Program Center Courses

There are several program center courses to choose from, in addition to your University coursework. You can choose what courses you would like to take with other students in consultation with your academic advisor and department chair. For more information on program courses available please visit the Tufts-Skidmore website at http://www.tufts-skidmore.es/academics/classes/.

JMAR 209 or JAAR 209 Sketchbook: Walking in the City 4 credits

On-site studio art course, based on drawing, designed for both art majors and non-art majors. Course positions students as informed "travelers" in Madrid/Alcala (the course is offered in each site), simultaneously exploring the city while offering personalized instruction in drawing, and contact with the visual arts. Students explore and sketch diverse sites -- monuments, museums, neighborhoods, markets, and gardens -- developing drawing skills through the completion of a travel sketchbook. Each sketchbook is unique and related to students' own artistic and intellectual projects. Students acquire visual vocabulary and great conceptual understanding of art through drawing techniques, art history, and cultural theory, as well as museum visits. Weekly review of and feedback on student work. Students produce a final drawing project directly related to their own interests and intellectual projects. Conducted in Spanish. Fulfills Arts requirement. P. Santamaria

JMFS 327 Imagining the Americas 4 credits

An exploration of the ways in which the indigenous people of the Americas, and the colonial experience, have been/are constructed in representative literary, cultural, and visual texts produced in Spain by both Spanish and Latin American authors from 1492 to the present. Specifically, students will analyze different representations of American subjects and of the colonial relationship within their historical contexts, and examine how these representations of indigenous and mestizo otherness, and the coloniality of power, are central to understanding the construction of modern cultural identities in Spain, in relation to narratives of European modernity. Conducted in Spanish. Fulfills Cultural Diversity requirement. S. Galvez

JMTH 298 The Performing Body: An Actor's Approach to Physicalization 4 credits

An intercultural development of body and voice awareness, with an emphasis on expressiveness of the human figure on stage; exploration and study of different conceptual spaces; development of the human body and voice in theatrical art. Group-work is privileged as the focus of theatrical activity. At the same time, the course fosters and highlights individual work within the group: knocking down barriers, trusting others and acquiring group vision as a sole acting body. Course includes periodic seminars and preparation in established acting methods relevant to course objectives. General issues studied in seminars: 1) The actor's body over time; 2) Tragedy, comedy, histrions, Commedia dell/Art, Moliere, Barrault, Garrick-Talma-Irving, Decroux, Copeau, Dullin, Stanislavsky, Cieslak; 3) Body schools: Copeau, Lapan, Meyerhold, Grotowsky; 4) Method Schools: Stanislavsky, Strassberg, and others; 5) Improvisation: Keith Johnston and Augusto Boal. Conducted in Spanish. Fulfills Arts requirement. S. Barreiro Sanchez