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.
General Education Code
PR-E
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?
General Education Code
IM
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.
General Education Code
PR-C
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.
General Education Code
PR-C
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.
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.
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.
Cross Listed Courses
LIT 112Q
General Education Code
TA
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.
General Education Code
TA
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.
General Education Code
PR-C
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.
General Education Code
PR-C
Teaching of a lower-division seminar by an upper-division student under faculty supervision. (See course 42.)
Field Study
A program of independent study arranged between a group of students and a faculty instructor.
Ind Field Study
Tutorial
Individual projects carried out under the supervision of a Porter faculty member. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency.