Media Performance: Coastal Flux

Course Syllabus

Dance 193/285 @ UC Irvine

Spring 2025
  • CLASS TIME: Fri, 2:00 to 3:20pm
  • LOCATION: CAC G021 & CAC G028
  • PROFESSOR: John Crawford
  • COURSE CODE (UNDERGRAD STUDENTS): 02430
  • COURSE CODE (GRAD STUDENTS): 02692
  • CREDIT: 2 or 4 units

A special course for art makers interested in combining performance with video and audio media creation. Students will work as media creators and/or performers on artistic projects concerned with the impact of human interventions in coastal environments. In addition to learning media creation skills, students will have the opportunity to engage with guest choreographers in modern, contemporary and ballet forms, including both improvisational and pre-composed choreographic methods.

Those who want to be part of the media creator team should register for four units. Those who primarily want to participate as dancers can register for two units with a reduced time commitment. Media creators can also be dancers if desired. No previous technology experience is required. Undergrad students should register for Dance 193. Grad students should register for Dance 285.

Prerequisites

No prerequisites.

Required Materials and Supplies

No required materials. You may use your own computer, external hard drive, video camera and smartphone, but this is not required.

Assignments & Grading

Required homework consists of a series of project assignments. Details on all assignments will be provided in class. Assignment grading (subject to change) is:

  • Work-in-progress projects, 30% of final grade
  • Final project presentation, 40% of final grade
  • Overall course participation counts for 30% of the final grade

On-Location Classes

This course includes scheduled opportunities for screendance work in other locations during class time, in which students are expected to work independently, either individually or in small groups. Online interaction with other students and the professor is expected during the on-location classes. This quarter’s on-location days are scheduled for 4/25, 5/2 and 5/23.

Course Email

You are required to use your UCI email address (e.g. yourname@uci.edu) for this course. All course-related email will be sent to that address, not to any other email address you might have. Keep in mind that it might take much longer for me to respond to any email messages sent from a non-UCI address. I get a lot of email and have to prioritize reading the messages that we know are from UCI students.

Attendance Policy

Full attendance is a requirement of this course, and you are expected to always be present for the entire class meeting time. Successful completion of this course depends on your active participation during class as well as full commitment to the written assignments and all the work you create for this course. If you need to miss a class, arrive late, or leave early, it’s your responsibility to notify the professor in advance, preferably by email. Unexcused absences will affect your grade, except in cases of severe illness or emergency.

Academic Integrity

Learning, research, and scholarship depend upon an environment of academic integrity and honesty. This environment can be maintained only when all participants recognize the importance of upholding the highest ethical standards. All student work, including quizzes, exams, reports, and papers must be the work of the individual receiving credit. Academic dishonesty includes, for example, cheating on examinations or any assignment, plagiarism of any kind (including improper citation of sources), having someone else take an examination or complete an assignment for you (or doing this for someone else), or any activity in which you represent someone else’s work as your own. Violations of academic integrity will be referred to the Office of Academic Integrity and Student Conduct. The impact on your grade will be determined by the individual instructor’s policies. Please familiarize yourself with UCI’s Academic Integrity Policy and speak to your instructor if you have any questions about what is and is not allowed in this course.