This course will take students through a history of animated films, artists, and processes, beginning with pre-film animation devices of the 1800s and moving into the current millennium. Students will reflect upon the ways that animation intersects with social issues, politics, cultural ideas, and technological innovation across time and geography. We will cover both independent practices and commercial studios, with a breadth of genres and styles of work that includes both traditional narrative animation and art that questions how we define animation in the first place.

In this course, we will examine a range of organizing struggles that took place during the "Long Civil Rights Movement." By reading scholarly articles, movement newspapers and activist interviews, we will explore critical debates and questions raised by researchers and movement veterans. Do we understand the "movement" in terms of ideologies articulated by established leaders, by determining the nature of the political climate, or by examining community traditions and conceptions of what Robin Kelley calls "Freedom Dreams"? Do we begin our exploration---in the 1950s, 1960s or perhaps sooner?

Reconstruction represents one of the nation's most dramatic battles to redefine the meanings of freedom and U.S. citizenship. This course will begin during the Civil War or what W.E.B. Dubois called the "rehearsal for reconstruction." We will explore how freedmen and women organized to make their newly free status have meaning in several arenas. These arenas include Freedmen and women's rights to enjoy the fruits of their own labors, access to land, public education, and the time and freedom to enjoy leisure, express joy and engage in artistic production.

The peoples, philosophies, arts, and cultural resources of Africa have made and continue to make fundamental contributions to every society on earth - particularly to visionings of humanity, justice, liberation, and community. Yet, from the imperial United States, Africa is often the least considered continent, its diverse peoples and realities obscured by racist stereotypes rooted in the long and ongoing history of European colonialisms and empire.

This studio course introduces and examines principles of directing for the stage. We explore the world of a play, conflicts, staging, and learning the language of designers. We also explore different modes of communicating with actors. We will look at the work of current directors. How do they approach a script? What is their rehearsal process? How do they collaborate with designers in producing the work on stage? Students will keep a directing journal, analyze plays, and review productions throughout the semester. Keywords:directing, plays, actors, staging.

Fundamentals of Tennis: This class covers basic tennis techniques. Our focus will be on developing smooth confident strokes. Students will also spend time learning the rules of the game and playing. 5-College students will be graded pass/fail.

Bioinformatics:Community Analysis: Learn the foundations of bioinformatics with a hands-on class using real data. We will explore how to analyze microbial population data from a large, diverse array of microorganisms by sequencing and analyzing 16S rRNA and 18S rRNA gene amplicons. This type of dataset is extremely common in environmental microbiology, medical microbiology, and even applies to other ecology fields. This course will focus heavily on coding using RStudio and large spreadsheets. The final report of this course will *hopefully* be published in a peer-reviewed journal!

We explore the intersection of sustainable agriculture, natural fibers, and community-building through the lens of wool. This supported project course considers the concept of a fibershed-examining how we can create a regional wool economy supporting land and people. Through a combination of readings, field trips, and creative collaboration, students investigate the full lifecycle of wool, from the soil that nourishes sheep to finished fiber products that can return to the soil.

This course will review the relationship between the United States and the Middle East since the early 20th century until today. Through a series of guest lectures, readings, videos, and other assignments students will understand the various dimensions of US intervention in the Middle East as well as the various ways that the Middle East has been discussed in US politics and culture.

The term 'multipolarity' is used to describe the significant shifts that have taken place in the global political economy in the last thirty years. Specifically it points to the rise of the economic power of countries such as China and India and the relative decline of US and Western economic power. This seminar will investigate these shifts in order to understand the main structural forces shaping the global economy.