Fall 2003 opportunity for undergraduate students:

If your major or minor is in the arts and newer media,  you may want to enroll in the
CURO Gateway Seminar to get started on Honors capstone research in this field.
CURO Gateway seminars are designed to help you get started in thinking about
research possibilities and help you connect with faculty who will supervise your
studies.  Be sure to register by June 30, 2003 for the fall semester, one hour,  S/U
course: HONS 3010H, 58-454 on Wednesdays, 1:25-2:15 p.m. in Tanner Building
101.  Contact your advisor or Cabe Mottley [log in to unmask] to register. Course
description follows.

Professor Mark Callahan will provide an overview of arts research, present
methodological models for sustaining research-based creative practice and act as a
workshop for project development.

The Honors seminar will examine conventional and emerging forms of arts research,
ranging from historical and critical studies to project-based works that address new
media and interdisciplinary approaches.  Students wil visit various areas of campus
to become familiar with performance and exhibition resources at UGA and meet
leading faculty and professionals who are conducting research in the Departments
of Art, Dance, Drama, English and Music and the Georgia Museum and ICE.

Students will be exposed to a range of models for creative practice based on visits
with faculty, outside reading and discussion  The seminar will address ways the arts
research is produced in forms of exhibitions, performances and publications, and
how institutional networks, grants, commissions and entrepreneurial approaches
support research-based cultural production.

Throughout the semester students will develop individual and collaborative project
proposals based on actual opportunities and hypothetical situations.  Project
development will occur in a workshop format thoughout brainstorming sessions,
criticque, feasibility studies, written proposals, production and documentation
planning and organization of supporting materials.
Arts research is a demanding and rapidly shifting area.  New modalities have
created blurry areas where once-distinct categories used to exist.  The potential for
innovation is high at a research university but requires an open-minded approach
and the willingness to experimentand to become knowledgeable in a broad raqnge
of subjects.  Students should be prepared for intense discussion, self-initiated
research and an overwhelming sense of possibility.

for more information visit:
http://www.uga.edu/honors/curo/seminars/index.html