Spring 2025 Corcoran Courses
Spring '25 Courses at the Corcoran
Selected courses are open to all students at GW and the Corcoran. Explore a new discipline! You’ll be surprised what’s on offer at the Corcoran in spring ’25!
| Name of Course | Course description | Undergraduate/Graduate? |
|---|---|---|
| CMUS 1106 - Introduction to Performance | Develop musicality through 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 1101 - Elements of Music Theory | Elements necessary for the study of music, including practical musicianship and musical notations; develops skills in music reading, writing, and aural acuity. Concurrent registration in a music reading lab is required. | Undergraduate |
| CMUS 3127 - Music History II: The Tonal Era | Styles, structures, social foundations, and aesthetic change in European music of the late seventeenth through the late nineteenth centuries. | Undergraduate |
| CMST 6206 - Digitization and Digital Asset Management | Management of digital assets, projects, or programs involving digitization and access for museum professionals. Current methods in creation and dissemination of digital surrogates, associated metadata, and digital descriptive records of museum collections. Restricted to graduate students. | Graduate |
| CMST 6701 - Museum History and Theory | Origins of the modern museum and the history of museums. Theorists whose ideas have been accessed to inform our understanding of museums as places of meaning making, power and empowerment, and cultural authority. Restricted to graduate students. | Graduate |
| CMST 6404 - Museums and Social Media | How museums engage users through the internet. Online platforms used to evaluate the complexities of social media including strategies, tactics, and benchmarks for measuring online engagement and associated challenges and risks. Restricted to graduate students. | Graduate |
| CAH 3181 - East Asian 20th-21st Century | Contemporary artists from China, Korea, and Japan have maintained strong ties to their cultural traditions while actively engaging with Western mainstream art. (This fusion of local heritage and global influences has led to a rich and diverse artistic dialogue). Through this interaction, they have contributed to a broader and more inclusive narrative in art history, expanding its scope beyond the confines of the Western canon. | Undergraduate |
| CAH 2001 - Protest in Modern African Art | African art from 1900 to the present. Artists’ opposition to anti-Africanism, colonialism, aggressive globalization, neo-colonialism, corruption, waste colonization, patriarchal domination, and pollution. Comprises lectures and discussions. Restricted to undergraduate students. | Undergraduate |
| CAH 2191 - Buddhist & Hindu Art & Architecture | This course will deal with the various types of religious art and architecture of Buddhism and Hinduism. In the case of Buddhism, it’ll cover that tradition’s art and architecture in South Asia, Southeast Asia, Himalayan regions & Northeast Asia. In the case of Hinduism, it’ll cover that tradition’s art and architecture of the temples dedicated to the gods Vishnu, Siva and the Mother-Goddess. Two field trips will be required: one to a Buddhist temple, and one to a Hindu one (both in the DC metro area) | Undergraduate |
| CAH 2161 / CAH6270 - Global Decorative Arts | The decorative arts in America from the seventeenth century to the modern period; consideration of changing visual characteristics in relation to the changing American experience. Recommended background: Assumes some prior knowledge of European design styles and history, such as that covered in CAH 2145. Credit cannot be earned for this course and AH 2161. | Undergraduate / Graduate |
| CAH 6250 - Disability, Access, & the Arts | Histories and theories of disability and the arts, with especial attention to design, museum studies, and art history. Graduate students in all Corcoran programs welcome | Graduate |
| CSA 3901.80 / CSA 6901.80 - Box Elements in Book Arts | For the areas of graphic design, photography, printmaking and book arts, housing materials are an important element as the final protective and artistic component to the production of a finished product. This course will demonstrate how to create book and box structures as final housing devices and as presentation options for fine art projects. The class will cover the creation of a traditional Slipcase, Hinged and Clamshell boxes, a Patchwork Portfolio box along with a Drum Leaf book model. For the final project, the class—under instructor guidance—will create a "story box" with the goal being to produce an individual conceptual book object while at the same time finding one's own unique artistic voice through the development of a visual narrative. | Undergraduate / Graduate |
| CSA 2703.80 / CSA 6703.80 - Wood Block Print | Over the years contemporary practice in art has attached a special interest in the unique and expressive visual qualities of the wood block print. Its appeal derives from woodcut as a stand- alone print medium as well as one that can be combined with other forms of printmaking, painting, and photography in multimedia projects. This class will cover the historic traditions of woodcut printing through student creative thinking and making, readings, writing assignments, discussions, presentations, shared studio experience and group critique. Together, we will explore traditional methods of woodblock printing with more advanced techniques that include reductive color printing, split fountain (gradient) creation and chine collé methods. | Undergraduate / Graduate |
| CTAD 4274 - Hip-Hop Theatre | Exploration of hip-hop through performance, plays, and other cultural artifacts to illuminate the creative methodology integral to its foundation. | Undergraduate |
| CTAD 3333 - Performance Arts Management | The role and function of the stage manager in theatrical production. Basic skills needed to begin work in stage management. Emphasis on organization, documentation, and dissemination of information. | Undergraduate |
| CTAD 2193 - Dance Styles I- Musical Theatre | Forms of theatrical dance other than ballet or modern, including African dance, Angola Capoeira, music theatre, Spanish dance, world dance, Middle Eastern dance, and others. May be repeated for credit provided the topic differs. | Undergraduate |
| CTAD 1015 - Understanding Dance | Dance as cultural, spiritual, creative, and aesthetic expression. Dance is explored through in-depth study of historical movements and figures in the context of various genres. | Undergraduate |
| CTAD 4595 - Special Topics- Queer Aesthetics in Performance | Topics of current interest in theatre or dance. Topics announced in the Schedule of Classes. May be repeated for credit provided the topic differs. | Undergraduate |
| CGD 3010 - Publication Design | In this course, students will be introduced to historical and contemporary practices related to publication design. Through a mix of lectures, demos, readings, and hands-on making, students will engage the structure, design, and content of publication formats such as magazines, newspapers, books, zines, bound (and unbound) documents, and digital platforms. Over the course of the semester, utilizing various printing and production methods, students will create self- and collaboratively-published works and develop a final publication that can be shared with the public. | Undergraduate |
| CIXD 3110 - AI Product Design + Data Ethics | Special Topics in Interaction Design | Undergraduate / Graduate |
| CIXD 2090 - Narrative Media and Design Research | Exploration of narrative forms to conceptualize, create, and evaluate interactions across design contexts and media. Use of storytelling as a tool for conducting and communicating user research. | Undergraduate |
| CIXD 3910 - Collaborative Design Project | In Spring 2025 Collaborative Design Projects students will work with Museum Studies students to create interactive technology for an exhibit that examines photography in the western United States in the 19th Century. | Undergraduate / Graduate |