Vagabonding Images invites students to investigate the indistinct borders between two-dimensional art and installation art through studio work. Assignments will emanate from drawing and painting. With a focus on abstraction and nonrepresentational studio art practice, students will learn to develop an individual approach to a subject matter through research, readings, films, and digital image presentations. While we examine visual art productions from a transcultural perspective, we will also engage in critical art theory and topics such as media diversity, materiality, and composition.

This course has two main objectives: 1) to provide a theoretical and empirical foundation for the sociological study of law, legal institutions, and legal actors and 2) to enhance critical thinking about the role of law and legal institutions in social life.

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This class examines key issues in the society in Israel by inspecting the way in which the past is remembered and commemorated. Collective memory - the ways in which a society uses and talks about the past - always reflects the needs and developments of that society in the present. In Israel, collective memory plays a leading role in the construction of national and group identities. This class will include an in-depth introduction to theories in collective memory as well as an examination of the ways in which these theories are exemplified in the Israeli case study.

An historical, cross-cultural, and interdisciplinary approach to the study of families in America. We will examine the histories of various groups, exploring how these experiences have resulted in different family dynamics. We will then take up the question of the continuing relevance of race, ethnicity, and social class to families in America today and to the discussion of family in American politics. (Gen.Ed. HS, DU)

Introduction to traditional animation techniques as used in fine art animation and experimental film/video. Basics of locomotion, timing, lighting, camera moves, exposure, sound design and audio an visual editing. Studio course.

This course will introduce students to the fundamentals of visual art in general and drawing, in particular. While focusing on perception, composition, line and materiality, students will draw from objects, the human figure, interior/exterior spaces, and from imagined sources. We will work with a variety of materials and challenge the limits of scale, by investigating the navigation of landscapes as accumulative, drawn lines. We will develop strategies to visualize histories, topographies, individual perspectives, and inner worlds embedded in landscape.