Restriction(s): MFA in Dance students only. Portraiture is a form of narrative inquiry that focuses on goodness rather than pathology to capture the complexity and dynamics of human experience. It blends art and movement, form and function, science and art, and theory and practice. As an embodied way of conducting research and reporting, portraiture invites students to acknowledge their identities and development through the research process as their story unfolds. Using the principles of portraiture; context, relationships, voice, emerging themes, and aesthetic whole, students will learn how to describe empirical data with aesthetic detail. In this course, students will create three multimodal portraits - kinesthetic, visual, and literary.