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ARCH 6380.80 - Environmental Parametrics
The work of this course sets out to describe the meaning, values, and methods of using parametric techniques as both an analytical tool and a generative device in comprehensive performance-based building design. The students learn techniques to set-up feedback between analysis and tactical response in performance-based design while also situating these techniques within the broader discourse and methodology of fostering design ecologies and creating ecologies of design as they relate to the construction of the built environment and contemporary issues of sustainability. In addition to the practical concerns of environmental parametrics, this course will examine closely the theoretical foundation for environmental parametrics.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 2
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ARCH 6510 - Disciplinary Research Methods Seminar
A seminar in research methods. This course will review the major considerations and tasks involved in conducting research in areas appropriate to the architectural sciences. It introduces the essential aspects of designing, supporting, and conducting a research project. Major areas that will be considered include: history and present status of the quantitative and qualitative methods, strengths and weaknesses of each method and approach, location of resources, information and data, sampling or selection of research materials and/or participants, data collection, measurement, data analysis, and research writing and style.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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ARCH 6520 - Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Seminar
This is a seminar course restricted to students in their second year of doctoral study. It provides a critical forum for the discussion of issues from methods to sources confronting the students on the dissertation. This course will form the core of the interdisciplinary experience of the Doctor of Philosophy in Architectural Sciences. It supports the position that advanced work in architecture frequently builds on knowledge from several disciplines, and as such provides a model for encouraging cross disciplinary work in the Institute. It will involve a combination of senior faculty and visitors and regular presentation of dissertation work in progress.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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ARCH 6810 - Research Design Seminar
The principal objective of this seminar is to provide students with the opportunity to learn the fundamentals of research design. Research design includes: 1) identifying and selecting focused research problems/opportunities/ideas; 2) documenting the state of the art in the selected research area; 3) identifying the critical resources and settings to carry out the research; 4) designing the research program including strategies and tactics for carrying out the research. It is hoped that the knowledge gained in the RD Seminar will assist students in the development of their own individual thesis proposals.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 2
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ARCH 6830 - Graduate Thesis Seminar: Acoustics
The Graduate Thesis Seminar: Acoustics is designed to provide support to graduate students who are engaged in independent thesis research projects. It is a required course for all graduate students in the Architectural Acoustics programs. This seminar provides a formal opportunity for students and faculty from a range of concentrations to meet together and discuss thesis work in progress.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ARCH 6810.
When Offered: Spring term anually.
Credit Hours: 1
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ARCH 6840 - Engineering Acoustics
Introductory materials of engineering acoustics for students with basic knowledge in mathematics. Much of the course material is taken from the textbook “Acoustics for Engineers” by Blauert & Xiang. The course includes mechanic and acoustic oscillations, electromechanic and electroacoustic, magnetic- and electric-field transduction, wave equations in fluids, governing equations for horns and ducts, spherical sound sources and arrays, diffraction and scattering, dissipation, reflection, refraction and absorption, isolation of air- and structure-borne sounds, noise propagation and noise control. Differential equations is recommended.
When Offered: Fall term anually.
Credit Hours: 2
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ARCH 6860 - Applied Psychoacoustics
This course covers the fundamentals of psychoacoustics with a focus on Architectural Acoustics. Topics include the functional overview of the auditory system, loudness, pitch, timbre perception, masking, binaural hearing, auditory scene analysis, multi-modal integration, and auditory perception in rooms. Required signal processing methods will be covered as well. The graduate-level course requires an extensive individual project and more advanced analysis.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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ARCH 6870 - Sonics Research Laboratory 1
The Sonics Research Lab is completely research based. First, students will develop an understanding of the measurement equipment and analysis required in order to quantify qualitative aspects of various sonic environments. In addition, students will examine the ISO standards for measurements in order to develop specific research goals. Students and professors will travel to a performance hall and perform measurements. Students will then analyze the data and interpret the results. Dissemination of results will go toward furthering the practice of architectural acoustics and increasing the understanding of the resultant subjective quality of a room.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Corequisite: ARCH 4840 or instructor approval.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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ARCH 6880 - Sonics Research Laboratory 2
The second semester of the Sonics Research Lab focuses on predictability models and virtual acoustics “auralization.” State-of-the-art software will be used for simulation of room acoustics in order to show the student how such programs assist in refining the design of performance and public spaces.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ARCH 6870 or instructor approval.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 2
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ARCH 6900 - Graduate Thesis Seminar
Readings and discussion of topical materials that are selected to place graduate projects and theses in a comprehensive context.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: 2
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ARCH 6910 - Doctoral Seminar 1
This seminar introduces a disciplinary-specific approach to the development of research problem definition and research methods. The topics considered will be drawn from and situated within the various fields of study that support doctoral study in architectural sciences, as well as from research activities in related fields in engineering, science, and the humanities. Case studies of prototypical architectural science research will evaluate current practice, identifying state of knowledge with the field and the resources and settings necessary to support the research activity.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: 2
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ARCH 6920 - Doctoral Seminar 2
This seminar builds upon Doctoral Seminar 1 by cultivating a disciplinary-specific approach to the development of research problem definition and research methods. The topics considered will be drawn from and situated within the various fields of study that support doctoral study in architectural sciences, as well as from research activities in related fields in engineering, science, and the humanities. Case studies of prototypical architectural science research will evaluate current practice, identifying state of knowledge with the field and the resources and settings necessary to support the research activity.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: ARCH 6910 Doctoral Seminar 1.
When Offered: Spring and fall terms annually.
Credit Hours: 2
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ARCH 6940 - Advanced Individual Projects in Architecture and Environmental Design
Individual projects and readings adapted to the needs of individual students at the advanced level.
Credit Hours: 1 to 6
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ARCH 6960 - Special Topics in Architecture and Environmental Design
Experimental courses tried out in one or two terms as the general program requires.
Credit Hours: 1 to 4
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ARCH 6970 - Professional Project
Active participation in a semester-long project, under the supervision of a faculty adviser. A Professional Project often serves as a culminating experience for a Professional Master’s program but, with departmental or school approval, can be used to fulfill other program requirements. With approval, students may register for more than one Professional Project. Professional Projects must result in documentation established by each department or school, but are not submitted to the Office of Graduate Education and are not archived in the library. Grades of A, B, C, or F are assigned by the faculty adviser at the end of the semester. If not completed on time, a formal Incomplete grade may be assigned by the faculty adviser, listing the work remaining to be completed and the time limit for completing this work.
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ARCH 6980 - Master’s Project
Active participation in a master’s-level project, under the supervision of a faculty adviser, leading to a master’s project report. Grades of IP are assigned until the master’s project has been approved by the faculty adviser. Grades will then be listed as S. If recommended by the adviser, the master’s project may be accepted by the Office of Graduate Education to be archived in the library.
Credit Hours: 1 to 9
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ARCH 6990 - Master’s Thesis
Active participation in research, under the supervision of a faculty adviser, leading to a master’s thesis. Grades of S or U are assigned by the adviser each term to reflect the student’s research progress for the given semester. Once the thesis has been presentend, approved by the adviser, and accepted by the Office of Graduate Education, it will be archived in a standard format in the library.
Credit Hours: 5-6
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ARCH 9990 - Dissertation
Active participation in research, under the supervision of a faculty adviser, leading to a doctoral dissertation. Grades of IP are assigned until the dissertation has been publicly defended, approved by the doctoral committee, and accepted by the Office of Graduate Education to be archived in a standard format in the library. Grades will then be listed as S.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: Variable
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ARTS 1010 - Music and Sound
This course, which is the prerequisite for further courses in music theory and in computer music, is an introduction to the materials of music. Using a variety of examples from classical, popular, and non-western music, the class will introduce concepts of melody, harmony, rhythm, and musical form. Students will use their laptop computers for aural skills practice, notation, and basic recording exercises. Although no musical experience is required for this course, sight singing is one of the important skills to be developed.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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ARTS 1020 - Media Studio: Imaging
This course introduces students to digital photography, Web design, and interactive multimedia in making art. Students broaden their understanding of such topics as composition, effective use of images, color theory, typography, and narrative flow. Inquiry and experimentation are encouraged, leading towards the development of the skill and techniques needed to create visual art with electronic media.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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ARTS 1030 - Digital Filmmaking
This is a hands-on introduction to film making. Students study a selection of great films; and learn how to make movies using lightweight field production equipment. Throughout the course students produce a variety of short videos in different genres, and develop their critical capacity for analyzing cinema and other forms of motion picutre storytelling. The class ends with a mini film festival where everyone presents their work.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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ARTS 1040 - Art for Interactive Media
This course combines an introduction to traditional visual arts and digital media and serves as a foundation for work in game design and interactive art. Using studio projects that incorporate physical media, digital imaging and computer code, students develop their formal vocabulary, observational skills, and their understanding of issues in visual and interactive arts.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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ARTS 1200 - Basic Drawing
An introductory course in drawing designed to develop seeing ability and means of expressing visual ideas through graphic skills. The course consists of exercises in drawing from observation and studies from the history of art.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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ARTS 2010 - Intermediate Video
Intermediate Video is a hands-on intensive course that teaches the language, aesthetics, and techniques of video production. Working in groups and individually, students will develop and produce several short video projects. Emphasis will be on the acquisiton of creative and technical production skills in visualizing, scripting, aesthetics, shooting, sound design, and editing.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ARTS 1030 or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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ARTS 2020 - Computer Music
Music composition taught in the context of modern computerized production methods. Technical topics include basic principles of computer sound generation, digital sound sampling, and the use of small computers for musical control of electronic instruments. Musical topics include a study of important musical works and compositional techniques of the 20th century. Student projects involve hands-on work on a variety of computer instruments and software. This course is a prerequisite for further creative work with Rensselaer’s computer music facilities.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ARTS 1010 or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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ARTS 2040 - Intermediate Digital Imaging
Intermediate Digital Imaging is a hands-on studio course exploring the use of computer technologies in making visual art. A study of contemporary issues in digital media and photography facilitates individual innovation and experimentation. Digital imaging and input/output techniques are employed in terms of giving visual form to ideas and personal expression in private and public settings.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ARTS 1020 or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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ARTS 2060 - Fundamentals of Animation
Fundamentals of Animation is an introduction to animation as an art form. Most of this course will be traditional assignments designed to encourage spontaneous creativity, explore animation concepts, and learn animation terminology. Assignments will build a solid foundation for entrance into Animation 1. This course will also be a historical and theoretical investigation with screenings and readings followed with discussion.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: ARTS 1020 or ARTS 1040.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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ARTS 2070 - Graphic Storytelling
A studio arts course exploring the fundamental concepts, techniques, styles, and mechanics used in the creation of graphic narrative. Contents to be covered include the fundamentals of sequential art, the purposes and formats of storyboards, basic terminology and concepts used in storyboarding, and the applications of storyboard techniques. Key visual storytelling structures are explored for the following industry applications: comics, animated films, graphic novels, commercials, documentaries, live action feature films, and video gaming.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ARTS 1020 or ARTS 1200 or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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ARTS 2210 - Sculpture I
A beginning sculpture course combining hands-on studio work sessions with lectures on the history and theory of sculpture practice. The studio component involves explorations of materials and techniques as tools for the enhancing of visual sensitivity and creative expression.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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ARTS 2220 - Fundamentals of 2-D Design
An introductory course which will present basic concepts about composition, line, pictorial space, light, and color in the visual arts in order to help students develop the means for expressing visual ideas effectively. Weekly homework design projects, using both traditional and electronic media, will be complemented by in-class slide lectures, video tapes, and critiques.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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ARTS 2300 - Rensselaer Orchestra
Readings, rehearsals, and performances of works from the standard repertoire for orchestra from the Baroque through the 20th century.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: demonstration of adequate skill in playing an orchestral instrument through audition.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: 1
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ARTS 2310 - Rensselaer Concert Choir
Readings, rehearsals, and performances of works from the standard choral repertoire, from the Renaissance through the 20th century. Attendance is mandatory and preparation expected.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: 1
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ARTS 2320 - Percussion Ensemble
Readings, rehearsals, and performances of works from the repertoire for percussion ensemble as well as special arrangements and original compositions, spanning the diverse styles of the genre from ragtime music and popular traditions to the classical, standard, and avant-garde. Regular attendance at rehearsals is required and preparation of music expected.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Demonstration of adequate skills in at least some areas of percussion through formal or informal auditions.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: 1
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ARTS 2330 - Jazz Ensemble
Readings, rehearsals, and performances of jazz compositions ranging from the traditional jazz canon to pieces from contemporary composers/arrangers. Preparation and attendance at rehearsals and all performances expected.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Demonstration of adequate skill through audition.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: 1
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ARTS 2340 - Introduction to Afro-Cuban Percussion
This course is an introduction to Afro-Cuban folkloric music traditions through lecture demonstration and class participation. The emphasis is on learning to play Afro-Cuban rhythms and percussion instruments (clave, conga, cowbell, shekere).
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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ARTS 2350 - Chamber Music Ensemble
An instrumental class that will be coached and rehearsed and will perform regularly. The larger ensemble will break up into smaller ensembles such as string quartets, woodwind quintets, trios, etc., depending on the make-up of the group, as well as into more unusual combinations that might be required to prepare 20th century repertoire. For intermediate and advanced players, entrance into the course is by authorization form/permission of instructor.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: 2
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ARTS 2360 - Roots of Africa Music Ensemble
Roots of Africa Ensemble is a course devoted to learning and performing in African, Afro-Cuban, and New World Percussion. Students will learn to play current music performed by the ensemble, a percussion ensemble engaged in workshop study and public performance of folkloric music, orginial works by various composers, including compositions by Dr. Eddie Ade Knowles. Under his direction, students will learn significance of performance within folklore ensembles and how to play instruments from Africa, Cuba, and the New World.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Successful completeion of ARTS 2340, audition, and/or invitation by Professor Knowles.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: 1
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ARTS 2400 - Music Theory I
This is the second of the three-course sequence in music theory and aural skills. The course covers the fundamentals of diatonic harmony and two-part species counterpoint. Aural skills include interval, scale and chord identification, rhythmic and tonal solfege, and dictation. Learning activites include weekly assignments in analysis, composition, performance and improvisation, and self-paced use of software in acquisition of aural skills.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ARTS 1010 or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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ARTS 2500 - History of Western Music
The objective of this course is for students to be able to recognize and appreciate the stylistic elements of the major periods and composers from the earliest known music to the present. The influences on music by broad cultural and historical forces will also be explored. Beginning with the Greeks, the course will progress chronologically from the polyphonic religious music of the Middle Ages through the Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and modern periods.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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ARTS 2510 - History of Jazz
Using rare film and video footage as well as records, CDs, texts, and live musicians, this course traces the development of jazz over its century of existence. This is a communication-intensive course.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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ARTS 2520 - World Music
From “raves” to symphony hall, Indian film music to Tibetan chant, monster truck rallies to a mother’s lullaby, musical soundscapes surround us through all aspects of our daily lives. This course focuses on the study of music in or as culture. The exploration of music in human life will be comparative, using case studies from diverse world traditions and examining topics such as: ritual, media and technology, ethnicity/identity, music and dance, and musical transmission.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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ARTS 2530 - Art History I: From Paleolithic to Renaissance
This course is a survey of the visual arts from the Paleolithic to the Renaissance era. Nearly 500 images are analyzed according to style, time, place, and character. Relationship of art to ritual, magic, religion, philosophy, literature, and music are examined. Material is presented in a form accessible to students without previous knowledge of Art History.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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ARTS 2540 - The Multimedia Century
This course will survey the history and theory of the diverse artistic practices of the twentieth century in relation to the development of the mass media and new technologies. Topics will include the Bauhaus, Surrealism, Pop Art, and Postmodernism and will span a spectrum of media from the more traditional, such as painting and photography, to electronic and new media, such as video and digital arts. This is a communication-intensive course.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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ARTS 2550 - History through Sound: Modern Music and Beyond
This course is about 20th century music and sound art, stressing the styles and genres that descend from the traditions of European-American art music. The course covers the advent of and reactions to Modernism in music and the growth of experimentalism to 1950; then post-World War II practices and theories including indeterminacy, improvisation, electronic music, and recent computer based practices.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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ARTS 2560 - Art History II: From Renaissance to Postmodern
This course explores visual art and culture from the Renaissance to the Post Modern periods. The meaning and nature of art will be placed in the context of cultural history. In addition to style, art images will be analyzed according to time, place, and character. The relationship of art to ritual, magic, architecture, the history of combat, love, humor, religion, philosophy, literature, and music will be contemplated.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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ARTS 2940 - Studies in the Arts
Projects adapted to the needs of individual students.
Credit Hours: 1 to 4
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ARTS 2960 - Topics in the Arts
Experimental courses offered for one or two terms as the general program requires.
Credit Hours: 2 to 4
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ARTS 4010 - Interactive Arts Programming
IAP will examine theoretical concepts of interactive media as well as develop the practical skills needed to implement these concepts using the facilities of the iEAR studios. Topics include high and low level computer programming and electronics. Students will build installations and projects, which control live performance interactions with graphics, video, and sound.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: ARTS 2010 or ARTS 2020 or permission of the instructor.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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ARTS 4020 - Advanced Digital 3-D Projects
This studio/seminar consists of longer projects with attention to concept, process, and finish. The student will either work individually or as a member on a team and be expected to have a vision or concept they are driven to create. Some possible topics covered may include virtual environments, advanced shader networks, MEL, compositing, non photorealistic rendering, 3-D graphics programming, game engines, or motion capture.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: ARTS 4070 or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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ARTS 4030 - Multimedia Performance Systems
Multimedia Performance Systems explores the composition and programming of real-time performance systems. The course will examine the basics of MIDI, sound synthesis, digital signal processing, and image/video manipulation. Final projects will consist of a real-time performance system or interactive installation.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ARTS 2020, graduate status, or permission of instructor. This course is a good introduction for ARTS 4010, ARTS 4510, and special project seminars in the Electronic Arts.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Cross Listed: Cross listed with ARTS 6030. Students cannot obtain credit for both courses.
Credit Hours: 4
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ARTS 4040 - Rethinking Documentary: Video Production
This is a production course investigating non-traditional approaches to documentary or non-fiction film/video. Taking a broad look at what defines “documentary” media, this course will incorporate criticism with production. Students will produce a range of video works questioning conventional documentary styles, using radical and interventionist techniques. Students will study traditional documentary works including ethnographic films, cinema verité, propaganda films, “home movies,” reality TV, tabloid news, autobiographic and activist videos.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ARTS 2010 or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Upon availability of instructor.
Credit Hours: 4
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ARTS 4050 - Professional Collaboration
This course provides professional training and experience for graduates and upper-level undergraduates by involving them in the production of a significant artistic project from start to finish. Projects often involve assisting or collaborating with prominent artists in residence at the iEAR studios.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: Graduate standing, or two 2000-level electronic arts courses, or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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ARTS 4060 - Animation I
An introduction to the techniques and principles of computer animation with a concentration on modeling, texturing, and rendering. Students use advanced software to develop directed creative 3-D animations in a hands-on studio. Lectures, discussion, and exposure to contemporary work enable students to develop skills in this rapidly evolving field.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ARTS 2060 or ARTS 2040 or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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ARTS 4070 - Animation II
An intermediate hands-on studio course in 3-D computer animation, in basic character animation, advanced modeling, advanced lighting, advanced rendering, dynamics, particle animation, scene description, and story building.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ARTS 4060 or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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ARTS 4080 - Art, Community, and Technology
Through direct experience in the community, this course explores the complex roles and relationships of art, education, and technology. Students will develop a plan to work with a media arts center, community organization, or school; final teams will produce real-world arts and education projects that ultimately will be realized as significant additions to their professional portfolio. The projects can include a range from traditional arts practice to creative writing, creative IT models, to community art and activism.
When Offered: Spring and fall terms annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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ARTS 4090 - Art & Code & Interactivity
This course is primarily concerned with learning how to build any interactive experience or artwork from concept to completion. It will introduce open-source, cross-platform programming libraries and tools used by artists and programmers to create interactive experiences and artworks for museum installations, festivals, VJ-ing, projection mapping, interactive experiences/artworks, and more. Then, we start to address the questions: Is code an art form? What is interactive art? Is software art?
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ARTS 1020 or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Cross Listed: Cross listed with ARTS 6090; students cannot obtain credit for both courses.
Credit Hours: 4
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ARTS 4100 - Electronic Arts Theory Seminar
This course will be devoted to the investigation of diverse topics of electronic arts history, theory, and practice.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: 2000-level Arts course or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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ARTS 4130 - New Media Theory
This course asks what is really new about New Media, and looks at creative practices, theoretical discourses, and social contexts to find answers. The course concentrates on cutting edge cultural expression using information and communication technologies. The objective to equip students with multiple perspectives - aesthetic, communications, historical - with which to analyze, critique, and develop original concepts about the uses of new media in art and culture. This is a communication-intensive course.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: ARTS 2500, ARTS 2530, ARTS 2540 or a 2000-level history-theory course in Audio Culture.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Cross Listed: Cross listed with ARTS 6130. Student cannot obtain credit for both courses.
Credit Hours: 4
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ARTS 4150 - Media Watch
This seminar is an investigation of the successes and failures of the news media, set within historical and contemporary contexts. The title “media watch” is intended to evoke a watch-dog approach found in independent media sources and organizations like human rights watch. Assignments involve analyzing how issues are portrayed in the media, and students choose their topics according to their interests. The course can therefore enhance capstone, thesis, or dissertation work.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: 2000-level art, media, or cultural history course, or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Upon availability of instructor.
Cross Listed: Cross listed with ARTS 6150. Student cannot obtain credit for both courses.
Credit Hours: 4
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ARTS 4160 - Advanced Computer Music Composition and Performance
This course assumes knowledge and experience in computer music applications and performance. It is directed to undergraduate students as an upper-level seminar guiding your progress through the composition of a significant musical work. The class is divided between a group seminar, focusing on aesthetic, theoretical, and technical issues, and a workshop/lab in performance, computer applications and composition.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ARTS 2020 or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Cross Listed: Cross listed with ARTS 6160; students cannot obtain credit for both courses.
Credit Hours: 4
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ARTS 4200 - Advanced Drawing
Advanced Drawing is designed to help students who have mastered basic drawing skills to enhance those skills and utilize them to explore visual ideas. Emphasis is placed on individual development of skills and subject matter to help students express themselves visually. Examples and studies are used from master drawings of the past to learn about the history of art and to stimulate ideas for the students’ own work.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ARTS 1200 or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Fall and Spring terms annually.
Cross Listed: Cross listed with ARTS 6200; students cannot obtain credit for both courses.
Credit Hours: 4
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ARTS 4210 - Sculpture II
An advanced studio course in sculpture for students who have taken Sculpture I. Students are encouraged to explore personal areas of interest and are required to develop a familiarity with the history of sculpture as well as mastering fabrication techniques.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ARTS 2210.
When Offered: Upon availability of instructor.
Credit Hours: 4
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ARTS 4220 - Painting
A painting course in opaque media such as oil or acrylic with emphasis on color interaction, composition, and pictorial design. Using sources from observation and the history of painting, students are taught to see and convey effects of color on/in 2-D pictorial space and to develop critical skills in looking at paintings.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ARTS 1200.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Cross Listed: Cross listed with ARTS 6220; students cannot obtain credit for both courses.
Credit Hours: 4
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ARTS 4260 - Life Drawing and Anatomy for Artists
Life Drawing and Anatomy for Artists is an advanced drawing class that will focus on drawing the human figure. Students will work from live models to refine their drawing skills; clay models from anatomical texts will be made to develop a working knowledge of anatomy for artists. Gesture, proportion, and expression of the human figure will be emphasized; general concepts of design and composition will also be presented.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ARTS 1200.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Cross Listed: Cross listed with ARTS 6260; students cannot obtain credit for both courses.
Credit Hours: 4
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ARTS 4400 - Music Theory II
A continuation of studies in harmony, analysis, and ear-training. With an introduction to orchestration and 20th century techniques, the course will culminate with an original composition.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ARTS 2400.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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ARTS 4410 - Deep Listening
Deep Listening is a practice created by the instructor to enhance and expand listening abilities and to encourage creative work. The class will explore different forms of listening including field recording. Each class time will involve experiential exercises, sound pieces, readings, and discussion. Musical training is not prerequisite.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Cross Listed: Cross listed with ARTS 6410; students cannot obtain credit for both courses.
Credit Hours: 4
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ARTS 4420 - Experimental Telepresence
Experiemental Telepresence: investigates the INTERNET as an experimental venue for audio and video performance through improvisation and composition. We will learn protocols for telepresence connections, connect with other institutions using a variety of media in local and co-located performances. The seminar multimedia ensemble Tintinnabulate will be used as a resource of projects.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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ARTS 4510 - Experimental Game Design
Experimental Game Design is an upper level studio arts course focusing on the creation of innovative, workable game prototypes using a variety of interactive multimedia. Games are considered as a new genre and are analyzed as cultural artifacts. The aesthetics of game design including character development, level design, game play experience, and delivery systems are covered. Flow, game theory, and game play gestalt are considered. Alternate gaming paradigms and emerging forms are encouraged.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ARTS 1020 or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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ARTS 4520 - Game Development I
This class is a practical primer for anyone interested in a career in the rapidly evolving industry of video gaming. It is an intense, team-based, project-based course in which students will closely follow the actual game development cycle, with each team producing a complete PC game.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ARTS 4060 or COGS 2520.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Cross Listed: Cross listed with COGS 4520 and CSCI 4520; students cannot obtain credit for more than one course.
Credit Hours: 4
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ARTS 4540 - Game Development II
This course follows Game Development I. Students work in interdisciplinary teams to create one large-scale 3D game, working from concept to public release. Projects may include games, educational games, serious games and simulations, and interactive artworks, and will focus on creative design, technical execution, and use of game design principles. The course builds on skills and knowledge in previous courses in the GSAS core, including game design, game mechanics, game programming, art, and narrative.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Game Development I or consent of the instructor.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Cross Listed: COGS 4960, CSCI 4969
Credit Hours: 4
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ARTS 4630 - Writing and Directing for Video
The course introduces students to the art of writing and directing short videos, with an emphasis on generating ideas, and realizing them in a well developed final project. Major theories and principles are studied through a comparative analysis of scripts and films. Students learn to work with actors, write their own scripts, and direct videos. Two final projects – a script and a video – will integrate all of the elements covered in class. Lecture/Practicum.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: one 2000-level video and one 2000-level writing course, or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Upon availability of instructor.
Credit Hours: 4
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ARTS 4640 - Science Fictions
Science Fictions is an advanced narrative video production and theory course. The class looks at thematic areas of science fiction, utopia and dystopia, paranormal and speculative fiction. ‘Speculative fiction’ is a genre that looks at the real world and extends what we know about it, building on the ‘real.’ The class has two threads: to study narrative structure and create a series of sci-fi videos; to discuss and analyze mainstream and avant-garde science fictions films and themes from early 1900s-present.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ARTS 1030 and ARTS 2010.
When Offered: Spring term even-numbered years.
Cross Listed: Cross listed with ARTS 6640; students cannot obtain credit for both courses.
Credit Hours: 4
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ARTS 4840 - Creative Seminar I
This course is for senior EMAC and EART majors and is the core creative forum for the development and presentation of the senior thesis. The course is the first part of a two-semester study provided in two seminar courses. The focus of the course is to develop a proposal for for a written thesis and a creative project that students will execute in the second seminar and exhibit in an exhibition.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Senior EMAC & EART majors only.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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ARTS 4850 - Creative Seminar II
This course is for senior EMAC and EART majors. The goal of the Creative Seminar II is to develop and formulate ideas from Creative Seminar I into a unique project for the artists/ communicator that will demonstrate his/her independent ideas, research, writing, and design skills. Students will develop a written thesis, creative project (e.g., art, graphic design, interaction design, music, performance), prepare and present their project in a public exhibition, and design the publicity for the show.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Creative Seminar I, seniors EMAC & EART majors only.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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ARTS 4860 - Advanced Digital Imaging
This upper level studio and seminar explores individual visual arts projects contributing to thesis or dissertation development. Topics in creative personal expression in imaging, installation, digital/traditional mixed media and emerging genres will be studied drawing from issues raised in class projects. Advanced studies may include high resolution digital photography, montage, archival printing, gesture drawing, painting, assemblage, processing, stencil art, projection, and evolving genres which lead to an independent final project and web portfolio.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: one related 2000-level arts course or permission of instructor.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Cross Listed: Cross listed with ARTS 6860; students cannot obtain credit for both courses.
Credit Hours: 4
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ARTS 4940 - Studies in the Arts
Credit Hours: 1 to 4
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ARTS 4960 - Topics in the Arts
Credit Hours: 3 to 4
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ARTS 4990 - B.S. EARTS Thesis
The purpose of this course is to demonstrate the student’s capacity for independent work integrating concepts and media from the full range of their studio, history and theory studies. It is a project-based class, cluminating in a written thesis paper and a public presentation of work determined by the student. This course may be taken multiple times, but is a requirement in the student’s final two semesters.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Junior and senior EART majors only.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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ARTS 6030 - Multimedia Performance Systems
Multimedia Performance Systems explores the composition and programming of real-time performance systems. The course will examine the basics of MIDI, sound synthesis, digital signal processing, and image/video manipulation. Final projects will consist of a real-time performance system or interactive installation.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Cross Listed: Cross listed with ARTS 4030. Students cannot obtain credit for both courses.
Credit Hours: 3
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ARTS 6050 - Rethinking Documentary: Video Production
Rethinking Documentary is a graduate level production course in film and video. Taking a broad look at what defines “documentary” media, this course incorporates criticism with production to examine key issues in the discipline, such as truth versus fiction, personal responsibility, community involvement, the efficacy of video intervention and the authority of mass media. Students are required to produce a range of video works questioning conventional documentary styles, using radical and interventionist techniques to tell compelling or poetic stories.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Must be a graduate student.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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ARTS 6080 - Electronic Arts Practice
Development and completion of individual creative projects in electronic arts with discussions and critiques of student work in a seminar format. Projects may use any of the studios and combinations of media available in the iEAR Studios. All projects will be presented or performed in public concerts, exhibitions, and installations.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Limited to M.F.A. students in Electronic Arts.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: 3, repeatable with no maximum.
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ARTS 6090 - Art & Code & Interactivity
This course is primarily concerned with learning how to build any interactive experience or artwork from concept to completion. It will introduce open-source, cross-platform programming libraries and tools used by artists and programmers to create interactive experiences and artworks for museum installations, festivals, VJ-ing, projection mapping, interactive experiences/artworks, and more. Then, we start to address the questions: Is code an art form? What is interactive art? Is software art?
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Cross Listed: Cross listed with ARTS 4090; students cannot obtain credit for both courses.
Credit Hours: 3
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ARTS 6120 - Fieldwork as Art
This course is an introduction to fieldwork and ethnographic methods in support of artistic creation. The class will guide students through interviews, participant-observation, and documentation at various field sites to produce diverse creative projects ranging from ethnographic essays to video to installations. Students will be encouraged to work on topical materials of their choice, focused on issues such as technological change, artistic subcultures, or environmentalism. Enrollment is restricted to students with graduate standing or by permission of the instructor.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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ARTS 6130 - New Media Theory
This course asks what is really new about New Media, and looks at creative practices, theoretical discourses, and social contexts to find answers. The course concentrates on cutting edge cultural expression using information and communication technologies. The objective is to equip students with multiple perspectives - aesthetic, communications, historical - with which to analyze, critique, and develop original concepts about the uses of new media in art and culture.
Cross Listed: Cross listed with ARTS 4130. Students cannot obtain credit for both courses.
Credit Hours: 3
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ARTS 6150 - Media Watch
This seminar is an investigation of the successes and failures of the news media, set within historical and contemporary contexts. The title “media watch” is intended to evoke a watch-dog approach found in independent media sources and organizations like human rights watch. Assignments involve analyzing how issues are portrayed in the media and students choose their topics according to their interests. The course can therefore enhance capstone, thesis, or dissertation work.
When Offered: Upon availability of instructor.
Cross Listed: Cross listed with ARTS 4150. Student cannot obtain credit for both courses.
Credit Hours: 3
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ARTS 6160 - Advanced Computer Music Composition and Performance
This course assumes knowledge and experience in computer music applications and performance. It is directed to undergraduate students as an upper-level seminar guiding your progress through the composition of a significant musical work. The class is divided between a group seminar, focusing on aesthetic, theoretical, and technical issues, and a workshop/lab in performance, computer applications and composition.
When Offered: Annually, typically spring term.
Cross Listed: Cross listed with ARTS 4160; students cannot obtain credit for both courses.
Credit Hours: 3
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ARTS 6200 - Advanced Drawing
ARTS 6200 focuses on advanced problem solving through a series of challenging observational drawing projects. Emphasis is placed on developing a sophisticated and convincing use of drawing language to approach traditional subject matter. As students gain greater fluency, they also gain a greater critical awareness and understanding of the artistic decision-making process.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Cross Listed: Cross listed with ARTS 4200; students cannot obtain credit for both courses.
Credit Hours: 3
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ARTS 6220 - Painting
A painting course in opaque media such as oil or acrylic with emphasis on color interaction, composition, and pictorial design. Using sources from observation and the history of painting, students are taught to see and convey effects of color on/in 2-D pictorial space and to develop critical skills in looking at paintings.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Cross Listed: Cross listed with ARTS 4220; students cannot obtain credit for both courses.
Credit Hours: 3
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ARTS 6240 - Eco Chic: Living Art
Eco Chic: Living Art is an upper level production and theory class about art, biology, and the study of life covering topics such as environmentalism, land art, food art, sustainable practices with art, body art, bio-art. Part lecture, part hands-on workshop, Eco Chic encourages students to redefine and experimentally express their relationships with the varied aspects of everyday living systems and manipulating life.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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ARTS 6260 - Life Drawing and Anatomy for Artists
Life Drawing and Anatomy for Artists is an advanced drawing class that will focus on drawing the human figure. Students will work from live models to refine their drawing skills; clay models from anatomical texts will be made to develop a working knowledge of anatomy for artists. Gesture, proportion, and expression of the human figure will be emphasized; general concepts of design and composition will also be presented.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Cross Listed: Cross listed with ARTS 4260; students cannot obtain credit for both courses.
Credit Hours: 3
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ARTS 6400 - Experimental Game Design
Experimental Game Design is an upper level studio arts course focusing on the creation of innovation workable game prototypes using a variety of interactive media. Games are considered as a new genre and are analyzed as cultural artifacts. The aesthetics of game design including character development, level design, game play experience, and delivery systems are covered. Flow, game theory, and game play gestalt are considered. Alternate gaming paradigms and emerging forms are encouraged.
When Offered: Spring and fall terms annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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ARTS 6410 - Deep Listening
Deep Listening is a practice created by the instructor to enhance and expand listening abilities and to encourage creative work. The class will explore different forms of listening including field recording. Each class time will involve experiential exercises, sound pieces, readings, and discussion. Musical training is not prerequisite.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Cross Listed: Cross listed with ARTS 4410; students cannot obtain credit for both courses.
Credit Hours: 3
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ARTS 6420 - Experimental Telepresence
Research, plan, create, and execute portfolio projects involoving networked improvisation, composition and performance via Internet and Internet2. Study and use telematic technology such as Lola, JackTrip, SKYPE, mobile and other devices in performances with others in distant locations. Participate in multimedia improvisation ensemble (Tintinnabulate) as a resource for implementing projects.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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ARTS 6570 - Research Methods
This seminar is an investigation of creative, theoretical, and historical research methods in the interdisciplinary arts. Students will be introduced to arts practice-based research discourses and will gain competence in writing and research techniques, conventions, and methods. This course is a requirement for all Arts Department doctoral students.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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ARTS 6640 - Science Fictions
Science Fictions is an advanced narrative video production and theory course. The class looks at thematic areas of science fiction, utopia and dystopia, paranormal and speculative fiction. ‘Speculative fiction’ is a genre that looks at the real world and extends what we know about it, building on the ‘real.’ The class has two threads: to study narrative structure and create a series of sci-fi videos; to discuss and analyze mainstream and avant-garde science fictions films and themes from early 1900s-present.
When Offered: Spring term even-numbered years.
Cross Listed: Cross listed with ARTS 4640; students cannot obtain credit for both courses.
Credit Hours: 3
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ARTS 6860 - Advanced Digital Imaging
This upper level studio and seminar explores individual visual arts projects contributing to thesis or dissertation development. Topics in creative personal expression in imaging, installation, digital/traditional mixed media and emerging genres will be studied drawing from issues raised in class projects. Advanced studies may include high resolution digital photography, montage, archival printing, gesture drawing, painting, assemblage, processing, stencil art, projection, and evolving genres which lead to an independent final project and web portfolio.
When Offered: Spring term annually.
Cross Listed: Cross listed with ARTS 4860; students cannot obtain credit for both courses.
Credit Hours: 3
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ARTS 6900 - Arts Ph.D. Colloquium
The Ph.D. Arts colloquium provides doctoral discourse and community for Arts at Rensselaer. The Ph.D. students will curate a series of guest speakers including artists, researchers, theoreticians, historians, and curators, to present their work at the colloquium. Related readings and writing assignments will be based on colloquium presentations. Ph.D. students are required to take the colloquium each semester until they have passed their Candidacy Exam.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: Open to Arts Ph.D. students only.
When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.
Credit Hours: 3
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