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 course is an introduction to journaling, comic creation and other spontaneous art exercises as a practice in heightening awareness, memory and flexible creativity.

This course explores the complex relationships between sickness and literature. We will conduct a wide-angle survey of writings about disease, considering both how outbreaks shaped literary history and how literature shaped cultural understandings of disease. Furthermore, we ask: how has the cultural meaning of "contagion" been refracted through discourses around race, gender, sexuality, and nationalism?

This class teaches and emphasizes the literary skills of close reading and analysis with an eye to helping students engage more critically with the world around them. In particular, we'll be analyzing the rhetoric deployed in advertisements, modern political addresses, and clips from our 24-hr news cycle. This course takes literary skills and directly applies them to the world in which students live and work every day.

Through a series of readings and discussions, students will share their thoughts on social media, cell phones, and what it's like to try to connect with people through devices. A series of assignments will ask them to "unplug" in different ways, record their experiences and share them with the class. Some experiences will involve social interactions with classmates, some will be about visiting resources available in the school. Small written reflections will be due after each experience.

Students in this course cover the required Adjustment Counselor content. In addition, the course enables students to conceptualize and apply a phased approach to school counseling.

Students will work collaboratively to construct a production-grade image processing system.

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Basic problems in the translation of programming languages focusing on theory and common implementation techniques for compiling traditional (Pascal-like) programming languages to produce assembly or object code for typical machines. Involves a substantial laboratory project in which the student constructs a working compiler for a considerable subset of a realistic programming language within a provided skeleton.