Thinking is Form will offer students concepts to evolve their drawing practice while addressing the complexity of graphical representation. Parallel to the exploration of the role of drawing in contemporary art, we will establish drawing/studio projects, studio practice, class discussions, and critiques. Assignments will address drawing from objects, the human figure, space, and imagination. Students will investigate traditional and unconventional resources, large scale, small scale, - and incorporeal working strategies.

The course explores the thriller as a popular literary and film genre. An amalgam of intrigue, suspense, and mystery, the thriller evolved from Gothic romance novels and both Victorian adventure tales and 'sensation' (crime) fiction in response to shifting social anxieties. We focus on two influential forms of the genre: Gothic-influenced romantic thrillers dramatizing threats to women and the constraints of the domestic sphere; and espionage stories and related crime thrillers reflecting fears of deception, conspiracy, war, and the pursuit of power and wealth.

More than 70 years after the end of World War II, the mass atrocity of the Holocaust continues to provoke a tremendous amount of responses. Scholarship, literature, film, survivor testimonies, memorials, and museum exhibitions continue to proliferate. In this course, we will explore the difficulties of grappling with the Holocaust, and of representing mass violence.

As one recent US President noted, the new media ecosystem "means everything is true and nothing is true." Banned from all top social media platforms, including Twitter, the President's predecessor launched Truth Social as the flagship application of his social media platform, which Vanity Fair characterizes as "a cringeworthy joke." Working within the interdisciplinary field of media studies, in this course we will take a case-study approach to exploring contemporary issues related to the post-truth world order: disinformation, fake news, deepfakes, crisis actor claims, conspiracy theories, an

This course will explore the work of scholars, essayists, and creative writers in order to use their prose as models for our own. We will analyze scholarly explication and argument, and we'll appreciate the artistry in our finest personal essays and short fiction. Students will complete a series of critical essays across the curriculum and for varied audiences and purposes. Students will have an opportunity to submit their work for peer review and discussion. Students will also meet individually with the instructors. Frequent, enthusiastic revision is an expectation.

With the advent of easily accessible and user-friendly digital equipment and software, as well as the brighter and more intense luminosity of projection devices, projection design has established its place in live performance. Certainly, many choreographers and small theatre groups have made video an integral part of their work for years. More recent advances in projection technology have made projections not only common but often central to the experience of the performance environment.

Our course's focus is on everything food-its cultivation, consumption, culture, care, and more. We'll read and write both fiction and creative non-fiction, along the way exploring what we eat, what we eat eats, with whom we eat, what we know of where our food comes from, and what foods we do not have access to, or have forgotten.

In this course, students will explore the sculptural object as a self-contained form and as an element within a found or created environment. Traditional materials such as steel, wood, plaster, and concrete will be taught concurrently with more ephemeral materials including paper, wire mesh, and found materials. Ideas originating within the traditions of modernism, postmodernism, minimalism, post-minimalism, installation art, and public art will be introduced through slide lectures, readings, and independent research. The course will culminate in an independent project.