Courses (Arts, Culture, and Media Core Courses 083)
21:083:101 Introduction to Arts, Culture, and Media (3)
The first course in the integrated arts, culture, and media core sequence. With themes that vary from year to year, the often team-taught course introduces students to department disciplines, integrative learning, and using the urban region as a site of learning.
Required for all majors in the Department of Arts, Culture, and Media.
21:083:102 Introduction to Performance (3)
Introduction to Performance, as the name suggests in the context of an Arts, Culture and Media Department, is an introduction to acting. It covers three major areas: the foundations of acting and improvisation; creating a “living” character that inhabits the stage; and working on two-person scenes from a script. Through a combination of in-person classes, learning physio-vocal techniques rooted in experiential exercises that are the foundations of the “performing body,” readings, and attending a theatre production and writing about the experience, students will study the basic techniques of stagecraft, creating character, and scene work. The studio focus of the class will be supplemented by assigned readings, a short paper analyzing aspects of an attended theatre production, and the writing of an online journal.
21:083:201 Independent Study in Arts, Culture, and Media (BA)
An Independent Study in Arts, Culture, and Media under the supervision of a senior instructor with flexible credits from 1-6.
For majors in the Department of Arts, Culture, and Media.
21:083:210 Text to Performance (3)
The objective of this class is to introduce you to the basic components of directing for the stage. The course focuses on the study and practice of fundamental directing skills such as storytelling, script interpretation, creating ground plans and storyboards, staging, with other theater artists. We will begin with a series of practical exercises as a precursor to exploring the process of selecting and interpreting a play text for production; pre-rehearsal preparation; casting and rehearsal planning; blocking the play; working with actors; realizing the text through sound, light, music, movement and metaphor; and collaborating with designers.
21:083:212 Art as System (3)
This course invites participants to explore innovative and experimental art practices as a means of reflecting upon and engaging with the cultural/technological and biological systems of our world. Code, clay, film, financial reports, maps, molecular models, indexes, paint, process flowcharts, social media platforms, software applications, sound, stone, vector graphs--these are among the materials that become art objects in new and emerging practices. Class participants can expect to be in active conversation about artist texts and media while developing their own inventive practices in analysis, critical and creative processing, documentation and archiving, and curation. No prior interest or experience in art is required; students from all disciplines (arts, business, engineering, cultural studies, sciences, mathematics, criminal justice and law, public affairs, etc.) are invited to join and consider their knowledge and experience from new perspectives.
Open to all majors and fulfills a Gen Ed requirement
21:083:299 Core Topics in Arts, Culture, and Media (3)
As the title suggests, this class focuses on topics pertinent to Arts, Culture and Media. However, unlike other ACM classes, most of which are, as they should be, primarily concerned with the mechanics of specific disciplines and only to a lesser extent the integrative potential of those mechanics, Core Topics in Arts, Culture and Media highlights the importance of integrative dynamics in both creating and “reading” the world we live in. These topics may include classes such as a critical studies course exploring the social role of the visual image through a combination of lectures, seminars, media screenings, or a class examining a mid-size city, such as Newark, through the multifaceted lens of history, design, visual arts, architecture, etc.
21:083:301 Colloquium in Arts, Culture, and Media (3)
A team-taught interdisciplinary special topics class led by one or more professors from different disciplines within the department. The theme of the colloquium will vary from year to year.
Required for all majors in the Department of Arts, Culture, and Media.
21:083:401 Seminar in Arts, Culture, and Media (3)
A team-taught interdisciplinary special topics class led by one or more professors from different disciplines within the department. The capstone of the integrated arts, culture, and media core sequence. The experiential learning course combines integrative strategies with community-based projects.
For majors in the Department of Arts, Culture, and Media.