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Rensselaer Catalog 2022-2023 [Archived Catalog]

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  • ARCH 6870 - Sonics Research Laboratory 1

    The Sonics Research Lab is completely research based. The first part (the Fall semester) will be focused on hands-on research tools and techniques. First, students will learn the basics of digital signal processing, develop an understanding of measurement equipment and analysis methods for sound. The course will examine the ISO standards of room-acoustic measurements, develop students’ research goals and a specific set of data to gather for their research. The course will also prepare the students with the fundamental knowledge on CATT Acoustic and/or EASE in geometrical modeling. Then the students and professors will visit a number of performance venues (e.g. EMPAC Concert Hall, and/ or other venues) and perform the room-acoustic measurements. Students will then work on analyzing and interpreting the research results. Practice measurements will be scheduled in the gallery or somewhere on campus before trips to performance halls. MATLAB will play a central role throughout all the classes (SRL I & II) and the thesis research projects. It will be used during the class exercises. Within one week from the semester start, every student is required to INSTALL a functioning MATLAB Software package onto her/his laptop computer.

    B.S. and B. ARCH, and other school students can only register for the 4000 level of this course and M.S. in ARCS students must register only for the 6000 level of this course.

    When Offered: Fall term annually.



    Cross Listed: ARCH 4870  

    Credit Hours: 3

Credit Hours: 3
  

  • ARCH 6880 - Sonics Research Laboratory 2

    The second semester of the Sonics Research Lab includes advanced acoustical measurement techniques. Another important part of the semester curriculum concerns noise sources, noise control, and vibration measurements. State-of-the-art, commercial software and school research-based software will be used for simulation/analysis/measurement of room acoustics in order to show the students how such technical tools assist in acoustics research and consulting practice for the design of performance and public spaces. The course will also give students a deeper theoretical understanding of architectural acoustics in order to assist them in room acoustics research. There will also be labs to reflect typical measurement procedures and (if time permits) site visits to acoustics research labs and different types of acoustical spaces. The Sonics Research Lab II emphasizes more training on independent hands-on and problem-solving skills (than the SRL I).  

    B.S. and B.Arch., and other school students can only register for the 4000 level of this course and M.S.Arch. students must register only for the 6000 level of this course.

     

     

    Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ARCH 6870 /ARCH 4870  or instructor approval

    When Offered: Spring term annually.



    Cross Listed: ARCH 4810  

    Credit Hours: 2

Credit Hours: 2
  

  • ARCH 6890 - Aural Architecture

    In this course, design processes in architectural acoustics will be studied from a psychoacoustical perspective. Different concepts to create physical and virtual acoustic spaces will be discussed based on perceptual design goals. Topics include ecological psychoacoustics, sound quality, auditory virtual environments, and auditory computational modeling.

     

     

    Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ARCH 6860  

    When Offered: Spring term annually.



    Credit Hours: 3

Credit Hours: 3
  

  • 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

Credit Hours: 2
  

  • 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

Credit Hours: 2
  

  • 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  

    When Offered: Spring and fall terms annually.



    Credit Hours: 2

Credit Hours: 2
  

  • 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

Credit Hours: 1 to 6
  

  • ARCH 6948 - Graduate Final Project

    This design studio is the second required course of the two-semester, 3rd-year Graduate Final Project course sequence in the graduate M.Arch. program. The Graduate Final Project Design Studio provides a forum for the design and development of a comprehensive architectural proposal pertinent to the Final Project course sequence. This course is required of all third-year architecture graduate students in the M.Arch. program.

    When Offered: Spring term annually.



    Credit Hours: 6

Credit Hours: 6
  

  • 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

Credit Hours: 1 to 4
  

  • 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.

Credit Hours:
  

  • 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 S or U are assigned at the end of the semester.  If recommended by the adviser, the master’s project may be accepted by the Office of Graduate Education to be archived in the library.

    Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: ARCH 6630 , ARCH 6750  

    Credit Hours: 1 to 9

Credit Hours: 1 to 9
  

  • ARCH 6981 - Methods Seminar

    Situated within the context of the Master’s Thesis (ARCH 6990) directed research studio sequence, this course addresses general methods of design research with an emphasis on studying the ways in which the discipline of architecture engages other fields of knowledge. Through a series of historical and contemporary writings as well as specific precedents in architectural design, students will look at how the discipline of architecture has absorbed external disciplinary, technological, and cultural influences as a means of advancing itself in the world.

    When Offered: Fall term annually.



    Credit Hours: 1

Credit Hours: 1
  

  • 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 presented, 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

Credit Hours: 5-6
  

  • ARCH 9990 - Dissertation

    Active participation in research, under the supervision of a faculty adviser, leading to a doctoral dissertation.  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 dissertation has been publicly defended, approved by the doctoral committee, and accepted by the Office of Graduate Education, it will be archived in a standard format in the library.

     

     

    When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.



    Credit Hours: Credit Hours:  1 to 16

Credit Hours: Credit Hours:  1 to 16
  

  • ARTS 1020 - Digital 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

Credit Hours: 4
  

  • 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 picture storytelling. The class ends with a mini film festival where everyone presents their work.

    When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.



    Credit Hours: 4

Credit Hours: 4
  

  • 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.



    Cross Listed: GSAS 1040  

    Credit Hours: 4

Credit Hours: 4
  

  • ARTS 1050 - Art History

    A survey of visual arts from Paleolithic Era to today. Materials are presented in a form accessible to students without previous knowledge of Art History. 

    When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.



    Credit Hours: 4

Credit Hours: 4
  

  • 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

Credit Hours: 4
  

  • ARTS 1380 - Fundamentals of Music and Sound

    This course is a hands-on introduction to the primary building blocks of music and musicianship in a 21st Century context. No formal musical background is expected. The course will explore acoustics and psychoacoustics, rhythm, pitch, harmony, melody, timbre, improvisation, composition, and music notation through performance, listening, written exercises, and creative projects. 

    When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.



    Credit Hours: 4

Credit Hours: 4
  

  • 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 acquisition 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 term even-numbered years.



    Credit Hours: 4

Credit Hours: 4
  

  • ARTS 2020 - Music and Technology I

    Music technology-based research and composition taught in the context of modern computerized production methods. Technical topics include basic principles of music programming languages, digital sound synthesis and sampling, and the use of computer systems for musical control of electronic instruments. Musical topics include a study of important musical works and compositional techniques of the 21st century. Student projects involve hands-on work on a variety of computer programming languages, instruments, and software. This course is a prerequisite for further creative work with Rensselaer’s computer music facilities.

     

    When Offered: Fall term annually.



    Credit Hours: 4

Credit Hours: 4
  

  • 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

Credit Hours: 4
  

  • ARTS 2060 - 2D Experimental Animation

    2D Experimental 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 3D Animation. This course will also be a historical and theoretical investigation with screenings and readings followed with discussion.

    Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: ARTS 1020 , ARTS 1040 , or ARTS 1200  

    When Offered: spring term annually



    Credit Hours: 4

Credit Hours: 4
  

  • 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: Fall term annually.



    Credit Hours: 4

Credit Hours: 4
  

  • ARTS 2080 - Contemporary Improvisation Ensemble

    This ensemble explores a variety of contemporary non-idiomatic group improvisational practices. Non-idiomatic improvisation is spontaneous music that does not attempt to replicate or realize a particular historical style (such as swing or bebop jazz), but rather emphasizes the unique creative input of the performers to create original music. Among the techniques explored will be conduction, musical games, graphic and text scores, and cell-structure improvisation. Students will also be coached in techniques to expand and develop musical ideas individually and as a framework for group improvisation. No prior experience with improvisation is required, and participants from any musical background, including electronic and computer music, are encouraged to join. Repertoire and practices will be tailored to the make-up of the group.

     

    When Offered: Spring term annually.



    Credit Hours: 4

Credit Hours: 4
  

  • ARTS 2090 - Radical Graphics/Screenprinting

    Radical Graphics/Screenprinting seeks to expand on the definition of print graphics from one that traditionally creates multiple images on paper to a practice that includes art-making activities as varied as mud-stenciling, t-shirt printing, “fine art” prints, animation, sculpture, and political protest graphics. Students will focus on the concept of the art “matrix”: a template for image-making that can work across media. Students will create matrices that can be applied across multiple art-making platforms. 

     

    When Offered: Spring term annually.



    Credit Hours: 4

Credit Hours: 4
  

  • ARTS 2180 - Deep Listening

    Deep Listening is a practice developed by pioneering composer and humanitarian Pauline Oliveros to enhance and expand listening abilities and to encourage creativity. Students will develop a heightened awareness to sound and their sonic environment through experiential exercises, creative projects, collaborations, readings, lectures, and discussion. Musicians and non-musicians of all abilities and backgrounds are welcome!

     

    When Offered: Fall term annually.



    Credit Hours: 4

Credit Hours: 4
  

  • ARTS 2200 - Intermediate Drawing

    Intermediate Drawing focuses on the exploration of the possibilities of visual translation using a variety of media and techniques.

    Over the term, each successive project will provide the student the opportunity to develop and control a particular set of media, technique, and perspective, which reveals a unique and personal approach to image making.

    Participation in critiques, discussions, and lectures will enable the student to become fluent with the vocabulary and language of drawing, and focus their preferred methods and developed skill-sets into appropriate and actionable processes. 

     

    Prerequisites/Corequisites: ARTS 1200  

    When Offered: Fall term annually.



    Credit Hours: 4

Credit Hours: 4
  

  • 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

Credit Hours: 4
  

  • ARTS 2220 - Fundamentals of 2D 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, videos, and critiques.

    When Offered: Fall term annually.



    Credit Hours: 4

Credit Hours: 4
  

  • ARTS 2230 - 3D Digital Modeling

    A foundational course in concepts and techniques in digital 3D, for animation, games, and digital art. This course focuses on methods and aesthetics in creating digital 3D objects, spaces, and characters, including modeling, texturing, and lighting, as preparation for further courses in the 3D Animation curriculum.

     

    When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.



    Credit Hours: 4

Credit Hours: 4
  

  • 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 (course can be repeated multiple times for credit)

Credit Hours: 1 (course can be repeated multiple times for credit)
  

  • 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.

    Prerequisites/Corequisites: Audition with instructor.

    When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.



    Credit Hours: 1 (course can be repeated multiple times for credit)

Credit Hours: 1 (course can be repeated multiple times for credit)
  

  • 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.

    Prerequisites/Corequisites: Audition with instructor.

    When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.



    Credit Hours: 1 (course can be repeated multiple times for additional credit)

Credit Hours: 1 (course can be repeated multiple times for additional credit)
  

  • ARTS 2380 - Music and Sound I

    The first in a two-course sequence combining music theory, musicianship, and engaged listening practices applicable to a broad range of traditional and contemporary musical styles, with an emphasis on creative practice. This course covers the fundamentals of tonal harmony including scales, chord symbols and figured bass notation, diatonic chord progressions, and counterpoint. Musicianship includes aural identification of intervals, scales, and chords, rhythm and exercises in sight-singing, dictation, and improvisation. Engaged listening practices include responsive listening, reading, and written exercises as well as in-class discussion. Weekly assignments include composition, analysis, and performance.

     

    Prerequisites/Corequisites: ARTS 1380  or demonstrable proficiency in music

    When Offered: Fall term annually.



    Credit Hours: 4

Credit Hours: 4
  

  • ARTS 2500 - Histories of Western Music

    This course surveys multiple approaches to the  Western art music traditions from a contemporary global, multicultural context. The inter-relationships between music, society and cultural forces is emphasized. Students learn to recognize and describe the basic components of music, like texture, tonality, rhythm, dynamics, and melody Lectures are supplemented by listening assignments and in-class demonstrations.

     

    When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.



    Credit Hours: 4

Credit Hours: 4
  

  • ARTS 2510 - Histories of Jazz and Improvised Music

    Since its emergence over a century ago, the energy, vitality, and challenging nature of jazz have had a significant impact on music throughout the world. The question of “what is jazz” remains a lively and contentious discussion to this day. This course charts the emergence, evolution, and expanded influence of jazz and jazz-inspired music, as well as the many controversial musical, social, and philosophical questions it continues to provoke. Through listening, analysis, discussion, writing, and creative projects, students will develop a greater appreciation and understanding of improvised music in a great variety of contexts, and the crucial role American jazz played in revitalizing improvisational practice throughout the 20th and 21st Centuries. No musical background is required.

     

    When Offered: Fall term annually.



    Credit Hours: 4

Credit Hours: 4
  

  • 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: Fall term annually



    Credit Hours: 4

Credit Hours: 4
  

  • 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. 

    When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.



    Credit Hours: 4

Credit Hours: 4
  

  • ARTS 2550 - Popular Music and Society

    This topics-based course examines popular music in society, considering the ways it may express identities, motivate political movements, and function within various economic, mediated, and technological environments. This course explores popular music representing diverse genres (country, hip hop, EDM, Top 40) as it relates to social life, the intersections of race, gender, class, and sexuality, and media and technology.

     

    When Offered: spring term annually.



    Credit Hours: 4

Credit Hours: 4
  

  • ARTS 2560 - Game Sound and Musical Play

    What makes play musical and music playful? How does game sound and music contribute to gameworld creation, gameplay, and virtual performance? Ludomusicology—the relation of music to play—addresses these questions and challenges us to take play seriously. This course considers the diverse relationships among music, play, media, and performance, including game sound, music-stylistic features of game consoles and systems, children’s games, remixing and sampling, the role musical games play in cultural identity, and more.

     

    When Offered: summer term annually



    Cross Listed: GSAS 2560  

    Credit Hours: 4

Credit Hours: 4
  

  • ARTS 2570 - Music, Sound, & the Environment

    This course addresses relationships among society, culture, the more-than-human world, and the environment. We explore the diverse and interconnected ways in which contemporary composers, popular musicians, sound artists, and global music practices draw on natural and built environments to comment on current environmental and energy issues, articulate relationships among the arts, humanities, and science and technology studies, represent past, present and future environments, and engage in social activism. In this course, music is approached as artistic expression as well as a form of knowledge that can heighten our sensitivity and awareness of the environment, incorporating reading and writing assignments, and individual and group creative projects. 

     

    When Offered: Fall or spring term annually



    Credit Hours: 4

Credit Hours: 4
  

  • ARTS 2600 - Ensemble Nonlinear

    A technology-based performance ensemble, as well as a practice-based studio course, focused on the composition, design, and programming of new musical works and instruments. Students create and perform electronic music using laptops, microprocessors, digital networks and a range of new interfaces for musical expression. ARTS 4600/6600 combines studio and ensemble. The ensemble only section (ARTS 2600) may be taken multiple times as a 1-credit performance ensemble in partial satisfaction of the Music major or minor ensemble requirements or once as a 4-credit seminar at either the 4000 or 6000 level. 

    When Offered: Spring term annually.



    Cross Listed: ARTS 4600 , ARTS 6600  

    Credit Hours: 1

Credit Hours: 1
  

  • ARTS 2610 - Designing Musical Games

    Students will explore the artistic role of music and sound in gaming by building their own interactive sound and music-rich games and 2D/3D rendered environments. Within the context of their own creative game projects, students will learn the basics of designing sound and composing music for interactive game spaces. Using workflow programming languages and software tools, students will program basic gaming interactions, link them to interactive audio software, and create musical gaming experiences.

     

    When Offered: fall term annually



    Cross Listed: GSAS 2610  

    Credit Hours: 4

Credit Hours: 4
  

  • ARTS 2700 - Sound Recording and Production I

    An introductory studio course covering the principles of critical listening, psychoacoustics, the art of music recording, and the basic use of digital equipment for music production and post-production. Hands-on assignments in a professional sound facility will be combined with readings and historical examples drawing on popular and experimental styles.

    When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.



    Credit Hours: 4

Credit Hours: 4
  

  • ARTS 2750 - Private Music Lessons

    Private applied music lessons provide weekly instruction in instrumental and vocal performance. The goal of this class is to develop the student’s musical ability relative to capacity and interest. A supplementary lesson fee is charged. 
     

    Prerequisites/Corequisites: Students may begin lessons at any level of ability, but auditions may be required where demand for a particular instrument exceeds class capacity.

    When Offered: Fall, spring, and summer terms annually.



    Credit Hours: 1 (course can be repeated multiple times for credit)

Credit Hours: 1 (course can be repeated multiple times for credit)
  

  • ARTS 2940 - Studies in the Arts

    Individual and collaborative projects and assignments at the 2000 level adapted to the needs of individual students. 

    When Offered: Variable.



    Credit Hours: 1 to 6

Credit Hours: 1 to 6
  

  • ARTS 2960 - Topics in the Arts

    Experimental courses offered for one or two semesters. 

    When Offered: Variable.



    Credit Hours: 2 to 4

Credit Hours: 2 to 4
  

  • 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: Fall and spring term annually.



    Credit Hours: 4

Credit Hours: 4
  

  • ARTS 4020 - Advanced Digital 3D 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, 3D graphics programming, game engines, or motion capture.

    Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: ARTS 4070  or permission of instructor

    When Offered: Upon availability.



    Credit Hours: 4

Credit Hours: 4
  

  • 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 1030 , IHSS 1030 , IHSS 1040 , or permission of instructor

    When Offered: Fall term annually



    Cross Listed: ARTS 6040  

    Credit Hours: 4

Credit Hours: 4
  

  • ARTS 4050 - Advanced Video Media Studio

    The course is designed to help students continue to develop as media-makers/filmmakers. Students will work on short video projects that are shot in the studio and in the field. Studio experimentations, including projection work, multi-camera production, generating ideas, and realizing a well-developed final project. Students write their own scripts, learn new technical skills and direct videos. 

    Prerequisites/Corequisites: IHSS 1030 , IHSS 1040 , or ARTS 1030  

    When Offered: spring term annually



    Cross Listed: ARTS 6050

    Credit Hours: 4

Credit Hours: 4
  

  • ARTS 4060 - 3D Visual Effects

    An introduction to the technical techniques and principles of computer animation with a focus on rigging, skinning, character fx, particle simulations, compositioning and rendering. Lectures, discussion, and exposure to contemporary work enable students to develop skills in this rapidly evolving field.

    Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ARTS 2230  or permission of instructor

    When Offered: Spring term annually.



    Credit Hours: 4

Credit Hours: 4
  

  • ARTS 4070 - 3D Animation

    An intermediate hands-on studio course in 3D computer animation, acting, dialog, cinematography, and story building.

    Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ARTS 2230  or permission of instructor

    When Offered: Fall term annually.



    Credit Hours: 4

Credit Hours: 4
  

  • ARTS 4090 - Art and Code and 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. It will then 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: Upon availability of instructor.



    Cross Listed: Cross listed with ARTS 6090 ; students cannot obtain credit for both courses

    Credit Hours: 4

Credit Hours: 4
  

  • ARTS 4120 - Biopunk: Arts Lab Practice

    Biopunk: Arts Lab Practice is a studio, lab and lecture class introducing students to bioart, and microbial life and resilient ecological practices. We use punk, queer and biological laboratory techniques to creatively produce science, design and art works. Students will be required to complete readings, experiment, and create their own visions of a speculative biofuture. Emphasis will be on the history and contemporary investigations of the microbiome and how to culturally explore these scenarios of how we live amongst multiple diverse communities and species. 

     

    Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: ARTS 1020 , ARTS 1030 , ARTS 1040 , ARTS 1200 , ARTS 2020 , ARTS 2380 , ARTS 2220 , IHSS 1030 , IHSS 1040 , IHSS 1170 , IHSS 1180 , ARTS 4140 , or permission of instructor

    When Offered: Fall term annually



    Cross Listed: ARTS 6120  

    Credit Hours: 4

Credit Hours: 4
  

  • 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. 

    Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites:  ARTS 2500  , ARTS 2540  , or a 2000-level history-theory course in Audio Culture.

    When Offered: Spring term annually.



    Cross Listed: Cross listed with ARTS 6130  ; students cannot obtain credit for both courses.

    Credit Hours: 4

Credit Hours: 4
  

  • ARTS 4140 - Queer Ecologies

    Queer Ecologies is an undergraduate and graduate arts course that uses art to think about our eco-futures. We will look at the disruptive nature of Cartesian thinking and binary positioning in relation to sexuality and ecologies. The “queering” is a means to refuse this binary thinking and consider expansive interdisciplinary practices that have evolved from LGBTQ+ and feminist theory, decolonial thinking, extinction and death studies, environmental justice, critiques of science and big pharma, biopolitics, bioethics, biology, science fiction, aesthetics, art and play.

    When Offered: spring semester, odd-numbered years



    Cross Listed: ARTS 6140 ; cannot receive credit for both

    Credit Hours: 4

Credit Hours: 4
  

  • 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

Credit Hours: 4
  

  • ARTS 4160 - Music and Technology II

    This course assumes knowledge and experience in computer music programming, applications, and performance. It is directed to undergraduate students as an upper-level seminar guiding their progress through the composition of a significant musical work or the design and development of a significant research project. The class is divided between a group seminar, focusing on aesthetic, theoretical, and technical issues, and a workshop/lab in musical systems design, performance, computer music applications, and composition.

    Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ARTS 2020  or permission of instructor.

    When Offered: Spring term annually



    Cross Listed: Crosslisted with ARTS 6160 , students may not earn credit for enrolling in both courses.

    Credit Hours: 4

Credit Hours: 4
  

  • ARTS 4180 - Topics in Deep Listening

    This course continues the practice and study of Deep Listening beyond the foundational course “Deep Listening.” Topics include a wide range of investigations, research, and creativity in Deep Listening. 

     

    Prerequisites/Corequisites: Permission of instructor. 

    When Offered: Upon availability of instructor.



    Cross Listed: ARTS 6180  

    Credit Hours: 4

Credit Hours: 4
  

  • 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: Spring term annually.



    Cross Listed: Cross listed with ARTS 6200 ; students cannot obtain credit for both courses

    Credit Hours: 4

Credit Hours: 4
  

  • 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: Fall term annually.



    Credit Hours: 4

Credit Hours: 4
  

  • 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 2D pictorial space and to develop critical skills in looking at paintings.

    Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ARTS 1200 

    When Offered: Fall term annually



    Cross Listed: Cross listed with ARTS 6220 ; students cannot obtain credit for both courses

    Credit Hours: 4

Credit Hours: 4
  

  • ARTS 4230 - Inflatable Sculpture

    This class studies, creates, and publicly presents inflatable sculptures. The history of inflatables are examined, with special attention paid to how they have been used in political movements that imagine utopian social futures, and how those applications contrast with commercial uses (such as advertising) that have become commonplace in public spaces today. Throughout the class will explore, design, and build inflated structures that may include video and sound elements. 

    Prerequisites/Corequisites: Junior or senior standing or permission of instructor.

    When Offered: Upon availability of instructor.



    Cross Listed: ARTS 6230  

    Credit Hours: 4

Credit Hours: 4
  

  • ARTS 4240 - 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.

    Prerequisites/Corequisites: ARTS 1020 , ARTS 1030 , ARTS 1040 , ARTS 1200 , ARTS 2020 , ARTS 2380 , ARTS 2220 , IHSS 1030 , IHSS 1040 , IHSS 1170 , IHSS 1180 , ARTS 4120 , ARTS 4140 , or permission of instructor

    When Offered: Spring term even years



    Cross Listed: Cross listed with ARTS 6240  and may not be taken for credit twice under different numbers

    Credit Hours: 4

Credit Hours: 4
  

  • ARTS 4250 - 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.

    Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: ARTS 1020 , ARTS 1030 , ARTS 1040 , ARTS 1200 , ARTS 2020 , ARTS 2380 , ARTS 2220 , IHSS 1030 , IHSS 1040 , IHSS 1170 , IHSS 1180 , or permission of instructor

    When Offered: spring term annually



    Cross Listed: ARTS 6250 . Students cannot receive credit for both courses.

    Credit Hours: 4

Credit Hours: 4
  

  • 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  or portfolio review by instructor

    When Offered: spring term annually



    Cross Listed: Cross listed with ARTS 6260 ; students cannot obtain credit for both courses

    Credit Hours: 4

Credit Hours: 4
  

  • ARTS 4280 - 3D Technical Direction

    In 3D Animation, the technical director (or “TD”) covers roles including character rigging, lighting setup, custom tools, and other parts of the pipeline that involve the technical work needed to support artistic creativity.  In this course we will focus on rigging, covering basic and intermediate rigging techniques for characters in Maya including bipeds, facial rigs, motion capture and game engine pipelines and basic scripting in MEL and Python.  We will emphasize an animator-friendly approach to rig design, utilizing both the technical capabilities of Maya and good UI and UX principles to produce rigs that are both powerful and easy to use.

     

    Prerequisites/Corequisites: ARTS 2230  

    When Offered: Fall term



    Credit Hours: 4

Credit Hours: 4
  

  • ARTS 4380 - Music and Sound II

    The second in a two-course sequence combining music theory, aural skills, and engaged listening practices applicable to a broad range of musical styles, with an emphasis on creative practice. This course covers chromatic, extended, and contemporary tonal harmony and its interrelationship with form. Musicianship exercises include advanced chord identification, rhythm exercises, dictation, and improvisation. Engaged listening practices include responsive listening, reading, and written exercises as well as in-class discussion. Weekly assignments include composition, analysis, and performance.

     

    Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ARTS 2380  or demonstratable proficiency in the prerequisite material

    When Offered: Spring term annually.



    Credit Hours: 4

Credit Hours: 4
  

  • ARTS 4390 - Composition Seminar

    This seminar builds on skills acquired in the Music and Sound sequence. Through a series of exercises, students investigate sound as a medium for artistic expression while addressing the basics of orchestration, notation, and the development of musical and sonic ideas. Acoustic, electronic, and non-traditional contemporary approaches to composition will be explored, including performance, intermedia, and sound installation. The course culminates in a final composition project to be performed in an end of semester concert.

     

    Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: ARTS 4380  or permission of instructor

    When Offered: Fall or spring term annually



    Credit Hours: 4 (course can be repeated multiple times for additional credit)

Credit Hours: 4 (course can be repeated multiple times for additional credit)
  

  • ARTS 4440 - Music, Sound & Screen Media

    This course examines how music and sound is heard, experienced, and circulated on screens across diverse media formats in contemporary society. This interdisciplinary course introduces students to a variety of analytical, historical, and theoretical approaches to the understanding of music, sound and interactive and non-interactive narrative screen media, including film, television, music video, video games, apps and mobile media, Internet audiovisual & social media, VR/AR, and other screen formats of sound production, distribution, and consumption. This course is open to sophomores, juniors, and seniors only.

    Prerequisites/Corequisites: None

    When Offered: Annually



    Cross Listed: GSAS 4440  

    Credit Hours: 4

Credit Hours: 4
  

  • ARTS 4460 - Animation Production

    Animation Production is designed to give an animation industry experience by completing the entire process of creating an animated short. Learning long-term time management and finding the key time cost/benefits will be essential to success. The course schedule is setup to replicate the industry model of frequent updates and feedback – dailies. 

     

    Prerequisites/Corequisites: ARTS 4060  or ARTS 4070  

    When Offered: Spring term annually.



    Credit Hours: 4 (repeatable for credit)

Credit Hours: 4 (repeatable for credit)
  

  • ARTS 4500 - Topics in the History and Analysis of Music

    This course illuminates specific musical works and performances in depth, drawn from a range of periods, cultures, and genres by analyzing them in their historical, cultural, technological, and critical context. The emphasis is on music since 1900 and sample topics might include Remix in Digital Culture, Music in Protest and Social Justice, Gender and Sexuality in Music, Music and the Moving Image, and Sounding Identity, among others

    When Offered: Fall term annually.



    Credit Hours: 4

Credit Hours: 4
  

  • 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: ARTS 1020  or permission of instructor

    Cross Listed: GSAS 4510  

    Credit Hours: 4

Credit Hours: 4
  

  • ARTS 4560 - Hactivism

    This course explores the history, methods, and goals of hackers with special attention paid to their role in social movements. It broadly interprets the term “hacktivism” to include computer hacking, media hacking and “reality hacking” in the service of social change. Students will gain an understanding of how and why hackers have emerged as a major social force. 

    Prerequisites/Corequisites: Junior or senior standing, or permission of instructor.

    When Offered: Upon availability of instructor.



    Cross Listed: ARTS 6560  

    Credit Hours: 4

Credit Hours: 4
  

  • ARTS 4600 - Ensemble Nonlinear

    A technology-based performance ensemble, as well as a practice-based studio course, focused on the composition, design, and programming of new musical works and instruments. Students create and perform electronic music using laptops, microprocessors, digital networks and a range of new interfaces for musical expression. ARTS 4600/6600 combines studio and ensemble. The ensemble only section (ARTS 2600) may be taken multiple times as a 1-credit performance ensemble in partial satisfaction of the Music major or minor ensemble requirements, or once as a 4-credit seminar at either the 4000 or 6000 level. 
     

    When Offered: Spring term annually.



    Cross Listed: ARTS 2600  and ARTS 6600  

    Credit Hours: 4

Credit Hours: 4
  

  • ARTS 4620 - Exploring Movement and Sound

    The exploration of movement often reveals sensitivities concerning the body, identity, gesture, culture, sensory awareness, perception, space, orientation, kinesthesia, time, relationships to people and objects, as well as cultural notions of embodiment and the senses. This course employs practice-based work, creative experimentation, and traditional forms of research (reading, viewing media, writing, discussions) as the primary methods to illuminate the issues concerning enactive (movement) knowledge. This is a Deep Listening-related course.

    When Offered: Fall term annually.



    Cross Listed: ARTS 6962.

    Credit Hours: 4

Credit Hours: 4
  

  • 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: ARTS 1030  or permission of instructor

    When Offered: Upon availability.



    Credit Hours: 4

Credit Hours: 4
  

  • 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 is known 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 fiction films and themes from the early 1900s to the present.

    Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ARTS 1020 , ARTS 1030 , ARTS 1040 , ARTS 1200 , ARTS 2020 , ARTS 2380 , ARTS 2220 , IHSS 1030 , IHSS 1040 , IHSS 1170 , IHSS 1180 , ARTS 4120 , ARTS 4140 , or permission of instructor

    When Offered: spring term annually



    Cross Listed: Cross listed with ARTS 6640 ; students cannot obtain credit for both courses

    Credit Hours: 4

Credit Hours: 4
  

  • ARTS 4700 - Sound Recording and Production II

    This course approaches the modern digital studio as a compositional environment for the development of the student’s original creative projects. Engineering techniques will be explored through musical examples and hands-on projects.

    Prerequisites/Corequisites: ARTS 2700  

    When Offered: Spring term annually.



    Credit Hours: 4

Credit Hours: 4
  

  • 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 and EART majors only.

    When Offered: Fall term annually.



    Credit Hours: 4

Credit Hours: 4
  

  • 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: ARTS 4840 , senior EMAC and EART majors only

    When Offered: Spring term annually.



    Credit Hours: 4

Credit Hours: 4
  

  • 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

Credit Hours: 4
  

  • ARTS 4880 - Interdisciplinary Research Seminar

    This is a course introducing music majors to advanced research topics of the Rensselaer music faculty.  Each semester a member of the music faculty will focus the seminar on a research topic or paradigm related to their own body of artistic and technological research. Sample topics might include Spatial music and sound, New Instrument Design, Network Music, Music Information Retrieval, Ethnomusicology, Sonification Art and Science, Music and Logic, Spectralism and Beyond, Music Herstory (feminist music composition), Experimental music and sound history. Through hands-on creative research, students will explore questions of both musical and technological significance while engaging that same topic through their own hands-on creative practice.

    Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: one of the following: ARTS 2380 , ARTS 2020 , or permission of instructor

    When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.



    Cross Listed: ARTS 6880 . Students may not receive credit for both the 4000 level and 6000 level versions of this course.

    Credit Hours: 4

Credit Hours: 4
  

  • ARTS 4940 - Studies in the Arts

    Individual and collaborative projects and assignments at the 4000 level adapted to the needs of individual students. 

    Credit Hours: 1 to 6

Credit Hours: 1 to 6
  

  • ARTS 4960 - Topics in the Arts

    Experimental courses offered for one or two semesters. 

    Credit Hours: 2 to 4

Credit Hours: 2 to 4
  

  • 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, culminating 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

Credit Hours: 4
  

  • 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: 4

Credit Hours: 4
  

  • ARTS 6040 - 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.



    Cross Listed: ARTS 4040  

    Credit Hours: 4

Credit Hours: 4
  

  • ARTS 6080 - Graduate Studio Critique

    Development and completion of individual creative projects with a focus on studio production, method, and process. Students are expected to foster an environment in which serious and sophisticated peer critique can take place.

    Prerequisites/Corequisites: Graduate standing.

    When Offered: Fall and spring terms annually.



    Credit Hours: 3, repeatable with no maximum.

Credit Hours: 3, repeatable with no maximum.
  

  • ARTS 6090 - Art and Code and 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, the course starts to address the questions: Is code an art form? What is interactive art? Is software art?

    When Offered: Upon availability of instructor.



    Cross Listed: Cross listed with ARTS 4090 ; students cannot obtain credit for both courses

    Credit Hours: 4

Credit Hours: 4
  

  • ARTS 6110 - Electronic Arts Overview

    This seminar will provide a historical context for understanding and analyzing practices and theories of contemporary electronic art. The curriculum is a mix of field surveys, readings of primary sources in aesthetic, media and critical theory, and examination of contemporary topics and controversies. The seminar is also intended to support the development and articulation of the student’s creative practice. Open to graduate students across the Institute.

     

    Prerequisites/Corequisites: Spring term annuallyPrerequisite: limited students of graduate standing.

    When Offered: Spring term annually.



    Credit Hours: 3

Credit Hours: 3
  

  • ARTS 6120 - Biopunk: Arts Lab Practice

    Biopunk: Arts Lab Practice is a studio, lab and lecture class introducing students to bioart, and microbial life and resilient ecological practices. We use punk, queer and biological laboratory techniques to creatively produce science, design and art works. Students will be required to complete readings, experiment, and create their own visions of a speculative biofuture. Emphasis will be on the history and contemporary investigations of the microbiome and how to culturally explore these scenarios of how we live amongst multiple diverse communities and species. 

     

    Cross Listed: ARTS 4120  

    Credit Hours: 4

Credit Hours: 4
  

  • 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: 4

Credit Hours: 4
  

  • ARTS 6140 - Queer Ecologies

    Queer Ecologies is an undergraduate and graduate arts course that uses art to think about our eco-futures. We will look at the disruptive nature of Cartesian thinking and binary positioning in relation to sexuality and ecologies. The “queering” is a means to refuse this binary thinking and consider expansive interdisciplinary practices that have evolved from LGBTQ+ and feminist theory, decolonial thinking, extinction and death studies, environmental justice, critiques of science and big pharma, biopolitics, bioethics, biology, science fiction, aesthetics, art and play.

     

    Cross Listed: ARTS 4140  

    Credit Hours: 4

Credit Hours: 4
  

  • 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: 4

Credit Hours: 4
  

  • 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 their 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: Spring term annually



    Cross Listed: Crossed with ARTS 4160  , students may not earn credit for enrolling in both courses.

    Credit Hours: 4

Credit Hours: 4
  

  • ARTS 6180 - Topics in Deep Listening

    This course continues the practice and study of Deep Listening beyond the foundational course “Deep Listening.” Topics include a wide range of investigations, research, and creativity in Deep Listening. 

     

    Prerequisites/Corequisites: Vary with topic. Permission of instructor.

    When Offered: Upon availability of instructor.



    Cross Listed: ARTS 4180  

    Credit Hours: 4

Credit Hours: 4
 

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