Summer 2024 dates are June 17-July 12.

Non-degree-seeking, postbaccalaureate, and students from other graduate programs seeking elective and professional development coursework are welcome to join our Seminars and Studio Apprenticeships. Practicum and Writing Apprenticeships are restricted to only students accepted to the Creative Pulse Graduate Program.

Classes are not held on Federal Holidays, or Saturdays and Sundays.

SEMINARS

CP 582 - Seminar 1: Musical Storytelling

Tuesday, June 18-Monday, June 24, 1-5 p.m.

Instructor: Bryan Kostors

First and Second Year Students.

This course explores music-making as a narrative exploration with sound as the driving force. Participants will expand and develop compositional techniques for electronics, electroacoustic music, and multimedia while incorporating music technology into the creative process. In addition to exploring music-making and technology, students will weave this information into the learning goals and academic standards for curriculum adjusted to select grade levels in a variety of classroom settings.

CP 583 - Seminar 2: Moving In Classrooms: The Body and Its Role in Learning

Tuesday, June 25-Friday, June 28, 1-5 p.m. and Monday, July 1, 9:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.

Instructor: Faith Morrison

First and Second Year Students. This course addresses the bodily-kinesthetic intelligence in the schools and helps educators effectively lead a community of active learners. Through examining the links between movement and academics, students will use artistic processes (creating, performing, responding) and integrated thinking skills (creative thinking, critical thinking, collaborating, communication) to build community and connect movement to content areas in the classroom. Discussion and movement-centered activities will address the role of the body in the learning process and help to better understand the connection between body and mind. 

CP 584 - Seminar 3: Art and Insanity

Tuesday, July 2-Friday, July 5, 9:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. and Monday, July 8, 1:30-5:30 p.m.

Instructor: Rafael Chacon

First and Second Year Students. This course explores the nature of human creativity and the artistic impulse, their intersection with the field of psychology, and the social perception of the artist. We concern ourselves with the overarching questions: “Why do artists do what they do?” and “How has society constructed the persona of the artist and defined artistic temperament?” Acknowledging the difficulty of answering such enigmatic questions, we nevertheless explore some of history’s possible answers. In particular, we analyze various historical topoi, archetypes ranging from the genius to the lunatic, used to describe the character of the artist from ancient Greece to the 21st century. Focusing on the eccentric, abnormal, and sometimes aberrant behavior of some artists, we also try to understand current clinical definitions of madness and depression and their intersection with creativity, as well as other forms of socially constructed marginalization.

CP 585 - Seminar 4: The Starting Point: Artists and Their Work

Tuesday, July 9 - Thursday, July 11, 12:15-5:30 p.m. and Friday, July 12, 9:15  a.m. -1:30 p.m. 

Instructor: Charlie Oates

First and Second Year Students. How do theatre artists grapple with new ideas, explore new frontiers or push past their own self-imposed limitations?  How is creativity accessed? How do artists position themselves in their work?  We will study the work of various performers, read about the conception and creation of new work, and get up on our feet and put these approaches into practice.  The course will culminate in a collaborative performance. 

PRACTICUM

CP 587 - Art Ed Practicum: Personal Performance

Tuesday, June 18-Friday, June 21, 9:15 a.m.- 12 p.m. and Tuesday, July 9-Thursday, July 11, 9:30-11:15 a.m.

Instructors: Marc Moss and Faith Morrison

First and Second Year Students. This course investigates the art of personal performance. Drawing from personal narrative, students will design solo performance works incorporating material from various art forms. The first-year students will focus on personal storytelling, while second-year students will design a performance using techniques from theatre, movement, music, spoken word, visual or performance art. Throughout the course, participants will generate personal source material, design an original solo performance work, participate in peer feedback, and present their personal performance to an audience during the final week of the program.

STUDIO APPRENTICESHIPS

CP 588 - Apprenticeship I: Art Practices

Monday, June 24 - Thursday, July 11, 8-9:00 a.m.

Instructors: Rachel Bemis, Brooklyn Draper and Lizzi Juda

No class July 5

First and Second Year Students. This apprenticeship explores three weeks of art practices investigating personal expression and creativity. Through regular studio participation, students will explore voice, movement, and visual arts. The course will focus on building community while finding confidence and expressivity through the voice, developing a personal movement practice, and creating vision boards. New perspectives will be offered each week with a rotating set of instructors

CP 588 - Apprenticeship II:  The Cross-Pollination of Visual Art Lessons

Monday, June 24 - Friday, June 28, 9:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m.

Instructor: Steven Krutek

First and Second Year Students. This course will analyze visual art lessons across multiple media. The best way to analyze such lessons is to create the projects associated with them. After completing the creation of non-integrated art lessons, Creative Pulse students will devise ways to integrate them with another discipline. Once these lessons are integrated, the cohort will engage in creating the projects associated with these lessons. The goal of this course is to increase participants' confidence in creating across many visual art disciplines, while also developing and sharing a collection of integrated visual art lessons that can then be used within the classroom.     

CP 588 - Apprenticeship 3 (Option #1):  Turning Anything into a “Readers’ Theatre” Script and Performance

Monday, July 1-Friday, July 5, 2-5:30 p.m.

No class on July 4.

Instructor: Teresa Waldorf

First and Second Year Students. Learn how to convert children’s books, children’s short stories, poems, songs, fairy tales, course material, etc. into easy scripts with narrators, simple settings and added roles to include a whole class of kids.  Explore adding movement around settings created with things you have in your classroom.  End the week with a Reader’s Theatre performance of a few of the new scripts.  

CP 588 - Apprenticeship 3 (option #2): Self Portrait as Metaphor

Monday, July 1-Friday, July 5, 2-5:30 p.m.

No class on July 4.

Instructor: Justin Lewis

First and Second Year Students. Exploring the metaphorical self-portrait is an intimate way to connect to a deeper version of ourselves. Rather than creating self-portraits based on how we see ourselves physically, in this apprenticeship we will allow ourselves the freedom to express what makes us unique individuals through imagery, colors, textures, and symbolic meaning. Utilizing hands-on training in Adobe Photoshop, students will gain important digital design skills using one of the leading tools used by photographers, graphic designers, and new media artists. This apprenticeship is aimed at the complete beginner and no previous experience with Adobe Photoshop is necessary.

Writing Apprenticeships

CP 588 - Awakening the Writer Within 

Instructor:  Steve Kalling

Online Learning - Work continues remotely throughout the 2024-2025 Academic Year

First Year Students ONLY. This Writing Apprenticeship course parallels students’ independent work with their Field Projects. Through a series of independent and collaborative activities exploring the practices and habits of writers at work, the course allows students to develop and refine their own individual writing process skills in the context of creating a quality reflective narrative of their Field Projects. 

CP 588 - Advanced Writing Lab

Instructor:  Steve Kalling

Online Learning - Work continues remotely throughout the 2024-2025 Academic Year

Second Year Students ONLY. This Writing Apprenticeship course parallels students’ independent work with their Final Creative Project. We’ll move through drafting and revision activities (both individual and with peers) designed to keep the project moving forward in manageable increments as well as address graduate-level scholarship and formatting considerations, culminating in a clean, complete draft to bring to your committee for final revisions and edits towards a defensible draft.

ADDITIONAL COURSES

Courses listed below require self-guided, independent work with oversight and mentorship provided by with the instructor. Courses run June 17-July 12.

CP 589 - Arts Education Field Project

Instructor: Faith Morrison

First Year Students ONLY. The first-year independent project is designed around the students’ teaching, artistic, or research interests.

CP 597 - Research I 

Instructor: Faith Morrison

First Year Students ONLY. Students engage in independent research,  analyzing ideas and conceptualizing their knowledge about the history, questions and understanding of their field of study.

CP 597 - Research II 

CP 599 - Professional Paper

Final Creative Project Students ONLY. An extensive research paper that documents and evaluates the research,  literature, and conclusions of the Final Creative Project.  Connects the ideas, opinions, and questions with those of experts in the field.

Register for this course after successfully completing the Advanced Writing Lab and register for the section associated with your project chair.