Upper-Division

PRTR 131C Curatorial Practice

Offers the opportunity to participate in programming interdisciplinary curatorial praxis, arts events, exhibitions, performances, lectures, and film screenings. Students are exposed to UCSC alumni and faculty members' research through visiting class lectures. Students learn basic protocol for arts programming and critical arts writing, and are required to create their own participatory curatorial project at Porter College.

Credits

2

General Education Code

PR-E

PRTR 131P What is Photography? History, Politics, and Critique of Photographic Representation

We live in a world permeated with photographic images, but do we really notice photographs? Do we understand how they work and what they mean? Do we know how to read them? Now that our phones and cameras have merged, we might also say that we live in a world that is forever inviting, imploring us to take photos; we might say we live in a world in which it is almost impossible not to take photos. Are we all photographers now? Do we choose to take photographs or has photography, in a sense, chosen us?

Credits

5

General Education Code

IM

Quarter offered

Winter

PRTR 141L Long Form Improvisation

Focuses on long-form (acting) improvisation, building participants' knowledge and skills through practical and theoretical readings, by viewing relevant performances, and by improvising in class and in small groups outside class. Participants perform in a final public showing.

Credits

5

Requirements

PRTR 41I, PRTR 80I, or equivalent college-level experience or coursework.

General Education Code

PR-C

Quarter offered

Winter

PRTR 141W Improvisation Workshop

For practitioners of acting improvisation, this course deepens participants' knowledge and skills through practical and theoretical readings, by viewing performances, and by improvising in class and in small groups outside class. Participants perform in a final public showing.

Credits

5

General Education Code

PR-C

PRTR 147O Opera Workshop/Music Practicum

Rehearsal of the principal vocal parts of an opera in preparation for a full production. Consideration of the dramatic aspects of each role and the interrelationships of the characters.

Credits

2

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Winter

PRTR 147P Advanced Music Practicum

The practice of music in a particular area of the world at an advanced level. Students learn the music of one world area or culture over the quarter and study the associated cultural background. Enrollment limited.

Credits

2

Repeatable for credit

Yes

PRTR 151 The Deep Read: Special Topics

Small, discussion-based seminar held in conjunction with The Humanities Institute's community reading initiative, The Deep Read. The Deep Read aims to bring together UCSC undergraduates, faculty, and alumni to discuss and think deeply about a text and its key themes and issues. Course is a comprehensive study of The Deep Read book, the author's work, and its relevant contexts. While the textual analysis framework remains consistent every year, the topic, author, and key text changes each year.

Credits

5

Cross Listed Courses

LIT 112Q

Repeatable for credit

Yes

General Education Code

TA

PRTR 151F Writing the Future: Science Fiction

Investigates how science fiction's utopic and/or dystopic projections give insights about equality, democracy, justice, and difference at the same time they register contemporary anxieties about community, kinship, war, viruses, genetic engineering, robotics, surveillance, and environmental degradation.

Credits

5

General Education Code

TA

PRTR 151P Building the Poem: Process, Form, and the Embodied Text

Investigates form as it guides poetic utterance. Students complete texts to fit forms including broadsides, pamphlets, and books. Composition is guided by production methods, from holographic texts to letterpress and digital composition.

Credits

5

General Education Code

PR-C

PRTR 161B Handmade Books

Teaches the construction and history of handmade books as artistic expression. Coursework covers a variety of structures, the analysis of book content, and the integration of design and concept. Covers the generation of content; explorations in typography; and folded, glued, and stitched structures.

Credits

5

General Education Code

PR-C

Quarter offered

Winter

PRTR 175A Imagination

Examines contemporary perspectives on the theme of imagination. Course readings include philosophical treatments of imagination, Indigenous imaginative cultural formations, and Black radical imaginations for socio-spatial liberation. Addresses the following questions: To what extent is imagination tied to our particular position, culture, and time period? What are some ways to expand our imaginations and when are these approaches limited? And how can imagination help us advance radical social change? Explores imagination as an inherently cross-cultural topic and teaches students to present, analyze, and critically discuss philosophical and sociological arguments about imagination. Students cannot receive credit for this course and PHIL 136B, STEV 136/PHIL 136C, or COWL 175A/PHIL 136A.

Credits

5

Cross Listed Courses

PHIL 136B

PRTR 192 Directed Student Teaching

Teaching of a lower-division seminar by an upper-division student under faculty supervision. (See course 42.)

Credits

5

PRTR 193 Field Study

Field Study

Credits

5

PRTR 194 Group Tutorial

A program of independent study arranged between a group of students and a faculty instructor.

Credits

5

PRTR 198 Ind Field Study

Ind Field Study

Credits

5

PRTR 199 Tutorial

Tutorial

Credits

5

Repeatable for credit

Yes

PRTR 199F Tutorial

Individual projects carried out under the supervision of a Porter faculty member. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency.

Credits

2

Repeatable for credit

Yes