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

Instructor

Shelby Graham

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to Porter College members.

General Education Code

PR-E

Quarter offered

Winter

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

Instructor

Laura Martin

General Education Code

IM

Quarter offered

Winter

PRTR 135W Women and the Silent Screen: An Interactive history

Students learn about women's engagement with early movie culture, conduct their own historical research, and collaborate on building a web site that brings this knowledge to a public audience.

Credits

5

Instructor

Shelley Stamp

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to college members.

General Education Code

IM

PRTR 141C Shakespeare's Clown Characters

This performance-based course explores Shakespeare's clowns, jesters, and fools (the characters as well as the performers who originated them). Examines the comic traditions from which Shakespeare drew his inspiration, and considers how Shakespeare's work continues to influence contemporary comedy practices. No experience with Shakespeare or performance is necessary.

Credits

5

Instructor

Patricia Gallagher

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to college members.

General Education Code

PR-C

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

Instructor

Robert Giges

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

Instructor

Robert Giges

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): PRTR 41I or equivalent college-level experience or coursework.

General Education Code

PR-C

Quarter offered

Winter

PRTR 145R From Hamlet to Hamilton: Performing Rhythm and Rhyme in the Twenty-first Century

This acting studio is an introduction to the skills needed in the performance of rhythmic and rhyming texts. Explores the similarities and differences in the use of rhythm and rhyme between Shakespeare and the contemporary playwright Lin-Manuel Miranda. No acting experience or audition is needed to enroll.

Credits

5

Repeatable for credit

Yes

General Education Code

PR-C

Quarter offered

Summer

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 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

Instructor

Dion Farquhar

General Education Code

TA

PRTR 151N Tommy Orange and the New Native Renaissance

Major figures in the New Native Renaissance (Tommy Orange, Terese Mailhot, and Billy-Ray Belcourt) are read to discover the contours of this new movement of indigenous literature. Course explores a wide range of new Native genres (memoir, poetry, short stories, and novels), but the central text is Tommy Orange's "There There," which critics have hailed as a central text in the revival of Native American letters.

Credits

5

General Education Code

TA

Quarter offered

Winter

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

Instructor

Gary Young

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to college members.

General Education Code

PR-C

Quarter offered

Spring

PRTR 151S Introduction to Shakespeare

Introduces Shakespeare's works, focusing on representative examples drawn from the range of genres in which he wrote; poetry, comedy, history, tragedy, and tragicomedy.

Credits

5

Instructor

The Staff, Sean Keilen

Repeatable for credit

Yes

General Education Code

TA

Quarter offered

Summer

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

Instructor

Victoria May

General Education Code

PR-C

Quarter offered

Winter

PRTR 170A Animal People: Vegans, Ethics, and Pop Culture

Examines perceptions of vegans, critically questioning an array of negative stereotypes commonly associated with vegans and veganism. Also examines problems in mainstream veganism, such as white privilege, single-issue optics, consumerism, and perfectionism. Considers stigmas used to negate urgent planetary issues, such as animal ethics and animal exploitation, the impact of factory farming and animal agriculture on global climate change, and environmental racism and food apartheid. Students learn principles and practices of non-violent communication, build a theoretical vocabulary, develop their ability to understand and assess arguments, deepen their analytical skills and critical thinking abilities, and enhance their interpretative skills through writing assignments.

Credits

5

General Education Code

TA

Quarter offered

Winter, Spring

PRTR 171N Nature in Indigenous American Culture

Explores indigenous American relationships with other-than-human nature. Studies prehistoric through contemporary beliefs and practices. Emphasis on North America but may also include attention to Central or South American cultures' relationships with nature. Features films, writings, and artwork by indigenous American people.

Credits

5

Instructor

Judith Todd

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): Entry level writing and composition requirements.

General Education Code

PE-E

Quarter offered

Summer

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 193J The Literary Journal: Process to Product

Provides a combination of theoretical background and hands-on experience in literary magazine editing and publishing. Students collaborate to produce a special Santa Cruz issue of Stone Soup, the for kids, by kids journal founded at Porter College. Enrollment is by permission of the instructor. Enrollment is restricted to sophomore, junior, and senior Porter college members majoring in art; art and design: games and playable media; art history; the history of art and visual culture; literature; or film and digital media.

Credits

5

Instructor

Emma Wood

General Education Code

PR-E

Quarter offered

Spring

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