This course explores the astronomical roots of clocks and calendars, and relies on both real and simulated observations of the Sun, Moon and stars. In addition to completing weekly projects based on collecting and interpreting data, students independently research a clock and a calendar from another culture, either ancient or modern. There are no prerequisites, and students from all disciplines and backgrounds are welcome. Enrollment limited to 25 per section.

This course explores the astronomical roots of clocks and calendars, and relies on both real and simulated observations of the Sun, Moon and stars. In addition to completing weekly projects based on collecting and interpreting data, students independently research a clock and a calendar from another culture, either ancient or modern. There are no prerequisites, and students from all disciplines and backgrounds are welcome. Enrollment limited to 25 per section.

The capstone seminar brings together a cohort of concentrators and other advanced students to explore contemporary issues at the intersection of archives and public history. The seminar readings focus on case studies about contemporary challenges in preservation, access and interpretation of archival materials. In a variety of media, students analyze how these materials become part of a meaningful and usable past for general audiences. In addition, each student completes an independent public history project that draws on primary sources and materials objects from local repositories.

This lecture series serves as an introduction to the methods and discoveries of archival research. The course highlights faculty members and archivists describing their puzzles and insights in encountering archival materials. Requirements includes active participation in class, weekly readings, and short written assignments. This course serves as a gateway for students in the Archives Concentration. S/U only.

This one-semester capstone course is required of senior and J-term junior Plan B majors. Students create work in media of their choice and develop the skills necessary for presenting a cohesive exhibition of their work at the end of their final semester, as required by the Plan B major. Course material includes installation or distribution techniques for different media, curation of small exhibitions of each others’ work, and development of critical discourse skills through reading, writing and speaking assignments.

Offered as LSS 389 and ARS 389. This class is for students who have taken introductory landscape studios and are interested in exploring more sophisticated projects. It is also for architecture and urbanism majors who have a strong interest in landscape architecture or urban design. In a design studio format, the students analyze and propose interventions for the built environment on a broad scale, considering multiple factors (including ecological, economic, political, sociological and historical) in their engagement of the site.

This course explores the technological, poetic, and conceptual potential of light within photography
and lens-based practices. Approaches include material-focused darkroom processes, studio lighting
techniques, and the option to work with digital production and presentation technologies (such as
scanning, laser cutting, projection, or VR). The course incorporates quick experimentation and
sustained independent work, engaging ways in which light (and its absence) is a central lever within

This research-based design studio will investigate how a nature-based approach that questions the separation between natural and human environments might help us build climate resilience. In particular, we will study how beavers (like humans) have an outsized effect on their landscapes. The beaver population has recently rebounded after centuries of trapping and increasingly has come into conflict with humans. At the same time, their dams create wetlands that raise water tables, produce habitats for thousands of species, serve as firebreaks for wildfires, and sequester carbon.

In this course, we create and critically interrogate socially engaged art. The focus is the subset of those practices that originate and gain power from remembering events of the past. Formats include site interventions, community collaborations, performance, traditional studio practices or intersections of these. The processes and physical forms of the (art) works complicate boundaries between art and education, art and sociology, art and activism. The course is organized as a laboratory/workshop to experiment with ideas and forms of socially engaged art.

Painting from models, still life and landscape using varied techniques and conceptual frameworks. Students may require additional supplies and are responsible for purchasing them directly. Prerequisites: ARS 266. Instructor permission required.