This course will survey filmic techniques of resistance in Latin American cinema with a heavy focus on the Third Cinema Movement. This course will ask: What has a cinema of liberation looked like in the past and what do we want it to look like in the future? Students will spend time watching, analyzing, discussing and writing about these films. They will then be tasked with creating one film that utilizes specific filmic techniques as resistance to push against systems of oppression that intersect with their own lives. Keywords:Cinema, Film, Latine, third cinema, Latin American

The focus of this course is dreaming up and creating the tools necessary for a sustainable future for analog filmmaking. This is necessary because a lot of the tools needed for working with 16mm and Super 8 film are no longer made and as a result are very expensive to buy and not accessible to many filmmakers. We will spend part of the semester dreaming up and designing the tools we need and the rest of the semester working in groups focused on making specific designs come to life. We will be partnering with the Center for Design in the creation of these tools.

What kinds of stories can we tell from archives? What stories do archives themselves tell? Cultural historians and literary critics often rely on archives and special collections, which contain materials like letters, journals, manuscripts, organizational records, oral histories, photographs, periodicals, and ephemera. Creative writers, artists, and filmmakers can draw upon archives to shape their work as well.

The course focuses on the musics of Africa and the African diaspora through the lens of ethnomusicology. Concentrating on selected countries, including Brazil, Cuba, Nigeria, South Africa, and the United States, it examines the musical performance of gender, race, ethnicity, and nationality and the role of music in social and political movements. The course explores the global dimensions of Africanist musical aesthetics as enabled historically and sustained through ongoing transatlantic exchanges between Africa and the African diaspora.

Hearing The World: Journalism,Fieldwork,Story,Sound will explore ethnographic practices as powerful tools for understanding culture, identity, and place. Through hands-on fieldwork, students will learn methods of sound recording, interview techniques, and field observation to document the stories and soundscapes that shape everyday life. With an emphasis on the art of conducting interviews and oral histories, students will engage ethically and creatively with communities and individuals, capturing voices and experiences that might otherwise go unheard.

This integrative seminar is designed for students who are working on a DIV III or an advanced DIV II Project (or independent Study) in the arts, media, and humanities. The course will include regular opportunities for class workshopping of students' ongoing DIV III /DIV II advanced projects work. In addition, during the first half of the semester, students will read broadly on topics of shared interest and complete several short written responses to articles that draw from various disciplines in the arts, media, and humanities.

This integrative seminar is designed for students who are working on a DIV III or an advanced DIV II Project (or independent Study) in the arts, media, and humanities. The course will include regular opportunities for class workshopping of students' ongoing DIV III /DIV II advanced projects work. In addition, during the first half of the semester, students will read broadly on topics of shared interest and complete several short written responses to articles that draw from various disciplines in the arts, media, and humanities.

This studio course introduces intermediate level sculpture and studio art concentrators to mold making and casting processes. Students will be exposed to a range of cast sculpture both historic and contemporary via books and slide lectures. Through assignments and independent work, students will explore the process of mold making and casting through a range of different materials including Plaster, concrete, silicone rubber and thermoplastics. Students will research historical and contemporary artists who utilize casting and present relevant work for class discussion.

This course will examine queer love, relationship structures and attachments, and how these elements of the relational self inform individual identity development. These themes will be explored within grounded foundational paradigms of intersectionality, queer theory, and relationship anarchy and through the lens of various psychological and sociological theoretical models, including the ecological systems model, attachment theories, and the nested model of trauma, amongst others.

This course is designed for beginning and intermediate-level dancers. The studio will be our laboratory for a semester-long exploration of applying contemporary dance concepts to a ballet practice to discover alternative approaches to ballet technique. Contemporary dance practices, such as release methods, floorwork, and somatic techniques, will activate strength, stamina, spatial awareness, alignment, and breath, which we will then bring to codified ballet barre and center work.