Courses

Crip* Advanced Study provides faculty support in the developing of a project, praxis, and/or body of knowledge in/about/around Crip/Disabled arts + culture, cripistemology, Crip Theory, critical/creative accessibility, interdependent creative methodologies, Crip temporality, etc. This course also facilitates undergraduate examination of Cripistemology and the Arts through independent study and/or group seminars and supervised experience designed for creative and interdisciplinary research.

Cripistemological Captions: Experimental Text, Voice, and Film engages the work of artists, writers, filmmakers, and other cultural practitioners that have reconceptualized captions (open, closed, or otherwise) via creatively and critically cripped methodologies. Through a combination of theoretical, practical, and historical modalities, this course will experiment with how captioning can be pushed far beyond the bottom third of a video/film work and into exhibition spaces, print/book projects, and installation practices—developing linkages between captioning, museum signage, graphic design, creative writing, mark making, and creative accessibility specializations.

Cripping Theatre critically and creatively engages the applied research strategies, creative methodologies, and disciplinary conventions of Theatre via the Crip* principles of interdependence, open access, generative difference, radical alterity, networks of support and collaboration, Crip temporalities, and access ecology. This course will serve to discover and design new crip-centric approaches and strategies specific to Theatre.

Crip* Graduate Directed Research provides faculty support for graduate students to develop a creative/critical research project in the area(s) of Cripistemology and the Arts, Crip/Disabled arts + culture, cripistemology, Crip Theory, critical/creative accessibility, interdependent creative methodologies, Crip temporality, etc.

(Crip*) is a creative research project led by Christopher Robert Jones and Liza Sylvestre. Crip* focuses on delinking the typical medical approach to disability studies, which means that rather than viewing disability as a deficit in need of correcting we understand the Crip/Disabled experience to produce a valuable knowledge set, or ‘cripistemology’. During the semester we are interested in working with interns on projects outlined below, we are especially interested in working with students who have disabilities (we have them too!): Crip*-Toward Disability Aware Cities, Crip/Disability culture building, Workshops with artists, Support of your projects and research. If you’d like to meet us, learn more, or apply to the internship please email Christopher Jones or Liza Sylvestre.

This internship supports the projects and research of Crip/Disabled identifying undergraduate students. Support consists of regular check-ins throughout the semester, studio visits, support for independent projects, and professional development guidance in addition to direct work on Crip* projects.

Crip*- Cripistemology and the Arts (Crip*) is a practice based creative research project and transdisciplinary initiative focused on how knowledge produced via Crip/Disabled experience can shape and change how we approach our respective mediums. Courses will explore specializations within the Crip* discipline and include attending lectures, screenings, workshops and performances outside of class time. Subjects include Crip* Temporalities: Crip/Disabled Embodiment and Time-Based Praxes, deaf*: Art and Communication, and Crip* Collaboration: Experiments in Crip/Disabled Cultural Formations.

Critically and creatively engages the applied research strategies, creative methodologies, and disciplinary conventions via the Crip* principles of interdependence, open access, generative difference, radical alterity, networks of support and collaboration, Crip temporalities, and access ecology. This course will serve to discover and design new crip-centric approaches and strategies to interdisciplinary fields in the College of Fine and Applied Arts.

Cripping Art & Design critically and creatively engages the applied research strategies, creative methodologies, and disciplinary conventions of Art and Design fields via the Crip* principles of interdependence, open access, generative difference, radical alterity, networks of support and collaboration, Crip temporalities, and access ecology. This course will serve to discover and design new crip-centric approaches and strategies specific to Art and Design disciplines.

Critically and creatively engages the applied research strategies, creative methodologies, and disciplinary conventions of Dance via the Crip* principles of interdependence, open access, generative difference, radical alterity, networks of support and collaboration, Crip temporalities, and access ecology. This course will serve to discover and design new crip-centric approaches and strategies specific to Dance.

Critically and creatively engages the applied research strategies, creative methodologies, and disciplinary conventions of Landscape Architecture via the Crip* principles of interdependence, open access, generative difference, radical alterity, networks of support and collaboration, Crip temporalities, and access ecology. This course will serve to discover and design new crip-centric approaches and strategies specific to Landscape Architecture.

Cripping Music critically and creatively engages the applied research strategies, creative methodologies, and disciplinary conventions of Music via the Crip* principles of interdependence, open access, generative difference, radical alterity, networks of support and collaboration, Crip temporalities, and access ecology. This course will serve to discover and design new crip-centric approaches and strategies specific to Music.

Critically and creatively engages the applied research strategies, creative methodologies, and disciplinary conventions of Urban & Regional Planning via the Crip* principles of interdependence, open access, generative difference, radical alterity, networks of support and collaboration, Crip temporalities, and access ecology. This course will serve to discover and design new crip-centric approaches and strategies specific to Urban & Regional Planning.