Core Matters: Fine Arts 207 Introduction to the Arts

This essay by Dr. Nicole Leupp Hanig, Associate Professor of Music, and Dr. Mead Hunter of Theater at UP, is part of a series of short pieces that offer faculty across the campus an insider’s tour of one of the courses that make up UP’s Core program. Since the Core involves almost a third of the curriculum for…Continue Reading Core Matters: Fine Arts 207 Introduction to the Arts

An Old Dog Learns New Tech Tricks for Teaching

Every summer I teach a course called The Arts in Portland, Fine Arts 307.  It’s a follow up to the core course, Fine Arts 207, but we allow students to take FA 307 as a substitute for FA 207.  That means that some students have not had the basic introduction to film, music, theater, architecture,…Continue Reading An Old Dog Learns New Tech Tricks for Teaching