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Courses

Summer 2025 dates are June 17-July 11.

Non-degree-seeking, postbaccalaureate, and Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ from other graduate programs seeking elective and professional development coursework are welcome to join our Seminars and Studio Apprenticeships. Practicum and Writing Apprenticeships are restricted to only Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ accepted to the Creative Pulse Graduate Program.

Classes are not held on Federal Holidays, or Saturdays and Sundays.

The courses listed below are from 2024. The 2025 course schedule will be up soon. 

SEMINARS

CP 582 - Seminar 1: Research Methods and the Creative Practice - Part I (CRN 50090)

Wednesday, June 28, 1-5:30 p.m., Thursday, June 19, 9-11:30 a.m. and 12:30-5 p.m., Friday, June 20, 8 a.m.-12:15 p.m. and 1:15-5 p.m., Monday, June 23, 1-2:30 p.m.

Instructors: Steve Kalling and Faith Morrison

First and Second Year Students.

This is the first part of a two-part course sequence designed to provide essential skills for research and the creative practice within the field of arts integration. Throughout this course, Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ will be introduced to research methodology and the development of research questions, which they will further explore through their participation in the Summer 2025 - Ignite: Arts Integration Conference. The course will provide foundational knowledge for sourcing, citing, and evaluating research materials, and the practice of creative inquiry across a variety of mediums. 

CP 583 - Seminar 2: Research Methods and the Creative Practice - Part II (CRN 50091)

Instructor: Steve Kalling and Faith Morrison

First and Second Year Students.

This is the second part of a two-part course sequence designed to provide essential skills for research and the creative practice within the field of arts integration. This course is designed to prepare Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ for graduate level research, writing, and creative practice-based research. Throughout the course, Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ will acquire the tools needed to create annotated bibliographies, write literature reviews, and synthesis their research into a written format.

Pre-Requisites: Research Methods and the Creative Practice - Part I

CP 584 - Seminar 3: Site Specific Art (CRN 50092)

Instructor: Rafael Chacon

First and Second Year Students.

Site-specific art is intended to resonate with its setting, both natural and human-made. This course explores site-specific art and the immediacy of the art experience outside the gallery and museum. Through field trips, discussions, slide lectures, and hands-on projects, we shall immerse ourselves in what Richard Wagner called the Gesammtkunstwerk, or “total work of art,” and have our senses awakened through the experience of art in its intentional contexts.

CP 585 - Seminar 4: Deep Listening and Sonic Meditations: The Work of Pauline Oliveros and Adjacent Practitioners and its Potential Applications in Classroom Management (CRN 50093)

Instructor: Bryan Kostors

First and Second Year Students.

In this course, we will explore the work of visionary composer Pauline Oliveros, focusing on her Sonic Meditation pieces and her practice of Deep Listening as a potential approach to classroom management. We will examine Oliveros’ techniques in listening, observing, and connecting to the world and landscape around us and consider their application in classroom management, transitionary activities for Ñý¼§Ö±²¥, arts appreciation, creative work, and fostering more engaged and consistent classroom practices. We will also discuss other composers who have explored similar methodologies.

PRACTICUM

CP 587 - Art Ed Practicum: Personal Performance

Tuesday, June 17, 3-5:30 p.m., Wednesday, June 18, 9:15 a.m.-12 p.m., Monday, June 23-Tuesday, June 24, 9:15 a.m.-12 p.m., Tuesday, July 8-Thursday, July 10, 9:30-11:15 a.m.

Instructors: Marc Moss and Faith Morrison

First and Second Year Students. This course investigates the art of personal performance. Drawing from personal narrative, Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ will design solo performance works incorporating material from various art forms. The first-year Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ will focus on personal storytelling, while second-year Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ will design a performance using techniques from theatre, movement, music, spoken word, visual or performance art. Throughout the course, participants will generate personal source material, design an original solo performance work, participate in peer feedback, and present their personal performance to an audience during the final week of the program.

STUDIO APPRENTICESHIPS

CP 588 - Apprenticeship I: Of Ink, Water, Words and Paper (CRN 50409)

Wednesday, June 25-Friday, June 27, 9:15 a.m.-12:45 p.m., and Monday, June 30, 2-5:30pm.

Instructors: Steve Krutek

First and Second Year Students.

This course will focus on the Japanese print-making technique of suminagashi (translates to 'ink floating'), haiku poetry, and bookbinding. Students will learn the intertwined history and techniques of all three of these artforms within Japanese culture and beyond. The week will culminate in each student's creation of a hand-bound book using a stab-binding technique that will highlight their poetry and suminagashi prints.

CP 588 - Apprenticeship II: Creating New Plays: An Interdisciplinary Approach (CRN 50410)

Tuesday, July 1-Thursday, July 3, 2-5:30 p.m., and Monday, July 7, 2-5:30pm.

Instructor: Charlie Oates

First and Second Year Students.

This course will dig into practical approaches to creating fun, doable plays with Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ of any age.  Using interdisciplinary sources such as paintings, sculptures, music, architecture and branching out into stories written by Ñý¼§Ö±²¥, we will explore the steps toward creating a script and staging plays authored by the Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ themselves.

CP 588 - Apprenticeship 3: Morning Movement (CRN 50411)

Monday, June 23 - Thursday, July 10, Monday-Friday, 8-9 a.m.

No class on July 4.

Instructors: Brooklyn Draper, Jordan Dehline, and Lizzi Juda

First and Second Year Students.

This apprenticeship explores three weeks of morning movement investigating personal expression and creativity. Participants are invited to use movement to deepen their kinesthetic sensibilities, cultivate individuality, and develop a holistic connection between mind and body. Through regular studio participation, this course will focus on building community and developing a personal movement practice. New perspectives will be offered each week with a rotating set of instructors. 

Writing Apprenticeships

CP 588 - Awakening the Writer Within (CRN 50096)

Instructor:  Steve Kalling

Online Learning - Work continues remotely throughout the 2025-2026 Academic Year

First Year Students ONLY. This Writing Apprenticeship course parallels Ñý¼§Ö±²¥’ independent work with their Field Projects. Through a series of independent and collaborative activities exploring the practices and habits of writers at work, the course allows Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ to develop and refine their own individual writing process skills in the context of creating a quality reflective narrative of their Field Projects. 

CP 588 - Advanced Writing Lab (CRN 50117)

Instructor:  Steve Kalling

Online Learning - Work continues remotely throughout the 2025-2026 Academic Year

Second Year Students ONLY. This Writing Apprenticeship course parallels Ñý¼§Ö±²¥’ independent work with their Final Creative Project. We’ll move through drafting and revision activities (both individual and with peers) designed to keep the project moving forward in manageable increments as well as address graduate-level scholarship and formatting considerations, culminating in a clean, complete draft to bring to your committee for final revisions and edits towards a defensible draft.

ADDITIONAL COURSES

Courses listed below require self-guided, independent work with oversight and mentorship provided by with the instructor. Courses run June 17-July 12.

CP 589 - Arts Education Field Project

Instructor: Faith Morrison

First Year Students ONLY. The first-year independent project is designed around the Ñý¼§Ö±²¥’ teaching, artistic, or research interests.

CP 597 - Research I

Instructor: Faith Morrison

First and Second Year Students. Students engage in independent research,  analyzing ideas and conceptualizing their knowledge about the history, questions and understanding of their field of study.

CP 597 - Research II

CP 599 - Professional Paper

Final Creative Project Students ONLY. An extensive research paper that documents and evaluates the research,  literature, and conclusions of the Final Creative Project.  Connects the ideas, opinions, and questions with those of experts in the field.

Register for this course after successfully completing the Advanced Writing Lab and register for the section associated with your project chair.