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3.00 Credits
This course offers upper-division students an opportunity to explore performance through a variety of lenses: historical, cultural, critical and contemplative perspectives are examined. Subjects studied vary from semester to semester. Students should check with the department for details on this course, and when it is being offered. Prerequisite: Any 200-level arts course.
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3.00 Credits
Designed for upper-division music, theater, dance and interdisciplinary students, this course brings together intermediate/advanced practitioners of dance, theater and music to provoke new cross-disciplined performance works and dialogue. Co-taught by faculty from the Music Program and the BFA in Performance, this experimental lab generates several mixed-media performances evolving from varied approaches including simultaneous composition, unilateral decision making and indeterminacy. Students design and implement compositions; performance is a required component of this course. Prerequisite: open to juniors and seniors only; must have successfully completed any combination of two PFAR courses, ensemble courses within the Music Program, MUS 400 or MUS 230.
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3.00 Credits
This class is both a continuation of PFAR 245 as well as an introduction for students new to African dance. Examining different dances than those taught in PFAR 245, it revisits dance and rhythm from diverse cultural traditions of Africa. Students learn to hold respect for cultural traditions including the role dance plays in community, the relationship between student and teacher, and the joys of dance. Students are required to maintain a practice regimen and attend community-sponsored traditional African dance concerts. Students dance hard, have fun and are required to participate in a performance weekend at the end of the semester. Students are expected to wear traditional dance costumes for public performances and for class.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides ongoing training in the basic principles of acting through exercises, improvisation and scene work. Students develop skills in the area of focus and concentration, visualization, physical action and psychophysical gesture. Students also learn steps to characterization, how to take risks and make informed theatrical choices. This class is a continuation of PFAR 250. Prerequisite: PFAR 250 with a grade of "B" or higher or permission of department.
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3.00 Credits
Contemplative dance practice joins the disciplines of sitting meditation with practices from contemporary dance improvisation and movement studies. Sessions include sitting meditation, personal awareness practice, "open space" (working in space with others) and group discussions. Additional course requirements apply to students taking the course for graduate credit. Previous experience in meditation practice is recommended. Prerequisite: PFAR 103, PFAR 203 or permission of instructor.
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1.00 - 6.00 Credits
The teaching and practice of Zen Buddhism assumes that there is a Big Mind present in all mental and physical activities, that this Big Mind can be realized and that its realization can be matured. The class looks at how this Zen paradigm-its teachings, practices and realization-can be a personal vision and part of professional contemporary psychology.
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3.00 Credits
This survey course explores psychology as it has developed in the Western world. Students learn to better understand mental life and behavior by studying diverse Western traditions that range from laboratory science to the intuitive clinical work involving clients and therapist. Specifically, students develop familiarity with many of the distinct perspectives, concepts and terms of Western psychology. Topics covered include brain function, consciousness, perception, learning, thought, maturation, emotion, personality, mental illness and therapy. Understanding these topics is deepened by critically evaluating Western psychological frameworks with respect to each student's own experience.
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3.00 Credits
The body is the vessel of emotions, the vehicle for actions and the tool of perceptions. Culturally, we have been trained to ignore bodily processes. This class examines the role of bodily experience in the unfolding of life's process. Out of a study of sensation, energy, emotion, perception, movement, breath, speech and touch, students cultivate an ongoing individual practice for embodying their personal process.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the use of food, herbs and other natural remedies to maintain and improve a wide variety of health conditions. We discuss herbal preparations, safety, dosaging and also learn to identify many local plants in this area. Topics include herbal history, food as medicine, reproductive health, emotional health using natural remedies, natural medicine for children, addictions, psychoactive plants, aromatherapy and immune system health. The class has an East-West approach incorporating many of the principles of Oriental medicine, yet mostly using native plants.
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3.00 Credits
An investigation of the family as a system, which has a structure and organization of its own. Interactions between family members are seen from a systematic perspective, thereby deepening the students' understanding of their family of origin and the families of others. The course provides an introduction to the history of family therapy and to the major theorists in the field. The importance of family in various therapeutic contexts is explored as well as diversity of family forms found within our culture and the cultures of others. The course combines readings, lectures, discussions and experiential exercises. Prerequisite: PSYB 101. Open to Contemplative Psychology and Interdisciplinary Studies students only. Others by permission of instructor.
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