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Creative Expression

AHUM 1000 substitute classes

Core 2000 substitute classes

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This four credit hour requirement is designed to give students experience expressing themselves publicly. This experience will focus on one or more “public moments” when students present their creative contributions in a public forum. Students will thereby develop basic skills in at least one form of creative expression.

CREX 1010: Understanding Art-Studio

Hands-on experimentation with the concepts learned in AHUM -- Understanding Art. Media varied - may include some painting, drawing, photo, ceramics or sculpture.

CREX 1011: Learning to Draw

Covers basic elements of drawing, experimenting with materials. Non-competitive atmosphere, no previous experience needed.

CREX 1013: Keeping a Journal

This is a hands-on workshop course for students with little or no previous art experience. We will discuss and look at examples of a wide variety of basic sketching methods and techniques. Students will maintain a visual and written record in a notebook format of ideas and experiences related to daily life. The instructor will guide and assist students in the development of fundamental drawing skills.

CREX 1110: The Writer's Voice

This course seeks to engage students with ideas, texts, and creative expressions that relate to the act of writing - need new description.

CREX 1210 Speaking Out: In the Community

This course promotes civic responsibility that begins with the idea of public speaking as an ethical enterprise. Students engage in community service providing the basis for learning the connections between working with others and expressing ideas in public settings.

CREX 1211 Speaking Out: Communicating Through Performance

In this course, students work with texts from varied sources in order to develop their abilities in public performance. Through oral presentation of the characters, moods and tone, students increase their experience with body movement, gestures and vocal cues.

CREX 1212 Speaking Out: Ideas that Matter

In an age when even the most educated citizens feel deprived of a public voice, this course gives students an opportunity to cultivate their own voice on ideas that matter to them and the public. The course emphasizes dialogue, working with the audience, research, organization, and effective delivery.

CREX 1213 Speaking Out: Special Occasions

This course is about speaking in a variety of unique, yet everyday situations. Unlike other public speaking courses aimed at speaking in political or civic arenas, this class is designed to teach students approaches to speeches in special contexts. Examples of such speeches include speeches of introduction, acceptance, commemoration, and after-dinner.

CREX 1214 Speaking Out: World Affairs

This course focuses on the interpretation and presentation of issues about international and global events and the contemporary human conditions. Globalization, ethnic conflict, current and long-term conflicts, human rights, and the environment are a few of the topics that can be explored.

CREX 1215 Speaking Out: Gender and Voice

Sex, sexuality, and gender affect who speaks out, how ideas are voiced, and how ideas are received by audiences. This course gives students the opportunity to experience varied means of creative expression and become familiar with personal and political issues related to gender.

CREX 1216 Speaking Out: Technical Speaking

Technical communication and oral presentation require a complex set of skills. This course is designed to help students develop critical thinking, organizational strategies and presentational methods about and based on new technologies.

CREX 1511: Creating Electronic Music for the Non-Music Major

Through the hands-on use of current computer technology and music
software platforms, students will learn to create, edit, and loop digital
audio. The class provides the opportunity to create music while
gaining a more integrated knowledge of today's music technology.

CREX 1512: Creativity at the Keyboard

This course teaches musical creativity at the keyboard in a
MIDI/digital piano lab, through playing by ear and from notation in a
variety of musical styles, improvising, harmonizing, and MIDI
sequencing. Intended for non-music majors, and assumes no prior
experience in playing keyboard instruments.

CREX 1810: Acting Improvisation: The Creative Impulse

This class focuses on self-expression realized through basic acting
exercises combined with theatre games, creativity exercises, and
in-class performances.

CREX 1811: Movement Improvisation: The Art of Spontaneity

This class focuses on self-expression realized through movement
exercises combined with theatre games, creativity exercises, and
in-class performances.

MUEN: Music Ensemble

The Lamont School of Music offers many ensembles such as choirs, orchestra, wind ensemble, Pep band, and Northern Indian ensemble which can be taken for CREX credit. Ensembles are open to all DU students by audition. Students who successfully audition into an ensemble, will need to take it for 4 quarters (each quarter is 1 credit) to satisfy the 4 credits of CREX. See the Schedule of Classes, Music-Ensembles section for a list of opportunities and contact Arielle Wilson at 303-871-6400 for audition information.