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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! 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	All level		Winter
Art, Culture, and Spirit Revised: 08/28/2009	Unrestricted	Fall
NEW! The Art of Adaptation Revised: 02/25/2010 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: 12/17/2009 Faculty Signature Required Accepts Winter Enrollment	Core	Fall	Winter
NEW! Beyond Belief: Interrogating Belief through Literary and Media Arts	All level			Spring
NEW! Body, Voice, Imagination	All level			Spring
NEW! Centering: Narratives of Near and Far Revised: 11/19/2009	Unrestricted		Winter	Spring
NEW! Ceramic Sculpture: Tradition to Experimentation	Sophomore to Senior	Fall
Consciousness, Art and Matter Revised: 03/01/2010 Faculty Signature Required Accepts Winter Enrollment Accepts Spring Enrollment	Sophomore to Senior	Fall	Winter	Spring
Cultural Landscapes: Sustainability, Power, and Justice Revised: 03/15/2010 Accepts Winter Enrollment Accepts Spring Enrollment	Lower Division	Fall	Winter	Spring
NEW! Dance Intensive	All level			Spring
Drawing Outside the Lines Revised: 12/10/2009 Faculty Signature Required Accepts Winter Enrollment	Sophomore to Senior	Fall	Winter
NEW! Embodiment in 2-D Art	Lower Division			Spring
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 Revised: 11/24/2009	All level	Fall
Greece and Italy: An Artistic and Literary Odyssey Revised: 12/17/2009 Faculty Signature Required Accepts Winter Enrollment Accepts Spring Enrollment	Sophomore to Senior	Fall	Winter	Spring
Growing Up: Stories, Scripts, and Performance	All level	Fall
NEW! Heart and Mind on Screen and Page	All level			Spring
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
Individual Study: Media Studies, Community Studies Faculty Signature Required	Sophomore to Senior			Spring
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 Revised: 12/08/2009 Faculty Signature Required Accepts Winter Enrollment Accepts Spring Enrollment	Junior/Senior	Fall	Winter	Spring
NEW! Media Services Internships Revised: 10/09/2009 Faculty Signature Required Accepts Winter Enrollment	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 Faculty Signature Required 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
NEW! Social Change: Desire, Design and Composition	Core			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 Revised: 03/01/2010 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
CANCELLED Theatre Intensive: Theatre Production 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: Guerilla Poetry, Poets Theater, and the Politics of Language	Unrestricted			Spring
NEW! Writing Matters: Passion and Discipline in Literary and Media Arts Accepts Winter Enrollment	All level	Fall	Winter
Written in Stone Revised: 02/25/2010	Core			Spring