Department / Foundational

Foundational Embodiment and Form

The FEM department is the academy's first language. Every undergraduate begins here with stance, gait, lower-body mechanics, and the academy's discipline of presence — the underlying training that the rest of the catalog assumes.

FEM studio critique with adult students studying garments, sketches, and movement notes.

Department Overview

FEM treats presence as a discipline. Students develop a working vocabulary for posture, gait, and lower-body mechanics, and produce sustained observation work — posture journals, house movement studies, uniform observation — under faculty supervision.

Courses

FEM.101 Foundations of Form

Prereq: None

U (Fall)

3-2-7 units

Stance, gait, lower-body mechanics, and the academy philosophy of presence.

Staff

FEM.190 Independent Practicum

Prereq: Permission of instructor

U (Fall, Spring)

Units arranged

Supervised practicum in posture journals, house movement studies, or uniform observation.

Staff