All first-semester MFA in Fine Arts students take this seminar, which provides a forum for introducing students to one another and to a broad range of CCA faculty, as well as to artists, curators, and writers who influence contemporary cultural practices. Invited speakers will present their work, and faculty subsequently lead discussions that reflect on the deeper implications of relevant cultural themes and creative methods. Not only will students use this course as a means of orienting themselves within the College and the broader Bay Area arts community, they will also learn more about galleries, artists' studios, and museums through facilitated meetings with cultural workers. One week of the course will also be hosted by the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts. Students will be introduced to modes of critique--presenting their work for feedback from the faculty and their peers, as well as learning how to critique the work of others--with these cultural networks and studio methodologies in mind.Online course sections will be delivered mostly asynchronously, with some synchronous components that will be outlined in the course syllabus if applicable.

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