"Desire lines" sometimes refer to the unofficial and uncontrolled paths made by bodies that are finding their way. In this collaborative course, "desire lines" are an opening to create theatre and dance exploring our relationship to the environment during a time of uprising and pandemic. Students begin by creating writing and movement inspired by their living spaces. They then move outside, reading artistic/critical work, and creating movement and text pieces grounded in questions: how do our identities meet the worlds we move through?

In this course, students will create a series of interactive projects, starting with screen-based works, progressing to connecting simple electronic sensors and actuators to multimedia programs, and culminating in a fully realized interactive work, which may be web-based, a sculpture, installation or performance. Students will work with a variety of multimedia technologies (including animation, video, and sound), various types of sensors (tracking motion with video cameras, sensing movement and touch, sensing environmental conditions, etc.).

Across the country - and around the world - theatre artists are partnering with organizers, activists, elders, young people, and visionaries of all kinds to envision and embody a more just world. Rejecting the belief that theatre can only happen on traditional stages, this work is made in farming towns, in parks, in Indigenous communities, and in places in between - and celebrates the ritualistic roots of theatre while helping to build the future by speaking it into being.

In the wake of Obama's historic presidency, the American media triumphantly declared that we are living in post-racial times. But is race dead? Are we color-blind? If so, how do we explain the resurgence of white supremacy during the Trump era? Utilizing an interdisciplinary amalgam of Ethnic Studies, Critical Race Theory, Media Studies, US Third World Feminism, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Political Philosophy, and Post-Colonial Theory, this course will investigate how "race" continues to shape American society in the post-civil rights era.

In this course, we will be surveying and responding to a range of new mediums, (im)material sources, and transcultural artists. Students will gain experience with new and alternative studio processes to create guided and self-directed projects. We will use projections, sound, performance, found materials, and traditional mediums. Discussion of weekly readings and lectures will be paired with experiential labs and critiques. This course is suitable for students at all levels of experience, from beginner to advanced. (keywords: painting, studio art, drawing, intro, foundation)

In this course, we will be surveying and responding to a range of new mediums, (im)material sources, and transcultural artists. Students will gain experience with new and alternative studio processes to create guided and self-directed projects. We will use projections, sound, performance, found materials, and traditional mediums. Discussion of weekly readings and lectures will be paired with experiential labs and critiques. This course is suitable for students at all levels of experience, from beginner to advanced. (keywords: painting, studio art, drawing, intro, foundation)

"Listening" occupies a special place in Japanese cultures. Whether it be in literature, folklore, or everyday activity, indications are plentiful that listening has been nurtured as a multisensory experience and that it encompasses a wide range of phenomena, beyond so-called music. This course explores Japanese sound cultures, with special attention to the underlying unique conceptions of "listening": how have people in Japan cultivated distinct sensibilities in listening, and how, in turn, such sensibilities have constituted Japanese sound cultures.

"Certain people start with a documentary and arrive at fiction...others start with fiction and arrive at the documentary." --Jean Luc Godard. This is an introductory course for students who would like to explore their interest in documentary practice.

This course introduces majors to widely used theoretical perspectives that inform the sociological imagination. It focuses on how these perspectives analyze core facets of social life, such as structure and stratification, power and inequality, culture, agency, self and identity. Each topic is surveyed from several major perspectives, providing a comparative view so that students can make assessments of the insights each theory offers. Prerequisite: SOC 101. Enrollment limited to 40 with majors and minors having priority.

This project-based course covers the study of statistics for the analysis of sociological data and the study of methods for quantitative sociological research more generally. Topics in statistics include descriptive statistics, probability theory, correlation, deduction and induction, error and bias, confidence intervals, and simple linear regression. Topics in research methods will include positivism, research design, measurement, sampling methods, and survey design. All students will participate in a lab, which emphasizes the use of computer software to analyze real data.