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2014-2015 University Catalog [Archived Catalogue]
Courses
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Overview Course Renumbering Course Search Course Prefix Key
Overview
The course catalogue contains information on all active courses offered by the University including: title, course number, credits, contact hours, prerequisites, offering college, priority enrollment, repeatability, and restrictions. Courses listed in the catalogue are not offered every semester. To access a listing of course sections being offered during a particular term refer to the Course Section Offerings page on the Office of the Registrar website.
Course Renumbering
Commencing with the 2013-14 academic year the University began a multi-year course renumbering.
Renumbered Course List
- Division of Liberal Arts
Many courses within the Division of Liberal Arts commencing with the Summer and Fall 2014 terms will be offered under new course numbers. Courses impacted by this change now include a reference to either the new course number or the new subject code. For example “LACR 101 (FYWT*111)” where the number in parenthesis is the new course number. Students registering for Summer 2014 coursework and beyond will do so using the new course numbers.
Course Search
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CRCM 221 Introduction to Molding & Casting College of Art, Media & Design School of Art
3 credits 90.0 hours
200 level undergraduate course
A course in model making, moldmaking, and casting techniques, using plaster and synthetic compounds. Emphasis is on developing proficiency in slip casting for use in the artist’s studio and in industry for serial production.
This course may be completed 2 times for credit
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CRCM 223 Ceramic Technology College of Art, Media & Design School of Art
1.5 credits 45.0 hours
200 level undergraduate course
A lecture and laboratory course designed to investigate basic clay and glaze materials. Students gain an intuitive understanding of ceramic materials, their practical and aesthetic properties, and develop a series of personal glazes. The nature of clays and the relationship among clay bodies, slips, sigillatas, and glazes is also explored.
This course may be completed 4 times for credit.
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CRCM 299 Selected Topics in Ceramics College of Art, Media & Design School of Art
1.5 - 3 credits undefined hours
200 level undergraduate course
This course allows for the presentation of one-time, unique studio experiences involving either specialized themes, media, classroom structures, or teaching and learning formats, for the development of projects relevant to contemporary ceramic issues.
This course may be completed 4 times for credit.
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CRCM 313 Ceramics Studio College of Art, Media & Design School of Art
3 credits 90.0 hours
300 level undergraduate course
Concentration on resolving conceptual and formal issues as they relate to individual exploration. Problems encourage uniqueness and challenge abilities. Typical issues include usage and symbolic function, production, and site-oriented applications, and medium- to large-scale use of materials. All problems stress practical as well as aesthetic resourcefulness. Senior Crafts majors taking this course may choose to spend all or part of their time producing thesis work to supplement the thesis component of Crafts Projects III.
Prerequisites Take 6 credits from: CRCM*211, CRCM*212, CRCM*213, or CRCM*214
This course may be completed 2 times for credit
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CRCM 314 Ceramics Studio College of Art, Media & Design School of Art
3 credits 90.0 hours
300 level undergraduate course
Concentration on resolving conceptual and formal issues as they relate to individual exploration. Problems encourage uniqueness and challenge abilities. Typical issues include usage and symbolic function, production, and site-oriented applications, and medium- to large-scale use of materials. All problems stress practical as well as aesthetic resourcefulness. Senior Crafts majors taking this course may choose to spend all or part of their time producing thesis work to supplement the thesis component of Crafts Projects III.
Prerequisites Take 6 credits from: CRCM*211, CRCM*212, CRCM*213, or CRCM*214
This course may be completed 2 times for credit
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CRCM 411 Ceramics Studio College of Art, Media & Design School of Art
3 credits 90.0 hours
400 level undergraduate course
Concentration on resolving conceptual and formal issues as they relate to individual exploration. Problems encourage uniqueness and challenge abilities. Typical issues include usage and symbolic function, production, and site-oriented applications, and medium to large-scale use of materials. All problems stress practical as well as aesthetic resourcefulness.
This course may be completed 2 times for credit
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CRCM 412 Ceramics Studio College of Art, Media & Design School of Art
3 credits 90.0 hours
400 level undergraduate course
Concentration on resolving conceptual and formal issues as they relate to individual exploration. Problems encourage uniqueness and challenge abilities. Typical issues include usage and symbolic function, production, and site-oriented applications, and medium to large-scale use of materials. All problems stress practical as well as aesthetic resourcefulness.
This course may be completed 2 times for credit
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CRFB 211 Fibers Mixed Media Exploration College of Art, Media & Design School of Art
3 credits 90.0 hours
200 level undergraduate course
An introduction to both traditional and experimental uses of materials and structural processes in the fabric media. Assignments focus on the exploration of two- and three-dimensional forms in preparation for versatile approaches to the fibers media. A range of off-loom mixed media techniques are covered.
This course may be completed 3 times for credit.
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CRFB 212 Color and the Loom Exploration College of Art, Media & Design School of Art
3 credits 90.0 hours
200 level undergraduate course
Students explore the potential of two- and three-dimensional forms in preparation for versatile approaches to the fibers media. Loom, woven structures, tapestry, and woven color are covered.
This course may be completed 3 times for credit.
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CRFB 221 Fabric Resist & Embellishment College of Art, Media & Design School of Art
3 credits 90.0 hours
200 level undergraduate course
Extends students’ basic color and drawing vocabulary through exposure to ancient techniques and tools of Indonesia, Japan, and Africa. Fabric dyeing and resist methods are addressed, including drawing and stamping with waxes, stitching and binding with threads, etc. Students acquire a broader sense of “mark-making,” an understanding of the special color properties of dyes, and an ability to use non-Western traditional craft methods to create contemporary art fabric.
This course may be completed 3 times for credit.
This course is equated with the following courses: CRFB*221, CR*277, CR*277
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CRFB 222 Constructed Surface Exploration College of Art, Media & Design School of Art
3 credits 90.0 hours
200 level undergraduate course
Through a series of developmental assignments, students are provided with a solid technical and conceptual base in the fabric media. Non-loom constructions, color, and multifiber dye techniques are covered.
This course may be completed 3 times for credit.
This course is equated with the following courses: CRFB*222, CR*222, CR*222, CRFB*222
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CRFB 223 Fabric Printing College of Art, Media & Design School of Art
1.5 credits 45.0 hours
200 level undergraduate course
Focuses on the fundamental principles of translating drawings and photographs into designs and images for screen-printed fabric, using a fine art approach. Exploration of myriad possibilities in creating fabric using silkscreen and fabric pigments.
This course may be completed 3 times for credit.
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CRFB 227 Experimental Costume and Performance College of Art, Media & Design School of Art
3 credits 90.0 hours
200 level undergraduate course
The garment provides a tangible yet pliable boundary between the space of self and the space of the world. In this introductory fibers studio, students learn costume construction fundamentals (hand and machine sewing, millinery, flat pattern design, etc.) and explore the garment as a vehicle for personal expression. Students are encouraged to experiment with technique, and a variety of both traditional and unconventional materials are used. Concurrent with studio work, students are introduced to the cultural, political, social, historic, and aesthetic dimensions of costume as it relates to contemporary art. The semester concludes with a collaborative performance.
This course may be completed 3 times for credit.
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CRFB 299 Selected Topics in Fibers College of Art, Media & Design School of Art
1.5 - 3 credits undefined hours
200 level undergraduate course
This course allows for the presentation of one-time, unique studio experiences involving either specialized themes, media, classroom structures, or teaching and learning formats, for the development of projects relevant to contemporary Fibers issues.
This course may be completed 4 times for credit.
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CRFB 311 Fibers and Textile Studies Studio College of Art, Media & Design School of Art
3 credits 90.0 hours
300 level undergraduate course
Through a series of developmental assignments with a conceptual emphasis and by using acquired knowledge from previous semesters, students are encouraged to explore forms that reveal the inherent physical qualities and potential image-making possibilities of fabric. Loom-woven and mixed-media fabric techniques are used as appropriate, depending on the student’s interest in the development of a diverse range of two-dimensional constructions, sculptural forms, costume, etc.
Prerequisites Take 6 credits from: CRFB*211, CRFB*212, or CRFB*222
Priority enrollment to Crafts majors.
This course may be completed 2 times for credit
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CRFB 312 Fibers and Textile Studies Studio College of Art, Media & Design School of Art
3 credits 90.0 hours
300 level undergraduate course
Through a series of developmental assignments with a conceptual emphasis and by using acquired knowledge from previous semesters, students are encouraged to explore forms that reveal the inherent physical qualities and potential image-making possibilities of fabric. Loom-woven and mixed-media fabric techniques are used as appropriate, depending on the student’s interest in the development of a diverse range of two-dimensional constructions, sculptural forms, costume, etc.
Prerequisites Take 6 credits from: CRFB*211, CRFB*212, or CRFB*222
Priority enrollment to Crafts majors.
This course may be completed 2 times for credit
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CRFB 411 Fibers and Textile Studies Studio College of Art, Media & Design School of Art
3 credits 90.0 hours
400 level undergraduate course
Through a series of developmental assignments with a conceptual emphasis and by using acquired knowledge from previous semesters, students are encouraged to explore forms that reveal the inherent physical qualities and potential image-making possibilities of fabric. Loom-woven and mixed-media fabric techniques are used as appropriate, depending on the student’s interest in the development of a diverse range of two-dimensional constructions, sculptural forms, costume, etc.
This course may be completed 2 times for credit
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CRFB 412 Fibers and Textile Studies Studio College of Art, Media & Design School of Art
3 credits 90.0 hours
400 level undergraduate course
Through a series of developmental assignments with a conceptual emphasis and by using acquired knowledge from previous semesters, students are encouraged to explore forms that reveal the inherent physical qualities and potential image-making possibilities of fabric. Loom-woven and mixed-media fabric techniques are used as appropriate, depending on the student’s interest in the development of a diverse range of two-dimensional constructions, sculptural forms, costume, etc.
This course may be completed 2 times for credit
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CRFT 111 Introduction to Ceramics College of Art, Media & Design School of Art
1.5 credits 45.0 hours
100 level undergraduate course
Through lecture and demonstrations, students learn basic skills such as handbuilding, throwing, and press molding with an introduction to loading and firing kilns and mixing clay and glazes. Problems are given with an emphasis on developing each student’s potential for personal expression and artistic invention. Freshmen are encouraged to participate in the departmental guest lecture series and field trips.
Requires completion of 15 credits
This course is not repeatable for credit.
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CRFT 121 Introduction to Fibers & Textiles College of Art, Media & Design School of Art
1.5 credits 45.0 hours
100 level undergraduate course
Provides students with a hands-on studio experience grounded in fabric processes and materials as a means of personal expression. The student receives an introduction to stamp printing and direct painting on fabric, collage, three-dimensional off-loom structures, as well as tapestry weaving on frame loom. Guidance is offered in the form of demonstrations, slide presentations, field trips, informal discussion, and intensive group critiques.
Requires completion of 15 credits
This course is not repeatable for credit.
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CRFT 131 Introduction to Glass College of Art, Media & Design School of Art
1.5 credits 45.0 hours
100 level undergraduate course
Explores glass as an expressive and creative medium. Students work with flat glass in stained glass techniques.
Requires completion of 15 credits
This course is not repeatable for credit.
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CRFT 141 Introduction to Jewelry and Metals College of Art, Media & Design School of Art
1.5 credits 45.0 hours
100 level undergraduate course
An introduction to metalwork through several jewelry projects. Students learn basic fabrication techniques through simple hollow construction; movement is approached through aspects of linkage and chain making; forming and fabrication is covered as well.
Requires completion of 15 credits
This course is not repeatable for credit.
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CRFT 161 Introduction to Furniture and Wood College of Art, Media & Design School of Art
1.5 credits 45.0 hours
100 level undergraduate course
The introduction of wood as a material, basic joinery theory, and the ability to manipulate safely with both hand and power tools. Lecture on and demonstration of the properties of wood and the proper use of the band saw and shaping tools, including rasps, chisels, small hand planes, and gouges.
Requires completion of 15 credits
This course is not repeatable for credit.
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CRFT 203 Computers for Object Makers College of Art, Media & Design School of Art
3 credits 90.0 hours
200 level undergraduate course
This course covers computer processes useful as compliments to traditional craft ways of making. 3D Scanning gives the artist/designer a digital replica that can then be changed in scale or manipulated in other ways. 3D Computer Modeling programs create files that can then be turned into physical objects using 3D printing. Also covered will be a selection of technical processes such as laser cutting for stack-lamination (building forms by gluing up layers of plywood or other sheet materials), ‘unfolding’ software (creating patterns for fabric and other sheet materials that can then be sewn or seamed into 3D form), CNC milling, etc. Previous 3D computer modeling experience is not required.
This course may be completed 2 times for credit
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CRFT 211 Craft Exploration College of Art, Media & Design School of Art
3 credits 90.0 hours
200 level undergraduate course
This course is not repeatable for credit.
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CRFT 281 3D Computer Modeling College of Art, Media & Design School of Art
1.5 credits 45.0 hours
200 level undergraduate course
An introduction to the use of 3-D modeling software for visualization, design, production, and presentation of Craft objects. Through tutorial exercises and individual projects, students become fluent in the use of this important tool. One piece of software (such as formZ, Rhino, etc.) that is both CAD accurate and affordable to individual artists is covered. As students gain proficiency, they apply the techniques to problems addressed in their major studio classes. Students taking the course for a second time explore the capabilities of the software in more depth and focus on intelligent sequencing of operations and using the tools in context.
Computer Literacy Required
This course may be completed 4 times for credit.
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CRFT 299 Selected Topics in Crafts College of Art, Media & Design School of Art
1.5 - 3 credits undefined hours
200 level undergraduate course
This course allows for the presentation of one-time, unique studio experiences involving either specialized themes, media, classroom structures, or teaching and learning formats, for the development of projects relevant to contemporary Crafts issues.
This course may be completed 2 times for credit
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CRFT 301 Projects II College of Art, Media & Design School of Art
3 credits 90.0 hours
300 level undergraduate course
Art-making dealing with crafts issues and concepts. A continuation of Projects I, work done in this class becomes increasingly student determined as the dialogue becomes more subjective. As this course is content-based, students use any/all crafts studios during in-class work time and open studio hours. (Students have access to crafts studios where they have completed or are currently taking a media-specific course.)
Prerequisites CRFT*202
Open to Crafts majors only.
Enrollment in Studio Required
This course is not repeatable for credit.
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CRFT 302 Projects II College of Art, Media & Design School of Art
3 credits 90.0 hours
300 level undergraduate course
Art-making dealing with crafts issues and concepts. A continuation of Projects I, work done in this class becomes increasingly student determined as the dialogue becomes more subjective. As this course is content-based, students use any/all crafts studios during in-class work time and open studio hours. (Students have access to crafts studios where they have completed or are currently taking a media-specific course.)
Prerequisites CRFT*301
Open to Crafts majors only.
Enrollment in Studio Required
This course is not repeatable for credit.
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CRFT 310 Junior Studio I College of Art, Media & Design School of Art
3 credits 90.0 hours
300 level undergraduate course
This is the first course in a four course sequence called the Commons. Students engage with issues and concepts relevant to artists who consider materiality and phenomenology as central to their art. This semester focuses on workmanship, as students consider aspects of handwork and tool use, intuitive making, design and planning, and elemental, tacit and haptic knowledge. Assignments combine studio practice with research and writing, readings, trips to galleries, studios and museums, lectures by visiting artists and critiques. While class time is primarily content-oriented and critique-based, students are expected to work in studio during and outside of class time. Junior Studio I is offered during the fall semester. In order to register for Junior Studio I, a student must have successfully completed their sophomore year of study at the University, or have permission from the Program Coordinator.
This course is not repeatable for credit.
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CRFT 311 Junior Studio II College of Art, Media & Design School of Art
3 credits 90.0 hours
300 level undergraduate course
Students continue their study of materiality and phenomenology while considering function and utility, audience and culture, aesthetics and formal issues. They become increasingly articulate about their work, how it is seen and how it is constructed. Students strictly adhere to a timeline and continue to develop a personal voice within the constraints of a particular assignment. Assignments augment each student’s regular studio practice with research and writing, readings, trips to galleries, studios and museums, visiting artists, lectures and critiques. Ideas about future possibilities include internships, graduate study, travel, artist’s grants and residencies. While class time is primarily content-oriented and critique-based, students are expected to work in studios both in and out of class time, applying those skills and concepts gained in media specific coursework to assignments in the Commons. Junior Studio II is a continuation of Junior Studio I; students must have earned a grade of C or better in Junior Studio I to continue to Junior Studio II.
Prerequisites CRFT*310
This course is not repeatable for credit.
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CRFT 401 Craft Senior Projects College of Art, Media & Design School of Art
3 credits 90.0 hours
400 level undergraduate course
Student begins to produce a body of work for the Crafts Senior capstone exhibition. Part of this course is Senior Seminar, a forum for the discussion of ideas and issues through student participation, guest lecturers, and professional offerings. The modern craft aesthetic is examined in terms of late nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first century ideas and issues. Emphasis on the interdependency of all the arts with an eye to the unique contribution of crafts ideology and practice. Topical discussions encourage students to find contemporary relevancy and validity in an analysis of historical precedents. The professional practices component covers: making an artist’s presentation, resume and portfolio preparation, writing an artist’s statement, recordkeeping and taxes, grant writing, self-promotion and career/entrepreneurial opportunities. Particular attention is paid to the style and survival techniques of contemporaries working in craft media.
Open to Crafts majors only.
Enrollment in Studio Required
This course is not repeatable for credit.
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CRFT 402 Craft Senior Projects College of Art, Media & Design School of Art
3 credits 90.0 hours
400 level undergraduate course
Student completes a body of work for the Crafts Senior capstone exhibition. Topical discussions and activities continue. The professional practices component includes mounting and promoting an exhibition, final portfolio preparation.
Prerequisites CRFT*401
Open to Crafts majors only.
Enrollment in Studio Required
This course is not repeatable for credit.
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CRFT 410 Senior Projects I College of Art, Media & Design School of Art
3 credits 90.0 hours
400 level undergraduate course
This is the third course in the Craft and Material Studies Commons. Students continue to refine their understanding of their studio engagement as material artists, while the focus shifts to each students’ pursuit of a rigorous studio practice. Faculty act as critics and guides, helping students understand their aesthetic impulses while honing personal approaches to materials and process. Students research the work of other artists, write a grant proposal and develop an artist’s statement that articulates their artistic intent. They personally engage with and respond to a diversity of ideas, including cross-disciplinary and collaborative work. They must grapple with what they make and understand why they are engaged in the material arts. Like Junior Studio 1 and 2, Senior Projects is a studio-based, content-oriented course. Students are expected to work in studio during class and open studio hours. Students have access to studios where they have completed or are currently taking a discipline-specific course. This course is only open to students who have earned a grade of C or better in Junior Studio 2.
Prerequisites CRFT*311
This course is not repeatable for credit.
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CRFT 411 Senior Projects II College of Art, Media & Design School of Art
3 credits 90.0 hours
400 level undergraduate course
This is the culminating course in the Commons for Craft and Material Studies and is dominated by the development of the Senior Project - a coherent body of work that is accompanied by descriptive and interpretive writing. Class time provides a forum for the discussion of ideas and issues in which students play an active role and is augmented with guest lecturers and visiting artists. Students come together to prepare cooperatively for a public exhibition. Studio practice includes search, research, the continuing pursuit of professional goals and post-graduate plans, and engagement with alumni, gallerists, internships and the broader public. Emphasis is on the interdependency of all the arts and the contribution that a material sensibility makes to contemporary artistic ideology and practice. In completing a cohesive body of work for the Senior Exhibition, students must manage their time with self-discipline and an appropriate rigor. Students work responsibly toward a publicly engaged future.
Prerequisites CRFT*410
This course is not repeatable for credit.
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CRFT 490 Independent Study College of Art, Media & Design School of Art
1.5 - 6 credits undefined hours
300 level undergraduate course
Independent Study offers a matriculated student the opportunity to initiate individual research or advanced projects that are beyond the limits of the standard curriculum. Enrollment is limited, please see the Independent Study policy in the catalogue for more information.
Restricted to Undergraduate students.
This course may be repeated for credit.
This course requires permission by the offering program office.
This course may not be audited.
This course cannot be taken pass/fail.
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CRGL 211 Glass Blowing Exploration College of Art, Media & Design School of Art
3 credits 90.0 hours
200 level undergraduate course
Through demonstrations, assignments, and tutoring by the instructor, students are guided toward mastery in off-hand blowing. Blowing of well-balanced functional and non-functional forms is emphasized. Topics covered include the use of color in glass, two- and three-dimensional surface treatment, the relationship between volume and skin of forms, blowing into molds, and working in a variety of scales. The aesthetics of contemporary and historical glass are investigated as they relate to the student’s work.
This course is not repeatable for credit.
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CRGL 212 Glass Blowing Exploration College of Art, Media & Design School of Art
3 credits 90.0 hours
200 level undergraduate course
Through demonstrations, assignments, and tutoring by the instructor, students are guided toward mastery in off-hand blowing. Blowing of well-balanced functional and non-functional forms is emphasized. Topics covered include the use of color in glass, two- and three-dimensional surface treatment, the relationship between volume and skin of forms, blowing into molds, and working in a variety of scales. The aesthetics of contemporary and historical glass are investigated as they relate to the student’s work.
This course is not repeatable for credit.
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CRGL 221 Stained Glass Exploration College of Art, Media & Design School of Art
3 credits 90.0 hours
200 level undergraduate course
Students work with transparent and opaque glass sheet to produce both two- and three-dimensional artwork. Techniques include glass cutting and grinding, use of caming and copper foil, soldering, enameling, sandblasting and carving, and kiln-firing. Typical projects include stained glass windows or panels, containers, and shallow bowls.
This course may be completed 3 times for credit.
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CRGL 222 Glass: Material, Meaning and Metaphor College of Art, Media & Design School of Art
3 credits 90.0 hours
200 level undergraduate course
In this class, students will explore the plasticity, malleability and responsiveness of hot glass. Hollow and solid-forming techniques will be introduced in the hot shop; construction considerations of larger, non-functional glass assemblies will be introduced and refined; non-traditional combinations of glass with common metals and other materials will be covered. These exercises will result in a series of site-specific installations of both individual and group design. Students will be challenged to expand their sense of scale, to explore unconventional display alternatives, and to develop their resourcefulness in accommodating the demands of installing glasswork outside the gallery setting.
This course may be repeated for credit.
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CRGL 223 Glassblowing: Color and Glass College of Art, Media & Design School of Art
3 credits 90.0 hours
200 level undergraduate course
This class will focus on the use of color in both functional and sculptural glasswork. Color chemistry, the history of color development, and trends in color use in contemporary glass production will be studied. The practices of creating component parts and of assembling complex, technically-sound and chemically-stable glass objects will take place in the glass hot shop, with finishing work done in the coldworking studio. Topics to be covered will include: compatibility testing and appraisal, cane-pulling techniques for both latitudinal and longitudinal caning design, proper application of cane in hot glass work, color overlay techniques, Incalmo, or fused bubble techniques, Swedish overlay, Ariel overlay, and fire-polishing techniques.
This course may be repeated for credit.
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CRGL 225 Glassblowing: Form and Function College of Art, Media & Design School of Art
3 credits 90.0 hours
200 level undergraduate course
This class will focus on traditional glass-blowing techniques. While a great emphasis will be placed on the production of vessels based on historical precedent, students will be also encouraged to use traditional craft to create non-traditional artworks. Through rigorous skill-building exercises in class and during individual practice time, students new to glassblowing will develop their hands and eyes. Students with previous glass experience will take their existing glassblowing skills to a new level of refinement. All students will use historic vessels as both a technical starting point and a springboard for creating glass components for art works. Class time will consist of short slide lectures, group discussions, hot shop demonstrations, and exercises.
This course may be repeated for credit.
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CRGL 299 Selected Topics in Glass College of Art, Media & Design School of Art
1.5 - 3 credits undefined hours
200 level undergraduate course
This course allows for the presentation of one-time, unique studio experiences involving either specialized themes, media, classroom structures, or teaching and learning formats, for the development of projects relevant to contemporary Glass issues.
This course may be completed 4 times for credit.
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CRGL 311 Glass Studio College of Art, Media & Design School of Art
3 credits 90.0 hours
300 level undergraduate course
Glass is considered as an expressive medium, and development toward a personal style is encouraged. Students work with hot glass in advanced offhand work, blowing into molds, casting, and enameling, as well as advanced stained glass work and incorporation of blown and cast pieces into two- and three-dimensional structures.
Prerequisites Take 6 credits from: CRGL*211, CRGL*212, or CRGL*221
Priority enrollment to Crafts & Multidisciplinary majors.
This course may be completed 4 times for credit.
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CRGL 312 Glass Studio College of Art, Media & Design School of Art
3 credits 90.0 hours
300 level undergraduate course
Glass is considered as an expressive medium, and development toward a personal style is encouraged. Students work with hot glass in advanced offhand work, blowing into molds, casting, and enameling, as well as advanced stained glass work and incorporation of blown and cast pieces into two and three-dimensional structures.
This course may be completed 2 times for credit
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CRGL 411 Glass Studio College of Art, Media & Design School of Art
3 credits 90.0 hours
400 level undergraduate course
Glass is considered as an expressive medium, and development toward a personal style is encouraged. Students work with hot glass in advanced offhand work, blowing into molds, casting, and enameling, as well as advanced stained glass work and incorporation of blown and cast pieces into two and three-dimensional structures.
This course may be completed 2 times for credit
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CRGL 412 Glass Studio College of Art, Media & Design School of Art
3 credits 90.0 hours
400 level undergraduate course
Glass is considered as an expressive medium, and development toward a personal style is encouraged. Students work with hot glass in advanced offhand work, blowing into molds, casting, and enameling, as well as advanced stained glass work and incorporation of blown and cast pieces into two and three-dimensional structures.
This course may be completed 2 times for credit
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CRMT 211 Jewelry Exploration College of Art, Media & Design School of Art
3 credits 90.0 hours
200 level undergraduate course
An exploration of notions of jewelry and body adornment as a means of personal expression. Projects range from precious jewelry making to adornment that extends into performance. Basic goldsmithing skills are taught as essential, while three-dimensional sketching and experimentation in mixed media are encouraged. Successful integration of design, material, and process is the goal. Projects provide students with broad exposure to the many possibilities inherent in jewelry and ornament as related to the human form.
This course may be completed 3 times for credit.
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CRMT 212 Jewelry Exploration College of Art, Media & Design School of Art
3 credits 90.0 hours
200 level undergraduate course
An exploration of notions of jewelry and body adornment as a means of personal expression. Projects range from precious jewelry making to adornment that extends into performance. Basic goldsmithing skills are taught as essential, while three-dimensional sketching and experimentation in mixed media are encouraged. Successful integration of design, material, and process is the goal. Projects provide students with broad exposure to the many possibilities inherent in jewelry and ornament as related to the human form.
This course may be completed 3 times for credit.
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CRMT 221 Metalsmithing Exploration College of Art, Media & Design School of Art
3 credits 90.0 hours
200 level undergraduate course
Metal is an extremely versatile material; though hard and durable, it is quite malleable and easily worked. This course covers direct working of metal. Sheet, wire, bar, and rod are given form by hammering, seaming, and bending, etc. The majority of work is done in bronze, brass, and copper, though steel, stainless steel, aluminum, and precious metals may be used, as well. Contemporary issues addressed include the object as sculpture, process as a source material, the importance of surface and detail, and functional objects made by artists.
This course may be completed 3 times for credit.
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CRMT 223 Jewelry Rendering and Design College of Art, Media & Design School of Art
3 credits 90.0 hours
200 level undergraduate course
Students explore two-dimensional pencil and gouache techniques effective in creating the illusion of finished pieces of jewelry. Emphasis is on the skill development necessary to communicate and evaluate ideas prior to making. Presentation and development of a portfolio are an integral part of the course. Formerly CR 243
This course may be completed 2 times for credit
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CRMT 225 Enameling College of Art, Media & Design School of Art
3 credits 90.0 hours
200 level undergraduate course
Enameling is the art of firing colored glass onto metal. The transparent, opaque, and opalescent enamel colors are layered to produce richness, detail, depth, and brilliance in this durable and painterly medium. Traditional techniques such as cloisonn?, grisaille, Limoges, basse taille, plique-a-jour, and champlev?, as well as contemporary and experimental processes are explored. Once they have gained a facility with the medium, students produce jewelry or small jewel-like paintings.
This course may be completed 3 times for credit.
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CRMT 226 Metal Casting Exploration College of Art, Media & Design School of Art
3 credits 90.0 hours
200 level undergraduate course
Wax working for jewelry and small-scale sculpture, rubber molding processes, and lost wax/centrifugal casting of bronze and (optional) sterling silver and karat golds. Extensive technical information for students who are design-oriented. Assignments allow projects in all formats (design, one-of-a-kind jewelry, fine art, etc.) and students are encouraged to use techniques innovatively and expressively. Students taking the course a second time choose one aspect of the course (wax carving, wax modeling, wax impressions, vulcanized rubber molding, etc.) and produce a small body of work investigating that aspect in depth. Procedures for sending out work to professional contract casters are also covered.
This course may be completed 3 times for credit.
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CRMT 311 Jewelry/Metals Studio College of Art, Media & Design School of Art
3 credits 90.0 hours
300 level undergraduate course
Builds upon a basic grounding in jewelry concepts and techniques. Lectures, technical demonstrations, and conceptual projects vary from year to year so that students retaking the course will not find it redundant. The goals of the course are to increase awareness and understanding of jewelry as a component of our culture, aid the student in the development of a personal aesthetic, and develop thinking and problem-solving abilities. More experienced students are encouraged to focus on one specialized area of the jewelry field.
Prerequisites Take 6 credits from: CRMT*211, CRMT*212, or CRMT*221
Priority enrollment to Crafts majors.
This course may be completed 2 times for credit
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CRMT 312 Jewelry/Metals Studio College of Art, Media & Design School of Art
3 credits 90.0 hours
300 level undergraduate course
This course builds upon a basic grounding in jewelry concepts and techniques. Lectures, technical demonstrations, and conceptual projects vary from year to year so that students retaking the course will not find it redundant. The goals of the course are to increase awareness and understanding of jewelry as a component of our culture, aid the student in the development of a personal aesthetic, and develop thinking and problem-solving abilities. More experienced students are encouraged to focus on one specialized area of the jewelry field.
Prerequisites Take 6 credits from: CRMT*211, CRMT*212, or CRMT*221
Priority enrollment to Crafts majors.
This course may be completed 2 times for credit
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CRMT 411 Jewelry/Metals Studio College of Art, Media & Design School of Art
3 credits 90.0 hours
400 level undergraduate course
Builds upon a basic grounding in jewelry concepts and techniques. Lectures, technical demonstrations, and conceptual projects vary from year to year so that students retaking the course will not find it redundant. The goals of the course are to increase awareness and understanding of jewelry as a component of our culture, aid the student in the development of a personal aesthetic, and develop thinking and problem-solving abilities. More experienced students are encouraged to focus on one specialized area of the jewelry field.
This course may be completed 2 times for credit
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CRMT 412 Jewelry/Metals Studio College of Art, Media & Design School of Art
3 credits 90.0 hours
400 level undergraduate course
Builds upon a basic grounding in jewelry concepts and techniques. Lectures, technical demonstrations, and conceptual projects vary from year to year so that students retaking the course will not find it redundant. The goals of the course are to increase awareness and understanding of jewelry as a component of our culture, aid the student in the development of a personal aesthetic, and develop thinking and problem-solving abilities. More experienced students are encouraged to focus on one specialized area of the jewelry field.
This course may be completed 2 times for credit
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CRWD 211 Woodworking Exploration College of Art, Media & Design School of Art
3 credits 90.0 hours
200 level undergraduate course
Introduction to basic woodworking skills and processes, including sharpening and setting up hand tools and machinery, theory of solid wood joinery, and construction. In addition to building technical skills, emphasis is on contemporary and historical furniture design issues.
This course is not repeatable for credit.
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CRWD 212 Woodworking Exploration College of Art, Media & Design School of Art
3 credits 90.0 hours
200 level undergraduate course
Introduction to basic woodworking skills and processes, including sharpening and setting up hand tools and machinery, theory of solid wood joinery, and construction. In addition to building technical skills, emphasis is on contemporary and historical furniture design issues. Prerequisites & Notes: Priority enrollment to Crafts majors.
This course is not repeatable for credit.
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CRWD 221 Furniture Design College of Art, Media & Design School of Art
3 credits 90.0 hours
200 level undergraduate course
This course presents a series of design problems emphasizing exploration of ideas through drawing and model making. Historic and contemporary examples are studied. Fundamental joinery techniques are covered, but the emphasis is on design exploration, imagination, and inventiveness. Students provide their own materials and some hand tools.
This course may be completed 3 times for credit.
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CRWD 223 Wood Carving College of Art, Media & Design School of Art
1.5 credits 45.0 hours
200 level undergraduate course
An introductory course focused on the development of technical skills. A survey of historical and contemporary precedents exposes the student to the potential wood carving has as a vehicle for artistic expression. The class covers the selection, use, and sharpening of tools, materials and choice of woods, lamination and joinery used for carving, finishing techniques, and letter carving. Students provide their own carving tools.
This course may be completed 3 times for credit.
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CRWD 224 Low-Tech Furniture College of Art, Media & Design School of Art
3 credits 90.0 hours
200 level undergraduate course
Using materials gathered from both nature and the urban environment, students make chairs, tables and other functional objects. Inspired by the design inherent in natural materials, branches and twigs, artifacts, and found objects, the class conceives and executes a series of projects. Basic, non-technical construction methods and simple hand tools are stressed.
This course may be completed 3 times for credit.
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CRWD 225 Making and Playing: Improvisational Musical Instruments College of Art, Media & Design School of Art
3 credits 90.0 hours
200 level undergraduate course
The course will serve as an introduction to essential principals of sound mechanics and simple musical instrument design and building. Using essential materials and basic woodworking processes, these principals will be investigated in a manner that encourages spontaneity, critical awareness, and collaboration in design, making, and use. The goal is an integration of personal studio practice with the social environment of music and sound. The teaching method will combine lectures covering historical, cultural, and technical information with demonstrations of tool and material use. The importance of temporal and haptic experience in developing an appropriate level of workmanship will be stressed. Much student/faculty contact will be one on one and students will be expected to actively share critical input with each other. Students will learn to make simple musical instruments/sound objects that demonstrate the several basics means of sound production. A series of didactic demonstrations of mechanics, material possibilities, and techniques will be accompanied by presentations of ethnographic instruments, music, and social environments. Three projects of increasing complexity will ask for responses to this introductory material. Students will research and develop concept proposals for each assignment, working initially “solo” and later within the context of “duets” and “ensembles.” Within these varied contexts designs will be tested and implemented refining structure, material use, acoustic response, function relative to the body, and aesthetic content.
This course may be completed 2 times for credit
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CRWD 299 Selected Topics in Wood College of Art, Media & Design School of Art
1.5 - 3 credits undefined hours
200 level undergraduate course
This course allows for the presentation of one-time, unique studio experiences involving either specialized themes, media, classroom structures, or teaching and learning formats, for the development of projects relevant to contemporary Wood issues.
This course may be completed 4 times for credit.
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CRWD 311 Wood Studio College of Art, Media & Design School of Art
3 credits 90.0 hours
300 level undergraduate course
Covers tools, joinery, methods, and materials. Content progresses with increasing complexity, involving machining, hand tools, finishing, and surface treatments. Senior Crafts majors taking this course may choose to spend all or part of their time producing thesis work to supplement the thesis component of Crafts Projects III.
Prerequisites CRWD*211 and CRWD*212
Priority enrollment to Crafts & Multidisciplinary majors.
This course may be completed 4 times for credit.
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CRWD 411 Wood Studio College of Art, Media & Design School of Art
3 credits 90.0 hours
400 level undergraduate course
This course covers tools, joinery, methods, and materials. Content progresses with increasing complexity involving machining, hand tools, finishing, and surface treatments.
This course may be completed 2 times for credit
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CRWD 412 Wood Studio College of Art, Media & Design School of Art
3 credits 90.0 hours
400 level undergraduate course
This course covers more complex design projects, combinations of objects, and advanced model making and finishing techniques. Emphasis is on imagination, inventiveness, and depth of content.
This course may be completed 2 times for credit
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CRWT 101 Intro to Contemporary Poetry I Division of Liberal Arts
3 credits 45.0 hours
100 level undergraduate course
The first half of this year-long course will introduce students to the fundamentals of poetic craft and to the varied landscape of contemporary poetry. Students will complete creative and critical responses to recent books, exploring the ways in which poetry’s formal features, such as line and image, connect to aesthetics, culture, and poetic theory. This course requires close engagement with major works of Anglo-American poetry from the last fifteen years; it also emphasizes the production and critique of original creative work and the development of literary community.
Open to Creative Writing majors only.
This course is not repeatable for credit.
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CRWT 102 Intro to the Contemporary Short Story I Division of Liberal Arts
3 credits 45.0 hours
100 level undergraduate course
In the first half of this year-long course, students are introduced to the fundamentals of the short story through close reading of contemporary short fiction. Students will learn to read as writers, analyzing the construction of stories and practicing writing techniques in preparation for crafting short stories of their own.
Open to Creative Writing majors only.
This course is not repeatable for credit.
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CRWT 103 Introduction to Screenwriting I Division of Liberal Arts
3 credits 45.0 hours
100 level undergraduate course
The first semester of this year-long course introduces the major principles of writing stories for the screen: three-act structure, the plotting of dramatic sequences, character development, dramatic conflict, and story setting. Through focused weekly writing assignments and small-group workshops, students will complete two original five-sequence film narratives that could be developed into short screenplays.
Open to Creative Writing majors only.
This course is not repeatable for credit.
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CRWT 151 Intro to Contemporary Poetry II Division of Liberal Arts
3 credits 45.0 hours
100 level undergraduate course
The second half of this year-long course will deepen students’ familiarity with poetic craft and contemporary poetic theory. Through creative and critical responses to major poetic works from the last thirty years, students will explore contemporary prosody and its connection to literary history. The course will include workshop of student work, as well as close engagement with some of the ideas that have been central to recent poetics.
Prerequisites CRWT*101
Open to Creative Writing majors only.
This course is not repeatable for credit.
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CRWT 152 Intro to the Contemporary Short Story II Division of Liberal Arts
3 credits 45.0 hours
100 level undergraduate course
Continuing the work begun in the first semester, students begin to write their own short stories in a workshop setting. Goals are to hone reading skills, learn to workshop material usefully, and produce-and significantly revise-one short story.
Prerequisites CRWT*102
Open to Creative Writing majors only.
This course is not repeatable for credit.
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CRWT 153 Introduction to Screenwriting II Division of Liberal Arts
3 credits 45.0 hours
100 level undergraduate course
Students apply the fundamentals of screenwriting learned in the first semester to the creation of a ten-sequence original film narrative. Weekly study-film screenings, readings and workshops will deepen their understanding of how classic three-act screenplay structure supports a film protagonist’s transformational character arc.
Open to Creative Writing majors only.
This course is not repeatable for credit.
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CRWT 201 Intermediate Poetry Workshop Division of Liberal Arts
3 credits 45.0 hours
200 level undergraduate course
The intermediate workshop will allow students to immerse themselves in the workshop model, applying the critical vocabulary that they’ve learned throughout the previous year to their own work. Students learn both by being critics and by listening to other student critics. Required of all Creative Writing majors in their genre of concentration.
Prerequisites CRWT*151 or LITT*251
Priority enrollment for C.W. majors & minors.
Prereq. Override Available
This course is not repeatable for credit.
This course can fulfill a liberal arts elective or free elective requirement.
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CRWT 202 Intermediate Fiction Workshop Division of Liberal Arts
3 credits 45.0 hours
100 level undergraduate course
The intermediate workshop will allow students to immerse themselves in the workshop model, applying the critical vocabulary that they’ve learned throughout the previous year to their own work. Students learn both by being critics and by listening to other student critics. Required of all Creative Writing majors in their genre of concentration.
Prerequisites LACR*102 or LACR*103 & CRWT*152
Prereq. Override Available
This course is not repeatable for credit.
This course can fulfill a liberal arts elective or free elective requirement.
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CRWT 202 Intermediate Short Story Workshop Division of Liberal Arts
3 credits 45.0 hours
200 level undergraduate course
The intermediate workshop will allow students to immerse themselves in the workshop model, applying the critical vocabulary that they’ve learned throughout the previous year to their own work. Students learn both by being critics and by listening to other student critics. Required of all Creative Writing majors in their genre of concentration.
Prerequisites CRWT*152 or LITT*252
Priority enrollment for C.W. majors & minors.
Prereq. Override Available
This course is not repeatable for credit.
This course can fulfill a liberal arts elective or free elective requirement.
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CRWT 203 Intermediate Screenwriting I Division of Liberal Arts
3 credits 67.5 hours
200 level undergraduate course
An applied writing workshop that introduces all the fundamentals of screenwriting: scene structure, dramatic beats, dialogue, story structure, character, plot, and dramatic conflict. The course begins with a series of focused scene-writing exercises. Then students develop and hour-long script idea, prepare character profiles, organize plot points, write and revise and outline, and complete a first script draft that focuses on the main story line.
Prerequisites FYWT*101 or FYWT*112
This course is not repeatable for credit.
This course can fulfill a liberal arts elective or free elective requirement.
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CRWT 211 Poetry and Poetics Division of Liberal Arts
3 credits 45.0 hours
200 level undergraduate course
An exploration of significant poetic theory and practice since modernism. Following a survey of postmodern avant-gardes such as the New York School, Black Mountain College, and Language poetry, we will examine recent work in areas such as ecopoetics, conceptualism, digital poetry, and postlanguage romanticism. Throughout the course, we will consider key debates in recent poetics; the course will conclude with the study of several full-length collections that challenge easy classification. Students will gain familiarity with 20th and 21st century poetry, advanced skills in critical analysis, and insights into contemporary aesthetics.
Prerequisites FYWT*101 or FYWT*112
Priority enrollment for Creative Writing majors.
This course is not repeatable for credit.
This course can fulfill an art history elective, liberal arts elective, or free elective requirement.
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CRWT 212 The Short Story Division of Liberal Arts
3 credits 45.0 hours
200 level undergraduate course
A study of significant books and writers in the evolution of the short story. Students will observe the changing nature of the form and gain insight into relationships among writers of different generations, from Joyce and O’Connor to Cheever and Carver to contemporary short story writers such as Jhumpa Lahiri, Haruki Murakami and Junot Diaz.
Prerequisites FYWT*101 or FYWT*112
Priority enrollment for Creative Writing majors.
This course is not repeatable for credit.
This course can fulfill an art history elective, liberal arts elective, or free elective requirement.
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CRWT 214 High Modernism Division of Liberal Arts
3 credits 45.0 hours
200 level undergraduate course
In the first of three discipline histories, students are introduced to poets and fiction writers of the high-modernist period so that they understand the emergence of certain stylistic, aesthetic, thematic, and idiomatic ideas and devices that still inform contemporary literature. The course will emphasize these ideas by pairing fiction writers with poets, in order to see the ways in which similar cultural and historical concerns sponsored innovations in both genres.
Prerequisites FYWT*112 or FYWT*101;
Priority enrollment for Creative Writing majors.
This course is not repeatable for credit.
This course can fulfill an art history elective, liberal arts elective, or free elective requirement.
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CRWT 221 Craft Seminar: Screenplay Adaptation Division of Liberal Arts
3 credits 45.0 hours
200 level undergraduate course
The vast number of theatrical and television films adapted from fictional and nonfiction sources make it essential that emerging screenwriters understand the art of adaptation. Following an introduction to the basics of adaptation, this course analyzes three movies adapted from fictional sources (novels, short stories, etc.) and three from nonfiction sources (e.g. books and magazine journalism). Creative written work from both is integrated into the course.
Prerequisites FYWT*112 and CRWT*203
Priority enrollment for Creative Writing majors.
This course is not repeatable for credit.
This course can fulfill a liberal arts elective or free elective requirement.
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CRWT 222 Craft Seminar: Linked Short Story Collection Division of Liberal Arts
3 credits 45.0 hours
200 level undergraduate course
This seminar introduces students to the tricky, increasingly popular and frequently misunderstood genre of the linked short story collection. Links among grouped stories occur in different ways-through theme, structure, setting, character, shifting points of view. Through critical reading and writing, students will learn different approaches to shaping a linked story collection and make a thoughtful, informed attempt at writing two linked stories of their own.
Prerequisites CRWT*152 or LITT*252;
Priority enrollment for Creative Writing majors.
This course is not repeatable for credit.
This course can fulfill a liberal arts elective or free elective requirement.
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CRWT 223 Craft Seminar: Intermediate Screenwriting II Division of Liberal Arts
3 credits 45.0 hours
200 level undergraduate course
Second semester of an intensive introduction to the fundamentals of screenwriting. In this course, students outline a subplot to complement the main story line from the script writing the previous semester, write a new script draft that incorporates both the A and B stories, workshop their scripts, and then embark on a major revision that begins with a new outline and concludes with an extensively rewritten second draft.
Prerequisites CRWT*203 or LITT*253
This course is not repeatable for credit.
This course can fulfill a liberal arts elective or free elective requirement.
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CRWT 224 Craft Seminar: Translation & Adaptation Division of Liberal Arts
3 credits 45.0 hours
200 level undergraduate course
Translation and adaptation have been vital to the shaping and reinventing of English and American poetry. They have introduced new forms and conventions, and very often have refreshed a poet’s language just as it was becoming staid and mannered. Poets translate and adapt our love for the original, but also to reassess their own work, calibrate their language, extend their range, and stock up the imagistic arsenal. After all, different languages, different cultures, and different historical periods yield different modes of perception, different sensibilities. Often enough, poets will publish breakthrough collections after engaging with translation.
Prerequisites CRWT*151 or LITT*251;
Priority enrollment for Creative Writing majors.
This course is not repeatable for credit.
This course can fulfill a liberal arts elective or free elective requirement.
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CRWT 225 Craft Seminar: Travel Writing Division of Liberal Arts
3 credits 45.0 hours
200 level undergraduate course
In this craft seminar, students will explore several forms of travel writing. Readings will include excerpts and full-length books recording accounts of travelers’ adventures, memories, insights, quests over the past 2000 years and more. Writing exercises will require students to experiment with forms ranging from the commercial article for an airline magazine to a sophisticated essay on travel as a cross-cultural meditation.
Prerequisites FYWT*112 or FYWT*101;
Priority enrollment for Creative Writing majors.
This course is not repeatable for credit.
This course can fulfill a liberal arts elective or free elective requirement.
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CRWT 226 Craft Seminar: Arts Criticism, Arts Reviewing Division of Liberal Arts
3 credits 45.0 hours
200 level undergraduate course
This craft seminar will engage students with great art, expanding their experience of looking and hearing while learning about arts criticism and arts reviewing. Students will investigate not only the world of great books, of great paintings in museums, great plays performed by major theatre companies, great music performed by world-class ensembles, but also discover art about which there is little or no received opinion: at the Fringe, at First Friday, at university theatrical and musical performances. Such work is often not great, and thus students will learn to identify and hone their standards of evaluation. Substantial reading and performance attendance will be required.
Prerequisites FYWT*112 or FYWT*101;
Priority enrollment for Creative Writing majors.
This course is not repeatable for credit.
This course can fulfill a liberal arts elective or free elective requirement.
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CRWT 227 Craft Seminar: Introduction to Episodic Television Division of Liberal Arts
3 credits 45.0 hours
200 level undergraduate course
Introduces students to the craft of writing dramatic scripts for episodic television. Through a mixture of lectures and practical experience, students learn the various television formats, the differences between TV scripting and feature-film writing, the process of writing in teams, and the steps involved in working toward a finished teleplay.
Prerequisites CRWT*203
This course is not repeatable for credit.
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CRWT 228 Craft Seminar: Episodic Television Writing II Division of Liberal Arts
3 credits 45.0 hours
200 level undergraduate course
Advanced studio writing course in which students outline and draft two full-length scripts for episodic television series.
Prerequisites CRWT*227 or WRIT*327
This course is not repeatable for credit.
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CRWT 229 Craft Seminar: Film & Tv Production Management Division of Liberal Arts
3 credits 45.0 hours
200 level undergraduate course
This course provides practical information and hands-on experience in the planning and management of dramatic film and television shoots. Emerging screenwriters will gain an understanding of how film professionals turn their scripts into movies and TV episodes, and filmmakers will learn about the complex apparatus of producing filmed drama, which they will find useful in either an independent setting or as part of a large-scale industry production.
Prerequisites FYWT*101 or FYWT*112
This course is not repeatable for credit.
This course can fulfill a liberal arts elective or free elective requirement.
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CRWT 230 Craft Seminar: Graphic Storytelling Division of Liberal Arts
3 credits 45.0 hours
200 level undergraduate course
Graphic Storytelling allows students to create original works of fiction and nonfiction as they pertain to the sequential format. Combining the use of imagination, observation and reference while utilizing a variety of media, writing develops through a series of exercises and assignments and evolves into finished and more polished work. Exercises/assignments focus on: character/world-building, story structure, and utilizing one-panel, four-panel and multi-panel/page formats. Skills learned in this class may be applied to comics and graphic novels, as well as other similar genres such as animation and video games.
Prerequisites FYWT*101 or FYWT*112
Priority enrollment for all Creative Writing majors.
This course is not repeatable for credit.
This course can fulfill a liberal arts elective or free elective requirement.
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CRWT 231 Craft Seminar: Blogs, Tweets, and Writing for the Web Division of Liberal Arts
3 credits 45.0 hours
200 level undergraduate course
Students address the special opportunities and challenges of writing for online publication. In addition to developing the general skills of writing, editing, and rewriting, they develop those writing skills particularly useful for Web-based self-publishing (building one’s own website) and publishing through existing Internet publications. Through a series of exercises, they write features and “soft” news, Op-Ed letters, first-person essays, profiles, and reviews fitted for an online audience, while also learning how to pitch story ideas and work under deadlines. They also learn how to take advantage of the collaborative processes by experiencing the brainstorming process of editorial meetings.
Prerequisites CRWT*234
This course is not repeatable for credit.
This course can fulfill a liberal arts elective or free elective requirement.
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CRWT 232 Craft Seminar: Creating Reality TV Division of Liberal Arts
3 credits 45.0 hours
200 level undergraduate course
Through lectures, screenings, and readings, this course examines the reality television genre from historical, economic, and creative perspectives. Students will create two reality series proposals, one with an accompanying promotional and marketing campaign.
Prerequisites FYWT*101 or FYWT*112
This course is not repeatable for credit.
This course can fulfill a liberal arts elective or free elective requirement.
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CRWT 233 Craft Seminar: Writing the Short Film Division of Liberal Arts
3 credits 45.0 hours
200 level undergraduate course
The course, building upon the fundamentals of structuring and formatting introduced in Screenwriting I or Writing for Film explores the qualities that are unique to and inherent in the conception of short form film projects. Emphasis is placed on a wide variety of narrative approaches that films employ when they are substantially shorter than a conventional feature length piece.
Prerequisites CRWT*203
Priority enrollment for Creative Writing majors.
This course is not repeatable for credit.
This course can fulfill a liberal arts elective or free elective requirement.
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CRWT 234 Craft Seminar: Creative Nonfiction Division of Liberal Arts
3 credits 45.0 hours
200 level undergraduate course
This introductory workshop introduces the major forms of creative nonfiction–including the personal essay, profile, investigative feature, and social/cultural commentary–and explores how storytelling strategies can be employed within the genre. Students will learn to develop individual voices and styles, taking into account the demands of different audiences, different subjects, and different aims. Students will be assigned readings within the genre of creative nonfiction; they will also conduct their own research (both primary and secondary).
Prerequisites FYWT*101 or FYWT*112
This course is not repeatable for credit.
This course can fulfill a liberal arts elective or free elective requirement.
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CRWT 301 Advanced Poetry Workshop Division of Liberal Arts
3 credits 45.0 hours
300 level undergraduate course
An extension of the knowledge and experience of reading and writing poetry that students gained in the Poetry Writing Workshop. Students write, revise, and critique original poems, review individual books of poems, and survey the broad sweep of contemporary poetry.
Prerequisites CRWT*201
Open to Creative Writing majors only.
This course is not repeatable for credit.
This course can fulfill a liberal arts elective or free elective requirement.
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CRWT 302 Advanced Workshop in Short Story Division of Liberal Arts
3 credits 45.0 hours
300 level undergraduate course
A follow-up to the Fiction Writing Workshop. Students produce, critique, read, and revise short stories in a more intensive environment. Goals are to hone critical skills, develop and refine students’ individual voices, and provide a portfolio of finished pieces.
Prerequisites CRWT*202
Open to Creative Writing majors only.
This course is not repeatable for credit.
This course requires permission by the offering program office.
This course can fulfill a liberal arts elective or free elective requirement.
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CRWT 303 Advanced Screenwriting I Division of Liberal Arts
3 credits 45.0 hours
300 level undergraduate course
An intensive writing workshop that engages students in all of the professional stages involved in the planning and writing of a feature-length movie script. Students develop a concept, pitch the project, write character profiles, lay out the plot points, and write a long outline of treatment for a full-length work that will be scripted in the following semester.
Prerequisites CRWT*223
This course is not repeatable for credit.
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CRWT 320 Writing and Collaboration Division of Liberal Arts
3 credits 45.0 hours
300 level undergraduate course
This inter-disciplinary course requires the Creative Writing student to work with a student from another major on a substantial collaborative project. Writing majors will be partnered with students in a course within a cooperating department, selected on a rotating basis; one year writers might be paired with illustrators, another year musicians. Students in Writing and Collaboration will have the unique opportunity to learn about another art form and deepen that understanding through engaging in the collaborative process. In addition, students will be given the option of pursuing a shorter-term project with a collaborator in a discipline of their choice. Collaborating partners will be responsible for developing projects and showcasing their work in progress. Students also will study the history and theory of collaboration, examining the work of notable collaborators and the artistic questions surrounding the nature of collaboration itself. Students collaborating with Creative Writing majors will receive independent study credit for their participation.
Prerequisites FYWT*112 or FYWT*101;
Priority enrollment for Creative Writing majors.
This course is not repeatable for credit.
This course can fulfill a liberal arts elective or free elective requirement.
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CRWT 325 Literary Editing & Publishing Division of Liberal Arts
3 credits 45.0 hours
300 level undergraduate course
Students learn all aspects of producing a literary magazine, from submission selection and editing to production and design. Offered each spring, the course presents a unique opportunity for students in different majors to collaborate.
Prerequisites FYWT*112 or FYWT*101;
Priority enrollment for Creative Writing majors.
This course is not repeatable for credit.
This course can fulfill a liberal arts elective or free elective requirement.
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CRWT 353 Advanced Screenwriting II Division of Liberal Arts
3 credits 45.0 hours
300 level undergraduate course
An intensive writing workshop that engages students in all of the professional stages involved in the planning and writing of a feature-length movie script. Working from a revised outline composed the previous semester, students write the first draft of a feature-length screenplay, participate in workshops with their peers, and then embark on a revision that results in an extensively rewritten second draft.
Prerequisites CRWT*303
This course is not repeatable for credit.
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