This course introduces students to key vocabularies, forms, and histories from the many arts and design disciplines represented at UC Berkeley. It is conceived each year around a central theme that responds to significant works and events on the campus, providing an introduction to the many art and design resources available to students on campus. Students will compare practices from across the fields of visual art, film, dance, theater, music, architecture, graphic design, new media, and creative writing, and explore how different artists respond formally to the central themes of the course, considering how similar questions and arguments are differently addressed in visual, material, embodied, sonic, spatial, and linguistic forms.  

This course introduces students to key vocabularies, forms, and histories from the many arts and design disciplines represented at UC Berkeley. It is conceived each year around a central theme that responds to significant works and events on the campus, providing an introduction to the many art and design resources available to students locally. The fall course will revolve around 'Creativity and Practice,' and we will invite campus leaders whose work relates to this theme, along with a few guest speakers, as well. [Pending instructor preference,] the course will be offered in Fall 2021 in conjunction with Berkeley Arts + Design’s highly successful public lecture series A+D Thursdays at BAMPFA. Through a series of public lectures from Creative Discovery grant recipients and other faculty representing a range of departments and disciplines. Speakers will explore intersections amongst the arts, technology, public service, and social enterprise and be introduced to a range of pedagogical practices. Students and audience members alike will learn and engage with a variety of practices. Mixed in with our spectacular faculty guest speakers, we will invite other luminous off-campus thought leaders to share their stories, practices, and pedagogical journeys.

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