of arts and therapy in healthcare. In addition, this course invites students to examine their own creative process through the lens of a theoretical model. Guest lecturers present on their field of creative arts specialty, including art, music, dance, and drama. Emphasis is placed on the creative process and the students’ experience with it.

    1 Credits
  
  • 70-5830 Introduction to Expressive Arts Therapy


    This course introduces students to the theory and application of expressive arts therapy. According to the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association, the expressive arts combine the visual arts, movement, drama, music, writing and other creative processes to foster deep personal growth and community development. The students will safely experience the creative process across expressive media.

    1 Credits
  
  • 70-5840 Special Topics:


    This course will focus on specific topics, themes, and ideas that might not be included in the permanent course offering or will concentrate on new and experimental approaches to issues in professional practices.

    1 Credits
  
  • 70-6110 Dance/Movement Therapy Theory I


    This course lays the basic foundation of becoming a dance/movement therapist through understanding the principles, methods, and techniques of the early pioneers of dance/movement Therapy. A historical overview of dance and psychology encompasses the bridge between aesthetic and scientific practices.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 70-6135 Social and Cultural Foundations 
  
  • 70-6115 Dance/Movement Therapy Theory II


    This course emphasizes the practice of dance/movement therapy. Students will create and apply DMT techniques for a variety of contexts incorporating knowledge of human development, DMT methodologies and the unique needs of special populations. Students have the opportunity to investigate an area of specialty in the field through community site visitation that will prepare them for their three semesters of clinical placement.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES:   and 70-6315 Observation & Assessment of Movement I 
  
  • 70-6120 Clinical Appraisal and Treatment Planning


    This integrative course emphasizes treatment planning as informed by nomothetic and idiographic assessment including movement observation, assessment, and analysis. Best practices in clinical and creative interventions are examined through the application of psychological paradigms and creative arts therapies’ methodologies to most effectively treat disorders within the DSM-5.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 70-6115 Dance/Movement Therapy Theory II 
  
  • 70-6125 Addictions Counseling


    The etiology, assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of addictions will be explored through bio-psycho-social models of theory and practice ranging from the 12-step model to harm reduction, with emphasis given to the transtheoretical approach of Motivational Interviewing. Community learning through attendance at community support groups is essential for the completion of course requirements.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES:  
  
  • 70-6126 Family Counseling


    Students will survey various frameworks from the field of couples and family counseling which focus on facilitating change in relational patterns. Emphasis will also be placed on at risk families and the challenges and issues they face. Effective treatment planning requires understanding the impact of environmental, social, economic and cultural factors on therapeutic processes for families.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 70-6120 Clinical Appraisal and Treatment Planning 
  
  • 70-6135 Social and Cultural Foundations


    This course will introduce the social and cultural foundations of the arts in healing and how this has influenced current understanding of the creative arts therapies and counseling. The course focuses on the creative exploration of each of the student’s cultural world views, influenced by beliefs about health, illness, and healing. The impact of power, prejudice and oppression on the provision of mental health services to diverse populations will also be examined. Participation in community-based cultural events will be central to the learning experience.

    3 Credits
  
  • 70-6210 Human Development


    This class focuses on stages of development and developmental tasks in the life cycle spanning the prenatal period to our elder years and death. We examine the life cycle from various perspectives, including physical, cognitive, emotional, and social. Discussion will also focus upon how we construct/determine ideas of normal and pathological development. Throughout the course attention is paid to how genetic and environmental factors influence development with an emphasis on the impact of culture, creativity and brain development.

    3 Credits
  
  • 70-6215 Psychopathology


    The basic biological aspects of mental functioning in health and disease will be presented. Students will learn to recognize and describe the signs and symptoms of mental illness on clinical examination in order to formulate a diagnosis consistent with the DSM-5 criteria.

    3 Credits
  
  • 70-6220 Theories & Principles of Counseling


    This course provides an introduction to counseling theories and principles, exploring culturally informed traditional and contemporary approaches. Students will be required to understand the relationship of counseling principles to the psychological theory from which they are derived. Microskills will be introduced.

    3 Credits
  
  • 70-6225 Methods of Group Therapy


    This course explores clinical techniques in group process drawing upon group therapy theories. Inpatient and outpatient settings are addressed.

    3 Credits
  
  • 70-6230 Clinical Techniques of Counseling


    Techniques in clinical counseling will be introduced and Microskills utilized in all counseling modalities will be further developed. Major treatment modalities, best practice recommendations, and effective intervention strategies will be addressed.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 70-6220 Theories & Principles of Counseling 
  
  • 70-6310 Intro to the Body/Mind: Experience in Movement


    This course will provide an understanding of the biopsychosocial and spiritual states and processes, how they are experienced and manifested, both in the formation of the body and movement/dance. The anatomical, neurological, and kinesiological foundations of these states and processes will be studied experientially.

    2 Credits
  
  • 70-6315 Observation & Assessment of Movement I


    Students will learn and develop skills for observing, documenting, describing, and assessing human movement behavior grounded in applied Laban-based studies. Students will learn foundational theory, principles, vocabulary, and philosophy of Laban Movement Analysis through kinesthetic, written, and verbal experience within the Body and Effort portions of the taxonomy.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 70-6699 Introduction to Laban 
  
  • 70-6318 Bartenieff Fundamentals


    This course focuses on functionality in movement; including physical work with the system of body re-education. Fundamentals, developed by Laban’s student, Irmgard Bartenieff. Fundamentals integrates LMA with physical therapy to provide holistic approaches to functional issues, such as mobility, efficiency, and ease in motion.

    1 Credits
  
  • 70-6320 Observation and Assessment of Movement II


    As the second of two observation/assessment classes, students will build on their working knowledge of Body and Effort from Laban Movement Analysis (LMA) with the emphasis on Shape and Space. Training in Bartenieff Fundamentals will continue from the O & A I course. Through seeing, doing, and writing, students will utilize LMA as a foundation for clinical applications in dance/movement therapy. In addition students will examine foundational theory, principles and applications of the Kestenberg Movement Profile (KMP) and have the opportunity to discuss and apply their Laban-based skills in movement labs as well as in an application project.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 70-6135 Social and Cultural Foundations 
  
  • 70-6410 Research Methods


    This course is the first in a four-course series designed to prepare the student as a researcher and consumer of research in the fields of counseling and creative arts therapies. The course will provide a basic overview of quantitative and qualitative research methodologies followed by an exploration of research methods in ethical and legal contexts appropriate to counseling and creative arts therapies. The series of research courses, beginning with Research Methods, and continuing with Literature Review Seminar, Thesis Seminar and Graduate Thesis will culminate in the completion of a Master’s Thesis and a presentation of a research poster at the Research Celebration.

    3 Credits
  
  • 70-6414 Literature Review Seminar


    This course continues the four course research requirement beginning with Research Methods and concluding with Graduate Thesis Credit. Students will develop their research topic with the goal of completing their literature reviews and research questions. The seminar will provide consultation and assistance, as well as offer group support and structure.

    1 Credits
    PREREQUISITE: 70-6410 Research Methods 
  
  • 70-6415 Thesis Seminar


    This course continues the four course research requirement begun with Research Methods, Literature Review Seminar, Thesis Seminar and concluding with the Graduate Thesis. Students will develop their research project with the goal of completing their Departmental Thesis Committee (DTC) and Internal Review Board (IRB) thesis proposals. The seminar will provide consultation and assistance as well as offer group support and structure.

    1 Credits
    PREREQUISITE: 70-6414 Literature Review Seminar 
  
  • 70-6420 Graduate Thesis


    Researching, writing, revising and completing the final thesis project will occur under the guidance of the thesis advisor, outside reader and research coordinator.

    1-6 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 70-6415 Thesis Seminar 
  
  • 70-6499 Independent Project: DCAT


    No description available.

    1-6 Credits
  
  • 70-6515 Professional, Legal & Ethical Responsibilities through Fieldwork


    Professional orientation includes the following content: federal and Illinois laws relevant to counselors including HIPPA regulations, ethics with an emphasis on the American Counseling Code of Ethics as well as the Code of Ethics specific to the practice of creative arts therapies, diverse organizational systems, administrative policies and procedures, roles and professional relationships, patient populations, daily routine, beginning documentation, beginning group facilitation, and the practice of counseling and the creative arts therapies within the clinical setting and the broader context of society.

    3 Credits
  
  • 70-6589 Internship I/Clinical Supervision


    Internship I/Clinical Supervision is the first of 700 hours of on-site clinical placement as required by the American Dance Therapy Association. Students are supervised by academic BC-DMTs and site supervisors at placements in mental health agencies, schools, hospitals, correctional facilities, and other institutions and function as counselor-dance/movement therapists. Internship I, with 350 hours, emphasizes treatment planning and goal setting as related to observation and assessment.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 70-6515 Professional, Legal & Ethical Responsibilities through Fieldwork 
  
  • 70-6590 Internship II/Clinical Supervision


    This course is a continuation of Internship I with emphasis on the interrelationship of observation, assessment, treatment planning, and intervention skills in clinical practice. Students will work on their oral presentation skills, as well as written communication of the therapeutic experience. The therapeutic termination process is addressed in addition to the student’s developing theoretical framework. This class requires the student to complete the remaining 350 of the 700 clinical hours required by the American Dance Therapy Association. The experience is documented by a completed clinical portfolio.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 70-6589 Internship I/Clinical Supervision 
  
  • 70-6600 Lifestyles and Career Development


    This course examines the creation of career patterns and the need for self-care in the workplace. Bartenieff Fundamentals will be taught for self-care training. Secondary trauma and the role body psychotherapists play in leading the field in the treatment of trauma will be explored. Decision making styles will be introduced through Movement Pattern Analysis. The introduction of basic career counseling theories and community resources will assist creative arts therapists with referral choices and resources.

    3 Credits
  
  • 70-6700 Graduate Laban Certificate in Movement Analysis 1-Laban Movement Analysis (LMA)


    Physical exploration of Laban’s comprehensive conceptual framework for understanding movement, encompassing bodily articulation, kinetic dynamism, plasticity, and spatial patterning (Body/Effort/Shape/Space).

    1-6 Credits
  
  • 70-6710 Graduate Laban Certificate in Movement Analysis 2-Bartenieff Fundamentals (BF)


    Practical physical work with the systems of the body re-education developed by Laban’s student, Irmgard Bartenieff. Bartenieff Fundamentals integrates principles of LMA with an understanding of anatomy and kinesiology to provide holistic approaches to functional issues, such as mobility, efficiency, and ease of motion.

    1-6 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 70-6700 Graduate Laban Certificate in Movement Analysis 1-Laban Movement Analysis (LMA) 
  
  
  • 70-6730 Graduate Laban Certificate in Movement Analysis 4-Professional Issues


    Reading and discussion seminar examining the theory and practice of body/mind therapy, performing arts, and relevant applications of Laban-based movement studies.

    1-6 Credits
  
  • 70-6735 GLCMA 5 - Further Revisions


    1-2 Credits
  
  • 70-6900 Movement Pattern Analysis I


    This course lays the basic foundation of becoming a Movement Pattern Analysis practitioner. Students practice advance movement observation and analysis, explore interviewing techniques, learn to construct and interpret individual profiles, conduct counseling sessions under supervision, and write reports.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITE: 70-6699 Introduction to Laban 
  
  • 70-6905 MPA Profile


    A Movement Pattern Analysis Profile (MPA)provides an individual with insight into one’s decision-making process as correlated to their intrinsic movement behavior. This course is designed to 1) provide students with their own individual profiles created by the instructor, and 2) begin the orientation process to the overall framework of Movement Pattern Analysis as it relates to their unique profiles. Students will engage one-on-one with the instructor for a two hour interview during which the instructor notates the student’s movement for the purposes of constructing the Movement Profile, and for a one hour feedback session during which the instructor provides the Profile Report and all explanation of the Profile and its applications. Other students in the class are actively observing both the interviews and the feedback sessions.

    1 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 70-6699 Introduction to Laban  and 70-6900 Movement Pattern Analysis I 
    Requirements Permission of Instructor
  
  • 70-6920 Movement Pattern Analysis II


    This course continues development of skills needed to make and apply individual Movement Pattern Analysis profiles. In addition, team analysis skills are introduced in the context of providing guidance to co-workers and professional or personal partners regarding their individual and composite decision-making styles according to the Movement Pattern analysis framework. Students learn to construct and interpret a profile of a dyad team, conduct a pair feedback session, and write a team report.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITE: 70-6900 Movement Pattern Analysis I 
  
  • 70-6930 Team Building Practicum


    This capstone course in Movement Pattern Analysis includes a theoretical orientation to team building and its application to practice. Pairs of students will complete a team-building project in the community, applying the principles of Movement Pattern Analysis.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITE: 70-6920 Movement Pattern Analysis II 
  
  • 74-3100 Re/Sounding Black Chicago


    Re/Sounding Black Chicago, a creative learning hub based at the Center for Black Music Research (CBMR), is designed for students to explore the relationships between music, sound culture, and African American life in Chicago through a multi-disciplinary approach. Drawing from case-specific strategies of direct experience, ethnography, critical analysis, seminar-style discussions and team-based creative response, students will experience how to HEAR the city, analyze and discuss the effect of sound on a community, and respond creatively to this experience through a final project.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 52-112
  
  • 74-3100J CBMR: Sonic Identities: Black Music and the Self


    This course will provide an examination of identity and the artistic process through ethnographic study of musicians in Chicago’s jazz, hip-hop, gospel, and rock communities. Emphasis will be placed on black musical artists with particular emphasis on living and experimental practitioners with a substantial connection to Chicago.

    3 Credits
    PL
    Requirements Not New Freshman and Not New Transfer Stu.
  
  • 74-3101 The Sonic Experience


    This course is designed for students interested in or already engaged in interdisciplinary coursework in music, audio arts, computer programming and interactivity. The Sonic Experience will provide a unifying framework of contexts, theories, and applications to enhance students’ understanding of and competencies in these allied Music Technology fields.

    3 Credits Repeatable
    Requirements 45 Credit Hours Complete
  
  • 74-4100 CBMR Research Studio


    This course invites students to collaborate with the 2013-14 Center for Black Music Research (CBMR) Fellow Professor Fo Wilson, from the department of Art + Design. Her project, 100 Chairs (tentative title), is conceived as a sound installation that uses the symbology and presence of water as a way to connect communities to a shared humanity. Using environmental sounds and samples of recorded music researched at CBMR that reference water as a theme, she will be producing a large-scale contemporary sound installation within a praise house-like structure that mixes sound, video, music and spoken-word into a media rich experience that various audiences and communities can share. Students with experience in audio recording and acoustics, music and spoken word, video production and editing, woodworking and other construction are invited to join this course to make a collaborative multi-disciplinary work culminating in a public presentation.

    3 Credits
  
  • 74-4188 CBMR Experience:


    3 Credits
  
  • 74-4188J CBMR Experience:Sonic Identities Black Music and the Self


    3 Credits
  
  • 74-5100 CBMR Research Studio


    This course invites students to collaborate with the 2013-14 Center for Black Music Research (CBMR) Fellow Professor Fo Wilson, from the department of Art + Design. Her project, 100 Chairs (tentative title), is conceived as a sound installation that uses the symbology and presence of water as a way to connect communities to a shared humanity. Using environmental sounds and samples of recorded music researched at CBMR that reference water as a theme, she will be producing a large-scale contemporary sound installation within a praise house-like structure that mixes sound, video, music and spoken-word into a media rich experience that various audiences and communities can share. Students with experience in audio recording and acoustics, music and spoken word, video production and editing, woodworking and other construction are invited to join this course to make a collaborative multi-disciplinary work culminating in a public presentation.

    3 Credits
  
  • 74-5188 CBMR Experience:


    3 Credits
  
  • 74-5188J CBMR Experience:Sonic Identities Black Music and the Self


    3 Credits
  
  • 75-1100 Radical Publishing Immersion


    The Radical Publishing Immersion course is the introductory class for the Radical Publishing degree. Students are introduced to the techniques and methods of observing and analyzing Radical Publishing projects and problems. In groups and as individuals, students will use a variety of strategies to record and respond to traditional and digital publishing case studies.

    3 Credits
  
  • 75-3000 Documentary Arts Laboratory


    An interdisciplinary, capstone documentary laboratory that exposes students to service learning and prepares them for today’s cross-disciplinary workplace. A team of students, chosen by interview from the departments of Film & Video, Interactive Arts & Media, Journalism, Marketing Communication, Radio, and Television, will collaborate in a single, multifaceted Web-based project, grounded in a significant social issue, to include such elements as a narrative overview; documentary products from the varied disciplines and perspectives; games and other interactive teaching tools; learning guides; links; and other outreach.

    4 Credits
    Requirements Permission of Instructor
  
  • 75-3001 Transmedia Analysis: Games, Film and Television


    Modern storytelling is not constrained to one medium. This course provides students with an opportunity to learn about the ways in which core narrative properties can be adapted to various media, specifically narrative games, television, and film. Through selected case studies, students will analyze the ways in which core narrative properties are defined, adapted, and transformed across media. This class is a prerequisite for the Semester in LA/Transmedia Production: Games, Film, and Television course.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 36-2800 Story Development for Interactive Media  or 24-2710 Screenwriting II: The Feature Film  or 40-3202 Writing for Television 
  
  • 75-3003AL Transmedia Development: Film


    This interdepartmental Semester in L.A. course brings students from various backgrounds together to develop their IP Bibles into a feature film project.

    3 Credits Repeatable
  
  • 75-3003BL Transmedia Development: Television


    This interdepartmental Semester in L.A. course brings students from various backgrounds together to develop their IP Bibles into material for a television series. Each student will develop the various components of a series bible.

    3 Credits Repeatable
  
  • 75-3003CL Transmedia Development: Game


    This interdepartmental Semester in L.A. course brings students from various backgrounds together to develop their IP Bibles into material for the game industry. Each student will develop one piece of material, such as a short game or game sequence that incorporates at least one extensive dialogue tree and substantive narrative content.

    3 Credits Repeatable
    Requirements Accept in Sem in LA Prog
  
  • 75-3003DL Developing the Transmedia Bible


    This Semester in L.A. course offering from the school of Media Arts will bring students from various programs together to create original or adapted material for film, television, and the gaming industries. Each student will develop an Intellectual Property (IP) Bible for an original concept or previously undeveloped intellectual property, with the intention to create plat-form appropriate materials for film, a television series, and a game. Students from Film & Video, Television, and Interactive Arts and Media will be encouraged to apply, but the class is open to other qualified students as well.

    3 Credits Repeatable
    Requirements Accept in Sem in LA Prog
  
  • 75-3100 Radical Publishing Charette


    This course will focus on practicum: cross-disciplinary teams will form to address a number of problems and projects using Radical Publishing methodologies. They will form solutions that include practice, production and distribution. Course is co-taught by two faculty who provide the problems, and facilitate the teams. Repeatability will allow returning students to take greater responsibility and in team hierarchies as well as determination of some class projects.

    3 Credits Repeatable
    PREREQUISITES: 75-1100 Radical Publishing Immersion 
  
  • 75-3101 The Sonic Experience


    This course is designed for students interested in or already engaged in interdisciplinary coursework in music, audio arts, computer programming and interactivity. The Sonic Experience will provide a unifying framework of contexts, theories, and applications to enhance students’ understanding of and competencies in these allied Music Technology fields.

    3 Credits Repeatable
    Requirements 45 Credit Hours Complete and Permission of Instructor
  
  • 75-4100 Radical Publishing Capstone


    The Radical Publishing Capstone will facilitate the creation of a major, final, professional publishing project using the techniques and strategies of Radical Publishing. Students will generate an idea through research, conception and analysis, and work with faculty to create an action plan. The publishing project or product will be realized using real-world outside resources, personnel and skills. Practice, production and distribution will be achieved. Capstone students will be prepared to be forward-thinking entrepreneurs, engaged artists, and radical publishers.

    3 Credits Repeatable
    PREREQUISITES: 75-1100 Radical Publishing Immersion  and 75-3100 Radical Publishing Charette 
  
  • 75-6000 Documentary Arts Laboratory


    An interdisciplinary, capstone documentary laboratory that exposes students to service learning and prepares them for today’s cross-disciplinary workplace. A team of students, chosen by interview from the departments of Film & Video, Interactive Arts & Media, Journalism, Marketing Communication, Radio, and Television, will collaborate in a single, multifaceted Web-based project, grounded in a significant social issue, to include such elements as a narrative overview; documentary products from the varied disciplines and perspectives; games and other interactive teaching tools; learning guides; links; and other outreach.

    3 Credits
 

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