Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.

Contemporary artists working with photographic images are studied through slides, readings, lectures, and discussions.

Recent and contemporary critical theories and applications studied through readings, lectures, and discussion. Emphasis on student research papers.

Exploring the possibilities and reasons for producing work outside the parameters of traditional practice, looking at artists whose work co-opts, challenges and eschews the gallery system, using those artists as models for their own production.

Theoretical and critical discussion of photographs in series, sequences and books. Software for editing and layout introduced to produce photo-based artist books. Specific attention paid to how the photo-book expands the meaning of individual images.

This course introduces the concepts, techniques, and variations of performance art. Special emphasis on performances made expressly for the camera will be considered. Many examples of performance art are analyzed.

Students explore the interplay between contemporary photography and cinema. By constructing sets, scouting locations, studying images and films, and appropriating cinematic language, students will create photographic works influenced by moving images.

This course explores an alternative photographic history and methods introduced by digital technologies such as photoshop, scanners, AI and mobile phones. We will explore image-making that can be done with and without cameras on a tabletop, in a darkroom, on a scanner, or entirely online.

Students will learn and experiment with a wide variety of collage techniques and production tools. This is also an Art + Ecology course, and will be taught in the context of ecology, or the study of relations. We will think with and through key ideas in contemporary ecological thought using collage as a mode of articulation.

Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.

Intensive workshop geared toward individual student requirements within the context of the development of an extended of body of work. Individual and group critique.

Intensive workshop geared toward individual student requirements within the context of the development of an extended body of creative work. Individual and group critiques used regularly.

Exploration of a problem, or problems, in depth. Individual independent study upon a plan submitted by the student. Admission by consent of supervising instructor(s) and the department.

Written statement to accompany final project, culminating in oral examination for M.F.A. degree. Taken during final semester upon advisor's approval.

Formal master's thesis. Written document exhibiting substantive and original research. Planned under direction of major departmental advisor.