A continuation of the knowledge gained in Ballet I. The course will emphasize maintaining correct body placement, coordination of the arms and head while using the whole body for dance. Curriculum covered will include the small and big classical poses and an increase in the allegro portion of the class.

This course will explore the ways in which the human as an individual is represented in photo-based imagery. Students will be asked to consider the broader functions of photographs of humans including the ethical, social and political uses and implications of creating, exhibiting and distributing images of people. Several questions will be considered throughout the semester: How do the technical and aesthetic aspects affect the meaning and function of the portrait? How does intent and the experience between the photographer and the subject create meaning?

Tristan Tzara described Many Ray's photograms as "ineffably charged with dreams like the geological layers that we use for bed sheets." In this course students will explore the magic - and some physics - of photograms and other lensless photographic techniques. This class is a foundational photography course and will cover the fundamentals of the darkroom and the basics of photography through a range of light capturing processes such as photograms, pinhole cameras, printing out paper, photomontage and camera obscuras.

The effects of climate change put great strain on societies, testing the very structures that organize people’s lives and livelihoods. Using sociological frameworks and theories of globalization, inequality, intersectionality, science and technology, policy, migration, sustainability, environmental justice, social movements, and human rights, this course will examine the social, political, and economic impacts of climate change, as well as the ways that local and global groups prepare, mitigate, deny, adapt to, and organize in the face of climate change and its impacts.

According to C.W. Mills, the "sociological imagination" allows us "to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society." This course will help students develop their sociological imaginations by reading memoirs written by both U.S. and international authors who’ve published in English, and asking sociological questions of the stories being told.