UCOR Section Descriptions

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UCOR 1300-08 Designing for the Stage

Course Type:

UCOR 1300 Creative Expression and Interpretation

Faculty:

Brown, Amiya

Term:

Fall

Year:

2024

Module:

Module I

Course Description

This course immerses students in the creative process of designing visual worlds for the stage. Students create a variety of designs that build visual communication, collaboration, creativity, ingenuity, composition, conceptual development and presentation skills. Class will attend live theatre performances and reflect on these experiences through writing and discussion.

UCOR 1300-09 Creating with Sound (SUCCESS)

Course Type:

UCOR 1300 Creative Expression and Interpretation

Faculty:

Codykramers, Dominic

Term:

Fall

Year:

2024

Module:

Module I

Course Description

Put your headphones on and delve deeply into the power of sound in and as art! Experience installations and performances on the cutting edge of music and aural creativity. Learn the basic skills and techniques of generating and manipulating sound to touch the senses and impart emotion, ideas, and meaning. Then integrate what you've learned and experienced by expressing your own ideas through a unique piece of multi-media, sound-focused art.

UCOR 1300-10 Beginning Acting

Course Type:

UCOR 1300 Creative Expression and Interpretation

Faculty:

Murphy, Brennan

Term:

Winter

Year:

2025

Module:

Module I

Course Description

This is a beginning acting class focusing on the fundamentals of the craft of acting. Students will participate in exercises designed to help develop physical and vocal presence, an awareness of impulse and being 'in the moment', and text analysis and action oriented skills specific to acting a text. They will participate in a number of individual and partner performance exercises. Using the techniques and insights learned in these exercises students will create a performance of a scene from Samuel Beckett's WAITING FOR GODOT.

UCOR 1300-10 Cell Phone Filmmaking

Course Type:

UCOR 1300 Creative Expression and Interpretation

Faculty:

Davis, Benjamin

Term:

Fall

Year:

2024

Module:

Module I

Course Description

This will be an introductory class that assumes no prior film making experience and is designed to encourage students to explore film making using accessible mobile technology. Students will develop their knowledge of basic video production, methods and terminology using their smartphones. Through hands-on, small-group assignments, students will learn and apply professional film concepts while using their smartphones to tell their own creative story. With available apps, students will learn how to turn their smartphone into a powerful film tool. Students will understand exposure, framing, audio, lighting, composition and more.

UCOR 1300-11 Creating with Sound

Course Type:

UCOR 1300 Creative Expression and Interpretation

Faculty:

CodyKramers, Dominic

Term:

Winter

Year:

2025

Module:

Module I

Course Description

Put your headphones on and delve deeply into the power of sound in and as art! Experience installations and performances on the cutting edge of music and aural creativity. Learn the basic skills and techniques of generating and manipulating sound to touch the senses and impart emotion, ideas, and meaning. Then integrate what you've learned and experienced by expressing your own ideas through a unique piece of multi-media, sound-focused art.

UCOR 1300-11 Virtual Reality Filmmaking (SUCCESS)

Course Type:

UCOR 1300 Creative Expression and Interpretation

Faculty:

Reub, Gavin

Term:

Fall

Year:

2024

Module:

Module I

Course Description

This course focuses on the art of telling stories for Virtual Reality. Students will immerse themselves in understanding the media through the technology available so they can learn about the challenges of telling a story using its specific attributes. In this hands-on class, students will create and produce a short film using 360 video, which will purposefully blur reality and fiction, and narrate a story. This course will include analyses of experiences and texts with an emphasis on immersive narrative and the nature of interactivity. The purpose of this class also includes intensive learning through collaboration and reflection on future challenges and our responsibilities of storytelling through new technologies.

UCOR 1300-12 Intro to Printmaking

Course Type:

UCOR 1300 Creative Expression and Interpretation

Faculty:

Cerny, Dawn

Term:

Winter

Year:

2025

Module:

Module I

Course Description

This course is a hands-on exploration of the five major methods of fine art printmaking (relief, intaglio, stencil, planographic). Class consists of technical demonstration lectures, hands on learning exercises, and the production of simple exemplary limited edition fine art prints. Students will be responsible for reading assignments, oral and written reviews critiques, studying prints in local museums and/ or galleries and on campus art venues. A small service learning component will be assigned to one of the printmaking assignments.

UCOR 1300-12 Virtual Reality Filmmaking (SUCCESS)

Course Type:

UCOR 1300 Creative Expression and Interpretation

Faculty:

Reub, Gavin

Term:

Fall

Year:

2024

Module:

Module I

Course Description

This course focuses on the art of telling stories for Virtual Reality. Students will immerse themselves in understanding the media through the technology available so they can learn about the challenges of telling a story using its specific attributes. In this hands-on class, students will create and produce a short film using 360 video, which will purposefully blur reality and fiction, and narrate a story. This course will include analyses of experiences and texts with an emphasis on immersive narrative and the nature of interactivity. The purpose of this class also includes intensive learning through collaboration and reflection on future challenges and our responsibilities of storytelling through new technologies.

UCOR 1300-13 Digital Photography (SUCCESS)

Course Type:

UCOR 1300 Creative Expression and Interpretation

Faculty:

Simmons, Arielle

Term:

Fall

Year:

2024

Module:

Module I

Course Description

As a Core course, Digital Photography will involve equal parts making images, reading, writing, and analyzing/discussing. Assignments progress on a formal level from B&W to color and then to working with images in time, whether stop-motion or sequenced as short experimental films. The ideas students bring to the projects will be emphasized and the readings, films, image presentations, and discussions will provide direction to explore themes such as consumerism, the environment, gender, social diversity, imagination and dreams. The photographic medium has undergone changes in the last decade at a rate unparalleled since photography's invention during the latter part of the 19th Century. What does digital photography hold for the 21st Century? How is it different from working with film -or is it? What are artists doing within the medium today and what are their influences? These and other questions will be addressed over the course of the quarter as the technical, conceptual and formal properties of the medium are introduced.

UCOR 1300-13 Intro to Printmaking

Course Type:

UCOR 1300 Creative Expression and Interpretation

Faculty:

Cerny, Dawn

Term:

Winter

Year:

2025

Module:

Module I

Course Description

This course is a hands-on exploration of the five major methods of fine art printmaking (relief, intaglio, stencil, planographic). Class consists of technical demonstration lectures, hands on learning exercises, and the production of simple exemplary limited edition fine art prints. Students will be responsible for reading assignments, oral and written reviews critiques, studying prints in local museums and/ or galleries and on campus art venues. A small service learning component will be assigned to one of the printmaking assignments.