First-Year Seminars 110TN - Transporting Imaginations

This course will center on Solnit's 'Wanderlust: A History of Walking' to inform our own explorations of campus. By casting our attention to our immediate locality, we will learn the rhythms and material potentials as well as the traces of history that construct our present environment. We will talk about how scientists measure forest entities; how pilgrimage walks like Camino De Santiago frame spiritual growth; and how artists including Francis Alys, Mark Bradford, Abigail DeVille, Mel Chin and others, transform the material residue they find in particular locations into visual artworks. This course will include walks, discussion, as well as hand-on activities including sketchbook work and collage.

Mount Holyoke first-year students only, by placement.