We are living through a golden age of photobooks. The last few years have seen an explosion of renewed interest in the artistic and narrative possibilities of the book. We will explore this resurgence within the context of the history of photography, paying special attention to the changes in technology that have allowed for the growth of small press/DYI publishing and studying examples of notable works that have recently emerged.

Using a range of conventional and unconventional materials and artistic approaches students with a solid foundation in drawing will create experimental work with the aim of pushing boundaries and discovering new territory. Students will receive prompts to work in class and develop projects, will be expected to keep sketchbooks and work approximately 8 hours per week outside of class.

What links aesthetics to gender and sexuality, along with other intersecting differences? Course in philosophy, feminist studies, and art theory examines notions such as disinterested attention, queering, and aesthetic experience, and invites students to ask what broadened aesthetic perspectives on things like information flows, food, humor, activism, everyday objects, agency, the erotic, and the state might look like. Discussion of feminist art practices alongside theoretical texts (from Hume, Kant & Adorno to contemporary interlocutors).

In this course we will study the concepts of basic analog electronic music synthesis. Students will gain hands-on, working knowledge of traditional hardware synthesizers in a studio setting. Topics to be covered are oscillators and basic waveforms, filters and musical timbre, voltage control, envelopes, gates and triggers, modulation, sequencing, control signal flow, and audio signal flow. We will learn how to synthesize acoustic sounds and create new electronic sounds by using additive/subtractive synthesis and various modulation techniques.

Graphic design is a creative and critical practice at the intersection of communication and abstraction. The process of learning graphic design is two-fold, and students in this course will engage both areas: first, students will develop knowledge and fluency with design skills - in this case, software (Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator); second students will address the challenges of design head-on through discussion, practice, iteration, critique and experimentation.

Feminists Behind the Camera introduces students to the analysis and production of film and video through close examination of works by artists/critics/cultural workers/filmmakers including Chantal Akerman, Anna Atkins, Jane Campion, Vera Chytilova, Julie Dash, Maya Deren, Valie Export, Andrea Fraser, Sara Gomez, Zora Neal Hurston, Trinh T. Minh-Ha, Barbara Loden, Sarah Maldoror, Ulrike Ottinger, Adrian Piper, Yvonne Rainer, Joan Rivers, Martha Rosler, Lorna Simpson, Chick Strand, Carrie Mae Weems, Eudora Welty, and others.

In this art history course, we will explore Dada as a twentieth-century international movement in the visual arts, performance, and film. We will place the emergence of Dada in its modernist European contexts and discuss major artists of the 1910s-1930s, including Hans Arp, Marcel Duchamp, Hannah Hoch, George Grosz, and others. From Dada's anarchic politics and word/image games to Surrealism's use of Freudian psychoanalysis and experiments with automatism, chance, performance art, and dream language, we will study the key political and cultural contexts of selected images and texts.

This course will introduce students to the theory and practice of media studies, an interdisciplinary field of inquiry that analyzes the complex interactions between old and new media, culture, politics and ideology. We will use various forms of US media as lenses through which to focus our study, as well as to develop an understanding of the relationship between media institutions, texts and audiences.

The Bible is the foundational book of Western civilization and a classic of world literature. Biblical stories form the bedrock of the scriptural traditions of Christians and Jews, and in a different form, of Muslims as well. Biblical literature has also been foundational to Western art and literature from the medieval period to the present day. For many in the English-speaking world, including poets and artists, the most influential translation of the Bible has been the Authorized Version of 1611, otherwise known as the King James Version, together with its more recent descendants.

Home is where we live in every sense, but "Home" is more than the physical structure we reside in: it is also the psychological, societal, emotional, and even the mythical. In this course we will read a variety of fiction and non-fiction and explore the importance of these spaces, be they physical or metaphysical, to the construction of "home" and more importantly, how these terms, whether we accept them wholly, shun them entirely, or experience via travel and immigration, dictate to us and others a sense of self and identity via our own writing.