Farm Enterprise Practicum II

Continuation of guided practicum experience (STOCKSCH 398E), with students maintaining crops planted in the Spring semester and preparing fields for winter. Students will harvest, clean, store and market their crops. Participation in weekly seminar required. Students will prepare written report covering all aspects of the production and marketing components of their target crops and present results/recommendations to the group. Offered in Fall term. Pre-requisite: STOCKSCH 398E.

FYS-GraphicNovel:Glimpse/Canon

This seminar is designed to introduce students to three foundational graphic novels from the canon, namely Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics, and Art Spiegelman's Maus I and II. Using McCloud's work as a compass, students will explore Maus I and II while asking some of the following questions: What are comics? What is a graphic novel? Which elements, taken in tandem, constitute a graphic novel? How has time been depicted spatially? How are the relationships between figures depicted visually? What is being told, and how does it relate to what the author wants to tell?

FYS- Comics and US History

This seminar will examine the history of comic books in the 20th Century United States. It will use comics as a lens to look at major social, political, economic, and cultural changes. Major topics will include: how comics have represented (or not represented) the changing diversity of American society; the influence of war and politics on comics; fears about and regulation of comic books; how comics shaped and were shaped by the social movements of the 1960s and 70s including the Black Freedom Struggle and the Women's Movement; the growth of comics into a multi-media industry.

FYS- Creative Exploration

We cannot will the happy accidents that inform some of the best creative breakthroughs, but we can train ourselves to be perceptive and set up playful circumstances in which an unpredictable flow of creative making can occur. This seminar is an introduction to journaling, comic creation and other spontaneous art exercises as a practice in heightening awareness, memory and flexible creativity. We will learn to better open our eyes and ears, finding ways to translate our lived experience into creative work. We will take play seriously.

Victorian Lit & Visual Culture

This course will examine literary texts that represent new forms of visuality in nineteenth-century Britain as well as examples of visual culture that provide a framework for reading Victorian culture in innovative ways. We will study nineteenth-century photography--portraiture, prison photography, imperial photographs, and private and popular erotic images--as well as novels and autobiographical writing that engage with new photographic technology and its transformation of the ways in which Victorians understood identity, politics, aesthetics, and representation.

Posthuman Affect Theory

Affect theory offers a varied and rich critical language to explore how emotion circulates within and among human bodies-and nonhuman ones as well. If emotions operate through bodily changes and chemical exchanges, then animals and nonhumans might similarly be seen as bodies replete with affective materials in motion and at rest. In this course we will read through an array of affect theory from cognitive science, animal studies, and posthumanist debates on the affect of objects.

Psychotherapy

This course will be an in-depth examination of major theoretical models of psychotherapy. The course will focus on theoretical models and empirical support for the second wave (e.g., Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) and third wave (e.g., Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy) psychotherapies. Students will examine how different psychotherapeutic approaches conceptualize mental illness and approach the treatment of psychiatric disorders. Issues related to ethics and the empirical evaluation of treatment outcomes will also be discussed.

Remixing and Remaking

(Offered as AMST 361, BLST 361, and ENGL 276) Through a close reading of texts by African American authors, we will critically examine literary form and technique alongside the representation of race, gender, sexuality, and class. Coupled with our explication of poems, short stories, novels, and literary criticism, we will explore the stakes of adaptation in visual culture. Students will analyze the film and television adaptations of twentieth-century fiction. Authors will include Toni Morrison, Lorraine Hansberry, Alice Walker, and Gloria Naylor.

ST-TectonicsI/Light-FrameConst

Principles of Light-Frame Structure Technology / Tectonics I provides students with an understanding of the construction industry, processes, and building materials used in contemporary residential & light-frame construction. We will review the entire process of residential construction project: from regulation and design through site preparation, project management, and ultimate delivery of a completed structure. Close attention will be paid to the sequence of events as they occur in most construction projects.
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