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Music and Social Justice<\/strong>\u00a0(Music 245)<\/p>\nRead Description<\/span>

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Students study how music can engage and advocate for those on the margins of society, inspiring social justice movements. Analyzing historical and current events, class members design a musical project that can empower a people, group or organization in addressing moral and social problems such as racial inequality, rural or urban violence, or prison reform. A Christian normative framework, along with religious and secular alternatives, help guide the ethics implications pertaining to this subject.<\/p>\n

ACE Component<\/em>: Four evening visits the Women\u2019s Correctional Facility in Shakopee, MN to work with their women\u2019s choir, plus generating musical advocacy program\/project ideas in conjunction with Northfield area nonprofits (Northfield Arts Guild<\/a>,\u00a0Union of Youth\/The Key<\/a>,\u00a0Greenvale Park Community School<\/a>,\u00a0Cannon River Watershed Partnership<\/a>).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Advanced Acting for the Lyric Stage<\/strong>, James McKeel, (Music 267)<\/p>\nRead Description<\/span>

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This studio course focuses on advanced techniques of acting and singing for the musical stage with emphasis on opera. Students explore voice, movement, improvisation, and characterization at an advanced level. Participants receive coaching in musical and dramatic style through solo and small ensemble literature and prepare scenes for class performance. The course culminates with public performances of a fully staged and costumed lyric theater work.\u00a0St. Olaf students in the course, “Acting for the Lyrical Stage” performed in full Commedia dell Arte costumes for students in local elementary schools.\u00a0 The performance included singing, dancing, and improvising to involve the younger students.\u00a0 This course is part of the Music department’s school outreach program.\u00a0 See photos from the event<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Music Opera Workshop,\u00a0<\/strong>James McKeel (MUSIC 269) and Dale Kruse (2016)<\/p>\nRead Description<\/span>

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The Mozart Experiment: This class will research, interpret, compare, rehearse, and perform a variety of ensembles and recitative scenes from Mozart\u2019s operas in order to develop a sensitivity and ease with the collaborative dynamic of effective lyric communication in an ensemble setting. Performances by the class will be offered to the public free of charge.<\/p>\n

In 2016, St. Olaf students devised and created an opera about immigration with students from Prairie Creek Charter School.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Arts Management<\/strong>, \u00a0Sian Muir, (MGMT 229)<\/p>\nRead Description<\/span>

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This course provides an overview of the key issues that face arts administrators. Topics addressed include strategic planning, budgeting, fund raising, audience development, and human resource management as each relates to the unique setting of the arts. Case analysis and guest speakers provide opportunities to explore application of key concepts. Teams of students will research and write grants for various local arts organizations and present their projects to the community partners at the end of the semester.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Oil\/Acrylic Painting<\/b>\u00a0(ART 221)<\/p>\nRead Description<\/span>

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This course develops and stimulates research into the emotional\/expressive properties of painting. By investigating thematic, compositional, and technical problems, students develop a personalized approach to ideas and content. Students learn the importance of process, flexibility, alternatives, and the recognition that a painting has a life of its own. Materials fee. Offered annually. Prerequisite: ART 102.<\/p>\n

ACE Component<\/em>: Creating paintings in response to community spaces that will be used in the May 2018 event, \u201cThe Northfield Experience,\u201d produced and directed by internationally-renowned choreographer and director\u00a0Stephan Koplowitz<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Sculpture\/Direct Metal<\/b>\u00a0(ART 224)<\/p>\nRead Description<\/span>

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This sculpture course introduces students to metal forming, shaping, fastening and brazing, and welding, building upon concepts from the foundation course and presenting the next level of sculpture topics, issues and concerns. Both majors and non-majors discover an art and industrial process that has great artistic and practical application<\/p>\n

ACE Component<\/em>:\u00a0Students will create a sculpture float for use in the May performance event, \u201cThe Northfield Experience,\u201d a project being facilitated by guest artist Stephen Koplowitz.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Animated Art<\/b>\u00a0(ART 228)<\/p>\nRead Description<\/span>

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This course focuses on the creative use of animation techniques. Students study the principles of animation and produce projects utilizing a variety of techniques including flipbooks, stop motion photography, animated GIFs, and 2D and 3D computer-generated animation software. Students regularly screen, analyze, and discuss contemporary and historic animations.<\/p>\n

ACE Component<\/em>:\u00a0Students will create animated shorts for use in the May performance event, \u201cThe Northfield Experience,\u201d a project being facilitated by guest artist Stephen Koplowitz.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Graphic Design<\/b>\u00a0(ART 236)<\/p>\nRead Description<\/span>

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For the ACE component of this course, students will plan, research, and develop graphic design projects for local non-profit organizations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Intermediate Photography<\/strong>, \u00a0Meg Ojala \u00a0(ART 238)<\/p>\nRead Description<\/span>

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In this intermediate photography course, students explore a variety of techniques and topics. Techniques include historic processes such as cyanotype and salted paper printing, digital photography, large-scale color printing, and traditional black and white photography. Students investigate experimental approaches and nontraditional forms for presentation, and they investigate photography from broad historical, aesthetic, and social perspectives. This course includes field trips, readings, discussion, and slide presentations. For the ACE portion of this course in 2014-15, students photographed Rice Creek watershed during the winter and spring thaw in order to study nature photography as well as to document the hydrologic patterns for the benefit of the local management unit for the watershed. For the ACE portion of this course in 2018, students captured images of the various spaces being utilized for Stephen Koplowitz’s\u00a0The Northfield Experience<\/em>. Select photos were then showcased in “The Northfield Experience” gallery exhibition at the Northfield Arts Guild.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Projects in Public Art<\/strong>, Michon Weeks (Art 340)<\/p>\nRead Description<\/span>

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This course enables the advanced studio art student to pursue further work in any chosen two or three dimensional medium or combination of media including performance, installation, and collaborative ways of working. This course is organized around an interdisciplinary theme set each year by the instructor. Within a seminar format, students read, discuss, and write on the selected topic in conjunction with topic-driven individual studio work and critiques.<\/p>\n

Students engaged in numerous public art projects as part of this course.<\/p>\n