Fall 2024 Corcoran Courses
Fall '24 Courses at the Corcoran
Selected courses are open to all students at GW and the Corcoran. Explore a new discipline like theatre or dance, or engage with topics ranging from ethical design to the history of hardcore punk in Washington, DC. You’ll be surprised what’s on offer at the Corcoran in fall ’24!
Some of the courses below are marked "CORX" classes, which benefit students by integrating disciplines or providing exposure to useful skills and approaches that are outside, but applicable to, a student’s main area of focus.
| Name of Course | Course description | Undergraduate/Graduate? |
|---|---|---|
| CTAD 3131W - Performance, Identity, and Social Change | Theatre of social change as theorized and practiced in the second half of the twentieth century and in the early twenty-first century. | Undergraduate |
| CTAD 3332 - Theatrical Makeup Design | Theory and practice in the art of stage makeup design, including latex and crepe hair. | Undergraduate |
| CTAD 4592.11 - Special Topics in Theatre Studies- History of African American Theatre | Topics of current interest in theatre studies, including performance studies, theatre history & historiography, critical theory, and social practice. This course critically engages in the history, stakeholders, and artistry of black diaspora theatre. | Undergraduate |
| CTAD 2185.80 - Trends in Performance- Action into Art; cross-listed with CORX 3900.81 & CORX 6900.81 | Study of performance art and activist artists. Students connect concepts and processes and create individual and collaborative projects inspired by global artists to activate awareness and change. | Undergraduate |
| CTAD 2191W.10 - Dance History | The history of Western theatrical dance from the late eighteenth century to the present. The major choreographers and their dance works through readings, lectures, video, and discussion. Includes a significant engagement in writing as a form of critical inquiry and scholarly expression to satisfy the WID requirement. | Undergraduate |
| CTAD 3182.10 - Dance Composition I | The study of dance through structural and conceptual aspects of constructing dances and shaping and forming movement materials. Creation of original dance studies. Emphasis on structure, intention, and content in making dances. *Prerequisite: CTAD 2180 Movement Improvisation/performance | Undergraduate |
| CMUS 1106.10 - Introduction to Performance | Develop musicality through once per week private lessons while at the same time critically examining experiences of playing and performance within the context of challenging readings and written exercises in a seminar environment. | Undergraduate |
| CMUS 3125.10 - Washington, DC in the History of Punk Rock | The history of Washington, DC, as a center for hardcore punk music, politics, and activism. Focus on the period 1979 to 1995 and the place of DC punk tradition within the contexts of punk as a musical genre and a political and economic culture. | Undergraduate |
| CORX 3900 / 6900 cross-listed w/CMUS 3174 - Collaborative Studio: Multidisciplinary Performance Practice | This course is an advanced project-based course designed to encourage collaboration between multiple artistic disciplines. The course will cover historical and contemporary examples of interdisciplinary art, providing a foundation for students to experiment with blending various forms of expression. | Graduate and Undergraduate |
| CGD 1090 - Design Fundamentals I | Intro to the field of 2D and 3D design. Projects include how to create visual hierarchies and how to utilize color and color system for designers, artists and photographers. | Undergraduate |
| CGD 3010 - Hand Lettering + Type Design | Explore lettering and letterform construction through a series of drawing workshops. Students will create an original display typeface over the course of the semester. | Undergraduate |
| CGD 3010 - Iteration and Meaning | Explore how iteration can be employed as a tool for generating distinct visual forms and thoughtfully explored solutions. Investigate strategies for interpreting content, developing concepts, and generating meaning through design. *This course is for non-Graphic Design majors who have completed CGD 1090 and CGD 1091 | Undergraduate |
| CSA 3091.81/CSA 6901.81 - Art & Revolution: Foundations | Empower Your Artistic Activism: Master the Foundations of Socially Engaged Art. Dive deep into ethical principles, innovative methodologies, and community engagement strategies. Develop collaborative skills essential for leveraging artistic expression as a catalyst for impactful social change. | Graduate and Undergraduate |
| CSA 6015.80/CSA 6901.80 - History & Theory of Art in the Public Realm | Contemporary and historical theories of social relations and public space and foundational questions relevant to a creative practice in the public sphere. | Graduate |
| CSA 2760.80/CSA 6760.80 - Book Arts Concept & Content | Fundamentals of developing book art structures and artist's books; construction and bindings, text and image-making techniques, and utilizing design, photography, and writing as source materials for book projects. Materials fee. | Graduate and Undergraduate |
| CAH 2001.10 - Waste Politics in African Art | Examine how artists deploy trash as combative decolonial aesthetics to critique ongoing waste colonialism by world powers, the impact of aestheticizing trash in the context of local economies, and the onslaught of aggressive globalization. | Undergraduate |
| CAH 3120.10 - Italian Art and Architecture of the Thirteenth through Fifteenth Centuries | Origins, development, and theoretical foundations of painting, sculpture, architecture and urban form in Renaissance Italy from the early 13th to late 15th centuries. | Undergraduate |
| CAH 4189.83 / 6270.80 - The Art Museum: History/Theory | The history of the art museum is inseparable from an engagement with present‑day museological concerns. Are art museums inherently conservative institutions? Or are they capable of transcending, or at least modifying, the impact of their own histories? | Graduate and Undergraduate |
| CAH 4169.81 / CAH 6260.80 - Restitution, African Art & Museum Politics | Explore discourse and debates about the restitution of African artifacts, museum decolonization, and the counter-voices against repatriation. Analyze the broader issue of the future of museums and indigenous art in a de-racialized, postimperial, and de-hierarchized world. | Graduate and Undergraduate |
| CAH 6258.10 - Art Historiography | The development of art history as a discipline from the eighteenth century to the present. An investigation of different art historical methodologies, including formal analysis, iconological, feminist, Marxist, semiotic, and deconstructivist approaches. | Graduate |
| CIXD 2091 - Systems and Human-Centered Design | Ideate and prototype design solutions in the form of a product, service, experience, or creative expression. This is a conceptual foundation course. | Undergraduate |
| CIXD 2111 / CIXD 6111 - Creative Code | Learn basic skills in creative coding environments such as Processing, P5.js, and JavaScript. | Graduate and Undergraduate |
| ACA 6207. 10 - Topics in Classical Drama and Culture | Topics related to Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama, in collaboration with the Shakespeare Theatre Company Academy MFA program | Graduate |