| CAED708 | Developmental Foundations in Arts Ed | Students will learn about physical, cognitive, and social and emotional development in children and adolescents as related to arts learning, theories of learning in the arts, and current research on topics related to creativity, identity, and motivat... |
| CAED709 | Arts Pedagogy: Approaches to Teaching | This course will develop fundamental skills in course planning and classroom management for arts learning and working with today's diverse student populations. Students will learn methods for inclusive pedagogy, approaches to curriculum development t... |
| CCIS100 | Intro to Critical Studies and Writing | Introduction to Critical Studies and Writing introduces students to the practices of reading, research, and writing that are central to the BFA Critical Studies curriculum and are essential skills for critically informed artists today.
The assigned... |
| CCRW204 | Introduction to Bizarro Fictionn | What is Bizarro fiction? How do we define it and
what is its significance? Bizarro has been called
the equivalent to the cult section of a video
store, Adult Swim shows in book form, and Alice's
Adventures in Wonderland for adults. In this
class, we... |
| CCRW214 | Adventures in Form and Chaos | This course is designed both for students who have
taken previous poetry writing classes and for
those who have not. It approaches the writing of
poems through an examination of the ways in which
some recent North American poets
(such as Hoa Nguyen... |
| CCRW221 | Science Fiction for Architects | Slipstream: Science Fiction Writing for Architects
This creative writing class familiarizes students
with the art of making the strange familiar or the
familiar strange. Students are introduced to genre
works, ranging from pre-cyberpunk SF to the
pr... |
| CCRW246 | Worldbuilding | This course explores narratives that engage in
explicit acts of worldbuilding, a term first used
to describe science fiction and fantasy writers'
invention of languages, geographies, cultures,
histories, and mythologies. We will focus on
worldbuildin... |
| CCRW262 | Latinx Literature and Writing | In this course we will immerse ourselves in
literature written by Latinx authors in the U.S.,
exploring fiction, nonfiction and poetry genres.
In line with most recent literary developments and
topical concerns such as climate catastrophe,
social jus... |
| CCRW266 | The Ugly/Beautiful: Poetry Workshop | The Ugly/Beautiful: Poetry Workshop
Disability justice activist Mia Mingus once posed the challenge: "Where is the Ugly in you? What is it trying to teach you?" In "The Ugly/Beautiful" creative writing workshop, we will read and write poetry that con... |
| CCRW273S | Fiction As Witness | Fiction as Witness: Trauma, Transformation, and
Black Women's Writing
In this course, we will explore the writerly idea
that writing can be a healing practice for coping
with both lived experience and the ambient
violence of the world around us. We... |
| CCRW311 | Poetry Workshop | This creative writing class will operate like a
conventional workshop in which student-writers
produce works-in-progress to offer for group
critique. In a supportive environment, we will
give constructive criticism to each other in order
to become be... |
| CCRW317 | Latin American Magical Realism | In this course, we will dive into Latin American
and Latinx literature and art in the surreal,
magical, gothic traditions. This course will
introduce you to the historical and cultural
contexts in which these traditions flourished.
Exploring this tog... |
| CCRW338 | Poetry, Bars, Lyrics | This class will be a generative space to write new poems and/or lyrics. We will start with the lyric poem, exploring key forms and possibilities, and share new work in a supportive setting. We will read and discuss work by a wide range of poets, lyri... |
| CCRW352 | How Poets Play Dead | Necrosocial Poetry: How Poets Play Dead
Poets past and contemporary have often used the social space of the poem as one in which to 'play dead.' In this poetry writing course, we will do the same. Many of the poets we will read in this class, whose t... |
| CCRW358 | Experimental Science Fiction Writing | This creative writing class familiarizes students
with a wide range of science fiction. Students
are introduced to genre works, ranging from weird
writing, golden era science fiction, the new
wave, cyberpunk, to slipstream, cli-fi, bizarro
fiction an... |
| CCRW367 | Letters & Conversations | In the era of the internet, what can a letter do?
What new forms of letters circulate? How has
social media changed dialogue and conversation?
What words can we exchange and how? Drawing on a
range of critical and creative practices, this
creative wr... |
| CCRW385 | Short Story Workshop | This is a workshop devoted primarily to writing and workshopping short stories, with several opportunities to share your work and receive feedback on it over the course of the semester. In addition, students will read assigned short stories and will... |
| CCRW425 | Science Fiction | Science Fiction & Modern Fantastic. Open to
BFA-3 and BFA-4 students only.
This creative writing class focuses on
contemporary cross-genre works of science
fiction, horror and fantasy. Students are
introduced to genre works, ranging from turn of
the... |
| CCRW432 | Letters & Conversations | In the era of the internet, what can a letter do?
What new forms of letters circulate? How has
social media changed dialogue and conversation?
What words can we exchange and how? Drawing on a
range of critical and creative practices, this
creative wr... |
| CCRW448 | Source & Archive | In this class, each student will create a
*sourcebook*--an archive of artistic inspirations.
Which texts, works, methods, memories or
experiences have served as the source of your
creative practice? Which artists and thinkers have
most influenced yo... |
| CCRW457 | Feminist Poetics | Using an intersectional feminist lens, we will
explore how writers and artists navigate
relationships between writing, identity, culture,
politics and art making. We will ask, how might
feminist poetics be a strategy for envisioning and
re-visioning... |
| CCRW462 | Writing Climate Breakdown | Climate Breakdown poses great challenges to all aspects of human life - biological, technological, economic, political, spiritual, cultural, etc. It challenges human beings to rethink their conceptions of what might be proper forms of earthly existen... |
| CCRW464 | Writing & Performing the Self | What is a self? How might writing and performance
together help forge or express its possibilities?
Drawing on creative writing, performance art,
literature, art criticism, cultural studies, and
black feminist theory, this class will open space
for C... |
| CCRW489 | Tiny Fictions | This workshop will focus on extremely short pieces
as a way in to writing narrative and non-narrative
prose. We'll read flash fiction, sudden fiction,
blast fiction, short-shorts, microfiction,
minimalist fiction, prose poems, microessays. We
might l... |
| CCRW525 | Science Fiction | Science Fiction & Modern Fantastic.
This creative writing class focuses on
contemporary cross-genre works of science
fiction, horror and fantasy. Students are
introduced to genre works, ranging from turn of
the century horror to contemporary fabulist... |
| CCRW532 | Letters & Conversations | In the era of the internet, what can a letter do?
What new forms of letters circulate? How has
social media changed dialogue and conversation?
What words can we exchange and how? Drawing on a
range of critical and creative practices, this
creative wr... |
| CCRW544 | Memory, Media & the City | Memory, Media and the City. After studying how
collective memory operates within cities, and its
relationship to literature and cinema, students
develop their own stories, or film scripts,
essays, cultural histories, plays, installations,
where the s... |
| CCRW548 | Source & Archive | In this class, each student will create a
*sourcebook*--an archive of artistic inspirations.
Which texts, works, methods, memories or
experiences have served as the source of your
creative practice? Which artists and thinkers have
most influenced yo... |
| CCRW557 | Feminist Poetics | Using an intersectional feminist lens, we will
explore how writers and artists navigate
relationships between writing, identity, culture,
politics and art making. We will ask, how might
feminist poetics be a strategy for envisioning and
re-visioning... |
| CCRW562 | Writing Climate Breakdown | Climate Breakdown poses great challenges to all aspects of human life - biological, technological, economic, political, spiritual, cultural, etc. It challenges human beings to rethink their conceptions of what might be proper forms of earthly existen... |
| CCRW564 | Writing & Performing the Self | What is a self? How might writing and performance
together help forge or express its possibilities?
Drawing on creative writing, performance art,
literature, art criticism, cultural studies, and
black feminist theory, this class will open space
for C... |
| CCRW589 | Tiny Fictions | This workshop will focus on extremely short pieces
as a way in to writing narrative and non-narrative
prose. We'll read flash fiction, sudden fiction,
blast fiction, short-shorts, microfiction,
minimalist fiction, prose poems, microessays. We
might l... |
| CCSE001 | Artspeak 1: English for the Arts | The Artspeak course series provides instruction
for multilingual students in the linguistic and
cultural conventions of art school. As students
studying in the United States, English use is part
of your overall development as
artists/designers/practi... |
| CCSE002 | Artspeak 2: English for the Arts | The Artspeak course series provides instruction
for multilingual students in the linguistic and
cultural conventions of art school. As students
studying in the United States, English use is part
of your overall development as
artists/designers/practi... |
| CCSE015 | Artspeak 4A: English for the Arts | The Artspeak course series provides instruction
for multilingual students in the linguistic and
cultural conventions of art school. As students
studying in the United States, English use is part
of your overall development as
artists/designers/practi... |
| CCSE055 | Artspeak 4A: English for the Arts | The Artspeak course series provides instruction
for multilingual students in the linguistic and
cultural conventions of art school. As students
studying in the United States, English use is part
of your overall development as
artists/designers/practi... |
| CCSE456 | Artspeak 4B: Reading/Writing | ArtSpeak 4B is a reading/writing course designed
for MFA students and upper-level BFA students that
focuses on the conventions of critical writing and
reading practices in a North American classroom
setting. The course is designed to support
multilin... |
| CCSE556 | Artspeak 4B: Reading/Writing | ArtSpeak 4B is a reading/writing course designed
for MFA students and upper-level BFA students that
focuses on the conventions of critical writing and
reading practices in a North American classroom
setting. The course is designed to support
multilin... |
| CCST115 | Fairy Tales, Myths and Fables | Fairy Tales, Myths, and Fables: Now vs. Then
Special Topics course for BFA-1 students only.
This course will look at fairy tales, myths and
fables, both in terms of the way that they were
historically told or presented and at how they've
changed in... |
| CCST181 | Gangsters Geeks & Spies Asians in the US | Gangsters Geeks & Spies - Asians in the US
Special Topics course for BFA-1 students only.
During the height of Covid-19, Asians in the U.S. experienced a surge of hate crimes that seemed to conflate their race with the pandemic itself. The language d... |
| CCST202W | Antiquity in Song China and Meiji Japan | In this course, we will engage in an in-depth study of the concept of antiquity in the intellectual and artistic context of Medieval China and Modern Japan. We will devote one week to Meiji Japan and the second to Medieval China. The two weeks can be... |
| CCST207 | Radical Black Freedom & Its Discontents | The struggle for Black freedom is as old as Black
oppression. The battle took place on plantations,
in burning towns and hosed-down public streets, in
prisons, but it has also taken place in newspaper
editorials, in scholarship and in art. This cours... |
| CCST218 | Visions of Utopia | Visions of Utopia: Regional Diversity and
Continental Integrity in Latin American Culture
This course serves as an introduction to the rich
traditions and cultures of Latin America, from the
period before the arrival of the Europeans, up to
the prese... |
| CCST224 | The End: a Cross-Cultural Look At Death | One of the only certain universal experiences for
all human beings is death.
However, nearly every aspect of that experience
varies from culture to
culture. How do we respond to the dying? How do we
mark their passing?
What is done with the body? How... |
| CCST242 | Direction: Utopia | This is a course on the concept of utopia, the
history of U.S. utopian practices of the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the theme
of utopia in art, music and literature. Is utopia
always shadowed by dystopia? And is it worth
pursuing anyway?... |
| CCST242S | Imaging Culture | Imaging Culture: Representation and Visual
Anthropology.
As the discipline originally chartered to
classify 'races of man,' images and their
interpretation have long been important
components of anthropology. From early
anthropometrics and photograph... |
| CCST263 | Feminist Text and Textile Practices | What is a feminist practice? How can texts and
textiles inform it? Drawing on literature,
creative writing, critical theory, visual
arts/crafts, and feminist theory, we will explore
how texts and textiles have been interwoven in the
formation of femi... |
| CCST264 | Asian American Genres | How might reading across genres within
contemporary Asian American popular culture help
us understand "Asian American" as itself a
pan-ethnic umbrella term that contains many
"genres" of Asianness? What might seemingly
unrealistic Asian American genr... |
| CCST276 | The High Tech, Low Life of Cyberpunk | The outsider 'net addicted hackers of cyberpunk
served as a neon-soaked prism refracting dystopian
anxieties of the 1980s. Megacorps ruled the world.
Most of humanity had been left to languish in
sprawling sky-high slums. And the tragic,
alienated pr... |
| CCST283 | Fairy Tales, Myths and Fables | Fairy Tales, Myths, and Fables: Now vs. Then
This course will look at fairy tales, myths and
fables, both in terms of the way that they were
historically told or presented and at how they've
changed in our contemporary era. We'll do this
as a way... |
| CCST285 | Trap Music and the Black Arts | Trap Music and the Black Arts
This course puts "Trap Music" i.e. contemporary hip hop from Black lumpenproletariat/underclass cultures into conversation with poetry, plays and film from the Longue dure Black Arts/Black Power movement -- a Black cultu... |
| CCST293 | Poetics & Politics of Queer Temporality | Queerness of the Ancients: The Poetics and Politics of Queer Temporality
This course introduces, examines and interrogates queer artistic and literary production of two underexamined areas in relation to critical studies and queer studies: ancient li... |
| CCST301 | Politics, Migration, and Citizenship | In Pursuit of Community: Politics, Migration, and the Meanings of Citizenship
This is a course on the discourse and rhetoric of citizenship, migration, and of the migrant. We will begin by inquiring into the nature of citizenship itself. This genera... |
| CCST303 | Global Queer Cinema | Chocolate Babies, Handmaidens, and Kuchus:
Decoding Global Queer
Cinema
"Chocolate Babies, Handmaidens and Kuchus..."
closely examines films that challenge the reflex
to center whiteness that we see in a lot of
mainstream Western queer cinema and cu... |
| CCST312 | At the Intersections | Feminist Practices & Politics
At the Intersections: Economy, Body, Identity
In her poetic-prose work Schizophrene, Bhanu Kapil
writes, "An economy is a system of apparently
willing but actually involuntary exchanges." What
are these economic systems... |
| CCST319 | Asian American Text + Image | Asian American Text + Image
Desire, Power, Flight: Intimacies of the Political
Body in Asian American Text + Image
The title of this course borrows from Asian
American filmmaker, writer, and theorist, Trinh T.
Minh-ha, and her text, Woman Native Oth... |
| CCST330 | Walking Places | Walking Places: Pedestrian Activity and Spatial
Politics
"A walk can exist like an invisible object in a
complex world."
?Hamish Fulton
Walter Benjamin famously reflected on the
architectural spaces of Paris through the figure
of the flaneur, a me... |
| CCST343W | Palestine, Art, and Dissent | This winter session course offers an opportunity for students to join a creative weeklong crash course in the history, politics, and activism of Palestine that preceded the violence of October 7th and the unfolding humanitarian crisis in the current... |
| CCST345 | Black Queer Black | Black/Queer/Black: A Survey of Pop Culture's
Fiercest Tributary
This course is a close study of the multi-layered
Black queer center of '80s and '90s House music
culture via literature, film, music, music
videos, and critical essays by the likes of... |
| CCST351 | Buying & Selling the Fantasy of L.A. | Buying and Selling the Fantasy of Los Angeles.
Buying and Selling of LA. How did Los Angeles
become the capital of boosterism and global
marketing-- the city of the social imaginary? A
social history of power, promotion and social
conflict in LA. Wha... |
| CCST354 | History of Simulation | History of Simulation and Interactive media. In
this course, we focus on the social history of
fantasies that have been built in real space, and
the narratives they deliver, choosing examples
from theater, film, urban planning, theme parks,
world's f... |
| CCST372 | Infrastructure and the Climate Imaginary | This class will investigate sites of presumed
stability located between landscape and
architecture, looking to infrastructure to
activate a number of questions related to climate
change. How is the built environment shaped by
water, power, waste dis... |
| CCST374 | Mestizajes: Latin Am. & Latino/a USA | This is a cross-disciplinary course exploring
various histories and cultures in Latin America,
focussing on diverse intersections between
history, politics, social struggles, popular
cultural practices and the arts, The course
fosters awareness of th... |
| CCST378 | Contemporary Cyberfeminism + Coding | The most popular tools for building a website require zero to minimal coding knowledge. Dragged and dropped content in the colorful back-ends is published on the website's front-end in no time. All you have to do is click Publish. But this web design... |
| CCST378S | Pursuing Happiness | Pursuing Happiness: From Buddha to Positive
Psychology
From a self-help craze to government funded
scientific research, the pursuit of happiness has
become a 'hot topic' in both popular culture and
multiple fields of social science inquiry and
resear... |
| CCST384 | Environmental Justice, Activism | Environmental Justice, Activism, and Reimagining
the World
Together, we will learn terms and concepts central
to environmental justice and activism. What is the
anthropocene and how is it different from what
theorists are calling the capitalocene? Wh... |
| CCST391 | Memory, Media & the City | Collective memory (as well as collective
forgetting or repression) is essential to
understanding urban culture and politics. By
journeying through various cities, we identify how
literature, cinema, urban planning, politics, and
the rhythms of everyd... |
| CCST439 | Feminist Surveillance Studies | "How is information used as a tool of oppression?"
is this course's motivating question.
This class uses an intersectional feminist
perspective to question the values of
transparency, access, and spectatorship embedded
in surveillance aesthetics. It... |
| CCST444 | Archaeologies of the Present | Archeologies of the Present. Open to BFA-4
students.
A seminar that studies the past fifty years-- how
culture meets politic; including our historical
crises and economic changes. The history of our
present crisis begins essentially in 1973, with
ma... |
| CCST446 | Parallel Worlds | Parallel worlds: Fiction and Imaginary Futures,
1850-Present. Open to BFA-3, BFA-4 and Graduate
students only. A workshop and discussion class on
how to use tools broadly related to
science-fiction "worlds"-- as in tales about
parallel worlds tales,... |
| CCST459 | Sounding Resistance in Indian Country | Sounding Resistance in Indian Country
Throughout Turtle Island (present-day North America), songs have been an essential form of Indigenous expression for millennia. In fact, most activities in Native communities, from the gathering of traditional fo... |
| CCST473 | Representations of Black Supplication | "From Uncle Tom to Colin Kaepernick: Representations of Black Supplication"
This course explores the history and contemporary uses of the figure of the supplicant Black man. It traces the figure's late 18th, early 19th century emergence through white... |
| CCST483 | Algorithms, Enclosures | Algorithms, Enclosures: Digital Infrastructure
and the Technlogical Imagination
This class will investigate the increasingly
interconnected digital networks that shape and
reshape the global economy. Considering the
material, ecological and politica... |
| CCST492 | Social Reproduction | Social Reproduction:
Gender, Race and Care under Capitalism
In the writings of Marx, the term 'social
reproduction' refers to the ways that the
capitalist system reproduces
itself as a whole. In this class, we will consider
a rich body of literature... |
| CCST539 | Feminist Surveillance Studies | "How is information used as a tool of oppression?"
is this course's motivating question.
This class uses an intersectional feminist
perspective to question the values of
transparency, access, and spectatorship embedded
in surveillance aesthetics. It... |
| CCST543W | Palestine, Art, and Dissent | This winter session course offers an opportunity for students to join a creative weeklong crash course in the history, politics, and activism of Palestine that preceded the violence of October 7th and the unfolding humanitarian crisis in the current... |
| CCST544 | Archaeologies of the Present | Archeologies of the Present.
Open to Graduate students.
A seminar that studies the past fifty years-- how
culture meets politics The history of our present
crisis begins essentially in 1973, with massive
shifts in the role of the nation state, in the... |
| CCST546 | Parallel Worlds | Parallel worlds: Fiction and Imaginary Futures,
1850-Present. Open to BFA-3, BFA-4 and Graduate
students only. A workshop and discussion class on
how to use tools broadly related to
science-fiction "worlds"-- as in tales about
parallel worlds tales,... |
| CCST573 | Representations of Black Supplication | "From Uncle Tom to Colin Kaepernick:
Representations of Black Supplication"
This course explores the history and contemporary
uses of the figure of the supplicant Black man. It
traces the figure's late 18th, early 19th century
emergence through white... |
| CCST583 | Algorithms, Enclosures | Algorithms, Enclosures: Digital Infrastructure
and the Technlogical Imagination
This class will investigate the increasingly
interconnected digital networks that shape and
reshape the global economy. Considering the
material, ecological and politica... |
| CCST592 | Social Reproduction | Social Reproduction:
Gender, Race and Care under Capitalism
In the writings of Marx, the term 'social
reproduction' refers to the ways that the
capitalist system reproduces
itself as a whole. In this class, we will consider
a rich body of literature... |
| CHMN105 | Feminist Poetics | Feminist Poetics
Special Topics course for BFA-1 students only.
Through the lens of feminist poetics, we will
explore how writers and artists navigate
relationships between writing, identity, culture,
politics, and art making in their work. We will... |
| CHMN149 | Animal, Vegetable or Digital? PHF | Special Topics course for BFA-1 students only by
permission of instructor.
In this course we will read, analyze and write
about fiction that reaches beyond the human for
its narrators, characters, plots and
preoccupations. How do these stories, which... |
| CHMN208 | Digging Up California | What does it mean for a place to continually be
dug up by people, natural forces, and myth? How
can we use what we dig up in California such as
history and topography to craft familiar and not
so familiar narratives? This class will examine
how these... |
| CHMN214 | What is Called "Thinking"? | What is Called "Thinking"? Materiality,
Asbtraction, Expression
In this course we propose to interrogate how
different modes of cultural production across
human history explore the relation between
thinking and materiality, and by extension the
plac... |
| CHMN219W | Quilting | We will look into the quintessentially U.S.
American tradition of quilting, looking at
historical examples and particular artists, such
as the AIDS quilt, Gee's Bend, Faith Ringgold,
among others. We will visit the Huntington
Library, Museum and Gard... |
| CHMN226 | The Art of Games | The Art of Games: The Philosophy of Games and Game
Design.
Games look to be the dominant art form of the 21st
century. From an economic perspective, the video
game industry is now larger than both films and
music combined, and there is a large segmen... |
| CHMN231 | What Is Philosophy? | An introductory course in philosophical methods as
well as contemporary issues.
Philosophy is both an historical product of the
Western tradition and a critical tool of inquiry
that changes over time and within different
contexts. This course will be... |
| CHMN237 | Say It Loud | Say It Loud: The Rhetoric of American Social
Movements
This course examines the rhetorical strategies of
twentieth century American social movements: the
speeches, manifestos, essays, graphics, films and
music that helped shift the terms of politica... |
| CHMN239 | Feminist Theory, Practice, Politics | In her book, Living a Feminist Life, Sara Ahmed
writes, "Feminism as a collective movement is made
out of how we are moved to become feminists in
dialogue with others." In this spirit, we will
think of our class as a conversation with one
another, an... |
| CHMN253 | Feminism & Science Fiction | In this feminist & science fiction class, we will think of our class as a conversation with one another, and with intersectional feminist theories and practices. What can we continue to learn from feminist histories? How can we use feminist practices... |
| CHMN268 | Black Women's Creative Work | This course surveys Black women's autobiographical
archival work and writing throughout the diaspora.
We'll
survey how Black women artists, writers, and
performers have responded to the erasure of black
women's
identities and experiences throughout t... |
| CHMN271 | Latin.x.o.a.@:i.d. & entities | This is 200-level cross-disciplinary course
explores the history, cultures and contemporary
dynamics of Latinx communities, especially in
greater L.A., aimed at both self-identifying
Latinx and others. We begin with some canonical
examples of Latinx... |
| CHMN277 | The Attractions of Modern Horror | Taking inspiration from Fred Botting's notion of
"the Disneygothic", this course will examine the
transformations of Horror and Gothicism as they've
saturated American markets, defined identities,
and remixed transgressive, and at times
status-quo, p... |
| CHMN294 | Borges and the Political | Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges was an author
widely but wrongly regarded as a-political.
Although he was not a political writer in the
conventional sense of the word, his texts
nevertheless constantly engaged in the indirect
interrogation of our... |
| CHMN305 | Ungovernable: Poetry Against the State | UNGOVERNABLE SUBJECTS: POETRY AGAINST THE STATE. "The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house," argues Audre Lorde, a provocation that still reverberates even now, inviting us to critique our relationship to power, the state, and the i... |
| CHMN307 | Introduction to Ethics | Introduction to Ethics - Spinoza, Kant - An
Experimental Moral perspective
(introductory/intermediate levels):
This class is a review of key philosophical
issues in ethics and meta-ethics in both
historical and conceptual perspectives. Starting
wit... |
| CHMN310 | Unexceptional Art | This course proposes the notion of aesthetic
exceptionalism to capture the widespread belief
that art and artists
are exceptional. The course will seek to challenge
that belief in view of the political
exceptionalisms that many in
the art world would... |
| CHMN312 | Ethnic Public Intellectual | This course takes the figure of the public
intellectual as central to the history of ethnic
American experience, politics, and representation.
How have the ongoing realities of American race
relations placed particular political pressures on
ethnic A... |
| CHMN317 | Anahuac's Ghosts: Literature of America | Anahuac's Ghosts: The Literature of America del
Norte, 1524-2018
This interdisciplinary course will take us through
a survey of fiction, poetry, theatre, film,
testimony, and theory haunted by the myth of
"Mexico." We will read texts from the period... |
| CHMN320 | Necrosociality in Amer. Poetry | San Francisco anarchist poet Jack Spicer once
wrote, in one of his letters to the then
already deceased Spanish poet and playwright
Federico García Lorca, "this is how we dead men
write to each other." Spicer famously conceived of
the speaker of a p... |
| CHMN327 | Cultural Memory | Fredric Jameson argued that in an age of
postmodernity "the very function of the news media
is to relegate . recent historical experiences as
rapidly as possible into the past." This course
will consider the bold proposition that art and
literature,... |
| CHMN333 | Pataphysics | This course takes Alfred Jarry's utopian notion of
an 'imaginary science' as the model for just such
a vision. We begin with Jarry's invention of
'Pataphysics, a practice whose aim is to bring
exceptions into being. We start by focusing on the
three... |
| CHMN335 | Queer Books | Queer Books.
What makes a book gay or lesbian Or queer? Or
even indecent? Is queer writing literature by
gays and lesbians or about gays and lesbians? Is
there such a things as "gay style"? This course
looks at contemporary gay/lesbian and "othe... |
| CHMN336 | Pornography, Sex, & Writing | Pornography, Sex, & Writing.
While the contemporary meaning of "pornography" suggests
primarily the visual representation of sex, the
roots of the word are in language: pornography
means "the writing of harlots." This course traces
literary sex writ... |
| CHMN353 | Feminism & Science Fiction | In this feminist & science fiction class, we will think of our class as a conversation with one another, and with intersectional feminist theories and practices. What can we continue to learn from feminist histories? How can we use feminist practices... |
| CHMN355 | Art-Words: How to Talk About Art | Art-Words: How to Talk About Art in the 21st
Century
Is Art a form of work, or play? Research, or
expression - of a self, or other things? Can it be
a way of exploring the world outside human
subjectivity, or perhaps even a method for
constructing o... |
| CHMN362 | Race and Erasure: Black Literature | Race and Erasure: Black Literature in the Age of
Ferguson. Open to BFA2, BFA3, and BFA4 students
only. This course will explore a question
suggested by Kenneth Warren in "What Was African
American Literature": What, exactly, is the
"black" in African... |
| CHMN364 | Who Comes After the Human? | In recent years, "posthumanism" has been coined as
a term to capture work by critical thinkers and
artists that explores the limits of the human.
Those limits can be traced back to the origins of
Western modernity in the Renaissance and the
Enlighten... |
| CHMN367 | Fissure and Multiplicity | Course not open to BFA1 students.
A Collision of Voices: Fissure and Multiplicity
in Latin American Literature will look at a wide
range of diverse works in translation-manifestos,
oral history, revolutionary accounts, poems,
autobiographies, short s... |
| CHMN375 | The Monstrous and the Terrible: Horror | Course not open to BFA1 students.
The Monstrous and the Terrible: Horror
Since Hawthorne and Poe, American fiction has
flirted with horror. This class will look at
horror as a mode, thinking about how it operates
differently in fiction and in film.... |
| CHMN382W | Magic Circles: Art Without an Audience | Magic Circles: Art Without an Audience
Of Nordic Larp, Elvia wilk writes that the "Magic Circle" can be "defined as a 'membrane' that circumscribes virtual worlds. Once you step into the magic circle, you have committed to suspension of disbelief. Y... |
| CHMN408 | Matter and Materialisms | Matter and Materialisms: The concept of matter
from Presocratic Philosophy to New Materialism
Materialism is all the rage in contemporary
political and art theory, be it the renewal of
Feuerbach's anti-idealist materialism in the
Marxist tradition (e... |
| CHMN409 | Art, Critique, Power | This lecture and seminar based course explores the
question of art's power in contemporary and
historical (Modern) societal contexts. Art's power
can be correlated to its ability to effect social
change, to construct new possibilities for life,
as we... |
| CHMN415 | Nonsense | This course approaches the limits of Sense (and
the senses) from many angles, including
philosophy, linguistics, psychoanalysis,
anthropology, visual art, mythology, religious
studies (including mysticism and the Dionysian)
literature, film, and crit... |
| CHMN423 | Unexceptional Art | This course will seek to identify key traits of
Western aesthetic thought, consider the politics
of such thought, and explore alternatives to it.
Taking as a central point of reference Walter
Benjamin's classic essay on "The Work of Art in
the Era of... |
| CHMN435 | The Making of Everyday Life: Fluxus Art | This course explores the Fluxus art movement of
the nineteen sixties and seventies alongside
theories of the 'everyday' put forward by Erving
Goffman, Michel de Certeau and others. Why were
these theorists and artists compelled to theorize
and transf... |
| CHMN436 | Vision and Visuality | Philosophy of Vision and Visuality. Open to
BFA-2, BFA-3, and BFA-4 students only.
In recent decades, the study of vision and
perception has merged with the study of visuality
and cultural production. This course departs from
Walter Benjamin's theor... |
| CHMN439 | Lessons on Being & Becoming | Open to BFA3 and BFA4 students only. |
| CHMN444 | Capitalist Theology | Capitalist Theology and the Magic of the State
For generations now, it has been much remarked
upon by scholars from a wide range of disciplines
that capitalism and the modern nation state are
characterized by elements that have a distinctly
religiou... |
| CHMN447 | Feminist New Materialism | This course is a feminist exploration of
materialism. In recent years feminist thought has
turned to matter as a site of political urgency,
agency and aesthetics. This course asks, what does
feminism has to do with matter and materiality? We
consider... |
| CHMN452 | Experimental Literature | Wallace Stevens once said that all poetry is
experimental poetry. However that may be the case,
some literary works are more experimental than
others. In this class we will study a variety of
texts-in printed books and in digital forms
online-that ag... |
| CHMN461 | On Curating | This course considers curation as a critical
social practice. Students from across the
institute are invited to engage with specific
issues within curatorial studies, such as site
specificity, globalization, social engagement and
aesthetics. We invit... |
| CHMN466 | Genres of the Human | Whilst 'Man' has long been the measure and figure
of human subjectivity, many now argue that we need
new figures to adequately characterize the
varietous forms in which humanity manifests today.
This course examines a range of theories that
bring int... |
| CHMN470 | Revolution, Change, Difference | Revolution, Change, Difference Marxism,
Accelerationism, Realism/Materialism, Khun, Fish,
Brassier, Negarastani, Brandom.
A revolution is a violent rupture that asks us to
redefine, revise and re-think what we perceive to
be the natural conditions o... |
| CHMN483 | Becoming Latin America | Becoming Latin America: Universalism and
Regionalism in The New World from the 19th - 21st
Century.
In this course, students shall explore various
theoretical, historical and literary discourses
through which authors
conceived of the complementarity... |
| CHMN484 | Figures of the New World: Coloniality... | This course explores the historical development of Latin American cultures since the pre-Columbian era, through the colonial and republican periods, and until the present. It studies how colonialism operates as a historical force in the continent thr... |
| CHMN491 | Introduction to Affect Theory | This course will introduce students to the social,
political, and aesthetic history of what is often
known today as "affect theory." While the recent
"affective turn" is largely associated with
poststructuralist theory, this course seeks to
broaden t... |
| CHMN498 | Silent Music | What happens when an artwork puts its status as
object into question? This is a question that runs
deep in Chinese art and philosophy and stands in
some tension to the central presuppositions of
much, if not most, Western thought. To engage with
this... |
| CHMN508 | Matter and Materialisms | Matter and Materialisms: The concept of matter
from Presocratic Philosophy to New Materialism
Materialism is all the rage in contemporary
political and art theory, be it the renewal of
Feuerbach's anti-idealist materialism in the
Marxist tradition (e... |
| CHMN509 | Art, Critique, Power | This lecture and seminar based course explores the
question of art's power in contemporary and
historical (Modern) societal contexts. Art's power
can be correlated to its ability to effect social
change, to construct new possibilities for life,
as we... |
| CHMN523 | Unexceptional Art | This course will seek to identify key traits of
Western aesthetic thought, consider the politics
of such thought, and explore alternatives to it.
Taking as a central point of reference Walter
Benjamin's classic essay on "The Work of Art in
the Era of... |
| CHMN535 | The Making of Everyday Life: Fluxus Art | This course explores the Fluxus art movement of
the nineteen sixties and seventies alongside
theories of the 'everyday' put forward by Erving
Goffman, Michel de Certeau and others. Why were
these theorists and artists compelled to theorize
and transf... |
| CHMN536 | Vision and Visuality | Philosophy of Vision and Visuality.
In recent decades, the study of vision and
perception has merged with the study of visuality
and cultural production. This course departs from
Walter Benjamin's theorizing on culture, which
was proceeded by Theodor... |
| CHMN539 | Lessons on Being & Becoming | An upper level course introducing students to
modern philosophy through a selection of readings
from works by Hume, Kant, Schelling, Hegel,
Husserl, Heidegger, Bergson, Wittgenstein,
Sartre, de Beauvoir, Levinas and Derrida. The
course follows the th... |
| CHMN544 | Capitalist Theology | Capitalist Theology
For generations now, it has been much remarked
upon by scholars from a wide range of disciplines
that capitalism and the modern nation state are
characterized by elements that have a distinctly
religious quality despite the secul... |
| CHMN547 | Feminist New Materialism | This course is a feminist exploration of
materialism. In recent years feminist thought has
turned to matter as a site of political urgency,
agency and aesthetics. This course asks, what does
feminism has to do with matter and materiality? We
consider... |
| CHMN552 | Experimental Literature | Wallace Stevens once said that all poetry is
experimental poetry. However that may be the case,
some literary works are more experimental than
others. In this class we will study a variety of
texts-in printed books and in digital forms
online-that ag... |
| CHMN561 | On Curating | This course considers curation as a critical
social practice. Students from across the
institute are invited to engage with specific
issues within curatorial studies, such as site
specificity, globalization, social engagement and
aesthetics. We invit... |
| CHMN570 | Revolution, Change, Difference | Revolution, Change, Difference Marxism,
Accelerationism, Realism/Materialism, Khun, Fish,
Brassier, Negarastani, Brandom.
A revolution is a violent rupture that asks us to
redefine, revise and re-think what we perceive to
be the natural conditions o... |
| CHMN583 | Becoming Latin America | Becoming Latin America: Universalism and
Regionalism in The New World from the 19th - 21st
Century.
In this course, students shall explore various
theoretical, historical and literary discourses
through which authors
conceived of the complementarity... |
| CHMN584 | Figures of the New World: Coloniality... | This course explores the historical development of Latin American cultures since the pre-Columbian era, through the colonial and republican periods, and until the present. It studies how colonialism operates as a historical force in the continent thr... |
| CHMN591 | Introduction to Affect Theory | This course will introduce students to the social,
political, and aesthetic history of what is often
known today as "affect theory." While the recent
"affective turn" is largely associated with
poststructuralist theory, this course seeks to
broaden t... |
| CHMN598 | Silent Music | What happens when an artwork puts its status as
object into question? This is a question that runs
deep in Chinese art and philosophy and stands in
some tension to the central presuppositions of
much, if not most, Western thought. To engage with
this... |
| CMAP621 | Contemporary Aesthetic Theory | This course examines aesthetics as a concept that mediates the intersections of art, politics, and culture. Students will engage with a range of theoretical texts and artistic practices to investigate how aesthetic thought has shaped--and been shaped... |
| CMAP622 | Contemporary Political Thought | This course examines key ideas and debates in political thought, focusing on how contemporary thinkers address questions of power, governance, liberation, and resistance. While the specific focus varies by instructor, the course centers on critical e... |
| CMAP623 | Critical Discourse in Arts | The course theme for Fall 2026 is "A Community of Artists: The Lives and Afterlives of CalArts."
This course is required for all MA Aesthetics & Politics students and is open to graduate students from across the whole Institute, space permitting. It... |
| CMAP625 | A&P Thesis Seminar | Aesthetics and Politics Thesis Seminar.
This course is required for all MA Aesthetics & Politics students. Open to the MA A&P Program only. This seminar aims to guide students from pre-writing to writing: it intends to accompany them through the pr... |
| CMAP626W | Theorist in Residence | This one to two-week course is taught by the MA
Aesthetics and Politics program's Theorist in
Residence and covers a key issue in
aesthetico-political thought. Students are
required to attend public lectures by the
Theorist in Residence either at Cal... |
| CMAP670W | Research Seminar Aesthetics of Politics | Research Seminar on the Aesthetics of Politics. In
this course, we will read and analyze key
conceptual contributions of Jewish/German/American
political thinker Hannah Arendt, and American
philosophers Judith Butler and Linda Zerilli to
the field of... |
| CMAP696 | Directed Study - Thesis | The course is a directed study of the student's
thesis project with their mentor. This course will
deliver methodology and critical training to
prepare students for the development of their
independent thesis work. Students will select an
independen... |
| CMWP601 | Writing Now First Year Seminar | In this class, MFA students will gain exposure to
diverse visiting writers. In the first term, we
will meet once a week to read and discuss cutting
edge work, paying specific attention to narrative
voice, sentence structure, and the use of
figurative... |
| CMWP602 | Writing Now Reading Series | This course is required of all MFA Creative
Writing Students. It will consist of 4-6 visiting
writers presenting their work. |
| CMWP604 | Sex Writing Workshop | With the exception of pornography, our sexuality, our sex lives, our sexual fantasies, rituals, and practices are rarely represented or examined by writers. We might start by asking what is more fundamental and universal to humans than sex? In writin... |
| CMWP608 | Screenwriting Workshop | In developing, outlining and executing their own,
original screenplays, students will learn the
fundamental principles of screenwriting,
screenplay structure, and the primary rules of
storytelling. Over the course of the class
students will write a... |
| CMWP610W | Katie Jacobson Writer in Residence | This is a one- to two-week course focused on the
MFA in Creative Writing Program's Katie Jacobson
Writer in Residence. The Residency underscores
the experimental ethos of the Program, and covers
critical genre-, community- and process-based
methods,... |
| CMWP611 | Teaching Writing Composition: Practicum | This class introduces students to foundational concepts in writing/composition pedagogy--understanding writing as a dynamic set of cognitive, creative, social, linguistic and context-informed processes--in order to prepare students to teach college l... |
| CMWP614 | Poetry Writing Workshop | This is a graduate level poetry writing workshop
offered within the Creative Writing MFA program.
Primarily aimed at students in the graduate
writing program, it may also be open-if space
exists-to experienced graduate-level (MA/MFA)
writers from aro... |
| CMWP617 | Poetics and Practice | Poetics and Practice: Projects, Translations,
Interventions, Rupture, Static
This course will explore the interplay between
the context and the poem, between place and
craft, poem as intervention. Craft not as a pound
of product but as process or fl... |
| CMWP619 | Poet/Critics: a Seminar | To cite the program webpage, "The Creative Writing
MFA was designed to get over the division between
'creative' and 'critical.'" In the spirit of this
commitment, this reading-focused seminar will be
devoted to distinguished poet/critics who write
ac... |
| CMWP629 | Fantasty, SF, and Spec Fiction Workshop | Speculative Fiction Workshop: Fantasty, Science
Fiction and Speculative Fiction Workshop
This workshop focusses on Speculative Fiction and
its genre subcategories: fantasy, science fiction,
the weird, and horror: work, in short, that works
under a di... |
| CMWP634 | The Novel | This workshop is devoted primarily to developing
your novel projects, with opportunities to share
your work and receive feedback from participants
several times over the course of the semester. A
few novels by contemporary writers will be
assigned an... |
| CMWP637 | Thesis Workshop | Thesis Workshop. Course open to MFA2 Creative
Writing students only.
Required of all 2nd year students in their
graduating year. The course is devoted to
editing, critiquing, and completing the thesis
project. The thesis defense and graduation revie... |
| CMWP639 | Juicy Memoir | Juicy Memoir: Personal Narratives of Culture,
Body & Soul
In this class, we will read, discuss, and write
juicy memoirs--personal narratives that reveal,
reflect, and trace the self in relation to
family, society, history, culture, memory, body,
and... |
| CMWP641 | Translated Bodies | Translated Bodies: Reading & Writing Literary &
Cultural Translations
In this class, we will consider translated
bodies¬-bodies that shift/ have been shifted from
one state to another. We will read and discuss
non-fiction, fiction, poetry, and perfo... |
| CMWP646 | Short Fiction Workshop | Short Fiction Workshop. Open for all MFA Creative
Writing Program students. Other graduate students
by permission of instructor only, space
permitting. This course focuses on the writing of
short fiction across a range of traditions, styles
and app... |
| CMWP650 | Writing the Braided Essay | Writing the Braided Essay
The braided essay is the name gifted to a form of essay writing that weaves together multiple threads of though--memory, critical analysis, cultural commentary, and other art form--to create this contentious form we call "th... |
| CMWP653 | Documentary Poetics | Consider the following recent writing projects-a
poet travels to her home state of Indiana in
search of remaining traces of the Underground
Railroad; another reproduces newspaper excerpts
about mining disasters in China, interleaving them
with photog... |
| CMWP656 | Resonance: Writing, Culture & Sound | Writing, Culture & Sound
In this seminar, we'll explore sound and sonic phenomena across genres, disciplines, and soundscapes. We'll read texts that depict music, voices, and ambient sound with remarkable precision. We'll listen to performers, produc... |
| CMWP658 | Parafiction (Biblio-Memoir) | How does anyone dare to write? Mostly beside
oneself, and in the investigation of these sites
of "besided-ness" lies the focus of this class. We
can speak of many para-"sites": para-phrase,
para-normal, para-legal, para-military,
para-medic, para-lys... |
| CMWP660 | Exit Strategies | "Exit Strategies: Professional Development for Writers" is exactly as it sounds-- a course the helps develop a set of tools and skills one needs to exit one place and enter another. The entry, in this case, refers to any number of possibilities and p... |
| CMWP662 | Feeling and Theory | This course addresses the crisis in feeling-in
emotion and affect-in the wake of the so-called
"death of theory" and "end of the subject." What
remains for writers of a critical perspective on
the emotions they deploy, portray, and animate in
their... |
| CMWP667 | The Enduring Long Poem | While we may be accustomed to working on a poetry
book one single lyric poem on a page at a time,
this course will invite us to look at the enduring
long poem, one that spans multiple pages, and
which may transform the trajectory of a larger
poetry p... |
| CMWP668 | Long Form Fiction Workshop | Long Form Fiction Workshop: Writing Very Long
Stories, Novellas, and Novels
This course will focus on writing longer forms of
fiction. We will read a selection of longer
stories, novellas and at least one novel as a way
of thinking about what make... |
| CMWP675 | POETRY, FORM, AND RESISTANCE | POETRY, FORM, AND RESISTANCE
This course is first and foremost a poetry workshop. We will draft new poems and share them in a supportive setting that will prioritize process and possibility over polish. The poems we will study, and the prompts and ex... |
| CMWP681 | Letters and Conversations | At this transforming moment of pandemic and
uprising, what can letters and conversations do?
What forms of letters can we circulate? What
conversations do we need? Grounded in black
feminist texts and pedagogy, this creative writing
class invites stu... |
| CMWP682 | Translingual Poetics | We are currently living in what Yasemin Yildiz
calls "linguascapes" of globalization: a
multilingual din amplified by mass migration, the
movements of refugees, and technologies like
machine translation. Uncommon combinations of
language are constant... |
| CMWP684 | Tiny Fictions | This workshop will focus on extremely short
pieces as a way in to writing narrative and
non-narrative prose. We'll read flash fiction,
sudden fiction, blast fiction, short-shorts,
microfiction, minimalist fiction, prose poems,
Anne Carson's short ta... |
| CMWP687 | Queer Entanglements | Queer questions have been in the air for over a
generation, beginning with resistance to binaries
of male and female or gay and lesbian, and
extending to anyone who refuses heteronormativity.
As an embrace of the vital position of the
outsider, queer... |
| CMWP688 | Writing & Performing the Self | What is a self? How might writing and performance
together help forge or express its possibilities?
Grounded in creative writing and drawing on
performance art, literature, art criticism,
cultural studies, and black feminist theory, this
class will o... |
| CMWP689 | Good, Bad, Better, Otherwise | "Poetry Workshop: The Good, the Bad, the Better,
and the Otherwise."
This course will function primarily as a poetry
workshop, which is to say we will produce new
writing to share for supportive group critique. In
this way, we will strengthen our cr... |
| CMWP692 | Experiments in Experience: Non-Fiction | Nonfiction has the potential to be something more than what readers expect, and every writer has a variety of choices to make in determining what shape to craft their work depending on the subject. A profile of an artist may include the author's inte... |
| CMWP696 | Directed Thesis Study | This is a directed study of the student's thesis
project with their mentor. This is required of
all MFA Creative Writing students in their 2nd
year. |
| CMWP711 | SUBLEVEL Magazine | SUBLEVEL is an online literary magazine devoted to
the nexus of literature, poetics, art, criticism,
philosophy, culture, and politics based in the
CalArts MFA Creative Writing Program, in The
School of Critical Studies. SUBLEVEL inherits and
reflect... |
| CSCM125 | There's a Gene for That? Genes & Society | Genetics has revolutionized the way we understand
who we are, and where we came from. Modern
genetics has opened the door to exciting and
controversial new pathways that can guide where
humanity might be going. This course begins with
the fundamental... |
| CSCM207 | Human Sexuality: Scientific Evaluation | Human Sexuality is a comprehensive and integrated
approach to the science of human sexuality. This
course is an evaluation of scientific knowledge
regarding sexual behaviors and attitudes in
contemporary society and includes the
physiological basis... |
| CSCM241 | Env Sci: Intro to Problems & Solutions | Environmental Science: An Introduction to the
Problems and the Solutions.
This course provides an introduction to the
interactions between the physical and biological
impacts human have had on the Earth's
environment. Through a series of lectures, we... |
| CSCM256 | What Is Mathematical Thinking | Creative Experimentation and Reasoning in the
History of Mathematics
In arts and humanities, mathematics is often
thought as a rigidly formal discipline. The aim
of this course is to portray mathematics in a
different light as a field where intuitiv... |
| CSCM265 | Number, Numeral, Shape & Structure | Number, Numeral, Shape and Structure.
This course explores the nature of mathematics
starting with how the human brain conceptualizes
numbers and how human cultures have represented
numbers through the use of oral and written
language. Through a ser... |
| CSCM271 | Human Body Food to Function | Human Body: Food to Function.
Through a series of lectures, demonstrations and
readings, we will survey the human body from a
molecular level. This course will begin with a
discussion of atoms, the building blocks of food,
and will end with how a... |
| CSCM271S | Human Body Food to Function | Through a series of lectures, demonstrations and
readings, we will survey the human body from a
molecular level. This course will begin with a
discussion of atoms, the building blocks of food,
and will end with how a complete human body
senses the w... |
| CSCM277 | Matter & Molecules: From the Eve of Atom | Matter and Molecules: From the Eve of Atoms.
There have been many ideas about what the
physical universe is made of. Through lectures
and readings, we will consider a range of ideas
from the history of chemistry. This is a history
that spans alchemic... |
| CSCM322 | Biodiversity and Conservation | This course examines the ways in which
biodiversity is conceptualized, measured, and
valued. This is also a course that explores how
biodiversity is threatened by human activity and
how humans are trying to prevent and even restore
biodiversity. Basi... |
| CSCM328 | Practical Economics | The course is aimed to introduce concepts and
tools of basic economic analysis at both micro
and
macro levels. This course provides a
non-technical introduction to the basic concepts
in economics, with a focus on the United States.
It will provide in... |
| CSCM331 | How Food Makes the Human Body | This course examines molecules as the fundamental
building blocks of the human body. The course
begins with the basics of atoms and chemical
bonds. You will then learn how molecules are put
together to form basic nutrients which are the
building bloc... |
| CSCM347 | Finding Signals From the Noise | FIn this course, we will examine how to ask and
answer questions through the analysis of data.
Through a set of lectures, you will become
familiar with the basic principles and
methodologies of statistics. This will allow you
to make comparisons, tes... |
| CSCM351 | Unconventional Computing | This course explores emerging paradigms in computing that extend beyond traditional electronic methods, emphasizing the scientific principles of physics, biology, and engineering. Students will engage hands-on with non-standard computing models inspi... |
| CSCM355 | Sex and Death | Sex and Death: Biology From Beginning To End.
Biology is the scientific study of life. An
individual's life begins through a process of
reproduction. Reproduction may be either asexual
or sexual, and in some species both may occur.
Regardless of mo... |
| CSCM355S | Sex and Death | Sex and Death: Biology from Begining To End
Biology is the scientific study of life. An
individual's life begins through a process of
reproduction. Reproduction may be either asexual
or sexual, and in some species both may occur.
Regardless of modal... |
| CSCM373 | Fuzzbox Physics and Popular Distortion | Fuzzbox Physics and Popular Distortion
This is a hands-on exploration of sound
amplification and distortion. Through this course,
students will understand the relationship between
human perception and acoustic media. The course
explores acoustic inst... |
| CSCM382 | Plastics, Neon and Psychedelia | Plastics, Neon and Psychedelia: The Synthesis of
Unnatural Colors
Bright, permanent color is rarely found in
nature. Interventions are needed to refine,
extract, concentrate and synthesize color from
natural sources. Full color palettes did not
exis... |
| CSCM409 | Signals in the Noise: Data Science | Signals in the noise: Data Science. In this
course, you will learn the fundamentals of how to
ask and answer questions through the analysis of
quantitative data. Data science has become
increasingly important as organizations, both
commercial and non... |
| CSCM425 | Biology of Politics | "Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the
Light of Evolution" is the famous quote and title
of an essay by the evolutionary biologist
Theodosius Dobzhansky to address the highly
politicized debates over the teaching of evolution
in the 1970's. In... |
| CSCM428 | "..With Some Degree of Certainty" | The course provides an introduction to economics
through the primary method of economic reasoning:
the conceptual model. Models are deliberate
simplifications and abstractions used to develop
clarity and insight into real world processes.
This course... |
| CSCM509 | Signals in the Noise: Data Science | Signals in the noise: Data Science. In this
course, you will learn the fundamentals of how to
ask and answer questions through the analysis of
quantitative data. Data science has become
increasingly important as organizations, both
commercial and non... |
| CSCM525 | Biology of Politics | "Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the
Light of Evolution" is the famous quote and title
of an essay by the evolutionary biologist
Theodosius Dobzhansky to address the highly
politicized debates over the teaching of evolution
in the 1970's. In... |
| CSCM528 | "..With Some Degree of Certainty" | The course provides an introduction to economics
through the primary method of economic reasoning:
the conceptual model. Models are deliberate
simplifications and abstractions used to develop
clarity and insight into real world processes.
This course... |
| CSOC121 | Democracy in the Americas | Democracy in the Americas
Special Topics course for BFA-1 students only by
permission of instructor.
The Americas-both North and South America-are a
socially, politically, and culturally diverse
region of the planet. But the region nonetheless
shares... |
| CSOC128 | Revolutions in America | Revolutions in America
Special Topics course for BFA-1 students only.
What is a revolution? Originally related to the cyclical movement of celestial bodies, the notion has now become central to our thinking of bodies down here on earth: that of body-... |
| CSOC156S | Mother Tongue: Applied Linguistics Intro | An introduction to applied linguistics and
language study, MOTHER TONGUE focuses on the
theory, practice, methods of enquiry,
understanding, and empathy necessary for language
acquisition, effective inter/cross cultural
communication, and artistic co... |
| CSOC203 | Indigenous Aesthetics | Indigenous Aesthetics: The Art of Resistance. This
course will explore multiple forms of Indigenous
expression from throughout Turtle Island (present
day United States and Canada) with a particular
focus on works that have fueled and/or embody
resist... |
| CSOC209 | Introduction to Study of Human Cultures | Observing Ourselves: An Introduction to the Study
of Human Cultures
This course is an introduction to cultural
anthropology which brings a global comparative
perspective to the study of human beings. We will
compare and contrast cultural practices re... |
| CSOC220 | Introduction to Psychology | Introduction to Psychology.
This course is designed to give students an
understanding and appreciation of the scientific
approach to human behavior, thought and action,
and to provide the basic conceptual framework for
studying the cognitive, emotion... |
| CSOC231W | Cities in California: Fake and Temporal | (Part one of this course will look at one set of
materials and part two will look at another set of
materials.) Fake cities can be defined by many
aspects such as movie sets, caricature towns like
Little Tokyo, theme parks, ghost towns, temporary
cit... |
| CSOC232W | Cities in California: Fake &Temporal 2 | Part two of this course will look at another set
of materials.) Fake cities can be defined by many
aspects such as movie sets, caricature towns like
Little Tokyo, theme parks, ghost towns, temporary
cities, and sets left in and around Los Angeles
tha... |
| CSOC235 | Topics in Intersectional Transfeminisms | Spring 2023 Topic: In response to the 2022 Supreme
Court reversal on Roe v. Wade and its immediate
and widespread impact on access to abortion and
reproductive care in much of the US, our class
will focus on the history, politics, activism and
art su... |
| CSOC242 | Imaging Culture | Imaging Culture: Representation and Visual
Anthropology.
As the discipline originally chartered to classify
'races of man,' images and their interpretation
have long been important components of
anthropology. From early anthropometrics and
photograph... |
| CSOC242S | Imaging Culture | Imaging Culture: Representation and Visual
Anthropology.
As the discipline originally chartered to
classify 'races of man,' images and their
interpretation have long been important
components of anthropology. From early
anthropometrics and photograph... |
| CSOC265 | Food for Thought | Food for Thought: The Anthropology of Eating.
Using an anthropological approach, this course is
an eclectic inquiry into the study of food and
eating practices among multiple cultural groups.
Everyone eats, but what we eat, who we eat with,
where, w... |
| CSOC277 | Human Sexuality | This course offers a comprehensive and integrated
approach to human sexuality. Explores
psychological, biological, and sociological
aspects of human sexual behavior, including
sexual values, roles and lifestyles. Includes
contraception, pregnancy, se... |
| CSOC283 | Abnormal Psychology | Abnormal Psychology is a branch of psychology that
deals with psychopathology and abnormal thoughts
and behaviors, often in a clinical context. The
term covers a broad range of disorders, from mood
and anxiety disorders to personality disorders to
p... |
| CSOC291 | Engagement by Design: the Social Turn | ENGAGEMENT BY DESIGN:
The social turn in architecture and design
This class will investigate recent and
contemporary design that puts social and political
questions at the center of its practice. Moving
beyond the Modernist maxim "form = functio... |
| CSOC294 | Being Vulnerable | We are living in a time of increased
vulnerability. From safe spaces to trigger
warnings and cancel culture, drone wars to global
warming and mass migrations, Black Lives Matter to
#MeToo and the "great replacement" conspiracy
theory of the alt-right... |
| CSOC300 | Artist As Educator | Artist as Educator: Pedagogy, Planning, and
Practice.
Participants will learn how to effectively and ethically engage with the diverse communities of K-12 students-including English Learners and students with special needs-as artists and educators.... |
| CSOC301S | Pedagogy of the Oppressed: Radical Ideas | How do you best learn? Who were the teachers that
inspired you? Who were the teachers that made you
give up? In this class, we will discuss how
educational environments can be oppressive and
what we can do as artists and aspiring educators
to create... |
| CSOC302 | The Political & Latin America | The Political & Latin America.
The Political is not just politics. Politics, on the one hand, is the set of practices and institutions that organize conflicts and disagreements in those societies that have developed a specific milieu for the staging... |
| CSOC305 | Activating / Art-Making / Activism | How can we activate art-making for the current
moment? How can we engage activism in new
creative ways? In this critical/ creative
laboratory, we will read, write, discuss, create,
and harness experimental art strategies for
social change. We will re... |
| CSOC308 | Developmental Foundations in Arts Ed | Students will learn about physical, cognitive, and social and emotional development in children and adolescents as related to arts learning, theories of learning in the arts, and current research on topics related to creativity, identity, and motivat... |
| CSOC322 | How Maps Lie | This course explores how maps and mapping have
evolved in the age of digital technologies. The
key concepts of "critical cartography" and
"cognitive mapping" will be our guides, two
practices that allow us to see the relations of
power and the subjec... |
| CSOC328 | Economic History, Urban Transformation | The course introduces economic history by looking into important moments and powerful processes that have created the modern urban environment. A historicized perspective on our times comes into view by focusing on moments of economic transformation,... |
| CSOC332 | Engagement by Design | Engagement by Design: The Social Turn in
Architecture and Design.
This class will investigate recent and
contemporary design that puts social and
political questions at the center of its
practice. Moving beyond the Modernist maxim form
= function to... |
| CSOC336 | Ethnography of the Particular | Ethnography of the Particular: Exploring Culture
Through Life Story.
In order to understand life in another culture,
anthropologists observe and interact with
individual people, often recording individual
life stories. However, as noted by David
Mac... |
| CSOC354 | Political Theory in Latin America | Political thought, or political theory, is a
culturally situated practice. The word "theory,"
etymologically, takes us to the idea of "looking
at" or of "having a vision of." To theorize is
thus to reach for the other side of the
visible-for "its" in... |
| CSOC363 | Decolonizing Justice | Decolonizing Justice: art and the mythic
narratives of modern law
This course considers what if any relationship can
be drawn between the discourses of art and law.
All manner of artists and cultural producers have
had run-ins with the law in one... |
| CSOC370 | Economy, Identity, Body | At the Intersections: Economy, Identity, Body
In her poetic-prose work Schizophrene, Bhanu Kapil
writes, "An economy is a system of apparently
willing but actually involuntary exchanges." What
are these economic systems that permeate our
bodies, liv... |
| CSOC378 | Pursuing Happiness | From a self-help craze to government funded
scientific research, the pursuit of happiness has
become a 'hot topic' in both popular culture and
multiple fields of social science inquiry and
research. In particular, the field of positive
psychology is... |
| CSOC407W | Seminar on the Aesthetics of Politics | This year's Research Seminar on the Aesthetics of
Politics will focus on six books, six authors, and
three theoretical dialogues on the aesthetic-as
opposed to the theological or
epistemic-understanding of politics in general and
of democracy in part... |
| CSOC414 | Political Theory in Latin America | Political thought, or political theory, is a
culturally situated practice. The word "theory,"
etymologically, takes us to the idea of "looking
at," or of "having a vision of," something. To
see, to have a vision, is to reach for the other
side of the... |
| CSOC418W | R. Seminar on the Aesthetics of Politics | In this year's edition of the Research Seminar on
the Aesthetics of Politics we will engage in an in
-depth reading of two different but deeply
intertwined aesthetico-political authors: French
philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty and
Jewish-German Ameri... |
| CSOC428 | Carceral Logic, Abolitionist Imaginaries | This class will examine the transformation of the
prison, policing and surveillance systems in the
United States following the 1960's through an
in-depth look at the experiences of prisoners,
including modes of self-expression and resistance
and thro... |
| CSOC461 | Aesthetics & Politics in China | Aesthetics and Politics in China.
Open to BFA-4 students only.
'I thought it would be terrible to live in this
world and not know what another part of the world
was like.' Robert Rauschenberg.
In modern China, politics have been conducted not
simp... |
| CSOC464 | Race, Erasure, & Inequality | Race, Erasure, Inequality: Studies in Theory and Resistance
This course examines the roots and history of white supremacist racism in the United States, from the era of slavery during the country's early days as a revolutionary liberal democratic re... |
| CSOC466 | Queer Representability | Queer Representability: The Politics of LGBT
Visual Culture. Open to BFA-3 and BFA-4 students
only.
What makes an image a queer image-the content,
producer, mode of production, a certain
sensibility, a set of politics, or simply the eye
of the behol... |
| CSOC474 | Muñoz: Queer Worldmaking | Muñoz: The Theory and Practice of Queer
Worldmaking
This class will be devoted to an in-depth
exploration of the work and lasting impact of a
single author: writer, scholar, and critical
theorist José Esteban Muñoz. Through this central
focus on Muñ... |
| CSOC481 | The World in the Model | The World in the Model : The Model in the World
For at least the last two hundred years modeling
has been the principle activity of the economist.
A casual observer might think that the economist's
mania is focused on quantifying experience but the... |
| CSOC484W | Borges and Political Philosophy | In this year’s Winter Session, we will engage in an in -depth reading of Argentine fiction writer and essayist Jorge Luis Borges, an author widely but wrongly regarded as "a-political."
In the course, we will reveal the way in which his "fictions" we... |
| CSOC487 | Borges' Aesthetics of Politics | This course will not be just about Argentine
writer Jorge Luis Borges; but it will all happen
in the inconceivable Borgesian pluriverse. The
course is about the aesthetics of politics, and
doubly so. On the one hand, it is about the way in
which art... |
| CSOC493W | Aesthetics of Politics | Research Seminar on the Aesthetics of Politics.
In this year's edition of the Research Seminar on
the Aesthetics of Politics we will engage in an in
-depth reading of two different but deeply
intertwined aesthetico-political authors:
Argentine fictio... |
| CSOC507W | Seminar on the Aesthetics of Politics | This year's Research Seminar on the Aesthetics of
Politics will focus on six books, six authors, and
three theoretical dialogues on the aesthetic-as
opposed to the theological or
epistemic-understanding of politics in general and
of democracy in part... |
| CSOC514 | Political Theory in Latin America | Political thought, or political theory, is a
culturally situated practice. The word "theory,"
etymologically, takes us to the idea of "looking
at," or of "having a vision of," something. To
see, to have a vision, is to reach for the other
side of the... |
| CSOC516 | Human Rights and Wrongs | Human Rights and Wrongs: Social Justice and Media
in Global Perspective
This course explores one of the most important
issues of our time - human rights. We will study
the theory and practice of human rights and
wrongs by examining key debates that h... |
| CSOC518W | R. Seminar on the Aesthetics of Politics | In this year's edition of the Research Seminar on
the Aesthetics of Politics we will engage in an in
-depth reading of two different but deeply
intertwined aesthetico-political authors: French
philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty and
Jewish-German Ameri... |
| CSOC528 | Carceral Logic, Abolitionist Imaginaries | This class will examine the transformation of the
prison, policing and surveillance systems in the
United States following the 1960's through an
in-depth look at the experiences of prisoners,
including modes of self-expression and resistance
and thro... |
| CSOC564 | Race, Erasure, Inequality | Race, Erasure, Inequality: Studies in Theory and Resistance
This course examines the roots and history of white supremacist racism in the United States, from the era of slavery during the country's early days as a revolutionary liberal democratic rep... |
| CSOC566 | Queer Representability | Queer Representability: The Politics of LGBT
Visual Culture.
What makes an image a queer image-the content,
producer, mode of production, a certain
sensibility, a set of politics, or simply the eye
of the beholder? What are the social, linguistic,
an... |
| CSOC574 | Muñoz: Queer Worldmaking | Muñoz: The Theory and Practice of Queer
Worldmaking
This class will be devoted to an in-depth
exploration of the work and lasting impact of a
single author: writer, scholar, and critical
theorist José Esteban Muñoz. Through this central
focus on Muñ... |
| CSOC581 | The World in the Model | The World in the Model : The Model in the World
For at least the last two hundred years modeling
has been the principle activity of the economist.
A casual observer might think that the economist's
mania is focused on quantifying experience but the... |
| CSOC584W | Borges and Political Philosophy | In this year's Winter Session, we will engage in
an in -depth reading of Argentine fiction writer
and essayist Jorge Luis Borges, an author widely
but wrongly regarded as "a-political." In the
course, we will reveal the way in which his
"fictions" we... |
| CSOC587 | Borges' Aesthetics of Politics | This course will not be just about Argentine
writer Jorge Luis Borges; but it will all happen
in the inconceivable Borgesian pluriverse. The
course is about the aesthetics of politics, and
doubly so. On the one hand, it is about the way in
which art... |
| CSOC593W | Aesthetics of Politics | Research Seminar on the Aesthetics of Politics.
In this year's edition of the Research Seminar on
the Aesthetics of Politics we will engage in an in
-depth reading of two different but deeply
intertwined aesthetico-political authors:
Argentine fictio... |