Summer I 2015 course: Critical Issues in the Arts: Study abroad in Mexico
Making, Doing, Talking, Teaching: a Music and Dance Arts-Residency
VPA2301 (3.3)
Professors: Nicole Wesley (Dance: nicole.wesley@ttu.edu) and
Christopher Smith (Music: christopher.smith@ttu.edu)
Website: http://www.rootsmusicinstitute.com/puebla.html
Course Facebook Page (“secret”): https://www.facebook.com/groups/499783933497440/
Course Facebook “Event”: http://on.fb.me/1GTcFNc
Google Map of Universidad de los Americas Puebla: http://bit.ly/1x3at10
See also http://www.udlap.mx/home.aspx?idioma=2 and https://www.facebook.com/universidaddelasamericaspuebla?v=wall
By permission of Instructor(s) ONLY
This Study Abroad course, focusing upon an 11-day residency on the campus of the Universidad de los Americas in Puebla Mexico, centers upon an immersive arts practice (music and dance) experience pairing TTU and UDLAP faculty and students, investigating interdisciplinary creative collaboration and research, in an intensive short-term residency with local students. Led by faculty members Nicole Wesley and Kris Olson (Theater & Dance), Christopher Smith and Roger Landes (Music), the course is a workshop in arts practice—making, teaching, and sharing music and dance. Participants will engage in interdisciplinary and collaborative art-making experiences, integrating music, the visual arts, theatre, and dance, and investigating the philosophical and practical implications of such making to the health and survival of transnational global societies. The intensive workshop will culminate with a collaborative performance of music and dance by TTU/UDLAP students as part of a gala concert celebrating the Universidad’s 75th Anniversary ; this piece will be given a repeat performance, this time inviting the Mexico students to Lubbock, as part of the TTU Arts Practice Research conference in October 2015.
The UDLAP is, like TTU, an accredited member of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) and TTU has existing study-abroad partnerships with UDLAP
Open to enrollment by undergraduates from across the TTU campus: music, dance, design, electronic media concentrations especially welcomed.
This course satisfies three hours of the Humanities requirement in the Core Curriculum.
Additionally, this course satisfies the Texas Tech University Multicultural requirement.
Requirements include 2 short reflexive papers; midterm verbal presentation; final video presentation; group project; attendance, and participation.
Cost to the student:
TTU tuition costs for a 3-credit course
Air travel (RT LBB-Puebla ~$458 as of 12.15.15)
Accommodations, meals, and local transport supplied by hosting institution.
Additional information:
Page on the trip itself: http://www.rootsmusicinstitute.com/puebla.html
Funding strategies: http://www.rootsmusicinstitute.com/puebla-funding-options.html
NOTE re/ funding resources:
Students enrolling in VPA2301 are eligible to apply for the TTU Study Abroad Competitive Scholarship (SACS), assistance with which application can be offered by instructors (visit https://ttu-sa.terradotta.com/, click on “Financial Aid”, click on “Scholarships”).
In addition, TTU students enrolling for a minimum of 6 hours in Summer I-II 2015 are also permitted to employ all available TTU Financial Aid (loans and other scholarships). Students wishing to follow this path are encouraged to consider Dr Smith’s Summer I distance course “Introduction to Community Arts Entrepreneurship” (3.3; MUSI4000) as a compatible way to generate the requisite 6 hours.
