The foundational course, A90 Art Process, is offered each winter quarter and it is an excellent way to discover the excitement and challenges of the program as a whole. The course acquaints students with the common concerns in the arts (focusing on theatre, art, and music) utilizing the analytic paradigm of artist/media/artwork/audience to understand the creative process. A90 is taught by six faculty members drawn from the School of Speech, School of Music, and the College of Arts and Sciences. The course is divided into three units of three weeks each-one devoted to theatre, one to art, and one to music-culminating in a final synthesizing week in which issues common to all the arts and those separating them can be explored. The course explores touchstone works drawn from different historical periods and representing the three arts. Visits to theatres, concerts, and galleries are an integral component of the course. The course has no prerequisites and requires no previous art experience. A90 is a prerequisite for the other courses in the Integrated Arts Program.

The four B-level "modes" courses build on the base established in the A90 course and offer the student the opportunity to acquire a greater depth of knowledge and familiarity with one of the arts. Where the foundational course first sets the arts in play, the B-level courses, which are taught utilizing a discussion/studio format, build on the students' knowledge of the arts in their separateness, while focusing on the particular kind of perceiving and knowing that can be acquired through doing and studying a single art form.

The C-level courses serve as capstones to the program. C90-1 Performance Seminar, which is team taught, has as its goal the creation of a final presentation integrating theatre, art, and music, and an examination of its design, direction, and production outside conventional institutional boundaries. The students work as an ensemble to create a presentation. C90-2 Towards a Theory of the Arts provides a period of reflection and analytical expansion following the creative collaboration of the previous course. Students read and discuss the canonical philosophers on the arts (Aristotle, Plato) and modern and contemporary theorists (Wittgenstein, Foucault, etc.) in order to investigate basic issues across the arts.

The C-level electives are designed to afford students an opportunity to explore collaborative art forms-the media arts, opera, and dance-and to apply the lens of a discipline outside of the arts to the subject of art. To this latter end, a number of courses are listed which apply sociology, philosophy, aesthetics, and rhetoric to the subject of art. This list of offerings will be increased over the years.

Integrated Media Arts Survey (615-C85) was specially designed for this program. It introduces the basic elements of moving image and recorded electronic media in the contemporary world. The primary tool will be the Macintosh computer. Students create final projects reproducing, recombining, and altering existent images and sound; short animated narrative or expository and experimental work is possible. The course is taught by Professor Kleinhans, a filmmaker and critic in the Radio/TV/Film Department.

Another course created for the program is Learning and Creativity Among Improviser/ Composers (530-C36). It adopts the interdisciplinary view of the American jazz community, revealing the methods by which learners develop their skills, analyzing improvisation as a compositional process.

In most years B91-3 is offered in the fall; A90 and C90-1 are offered in the winter; and B91-1, B91-2, and C90-2 are offered in the spring. B91-4 is offered every other year, usually in the winter quarter. C85 is offered every other year, usually in the spring.