This course is an examination of visionary plans in architecture and art, including the works of C-N Ledoux, Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Wassily Kandinsky, and others. The course begins with an examination of significant literary utopias, including the books by Sir Thomas More and William Morris, and we conclude with a work by Octavia Butler. We will consider the philosophical constructs of utopia in architectural drawings, buildings, and plans as well as in film, painting, sculpture, and the decorative arts.

This course will explore the photographic techniques of cyanotype, platinum/palladium, and carbon printing processes. Students will be introduced to historic and contemporary photographers using these and other alternative print processes. Workshops, readings, and critique will be integrating into the technical aspects of this class. While there will be an emphasis on technical application in this course, the overall objective is to explore alternative processes that will offer students handmade, creative options in their photographic practice.

This studio arts course will explore a broad range of strategies, processes, and materials. Students will be exposed to a variety of approaches to art making through small, guided prompts as well as two independent projects. Students will undertake research particular to their materials, interests, and processes. Slide lectures introduce the class to contemporary and historical artists and art movements across cultural perspectives. From the dollhouse to the forest, soft sculpture to performative objects, this course embraces an expanded definition of studio art.

Athletes taking a knee, bodies marching in the street, dance movements that go viral. How can Dance Studies help us see and understand the urgency of [social] movement in our current moment? At the same time, how does dance challenge normative conceptualizations of history and politics? Exploring dance and embodied politics of the 20th and 21st century through the lens of Dance Studies, this course works from the perspective of "Critical Moves" proposed by late dance theorist Randy Martin: "Critical moves. Steps we must take.

From the Australian Film Revival in the 1970s represented by directors such as Peter Weir, Fred Schepisi and Gillian Armstrong to "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy, "Rabbit-Proof Fence," "The Piano," "Mystery Road" and "Mad Max: Fury Road," Australian and New Zealand have made unique contributions to international cinema.

"Listening" occupies a special place in Japanese cultures. Indications abound in literature, folklore, and everyday practices that listening has been nurtured as multisensory experiences and that it encompasses a wide range of phenomena. Whether it be in the haiku poetry reading, religious ceremony, political protest, or mundane activity, listening enables people to transcend spatiotemporal boundaries, connect with the intangible and the invisible, and engage in the world and life in a deeper philosophical consciousness.

The music of immigrant, refugee, and diasporic people in the United States ranges from traditional and folk genres to popular and rock styles, and often serves as a bridge between the old and new cultures. This course focuses on music from a number of immigrant/diasporic communities in the United States, including Irish, East European Jewish, Mexican, African-American, various parts of the Caribbean, Vietnam, and others. We will examine the many ways that identity is created and solidified in immigrant communities through music, song, and dance.

A cranky is a storytelling device consisting of a box with two spindles and a hand-cranked illustrated scroll and accompanied by instrumental music, song or spoken word. Crankies arrived in the southern Appalachians with British immigrants beginning in the 1800s and served as entertainment as well as a means to record local, historical events. In this course, we will build crankies and create stories from folk ballads, original music, and songs that deal with contemporary issues.

This studio architecture course will be a digital design investigation into architecture and the built environment. In this course, students will develop and apply contemporary digital architectural skills, including sketches, plans, elevations, models, computer diagramming, and various modes of digital representation [TBD] to inter-disciplinary design problems. Students will explore a broad range of spatial concepts using digital mediums, including iterative, algorithmic and emergent design philosophies.

In the early twentieth century, Joyce, Woolf, Kafka, and other writers radically transformed our notions of the novel, and of literature. In this class, we will explore the formal and geographic extremes of literary modernism, and examine how each of these writers challenge our familiarity and comfort in fiction, and attempt to reconceive the possibilities of the literary text. This course is affiliated with the Time and Narrative Learning Collaborative (LC).