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UDIST-3000: Upper Division Interdisciplinary Studio

Course Description

Upper Division Interdisciplinary Studios extend a student's cross-school experience from Core Studio up into their upper division years. 3 units of Interdisciplinary Studio are required of all majors and must be completed in the junior or senior year. This advanced level studio is thematic in nature. Technical demonstrations are paired with thoughtful readings, seminar discussions and ambitious projects. Collaboration, experimentation and presentation skills are developed in concert with critical thinking.

Academic Level: Undergraduate

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Subject

Sections

Fall 2025

Section Instructor(s) Meeting Info
UDIST-3000-1: Interdisciplinary Biodesign
  • Mon/Thu 9:00-11:30AM, Hooper GC - GC5
UDIST-3000-2: Rooted: Forming Identity
  • Tue/Fri 12:15-02:45PM, Main Bldg - 200
UDIST-3000-3: Maximum Magic
  • Mon/Thu 3:30-06:00PM, Main Bldg - 102 A
UDIST-3000-4: Care in Commons
  • Mon/Thu 12:15-02:45PM, Hooper GC - GC5
UDIST-3000-5: Theory and Practice for Photographing the Supernatural
  • Tue/Fri 3:30-06:00PM, Hooper GC - GC5
UDIST-3000-6: Set Design for Film: Visionary Drawings
  • Mon/Thu 12:15-02:45PM, Main Bldg - N7
UDIST-3000-7: Interface
  • Mon/Thu 12:15-02:45PM, Double Ground - D104

Summer 2025

Section Instructor(s) Meeting Info
UDIST-3000-1: In Defense of Beauty: Paris
  • Every Day 9:00AM-05:00PM, Off Campus - Study Abroad - Europe
  • Mon 10:00-11:00AM
UDIST-3000-2: Communication & Translation: Design in Seoul
  • Every Day 9:00AM-05:00PM, Off Campus - Study Abroad
  • Tue 4:00-05:00PM
  • Mon 4:00-05:00PM
UDIST-3000-4: Telling Stories
  • Mon/Wed/Fri 9:00AM-02:00PM

Spring 2025

Fall 2024

Section Instructor(s) Meeting Info
UDIST-3000-1: Staging Social Bodies
  • Sat 9:00AM-03:00PM, Main Bldg - E4
UDIST-3000-2: Interdisciplinary Biodesign
  • Mon/Thu 8:00-11:00AM, Hooper GC - GC5
UDIST-3000-3: Theory and Practice for Photographing the Supernatural
  • Tue/Fri 4:00-07:00PM, Hooper GC - GC7
UDIST-3000-4: Xenoludology
  • Mon/Thu 12:00-03:00PM, Double Ground - D114D
UDIST-3000-5: Maximum Magic
  • Mon/Thu 4:00-07:00PM, Main Bldg - 251
UDIST-3000-6: Interface
  • Mon/Thu 12:00-03:00PM, Double Ground - D104
UDIST-3000-7: Care in Commons
  • Mon/Thu 12:00-03:00PM, Main Bldg - 102 B
UDIST-3000-9: Rooted: Forming Identity
  • Mon/Thu 4:00-07:00PM, Main Bldg - W2

Summer 2024

Section Instructor(s) Meeting Info
UDIST-3000-1: Sound & Space
  • Mon/Tue/Wed/Thu 9:00AM-01:30PM
UDIST-3000-2: Study Abroad: Japan: In Search of Emptiness & Wabi Sabi
  • Every Day 9:00AM-05:00PM, Off Campus - Study Abroad
UDIST-3000-4: Study Abroad: Iceland: Midnight Sun
  • Every Day 9:00AM-05:00PM, Off Campus - Study Abroad - Iceland

Spring 2024

Section Instructor(s) Meeting Info
UDIST-3000-1: Art Text
  • Mon/Thu 8:00-11:00AM, Main Bldg - N19 (inactive)
UDIST-3000-2: Tactile Bliss
  • Mon/Thu 8:00-11:00AM, Main Bldg - 141 (inactive)
UDIST-3000-3: Queer Super Objects
  • Wed 9:00AM-03:00PM, Main Bldg - N1 (Ceramics Work Room) (inactive)
  • Wed 12:00-03:00PM, Main Bldg - N14/16 (2D Studio) (inactive)
UDIST-3000-4: Phantasmagoria
  • Sat 9:00AM-03:00PM, Main Bldg - 200 (inactive)
UDIST-3000-5: The American Dream
  • Wed 9:00AM-03:00PM, Main Bldg - Lab B (inactive)
UDIST-3000-6: Twisting the Tongue: Disruptions in the Fields of Text and Sound
  • Mon 9:00AM-03:00PM, Main Bldg - 200 (inactive)
UDIST-3000-8: Ocean Culture
  • Thu 9:00AM-03:00PM, Hubbell - 111 (Drawing Studio)

Fall 2023

Section Instructor(s) Meeting Info
UDIST-3000-1: Interdisciplinary Biodesign
  • Mon/Thu 8:00-11:00AM, Hooper GC - GC5
UDIST-3000-2: Theory and Practice for Photographing the Supernatural
  • Mon/Thu 4:00-07:00PM, Hooper GC - GC3
UDIST-3000-4: Dissonance - Music and Conflict
  • Tue/Fri 4:00-07:00PM, Main Bldg - W2
UDIST-3000-5: U+ME, Inclusive and Integrated Embodiment
  • Mon 8:00-11:00AM, Main Bldg - 141
  • Thu 8:00-11:00AM, Online - HS-1
UDIST-3000-6: Drawing from Nature
  • Wed 9:00AM-03:00PM, Hubbell - 111 (Drawing Studio)
UDIST-3000-7: Care in Common(s)
  • Mon/Thu 8:00-11:00AM, Main Bldg - E4
UDIST-3000-8: Xenoludology
  • Mon/Thu 12:00-03:00PM, Main Bldg - 200
UDIST-3000-9: Maximum Magic
  • Mon/Thu 12:00-03:00PM, Hubbell - 161 A
UDIST-3000-10: Interface
  • Mon/Thu 12:00-03:00PM, Main Bldg - 107 (Hybrid Lab)

Summer 2023

Section Instructor(s) Meeting Info
UDIST-3000-1: Study Abroad: Iceland: Midnight Sun
  • Every Day 9:00AM-05:00PM, Off Campus - Study Abroad - Iceland
UDIST-3000-2: Study Abroad: Taiwan: Wayfaring, Meshwork, and Lifeworlds
  • TBD
  • TBD
  • Every Day 9:00AM-05:00PM
UDIST-3000-3: Study Abroad: Material Cultures: Mexico City, Oaxaca, & Beyond
  • Every Day 9:00AM-05:00PM, Off Campus - Study Abroad
  • Tue/Wed/Thu 2:00-05:00PM
UDIST-3000-4: Sound & Space
  • Mon/Wed/Fri 9:00AM-01:00PM
UDIST-3000-5: Japan: In Search of Emptiness & Wabi Sabi
  • Every Day 9:00AM-05:00PM
  • Sat 9:00AM-12:00PM
  • Tue/Wed 10:00AM-03:00PM
  • Fri 9:00AM-03:00PM
UDIST-3000-6: Study Abroad: In Defense of Beauty, Paris & London
  • Thu 11:00AM-12:30PM
  • Every Day 9:00AM-05:00PM, Off Campus - Study Abroad - Europe

Spring 2023

Section Instructor(s) Meeting Info
UDIST-3000-1: Queer Super Objects
  • Mon 9:00AM-03:00PM, Main Bldg - N14/16 (2D Studio)
UDIST-3000-2: Virtual Reality / Actual Impact
  • Mon/Thu 12:00-03:00PM, Main Bldg - N19
UDIST-3000-3: Design as a Worlding Practice
  • Thu 9:00AM-03:00PM, Hubbell - 111 (Drawing Studio)
UDIST-3000-4: LIGHT: Illumination and Social Dynamics in Art and Design
  • Mon/Thu 12:00-03:00PM, Main Bldg - E1
UDIST-3000-5: Parks, Environment, and Leisure
  • Sat 9:00AM-03:00PM, Main Bldg - N14/16 (2D Studio)
UDIST-3000-6: Diachronic
  • Wed 9:00AM-03:00PM, Main Bldg - N5 (Sculpture / Individualized Homeroom)
UDIST-3000-7: Insights in Site: Activations in Public Space
  • Thu 9:00AM-03:00PM, Main Bldg - 200

Fall 2022

Section Instructor(s) Meeting Info
UDIST-3000-2: Performing Social Bodies: staging/feeling/together
  • Sat 10:00AM-04:00PM, Main Bldg - E4
UDIST-3000-3: Darn It!
  • Mon 9:00AM-03:00PM, 350 Kansas - Textiles Studio
UDIST-3000-4: Dissonance - Music and Conflict
  • Tue 4:00-07:00PM, Main Bldg - S9
  • Fri 4:00-07:00PM, Main Bldg - W2
UDIST-3000-5: U+ME, Inclusive and Integrated Embodiment
  • Mon/Thu 7:15-10:15PM
UDIST-3000-6: Drawing from Nature
  • Thu 9:00AM-03:00PM, Hubbell - 111 (Drawing Studio)
UDIST-3000-7: Care in Common(s)
  • Mon 12:00-03:00PM
  • Thu 12:00-03:00PM, Main Bldg - E2
UDIST-3000-8: Xenoludology
  • Mon/Thu 12:00-03:00PM, Main Bldg - S10
UDIST-3000-9: Instruments- Science Meets Art
  • Mon 9:00AM-03:00PM, Main Bldg - S9
UDIST-3000-10: The Five Obstructions
  • Thu 9:00AM-03:00PM, Hubbell - 161 A
UDIST-3000-11: Interface
  • Mon/Thu 7:15-10:15PM, Main Bldg - E5

Summer 2022

Section Instructor(s) Meeting Info
UDIST-3000-2: Sound & Space
  • TBD
  • TBD
  • Tue/Thu 3:30-06:30PM
UDIST-3000-4: Iceland: Midnight Sun
  • TBD
  • TBD
  • Every Day 9:00AM-05:00PM, Off Campus - Study Abroad - Iceland

Spring 2022

Section Instructor(s) Meeting Info
UDIST-3000-1: Diachronic
  • Mon/Thu 12:00-03:00PM, Oakland - Textiles - 3: Seminar
  • Mon/Thu 12:00-03:00PM, Oakland - Treadwell - 2: Seminar
UDIST-3000-2: Insights in Site: Activations in Public Space
  • Thu 9:00AM-03:00PM, Oakland - Carriage House - 1st Floor Drawing Studio
UDIST-3000-3: Queer Super Objects
  • Sat 10:00AM-04:00PM, San Francisco - Main Building - N17
UDIST-3000-5: Parks, Environment, & Leisure
  • Thu 9:00AM-03:00PM, San Francisco - Main Building - N15
UDIST-3000-6: Temporary Fictions: Intersections of Art, Design and Technology
  • Tue/Fri 8:00-11:00AM, Oakland - Martinez - 6
UDIST-3000-7: The Contemporary: Globalization in Contemporary Art
  • Edith Garcia Monnet
  • Edith Garcia Monnet
  • Mon 9:00AM-03:00PM, San Francisco - Main Building - N15
UDIST-3000-8: The Five Obstructions
  • Mon 9:00AM-03:00PM, Oakland - Martinez - 6
UDIST-3000-9: Virtual Reality / Actual Impact
  • Tue/Fri 8:00-11:00AM, San Francisco - Main Building - N9
UDIST-3000-10: Design as a Worlding Practice
  • Mon/Thu 8:00-11:00AM, San Francisco - Main Building - N7
UDIST-3000-11: LIGHT: Illumination and Social Dynamics in Art and Design
  • Mon/Thu 12:00-03:00PM, San Francisco - Main Building - W2

Fall 2021

Section Instructor(s) Meeting Info
UDIST-3000-1: Collaborative BioArt + Design (Hybrid)
  • Tue/Fri 8:00-10:00AM
  • Tue/Fri 8:00-10:00AM, San Francisco - Main Building - N9
UDIST-3000-2: Intersectionality: Labor in the Arts
  • Mon 8:00-10:00AM
  • Mon 11:00AM-01:00PM
UDIST-3000-3: Darn It! (Hybrid)
  • Mon/Thu 11:00AM-01:00PM
  • Mon/Thu 11:00AM-01:00PM, Oakland - Textiles - 3: Seminar
UDIST-3000-4: Performing Social Bodies: staging/feeling/together (Hybrid)
  • Thu 11:00AM-01:00PM
  • Thu 8:00-10:00AM
  • Thu 11:00AM-01:00PM, San Francisco - Main Building - E4
  • Thu 8:00-10:00AM, San Francisco - Main Building - 131
UDIST-3000-5: Interface (Hybrid)
  • Mon/Thu 11:00AM-01:00PM
  • Mon/Thu 11:00AM-01:00PM, San Francisco - Main Building - E5
UDIST-3000-6: Dissonance - Music and Conflict
  • Mon/Thu 8:00-10:00PM
UDIST-3000-7: U+ME, Inclusive and Integrated Embodiment
  • Mon/Thu 8:00-10:00AM
UDIST-3000-8: Drawing from Nature
  • Tue/Fri 8:00-10:00AM
UDIST-3000-9: Care in Common(s) (Hybrid)
  • Mon/Thu 11:00AM-01:00PM
  • Mon/Thu 11:00AM-01:00PM, San Francisco - Main Building - N9
UDIST-3000-10: ECO to ET: Recombinant Art, Science, Culture
  • Mon/Thu 8:00-10:00PM
UDIST-3000-11: Legacy Starts Here: Oakland Campus (Hybrid)
  • Mon 8:00-10:00AM
  • Mon 11:00AM-01:00PM
  • Mon 8:00-10:00AM, Oakland - B Building - B3
  • Mon 11:00AM-01:00PM, Oakland - B Building - B3

Summer 2021

Section Instructor(s) Meeting Info
UDIST-3000-4: Sound & Space
  • Thu 6:00-07:55PM
  • Tue 6:00-07:55PM

Summer 2020

Spring 2020

Section Instructor(s) Meeting Info
UDIST-3000-1: Darn It!
  • Thu 9:00AM-03:00PM, Oakland - Textiles - 3: Seminar
UDIST-3000-2: The Peripatetic Wunderkammer
  • Michael Epstein
  • Michael Epstein
  • Mon/Wed 12:00-03:00PM, San Francisco - Main Building - W1
UDIST-3000-3: Instruments-Science Meets Art
  • Fri 9:00AM-03:00PM, San Francisco - Main Building - N5
UDIST-3000-4: California Parklands
  • Fri 9:00AM-03:00PM, Oakland - Ralls - 203
UDIST-3000-6: Site Glass
  • Elin Christopherson
  • Megan Werner
  • Elin Christopherson
  • Megan Werner
  • Wed 9:00AM-03:00PM, Oakland - Shaklee - 2: Glass Studio
UDIST-3000-7: Insights in Site: Performative Activations in Public Space
  • Tue/Thu 4:00-07:00PM, San Francisco - Main Building - N5
UDIST-3000-8: Post-Disciplinary Design
  • Gregory Hurcomb
  • Gregory Hurcomb
  • Tue/Thu 12:00-03:00PM, San Francisco - Main Building - N11
UDIST-3000-10: Diachronic
  • Fri 9:00AM-03:00PM, Oakland - Treadwell - 1: Glaze
UDIST-3000-11: Animated Investigation
  • Mon/Wed 12:00-03:00PM, Oakland - Founders - 304: Hybrid Lab
UDIST-3000-12: Transitory Space
  • Trena Noval
  • Trena Noval
  • Tue 9:00AM-03:00PM, San Francisco - Main Building - N15
UDIST-3000-13: Computational & Studio Practice
  • Tue/Thu 7:15-10:15PM, Oakland - Founders - 304: Hybrid Lab

Fall 2019

Section Instructor(s) Meeting Info
UDIST-3000-1: Legacy Starts Here: Oakland Campus
  • Mon 9:00AM-03:00PM, Oakland - Martinez - 6
UDIST-3000-2: Intersectionality: Labor in the Arts
  • Tue/Thu 12:00-03:00PM, Oakland - Ralls - 202
UDIST-3000-3: Queer Super Objects
  • Fri 9:00AM-03:00PM, San Francisco - Main Building - N3
UDIST-3000-4: Collaborative BioArt+Design
  • Tue/Thu 8:00-11:00AM, San Francisco - Grad Center - GC3
UDIST-3000-5: Fluvial Commons
  • Mon 9:00AM-03:00PM, San Francisco - Main Building - N15
UDIST-3000-7: Interface
  • Tue/Thu 4:00-07:00PM, Oakland - Founders - 304: Hybrid Lab
UDIST-3000-8: Poetics of Conflict
  • Tue/Thu 12:00-03:00PM, San Francisco - Main Building - E1
UDIST-3000-9: Civil Disobedience & Artistic Unrest
  • Malic Amalya
  • Malic Amalya
  • Tue/Thu 8:00-11:00AM, Oakland - B Building - B3
UDIST-3000-10: Post-Disciplinary Design
  • Gregory Hurcomb
  • Gregory Hurcomb
  • Mon/Wed 4:00-07:00PM, San Francisco - Main Building - 141

Summer 2019

Section Instructor(s) Meeting Info
UDIST-3000-1: Japan: Search for Emptiness
  • Every Day 9:00AM-05:00PM
  • Sat 10:00AM-04:00PM, San Francisco - Grad Center - GC4
  • Sat 10:00AM-04:00PM, San Francisco - Grad Center - GC4
  • Sat 10:00AM-04:00PM, San Francisco - Grad Center - GC4
  • Wed 10:00AM-04:00PM
UDIST-3000-2: Sound & Space
  • Mon/Tue/Wed/Thu 9:00AM-01:00PM, San Francisco - Grad Center - GC2
UDIST-3000-3: Iceland: Life, Death, Ecstasy
  • Every Day 9:00AM-05:00PM

Spring 2019

Section Instructor(s) Meeting Info
UDIST-300-01: Franken Fabrics
  • Thu 9:00AM-03:00PM, Textiles - 1: Print studio
UDIST-300-02: The Peripatetic Wunderkammer
  • Michael Epstein
  • Michael Epstein
  • Mon/Wed 12:00-03:00PM, Main Building - W1
UDIST-300-03: Instruments-Science Meets Art
  • Fri 9:00AM-03:00PM, Main Building - N17
UDIST-300-04: Making Our Museum Studio
  • Fri 9:00AM-03:00PM, Ralls - 203
UDIST-300-06: Site Glass
  • Elin Christopherson
  • Megan Werner
  • Elin Christopherson
  • Megan Werner
  • Wed 9:00AM-03:00PM, Shaklee - 2: Glass Studio
UDIST-300-07: Local Fiber Incubator
  • Tue/Thu 4:00-07:00PM, Main Building - N5
UDIST-300-08: Animated Investigation
  • Fri 9:00AM-03:00PM, Main Building - 131
UDIST-300-09: Transitory Place
  • Tue 9:00AM-03:00PM, Grad Center - GC2
UDIST-300-10: Sound and Space
  • Fri 9:00AM-03:00PM, B Building - B3

Fall 2018

Section Instructor(s) Meeting Info
UDIST-300-01: Legacy Starts Here:Oak Campus
  • Mon 9:00AM-03:00PM, Martinez - 6
UDIST-300-02: Activate Archive:Capp St Proj
  • Kari Marboe
  • Kari Marboe
  • Tue/Thu 4:00-07:00PM
UDIST-300-03: Pattern Mechanism and Form
  • Mon/Wed 12:00-03:00PM, Grad Center - GC5
UDIST-300-04: Space, Message, Experience
  • Gregory Hurcomb
  • Gregory Hurcomb
  • Tue/Thu 8:00-11:00AM, Grad Center - GC3
UDIST-300-05: Fluvial Commons
  • Fri 9:00AM-03:00PM, Main Building - N3
UDIST-300-07: Interface
  • Tue/Thu 4:00-07:00PM, Founders - 304: Hybrid Lab
UDIST-300-08: Poetics of Conflict
  • Tue 12:00-03:00PM, Ralls - 202
UDIST-300-09: Civil & Artistic Disobedience
  • Malic Amalya
  • Malic Amalya
  • Tue/Thu 4:00-07:00PM, Martinez - 6
UDIST-300-10: Post-Disciplinary Design
  • Gregory Hurcomb
  • Lance Cassidy
  • Gregory Hurcomb
  • Lance Cassidy
  • Mon/Wed 4:00-07:00PM, Main Building - 141
UDIST-300-11: P.E.
  • Tue/Thu 12:00-03:00PM, Main Building - N9